2016–17 Veria F.C. season

Season 2016–17 is the 17th of Veria in Super League Greece. Veria will compete in the following competitions Super League and Greek Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.

Veria

2016–17 season
Owner	Konstantinos Papadopoulos (93.53%)
Chairman	Konstantinos Papadopoulos
Manager	Alekos Vosniadis (7 July 2016–23 Sept 2016) Thomas Grafas (24 Sept 2016–26 Jan 2017) Ratko Dostanić (13 Feb 2017–30 Jun 2017)
Stadium	Veria Stadium, Veria
Super League	16th (relegated)
Greek Cup	Group stage
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Players

Squad information

No.	Name	Nationality	Position (s)	Date of Birth (Age)	Signed from	Note(s)
Goalkeepers
1	Georgios Kantimiris		GK	19 September 1982 (31)	Fokikos
30	Theodoros Venetikidis		GK	20 February 2001 (15)	Youth system
55	Jonathan López		GK	16 April 1981 (35)	Getafe
Defenders
2	Stavros Vasilantonopoulos		RB/RM	28 January 1992 (24)	AEK	On loan until 30 June 2017
3	Mark Asigba		RB/CB	7 July 1990 (26)	Olympiacos	On loan until 30 June 2017
4	Christos Melissis		CB	1 December 1982 (33)	Panthrakikos
5	Stelios Marangos		CB/DM	4 May 1989 (27)	Kerkyra
6	Mohamadou Sissoko		CB	8 August 1988 (28)	Giresunspor
16	Sofoklis Radis		CB	21 February 1998 (18)	Youth system
18	Iván Malón		RB	26 August 1986 (30)	Mirandés
21	Cyril Kali		CB/RB	21 January 1984 (32)	Panetolikos
88	Giorgi Navalovski		LB	28 June 1986 (30)	SKA-Khabarovsk
95	Giannis Charontakis		LB	7 August 1995 (21)	Trikala
Midfielders
7	Toni Calvo		L/RW	28 March 1987 (29)	Anorthosis
8	Antonio Tomás		CM	19 January 1985 (31)	Numancia
10	Pedro Arce		CM/AM	25 November 1991 (25)	Veria
11	Kristijan Miljević		LW	15 July 1992 (age 24)	Lamia
14	Sisinio		L/RW/AM	22 April 1986 (30)	Lech Poznań
17	Jeffrey Sarpong		RW	3 August 1988 (28)	Wellington Phoenix
19	Yiannis Papadopoulos		CM	9 March 1989 (27)	Hapoel Kfar Saba
21	Panagiotis Linardos		AM	7 August 1991 (25)	Panegialios
24	Alexandros Doris		AM	10 July 1999 (17)	Youth system
25	Sotiris Balafas		DM	19 August 1986 (28)	Hoverla
26	Terry Antonis		CM	26 November 1993 (23)	PAOK	On loan until 30 June 2017
71	Manolis Papasterianos		DM/CB	15 August 1987 (29)	Xanthi
Forwards
9	Pantelis Kapetanos		CF	8 June 1983 (33)	Xanthi
20	Dimitris Melikiotis		RW/CF	10 July 1996 (19)	Youth system
23	Ioakeim Zyngeridis		CF	20 January 1999 (17)	Youth system
28	Pablo Vitti		ST	9 July 1985 (31)	Ratchaburi
99	Billy Konstantinidis		CF	21 April 1986 (30)	Aris

