Aris Members' Society

In recent years, specially after the creation of an Members' Society that controls the club's fortunes, Aris has qualified several times for the UEFA Europa Leagua , finished fourth in the Super League three times, and has reached in the Greek cup final four times, losing in 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010, when 25,000 Aris fans went to Athens in the biggest ever move of fans in Greece. In 2008 and 2010 Aris made it through to the UEFA Europa Leagua group stage after eliminating Real Zaragoza and Austia wien respectively during the Cups play-off rounds. During the 2010-2011 UEFA Europa Leagua   they managed to play for the first time in club's history in Europe after Christmas, after a very good appearance in the groop stage where they won 1–0 at home and 2–3 away and eliminated the title holders Atlentico Madrid. Recent developments include the interest from the club's board to construct a new, modern stadium in eastern Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area to replace the obsolete Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium and the modernization and expansion of the club's training facilities in Neo Rysio, Thessaloniki. Also, in a unique move for Greek standards, the board decided in December 2009 to establish a radio station, Aris FM 92.8 in order to promote the communication between Aris fans around the country and the coverage of the clubs activities. In 2014, due to financial problems Aris was relegated to the third tier of Greek football.


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The loyalty of the fans

  Aris' fan base is spread across all the economic classes in the city of  Thessaloniki   and all over Greece. Their rivalry is against clubs such as arch-rival  PAOK , but also against the biggest clubs of Athens/Piraeus  Panathinaikios ,  AEK Athens    and  Olympialos pireus   .  Matches against PAOK    are local derbies and an event that splits  Thessaloniki   and Northern Greece in two. Aris' main fan club is called   Super 3   and has a symbol a  bulldog . It exist since 1988 with 50 more Super 3 clubs spread all over Greece and Europe. There are over 12,000 And 20,000 Super 3 members. In the rest of Europe there are also some organized Aris' fan clubs in countries such as Germany, Italy and Sweden. According to some polls Aris is the 5th most popular team in Greece with around 500.000 fans, an amount quite big considering the lack of titles for many decades. Against Panathinaikios in the...
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The history

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  Foundation and golden years: 1920–1950 Nikiphoros, Kostas and Kleanthis Vikelidis (1930) The champion team of 1928 Aris, the champion of 1928 The champion team of 1932 The club was established as a football club ("Podosferikos Syllogos Aris Thessalonikis") by a group of 22 young friends in a coffee bar in Votsi area on 25 March 1914 and given the name Aris from Ares, the ancient god of war. Its nickname was inspired by the two balkan warof 1912–1913, when Greece fought against the ottoman empire before engaging in a war with Bulgaria. In Greek mythology, Aris was a deity who was in conflict with Heracles, the mythological character after which Aris's rival football team, Iraklis, was named. Aris holds a fierce rivalry with PAOK. At first, the club was based on a near the Arch and tomb of Galerius, but after the accession of two minor football clubs in 1919 and 1921 the club's base was moved near to Flemming Street of eastern Thessaloniki. T...
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