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Αθλητική Ένωσις Λεμεσού
Full name	Αθλητική Ένωσις Λεμεσού Athletic Union of Lemesos
Nickname(s)	"Λέοντες" (Lions), ΙΣΟΒΙΤΕΣ, Originals
Founded	1930
Ground	Tsirion Stadium (Capacity 16,000)
Chairman	Ζαχαρίας Κούντουρος
Manager	Mariano Barreto
League	Cypriot First Division
Club Titles	196
Home colours 　 Away colours

A. E. Lemesos (Athlitiki Enosis Lemesou - AEL, Greek: Αθλητική Ένωσις Λεμεσού - ΑΕΛ, Athletic Union of Lemesos) is a Greek Cypriot multisport club based in the city of Lemesos, Cyprus. AEL maintains not only the football team (something very common in the country), but tries to give equal opportunities to all sports.

At present, AEL maintains football, basketball, volleyball, Handball, Bawling and Cycling teams that participate in their corresponding domestic leagues as well as in international competitions.

Contents 1 Football team 1.1 Current Squad 1.2 Former Players 2 Basketball Team (Proteas EKA AEL) 2.1 European Campaigns 2.2 PROTEAS EKA AEL roster 2.2.1 2006-2007 roster (DTL EKA AEL) 2.3 EKA AEL Most Important European wins 3 Women's Basketball Team(KV Imperial AEL) 3.1 KV Imperial AEL roster 4 Women Volleyball Team(Tranbunker Danoi ΑΕΛ) 4.1 Tranbunker Danoi ΑΕΛ Roster 5 Bowling Team 6 Cycling Team 7 Defunct Sports departments 7.1 External links

Football Team Titles
Championship titles:	5	(1941, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1968)
Cup titles:	6	(1939, 1940,1948, 1985, 1987, 1989)
Super Cup titles:	3	(1953, 1968, 1985)
Κ.Α.Σεβέρη Cup titles:	3	(1952-53, 1954-55, 1955-56)
U21 Football Team Titles
Championship titles:	11	(1940, 1951, 1960, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1998, 1999, 2002)
U17 Football Team Titles
Championship titles:	3	(2005, 2006,2007)
Cup titles:	1	(1997)

Chairman Ζαχαρίας Κούντουρος

Manager Mariano Barreto

Assis. Manager Felix Naim

Goalkeeper Coach Άλκης Μάρκου

Number Nationality Name Position 1 Greece Kleopas Giannou GK 70 Cyprus Panos Constantinou GK 29 Cyprus Nikos Kanetis GK 88 Cyprus Aggelos Perikleous DMC 22 Cyprus Giannis Sampson DL 4 Belgium Laurent Fassotte DC 5 Mauritania Moise Kandé DC 2 Serbia Predrag Ocokoljić DR 26 Serbia Aleksandar Todorovski DR 27 Italy Andre Tondeskado DL 6 Portugal Zé Nando DL 23 Portugal Joca MC

Number Nationality Name Position 7 Portugal Tiquinho MR 28 Portugal Hélio Roque MR 8 Croatia Igor Musa DMC 10 Argentina Luciano De Bruno AMC 18 Congo N'Safu Gonzala N' Tumpa AMC 13 Bosnia Dušan Kerkez DMC 12 Cyprus Xenios Kyriakou DMC 20 Cyprus Liasos Louka MC/DC 30 Cyprus Simos Krassas ML 33 Cyprus Petros Filaniotis FC 14 Senegal Seyni N'Diaye ST

ON LOAN

Nationality Name Position On Loan To Nemanja Corović ST APOEL Nicosia Emmanuel Domo DL Digenis Morphou John Κυριάκου DC Digenis Morphou

Nation Name Hussain Yasser Abdulrahman Roman Gonzalo Diaz Luciano de Souza Clayson Joseph Afusi Mutiu Adepoju Aime Koudou George Gebro Jean-Paul Boeka-Lisasi David Hannah Dalibor Filipovic Nemanja Corović

