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Athlitiki Enosi Larissa F.C.

Athlitiki Enosi Larissa F.C. (ΠΑΕ ΑΕΛ – Αθλητικής Ένωσης Λάρισας), often known as Larissa or simply AEL, is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Larissa, capital of Greece's Thessaly region.

AEL is one of the largest Greek football teams and the largest provincial team in Greece. Founded in 1964, it is directly associated with the city of Larissa and its representation. The club's emblem, is a rising horse and its colors are crimson and white. It is the only team outside the two major Greek metropolitan areas (Athens and Thessaloniki) to have won the Greek Championship, which happened in the 1987–88 season. AEL has also won the Greek Cup twice (1984–85 and 2006–07) and came runners-up in the Cup finals of 1982 and 1984. This record places the club among the top teams in the history of Greek football. The team has many fanatical fans and has created a strong competitive relationship with other big teams in Greece, such as PAOK and Olympiacos.

AEL has also participated in European competitions, such as the UEFA Cup in 2007.

They play their home games at AEL FC Arena, a newly built football ground with a capacity of 16,118 seats. The team competed in the Greek Super League, the first tier of the Greek football league system, until its relegation in May 2021.

History
Athletic Union of Larissa, The "Queen of Thessaly", the "Queen of the lowlands". AEL, is the club that represents one of the greatest Greek football prefectures. One Championship, two cups, four finals and many important successes at European level compose the temporal profile of the top team of the Greek region.

Creation and first years (1964–79)

AEL was created from a vision of a powerful team that will represent a city like Larissa in the top category. The 17 May 1964, is referred to as the exact date of its establishment, and then—after a barrage of meetings and discussions held at the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa and a catalytic last meeting of the local county clubs—it was decided the merger of:

Iraklis Larissa (1930), "Aris" (1926), "Toxotis" (1943) and "Larissaikos" (1930). The Athletic Union of Larissa was now a reality, designed on the background of the Second Division, in shades of crimson and white, (not black and white, as initially decided). Typically, the conversion of the statute of Iraklis Larissa just a few days later—on 22 May—and its adoption on 8 June, gave AEL status, while teams "Dimitra", "Doxa Emporoipalilon" (based on "Aris Larissas" and "Doxa"), "Pelasgiotida" (by "Larissaikos" and "Pelasgikos") and "Olympos" (based on "Toxotis" and "Panthessalikos") completed this football family. On 7 June, Alcazar Stadium, the team's first homeground, recorded the initial friendly game, against Panionios which, by that time, was a very strong team, winning 2–1. Yugoslavian Alexander Petrovic, was the first foreign coach that was hired to ensure the impartiality of the team lineup. Thus, names of players like Zampas, Karelias, Kyriakos, Lellis, Papazoglou, Kassas, Saltapidas, Delfos, Katsianis and many others, passed into the history of Thessalian football. Everything was ready to start, under the administrative umbrella of a 15-member ecumenical council, composed of representatives of clubs and organizations of the city, in which the property was held by the former president of Iraklis Larissa, K. Tzovaridis.

Examples of other Greek areas where mergers and establishment of strong teams brought direct impact and a promotion in the 1st Division, has created in advance an optimism which did not materialize. The team ended the 1964–65 season in fifth place. The next year, the team improved by two seats in the final table. The promotion was lost in a game on 8 May 1966 at Megara with the home side Vyzas opponent. During the entry of the team on the field, player Dimitrios Zambas was hit in the head by a ladder thrown from the stands and was taken to the hospital. The team with 10 players due to the elimination of Kyriakidis from the first quarter, and with three of the 10 remaining players injured, had formal presence, and was defeated 6–0. As well-known coaches like Dionysis Minardos, Giannis Helmis and Giourkas Seitaridis the first turned down the opportunity to steer the team, the downturn seemed certain and in 1969 their position fell even further. Relegation would be inevitable if the political conditions of the time—Greek military junta of 1967–1974—and the fact that teams headed by powerful men were in the same predicament, brought changes in the status of Greek football. Therefore, Kostas Aslanidis, Lieutenant Colonel and the Secretary General of Athletics, increased the two groups of the Second Division to three and thus AEL, Chania and Ionikos continued in the B' National. There was a rationalization of the Second Division, by creating three groups of 16 teams, of which 15 would be relegated (five of each group) into the 3rd Division. Relegation did not happen and it was decided the next season that each group have 18 teams. Otherwise, like the previous season, the winners of groups (three this time) went to the final phase, which claimed the promotion in the 1st Division. The team indeed, with the entrance to the 1970s, the emergence of the administrative forefront of Kantonias family (the owner of BIOKARPET Group ) and a dramatic changing at liveware, managed to change the status. The coming of some experienced players such as Simantiris, Kyziroglou, Charitidis and Nikiforakis framed the talented Lakis Pagkarliotas and the others.

25–06–1972 : It was the last game of the championship of the Second Division. AEL needed the victory to celebrate the promotion in the First National (the team had 95 points while opponent Panserraikos had 96 and only the first of the group would promote). In the Serres Municipal Stadium that day (which holds the all-time attendance record with 14,200 tickets) except the locals, also existed around 5000 guest fans from Larissa. Nevertheless, AEL managed to precede with 0–1 but Panserraikos equalized with a disputed penalty. Soon riots appeared between the players on the court and generalized at the end of the match between the fans (final result 1–1). The next day, thousands citizens of Larissa were gathered and resentful of the injustice marched to the central square of the city. The demonstration took the character of an anti-junta movement. One of the few mass events that were made in Greece before the events of Athens Polytechnic. Two days later AEL submitted an objection for the improper use of the player of Panserraikos Stefanidis. The Regulations Committee EPO upheld the complaint because Panserraikos did not pay the fine of 250 Drachmas for the penalty. On 30 June, the same committee in another meeting and after the intervention of Colonel Aslanidis (himself originating from Serres), dismissed the objection of AEL and promoted Panserraikos to the 1st National.

AEL lineup in that match: Siavalas, Buttos, Simantiris, Kyziroglou, Lellis, (63' Makris), Nikiforakis, (50' Zachos), Charitidis, Argiroulis, Stergiadis, Seitaridis, Gkountelitsas..Εventually, what failed then to fulfil the team of Kostas Polychroniou, became reality one year later by the team of Stefan Karamfilovic.

The first promotion
A season that was started with President Antonios Kantonias, continued with Michalis Kittas and ended up headed by Mayor Messinis, was to be the top—until then—for the "crimsons" who rejoiced in the finale closing, the coveted promotion. It was the year that Horacio Morales (†), Daniel Hill, Giorgio Vajeho, Guillermo Daus and Enrique Cavoli flew from Argentina and "landed" at Alcazar. Just months earlier they had played with the colors of Independiente against AC Milan in the Intercontinental Cup. On 23 June 1973, AEL wins Kallithea 3–0 and seal typically the promotion in the First National, finishing first with 98 points, ahead of the second renaissance Karditsa who finished with 89 points. The goals for AEL succeed by Pagkarliotas at 16', D. Seitaridis at 38' and Charitidis at 80'. AEL lined up on the field with the following players: Siavalas, Simantiris, Seitaridis M., Hill, Kyziroglou, Boutos, Charitidis, Cavoli, Rakintzoglou, Seitaridis and Pagkarliotas.. The team started the season 1973–74 at the First National, with the enthusiasm of a rookie, but clearly capable of material, grafted by the talent and quality players like Kyriakidis, Matzourakis and Dramalis in order to stay in the category. The course was based on the overall strength of the home ground and the final 9th position was considered highly successful. Karamfilovic was replaced (due to expired residence to the country that was not renewed for political reasons), by the Bulgarian coach Ivan Kochev. However, a team built on legionnaires without first having obtained the financial strength and solid basis, couldn't have long term evolution. So, the very next year problems started, which led to hasty choices, judgments and frequent upheavals in all levels. Inevitably therefore, the team didn't avoided the relegation and on summer of '75 returned to the Second Division. Since an immediate return was considered impossible, the rebuilding of the team began slowly, mainly based in local Larissa's area players. More experienced Siavalas, Boutos, Lellis, Stergiadis, and Argiroulis formed the backbone on which, as time went on, had positive impact for the team. Of course, the great breakthrough was made a year later by President Elias Kelesidis and his colleagues in the administration, when they decided to promote to the first team all of the youth squad of AEL, and collect all the talents that admittedly stood well in the Thessalian prefecture. Thus, on 26 May 1977, in a friendly match against AEK (the first under spotlights in Alcazar stadium), AEL lined up with Anagnostou, Giannis Mousouris and nine native players from Larissa's region. Among them, unknown then, Takis Parafestas, Giannis Valaoras, Dimitris Koukoulitsios and Christos Andreoudis. That summer of 77, rookies including Dimitris Mousiaris and Giannis Valaoras signed a professional contract. These two, along with Koukoulitsios and Ilias Selionis, became members of the youth National teams. On 18 June 1978 AEL traveled in Thessaloniki, and celebrated on the pitch of Nea Efkarpia a great victory against Macedonikos (4–1), finishing first with 59 points ahead of Olympiakos Volos, who eventually collected 57 points, while ensured the return in the major league of Greek football as the champion of the Northern Group of Second Division. Koukoulitsios scored the goals for AEL at 17' and 60', Valaoras at 31' and Liapis at 87'. AEL lined up on the field with the following players: Bountolos, Parafestas, Selionis, Dramalis, Argiroulis, Koumarias (63' Koukoulitsios), Andreoudis, Liapis, Mousiaris, Valaoras (61' Rammos).. The period 1977–78, completed the work of the previous season when AEL had finished in third place with 46 points. The balanced combination of experienced and talented players managed to create a strong team that succeeded in gaining the promotion. AEL returned to the First National and now, the solid foundations on which founded this football building, guaranteed a 15-year establishment and recognition that followed.

1980s: the Golden Decade
The successful policy of carefully selected few experienced and many talented young players continued and AEL not only threatened, but started slowly building a bright future, often achieving results that showed that something big was coming up. However, the same policy maintained by all administrations in the 80s, with proper and prudent management of its human material, gradually cultivated by coaches like Yugoslavian Milan Ribar, and later Kostas Polychroniou and Antonis Georgiadis. Even though some players selectively exited the team, it was certain that there was an equal replacement. So while the team has changed almost everything from the beginning to the end of the decade, in the conscience of the fans it has remained as one and single season. It was the era of AEL or better AEL FC, since in the summer of 1979 it was decided the organization of Greek football on a professional basis. The late Antonios Kantonias, raising the prestige and power of the group "BIOKARPET" was the one who managed to secure the independence of the club, with exemplary organization and a very clear strategy : The aim to reach to the top. Healthy reasons did not allowed him to continue as President of the Interim Committee and the chair of the first administration, and was finally replaced by Simos Palaiochorlidis. But he had already managed to complete his mission.

