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'Nea Salamis Ammochostos' or Nea Salamina Ammochostos (Greek: Νέα Σαλαμίνα Αμμοχώστου) is a Cypriot football and volleyball club which comes from the city of Ammochostos (also known by its Romanized name: ''Famagusta''). It has adopted its name from the ancient Cypriot 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.

Contents

History

1950s and 1960s

1970s disaster

Cup achievement and European participation

2000s

Stadium

Current Squad

Squad Changes for 2007/08 season

Former Managers

Former Players

Volleyball

Honours

Football

★ '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

History

The establishment of the Club (along with that of a few others), was evoked from the political turbulence of that period and the conflict between left-wings and right-wings due to the Greek Civil War. SEGAS, the Greek Sports Confederation which was controlling the Greek Cypriot clubs, asked from the clubs to declare themselves as nationalists and to abandoned their communist athletes. The majority of Cypriot clubs obeyed SEGAS, and that had a result the abolishments of many athletes and the establishment of new clubs. One of the clubs was Nea Salamis and together with some others new-formed clubs established the Cyprus Amateur Football Federation (KEPO), which had its own football league and cup, separated from Cyprus Football Association.

1950s and 1960s

In 1953, the Cypriot football was unified and the clubs of KEPO joined the Cyprus Football Association. Nea Salamina joined the Second Division of Cyprus FA and in their second participation in the Association's competitions they won the Championship of Second Division.
Since 1955, Nea Salamina belongs to Cypriot First Division, except some short interruptions when they were relegated. In their first Cypriot First Division participation Salamis finished 3rd, just four points behind the Champions AEL FC. The team reached their best position ever respectively as third in the seasons 1955/56, 1965/66, 1992/93 and 1994/95.
Never becoming Cypriot Champions, Salamis was very close to the trophy in 1965-66 since they played their greatest football ever and also the same season lost in the Cup final. Until the last match of the season, Salamis was second, three points behind AC Omonia but with one match less, and they had to play the third in table Olympiakos Nicosia and with a win they would have won the trophy. Unfortunate for the team, they lost away 3-6 and together they lost the trophy. Salamis finished 3rd in the season, two points behind Omonia and one from Olympiakos. The same season they were beaten by Apollon Limassol in the Cup final.

1970s disaster

1970s was very bad for Nea Salamis and had been closed a lot of times to avoid relegation. Except that, the worst was the capture of Famagusta by the Turkish Forces after the Turkish invasion. The city remains until today in the occupied territories and the club became refugee. Salamis was in difficult situation, since they lost everything with the war and they had to be based in another city. Since then they are based in Larnaca.
The bad performance of Nea Salamis couldn't continue for the club to avoid relegation and finally in the 1978-79, the club relegated for first time to return back a year later, after winning the Second Division Championship.

Cup achievement and European participation

In 1990 Nea Salamina achieved its greatest success, when they won the Cyprus Cup, beating Omonia Nicosia 3-2 in the final in Tsirion Stadium. 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 1995 and 1997 for the Intertoto Cup,they eliminated however with only a victory after the first groups games from. In 2000, Nea Salamis, after two victories against the Albanian Vllaznia Shkoder, reached the second round of the Intertoto, where they beat Austria Vienna 1-0 at home, but they were eliminated after a 3-0 defeat in Vienna.

2000s

The first four years of the 2000s were very bad for Nea Salamis. The team relegated twice in four years in 2001 (despite becoming Cup finalists the same season) and 2003 to return back both times as Second Division Champions in their Second Division participations. Since 2004-05, the team remains in First Division.
In 2006, Nea Salamina formed a women's team and participates in the Cypriot women competitions. In their first participation in the Cypriot championship, they gained the 3rd position and also qualified in the Cyprus Cup final, where they were beaten 1-3 by AEK Kokkinochorion in the GSP Stadium.

Stadium

Salamis' original stadium is GSE (GS Evagoras) Stadium in Famagusta but due to the Turkish occupation, since 1974 they can not use it for home stadium. After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, until 1991, Salamis used at first GSZ Stadium and some years the Dasaki Stadium. Salamis also used Tsirion, Deryneia and Antonis Papadopoulos.
Currently, 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. Owner of the Stadium is Nea Salamis.
''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.
It was built in 1991 and is built inside the refugee suburbs of Larnaca and is expressing the wish of Salamis people for their club. The decision to built that stadium was taken in 1989 and in December of the same year the stadium began to be constructed. After many wages offered from Salamis fans in Cyprus and abroad, from Cyprus Sports Association and from many workers it was achieved to built in a short time.
The stadium hosted the 1992 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship final on May 17, 1992 between Germany and Spain where Germany won 2-1.
The home stadium of Salamis in the Volleyball is in Limassol.

