Pezoporikos Club Larnaca was a Cypriot

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

 sports club

Sports club

A sports club or sport club, sometimes athletics club or sports association is a club for the purpose of playing one or more sports...

 based in Larnaca

Larnaca

Larnaca, is the third largest city on the southern coast of Cyprus after Nicosia and Limassol. It has a population of 72,000 and is the island's second largest commercial port and an important tourist resort...

 with football, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 and volleyball teams. Founded in 1927, the football club joined the Cypriot Championship in 1938 and won the championship

Cypriot First Division

The Cypriot Championship First Division is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus. As of 2007 it is sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank and is hence officially known as Marfin Laiki League .-Format:...

 twice and the cup once. The colours of the club were green and white. In 1994 the club merged with EPA Larnaca

EPA Larnaca FC

EPA Larnaca was a Cypriot football club based in the city of Larnaca. Founded in 1930 with the merge of two local clubs, Pezoporikos and AMOL, the club was a founding member of Cyprus Football Association and participated in the first Cypriot Championship in 1934/35. Few years later, Pezoporikos...

 and they formed AEK Larnaca

AEK Larnaca

AEK Larnaca FC |Kition]] Athletic Union") is a Cypriot Sports club, based in the port of Larnaca. The club was formed in 1994 after a merger of two Larnaca clubs: EPA Larnaca and Pezoporikos. The club has football section, basketball sections for men AEK Larnaca B.C...

 .

The club had also a basketball and volleyball department and were champions in the basketball four times and five times cup winners. Since the season 1990-91, the club dominated the Cyprus Basketball by winning 3 championships and one cup in four years. During the season 1993-94, the team eliminated Hapoel Eilat

Hapoel Eilat B.C.

Hapoel Eilat is an Israeli basketball club. The team playing currently in the Liga Artzit.The team represented the Far-South region of the country - the Arabah Area, and the city of Eilat.The team climbed to the First Division in season 1990/91....

 86-80 and 65-65 for the Korać Cup

Korac Cup

The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the 1971-72 and 2001-02 seasons. It was the third-tier level club competition in European basketball, after the European Champions' Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup...

 and qualified in the second round of Korać Cup where they were eliminated by Panionios

Panionios

Panionios GSS , the Pan-Ionian Gymnastic Association of Smyrna, is a Greek multi sport club founded in 1890. Originally based in Smyrna/Izmir, the club was uprooted in the population exchange between Greece and Turkey following the Asia Minor Catastrophe in 1922...

. However even as champions, the club merged like the football department and AEK Larnaca didn't continue with the success of Pezoporikos Basketball Club.

Founding member of the Cyprus Volleyball Federation

Cyprus Volleyball Federation

Cyprus Volleyball Federation is the governing body of volleyball in Cyprus...

, the volleyball women's team was more successful than the men's one since the women won the Cup once in 1979 when they beat AEL Limassol

AEL Limassol

Athlitiki Enosi Lemesou , commonly known as AEL Limassol , is a Greek Cypriot multisport club based in the city of Limassol, the port of Cyprus....

 in the final 3-2. They were Runners up twice each in the championship and in the cup.

Former Players (Football Section)

Jim McSherry

Jim McSherry

James 'Jim' McSherry is a Scottish former football player and manager.-Football career:McSherry's footballing career started at Kilmarnock in 1970. A midfielder he made 118 appearances for the club scoring 8 goals. In 1975 he joined Ayr United where he made 190 appearance, scoring 10 goals...

 (1983-84) http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player1/jimmcsherry.htm Ian Alexander

Ian Alexander

Ian "Jocky" Alexander is a former professional footballer, who played the majority of his career at Bristol Rovers.Alexander played for Rotherham United and Motherwell, Greenock Morton, and spent a year playing in Cyprus with Pezoporikos Larnaca, before joining Rovers in 1986...

 (1985-86) http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/ianalexander.htm Spiros Livathinos

Spiros Livathinos

Spiros Livathinos is a former football player, coach and current scout of Panathinaikos. Livathinos was born on 8 January 1955 in Patras and started his football career in the Panathinaikos youth system. In 1975, he made it to the greens' first team where he played a total of 267 league games until...

 (1986-88) Stavros Papadopoulos

Stavros Papadopoulos

Stavros Papadopoulos, is a Greek businessman and the former owner of Kalamata FC and Apollon Kalamarias. He bought both these teams when they were in the third division and second division, respectively, and invested substantial money into them and eventually took both those teams up to the first...

 (1980-81) Neophytos Larkou

Neophytos Larkou

Neophytos Larkou is a former international Cypriot football midfielder and football manager. Larkou is currently manager of AC Omonoia.-Career:...

 (1987-94) Uwe Bialon

Uwe Bialon

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 (1987-94)

Football

• Cypriot Championship
  Cypriot First Division
  The Cypriot Championship First Division is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus. As of 2007 it is sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank and is hence officially known as Marfin Laiki League .-Format:...
  
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  • Champions (2): 1954
    Cypriot First Division 1953-54
    Nine teams contested the Cypriot First Division championship in season 1953/1954 won by Pezoporikos Larnaca .-League standings:-References:*...
    
    , 1988
    Cypriot First Division 1987-88
    The Cypriot First Division 1987-88 was performed by 16 teams, and Pezoporikos Larnaca won the championship. The defending champion was AC Omonia.-League standings:-References:*...
    
    
  • Runner-up (8): 1940, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1970, 1974, 1982
• Cypriot Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1970
  • Runner-up (7): 1940, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1972, 1973, 1984
• LTV Super Cup:
  • Runner-up (2): 1954, 1988

Basketball

• Cyprus Basketball Division 1
  Cyprus Basketball Division 1
  The Cypriot First Division A of the Men’s Basketball League is currently the top competition on the Cyprus Basketball calendar. It is run and governed by the Cyprus Basketball Federation...
  
  : (4) 1973, 1991,1992,1994
• Cypriot Cup
  Cypriot Basketball Cup
  The Cypriot Basketball Cup is an annual cup competition, organized by the Cyprus Basketball Federation since 1969. From 2007 the cup competition format changed, and in the cup participate only the teams of the Cypriot 1st Division. The cup employs a knock-out format...
  
  (5): 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1992

Former Players Darrell Armstrong

Darrell Armstrong

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  (1993) William Sanchez

William Sánchez

William Sánchez Tejeda is a male volleyball and beach volleyball player from the Dominican Republic. He participated in the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2009 with Yhonastan Fabian, earning the 11th position....

(1999)

Volleyball (women)

• Cypriot Championship:
  • Runner-up (2): 1977, 1989
• Cypriot Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1979
  • Runner-up (7): 1989,1990