Grieving for young talents
On 6 September 1979, Dimitris Koukoulitsios and Dimitris Mousiaris, were killed in a car crash near Thiva, on their way to Athens for a training with the U-21 National team. Giannis Valaoras, who had survived the accident and overcame the shock, has been one of the greatest members of the team of the 80s.

The "Small Hamburg": 1981–82 Greek Cup finalists, 1982–83 Greek League runners-up
With a stable administration, new faces on the roster, Maloumidis, Galitsios, Golandas and gradually Voutyritsas and Mitsibonas and with the advent of the technical leadership of Antonis Georgiadis, AEL was beginning to show its "teeth". Best Regional team for the 1980–81 season, AEL claimed the European exit in the final league game. Participation in the Greek Cup final in the summer of '82, for the first time in its history, and a 1–0 defeat by Panathinaikos in the Nea Philadelfeia stadium. The "greens" succeeded to the finals before the end of the championship and the barrage against Olympiakos, in the neutral Volos, having the certainty that it would provide them in advance the Cup. On that historic first final that was held on 19 June 1982, AEL lined up with the following players: Plitsis, Parafestas, Patsiavouras, Galitsios, Argiroulis, Dramalis (82' Voutyritsas) Maloumidis, Golantas, Koutas (82' Mitsibonas) Andreoudis, Valaoras. The next season (1982–83) they came to claim the title after a great victory in the second round at the Karaiskaki Stadium derby against Olympiakos. Eventually, the second place constituted the ultimate fulfillment for Jacek Gmoch's players, who had been under strong denial because of the modest beginning of the team in the first round of the championship.

1983–84 Greek Cup finalists
The legacy left by that season in living material, was a defender named Giorgos Mitsibonas, one forward in the person of Michalis Ziogas, (a player who knew as much as anyone else to be at the right time and in the right place) and of course a "coach on the field", which was none other than the Polish international, Kazimierz Kmiecik. The team of '82–83 season yielded modern, fast and sophisticated football and fairly won the nickname "Small Hamburg", taken by the great German team of the 80s. The first exit in Europe was a rewarding and meaningful vindication of an effort that lasted several years, even though AEL ultimately failed to overcome the obstacle of the very strong Hungarian Honvéd.

Austrian coach Walter Skocik had found a good, technical but somewhat tired team. And even if they didn't show steady progress in the league, they managed to be in another Cup Final. Opponent on 6 June 1984, Panathinaikos again, this time in the Athens Olympic Stadium, which was also used by the "greens" as home ground. This fact, coupled with the modest appearance of AEL, apparently justified by the intensity of the semi-final battle against Iraklis, (which took place just three days earlier) and the loss of the suspended Valaoras, brought normal|y a 2–0 defeat, leaving AEL bitterness, which diminished by the ticket for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, once Panathinaikos had won the double. The next season, president Kostas Samaras and coach Andrzej Strejlau (who brought with him from Poland another great player, named Krzysztof Adamczyk), were very optimistic about the team's course. Indeed, its participation in the Cup Winners' Cup for the period 1984–85 was impressive and established the name of the Thessalian team in the European football map. The "crimsons" came up to the "8", where they have been excluded after two sensational quarter-finals by the Soviets of Dynamo Moscow. The unique, however, distinguish in the institution of the Cup Winners Cup that season, made a big impression and showed how great this team was and capable for even bigger achievements. This team however—that many believed was playing the best football in Greece by that time—was unstoppable and determined to finally overcome and get to a title. This title was not the championship, (although succeeded a record for best offensive productivity in the season), but the Greek Cup, the final of which AEL qualified for the third time.

1984–85 Greek Cup winners

The final against the 1985 champion PAOK, has been recorded as one of the top performances in the history of AEL. The "crimsons" played "total" football, smashed with 4–1 their opponents and eventually came to their first title. However, in the pregame of that fight a common point united the two teams...AEL and PAOK lined up before the referee Makis Germanakos without their two key players (left back Nikos Patsiavouras and top scorer Christos Dimopoulos), since they both had already agreed to sign for Panathinaikos! As for the actual game, on 22 June 1985, on the Athens Olympic Stadium before 30,000 shared fans, AEL seemed to have the upper hand from the start, but completely dominated from the 19', when Vassilakos was expelled by direct red card (hit Adamczyk off-phase) and reached its first goal at 39' with Ziogas, after an incredible attempt of the Polish striker. After the second half κick-off Kmiecik wrote with perfect shot the 2–0 and although PAOK reduced to 55' with Skartados, Andrzej Strejlau's players finished the game at 73' with Ziogas and 75' with Valaoras, teaching modern football while creating a host of missed opportunities. The players who led AEL in its first title in its history were: Plitsis, Parafestas, Kolomitrousis, Galitsios, Mitsibonas, Voutiritsas, Ziogas, Kmiecik, Adamczyk, Andreoudis (87' Tsiolis) Valaoras. The first trophy that was raised to the sky of Athens the previous evening by the team captain Takis Parafestas entered the city the next day escorted by hundreds of cars.

Ambitious battles were waiting for AEL in Europe, but failed to proceed, against the famous Italian Sampdoria. Maybe tired, perhaps it still cost them so much the leaving of their "conductor", the beloved Kazio for the Stuttgart Kickers... His compatriot Janusz Kupcewicz, who replaced him, although came right from the best lineup of the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain, had injury problems and did not help as much as he could..At that time, the culmination of a transfer thriller, a player who was acquired by Toxotis Larissa and dressed in crimson, making his first professional steps and later called "the magician", Vassilis Karapialis. His own introduction, along with two to three other important events, painted the following year, the most indifferent season for AEL that decade. The assumption of command by Stelios Kantonias and the return of Jacek Gmoch in the technical leadership, were guarantees for the great offensive of the new season. No paint, but it was stronger than the black of mourning, which darkened the sky of Larissa. 19 years old Vasilis Theodoridis, a PAOK supporter, an hour before the match hurled a fishing flare against the local fans stands which hit the unsuspecting Charalambos Blionas in the carotid arteries. The unfortunate professor died seconds later. That day, on 26 October 1986, a grievous page was written in the history of Greek football and as though nothing is more important than the loss of a life, unequivocally just one year later, the city of Larissa has experienced glorious times. The only team in the Greek region who ever sat on the throne.

The "Miracle of 1988": Greek champions

he non-renewal of contracts of Parafestas and Andreoudis in the summer and the transfer of Plitsis to Olympiakos in December, were options that were not accepted by the fans, but the success of the team in conjunction with the "rising star" of Karapialis, minimized any opposition disposal. Especially when on 16 March 1988 the sports court announced the decision to remove 4 points from AEL because of the famous "doping case" of the Bulgarian striker (with very little participation in the championship), Georgi Tsingov. He was tested positive on the use of the substance Codeine, which is not likely to improve the performance of an athlete at all.. Conspiracy theories quoted around about what really happened, the player claimed that had a flu, others that it was a sabotage. Nevertheless, the whole city of Larissa rose up and in no time created road blocks that cut Greece in two, claiming the right of what the team had won over the football field. The barricades on the national highway lasted 5 whole days until an intervention by the political leadership of sports. They took the decision to restore order, and change the article in question. From 21 March 1988, teams ceased to be considered responsible for each possible doping athlete. AEL however, was largely responsible for the... psychological doping of the fans, which then helped to overcome doubt and anxiety and get proudly in the 87th minute of the penultimate game of the season against Iraklis, when that incredible shot of Mitsibonas hurled into space the enthusiasm of the crowd. So far, AEL is the first and only regional team that won the Greek championship.

Countdown and "Stone Years" (1996–2003)
Somewhere there the countdown began ...AEL was knocked hill, reached the top and had to start to go downhill...The circle of a large team had closed. Maybe if Xamax had not turned the match at Neuchâtel and not sent by 2–1 in the overtime and the unlucky for the "crimsons" penalty shootout, Champions League would held the name of AEL in its ledger, where reigns the amazing goal of Karapialis which opened the score on the second leg of Switzerland. This was the last presence for AEL in the most prestigious club competition in European football. The fans still believed that the team could stay in the spotlight. The accident was for those who were blurred by the excitement of the moment, and believed that the team could climb even higher and soon demanded the change of ownership. From there, players leaving and coming, administrations changed without programming, independently on the intentions of everyone.. The fact is that AEL gradually lost its credibility inside and outside stadiums and inevitably led eight years later, in May 1996, to the relegation which was spared in 1991, thanks to the amazing second round course. More generally, although great players such as late Lefter Millos, also unjustly shed, Ştefan Stoica, Paulo Da Silva, David Embé and Vangelis Tsoukalis, wore the shirt and tried to give the team its lost glory, failed nothing more than some effects—flickering, in a prescribed downward spiral that culminated with the painful return to the Second Division after 18 years.

Worst of all, however, occurred on 13 September 1997, when the "eagle stopped flying". Giorgos Mitsibonas, the player-symbol of the team, the gifted and talented figure that marked a glorious era, was killed in a car accident, near the village of Giannouli, 2 km outside of Larissa. He was 35 and left behind his wife and two young daughters. Even if he was not by that time an active player of the team, (he was playing in Tirnavos), the whole city said farewell along with him, to a large part of its passion for distinction and victory. The conscientious efforts of local factors to keep the club standing were unsuccessful, the debts piled in between, and no one was able by this time, in the summer of 2001, to save the team... AEL fell for the first time in its history in the Third Division, and even threatened with disintegration, with relegation to the Regional Championship, and had to get to the bottom to lift its head again, taking advantage of the beneficial law of special clearance...

