Doxa Katokopias FC

Doxa Katokopia FC
Full name Doxa Katokopia FC
Founded 1954 (1954)
Ground Makario Stadium
Ground Capacity 16,000
Chairman Costas Christodoulou
Manager Loukas Hadjiloukas
League Cypriot First Division
2015–16 8th
Website Club home page

Doxa Katokopia (Greek: Δόξα Κατωκοπιάς) is a Cypriot football team from Katokopia in the Nicosia District. Since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, Katokopia is under Turkish occupation, and the club moved to Peristerona, which is near Katokopia.

The solid Era squads

Doxa Katokopias known as Doxa which translates to Glory in Greek, from 2011 onwards became famous for the solid squad players, the majority of whom are Portuguese from the lower divisions, that the club president "Karavidas" locates and the team employs, to face strong opponents and therefore obtains the respect of the CFA community due to the decent results.

History

Doxa (which translates as Glory) was promoted to First Division in 1998 for first time in their history, but after finishing 13th in the table (out of 14 teams) they were relegated. The following season, after finishing third in the Second division, they were promoted again in 2000 and this time, with the experience of their first participation, they achieved great success by managing to finish 11th and to remain in the First Division. They were relegated again in 2002 to become Second Division runners-up the following year. They competed again in the first division in the 2003–04 season where they finished last with only 1 win from 26 games and were thus automatically relegated. They were again promoted to the first division in 2007 and after 4 consecutive seasons in the First Division, a record for the club, they have been relegated back to the Second Division in 2011. In 2012 they were promoted again to the First Division after finishing 2nd in the Second Division. In their last three consecutive participations in First Division, they used as home ground the Makario Stadium.

Current squad

As of 4 June 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Cyprus GK Alexandre Negri
2 Brazil DF Paulinho
3 Cyprus MF Stelios Demetriou
5 Angola FW Rudy
6 Spain DF Manuel Redondo
7 Colombia FW Yair Castro
8 Portugal MF Tiago Gomes
9 Colombia FW Luis Arturo Peralta
10 Spain FW Carles Coto
11 Colombia FW Rodrigo Gonzalez
13 Portugal DF Carlos Marques
14 Angola FW Wilson Kenidy
15 Cyprus DF Paolo Stylianou
19 Brazil DF Edmar (Captain)
No. Position Player
20 Greece DF Kyriakos Aretas (on loan from APOEL)
21 Cyprus MF Constantinos Christodoulou
25 Brazil DF João Leonardo (Vice-captain)
26 Ivory Coast MF Gaoussou Fofana
27 Cyprus DF Andreas Themistokleous
30 Togo MF Henri Eninful
31 Cyprus DF Giorgos Xenofontos
33 Spain DF Albert Serrán
38 Cyprus MF Marios Poutziouris
39 Cyprus MF Marios Koukartas
91 Senegal FW Bara Bebeto
94 Cyprus GK Andreas Efstathiou
99 Cyprus GK Evagoras Hadjifrangiskou

On loan

Out

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player

For recent transfers, see List of Cypriot football transfers summer 2016.

Notable former players

See also Doxa Katokopia players for a complete list

Managers

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