Nation Name Gennadiy Litovchenko Marko Simeunovič Amir Karič Muamer Vugdalič Spasoje Bulajič Simon Seslar Miha Golob József Sebök Attila Tököli Géza Mészöly (footballer) Gábor Torma Markus Hiden

Nation Name Jaroslaw Krzyzanowski Olgierd Moskalewicz Radosław Kałużny Marian Savu Corneliu Papură Tibor Selymes Jens Paeslack Thomas Epp Klimenti Tsitaishvili Jörgen Walemark Sása Jovanović Jairo Castillo

v • d • e AEL Limassol Presidents
Name	From	To
Σταύρος Πίττας	1930	1932
Κρίτων Τορναρίτης	1932	1934
Γιάγκος Λιμανίτιτης	1934	1953
Νίκος Σολομωνίδης	1953	1971
Νίκος Κούντας	1971	1976
Γεώργιος Τορναρίτης	1976	1982
Λώρης Λυσιώτης	1982	1996
Δημήτρης Σολομωνίδης	1996	2002
Γιώργος Φραντζής	2002	2003
Ακης Ελληνας	2003	2005
Αγις Αγαπίου	2005	2006
Μάριος Ηροδότου	2006	2008

v • d • e AEL Limassol Managers
Nationality	Name	Nationality	Name	Nationality	Name
Cyprus	Δημήτρης Τσιέπης	Greece	Αργύρης Γαβαλάς	Cyprus	Κώστας Βασιλείου
Cyprus	Σπύρος Ηλία	Austria	Ferdinard Ceplar	Greece	Χρίστος Χριστοδούλου
Austria	Ούλχεν Φιτς	Greece	Γεώργιος Εισαγγελέας	Cyprus	"Μαυρόκολος"
Austria	Χανς Ρίεντριχτ	Hungary	Στέφαν Τούρμπεικ	Cyprus	Μουστάκας
Hungary	Τζούλιους Ρέινερ	Cyprus	Λοίζος Παντελίδης	Bulgaria	Αποστόλ Τσατσέφσκι
Cyprus	Πανίκος Κρυστάλλης	Bulgaria	Χέμελυ Τόμωφ	Ireland	Πίτερ Μακπάρλαντ
Czech	Φράντισεκ Χαβράνεκ	Czech	Βλαντμίρ Σβετς	Czech	Dušan Uhrin
Czech	Ντούναι	Czech	József Cipro	Yugoslavia	Stanislav Sankovic
Yugoslavia	Τόμας Καλοπέροβιτς	Cyprus	Ανδρεάς Κισσονέργης	Germany	Diethelm Ferner
Slovakia	Κέυζα Φάρκας	Cyprus	Πανίκος Ορφανίδης	Hungary	Κάλμαν Μίσοι
Greece	Ioannis Matzourakis	Cyprus	Αντρέας Μιχαηλίδης	Netherland	Henk Houwaart
Ukraine	Oleg Protasov	Slovenia	Bojan Prašnikar	Cyprus	Λοίζος Μαυρουδής

Fullname	Proteas EKA AEL
Nicknames	Βασίλισσα (Greek) Queen (English)
AEL BC founded	1967
Team Colors	All Yellow With Blue Streaks
President	Michael Loizidis Andreas Sofocleous
Head Coach	Charles Barton
League	Division A - Cyprus
League From 2008-2009	A1 - Greece
Arena	Nicos Solomonidis
Arena Nickname	Το κλουβί (Greek) The Cage (English)
Arena Capacity	3000

AEL is one of the founding members of Cyprus Basketball Federation. With coach one of the schoolteachers of the sport in Cyprus, Michalaki Nikolaidi, AEL took part in the first official championship in 1967. It is established as the “queen” of Cyprus Basketball. Other than the 13 championships, the 7 Cups and the 4 Super Cups, AEL is the only Cypriot team that has ever won a European title (Regional Challenge Cup, South Conference 2003). In 2007, for the fifth (5th) consecutive year, EKA AEL Lemesos have won the Cypriot championship. EKA AEL has become the first team in the Cyprus league to win five (5) titles in a row. Rumours say that the board of EKA AEL is trying to gain a "wild card" for Greek Championship(A1) for the upcoming season(2008-09).

