Nea Salamis FC
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| Full name | Nea Salamis Famagusta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1948 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Ammochostos Stadium Larnaca, Cyprus |
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| Capacity | 5,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Giorgos Alexandrou |
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| Manager | Nikos Andronikou |
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| League | Cypriot First Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | 6th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nea Salamis Ammochostos or Nea Salamina Ammochostos (Greek: Νέα Σαλαμίνα Αμμοχώστου) is a Cypriot football club which comes from the city of Ammochostos (also known by its Romanized name: Famagusta). It has adopted its name from the ancient Greek city of Salamis or Salamina (Greek: Σαλαμίς) near modern day Ammochostos. The club was founded in 1948. Since the occupation of the north part of the island through invasion by Turkish troops in 1974, Nea Salamis is a refugee team and since then is based in Larnaca.
Since 1955, Nea Salamina belongs to Cypriot First Division, except some short interruptions when they were relegated. The team reached their best position ever respectively as third in the seasons 1955/56, 1965/66, 1992/93 and 1994/95.
In 1990 Nea Salamina achieved its greatest success, when they won the Cyprus Cup, beating Omonia Nicosia 3-2 in the final. The same year they won the Cyprus FA Shield (Super Cup) by beating APOEL Nicosia 1-0. Nea Salamina played in the Cup final in other two occasions (1966, 2001) but were beaten on both occasions by Apollon Limassol.
As Cup winners, Nea Salamina played for first time in european cups in 1990, where they were beaten in the Cup Winners Cup first round twice clearly Aberdeen FC. The club participated in 1997 for the Intertoto Cup,they eliminated however with only a victory after the first groups games from. In the season 2000/01 Nea Salamis, after two victories against the Albanian Vllaznia Shkoder, reached the second round of the Intertoto, eliminated then however against Austria Vienna.
The colours of Nea Salamina are red and white and its home stadium is "Ammochostos-Amberia Stadium" ( means "Famagusta"), with capacity of 5000 seats, which is in Larnaca. Ammochostos-Amberia Stadium is a multi-use stadium and is currently used mostly for football matches.
Ammochostos is the greek name of Famagusta and it was named like that for the memory of the town because the stadium's owner Salamina is a Famagustan team but they can't use their stadium in Famagusta because of the Turkish occupation of the town.
Their original stadium is GSE (GS Evagoras) Stadium in Famagusta but due to the turkish occupation they can not use it for home stadium.
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[edit] Current Squad
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[edit] Honours
[edit] Football
- Cyprus Cup:
- Winners (1): 1990
- Runner-up (2): 1966, 2001
- Cyprus FA Shield:
- Winners (1): 1990
- Cypriot 2nd Division:
- Champions (4): 1955, 1980, 2002, 2004
[edit] Volleyball
- Championship titles:
- Winner (8): 1989/90, 1990/91, 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03
- Cyprus Cup:
- Winner (7): 1982/83, 1989/90, 1991/92, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03
- Super Cup:
- Winner (6): 1998/99, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04
[edit] Kit Provider
[edit] External links
| Cypriot First Division, 2006-2007 | ||
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AEK Larnaca | AEL FC | AEP Paphos | Anorthosis Famagusta | APOEL | Apollon Limassol | Aris Limassol | Ayia Napa | Digenis Morphou | EN Paralimni | Ethnikos Achna | Nea Salamis Famagusta | Olympiakos Nicosia | AC Omonia |
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| Football in Cyprus | ||
| Cyprus Football Association - National team - List of football clubs in Cyprus | ||
| Competitions: Cypriot First Division - Cyprus Cup - Cyprus FA Shield | ||
