APOEL soccer club will acquire a new private stadium.
This was announced by the team's management on Thursday, March 21.
At the same time, the representative of APOEL did not disclose the details of the project, as the official presentation is scheduled for the end of the month.
It is only known that the stadium will appear in the village of Kokkinotrimitia near Nicosia. It will be invested by businessman Konstantinos Iordanous. The architectural plan drawn up by a French architect has been completed and an application for a building permit has been submitted.
APOEL is one of the most popular and the most titled club in Cyprus. The abbreviation in the name literally stands for "Athletic Football Club of the Greeks of Nicosia". Let the final "L" not mislead - the fact is that the capital of Cyprus has two names. Nicosia was nicknamed Nicosia by the French Crusaders in the Middle Ages, while its real name, used by locals - both Greeks and Turks - is Levkosia.
APOEL is a typical club for Cyprus: with a large number of legionnaires, mostly from Brazil, and a foreign coaching staff headed by Serbian Ivan Jovanovic, a longtime fixture in Cyprus and Greece, where he spent the second half of his career as a soccer player and a lifetime as a coach. There are plenty of curious stories associated with the 21-time island champions. For example, APOEL is the only Cypriot club that played a full season in the Greek championship in the 1973/74 season after the military coup in Cyprus and managed to avoid relegation. The extremely active and boisterous APOEL fans are known for their colors, which differ from the club's traditional colors. APOEL usually play in yellow and blue, but the true ultras always come to their home stadium in orange. In their honor, orange has become the color of the club's away uniform, and the fans are assigned not the number 12, as it happens usually, but 79 - in honor of the year of the founding of the active fan group "Pan Ci Fi".