Basketball Team Titles
FIBA Regional Challenge Cup (South region):	1	(2003)
Cyprus Basketball Men's League Titles:	13	(1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Cup titles:	7	(1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 2004)
Super Cup titles:	5	(1985, 1988, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007)
U21 Basketball Team Titles
Cyprus Basketball U21 League Titles:	4	(1991, 1997, 1999, 2000)
U21 Cup titles:	4	(1997, 1998, 1999, 2002)
U17 Basketball Team Titles
Cyprus Basketball U17 League Titles:	3	(1994, 1996, 2000

In 2003 the “queen” was crowned with their first European crown after conquering the newly established Regional Challenge Cup (South Conference). That was a triumph which has been achieved with the astonishing record of 10 victories in 10 games. That was the beginning of the European success of AEL Limassol which continues until today. After winning the Regional Challenge Cup, AEL participated as Cypriot champions the following year in the new FIBA EuroCup and qualified from the group phase to best 16 teams. In the Group phase, AEL eliminated teams like Peristeri and Paris Basket Racing. They were eliminated in the round of 16 by Hapoel Tel Aviv. They were very close to do the same achievement in the same competition in 2004-05 but in 2005-06, when the competition changed formation AEL achieved to pass the first group round by finishing second, eliminating PAOK BC and Kallev Tallin and reached the second round (round of 16) where they finished last in their group.

The effort to reach the quarter finals was achieved in 2006-07 even though during this time AEL faced tougher opponents than the previous years. Being in the same group at the first round with former European Champions Virtus Bologna, the famous ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne and the Astronauts Amsterdam, very few would believe that AEL had any chance to qualify. However, those expectations didn't become true and after the surprise victory against Virtus Bologna with a score 88-83 and the home win against the french giants Villeurbanne 84-58, finished at second place of group 2 and qualified to second round with four wins and two losses. Unlike the previous year, when AEL finished with 0 points in the second round, being in the same group with CB Estudiantes, with the Liege Basket and BC Šiauliai, they finished second with 5 victories and 1 defeat same with the pioneering Estudiantes because of the matches between those teams. AEL beat Estudiantes 63-62. AEL reached the quarter finals but the dream to reach the final four didn't become truth after they were eliminated by the Ukrainian team Azovmash 2-1 in victories. AEL won at home 85-79 but was beaten away 88 - 63 and 97 - 69. DTL EKA AEL finished unbeaten at Home.

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Number	Name	Position	Height (m)	Birth date	Former Team
10	Χρίστος Σπύρου	Playmaker	1.83	19/03/1975	PAO(Cyprus)
4	Αλέξης Λιάτσος	Forward	2.00	18.11.1980	Rethimno(Greece)
9	Κωνσταντίνος Περεντός	Forward	1.98	01/05/1983	Junior Team
?	Γιώργος Παλάλας	Playmaker	1.85	20/03/1981	Junior Team
12	Rade Kozomara	Small Forward	1.92	05.12.1983
7	Milutin Aleksic	Small Forward	2.02	28/04/1982	PAOK(Greece)
5	Bruno Šundov	Center	2.20	10/02/1980	Alicante(Spain)
5	Sasa Cuic	Power Forward	2.15	11/3/1983	Rotterdam(Netherland)
13	Aleksandr Dedushkin	Center	2.07	12.08.1981	PBC Ural Great(Russia)
13	Vasily Zavoruev	Small Forward	2.02	13/01/87	CSKA(Moscow)
6	Karim Souchu	Small Forward	1.98	30.03.1979	Liege(Belgium)
?	Olivier Ilunga	Point Guard	1.85	13/03/84	08 Stockholm(Sweden)
14	Arseni Kuchinsky	Small Forward	2.02	17/03/79	MBC Odessa(Ukraine)
15	Duane Woodward	Power Forward / Combo Guard	1.91	04/06/1976	Siviglia Wear(Italy)
8	Ryan Randle	Power Forward / Center	2.06	21/04/1981	Fayetteville P.(USA)
	Charles Barton	Head Coach			M7(Sweden)
	Bill McCammon	Assistant Coach			Huelva(Spain)
	Πάμπος Μιχαηλίδης	Assistant Coach

