Panionios Kalamata Athletic Club ( Athlitikos Silogos Panionios Kalamata) is a football (soccer)

Football in Greece

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 club in Kalamata

Kalamata

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, Greece

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. It currently plays in the Messenia(n) First Division

Messinia Football Clubs Association

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. The club was founded in the neighborhood of Avramiou by refugees from Asia Minor

Asia Minor

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 which moved to the city after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

The club has a traditional blue-red colors of Panionios of Smyrna

Smyrna

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 (now Izmir

Izmir

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). The emblems which resembles with the emblem which had established in the 2000s, the passed Neos Panionios and is borrowed from the logo of Barcelona. It is shielded with blue-red edges and its points has a star with the Greek flag to the left and an Ionic column to the right, it is refers in Greek the club and its Ionian roots. The upper part reads Panionios Kalamatas in Greek.

The main part of the club is football (soccer). The team plays in the first division of the Messinian Football (Soccer) Clubs Association with decent presentation. It plays at Giorgos Loukareas Public Field.

Its offices are located at 38 Bouloukou (Bouloukos) Street.

In the summer of 2008, it made its first junior tournament in the MFCA and won 1-0 with Prassina Poulia.

In the 2008-09 season, it played in the second division with Nikos Moulatsiotis

Nikos Moulatsiotis

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.

The 2009-10 season

The 2009-10 season features several players including:

• Ch. Christopoulos
• Spyropoulos
• Gallos
• Karamouzis
• Iliopoulos
• Katranis
• Siotis
• Th. Christopoulos
• Giannaikopulos
• Miroulis
• Kanaloupitis
• Kokalis
• G. Kalomalos
• Bakas
• Psaras
• Lianos
• Prokopiadis
• Marados
• Rovolis
• Kolyvaris
• Iraklis
• Skarpetis
• Missaplidis
• P. Xenoulis
• I. Lyras
• Yarnott?/Yarnotte?
• Parabatis
• Nwansi

Its chairman is Panayiogis Polimos and its manager is Nikos Gaidoyannis