Nikolaos "Nikos" Sofis[1] (Greek: Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Σοφής; born 10 May 1992) is a Greek sports manager and lyricist, from Larissa, Greece.[2] He used to serve as vice president for Greek Super League club AEL[3] and as an advisor to Super League 2 club Kavala. Currently he holds the position as area manager for Greece and Cyprus on football portal Transfermarkt[4], as well as a minor investor in Slovenian football club NK Tabor Sežana[5]. Since 2011, he also is engaged in songwriting, best known for his bids in the Eurovision Song Contest.[6] In 2019, together with Sebastian Ekstrand, he formed the EDM pop project VoColor.[7]
On 9 September 2016, Greek Super League team AEL proposed the inclusion of Sofis into the executive board to its stakeholders.[8] As of 24 September 2016, Sofis has been elected and announced as third vice president.[9] The team managed to reach the goals set by the administrative board, which expected the team to not get relegated and remain in the Superleague.
During the 2017–18 season, AEL managed an impressive run in the Greek Cup, making it to the semi-finals. The team was eventually eliminated by AEK Athens through the away goals rule. On 4 October 2017, Sofis announced his resignation as vice president.[10] However, on 24 November 2017, Sofis got announced as member of the newly formed executive board. On 23 September 2018, Sofis announced his resignation from the position he was holding at the club.[3]
Kavala
From 1 January 2022 until 30 June 2022, Sofis has been acting as an advisor to Super League 2 club Kavala.
Transfermarkt
As of August 2023, Sofis took over as area manager for Greece and Cyprus at football portal Transfermarkt.[4]
NK Tabor Sežana
Sofis has revealed via his personal Facebook account, that as of the beginning of January 2025, he became a minor investor in the Slovenian football club NK Tabor Sežana, currently playing in the Slovenian Second League.[5]
Since 2011, Sofis also has been engaged in songwriting, best known for his bids in the Eurovision Song Contest.[6] During the years he has collaborated with a variety of songwriters and artists from across Europe. As of 2019, he also is the main lyricist for Polish rock band Clödie. Since March 2021, he collaborates with Italian record label Frontiers Music.
VoColor was a Swedish-Greek EDM pop project formed in 2019, consisting of Swedish singer-songwriter Sebastian Ekstrand and Greek lyricist Nikos Sofis.[7]
Ekstrand and Sofis first met and started working in early-2016, resulting in Ekstrand's solo single "Come To Me".[28] With both sides being satisfied with the collaboration, Sofis involved Ekstrand on the song "If I Could" for Moldovan artist Max Fall, a song that was submitted to represent Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. The same year, the two worked on Ekstrand's next solo single, "Hold On". During the same year, Ekstrand involved Sofis into the writing process of Escape the Day's comeback single "Breaking the Tide", released in early-2018.[29] Ekstrand and Sofis have also worked together on the song "Hypnotized", released in 2018, by popular Azerbaijani pop star Samra.[30] In 2019, Ekstrand and Sofis collaborated once again and wrote the song "Stop Breathing" for Angelika Pushnova, who tried to represent Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.[31]
In late-2019, Ekstrand and Sofis decided to form VoColor and released their debut single "Savior" on 6 December 2019. Following the release of the debut single, on 10 April 2020 VoColor released the remix EP, Savior: Remixed, containing five alternate versions of the song. On 22 May 2020, they released their second single, "Until the End", featuring Eurovision Song Contest 2011 winner Eldar from Azerbaijan.[32] An orchestral remix of "Until the End" was released on 4 December. On New Year's Eve, VoColor released the Until the End EP, containing all of the previously released versions of the song as well as the previously unreleased instrumental version. On 24 September 2021, they released their third single "Home" with Danish singer Kenny Duerlund. On 17 June 2022, the duo released their fourth single "Illogical".
