Filippos Veria H.C.

Filippos Verias
Full nameFilippos Verias Handball Club
Nickname(s)Vasilias (The King)
Erythrolefkoi (The Red-Whites)
Short nameFilippos
Founded1977
ArenaFilippeio Indoor Hall
Capacity1,135
PresidentGiorgos Fikatas
Head coachMarios Katikaridis
CaptainStavros Papadopoulos
LeagueA2 Ethniki Handball
2021–2022Handball Premier, 11th (relegated)
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Website
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Filippos Veria H.C.[1] (Greek: Φίλιππος Βέροιας) is a Greek handball club based in Veria, section of multi-sports club Filippos Veria. The handball department of Filippos was founded in 1977 and its colours are white and red. Its emblem is Philip of Macedonia. Filippos is also known as "Vasilias (the king)" and it is the second most successful club in Premier Handball/A1 Ethniki history.

History

Filippos Veria Handball Club was founded in 1977, when the first Greek Handball tournament was held. Filippos won the first tournament in 1977, organised by SEGAS.[2] The next years Filippos won 8 moreover championships (reaching 9 totally) and 5 cups and became the club with the most titles in Greek Handball along with Ionikos Nea Filadelphia. In 2003 Filippos played in the final of EHF Challenge Cup but it was defeated by Danish team Skjern Håndbold. It was the first Greek handball club that played in a final of a European competition.[3][4] Filippos also participated in 2003–04 EHF Champions League where they achieved three wins in six matches and they were disqualified in a quadruple tie as they had the worst GD. After four years of decline, Filippos finished 4th in the A1 championship and after PAOK's rejection to play in the EHF Challenge Cup, they registered to the competition and they'll replace the team. This was the first time after five years that Filippos would participate in a European competition. Moreover, Theodoros Karipidis (president and owner of Veria), involvement in Filippos, boosted club's morale and confidence and it appears that there's an opportunity for the dream to resurrect from its ashes. In co-operation with Karipidis, the board of the club achieved to sign the captain of the Greek national team, Giorgos Mastrogiannis, as well as Savvas Karypidis.[5][6]

Recent seasons

Season Division Place Notes
2000–01 A1 Ethniki 2nd
2001–02 A1 Ethniki 3rd
2002–03 A1 Ethniki 1st Winner Greek Cup
2003–04 A1 Ethniki 2nd
2004–05 A1 Ethniki 2nd
2005–06 A1 Ethniki 3rd
2006–07 A1 Ethniki 2nd Winner Greek Cup
2007–08 A1 Ethniki 5th
2008–09 A1 Ethniki 5th Finalist Greek Cup
2009–10 A1 Ethniki 2nd
2010–11 A1 Ethniki 5th
2011–12 A1 Ethniki 8th
2012–13 A1 Ethniki 9th
2013–14 A1 Ethniki 7th
2014–15 A1 Ethniki 5th
2015–16 Handball Premier 1st Winner Greek Cup
2016–17 Handball Premier 7th
2017–18 Handball Premier 7th
2018–19 Handball Premier 9th
2019–20 Handball Premier 12th
2020–21 Handball Premier 7th
2021–22 Handball Premier 11th Relegated to A2

European record

Season Competition Round Club 1st leg 2nd leg Aggregate
2015–16 EHF Challenge Cup R2 Russia SKIF Krasnodar 35–29 26–31 61–60
R3 Greece A.E.K. Athens 36–34 32–22 68–56
1/8 Portugal S.L. Benfica 14–34 26–23 40–57
2016–17 EHF Cup R1 Montenegro RK Budvanska Rivijera 30–24 28–26 58–50
R2 Poland NMC Górnik Zabrze 17–30 15–20 32–50

Honours

Current squad

Season 2015–16[7]

Number Player Position Birth Date Height (m)
1 Greece Christos Evaggelopoulos Goalkeeper 18/11/1993 1.93
2 Greece Nikos Arvanitidis Pivot 22/6/1988 1.84
3 Greece Nikos Zlatanos Goalkeeper 11/10/1994 1.88
5 Greece Nikos Charalabidis Left Extreme 25/1/1997 1.88
6 Greece Stefanos Michailidis Left Inter 15/5/1994 1.98
7 Greece Diogenis Apostolidis Left Inter 23/2/1996 1.93
9 Greece Anastasios Pantelidis Left Inter 23/2/1996 1.80
10 Greece Charalampos Ananiadis Pivot 29/7/1986 1.90
11 Greece Dimitris Mpantis Play Maker 15/6/1980 1.92
12 Greece Akis Psomiadis Goalkeeper 3/8/1996 1.88
14 Greece Theofanis Deligiannis Left Extreme 11/5/1987 1.80
20 Greece Savas Karipidis Right Extreme 23/5/1979 1.82
21 Greece Kostas Psomiadis Left Extreme 1/6/1997 1.88
22 Greece Giorgos Kotsifas Goalkeeper 27/6/1982 1.87
23 Greece Angelos Dragolas Right extreme 14/4/1991 1.85
25 Greece Giorgos Mastrogiannis Play Maker 30/8/1981 1.84
31 Greece Kostas Tsilimparis Play Maker 30/8/1981 1.84
33 Greece Thomas Koronas Goalkeeper 9/3/1994 1.85
55 Greece Stauros Rebelakos Left Extreme 13/6/1989 1.76
69 Greece Stauros Papadopoulos Left Extreme 28/5/1980 1.80
88 Greece Nikos Nikolaidis Left Extreme 21/4/1988 1.75

Technical staff

Technical staff
Head coach Greece Kostas Toutsis
Assistant coach Greece Kostas Deligiannis
Fitness coach Greece Giannis Tzoumakis

See also

References

  1. ^ A.C. Filippos Verias eurohandball.com
  2. ^ "Filippos Veria". handball.gr. Archived from the original on 1 May 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Έγραψε ιστορία" (in Greek). tanea.gr. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  4. ^ "Χάντμπολ: Ο Διομήδης Αργους σε ραντεβού με την Ιστορία". tovima.gr. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  5. ^ Βόμβα με τον αρχηγό της Εθνικής!
  6. ^ Συνεχίζει τις μεταγραφικές βόμβες ο βασιλιάς Φίλιππος
  7. ^ Hellenic Handball Federation Filippos Veria squad