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Athlitiki Enosi Lemesou ((ギリシア語:Αθλητική Ένωση Λεμεσού), "Athletic Union of Limassol"), commonly known as AEL Limassol, is a Cypriot sports club based in the city of Limassol, most famous for its football team. AEL also maintains a men's and women's basketball teams, a women's volleyball team and a newly established in 1976 Futsal team, a women's handball team as well as a cricket team. AEL is considered as one of the most successful clubs of the island, with 13 official football trophies.〔(96 trophies )〕 The basketball branch of AEL is also well known, currently being the only team from Cyprus to have won a European title (the European Regional Challenge Cup). Limassol's official club mascot is a Lion, who was affectionately nicknamed the lions by their fans. ==History== The club was founded on 4 October 1930, with Stavros Pittas voted in as the club's first president.〔(【引用サイトリンク】script-title=el:Ιστορία Συλλόγου )〕 The football section of the club competed in its first game on 6 January 1931 against PSC, winning 6–1 in Limassol.〔 The club won its national championship in 1934 though this is not credited as it is an unofficial title.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cyprus – List of Final Tables 1931–1998 )〕 Later that year, AEL became one of the eight founding members of the Cypriot First Division for the 1934–35 season, the first official league of the country.〔〔 AEL Limassol celebrated its first official title success in 1941, beating out APOEL 4–3 in a two-legged championship play-off.〔 AEL fans had to wait 12 years until tasting title success again, as the club finally became champions of Cyprus again in 1953.〔〔 AEL would repeat this success again twice more, winning back-to-back league championships in 1955 and 1956. The club won its last major trophy in 1989, before the title success of 2012,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AEL Limassol end 44-year Cypriot title wait )〕 when it defeated city rivals Aris Limassol 3–2 after extra time in final of the Cypriot Cup.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cyprus – Cup History 1934–1996 )〕 In 2011 after disappointingly finishing 7th in the previous campaign, AEL hired Pambos Christodoulou, who had a reputation of steering "modest sides away from relegation," to start the rebuilding process.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Season review: Cyprus )〕 AEL Limassol secured the Cypriot league title for the first time since 1968 on Saturday 5 May 2012, ending 44 years without a Cypriot first division title.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AEL Limassol end 44-year title wait )〕 Christodoulou had a dream-like first season at the helm AEL, as his side was unbeaten and had not conceded any goals through the first five games. At the end of the second round AEL finished top of the table, three points clear of the second placed team and had only conceded seven goals, the best defensive record of all the league teams. In the play-off round AEL battled with the top 4 teams for the championship winning it with one game to go conceding only nine goals. As Christodoulou has managed to bring AEL the championship crown, which the team last won in 1968, he was nicknamed by fans "Pambourinho", a combination of his name and of Jose Mourinho. AEL received the championship trophy during a spectacular "fiesta" evening at the Tsirion Stadium on the evening of Saturday 12 May 2012. They followed this with an open-top bus parade through Limassol. Up to 12,000 AEL fans packed the stadium to watch the fiesta and trophy presentation. The club then turned their attention to the Cup Final of 16 May against Omonia Nicosia; and the chance to be crowned double winners for the first time in their history. However the club lost in the final 1–0 to a goal by Brazilian striker Andre Alves.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Κυπελλούχος η Ομόνοια )〕 The following year, AEL made it to the group stage of a UEFA tournament for the first time, finishing last and picking up four points in their UEFA Europa League group.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AEL — History — UEFA.com )〕 On 22 October 2013, Angolan manager Lito Vidigal was sacked after just over three months in charge. Bulgarian Ivaylo Petev was appointed as AEL's manager on 25 October, having previously guided Ludogorets Razgrad to promotion to the A Group as well as two A Group titles, a Bulgarian Cup win as well as a triumph in the Bulgarian Super Cup.〔 Petev signed an initial deal to stay at AEL until the end of the 2014–15 season.〔 At the end of the 2013–14 season, AEL finished in first place in the initial phase of the competition. Going into the championship match against APOEL on 17 May 2014, AEL Limassol needed only a draw to secure their second league title in three years. However, the match was abandoned (at 0–0) after 52 minutes, when firecrackers thrown by AEL fans, 'hit' and "injured" APOEL's player Kaká. The match was replayed behind closed doors at a neutral stadium on 31 May 2014 and APOEL achieved to win their second consecutive league title after beating AEL Limassol by 1–0, courtesy of a Cillian Sheridan goal. On 6 June 2014, the Cyprus Football Association’s (CFA) disciplinary committee – acting as an appeals board – unanimously cancelled on the CFA council’s decision to repeat the May 17 championship final, awarding the match to APOEL with a 0–3 score. AEL winger Monteiro finished the season as joint-top scorer in the league with 18 goals and the former FC Porto academy product was voted player of the year by the CFA. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AEL Limassol」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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