| Clubname: | Anagennisi Karditsa |
| Short Name: | ASA |
| Nickname: | Kanaria (Canaries) |
| Ground: | Municipal Stadium of Karditsa |
| Capacity: | 13,000 |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Fullname: | A.S. Anagennisi Karditsa 1904 |
| Chairman: | Dimitris Papadimitriou |
| Manager: | Timos Kavakas |
| League: | Gamma Ethniki |
| Position: | Super League Greece 2, 11th (relegated) |
| Website: | https://anagenisifc.gr/ |
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Anagennisi Karditsa Football Club (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Α.Σ. Αναγέννηση Καρδίτσας) is a Greek professional football club based in Karditsa, Greece, which competes in the Gamma Ethniki, the third tier of the Greek football league system.
One of the oldest clubs in Greek football, Anagennisi was formed on October 16, 1904[1] in the southwestern Thessalian city of Karditsa as the football team of the multisport club ASA (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Αναγέννησης - Athlitikos Syllogos Anagennisis), the Athletic Association Anagennisi. The name of the club comes from the Greek word for "renaissance". The statute of the club was signed personally by Crown Prince Constantine I.
The first Olympic Games in Greece, in '1896, make the conditions for the creation of an athletic club in the city of Karditsa. The "Laikos Athlitikos Syllogos i Athina" (Greek: Λαϊκός Αθλητικός Σύλλογος η Αθηνά) (=popular sports association "Αthena") ripe the conditions for the creation of an athletic football club in Karditsa.[2]
From its inception in 1904, the football team of Anagennisi[3] (Athlitikos Syllogos Anagennisis=>ASA=>Sport Assosiation Anagenisi) was not officially recognized as a distinct entity within the organization. As more of the club's athletes began to show interest in the sport, the football team began to train, and play locally organized games, in the area of central Karditsa at her stadium (which later became the Pavsilipo Park). With the sport's expanding popularity in Greece in the following decades, in 1924 the football team was finally given its department within ASA. Playing in the independent, regional Thessalian League from 1929 to 1962, it joined the newly established Greek second division in time for Season 1962–63.[4] When the Greek football league became professional in 1979, the football department of ASA was reformed as a Football Public Limited Company, or PAE (Greek: ΠΑΕ - Ποδοσφαιρική Ανώνυμη Εταιρία / Podosferiki Anonymi Eteria) and continued to compete as PAE Anagennisi Karditsas (FC Anagennisi Karditsa).
One of the highlights in Anagennisi Karditsa's history is the victory over Olympiacos for the Greek Cup in 1993–94 as well as the win against Paniliakos for the Greek semi-professional Cup final in 1981. In 2008 Anagennisi Karditsa reach the Gamma Ethniki play-off and beat Ilioupoli 2–0 in Athens to win promotion to Beta Ethniki.
Anagennisi Karditsa is a well-supported club by regional football standards, and their passion is very well known. They hold the record for the most fans to ever attend an away game for Gamma Ethniki in 2008, with 2.000 supporters in the play-off match against Ilioupoli. In 2008–09 season Anagennisi Karditsa had the fourth best average in attendance despite having only avoided relegation in the last fixture against Veria.
The team took the name "Anagenisi" (renaissance) because Karditsa city was freed at 1881 from the Ottoman Empire. So 24 years after was created the team.[5]
| 2000–01 | Gamma Ethniki (3th division) | 15th | GS | |
| 2001–02 | Delta Ethniki (4th division) | 11th | — | |
| 2002–03 | Delta Ethniki (4th division) | 2nd | — | |
| 2003–04 | Delta Ethniki (4th division) | 2nd | — | |
| 2004–05 | Gamma Ethniki (3rd division) | 12th | 2R | |
| 2005–06 | Gamma Ethniki (2nd division) | 11th | 2R | |
| 2006–07 | Gamma Ethniki (2nd division) | 6th | 1R | |
| 2007–08 | Gamma Ethniki (3rd division) | 2nd | 1R | |
| 2008–09 | Beta Ethniki (2nd division) | 15th | 2R | |
| 2009–10 | Beta Ethniki (2nd division) | 12th | 2R | |
| 2010–11 | Football League (2nd division) | 16th | 2R | |
| 2011–12 | Delta Ethniki (4th division) | 1st | — | |
| 2012–13 | Football League 2 (3rd Division) | 2nd | 3R | |
| 2013–14 | Football League (2nd division) | 5th | 2R | |
| 2014–15 | Super League (2nd division) | 7th | 1R | |
| 2015–16 | Gamma Ethniki (2nd division) | 8th | GS | |
| 2016–17 | Gamma Ethniki (2nd division) | 12th | GS | |
| 2017–18 | Gamma Ethniki (2nd division) | 13th | GS | |
| 2018–19 | Gamma Ethniki (3rd division) | 14th | — | |
| 2019–20 | Karditsa FCA First Division | 2nd | — | |
| 2020–21 | Gamma Ethniki (4th Division) | 1st | — | |
| 2021–22 | Super League 2 (2nd Division) | 5th | QF | |
| 2022–23 | Super League 2 (2nd Division) | 6th | 4R | |
| 2023–24 | Super League 2 (2nd Division) | 10th | 3R | |
| 2024–25 | Gamma Ethniki (3rd Division) | — |
Key: 1R = First Round, 2R = Second Round, 3R = Third Round, 4R = Fourth Round, 5R = Fifth Round, GS = Group Stage, R16 = Round of 16, QF = Quarter-finals, SF = Semi-finals..
Anagennisi Karditsa's main rivals are Trikala, from the neighbouring city of Trikala, and Ionikos. For many years, Anagennisi also maintained a bitter local rivalry with AOK. The fans have friendly relations with fans of Doxa Drama, Panetolikos and Agroticos Asteras.
Since 1949, Anagennisi Karditsa plays its home games at the Municipal Stadium of Karditsa "Antigoni Ntrismpioti",[6] [7] [8] [9] located in the eastern part of Karditsa.In January 2010 the stadium capacity was extended to 9,500 seats. Club training facilities, and football academy, are located in the nearby southern borough of Stavros. The training center has taken the name 'Georgios Mpazis'.[10] [11]
Pavlos Dermitzakis Vaios Karagiannis Sakis Tsiolis
Andreas Stamatiadis (1973–74) Georgios Paraschos (1994–95) Vaios Karagiannis (2006–08, 2010–11, 2013) Giannis Mangos (2016–17) Periklis Amanatidis (2009–10)