Tilikratis

Tilikratis Football Club, also known as AO Tilikratis Lefkada (Greek: ΑΟ Τηλυκράτης Λευκάδας) is a Greek association football club based on the island of Lefkada (Lefkas), Greece. Τηλυκράτης is the highest placed soccer team from the Greek island of Lefkada. As of 2011 they played in Group 5 of Delta Ethniki and, a few days before the end of the season 2010–11, they won the group to go on to compete in Football League 2 for the 2011–12 season.

History

The first club in Lefkada founded in 1925 by students of the school and had the name "Sappho" (lasted until 1926). By LD 1926 established the National Directorate of Physical Education (DEFA). So was the prefects the right to establish associations of National Physical Education (SEFA). Based on this LD was Lefkas (Preveza Prefecture from) the National Association of Physical Education 'the Tilykratis' (creation date 5.3.1927). The first 'Tilykratis' was the only SEFA and was the National Association of Physical Education, originally part of sports athletics, football, etc. sports section and picnic and swimming. The first Board of the Tilykrati were: Christ. Lazaris, Anast. Manoudis, John Stamatelos, Thrasyvoulos Aravanis and Takis Kaliviotis. The activity of the association beginning in 1928 with the first trainer in Santa Eustatius. Periodically in the coming years established a number of other clubs who then merged into Tilykrati. It is for the colors blue and red, representing two great loves of Agiomafriton. The blue and red Greece football. The jerseys, on the left side there are caps TL meant Tilykratis Lefkada.

The long path Tilykrati things in football and had some swings for the team. In 1963 to represent the football Lefkada larger groups (especially in the second National) Tilykratis merged with the second large group of Lefkada, the White (founded 1951), and made the Pallefkadio. The dictatorial regime of militarists gave the club the name "Phoenix" Lefkada. In the early days of the junta in 1974, the team took back her real name,