Summer Transfers

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ARG Miguel Alba (from Pafos) — FW  ARG Pablo Vitti (from Ratchaburi) — MF  AUS Terry Antonis (on loan from PAOK) — FW  AUS Billy Konstantinidis (from Aris) — DF  BRA Bruno Bertucci (from Caldense) — MF  ESP Toni Calvo (from Anorthosis) — MF  ESP Antonio Tomás (from Numancia) — MF  ESP Sisinio González Martínez (from Lech Poznań) — DF  FRA Mohamadou Sissoko (from Giresunspor) — DF  GHA Mark Asigba (on loan from Olympiacos) — DF  GEO Giorgi Navalovski (from Khabarovsk) — DF  GRE Giannis Charontakis (from Trikala) — DF  GRE Christos Melissis (from Panthrakikos) — DF  GRE Stavros Vasilantonopoulos (on loan from AEK) — FW  GRE Dimitris Mavrias (from Anagennisi Karditsa) — MF  GRE Yiannis Papadopoulos (from Hapoel Kfar Saba) — MF  GRE Manolis Papasterianos (from Skoda Xanthi) — MF  GRE Panagiotis Linardos (from Panegialios) — FW  GRE Pantelis Kapetanos (from Skoda Xanthi) — MF  NED Jeffrey Sarpong (from Wellington Phoenix) — MF  NED Alvin Fortes (from Boluspor) — MF  SRB Kristijan Miljević (from Lamia)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ALG Djamel Abdoun (released) — MF  ARG Roberto Battión (released) — FW  ARG Miguel Alba (released) — DF  BRA Neto (to Aris) — DF  BRA Bruno Bertucci (released) — MF  COM Mohamed Youssouf (released) — DF  ESP Raúl Bravo (loan return to Aris) — DF  FRA William Edjenguélé (released) — DF  GRE Dimitris Giannoulis (loan return to PAOK) — DF  GRE Achilleas Poungouras (loan return to PAOK) — DF  GRE Vasilis Argiropoulos (released) — DF  GRE Vasilis Giannopoulos (released) — MF  GRE Kostas Papageorgiou (released) — MF  GRE Anestis Karakostas (released) — MF  GRE Dimitris Anakoglou (loan return to AEK) — FW  GRE Panagiotis Xoblios (released) — FW  GRE Thomas Nazlidis (to Larissa) — FW  GRE Dimitrios Manos (to OFI) — MF  NED Alvin Fortes (released) — MF  POL Radosław Majewski (to Lech Poznań) — FW  ZAM Rodgers Kola (loan return to Gent) — MF  SRB Branko Ostojić (to OFI)

Winter Transfers

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player

Technical and medical staff

Technical staff
Head coach	Ratko Dostanić
Assistant coach	TBA
Goalkeeping coach	Dimitris Kottaridis
Fitness coach	TBA
	Goran Guzijan
Team Manager	Aris Veniopoulos
Interpreter	King Ferreira
Caregiver	Thanasis Voulgaris
	Kosmas Rozintsis
Scouting staff
Scout	N/A
Medical staff
Physio	TBA
Masseur	Fotis Konstantakos
	Dimitris Lamprinidis
	Charis Pantelidis
Pathologist	Georgios Avramopoulos
Orthopedist	Nikolaos Dimou
Urologist	Georgios Minas
Surgeon	Prodromos Isaakidis
Dentist	Despοina Karvouna
Νutritionist	Athanasios Topis

Veria Academy

Academy staff
Technical Director	Nikos Karabiberis
General Manager	Georgia Tsiamoura
U20 coach	Apostolis Terzis
Assistant coach	Germanos Safarikas
Goalkeeping coach	Dimitris Kottaridis
U17 coach	Dimitris Christoforidis
U15 coach	Giannis Kapsaliaris

