2014–15 Veria F.C. season explained

Players

Technical and medical staff

Season Milestones

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League table

Greek Cup

Players Statistics

Infrastructure leagues

Notes and References

Squad information

Out on loan

Transfers

Overall

Pre-season Friendlies

Results by matchday

Third round

Overall

Goals

Assists

Disciplinary record

Best Goal and MVP awards and nominees

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Summer Transfers

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Fixtures

Second leg

Club:	Veria
Season:	2014–15
Manager:	Dimitris Christoforidis
Chairman:	Theodoros Karipidis
Stadium:	Veria Stadium, Veria
League:	Super League
League Result:	13th
Cup1:	Greek Cup
Cup1 Result:	Third round
League Topscorer:	Nikos Kaltsas (12 goals)
Season Topscorer:	Nikos Kaltsas (13 goals)
Highest Attendance:	2,037 (vs PAS Giannina)
Lowest Attendance:	663 (vs Niki Volos)
Overall Attendance:	20,510
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Prevseason:	2013–14
Nextseason:	2015–16

In season 2014–15, Veria will compete in the following competitions Super League and Greek Cup.

No.	Name	Position (s)	Date of Birth (Age)	Signed from
Goalkeepers
1	Georgios Kantimiris	GK	19 September 1982 (31)	Fokikos
22	Xavi Ginard	GK	11 October 1986 (27)	Atlético Baleares
71	Dimitris Chomsioglou	GK	8 March 1989 (25)	Anagennisi Giannitsa
Defenders
4	José Catalá	LB	1 January 1985 (29)	Apollon Limassol
23	Dimitrios Amarantidis	LB	27 July 1986 (28)	AEK
2	Raúl Bravo	LB/CB	14 April 1981 (33)	Córdoba
5	Angelos Vertzos	LB/CB	27 May 1983 (31)	Apollon Smyrnis
16	Neto	RB	7 February 1981 (33)	Bahia
18	Iván Malón	RB	26 August 1986 (27)	Mirandés
3	Cyril Kali	RB/CB	21 January 1984 (30)	Panetolikos
55	Stelios Marangos	CB	4 May 1989 (25)	Kerkyra
8	Branko Ostojić	CB/DM/CM	3 January 1984 (31)	Javor
Midfielders
6	Roberto Battión	DM	1 March 1982 (32)	Independiente
25	Sotiris Balafas	DM	19 August 1986 (28)	Hoverla
14	David Vázquez	CM	21 March 1986 (28)	Melilla
30	Carlos Caballero	CM	5 October 1984 (30)	Córdoba
24	Jokin Esparza	CM	15 June 1988 (25)	Huesca
21	Alexandros Vergonis	CM	1 December 1985 (28)	Rodos
19	Cédric Mandjeck	CM/AM	8 April 1993 (21)	Valencia B
32	Charalampos Pavlidis	CM/AM	6 May 1991 (23)	Youth system
11	Kenan Bargan	LW	25 October 1988 (26)	Odysseas Anagennisi
7	Nikos Kaltsas	RW	3 May 1990 (24)	Youth system
77	Giorgos Georgiadis	LW/RW	14 November 1987 (26)	PAOK
15	Pedro Arce	AM/RW	25 November 1991 (22)	Kavala
29	Andreas Tatos	AM	11 May 1989 (25)	Atromitos
31	Ben Nabouhane	AM/CF	10 June 1989 (25)	Vannes
Forwards
9	Javier Cámpora	CF	7 January 1980 (34)	All Boys
12	Nicolao Dumitru	CF	12 October 1991 (22)	Napoli
13	Thomas Nazlidis	CF	23 October 1987 (27)	Platanias
92	Theo Markelis	CF	24 June 1992 (22)	Hércules B

Last updated: 28 January 2015
^[1] Source: Squad at Veria FC official website

In:Out:

In: Out:

Technical staff
Head coach	Dimitris Christoforidis
align=left rowspan=2	Assistant coach	Antonis Sarioglou
King
align=left rowspan=1	Goalkeeping coach	Dimitris Kottaridis
align=left rowspan=2	Fitness coach	Jesús Puente Solana
Goran Guzijan
Youth team coach	Stefanos Gaitanos
Provisor	Thanasis Voulgaris
Scouting staff
align=left rowspan=1	Scout	Vasilis Zoumpoulidis
Medical staff
align=left rowspan=1	Physio	Anastasios Tiflidis
align=left rowspan=2	Masseur	Fotis Konstantakos
Dimitris Lamprinidis
align=left rowspan=1	Pathologist	Georgios Avramopoulos
Orthopedist	Nikolaos Dimou
align=left rowspan=1	Urologist	Georgios Minas
align=left rowspan=1	Surgeon	Prodromos Isaakidis
align=left rowspan=1	Dentist	Despοina Karvouna
align=left rowspan=1	Νutritionist	Athanasios Topis

On August 6, 2014 it was announced by Georgios Arvanitidis that he is in takeover talks with the local businessman Theodoros Karipidis.^[2]
The first goal in 2014–15 Super League was scored by Alexandros Vergonis against Skoda Xanthi in a 3–2 home victory on 24 August 2014.
On September 14, 2014 the football players of Veria released an announcement, reporting the Argentinian player of Kerkyra, Horacio Cardozo for a racist attack to the Italian football player of the club, Nicolao Dumitru.^[3]
The first goal in 2014–15 Greek Cup was scored by Nicolao Dumitru on 24 September 2014 in a 4–1 home victory against Ermionida.
On 8 October 2014 it was announced that the owner change was completely as Giorgos Arvanitidis moved his sharehold to Theodoros Karipidis.
On 12 January 2015, Iván Malón was invited by the district attorney to testify about the game between PAOK vs Veria, which is marked as suspected fixed match.
On 7 May 2015, Giorgos Lanaris quit his post of team manager as he appears to be involved in a fixed game against Olympiacos F.C. back in 2012–13 season.^[4]
On 20 May 2015, Super League's court found Veria innocent as she was accused for fixing the game against Olympiacos F.C. in 2013.

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Super League Greece	Regular season	14th	14th	24 August 2014	10 May 2015
Greek Cup	Third round	Third round	Third round	24 September 2014	28 January 2015

Last updated: 28 December 2014
Source: Competitions

1.Matchday 6 was suspended after the decision of the Deputy Minister of Culture and Sport, Giannis Andrianos, in memory of Kostas Katsoulis, that was killed in the riots during the match between Irodotos and Ethnikos Piraeus on 14 September 2014 for the Football League 2. See Football hooliganism#Greece for more information.

2.Matchday 11 was suspended after the decision of the Hellenic Football Federation president, Giorgos Sarris, not to put referees in matches, because of the attack that had been made against referee Christoforos Zografos.

Last updated: 12 May 2015
Source: Superleague Greece

See main article: 2014–15 Super League Greece.

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute. Players with number struck through and marked left the club during the playing season.