ON LOAN

Number	Name	Position	Height (m)	Birth date	Former Team	On Loan To	Until
11	Alen Trepalovac	Center	2.15	14.01.1985	Cibona Zagreb(Croatia)	AEK	2009

Date	Competition	Match	Place	Score	Spectators
18.11.2003	EuroCup 2004 Qualifying Round	KK Hemofarm - EKA AEL	Vrsac (SCG)	68 - 75	1500
02.12.2003	EuroCup 2004 Qualifying Round	EKA AEL - BC Khimki	Limassol (CYP)	87 - 68	2000
16.12.2003	EuroCup 2004 Qualifying Round	EKA AEL - Paris Basket Racing	Limassol (CYP)	72 - 67	2000
13.01.2004	EuroCup 2004 Qualifying Round	ANWIL Wloclawek - EKA AEL	Wloclawek (POL)	54 - 68	2500
30.11.2004	EuroCup 2005 Qualifying Round	EKA AEL – Iraklis Thessalonikis	Limassol (CYP)	88 - 77	1200
12.01.2005	EuroCup 2005 Qualifying Round	EKA AEL - Khimik Yuzhny	Limassol (CYP)	83 - 64	1800
18.01.2005	EuroCup 2005 Qualifying Round	EKA AEL - Paris Basket Racing	Limassol (CYP)	64 - 58	1800
01.02.2005	EuroCup 2005 Qualifying Round	Iraklis Thessalonikis - EKA AEL	Thessaloniki (GRE)	87 - 89	500
26.10.2005	EuroCup 2006 Round 1	Privatbank EKA AEL - BC Kalev	Limassol (CYP)	67 - 49	1500
02.11.2005	EuroCup 2006 Round 1	PAOK - Privatbank EKA AEL	Thessaloniki (GRE)	74 - 75	500
09.11.2005	EuroCup 2006 Round 1	Privatbank EKA AEL - Fenerbahçe	Limassol (CYP)	82 - 81	3000
15.11.2005	EuroCup 2006 Round 1	BC Kalev - Privatbank EKA AEL	Tallinn (EST)	65 - 71	1500
23.11.2005	EuroCup 2006 Round 1	Privatbank EKA AEL - PAOK	Limassol (CYP)	84 - 67	1500
14.11.2006	EuroCup 2007 Round 1	DTL EKA AEL - Amsterdam Astronauts	Limassol (CYP)	82 - 49	1200
21.11.2006	EuroCup 2007 Round 1	DTL EKA AEL - Virtus Europonteggi Bologna	Limassol (CYP)	88 - 83	3100
29.11.2006	EuroCup 2007 Round 1	DTL EKA AEL - Adecco ASVEL Villeurbanne	Limassol (CYP)	84 - 58	3500
04.12.2006	EuroCup 2007 Round 1	Amsterdam Astronauts - DTL EKA AEL	Amsterdam (NED)	79 - 95	350
16.01.2007	EuroCup 2007 Round 2	DTL EKA AEL - Liege Basket	Limassol (CYP)	70 - 64	2500
23.01.2007	EuroCup 2007 Round 2	BC Siauliai - DTL EKA AEL	Siauliai (LTU)	79 - 85	850
30.01.2007	EuroCup 2007 Round 2	DTL EKA AEL - Club Estudiantes	Limassol (CYP)	63 - 62	3500
13.02.2007	EuroCup 2007 Round 2	Liege Basket - DTL EKA AEL	Liege (BEL)	58 - 77	1000
20.02.2007	EuroCup 2007 Round 2	DTL EKA AEL - BC Siauliai	Limassol (CYP)	94 - 85	2100
09.03.2007	EuroCup 2007 Quarter-Final Play-Offs	DTL EKA AEL - Azovmash Mariupol	Limassol (CYP)	85 - 79	3450
20.11.2007	EuroCup 2008 Elimination Round 2	BC Dnipro - Proteas EKA AEL	Dnepropetrovsk (UKR)	53 - 64	5000
27.11.2007	EuroCup 2008 Elimination Round 2	Proteas EKA AEL – BC Dnipro	Limassol (CYP)	104 - 69	600
Adecco ASVEL Villeurbanne was one of the big favorites to qualified to the final four but DTL EKA AEL qualified over her
Virtus Europonteggi Bologna and Club Estudiantes qualified in the FinalFour, Semi-Finals
SC Azovmash Mariupol qualified in the Final

