Egaleo City F.C. () is a Greek professional football club based in Aigaleo, a suburban town in the Athens urban area, Greece. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931). The team currently competes in the Super League 2, the second tier of Greek football and it holds home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium.
Club colours are blue and white.
Egaleo was founded in 1931 by Demetrios Haniotis and Georgios Aronis, as Athletic Union of Ierapolis (ÃÂøû÷ÃÂùúî ÃÂýÃÂÃÂ÷ ÃÂõÃÂñÃÂÃÂûõÃÂàâ Athlitiki Enosis Ieropoleos). In 1946, three other clubs in the district merged with A.E. Ierapoleos to form Athletic Club Egaleo (ÃÂøû÷ÃÂùúÃÂàÃÂüùûÿàÃÂùóìûõàâ Athlitikos Omilos Egaleo), which managed to reach for the first time the first division in 1961.
In the 2003âÂÂ04 season, Egaleo managed its second better ever classification, fifth (fourth in the 1970âÂÂ71 season), playing UEFA Cup for the first time in 2004âÂÂ05, appearing in the group stages (after defeating GençlerbirliÃÂi of Turkey 2âÂÂ1 score on aggregate) with FK Partizan, SS Lazio, Middlesbrough and Villarreal CF, which ended with the conquest of just one point. In the league, the club finished sixth, trailing PAOK by just one point.
After a disappointing 2006âÂÂ07, Egaleo was relegated back to the second level. Another relegation followed in the next year, and a third in 2008âÂÂ09.
In August 2009, a merger between Egaleo and Ilisiakos F.C. took place, as the other club participated in the second division, with the purchase being made effective by Egaleo's owner Thomas Mitropoulos; the new club, which took Ilisiakos' place, was renamed Egaleo A.O.
At the end of the 2009âÂÂ10 season, due to the merger being declared illegal by the Greek Council of State, Egaleo FC was relegated to the Delta Ethniki.
The ultras group Gate 12 has friendly relations with supporter groups of Bologna FC and CD Leganés The towns of Egaleo and Leganés are also sister cities, since 1980.