No.	Pos.	Name	Super League Greece		Greek Cup		Total
No.	Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		21	0	0	0	21	0
2	DF	Raúl Bravo	17	1	2	0	19	1
3	DF	Cyril Kali	11	0	2	0	13	0
4	DF	José Catalá	1 (2)	0	2 (1)	0	3 (3)	0
5	DF	Angelos Vertzos	16	0	3	0	19	0
6	MF		16 (1)	1	0 (1)	0	16 (2)	1
7	MF	Nikos Kaltsas (c)	20 (1)	10	0 (2)	0	20 (3)	10
8	MF	Branko Ostojić (c)	7 (4)	0	5	0	12 (4)	0
9	FW	Javier Cámpora	14 (5)	5	2 (2)	2	16 (6)	7
11	FW	Kenan Bargan	8 (10)	0	3	1	11 (10)	1
12	FW	Nicolao Dumitru	14 (2)	3	3	2	17 (2)	5
13	FW	Thomas Nazlidis	0 (1)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0
14	MF	David Vázquez	9 (3)	0	1 (1)	0	10 (4)	0
15	MF	Pedro Arce	0 (3)	0	2	0	2 (3)	0
16	DF	Neto	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	DF	Iván Malón	15	0	2	0	17	0
19	MF	Cédric Mandjeck	1 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	2 (2)	0
21	MF	Alexandros Vergonis (c)	10 (3)	1	3 (1)	1	13 (4)	2
22	GK	Xavi Ginard	0	0	5	0	5	0
23	DF	Dimitris Amarantidis	15	0	1 (1)	0	16 (1)	0
24	MF	Jokin Esparza	1 (2)	0	3 (1)	0	5 (2)	0
25	MF	Sotiris Balafas	8 (1)	1	3	0	11 (1)	1
29	MF	Andreas Tatos	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	MF	Carlos Caballero	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	FW	Ben Mohamed	14 (4)	6	2	0	16 (4)	6
32	MF	Charalampos Pavlidis	6 (1)	1	3 (1)	0	9 (2)	1
55	DF	Stelios Marangos	0	0	0	0	0	0
71	GK	Dimitris Chomsioglou	0	0	0	0	0	0
77	MF	Giorgos Georgiadis	5 (6)	0	3	1	8 (6)	1
92	FW	Theo Markelis	0	0	0	0	0	0
align="left"	--	FW	Zvonimir Vukić*	0 (2)	0	0	0	0 (2)	0
align="left"	--	DF	Vangelis Tsiamis*	1	0	1	0	2	0
align="left"	--	MF	Kostas Panagiotoudis*	0	0	0	0	0	0
align="left"	--	MF	Giorgos Katidis*	1 (3)	0	2	0	3 (3)	0
align="left"	--	FW	Nigel Hasselbaink*	0 (1)	0	1 (1)	1	1 (2)	1

Source: Superleague Greece
Note: (*) Indicates that player left the club before season finale.

	Player	Super League	Greek Cup	Total	Notes
1	Nikos Kaltsas	12	1	13
2	Ben Nabouhane	10	0	10
3	Nicolao Dumitru	6	2	8
4	Javier Cámpora	5	2	7
5	Alexandros Vergonis	2	1	3
6	Kenan Bargan	1	1	2
7	Roberto Battión	1	0	1	2 assist(s)
	Raúl Bravo	1	0	1	1 assist(s)
	Sotiris Balafas	1	0	1	0 assist(s)
	Carlos Caballero Pérez	1	0	1	0 assist(s)
8	Giorgos Georgiadis	0	1	1	1 assist(s)

Last updated: 12 May 2015
(*) Left the club before season finale
Source: Match reports in Competitive matches
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	Player	Super League	Greek Cup	Total
1	Ben Nabouhane	9	0	9
2	Nikos Kaltsas	7	0	7
3	Javier Cámpora	3	1	4
4	Nicolao Dumitru	3	0	3
5	Roberto Battión	2	0	2
5	Kenan Bargan	1	1	2
5	Raúl Bravo	0	1	1
	Giorgos Katidis*	0	1	1