Flirting with the 4th national

Summer of 2002 : AEL arrives at the worst point in its history. Playing again in the third national, almost without administration and money. The team's preparation for the new season was held in the local Alcazar Park (a place with rustic picnic areas, benches and trails, totally unsuitable for professional football training), near the city of Larissa. The first game was held on 25 August 2002 in Kalochori, Thessaloniki, against the local side ILTEX Lykoi. It was the 84th minute of the match, when the 2nd Assistant referee fell down after he was hit in the back, by an object that was thrown from the stands of the guest fans and was taken to the hospital. He claimed that he was unable to continue and the game never finished (The result was 1–1). The team was penalized with −3 points in the league table.. Amateur players and volunteers were called to offer their services.. The course was naturally very poor and the team risked with the relegation to the 4th National.. Halfway through the season appeared on the scene the name of Nikos Sotiroulis, a local businessman who by that time was the club's one and only sponsor. Along with the unforgettable friend, the late Giorgos Katsogiannis and supporting factors of Amateur AEL predominantly Elias Fasoulas and Zissis Helidonis, he fought the first negative judgments and vindicated, when on 8 March 2003 he became the owner of the team with a cost of 116,000 euros in an auction that was held the previous day and in which he was the only candidate! The club a year later, was renamed to AEL 1964 FC (under the special conditions imposed by the law of special clearance) and celebrated its return to the second division. Some months before, on 1 June 2003, the team survived the relegation in the Fourth National and thereby dissolve, in the last game of the championship against Niki Volos, winning 1–0. Although the most crucial and exciting match in the team's history was the one before, that was held in Chania, where the "crimsons" tie 3–3 and stayed alive, condemning the hosts. The new period started then vigorously and with one and only target, the promotion, which was achieved after an exhausting marathon of 38 games...On 30 May 2004, at Alcazar, AEL sealed the second place and the ticket to the higher category (which was virtually and "ironically" ensured by the victory from 1–0 at ILTEX Lykoi just a week before, in the same ground and almost two years after the incident with the Assistant referee), crashing with 5–1 the already "doomed" Pontiakos Nea Santa, while the chant "We are coming back" was rocking the crowded stadium... Coached by Takis Parafestas, with players such as Katsaras, Ziagkas, Kyparissis, Kehagias, Theodosiadis, Kontodimos, Lazorik, Paleologos, and a new upsurge of the fans that followed everywhere, the team persuaded that was really coming back. The one who left, and was the initiator and founder of this effort was Nikos Sotiroulis, who after a few days in mid-June 2004, gave way to the new owner and chairman Kostas Piladakis. A new era had begun.

New Age (2004–13): Piladakis years
And because a "good day seems from the morning", new management, technical leadership headed by Giorgos Donis, players like the effective striker Thomas Kyparissis and the presence of supporters that caused admiration through Greece, led AEL back again in the Super League, after nine years of absence. The 19 transfers that were made in the summer of 2004 radically changed the composition of the workforce and the equally young and ambitious coach had time to give the team the required homogeneity. The moderate so start treated by all with patience and maturity, and the proper corrections that were made in January, found AEL "galloping" from success to success. The conquest of the first place with 58 points was the natural consequence of this team effort and the fans celebrated the return in the Super League after 9 "stone" years, for almost 10 days! Starting from Sunday 15, of May 2005, in Kastoria, (1–1) in front of 4000 fans who accompanied the team's bus when returning, a car convoy of 5 km in length and a midnight party at Alcazar, to Wednesday 25, and the fiesta that was set up to the stadium for winning the title after beating Proodeftiki (3–1). Except Kyparissis, Papakostas, Ziagkas, Paleologos, Floros and Grigoriou, who continued from the previous season, players such as Christopoulos, Kipouros, the late Bahramis, Gikas, Stournaras, Föerster, Katsiaros, Digozis, Tsiatsios, Makris, Abouna, Nedeljković, Sisic, Passios, Chatziliontas, Galitsios and others, came to add their names to important pages in the team's history. Indeed, beside them, stood from summer until December 2004 the first Greek active scorer Alexis Alexandris and a well-known name in European football, the Romanian international midfielder Dennis Şerban, who played in many major teams, top of which was the Spanish Valencia. That same season, while in the 2nd Division, AEL reached to the "8" of the Greek Cup, having ruled in turn Acharnaikos, Apollon Athens, and Chalkidona of the First Division, before being excluded from the "European" Skoda Xanthi, which nevertheless beat 1–0 in the first match of Alcazar, turning the rematch in real derby. It was the forerunner of the great return.

In the elite: Greek Cup winners and European competition
In the first year after its return to the big category AEL did the "bang" bringing in the summer of 2005 directly from the English courts the UEFA Euro 2004 champion and former captain of the Greece national football team, Nikos Dabizas. A move that was made to shield the defense while sending the message that AEL did not return to Super League just to remain, but to star. Along with AEL returned also its supporters, giving impressive "presence" with tours admired throughout Greece. Toumba, Kaftanzoglio, Pankritio, Kleanthis Vikelidis, Zosimades...Comfortably stayed 8th, and a European opportunity occurred through Intertoto Cup, exploiting the weakness of PAOK to fulfill the criteria of UEFA. A European return, with two games against the Turkish Kayserispor did not bring the coveted Cup Qualification to UEFA Cup (within 0–0 draw, and a 2–0 defeat in Kayseri), but it was clearly an omen of a great European return, which was meant to be completed one year later. The 2006–07 season was one of its most successful, but also one of the most controversial in the club's modern history. On the one AEL rose again to the throne of Greek Cup Winners, and on the other flirted with relegation, eventually managing to secure salvation in the last matchday.

2006–07 Greek Cup winners

5 May 2007 is now a new landmark in the history of AEL 1964. Giorgos Donis and his players brought the Cup "again in Pineios" after 22 years, creating a new benchmark in the glorious march of the team. This is the final certificate that AEL returned to the elite of Greek football. Cup in 1985, the 1988 Championship, and a Cup again in 2007 in Volos where the game's MVP Nikos Dabizas and the vice captain, Zissis Ziagkas lifted together the third major trophy in the team's history. Opponents again Panathinaikos for the third time in a cup final where the "crimsons" prevailed with 1–2. The match was held in the Panthessaliko Stadium, inside Thessalian "territory". AEL secured beside all other the European participation for the second consecutive year, this time in the UEFA Cup. Jozef Kožlej and Henry Antchouet, took the baton from Ziogas, Kmiecik and Valaoras, signing with their own goals (who had the stamp of Giorgos Fotakis) this new "golden" page. The Slovakian striker opened the scoring in just the third minute with a perfect header following a free kick from Fotakis, Papadopoulos equalized with a penalty won by Föerster and masterfully executed in the 44th, however, Antchouet was the player who held the final. In the 83rd minute the "Gabonese Arrow" poured on the offensive after the exemplary deep ball of Fotakis and "thundered" the goalkeeper Ebéde, writing the 1–2 that was meant to be the final score. The final whistle of Kyros Vassaras found over 10,000 fans of the team ecstatically singing "because we have lost our minds, this Cup is ours", giving rise to frantic celebration. The celebration began at Panthessaliko from the awarding of the trophy, continued to Alcazar which opened its gates to welcome the winners and ended in the Central Square of Larissa shortly after midnight.

AEL 1964 (Donis): Kotsolis, Galitsios, Venetidis, Dabizas, Föerster, Bassila, Silva Cleyton (85 ' Vallas) Digozis, Aloneftis (74 ' Kalantzis), Fotakis, Kožlej, (60 'Antchouet).

Panathinaikos (Muñoz): Ebéde, Vyntra, Nilsson, (84 ' Šerić), Goumas, Morris, Leontiou, Tziolis (85 ' Bišćan), Ninis (73 ' Romero), Ivanschitz, Papadopoulos, Mantzios.

A week later the "crimsons" made the trip from Heaven to Hell and Heaven again within a 90-minute to ensure in the 81st minute with an Own goal the victory in Kalamaria with 2–1 against the local Apollon, having at their side to support over 3000 fans and putting "happy endings" in a difficult and successful year.

European dream

The new season started with the best omens. AEL as the Cup Winner, represented Greece in the UEFA Cup and the draw brought its technical leader, Giorgos Donis, faced with the club in which he started his international football career, English Blackburn Rovers. AEL entered the first qualifying round as the clear underdog, but on the afternoon of 20 September 2007 at the Panthessaliko Stadium—after Alcazar did not comply to the UEFA specifications—radically subverted the data: won 2–0 in the first match and lost 2–1 in the second game of Ewood Park and took a proud qualification to the group stage. In the "32" AEL faced powerful teams like Everton with a long tradition in the Premier League, rising Dutch AZ Alkmaar, German Nürnberg and the subsequent 2008 UEFA Cup winners mighty Russian Zenit Saint Petersburg. The team failed to pick a point in the four games, but won the respect that was confirmed by great European coaches, which AEL found opposite in this journey as Louis van Gaal and Dick Advocaat. Liberated from the burden of European obligations and with the assistance of world class players like Maciej Żurawski and Tümer Metin—AEL made an excellent championship course in the second round of the Super League and lost by one goal tie with Panionios the 5th position that led to the playoffs. A bittersweet epilogue to one of the most successful season in the team's history. Confirming the ever upward steps at all levels AEL recorded in 2008–09 one of the most successful years in its modern history. Stayed for 13 consecutive undefeated matches, finished fifth in the Super League and ensured its entry into the play-offs and a European output (in the UEFA Europa League) for the third time in the last four years and for just the third time in its history through the championship. It is a year in which AEL—among other things—broke two traditions winning in Kaftanzoglio Iraklis for the first time since 1982 and Olympiacos in Karaiskakis Stadium after 26 years.

New bending
From that point the countdown started again, which two years later brought back AEL in the second division. Wrong assessments and decisions regarding the completion of the team roster, and the leaving of the players who provided the guarantee of a remarkable and steady racing body, but much more decisive was the relentless chase of the team on the part of arbitration. The European exclusion from the weak Icelandic KR Reykjavík because of, mainly, the poor squad and preparation in the summer of 2009 brought the first clouds. The unexpected death of the late Mexican striker Antonio de Nigris on 16 November   marked with indelible black lettering that period, in which AEL has managed to keep its position in the penultimate game of the season, changing coach (Giannis Papakostas in place of Marinos Ouzounidis) and achieving 5 wins in the last 7 games of the season. The prospect of the entry into the new stadium (the AEL FC Arena) and the feeling that the near-mishap last season had taught a lesson, created expectations of great things for the 2010–11 season, accompanied by large investments in player transfers. The transition from the historic Alcazar Stadium into the newly built AEL FC Arena in late November—early December 2010, was not made in the way that every fan had hoped and dreamed of. Two defeats by Panionios, (0–1) and PAOK (1–2), spoiled the festive atmosphere, but above all it was the shadow of arbitration that created a bleak future again. Grossly injusticed over the first half of the season (for nearly 13 games!) with catalytic decisions that shaped scores and results, AEL had an unequal fight until the end—changing coaching and trying to strengthen the squad but finally relented. Even the most pessimistic would hardly imagine at the beginning of that year that AEL in a new stadium and with star-players (Dabizas, Venetidis, Cousin, Canobbio, Metin, Tavlaridis Čontofalský, Pancrate) would finish in the penultimate position and eventually relegate. But the harsh reality was obliging the "crimsons" in a new Calvary, for which they were not themselves responsible, at least not entirely. The revelation of the match fixing scandal that occurred in the early summer of 2011 was only moral justification for the club and nothing more. After a barrage of outright decisions and scandalous implementation of sports legislation by the "Professional Sports Committee" and the Hellenic Football Federation, with selective application of regulations that was completed after almost six months(!) in October, the club remained in the Football League.