Season Milestones

• Veria will compete in the 2016–17 Super League Greece for 6th consecutive season. This is the first time ever to happen in her history.
• On May 8, 2016, Karipidis stated in an interview for "Real News" that he's very close to seal a deal with a Chinese company on selling Veria's shares.[1]
• Konstantinos Papadopoulos is the new major shareholder of Veria.
• Zisis Vryzas quit his post on 3 July 2016.
• Following Vryzas' departure, Eleftheropoulos quit his manager position along with Venetidis on 6 July 2016.
• Alekos Vosniadis was appointed as the new club manager on 8 July 2016.
• On 8 September 2016, Committee of Professional Sports didn't allow the transfer of the club's shares from Theodoros Karipidis to Konstantinos Papadopoulos, as a result Veria wasn't grant a permission of participation to the 2016–17 Super League Greece championship and they are facing a relegation penalty to Football League or even a ban from all the professional football championships.[2]
• On 22 September 2016, Committee of Professional Sports granted to Veria, the permission of participating to 2016–17 Super League Greece as well as they approved the transfer shares of 93,53% from Theodoros Karipidis to Konstantinos Papadopoulos. Veria was fined €15,000 for their incomplete file on their first attempt.[3]
• On 23 September 2016, Alekos Vosniadis left the club.
• On 24 September 2016, Thomas Grafas was appointed as the new club manager.

Fixtures & Results

Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Super League Greece	Regular season	TBP	TBP	10 September 2016	April 2017
Greek Cup	Second Round	TBP	TBP	October 2016	TBA

Last updated: 17 April 2016
Source: Competitions

Pre-season Friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Upcoming fixture

16 July 2016 Exhibition game	Veria	1 – 1	Xanthi	Veria
18:30 (UTG+3)	Melikiotis  29'	Report	Ranos  58'	Stadium: Veria Stadium Attendance: N/A Referee: D. Karantonis

19 July 2016 Exhibition game	Veria	1 – 0	Kerkyra	Naoussa
18:30 (UTG+3)	Alba  92' (pen)	Report		Stadium: Koutsoufliani Training Center Attendance: N/A Referee: N/A

31 July 2016 Exhibition game	Veria	0 – 1	Apollon Smyrni	Veria
19:00 (UTG+3)		Report	Diamantopoulos  43'	Stadium: Veria Stadium Attendance: 600 Referee: N/A

2 August 2016 Exhibition game	Olympiacos Volou	1 – 1	Veria	Volos
19:00 (UTG+3)	Da Costa  25' (pen)	Report	T. Papadopoulos  2'	Stadium: Xanthi FC Arena Attendance: N/A Referee: N/A

6 August 2016 Exhibition game	Xanthi	0 – 0	Veria	Xanthi
19:00 (UTG+3)		Report		Stadium: Xanthi FC Arena Attendance: N/A Referee: N/A

9 August 2016 Exhibition game	PAOK	3 – 0	Veria	Thessaloniki
20:00 (UTG+3)	Pereyra  29'  35' Biseswar  62'	Report		Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: N/A Referee: N/A

13 August 2016 Exhibition game	Kerkyra	1 – 1	Veria	Corfu
18:30 (UTG+3)	Kontos  4'	Report	Sissoko  11'	Stadium: Kerkyra Stadium Attendance: N/A Referee: N/A

21 August 2016 Exhibition game	Pas Giannina	0 – 0	Veria	Ioannina
18:30 (UTG+3)		Report		Stadium: Zosimades Stadium Attendance: N/A Referee: C. Mitsios

27 August 2016 Exhibition game	Niki Volou	2 – 3	Veria	Volos
18:00 (UTG+3)	Koretas  38' Metsi  93'	Report	Miljević  27' Vitti  70' Arce  88'	Stadium: Panthessaliko Stadium Attendance: N/A Referee: N/A

1 September 2016 Exhibition game	Veria	2 – 2	PAOK	Veria
20:00 (UTG+3)	Kapetanos  52' Papadopoulos  56'	Report	Campos  27' Athanasiadis  32'	Stadium: Veria Stadium Attendance: 1000 Referee: D. Karantonis

3 September 2016 Exhibition game	Kerkyra	2 – 1	Veria	Corfu
18:15 (UTG+3)	Thuram  68' (pen) Adilehou  78'		Vitti  pen' (25)	Stadium: Kerkyra Stadium Attendance: N/A Referee: K. Tompros

