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

Since 1955, Nea Salamina belongs to Cypriot First Division, except some short interruptions when they were relegated. The team reached their best position ever respectively as third in the seasons 1955/56, 1965/66, 1992/93 and 1994/95.

In 1990 Nea Salamina achieved its greatest success, when they won the Cyprus Cup, beating Omonia Nicosia 3-2 in the final. 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 1997 for the Intertoto Cup,they eliminated however with only a victory after the first groups games from. In the season 2000/01 Nea Salamis, after two victories against the Albanian Vllaznia Shkoder, reached the second round of the Intertoto, eliminated then however against Austria Vienna.

The colours of Nea Salamina are red and white and its home stadium is "Ammochostos Stadium" ( means "Famagusta"), with capacity of 5000 seats, which is in Larnaca. Their original stadium is GSE (GS Evagoras) Stadium in Famagusta but due to the turkish occupation they can not use it for home stadium.

Players

Goalkeepers

• 22. Christos Genagritis 25.04.1987
• 88. Pampos Kairinos 06.06.1982
• 01. Antoniou Antonis

Defenders

• 05. Tamás Juhár 20.11.1972
• 25. Theodoros Katsiaris 09.08.1986
• 30. Andreas Ioannides 29.11.1975
• 32. Panagiotis Prountzos 01.07.1986
• 34. Christos Kypris 01.03.1986
• 04. Tamas Szamosi 27.11.1974
• 02. Philippos Philippou 24.06.1975
• 55. Giorgos Ioannou 04.11.1979
• 24. Ioannou Orthodoxos 22.03.1981

Midfielders

• 07. Christian Bolohan 28.05.1976
• 15. Giorgos Panagi 03.11.1986
• 19. Marios Christodoulou 04.07.1974
• 10. Julius Wobay 17.05.1984
• 06. Marco Haber 21.09.1971
• 03. Hamad Ndikumana 05.10.1978
• 20. Sergio Bastida 03.09.1979
• 30. Theodoros Katsiaris 09.08.1986
• 17. Giannos Eleutheriou 13.11.1985
• 14. Charis Siligardakis

Attackers

• 07. Kyriakos Xailis 23.02.1978
• 29. Zoltan Buksegi 16.12.1975
• 08. Julius Conteh 05/08/79
• 12. Panagiotis Xailis
• 17. Mohamed Bangura

For more Information: Official website of Nea Salamis