Today
After the club's relegation and a final attempt to vindicate without much effort, Piladakis began building the team that would return immediately in the Super League. He hired the experienced and reputable coach in the English grounds Chris Coleman and along with him players of International range like Zequinha, the famous Portuguese midfielder Luís Boa Morte, the Brazilian winger Césinha and many others. The course of the team in the 2011–12 season started with the best omens, but soon all would be reversed. Financial problems that piled, appeared again and eventually led the coach and many of the players to the exit. Rupture between the owner and the organized fans substantially undermined the future of the team. Piladakis resigned and the club without any administration and financial support, deliberately relegated in the 3rd Division. A move that is used by many football teams in Greece and was based in a financial law (special clearance), made to ensure the deletion of the previous debts, as teams that competing in the 3rd Category are considered amateur.

In the summer of 2013, Evangelos Plexidas, a local businessman from Trikala took over and promised immediate return. Although the team indeed promoted relatively easily from the 3rd category and also won the Greek 3rd Category Cup, and the 2013–14 Amateurs' Super Cup many incorrect choices about the team's administration and management were not accepted by the fans. The changing of 6 coaches in a single season (2014–15) and the leaving of almost 15 players (although the team managed to participate in the Football League Play-Offs but failed to promote), created again a poor situation that led the major shareholder in the decision to sell the majority stake of his shares to Alexis Kougias, a well-known Greek lawyer and football administrator in July 2015.

A year later, on 15 May 2016, the team finally gained the promotion into the Super League. In clear contrast with the last time, however, there was little enthusiasm among the fans, as Kougias had longtime conflicts with them as well as the local community and veterans of the team. The first season back in top flight was a difficult one, with 3 managers employed : Sakis Tsiolis left almost immediately after the club's promotion on June 2, 2016, only to return five months later and replace Angelos Anastasiadis who took over after him the previous summer. He managed to keep his place on the bench until March 21, 2017, when he resigned for personal reasons. Thus, despite relative financial stability the team struggled on and off the pitch, yet managed to keep its top flight status by finishing 13th, just above the relegation places. After one match coached by caretaker Theodoros Voutiritsas, Alexis Kougias hired the Dutch André Paus, that managed to stay for seven games in the club's bench. On September 14, 2017, Belgian manager Jacky Mathijssen was announced and signed for the rest of the season. Despite that, 11 Days later and after only three games (0–0 home draw with Atromitos a 4–1 away loss against Panionios and a 2–0 loss against Panathinaikos for the Greek Cup) he was fired. Ilias Fyntanis, the club's previous assistant coach returned as a caretaker and Kougias hired the 3rd manager for the ongoing season, Apostolos Mantzios. A day later, Mantzios announced that due to serious personal reasons he cannot take over. Ilias Fyntanis took over as the club's manager, and succeeded to make the team showing a more stable performance. Despite that, on February 20, 2018, he was fired once again and was replaced by the Serbian Ratko Dostanić that had coached the team in the season 2015–16 in the Football League. Ηowever, this new deal did not last for long. In Fact, only three games later, Dostanić resigned after a serious disagreement with the club's owner. Kougias hired the 42-year-old Sotiris Antoniou, himself originating from Agia, Larissa. He made his Super League managerial debut on April 1, 2018, on a 3–0 away defeat against Apollon Smyrnis. The team showed little improvement in the league but still avoided relegation relatively easily. They were also very close to qualification for the club's fifth cup final, but a last-minute goal for semifinal opponents AEK Athens send them through instead on the away goals rule.

Domestic

 * Super League (ex–Alpha Ethniki)
 * Winners (1): 1987–88
 * Runners-Up (1): 1982–83
 * Greek Cup
 * Winners (2): 1984–85, 2006–07
 * Runners-Up (2): 1981–82, 1983–84
 * Greek Super Cup
 * Runners-Up (2): 1988, 2007
 * Football League (ex–Beta Ethniki)
 * Winners (4): 1972–73, 1977–78, 2004–05, 2015–16
 * Runners-Up (2): 1971–72, 2014–15
 * Gamma Ethniki
 * Winners (1): 2013–14
 * Runners-Up (1): 2003–04
 * Gamma Ethniki Cup
 * Winners (1): 2013–14
 * Amateurs' Super Cup
 * Winners (1): 2013–14

International

 * UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
 * Quarter-finals (1): 1984–85

Crest evolution
The emblem of the club is a wild rising horse (same as the symbol of the city), believed to be an ancient thessalian-breed horse like Alexander the Great's Bucephalus.

Colours and kit evolution
The team's colours have been crimson and white since the formation of the club in 1964.

First

Alternative

Stadium

AEL FC Arena is the home ground of AEL. It is a UEFA 3-star rated stadium and has a seating capacity of 16,118 all covered. As well as functioning as a football stadium, Arena also operates as a conference centre and music venue. Actual construction of the stadium lasted 14 months, beginning in September 2009 and ended in late November 2010. From May 2013 until September 2015, the team played its home games in the old Alcazar Stadium, due to economic disputes concerning the rent of the stadium between the owning company (Gipedo Larissa AE) and the precedent chairman, Evangelos Plexidas. On 22 July 2015, the club's former major shareholder Alexis Kougias promised in an interview that the team will return and compete for the season 2015–16 in the Arena. Indeed, on 26 August 2015, there was an agreement and an official announcement of the new season's tickets for the stadium. The team competed in AEL FC Arena for five years, (until July 2020) when new financial disagreements and tensions arose, this time between Kougias and the owning company of the stadium. This led to the team leaving AEL FC Arena once again and returning to a fully renovated Alkazar that was scheduled to host the club's games for the next two seasons. On 26 July 2023, there was an official announcement from the club's new owner Achilleas Ntavelis, that the team will compete once and for all in AEL FC Arena.

Training facilities
AEL has its own training facilities in the area of the village Dendra, near to the town of Tyrnavos. Those facilities cover over 30,000 square meters, have multisport purposes for all of the team's athletes and among the others include:
 * Three football fields (one used by the first team, with 1,500 seats capacity and one for the U21 team's official matches)
 * One football field with artificial turf
 * Hosting area for the First and Reserves teams
 * Gym
 * Saunas
 * Rooms for tactical purposes
 * Press room
 * Changing rooms
 * Offices
 * Parking services

Supporters
Monsters is the largest AEL FC supporters club. The first attempt to organise the team's supporters was made on 31 March 1982 during the game against Diagoras 30 fans that belonged to the older but old-fashioned club Ierolochites gathered in the Gate D of the old Alcazar Stadium that was meant to be the legendary Gate-1 afterwards. Monsters club was formed as an idea of having a true and passionate support to the team without restrictions or boundaries.

The fans tend to use various styles and sizes of banners and flags bearing the name and symbols of their club and have been following the team since the first day everywhere in Greece and Europe.

Monsters have a strong relationship with German team 1. FC Nürnberg's supporter's club called Ultras Nürnberg 1994 or just UN-94. Fans of both clubs often lift banners and create choreography in support of the fellow teams.

S.F. Alkazar (Greek: Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Αλκαζάρ) is the second biggest club of AEL supporters.

Records

 * Most Appearances: 🇬🇷 Giannis Galitsios (399)
 * Most Goals: 🇬🇷 Giannis Valaoras (73)
 * Biggest Home Win: AEL 8–2 Kavala (1981–82)
 * Biggest Away Win: Veria 2–5 AEL (1987–88)
 * Most Wins in a Season: 18 (1982–83, 1987–88)
 * Most Points in a Season: 50 (2008–09)
 * Record Home Attendance: AEL 2–1 Panathinaikos (18,493, Alcazar Stadium, 27 December 1987)

All records, counted for the Super League and former Alpha Ethniki championships.

Historical squads
The 1988 Championship line-up and the 1985, 2007 Cup winning line-ups:

Reserves squad

 * (Players of the youth squad under professional contract)

