Georgios Kamaras Stadium, Football stadium in Rizoupoli, Athens, Greece.
The Georgios Kamaras Stadium, known locally as Rizoupoli Stadium, is a football ground in the Rizoupoli district of Athens. Its stands include a stone main stand from 1948, a west stand built in 1961 with funds from the transfer of Aristidis Kamaras and Giannis Cholevas to Panathinaikos, and a 1971 curve holding 10,000. A 1,000-seat indoor gymnasium was added on the north side in 1997.
The stadium was built in 1948 and has served as a home ground for local football clubs ever since. In 2002, a larger Athens club temporarily played here while its own stadium was being renovated.
The ground is named after Georgios Kamaras, an Apollon Smyrnis player from Roumeli; the club had also considered Dimitris Marsellos, its president for 35 years in Smyrna and Athens. The name was approved at the members' general assembly of 30 June 2003, with all but one vote in favour. The club itself was founded in Smyrna, and its refugee following settled in Rizoupoli after 1922.
The closest metro station is Ano Patisia, from which the stadium is easy to reach on foot. On match days it is worth leaving a little extra time, as the streets around the ground tend to fill up quickly.
During the 1970s the stadium regularly drew full stands, an era that older supporters still talk about today. Anyone sitting in the terraces now is in the same sections that packed crowds once filled during that period.
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