Women Basketball Team Titles
Championship titles:	6	(1993, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2006, 2007)
Cup titles:	6	(1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2006)
Super Cup titles:	3	(1998, 2006, 2007)
Women U21 Basketball Team Titles
Championship titles:	7	(1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2005)
Women U17 Basketball Team Titles
Championship titles:	1	(2005)
Cup titles:	1	(2005)

Number	Name	Position	Height (m)
	Αννα Μιχαήλ	Center	1.75
	Ερση Κυριάκου	Centre	1.82
	Κάλια Παπαδοπούλου	Play Maker	1.66
	Χριστιάνα Μενελάου	Play Maker	1.59
	Αφροδίτη Σαρκά	Shooting Guard	1.69
	Λουκία Λάρκου	Shooting Guard	1.71
	Στάλω Φαίδωνος	Forward	1.76
	Δωρίνα Ιωαννίδου	Forward	1.70
	Γιάννα Κλεάνθους	Forward	1.70
	Biljana Pavicevic	Centre	1.92
	Marija Petrovic	Shooting Guard	1.75
	Andrea Pinter	Guard	1.74
	Ancuta Stoenescu	Guard	1.71
	Andrea Gardenale	Forward	1.96
	Gardner-Combs Andrea	Center	1.91
	Betty Lennox	Center	1.59
	Λίνος Γαβριήλ	Coach
	Χρίστος Σπύρου	Assistant Coach

Fullname	Tranbunker Danoi ΑΕΛ
Nicknames	Βασίλισσα (Greek) Queen (English)
Tranbunker Danoi ΑΕΛ founded	1976
Team Colors	Yellow With Blue
Arena	Nicos Solomonidis
Arena Nickname	Το κλουβί (Greek) The Cage (English)
Arena Capacity	3000

A Founding member of the Cyprus Volleyball Federation in 1976, AEL's women team has dominated in the Cypriot volleyball. The team's achievements are phenomenal; Out of the 32 seasons played so far in Cyprus since the commencement of the women's volleyball league,the team won the Championship 27 times.Out of the 31 cups they won it 27 times, 24 consecutive times, from 1980 until 2003. Also they have won the Championship 15 consecutive times, from 1977 until 1991. They have also the amazing records of winning the Double 12 times from 1980 until 1991 and 9 times from 1993 until 2001. In the past the club had also a men's team for 10 years which participated in the Cypriot Championship.