Notable former players

 * Albania
 * 🇦🇱🇬🇷 Lefteris Milos (†)
 * 🇦🇱🇬🇷 Erind Prifti
 * 🇦🇱🇬🇷 Bledi Muca
 * 🇦🇱 Fatjon Andoni
 * 🇦🇱 Gertin Hoxhalli
 * 🇦🇱 Ergys Kaçe
 * 🇦🇱 Fiorin Durmishaj
 * 🇦🇱 Kristian Kushta
 * 🇦🇱 Edison Kola
 * Algeria
 * 🇩🇿 Samy Frioui
 * 🇩🇿🏴 Aymen Tahar
 * Argentina
 * 🇦🇷 Jonathan Bustos
 * 🇦🇷🇪🇸 Gastón Casas
 * 🇦🇷 Enrique Alberto Cavoli
 * 🇦🇷 Guillermo Oscar Daus (†)
 * 🇦🇷🇮🇹 Matías Degra
 * 🇦🇷🇮🇹 Mauricio Ferrari
 * 🇦🇷 Emmanuel Francou
 * 🇦🇷 Daniel Roberto Gil
 * 🇦🇷🇮🇹 Matias Iglesias
 * 🇦🇷 Horacio Oscar Morales (†)
 * 🇦🇷 Leandro Moreira
 * 🇦🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹 Milton Müller
 * 🇦🇷 Sebastián Nayar
 * 🇦🇷🇩🇪 Facundo Parra
 * 🇦🇷 Fabricio Pedrozo
 * 🇦🇷🇮🇹 Emanuel Perrone
 * 🇦🇷🇮🇹 Fabricio Poci
 * 🇦🇷 Daniel Ponce
 * 🇦🇷 Gabriel Ramírez
 * 🇦🇷🇮🇹 Marcelo Sarmiento
 * Australia
 * 🇦🇺 Michael Valkanis
 * 🇦🇺 Peter Katholos
 * 🇦🇺🇩🇪 Leon Gardikiotis
 * 🇦🇺 Antonis Tsiaras
 * 🇦🇺 Mitchell Whalley
 * Austria
 * 🇦🇹🇧🇦 Sanel Kuljić
 * Azerbaijan
 * 🇦🇿 Amit Guluzade
 * Belarus
 * 🇧🇾 Yevgeniy Shikavka
 * Belgium
 * 🇧🇪 José Barroso
 * 🇧🇪 Roddy Kambala
 * 🇧🇪 Mbo Mpenza
 * 🇧🇪 Georgios Galitsios
 * 🇧🇪 Ziguy Badibanga
 * Bolivia
 * 🇧🇴🇺🇸 Adrián Jusino
 * Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * 🇧🇦 Enver Hadžiabdić
 * 🇧🇦 Simo Krunić
 * 🇧🇦🇷🇸 Petar Kunić
 * 🇧🇦 Adnan Šećerović
 * Brazil
 * 🇧🇷 Césinha
 * 🇧🇷 Silva Cleyton
 * 🇧🇷🇵🇹 Delson
 * 🇧🇷 Dodô
 * 🇧🇷 Eliomar Silva
 * 🇧🇷🇮🇹 Marcello Troisi
 * 🇧🇷🇵🇹 Flávio Pinto
 * 🇧🇷 Guga
 * 🇧🇷 Marcel Issa
 * 🇧🇷 Paulo da Silva
 * 🇧🇷 Caio Vinicius
 * 🇧🇷 Marco de Oliveira
 * 🇧🇷🇮🇹 Piá
 * 🇧🇷 Jone
 * 🇧🇷🇵🇹 Ricardo Jesus
 * 🇧🇷 Romeu
 * 🇧🇷 Silva Júnior
 * 🇧🇷 Vela Júnior
 * 🇧🇷 Vinícius Silva
 * 🇧🇷 Leozinho
 * 🇧🇷 Bruno Chalkiadakis
 * Bulgaria
 * 🇧🇬 Kenan Bargan
 * 🇧🇬 Diyan Bozhilov
 * 🇧🇬 Ivan Dangovski
 * 🇧🇬 Vasil Dragolov
 * 🇧🇬 Hristofor Hubchev
 * 🇧🇬🇹🇷 Ekrem Genç
 * 🇧🇬 Georgi Tsingov
 * Burundi
 * 🇧🇮 Noureddine Ndikumana
 * 🇧🇮 Madjidi Ndikumana
 * Cameroon
 * 🇨🇲 Thierry Modo Abouna
 * 🇨🇲🇫🇷 Augustin Billa
 * 🇨🇲 David Embé
 * 🇨🇲🇫🇷 Salomon Olembé
 * 🇨🇲 Jean-Pierre Fiala
 * 🇨🇲 Geremi
 * 🇨🇲 Jules Goda
 * 🇨🇲 Serge Honi
 * 🇨🇲🇫🇷 Benjamin Moukandjo
 * Croatia
 * 🇭🇷 Adnan Aganović
 * 🇭🇷 Slavko Bralić
 * 🇭🇷 Sandi Križman
 * 🇭🇷 Mateo Mužek
 * 🇭🇷 Tomislav Vranjić
 * 🇭🇷 Nikola Žižić
 * Cyprus
 * 🇨🇾 Andreas Avraam
 * 🇨🇾 Nektarios Alexandrou
 * 🇨🇾 Stathis Aloneftis
 * 🇨🇾 Ioannis Kosti
 * 🇨🇾 Antonis Makris
 * Czech Republic
 * 🇨🇿 Jan Blažek
 * 🇨🇿 Rudolf Skácel
 * DR Congo
 * Kanieba Malouma
 * Ricky Lokela
 * Joël Tshibamba
 * Egypt
 * 🇪🇬🇸🇩 Ali Ghazal
 * 🇪🇬 Basem Morsy
 * 🇪🇬 Amr Warda
 * England
 * 🏴🇬🇷 Michalis Banias
 * Estonia
 * 🇪🇪 Sander Puri
 * Finland
 * 🇫🇮 Tim Sparv
 * France
 * 🇫🇷🇨🇩 Christian Bassila
 * 🇫🇷 Alexandre Coeff
 * 🇫🇷 Geoffrey Dernis
 * 🇫🇷 David Fleurival
 * 🇫🇷 Cyril Kali
 * 🇫🇷🇲🇱 Ibrahim Keita
 * 🇫🇷🇲🇶 Yohann Lasimant
 * 🇫🇷🇨🇮 Dany N'Guessan
 * 🇫🇷🇲🇶 Fabrice Pancrate
 * 🇫🇷 Laurent Robert
 * 🇫🇷 Steven Thicot
 * Gabon
 * 🇬🇦 Henry Antchouet
 * 🇬🇦🇫🇷 Daniel Cousin

 * Georgia
 * Gennadios Xenodochof
 * Germany
 * 🇩🇪 Marco Förster
 * 🇩🇪 Giorgos S. Georgiadis
 * 🇩🇪 Giannis Chloros
 * 🇩🇪 Antonis Kablionis
 * 🇩🇪 Christian Weber
 * 🇩🇪 Christos Agrodimos
 * 🇩🇪 Manuel Stiefler
 * 🇩🇪 Pantelis Theologou
 * Ghana
 * 🇬🇭🇸🇪 Mohammed Abubakari
 * 🇬🇭 Owusu-Ansah Kontor
 * Greece
 * 🇬🇷 Giorgos Abaris
 * 🇬🇷 Georgios Agorogiannis
 * 🇬🇷 Alexis Alexandris
 * 🇬🇷 Ilias Anastasakos
 * 🇬🇷 Nikos Anastasopoulos
 * 🇬🇷 Panagiotis Bahramis (†)
 * 🇬🇷 Manolis Bertos
 * 🇬🇷 Stathis Chaitas
 * 🇬🇷 Spyros Christopoulos
 * 🇬🇷 Nikos Dabizas
 * 🇬🇷 Giorgos Delizisis
 * 🇬🇷 Angelos Digozis
 * 🇬🇷 Giorgos Fotakis
 * 🇬🇷 Giannis Galitsios
 * 🇬🇷 Fanis Gekas
 * 🇬🇷 Evripidis Giakos
 * 🇬🇷 Stelios Giannakopoulos
 * 🇬🇷 Nikos Gotzamanidis
 * 🇬🇷 Christos Kalantzis
 * 🇬🇷 Vaggelis Kaounos
 * 🇬🇷 Nikos Karanikas
 * 🇬🇷 Vassilis Karapialis
 * 🇬🇷 Paschalis Kassos
 * 🇬🇷 Panagiotis Katsiaros
 * 🇬🇷 Nikos Kehagias
 * 🇬🇷 Fotis Kipouros
 * 🇬🇷 Dimitris Kolovetsios
 * 🇬🇷 Kostas Kolomitrousis
 * 🇬🇷 Dimitris Komesidis
 * 🇬🇷 Dimitris Kontodimos
 * 🇬🇷 Ilias Kotsios
 * 🇬🇷 Stefanos Kotsolis
 * 🇬🇷 Dimitris Koukoulitsios (†)
 * 🇬🇷 Giorgos Kousas
 * 🇬🇷 Vasilios Koutsianikoulis
 * 🇬🇷 Thomas Kyparissis
 * 🇬🇷 Ilias Kyriakidis
 * 🇬🇷 Tasos Kyriakos
 * 🇬🇷 Andreas Labropoulos
 * 🇬🇷 Tasos Lagos
 * 🇬🇷 Manolis Liapakis
 * 🇬🇷 Kostas Maloumidis
 * 🇬🇷 Athanasios Mangos
 * 🇬🇷 Mattheos Maroukakis
 * 🇬🇷 Paschalis Melissas
 * 🇬🇷 Christos Melissis
 * 🇬🇷 Alexios Michail
 * 🇬🇷 Christos Michail
 * 🇬🇷 Chrisostomos Michailidis
 * 🇬🇷 Giorgos Mitsibonas(†)
 * 🇬🇷 Manolis Moniakis
 * 🇬🇷 Dimitris Mousiaris (†)
 * 🇬🇷 Vangelis Nastos
 * 🇬🇷 Thomas Nazlidis
 * 🇬🇷 Kostas Nebegleras
 * 🇬🇷 Sakis Paleologos
 * 🇬🇷 Theologis Papadopoulos
 * 🇬🇷 Thanasis Papazoglou
 * 🇬🇷 Takis Parafestas
 * 🇬🇷 Nikos Patsiavouras
 * 🇬🇷 Dimitris Pinakas
 * 🇬🇷 Vangelis Platellas
 * 🇬🇷 Giorgos Plitsis
 * 🇬🇷 Giannis Potouridis
 * 🇬🇷 Manolis Psomas
 * 🇬🇷 Vasilios Rentzas
 * 🇬🇷 Giorgos Saitiotis
 * 🇬🇷 Dimitris Salpingidis
 * 🇬🇷 Achilleas Sarakatsanos
 * 🇬🇷 Savvas Siatravanis
 * 🇬🇷 Stathis Tavlaridis
 * 🇬🇷 Thanasis Tsigas
 * 🇬🇷 Sakis Tsiolis
 * 🇬🇷 Giannis Valaoras
 * 🇬🇷 Spyros Vallas
 * 🇬🇷 Tasos Venetis
 * 🇬🇷 Stelios Venetidis
 * 🇬🇷 Angelos Vertzos
 * 🇬🇷 Thodoris Voutiritsas
 * 🇬🇷 Michalis Ziogas
 * 🇬🇷 Petros Zouroudis
 * Guinea
 * 🇬🇳 Pato
 * Honduras
 * Diego Reyes
 * Hungary
 * 🇭🇺 Gergely Nagy
 * Iceland
 * 🇮🇸 Ögmundur Kristinsson
 * Iran
 * 🇮🇷 Gholamhossein Hashempour
 * Ireland
 * 🇮🇪 Paul Bannon (†)
 * Israel
 * 🇮🇱🇲🇦 Shimon Abuhatzira
 * 🇮🇱 Salim Tuama
 * Ivory Coast
 * 🇨🇮 Jean Luc Assoubre
 * 🇨🇮🇫🇷 Ibrahima Bakayoko
 * 🇨🇮 Franck Guela
 * Kenya
 * 🇰🇪 Aboud Omar
 * Kosovo
 * 🇲🇰 Suad Sahiti
 * Latvia
 * 🇱🇻 Jānis Ikaunieks
 * Moldova
 * 🇲🇩🇷🇴 Dinu Graur
 * Mexico
 * 🇲🇽🇮🇹 Antonio de Nigris (†)
 * Moldova
 * 🇲🇩🇷🇴 Dinu Graur
 * Morocco
 * 🇲🇦🇧🇪 Naïm Aarab
 * 🇲🇦🇧🇪 Anisse Brrou
 * Montenegro
 * 🇲🇪 Mladen Božović
 * 🇲🇪 Žarko Dragaš
 * 🇲🇪 Goran Perišić
 * 🇲🇪🇷🇸 Denis Tonković
 * Netherlands
 * James Efmorfidis
 * Nigeria
 * 🇳🇬🇮🇹 Stephen Makinwa
 * 🇳🇬🇸🇪 Abiola Dauda
 * 🇳🇬🇸🇪 Henry Okorocha
 * 🇳🇬 Marios Ogkmpoe
 * North Macedonia
 * 🇲🇰 Davor Taleski
 * 🇲🇰🇧🇬 Nikola Jakimovski
 * Peru
 * 🇵🇪 Nolberto Solano