5 September 2016 Exhibition game	Aiginiakos	4 – 0	Veria	Aiginio
17:30 (UTG+3)				Stadium: Municipal Stadium of Aiginio

Mid-season Friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Upcoming fixture

9 October 2016 Exhibition game	Veria	v	Agrotikos Asteras	Veria
TBA (UTG+3)				Stadium: Tagarochori Training Center

Fixtures

Postponed 1	Larisa	v	Veria	Larissa
TBA (UTG+2)				Stadium: AEL FC Arena Referee: TBA

Postponed 2	Veria	v	Iraklis	Veria
TBA (UTG+3)				Stadium: Veria Stadium Referee: TBA

11 September 2016 3	Olympiacos	6 – 1	Veria	Piraeus
20:30 (UTG+3)	Ideye  25'  61'  89' Sebá  27' Elyounoussi  41' Milivojević  49'	Report	Marangos  10' Kapetanos  74'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 20,213 Referee: I. Delfakis Man of the Match: Brown Ideye

17 September 2016 4	Veria	0 – 2	AEK	Veria
20:30 (UTG+3)	Navalovski  45'	Report	Bakasetas  18' Vargas  76'  87'	Stadium: Veria Stadium Attendance: 3,111 Referee: Ch. Kalogeropoulos Man of the Match: Anastasios Bakasetas

24 September 2016 5	Panionios	1 – 2	Veria	Athens
18:15 (UTG+3)	Siopis  45' N'Gog  74',  81'	Report	Vitti  17',  28'  45' Arce  26' Melikiotis  42' Navalovski  80' López  90+1'	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 1,508 Referee: G Foukakis Man of the Match: Pablo Vitti

2 October 2016 6	Veria	0 – 0	PAOK	Veria
16:00 (UTG+3)	Arce  52'	Report	Athanasiadis  45+4' Cimirot  79'	Stadium: Veria Stadium Attendance: TBA Referee: A. Evangelou Man of the Match: Stelios Marangos

16 October 2016 7	Atromitos	v	Veria	Athens
18:15 (UTG+3)				Stadium: Peristeri Stadium

24 October 2016 8	Veria	v	Panathinaikos	Veria
19:30 (UTG+3)				Stadium: Veria Stadium

30 October 2016 9	Veria	v	Platanias	Veria
19:30 (UTG+2)				Stadium: Veria Stadium

6 November 2016 10	Kerkyra	v	Veria	Corfu
17:15 (UTG+2)				Stadium: Kerkyra Municipal Stadium

19 November 2016 11	Veria	v	Levadiakos	Veria
17:15 (UTG+2)				Stadium: Veria Stadium

26 November 2016 12	PAS Giannina	v	Veria	Ioannina
15:00 (UTG+2)				Stadium: Zosimades Stadium

3 December 2016 13	Veria	v	Panetolikos	Veria
15:00 (UTG+2)				Stadium: Veria Stadium

10 December 2016 14	Asteras Tripolis	v	Veria	Tripoli
15:00 (UTG+2)				Stadium: Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium

17 December 2016 15	Veria	v	Xanthi	Veria
15:00 (UTG+2)				Stadium: Veria Stadium

Last updated: 3 October 2016
Source: Superleague Greece

Tickets

Updated to games played on August 2016, as published on superleaguegreece.net.[4] Games are counted without games played behind closed gates.

Fixture	Team	Tickets	Average
2	Iraklis	TBA
4	AEK	3,111
6	PAOK	TBA
8	Panathinaikos	TBA
9	Platanias	TBA
11	Levadiakos	TBA
13	Panetolikos	TBA
15	Xanthi	TBA
Overall	15	TBA	TBA

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
12	Asteras Tripolis	30	6	10	14	34	49	−15	28[lower-alpha 1]
13	Larissa	30	6	10	14	23	42	−19	28[lower-alpha 1]
14	Levadiakos	30	6	8	16	27	49	−22	26
15	Iraklis[lower-alpha 2] (R)	30	6	11	13	28	39	−11	29	Relegation to the Football League
16	Veria (R)	30	5	7	18	23	56	−33	22