Last updated: 12 May 2015
Note: (*) Left the club before season finale.
Source: Match reports in Competitive matches
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Number	Nationality	Position	Name
Number	Nationality	Position	Name	Super League		Greek Cup		Total
23		DF	Dimitris Amarantidis	10	0	0	0	10	0
5		DF	Angelos Vertzos	9	0	0	0	9	0
2		DF	Raúl Bravo	7	1	0	0	7	1
7		MF	Nikos Kaltsas	7	0	0	0	7	0
14		MF	David Vázquez	6	0	0	0	6	0
3		DF	Cyril Kali	5	0	0	0	5	0
11		MF	Kenan Bargan	4	0	1	0	5	0
6		MF	Roberto Battión	4	1	0	0	4	1
25		MF	Sotiris Balafas	4	1	0	0	4	1
1		GK	Georgios Kantimiris	3	0	0	0	3	0
55		DF	Stelios Marangos	3	0	0	0	3	0
8		MF	Branko Ostojić	3	0	0	0	3	0
9		FW	Javier Cámpora	2	0	0	0	2	0
77		MF	Giorgos Georgiadis	2	0	0	0	2	0
16		DF	Neto	2	0	0	0	2	0
18		DF	Iván Malón	2	1	0	0	2	1
4		DF	José Catalá	1	0	1	0	2	0
30		MF	Carlos Caballero Pérez	1	0	0	0	1	0
29		MF	Andreas Tatos	1	0	0	0	1	0
31		FW	Ben	1	0	0	0	1	0
12		FW	Nicolao Dumitru	1	0	0	0	1	0
24		MF	Jokin Esparza	1	0	0	0	1	0
22		GK	Xavi Ginard	1	0	0	0	1	0
			Total	84	4	1	0	85	4

Note: (*) Left the club before season finale.
Last updated: 12 May 2015
Competitive matches only
* indicates a second yellow card
Source: Superleague Greece

Day	Opponent	H / A	Name	for
1	Skoda Xanthi	H	Nicolao Dumitru	Best Goal
3	Kerkyra	H	Nicolao Dumitru	Best Goal
9	Panionios	H	Javier Cámpora	Best Goal
10	Ergotelis	A	Nikos Kaltsas	Best Goal
11	AEL Kalloni	H	Nikos Kaltsas	Best Goal
13	Platanias	H	Georgios Kantimiris	MVP
17	Panetolikos	H	Nikos Kaltsas	Best Goal
19	OFI	H	Ben Nabouhane	MVP
31	Asteras Tripolis	H	Ben Nabouhane	MVP

Source: Best of Superleague 2014–2015

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result
30 August 2014	OFI Crete	A	1-2
6 September 2014	Skoda Xanthi	H	1-2
13 September 2014	Kerkyra	H	6-1
21 September 2014	Olympiacos	A	3-1
28 September 2014	PAS Giannina	H	1-0
18 October 2014	Levadiakos	H	4-0
25 October 2014	PAOK	A	1-0
1 November 2014	Panionios	H	1-3
8 November 2014	Ergotelis	A	0-1
TBA	AEL Kalloni	H	Postponed
29 November 2014	Panathinaikos	A	3-0
6 December 2014	Platanias	H	6-3
14 December 2014	Asteras Tripolis	A	3-0
ΤΒΑ	Niki Volos	H	Postponed
20 December 2014	Panthrakikos	A	1-2

Pos = Position; Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points
Source: Superleague U20

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result
14 September 2014	Niki Volos	A	2–1
21 September 2014	Panetolikos	H	1–1
27 September 2014	PAS Giannina	A	1–0
15 November 2014	SKODA Xanthi	H	0–0
11 October 2014	Panthrakikos	A	1–1
19 October 2014	PAOK	H	0–5
25 October 2014	Kerkyra	A	1–0
1 November 2014	Niki Volos	H	3–2
9 November 2014	Panetolikos	A	3–2
TBA	PAS Giannina	H	Postponed
29 November 2014	SKODA Xanthi	A	2–0
7 December 2014	Panthrakikos	H	0–1
13 December 2014	P.A.O.K.	A	2–1
21 December 2014	Kerkyra	A	11:00

Pos = Position; Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points
Source: Superleague U17

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A
12 October 2014	PAOK	H	2–8
18 October 2014	Niki Volos	A	0–1
25 October 2014	Panthrakikos	A	2–3
1 November 2014	PAS Giannina	H	1–1
9 November 2014	AOK Kerkyra	A	1–0
15 November 2014	Panetolikos	H	1–1
TBA	Panetolikos	A	Postponed
29 November 2014	P.A.O.K.	A	5–0
6 December 2014	Niki Volos	H	1–2
13 December 2014	Panthrakikos	H	0–4
21 December 2014	PAS Giannina	A	12:30

Pos = Position; Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points
Source: Superleague U15

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