 * Poland
 * 🇵🇱 Krzysztof Adamczyk
 * 🇵🇱 Patryk Aleksandrowicz
 * 🇵🇱 Krzysztof Baran
 * 🇵🇱 Józef Dankowski
 * 🇵🇱 Dawid Jarka
 * 🇵🇱 Blazej Jankowski
 * 🇵🇱 Jan Karaś
 * 🇵🇱 Jaroslaw Kasperczak
 * 🇵🇱 Jacek Kacprzak
 * 🇵🇱 Kazimierz Kmiecik
 * 🇵🇱 Janusz Kupcewicz
 * 🇵🇱 Arkadiusz Malarz
 * 🇵🇱 Dariusz Marzec
 * 🇵🇱 Maciej Żurawski
 * Portugal
 * 🇵🇹 Filipe da Costa
 * 🇵🇹 Hélder
 * 🇵🇹🇸🇹 Luís Boa Morte
 * 🇵🇹 Serginho
 * 🇵🇹 Zequinha
 * Romania
 * 🇷🇴🇬🇷 Giannis Matzourakis
 * 🇷🇴 Gabriel Torje
 * 🇷🇴 Dennis Şerban
 * 🇷🇴 Ştefan Stoica
 * 🇷🇴 Steliano Filip
 * Senegal
 * 🇸🇳🇫🇷 Ibrahim Tall
 * Serbia
 * 🇷🇸 Siniša Babić
 * 🇷🇸 Vladimir Bajić
 * 🇷🇸 Milan Bojović
 * 🇷🇸 Uroš Ćosić
 * 🇷🇸 Miloš Deletić
 * 🇷🇸 Miloš Filipović
 * 🇷🇸 Aleksandar Gojković
 * 🇷🇸 Nikola Grubješić
 * 🇷🇸 Saša Ilić
 * 🇷🇸 Velimir Ivanović
 * 🇷🇸 Boki Jovanović
 * 🇷🇸 Marko Jovanović
 * 🇷🇸 Dragan Knežević
 * 🇷🇸 Igor Koić
 * 🇷🇸 Nemanja Mladenović
 * 🇷🇸 Slobodan Miletić
 * 🇷🇸 Radomir Milosavljević
 * 🇷🇸🇧🇦 Svetozar Marković
 * 🇷🇸🇧🇪 Ivan Nedeljković
 * 🇷🇸 Dejan Radojković
 * 🇷🇸 Borivoje Ristić
 * 🇷🇸 Risto Ristović
 * 🇷🇸 Zoran Riznić
 * 🇷🇸 Aleksandar Simić
 * 🇷🇸🇸🇪 Sladjan Spasić
 * 🇷🇸 Nikola Stanković
 * 🇷🇸🇬🇷 Thanasis Stojnović
 * 🇷🇸 Nikola Trujić
 * 🇷🇸 Stefan Živković
 * Slovakia
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Managerial history

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 * Giannis Papakostas (23 February 2010 – 29 November 2010)
 * Kostas Katsaras (caretaker) (30 November 2010 – 16 December 2010)
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UEFA Champions League all-time club ranking
As of 26 May 2021

League and cup history
Key: 1R = First Round, 2R = Second Round, 3R = Third Round, 4R = Fourth Round, 5R = Fifth Round, 6R = Sixth Round, GS = Group Stage, QF = Quarter-finals, SF = Semi-finals, RU = Runner-up, W = Winner.
 * Point system: 1959–60 to 1972–73: 3–2–1. 1973–74 to 1991–92: 2–1–0. 1992–93 onwards: 3–1–0.
 * In the season 2012–13 the team gained 63 points but was penalized due to financial problems (−18 points in the final table) and finished 13th.

League total
*including 2024-25 (Leagues created in Greece in 1962-63)

European competitions
As of July 2009

Presidents
At the founding of the club and under the administration of a 15-member council, composed of club representatives and organizations of the city, Konstantinos Tzovaridis was appointed as the first president. The current president, Achilleas Ntavelis, is AEL's 31st president with several presidents having multiple spells in office (counted separately.)

Current sponsorships

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 * Back Shirt Sponsor: none
 * Shorts Sponsor: none
 * Official Sport Clothing Manufacturer: Acerbis
 * Great Sponsor: Auto Tsogias

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Karlsplatz

is a town square on the border of the first and fourth districts of Vienna, Austria. It is one of the most frequented and best connected transportation hubs in Vienna. The Karlskirche is located here.

The first district can be reached either by subway (Karlsplatz station) or via Operngasse (a street). The pavilions of the former Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station remain despite the construction of the U-Bahn system.

Architecture
The largest area of the square on the south side, Resselpark, is named after the inventor Josef Ressel. To the east is the Karlskirche, located in front of a water pool with a sculpture by Henry Moore with the building of the Vienna Museum (formerly the Historical Museum of Vienna) and the Winterthur Insurance building. On the west side of it is the main building of the Technische Universität Wien (Vienna Technical University) and the Protestant school. In Resselpark, monuments and busts are of famous people such as the inventor Siegfried Marcus and Josef Madersperger, as well as the composer Johannes Brahms. On the north side of the Otto Wagner in Art Nouveau style building erected inclusion of the former station Karlsplatz the Vienna Stadtbahn.

Traffic
Karlsplatz is one of the most important traffic-points of the city, five different traffic flows form a node here:
 * the Vienna line (B1), the so-called "West Exit" or "west entrance" to the western suburbs early Western Highway.
 * The 2-line, coming from the north and northwest.
 * Operngasse and Kärntnerstraße to ring road in the State Opera as a connection to the Northeast.
 * Lorraine on the road (B1) to Schwarzenbergplatz and on to the Danube Canal in the Urania as a connection to the East.
 * Operngasse and Margaret Street in the south of the city and the southern suburbs motorway.

Planning

Before the Karlsplatz was built, there was the decorative Elizabeth Era bridge, built in 1854 and named after the young bride of the Emperor ("Sisi"). The bridge was fitted in 1867 with still images, which now presides over the City Hall stand. On 20 April 1897, it was blocked and subsequently demolished.

Following this, the rescheduling of the bridging of the Vienna River caused long square and fitted with new landmark buildings. On 7 May 1901 the city council established an architectural competition over the new design.

In the spring of 1903, two dimensional models made and publicly displayed by Otto Wagner to the mayor Karl Lueger. In a press conference on 3 November 1907, he praised Wagner's project, but spoke out against the nature of the Post Office Savings Bank. He then mobilized Princess Pauline Metternich's conservative members of the nobility against the project, the petition within a short 6000 signatures of support received. In January 1910, it came at the Karlsplatz still drawing up a facade segment in Wagner's original size. After the death of Lueger's council decided on 14 July 1911, the establishment of the City Museum on the design – but ultimately this did not come about.

In the interwar period occurred on the Karlsplatz mainly temporary buildings (such as a shopping center on the site of today's Vienna Museum), after 1945 was dominated by considerations of transport planning (although it did not come to the by George Lippert other and proposed elevated highway solutions). Karlsplatz architectural competitions in question were 1946, 1966, 1969 (relating to underground construction), 1971 (relating to the Garden Making). The realized design with the Swedish garden architect Sven Ingvar Anderson designed oval pond encountered 1976–77 sharpest criticism – Clemens Holzmeister appeared as "shocked" over the water surface in front of the Karlskirche, the media spoke of the "chaos space". Notwithstanding this very negative press echos the acceptance of significantly increased green space Resselpark (and their pond) today. In the course of 2006 by Jakob Fina redesigned planting of greenery of the Karlsplatz were the Esperanto Park and Park Girardi created.

Arts and culture

In 2004, representatives of the Municipality of Vienna, presented the project "Karlsplatz Art Space Presented". The goals were, among other things a redesign of the park in terms of gardening, light and space and routing concept, called an improvement of the traffic situation for pedestrians and cyclists and the promotion of art projects on the Karlsplatz.

Following the redesign of the park and the opening of Rosa Mayreder, Girardi and Esperanto Park in 2006, Vienna Holding commissioned a 100% subsidiary of Vienna, with the continuation of the project. On 1 August 2006, the project group karlsplatz.org consisting of Gabriela Hegedüs and Christoph Möderndorfer that since 2004 the organization of literary festivals sound bites in the Museum Quarter are responsible, and Peter Melichar, also implementing. It is through networking of the various surround the square settled institutions in the fields of arts, culture and education (among other things, House of Artists, the project space of the Kunsthalle, Vienna Museum, University of Technology) of the space into an area of cultural exchange, and thus, despite the traffic-technically difficult able to be revived.

On the Karlsplatz the exhibition of the United Buddy Bears was shown in 2006. The exhibition was opened by Christiane Hörbiger, Film actress and UNICEF Ambassador, together with Michael Häupl, Mayor of Vienna and Karin Schubert, Mayor of Berlin.

In the summer of 2008, parallel to the 2008 European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland was, of karlsplatz.org the Karlsplatz Art Zone aligned. On a "floating stage" in the pond in front of the Karlskirche took it daily for several concerts, especially Austrian musicians from the area of the singer-songwriter, the more experimental pop and contemporary Viennese song instead scene, on a "tree stage" performances by performance artists. Since 2010, takes place on the premises in Karlsplatz and some surrounding institutions at the beginning of the summer open-air season, the multi-day Popfest place.

