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{{Infobox football club |
 clubname = Messiniakos|
 image    = Messiniakos.jpg|
 fullname = Messiniakos Football Club|
 founded  = 1888|
 ground   = [[Messiniakos Stadium]], [[Kalamata]]|
 capacity = 5,613|
 chairman = Panagiotis Stasinopoulos|
 manager  = Stavros Christopoulos|
 league   = Messinia B Local|
 season   = 2018-19|
 position = Messinia B Local 3rd|
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 website = http://www.messiniakos.com/ac/sections/1/|

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Founded in 1888,<ref name=messiniakos>{{cite web|title=ιστορία|url=http://www.messiniakos.com/ac/sections/3/|publisher=messiniakos.com|accessdate=5 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Μεσσηνιακός 1888-2014... Η "πράσινη" ιστορία|url=http://www.sportstonoto.gr/messiniakos/messiniakos-1888-2014...-i-prasini-istoria-apo-ton-xristo-zeriti.htm|publisher=sportstonoto.gr|accessdate=5 January 2016}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> '''Messiniakos Gymnastic Club''' ({{langx|el|Μεσσηνιακός Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος}}) is one of the oldest athletic club in Greece with [[Panagiotis Benakis]] its first president. Messiniakos' traditional colours are green and white and in 1924 adopted as symbol a platanus foil.

Messiniakos has made a name of itself in many sports ([[football (soccer)|football]], [[volleyball]], [[sport of athletics|athletics]], [[Powerlifting|weight-lifting]] etc.) and has produced very good athletes, such as [[OFI Crete|OFI]]'s Brazilian footballer Davidson and [[Louis Tsatoumas]] in track and field, who is one of the biggest hopes for Greek athletics. The club used to be home to the [[Papaflessia]] international athletics meeting. The volleyball team had excellent appearances in the First Division, but is not participating at the current time.

==Football team==
The football team participated in the [[Second Division (Greece)|Second Division]] in the 2006–07 season. Its president is international businessman Stavros Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos is the former owner of [[Kalamata FC|Kalamata]] and [[Apollon Kalamarias|Apollon Kalamaria]]. He bought both those teams when they were in the Third Division and Second Division, respectively, and invested substantial money into those teams and eventually took both those teams up to the first division.

Papadopoulos has shown he has the same plan for Messiniakos. He bought the team a few years back when it was just a local team, not even in [[Greek Fourth Division|Fourth Division]]. He has invested money into the team and brought in talented young players. During this time the team has achieved promotion from a non-league team all the way up to the second division, but has been relegated to the [[Third Division (Greece)|Third Division]] for the upcoming season after finishing in second last place in 2007.

The next years the football team weakened and now it plays in Messenia local League.

==Volleyball team==
The volleyball women's team of Messiniakos plays in A2 Ethniki (2015–16).<ref>{{cite web|title=B Group|url=http://www.volleyball.gr/index.php/a2-ginaikwn-a-omilos-b-ipoomilos/vathmologia|publisher=volleyball.gr|accessdate=4 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226195707/http://www.volleyball.gr/index.php/a2-ginaikwn-a-omilos-b-ipoomilos/vathmologia|archive-date=2015-12-26|url-status=dead}}</ref> The women's team has played one time in [[A1 Ethniki Women's Volleyball|A1 Ethniki]], in 1984–85 season. The men's volleyball has also played in [[A1 Ethniki Volleyball]] during 1985-88 period.<ref name=messiniakos/>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.messiniakos.com/ac/sections/3/  Official page]

{{A2 Greek women's volleyball}}

[[Category:1888 establishments in Greece]]
[[Category:Sport in Kalamata]]
[[Category:Football clubs in Peloponnese (region)]]
[[Category:Association football clubs established in 1888]]


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