Number	Player
1	Marina Christophorou
11	Mayia Deprova
3	Marina Pepekou
4	Skevi Ioannidou
5	Oxana Pavlou
6	Sotia Papakyriakou
9	Marina Isova
10	Cesara Ruxadoyu
2	Manolina Costantinidou
14	Josephine Socratous
15	Dora Yiallouri
16	Tania Tomihova
Coach	Roula Katchambi

Women Volleyball Team Titles
Championship titles:	27	(1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006)
Cup titles:	27	(1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
Super Cup titles:	10	(1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Women U21 Volleyball Team Titles
Championship titles:	8	(1987, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004)
Cup titles:	3	(2000, 2002, 2004)
Women U17 Volleyball Team Titles
Championship titles:	9	(1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,2006)
Cup titles:	1	(2000)

The bowling club was founded in 1999 and the same year became a member of the Limassol District Federation. In 2001, the team participated in the Cypriot Championship as one of the two representatives of the Limassol District Federation. In 2003 the team won its first trophy by winning the Limassol District Federation Cup and in 2006 its first Championship by winning the Limassol District Federation Championship. The home of the team is the Limassol Bowling Center.

Player
Christos Krassas
Michalis Loizidis
Michalis Perikleous
Georgios Georgiou
Andros Kalogirou
Pampos Stamataris

Bowling Team Titles
Limassol Championship:	1	(2006)
Limassol Cup:	4	(2003,2004,2005,2007)

The cycling team was founded in 2001 and the same year became a member of the Limassol District Federation. The first men's cycling team consisted of the following : Ομηρος Χριστοφόρου, Παντελής Τίμινης, Μιχάλης Τσουλόφτας, Ηρόδοτος Κυριάκου, Σωτήρης Σκουταρίδης, Δημήτρης Αραούζος

Cycling Team Titles
General - Road cup:	3	(2004, 2005, 2006)
Men - Road cup:	3	(2004, 2005, 2006)
Masters 1 - Road cup:	1	(2006)
Masters 2 - Road cup:	2	(2004, 2005)

Apart from the currently active sports departments, AEL had in the past some other sports departments, which today are defunct. Despite this, these currently not active departments had all won titles for AEL when they were active.

In the past AEL Limassol had a field hockey team which is currently not active. The team had plenty of victories led by its star player Renos Antoniadis. In 1931, AEL won the Cup in a match which was played in Larnaca. One year later, the team became Cypriot Champions. The team consisted of the following players: Antoniadis, Pareas, Frangos, Christophides, Michaelides, Kalogirou, Victor Mousteris, Anastasiadis and Williamson. However, there were no further hockey competitions in Cyprus afterwards, as the other teams hockey teams of the era closed down their hockey departments because of financial problems.

Another AEL sport department that currently does not exist is the handball. The team was active for a small period of time but that did not stop the the team from adding another trophy to the hundreds that AEL won in various other sports. On June 11, 1989, a day after the football team of the club won the Cypriot Cup, the handball team won the Cypriot Cup in handball by beating Youth Centre Larnaca 23-19 in the final which was played in Lefkotheo Indoor Hal, Nicosia.

Another AEL sport department that currently does not exist is the mens Volleybal team

AEL was also active in maritime sports, especially those that needed team articipation. AEL pioneered in Regattas in 1932, 1933 and 1934 in the Cyprus Regatta Games. The members of the team were Nearchos Pieris, Christakis Dixon, Andreas Araouzos, Sotiris Antoniades and Maximos Morides. The club had also a waterpolo team which was unbeaten Cypriot Champions. The team achieved a noted victory against a selected team of the British Navy which were then Mediterranean Champions. Apart from the Cypriot Championships, AEL won the Mediterranean Naval Cup.

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v • d • e AEL Limassol – current squad
2 Ocokoljić • 4 Fassotte • 5 Kandé • 6 Zé Nando • 7 Tiquinho • 8 Musa • 10 De Bruno • 12 Kyriakou • 13 Kerkez • 14 Seyni  • 18 N'Safu • 19 Castillo • 20 Liasos • 22 Sampson • 23 Joca • 26 Todorovski • 28 Hélio Roque • 29 Kanetis • 30 Krassas • 33 Filaniotis • 34 Giannou • 70 Constantinou • 88 Perikleous • Manager: Eli Guttman