Drug culture
In Austria itself, the word "Karlsplatz" is a synonym for an open drug scene. For this reason, there was the first police-monitored protection zone for the Security Police Act (SPG) was established.

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Mary Davies (mezzo-soprano)

Mary Davies (27 February 1855 – 22 June 1930) was a Welsh mezzo-soprano and the co-founder and first President of the Welsh Folk Song Society. She was principal vocalist at the London Ballad Concerts, and at the National Eisteddfod of 1906.

Life
Born in London, Davies was the daughter of the Welsh sculptor William Davies (Mynorydd) (1826–1901), who was himself the son of composer Moses Davies. Her younger sister Dilys Lloyd Davies was a leading advocate for the education of women in Wales. The family attended a Welsh-language chapel in London. Before attending the Royal Academy of Music she studied singing with Henry Brinley Richards, Megan Watts Hughes and Sarah Edith Wynne. She joined the London Welsh Choral Union, then under the direction of the composer John Thomas, which in 1873 awarded her a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where she was a pupil of Alberto Randegger.

She made her professional debut in her first year at the Royal Academy. In 1880 she sang in the first complete performance in England of Hector Berlioz's La damnation de Faust at the Hallé Concerts, Manchester.

Davies was active in the musical life of Wales, and in the collection of Welsh folk songs. She was a member of the governing body of the University of Wales, from which she received an honorary doctorate.

In 1888 she married William Cadwaladr Davies, a journalist and the first registrar of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. After her husband's death in 1905 she lived in London. She died on 22 June 1930 and was buried in Bangor.

Awards

 * Honorary Mus.Doc., University of Wales (1916)
 * Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion medal for services to music (1929)

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Railway Technical Centre

The Railway Technical Centre (RTC) in London Road, Derby, England, was the technical headquarters of the British Railways Board and was built in the early 1960s. British Rail described it as the largest railway research complex in the world.

The RTC centralised most of the technical services provided by the regional Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineers (CM&EE) to form the Department of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering (DM&EE). In addition, it housed the newly formed British Rail Research Division which reported directly to the Board. The latter is well known for its work on the experimental Advanced Passenger Train (APT-E). At that early stage this was a concept vehicle, and in time the DM&EE applied the new knowledge to existing practice in the design of the High Speed Train (HST), the later prototype APT-P and other high-speed vehicles.

Opening
The Research Division was the first to move into the purpose-built accommodation on London Road. This was formed initially with personnel from other departments around the country, including the Electrical Research Division from Rugby, the Mechanical Engineers Research Section, the Civil Engineering Research Unit (Track Lab), and the Chemical Research Unit, while the Scientific Services Division occupied the former LMS Scientific Research Laboratory building across the road known as Hartley House. The embryo RTC site (mainly Kelvin House and the Research Test Hall) was officially opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in May 1964. Later additional buildings were added: Trent House and Derwent House, the Advanced Projects lab, then Stephenson House, Lathkill House and finally Brunel House.

Department of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering
In addition to the research employees, the RTC became the headquarters of the DM&EE. This brought together engineers from the regional departments, together with its Drawing Offices, the Testing & Performance Section and the Engineering Development Unit workshop (EDU) from Darlington, the Workshops Division (which later became British Rail Engineering Limited) and it was also home to the Board's Central Purchasing Department. Strange to relate but the layout of equipment within the new workshop was as near as possible the same as the original. Following this came the Plastics Development Unit from Eastleigh, which, among other innovations, was responsible for the design of the High Speed Train's streamlined cabs as well as the prototype Mark 3 coach doors.

Test tracks
When research and testing required stretches of real railway line, the Research Division used the Old Dalby Test Track, and at Mickleover in Derby and The High Marnham Test Track, the former LD&ECR from Shirebrook to Tuxford where one of Network Rail's RIDC is located.

RTC today
At privatisation, most of the facilities were taken over by commercial railway engineering companies, and it was marketed as the "rtc Business Park" renting space to a range of small consultancy firms.

The only facility which is still used for railway research is the moving-model aerodynamic test facility.

The former RTC site is used by Loram to carry out repairs and maintenance on railway vehicles. It was also used by Rampart Carriage & Wagon Services (RC&WS) which went into liquidation in 2013. A large part of the site is used as storage and an operating base by Loram and Network Rail, whose rolling stock on site forms part of Network Rail testing trains. Usual traction on these trains is either Colas Rail class 37s or class 67s. The New Measurement Train and Loram C21 Grinding/Rail Profile Trains are also maintained at this facility.

LCR (London and Continental Railways) took over the site in 2013 in response to a demand from the local community to retain RTC’s position as a key employment site and preserve its status as a core asset for Derby’s internationally-acclaimed engineering business cluster

General references

 * British Railway Research 1864-1965 by S.Wise,C.Eng.,F.I.Mech.E.,M.I.M. (Edited by A.O.Gilchrist and with a biographical note by E.S.Burdon)

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Porgy and Bess/archive1

This article is very good, but needs a bit more information on the actual music. Other than that, what else could use fixing? --Alexs letterbox 06:03, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I've mentioned this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera as well, so hopefully you'll be getting some more opera aficionados to help out as well. I would say that the article could use a more in-depth musical analysis, more inline citations to show where some specific information was obtained, resolve some of the redlinks on the actors, much more information on how the opera came into being, etc. And like I said, I'll be focusing on helping you out with this article, too.  Cheers.  --BaronLarf 16:48, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)


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User:Phreyan

At some point we all have to "get the hang of it."

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Oyster Rock

Oyster Rock is an island in the Mumbai Harbour, Mumbai, India. It is heavily fortified, and owned by the Indian Navy. For a short while, the islet was used as a naval museum. Every time when the Admiral of The Fleet sails out or in with the Naval fleet, a guard of honour is conducted with a 21 gun salute with sailors standing on the entire perimeter of the island.

In 2008, the Mumbai Port Trust proposed to set up an International Cruise Terminal at Oyster Rock. However, in 2009, the Indian Navy refused to grant permission citing security concerns in the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

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Talk:Lymphedema

I
I would like to also point out that primary lymphedema is lymphedema that patients are born with and can be full body lymphedema as well with swelling in all extremedies, trunk, abdomen, face, neck and other areas of the body. Lymphedema is not always confined to just one area or limb in many people.

I would like to also point out that lymphedema can be and is disabling and progressive no matter how much a patient is compliant. There are many other conditions that go hand in hand with lymphedema as well such as high blood pressure, thyroid issues, ect and these can be found in "Silent Waves" by Dr. Chikly.

The best source for patients is to educate themselves and to challenge any questionable information found on the web about lymphedema. You may use my site, http://www.lymphland.com as a link or resource.

Tinabudde 00:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)Thanks, Tina Budde

Additional Information
I have added additional information on staging and grades, as well as a couple of sources. The elephantiasis described in Stage 4 may be what the previous poster might have indicated by "full body" Lymphedema. Erzahler 22:35, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

'''Notice: When making an entry, please indicate what entry or change you are making and the purpose of that change, and document that change in the discussion page. Because this is a medical entry, ANY CHANGE MADE TO THE TEXT THAT CANNOT BE VERIFIED WILL BE REMOVED.''' Erzahler 18:45, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Erzahler,You deleted my post on Kinesio Taping, citing it wasn't recognized by NLN. It is now taught by Vodder http://www.vodderschool.com/therapists/training.cfm  That is a widely accepted source of expertise also. Do you oppose it being posted as a citation?Azskeptic 01:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

No, I am not opposed to the information being posted if it can be verified and if it is recognized as a legitimate form of treatment. If the information is legitimate, then please post it, along with whatever qualifying information you feel is needed. A few people in the past have posted information that could not be verified or checked, which is why I prefer everything to be verifiable. Also, please include a brief statement of the addition in the edit summary. Again, I am not opposed to the posting of verifiable information, as long as it is not dubious in origin. Erzahler 15:41, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Style
Ace(r) wrap. I know Ace has the most recognized brand name, but that style, Ace(r), is odd. Perhaps it could be substituted with "compression wrap" or something similar. Is there a better term? --Kevin L'Huillier 02:44, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

The Ace(r) wrap you're referring to is a long-stretch bandage and is not useful for compression wrapping as it can't provide the necessary compression without cutting off blood flow. I believe the term you're looking for is "compression bandage." Many people do use the term "compression wrap" so the two are most likely interchangeable. Erzahler 20:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I've been a lympedema sufferer for the past 3 years, following an infection. I'm questioning the information below: "Stage 2 (spontaneously irreversible): The tissue now has a spongy consistency and is "non pitting" -- when pressed by the fingertips, the tissue bounces back without any indentation. Fibrosis found in Stage 2 Lymphedema marks the beginning of the hardening of the limbs and increasing size." I was in this stage for a long time but I would not now say this is "irreversible". Weekly intensive MLD treatments broke down the fibrosis for me. At first it returned, but after a few weeks of treatment, it no longer returned and has not done so for the past year. I haven't changed anything in the article, I just put this for your consideration. Janeybee 11:32, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Sections
Thank you to the person who posted this article – a great service!

That being said, I would like to make a couple of suggestions that as a technologically-challenged layperson I don’t feel qualified to make myself:

- most of what is currently in the “Symptoms” section refers to symptoms of infection, not of LE as such, and might better be moved to a new “Complications” section, noting at the same time the need to seek medical attention for infections

- specifics could be added to the skin care section (scrupulous cleanliness using soapless cleanser, moisturization etc.).

Hope this helps!

 * Thanks for the helpful comments. :o) The infection usually is a complication instead of a symptom of LE.  However, there have been reported cases where an infection has been a cause of LE, although it is not all that common.  I'll take your comments into consideration.  Thanks! Erzahler 15:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Tamoxifen
I don't think that this statement - "Some cases of lower-limb Lymphedema have been associated with the use of Tamoxifen, due to the blood clots and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) that can be caused by this medication." - can be correct. DVT will cause venous insufficiency by damaging venous valves, and subsequent oedema, but will not cause *lymph*oedema of itself, as is does not affect the lymphatic system. Iscoed 07:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

 * These statements were added based on information provided by the National Lymphedema Network. They state their research has shown that DVT has been caused by travel in pressurized aircraft, due to the reduced cabin pressure in relation to normal atmospheric pressure.  Also, they have reported that people who have used Tamoxifen in the past have reported onset of Lymphedema and/or DVT.