Current Squad

Squad Changes for 2007/08 season

'In:'

★ Zvetomir Tchipev - Signed in Summer Period from ''OFI FC''

★ Panayiotis Kosma - Signed in Summer Period from ''Onisilos FC''

★ Panayiotis Assiotis - Signed in Summer Period from ''Aris Limassol FC''

★ Gilles Domoraud - Signed in Summer Period from ''PAS Giannena''

★ Kostas Konstantinidis - Signed in Summer Period from ''OFI FC''

★ Giorgos Eleftheriou - Signed in Summer Period from ''APOEL FC''

★ Nikolas Aristotelous - Signed in Summer Period from ''Omonoia Aradippou''

★ Lazaros Iakovou - Signed in Summer Period from ''Omonoia Aradippou''

★ Luis Vallenilla - Signed in Summer Period from ''Unión Atlético Maracaibo''

★ Giorgos Nicolaou - Signed in Summer Period from ''Omonia Nicosia''

★ Miloš Kolaković - Signed in Summer Period from ''FK Voždovac''

★ Dário Monteiro - Signed in Summer Period from ''C.F._Estrela da Amadora''

★ Petros Messios - Signed in Summer Period from ''Othelos FC''

★ Angel Stoykov - Signed in Summer Period from ''Slavia Sofia''

★ Rui Dolores - Signed in Summer Period from ''Vitória F.C.''
'Out:'

★ Mugur Bolohan- Signed in Summer Period with ''U Cluj''

★ Marco Haber- Signed in Summer Period with ''FSV Oggersheim''

★ Kyriacos Chailis- Signed in Summer Period with ''Omonia Nicosia''

★ Sergio Bastida- Free in Summer Period

★ Claudiu Raducanu- Free in Summer Period

★ Bjorn Morgan Enqvist- Signed in Summer Period with ''APEP Kyperounda FC''

★ Marios Christodoulou- Signed in Summer Period with ''APOP Kinyras Peyias FC''

★ Filippos Filippou- Signed in Summer Period with ''APOP Kinyras Peyias FC''

★ Giorgos Ioannou- Free in Summer Period

★ Charis Siligardakis- Signed in Summer Period with ''Digenis Morphou''

★ Vangelis Stournaras- Free in Summer Period

Former Managers

★ Jerzy Engel

★ Momčilo Vukotić

★ Georgi Vasilev

★ Imre Geley

★ Andreas Michaelides

★ Panicos Orphanides

Former Players

★ Ioannis Okkas

★ Marios Louka

★ Marco Haber

★ Julius Woobay

★ Jamil Kargbo

★ Julius Conteh

★ Paul Tait

★ Armen Shahgeldyan

★ Evghenii Hmaruc

★ Bjorn Morgan Enqvist

★ Mamuka Tsereteli

★ Alexandr Vyazhevich

★ Krzysztof Bukalski

★ Krzysztof Klosinski

★ Bogdan Zajac

★ Miroslav Seman

★ Claudiu Raducanu

★ Zoltan Bükszegi

★ Mugur Bolohan

★ Sergio Bastida

★ Charalambos Andreou

★ Kiriakos Koureas

★ Nigel McNeal

★ Kenny Dyer

★ Floros Nicolaou

Volleyball

The volleyball team is one of the most powerful teams in Cyprus. With 8 championships, 7 cups and 6 Super Cups is the second team in trophies after Anorthosis Famagusta. Since 1978 they showed to become a great power for Cypriot volleyball after finishing 2nd in the championship, which happened also in 1981, they became runners up in the Championship, to come the first success in 1983 after beating their city-mates Anorthosis 3-1 in the final. The same season Salamis became again 2nd. After two failing Cup finals in 1988 and 1989 against Anorthosis, they won their first Championship in 1990 which was also a double and went on to win the championship for the following season and the Cup in 1992.
Since 1998 and until 2003 they achieved something amazing for the club since they dominated Cypriot volleyball by winning 6 consecutive Championships which was a record for the competition's history. The last four championships were four consecutive doubles. Coach of the 6 consecutive Championships was Antonis Constantinou.

Honours

Football

★ 'Cyprus Cup:'

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★ 'Winners (1):' 1990

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★ 'Runner-up (2):' 1966, 2001

★ 'Cyprus FA Shield:'

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★ 'Winners (1):' 1990

★ 'Cypriot 2nd Division:'

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★ 'Champions (4):' 1955, 1980, 2002, 2004

★ 'Cyprus Women's Cup:'

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★ 'Runner-up (1):' 2007
=== Volleyball =

★ 'Championship titles:'

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★ 'Winner (8):' 1989/90, 1990/91, 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03

★ 'Cyprus Cup:'

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★ 'Winner (7):' 1982/83, 1989/90, 1991/92, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03

★ 'Super Cup:'

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★ 'Winner (6):' 1998/99, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04

External links==

★ '(el)' Official web site of the club

★ '(el)' RED CLUB Official Fan Club web site

★ '(el)' Σύνδεσμος Φίλων Νέας Σαλαμίνας Αμμοχώστου

★ Nea Salamis New York

★ The same article in Greek Wikipedia [1]