Source: Superleague Greece, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Goals against; 6) Play-offs (neutral ground); 7) Draw.
(Note: Criteria 6 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).
(R) Relegated.
Notes:

1. Asteras Tripolis ahead of Larissa on head-to-head record; Asteras Tripolis–Larissa 1–1, Larissa–Asteras Tripolis 1–4.
2. Iraklis relegated due financial problems.[5]

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	5	7	18	23	56	−33	22	4	5	6	17	18	−1	1	2	12	6	38	−32

Last updated: 2 October 2016.
Source: Superleague Greece

Results by matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	P	P	L	L	W	D
Position			12	13	12	11

Updated to match(es) played on 2 October 2016. Source: Superleague Greece
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Greek Cup

Second round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Asteras Tripoli	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7
2	Aris	3	1	2	0	6	3	+3	5
3	Aiginiakos	3	1	0	2	2	7	−5	3
4	Veria	3	0	1	2	0	2	−2	1

Source:

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

25 October 2016 1	Asteras Tripolis	1 – 0	Veria	Tripoli
TBA (UTG+3)				Stadium: Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium

29 November 2016 2	Veria	0 – 1	Aiginiakos	Veria
TBA (UTG+2)				Stadium: Veria Stadium

13 December 2016 3	Aris	0 – 0	Veria	Thessaloniki
TBA (UTG+2)				Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium

Last updated: 3 October 2016
Source: HFF

Players Statistics

Overall

Updated as of 18 September 2016.

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	League			Cup			Play-Offs			Total			Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Start	Apps	Goals	Start	Apps	Goals	Start	Apps	Goals	Start
Goalkeepers
1	GK	Georgios Kantimiris	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	GK	Theodoros Venetikidis	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
96	GK	Jonathan López	35	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	Stavros Vasilantonopoulos	24	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
3	DF	Mark Nyaaba Asigba	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF	Christos Melissis	33	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
5	DF	Stelios Marangos(c)	26	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	1	0
6	DF	Mohamadou Sissoko	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	DF	Sofoklis Radis	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	DF	Iván Malón	29	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
21	DF	Cyril Kali	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
88	DF	Giorgi Navalovski	30	1 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0
Midfielders
7	MF	Toni Calvo	29	1 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0
8	MF	Antonio Tomás	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	MF	Pedro Arce	25	1 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0
11	MF	Kristijan Miljević	24	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
14	MF	Sisinio	30	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
17	MF	Jeffrey Sarpong	28	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
19	MF	Yiannis Papadopoulos	27	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
21	MF	Panagiotis Linardos	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	MF	Alexandros Doris	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	MF	Sotiris Balafas	30	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
26	MF	Terry Antonis	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
71	MF	Manolis Papasterianos	29	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Forwards
9	FW	Pantelis Kapetanos	33	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0
20	FW	Dimitris Melikiotis	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	FW	Ioakeim Zyngeridis	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	FW	Pablo Vitti	31	0 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
99	FW	Billy Konstantinidis	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: Superleague Greece

Goals

R	Player	Position	Super League	Greek Cup	Total	Notes
1	Pablo Vitti	FW	2	0	2
2	Pantelis Kapetanos	FW	1	0	1

Last updated: 28 September 2016
Source: Match reports in Competitive matches
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Assists

R	Player	Position	Super League	Greek Cup	Total	Notes
1	Giorgi Navalovski	DF	2	0	2
2	Pedro Arce	MF	1	0	1

Last updated: 28 September 2016
Source: Match reports in Competitive matches
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Best goal and MVP awards and nominees

Day	Opponent	H / A	Name	for	Status
3	Olympiacos	A	Pantelis Kapetanos	Best goal	Nominated
5	Paninios	A	Pablo Vitti	MVP & Best goal	Nominated

Source: Best of Superleague 2016–2017

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