 * NLN has a position paper on this. You can find it here: NLN Position Paper on Air Travel

Erzahler 16:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Image?
About halfway down this page there's some excellent images. However in the bottom series, the 2 photos on the right hand side don't show up for me, Image:100_0587.JPG and Image:100_0583.JPG. However if I look for them it looks like they're still there. Any thoughts? The images are pretty big, maybe they need boxing in somehow?--PaulWicks 18:25, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

The images in question show up just fine in my browser. They are smaller images, so maybe your browser is having trouble resolving them? Erzahler 18:23, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

The images are more characteristic of lipidema than lymphedema since swelling is spared in the feet. In general lymphedema gives swelling in the feet (below the ankles), but in lipidema the feet are roughly normal which is the case in these images. I strongly believe the user who posted those pictures of herself was misdiagnosed. She has lipidema Drselahi (talk) 05:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

 * While the images on this page are quite useful I wonder if some could be found that show an 'average' case of lymphedema (the top images show what is apparently a case gone untreated for a very long time, which has developed into elephantiasis, and the second row depicts a case that, as I understand it, involved complications with obesity). Lymphedema is quite a common condition and I fear that people looking for information on the subject will suffer unnecessary worry if they are confronted uniquely with pictures of extreme cases. Anyone have any ideas on available images? Nofoto (talk) 07:04, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Agreed, the pictures used are not representative of most people's experience of lymphedema. It would be useful if someone could find a photo of an upper limb with moderate lymphedema, given that this is more common. I am concerned that this photo will scare people who have just been diagnosed with lymphedema and don't understand that the current pictures represent a very extreme case that is the result of many years without treatment. 7 May 2014 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.74.112.133 (talk) 21:44, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Adding/Removing Certification Links
Okay, people, we need to have a little discussion here. Unless we can provide an undeniable reason why the certification links are being removed, we need to reinstate them. Regardless of the website's commercial content, these organizations provide legitimate Lymphedema certifications which are recognized by the medical community. Indeed, physical therapists cannot practice Lymphedema therapy without one of these certifications. So let's stop this senseless back-and-forth reverting/re-reverting of these links and come to a concensus on this. Being a Lymphedema patient myself and having researched this topic, I believe I do have some knowledge in this area. Erzahler 02:40, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi there, I think WP:EL is quite clear on this:"Links normally to be avoided: "Links that are added to promote a site, that primarily exist to sell products or services" I'm not suggesting that the links would not be useful for a prospective physiotherapist who wanted to find somewhere they could obtain a training course in the United States. However, this is really a tiny segment of the possible readership of this article. I don't think by removing the links we are doing anyone a disservice, because the easiest thing for them to do if they want to find such a course is to Google it. For other examples, physiotherapy has national organisations in its external links but not training courses, ditto speech pathology. So unless there's a stronger argument for why the links should be included, I don't think they should be reinserted. Interested in other views too. --PaulWicks 12:05, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I tend to agree with PaulWicks. As he says, the certification link does seem to meet the Wikipedia guidelines concerning links to be avoided. The way I personally would articulate it is that the person who came to this article looking for information on lymphedema is not going to find further or fuller information by following the link.

Awien 17:42, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Okay, then, answer this question... how am I supposed to provide links to legitimate certification bodies when Wikipedia says I can't do it? This is not acceptable.   I put to you that the guidelines need to be tweaked a little.   Since you all seem to know so much about it, then YOU can edit the page.  Obviously, someone who has Lymphedema doesn't know anything about it.  I wash my hands of it! Erzahler 20:55, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi Erzhaler, this isn't an issue about being knowledgeable about Lymphedema. I freely admit I know very little about it other than some second hand information from patients with ALS or Parkinson's. However the fact is that Wikipedia is here to function as an enyclopedia, not a directory of weblinks, and these guidelines apply equally to any article. I am having trouble seeing why you feel that someone wanting to be certified in treating lymphedema would come to Wikipedia first, and if they didn't find what they were looking for would give up immediately. Surely it is more likely they would try Google first? Or, if they were existing professionals, their statuatory bodies? --PaulWicks 14:42, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

WP:EL is clear on the point that Wikipedia articles shouldn't be a forest of external links - and that furthermore, Wikipedia doesn't exist in order to stimulate trade. Nevertheless, we do happen to have a section in this article entitled "Lymphedema Product Suppliers". WP:EL states further that if there is any doubt as to the usefulness of a set of external links, it should then be put to Wikipedia editors to come to a conclusion as to how useful such a set of links actually is. PaulWicks suggests that someone who is suffering from lymphedema (or someone who is struggling to know what to do when treating someone with lymphedema) would Google the term first, and then probably consult a statutory body. However, treatment of lymphedema (and even bare recognition of the condition) is still at an early stage of development. Google presents a real forest of external links - and members of statutory bodies themselves need, perhaps, as much help as they can get. Lymphedema is complicated! I believe that people with the condition, and healthcare professionals struggling to find out how to treat it, might welcome assistance from all responsible quarters. But what do others think? Is there really a place for the section "Lymphedema Product Suppliers" or not? Should it stay or should it go? Perhaps links to patient support networks, and bodies like the British Lymphology Society are enough? Ottershrew 13:46, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I can see your point, but there are plenty of counter-examples in other articles. For instance, whilst not perfectly comparable there are no links to suppliers in diabetes, COPD, asthma, or bed sores. Interested in other views too. --PaulWicks 18:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

 * After being away from this article for a while, I can see there are quite a few supplier links. Perhaps we should come to a consensus about leaving only a few links and deleting the rest.  Or maybe delete the supplier links altogether.  I agree (after being away and giving the matter some thought) that only factual information should be retained.  Erzahler 18:03, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Reminded of this by the appearance of still another supplier link. Propose to delete all of them. Any dissent? Awien 22:04, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

This reads very much like it is written by pseudoscience proponent, regardless of validity
I'm not sure, maybe I should have added weasel words instead of NPOV, but I suspect my tag will be yanked promptly anyhow. Please, try to keep articles from sounding like they are about the latest new "unrecognized" disease that everyone has, like http://www.cabrillo.edu/~pkaplan/misc/lackofwater.html (yet another "75% are chronically dehydrated" myth page). I don't claim to know anything about this, and it is clear people are already watching to make sure information here is verifiable, so I'm limiting my comments to tone. The entry section in particular reads in a rather alarmist manner, or at least that is how I read it. Perhaps others react differently. Please do not be insulted by this, I'm not saying anyone is wrong in their facts. I simply feel the tone is wrong for wikipedia, that it is presenting only the view of the admittedly small portion of medical community that recognizes this. That does NOT make it fake: look how long it took for AIDS to be generally recognized, or think back to doctors saying smoking is GOOD for you, just consider your tone please. I had also tagged it with lacking references but promptly removed that. I do feel it needs a great deal more support in references to make the case. Thank you. Fitzhugh 02:25, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the heads-up. Awien 16:54, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your note. This tone problem is a particular issue in articles for relatively uncommon diseases which are edited primarily by patient-activists.  The underlying thinking basically seems to be, "I got it, and I met several people online who have it, so it can't really be that rare."  It's a short step from that idea to claims that it's overlooked, unrecognized, and the source of all your problems.  Diseases which are particularly hard to diagnose (usually due to vague symptoms) are also prone to this.  Please continue to alert editors to your concerns as you find them.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:13, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

questions
What medical professional does one consult if suspicious of lymphedema? Endocrinologist? ''One should consult their primary care provider. The primary care provider may refer to a specialist, such a doctor who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation (a physiatrist).''

Please say more about treatment of abdominal lymphedema. I had a friend with that. When he got in the hospital, they put him on dialysis and he lost 200 lbs in 3 weeks.

How is lymphedema associated with kidney failure? Or is the abdominal fluid from kidney failure different? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.56.108.58 (talk) 14:45, 27 July 2009 (UTC) ''I think you may be thinking of ascites, which is a collection of fluid in the peritoneal space within the abdomen. It is commonly caused by liver failure, but can also be caused by some types of kidney disease when there is retention of sodium (which increases the amount of fluid in the body) and loss of albumin (which increases the amount of fluid that is in the extravascular space. There are lots of other causes and this is probably beyond the scope of this article. ''

Recent reports that change previous "recommendation by breast cancer surgeon"
For many years, breast cancer surgeons advised patients not to lift more than 15 pounds with the arm affected by lymph node removal due to breast cancer treatment. New studies show that women who exercise and use the affected arm are less likely to suffer lymphedema. Of course, the new information seems to be much more logical than the previous recommendations that advised to limit exercise and activity. The activity would seem to keep the lymph liquids moving and lymph tissue healthier. Massage of the arm also seems to be beneficial. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.57.190.183 (talk) 02:53, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:The Jewish Question

On Redirecting to the Holocaust
Title above inserted by me tody: --Ludvikus (talk) 23:08, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

redirecting this to the Holocaust is eiher unfair or offensive XmarkX 10:20, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Final Solution

 * Concerning the "See also" section item: "Final Solution"
 * This above item was just removed as "irrelent?"
 * I, disagree for the following reasons:

 * 1) Bruno Bauer was an antisemite, and opposed Jewish emancipation - that was his answer to the Jewish question.
 * 2) Hitler, we know, devised the Final Solution to the Jewish question.
 * Accordingly, this item stays. --Ludvikus (talk) 03:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Helen Lederer's "On the Jewish Quesion (1958)
Here's the online library card catalog listing of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
 * Record 1 of 1
 * You searched Class 01 - Title: On the Jewish Question
 * AUTHOR 	Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
 * TITLE 	On the Jewish question / Karl Marx ; translated by Helen Lederer.
 * PUBLICATION 	Cincinnati, OH : Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1958.
 * DESCRIPTION 	42 leaves ; 28 cm.
 * SERIES 	Readings in modern Jewish history
 * NOTE 	Cover ti.
 * NOTE 	On rectos only.
 * SUBJECT 	Jews - - Legal status, laws, etc.
 * SUBJECT 	Judaism.
 * SUBJECT 	Jews - - Politics and government.
 * SUBJECT 	Jews - - Germany - - History - - 1800-1933.
 * SUBJECT 	Germany - - Ethnic relations.
 * ADDTL AUTHOR 	Lederer, Helen.
 * --Ludvikus (talk) 03:57, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * This (above) English language version (translation), edition, imprint, appears to be rare and obscure. As I've pointed out in "On The Jewish Question" (Talk page), neither the Library of Congress owns it, nor does WorldCat show it's existence anywhere in the Western world. I've even checked with the British Library; result: nada. --Ludvikus (talk) 10:13, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

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