Ethnikos Achna FC

Ethnikos Achna Football Club (Greek: Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Εθνικός Άχνας), commonly known as Ethnikos Achna, or simply Ethnikos, is a Cypriot professional football club based in the village of Dasaki Achnas. Founded in 1968, the club currently plays in the Cypriot First Division. Ethnikos' home ground is the Dasaki Stadium, which has a capacity of 7000 seats.

Ethnikos Achnas

Full name	Ethnikos Achnas Football Club
Nickname(s)	Achniotes (The Achnas ones)
Founded	1968; 57 years ago (1968)
Ground	Dasaki Stadium, Dasaki Achnas
Capacity	7,000
Chairman	Kikis Filippou
Manager	Hugo Martins
League	First Division
2024–25	First Division, 8th of 14
Website	ethnikosachnasfc.com
Home colours Away colours

History

The club played in the Cypriot Second Division until 1983 when it was promoted to the Cypriot First Division but was immediately relegated. Ethnikos was promoted to the First Division again in 1986 and stayed there for four seasons. Another two years in the Second Division ended with promotion to the First Division in 1992, where Ethnikos have remained until 2018 when they were relegated again.

The team's best overall national ranking is fourth in the 1994–95, 1997–98 and 2006–07 seasons. The club participated in the Cypriot Cup final twice; once in 2002, where they were beaten by Anorthosis Famagusta 0–1, as well as in 2022 when they were beaten by Omonoia in a penalty shootout after a 0–0 score in normal and extra time.

European Competitions

Ethnikos competed in the UEFA Intertoto Cup six times: In 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Five of those times, they were eliminated in the first round. However, in 2006, Ethnikos won the Intertoto Cup and was of the eleven winners of that year's competition. After eliminating Albanian side Partizani Tirana, they faced Croatian side NK Osijek. They tied both matches, but Ethnikos advanced on away goals, and became the first Cypriot team to have reached the third round of the Intertoto Cup. There, they beat Maccabi Petah Tikva 4–3 on aggregate, and became one of the competition's eleven winners. This meant that Ethnikos had qualified for the 2006–07 UEFA Cup.

In the UEFA Cup, Ethnikos eliminated Roeselare with a 2–1 loss in Belgium and a 5–0 victory in Cyprus, qualifying for the first round. They were eliminated by Lens after drawing the first leg at home (played at GSP Stadium, Nicosia) 0–0 and losing 3–1 in France. Because of their success in the Intertoto Cup, Ethnikos was named the Sports Team of the Year in 2006, by the Sports Journalists Union of Cyprus.

Honours

Domestic

League

• Cypriot Second Division:
  • Winners (3): 1985–86, 1991–92, 2018–19

Cups

• Cypriot Cup:
  • Runner-up (2): 2001–02, 2021–22

International

• UEFA Intertoto Cup:
  • Joint Winner (1): 2006

Players

As of 1 August 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  CYP Andreas Soulis 3 MF  MKD Stefan Ashkovski 6 DF  CYP Marios Peratikos 10 MF  CYP Marios Pechlivanis 12 DF  GHA Emmanuel Lomotey 14 DF  CYP Theodoros Egomitis 16 DF  GRE Panagiotis Panagiotou 17 MF  ESP Pablo González 24 DF  CYP Paris Psaltis

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 DF  CMR Patrick Bahanack 33 FW  ARG Nicolás Andereggen 37 DF  GHA Richard Ofori 40 GK  BRA Lucas Flores 47 DF  CYP Nikolas Perdios 80 MF  CYP Giorgos Angelopoulos 98 FW  BRA Breno Almeida — FW  CYP Lampros Ioannou — MF  FRA Alois Confais — MF  UKR Andriy Kravchuk — FW  CYP Efstathios Giannara — DF  CYP Marios Dimitriou — DF  BRA Luis Felipe — MF  POR Luís Machado — GK  CYP Ioakeim Toumpas

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  CYP Konstantinos Venizelou (at Zhenis until 30 June 2025) — DF  CYP David Djamas (at Achyronas-Onisilos until 30 June 2025) — MF  NGA Christian Nnoruka (at Achyronas-Onisilos until 30 June 2025) — FW  CYP Anninos Nikolaou (at ENY Digenis Ypsona until 30 June 2025) — FW  CYP Marios Fasouliotis (at PAEEK until 30 June 2025)

Historical list of coaches

• Aleksandar Kostov (1984–1987)
• Andreas Mouskallis (1990–1991)
• Andreas Mouskallis (1992–1993)
• Slobodan Vučeković (1996–1998)
• Momčilo Vukotić (1998–1999)
• Slobodan Vučeković (2001–2002)
• Svetozar Šapurić (2003–2004)
• Slobodan Vučeković (2004)
• Mihailo Ivanović (2005)
• Myron Sifakis (2005)
• Panicos Orphanides (2005–2006)
• Svetozar Šapurić (2006–2008)
• Stéphane Demol (2008–09)
• Panicos Orphanides (2009)
• Svetozar Šapurić (2009–2011)
• Čedomir Janevski (2011–12)
• Nikolaos Papadopoulos (2012)
• Nikos Andronikou (2012)
• Stephen Constantine (2012–13)
• Nikolaos Kolompourdas (2013–2014)
• Stavros Papadopoulos (2014)
• Apostolos Makridis (2014–2015)
• Borce Gjurev (2015)
• Danilo Dončić (2015–2016)
• Valdas Ivanauskas (2016–2017)^[1]
• Panayiotis Engomitis (2017)
• Giorgi Chikhradze (2017–2018)
• Christos Poyiatzis (2018)
• Panayiotis Engomitis (2018–2019)
• Dean Klafurić (2020)
• Bojan Markoski (2020)
• Apostolos Makridis (2020)
• Elias Charalambous (2020–2021)
• David Badía (2021–2022)
• Andrej Razdrh (2022)
• Marcote (2022)
• Vule Trivunović (2022)
• Pambos Christodoulou (2022–2023)
• Ángel López (2023)
• Marinos Satsias (2023–2024)
• Borce Gjurev (2024)
• David Badía (2024–2025)
• Hugo Martins (2025–)

Ethnikos Achna in European competitions

Overall

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
UEFA Cup	4	1	1	2	7	5	+2
UEFA Intertoto Cup	16	4	6	6	20	30	−10
Total	20	6	8	6	27	35	–8

Matches

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Agg.
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Örgryte	2–1 (H)	0–4 (A)	2–5
2003	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Győri ETO	1–1 (A)	2–2 (H)	3–3 (a)
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Vardar	1–5 (H)	1–5 (A)	2–10
2006	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Partizani	4–2 (H)	1–2 (A)	5–4
		2R	Osijek	2–2 (A)	0–0 (H)	2–2 (a)
		3R	Maccabi Petah Tikva	2–0 (A)	2–3 (H)	4–3
2006–07	UEFA Cup	2Q	Roeselare	1–2 (A)	5–0 (H)	6–2
		1R	Lens	0–0 (H)	1–3 (A)	1–3
2007	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Makedonija GP	1–0 (H)	0–2 (A)	1–2
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Besa	0–0 (A)	1–1 (H)	1–1 (a)

Notes

• QR: Qualifying round
• 1Q: First qualifying round
• 2Q: Second qualifying round
• 3Q: Third qualifying round
• PO: Play-off round