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Iraklis was relegated in 2019 from the professional second-tier Football League into the amateur fourth-tier Gamma Ethniki, due to the restructuring of the Greek national championships and its performance in conjunction to its financial state. This led the professional club into further insolvency and an inability to form a squad to participate in any championship in the 2019–20 season. Faced with this situation, a new football club, named Iraklis 2015 was formed through the volleyball club of the Iraklis sports club family, which started participating in the lowest regional championship of the Thessaloniki region, the Macedonia Football Clubs Association Gamma Amateur Championship, which is on the fourth tier regionally and on the eighth nationally. On 20 April 2020, amateur championships were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, therefore Iraklis won the championship winning all 15 games, scoring 88 goals and conceding 6.

a b "Disciplinary Committee – Decision 195/2011" (PDF) (in Greek). Super League Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2011 . Retrieved 20 May 2011.On 1 June 2010, the club was denied a license to compete in next season's Greek Super League. That summer, Iraklis's fans rallied in Thessaloniki for more than 10 days. Also there were 2 rallies in Athens and other important places in Greece like Malgara and Tempi. [37] Finally, on 25 June, Iraklis received permission to play in Greek Super League for the 2010–11 season. Participated in (regional) last-tier Macedonia Football Clubs Association Gamma Amateur Championship as successor club Iraklis 2015 F.C. Was promoted to Macedonia Football Clubs Association Beta Amateur Championship, based on its position (was 1st), before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Macedonia Football Clubs Association to suspend all its championships. Iraklis' supporters hold ties with the supporters of FSV Mainz, Rayo Vallecano, Zemun and FK Buducnost Podgorica as those have shown their support during Iraklis' supporters rallies against Super League's refusal to grant Iraklis a license to participate in the 2010–11 Super League season. [67] Demoted to fourth division (amateur division) because the Professional Sports Committee stripped Iraklis from its professional licence.

The 1990s were a period of reconstruction for the club, as aging players either left the club or retired. Hatzipanagis' retirement in 1990 had a major negative impact on the team's success. Fans began calling for a change in the club's management, as club president Petros Theodoridis began selling the team's most talented players ( Christos Kostis, Giorgos Anatolakis, Savvas Kofidis etc.). Iraklis competed in 1990 against Valencia in the UEFA Cup, being eliminated in overtime at Mestalla.a b Οι 10 συγκλονιστικότεροι τελικοί Κυπέλλου (in Greek). Sport24.gr. 24 April 2010 . Retrieved 27 October 2013. Throughout the entire club's history its colours were blue or cyan and white, to resemble the colours of the Greek flag, given the fact that Iraklis was established while Thessaloniki was a part of the Ottoman Empire. The team is so known in Greece as Kianolefkoi ( Greek: "Κυανόλευκοι"), meaning the Cyan-Whites. Iraklis' away colours were usually either white or orange. Traditionally, the Iraklis shirt was blue and white stripes, but through the years this was changed often to all blue, all white, chess-like, and hooped, among others. On 6 November 1960 Iraklis played its first match in Kaftanzoglio Stadium, to record a 2–1 win against M.G.S.S. Thermaikos Thessalonikis. [49] Kaftanzoglio has been the home ground of Iraklis ever since, including the 2011–12 season, when both the G.S. Iraklis and the A.E.P. Iraklis team used it as their home ground. In the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons Iraklis used Makedonikos Stadium as its home ground. [50] That decision was made due to the renovation of Kaftanzoglio for the 2004 Summer Olympics. [50] Iraklis also owns a football ground and training facilities in the, adjacent to Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Chortatzides area, where the juveniles of the club train. [51] There were plans for Iraklis to construct a new 22,000-seat stadium, in a club owned area in the eastern extremities of the city, in Mikra. [52] Training facility [ edit ]

Iraklis played in the inaugural season of A' Ethniki. [7] The club secured the 10th position in the first season of national top tier of Greece. [8] Iraklis football academy was founded during the same season after the suggestion of club manager Panos Markovic. [7] In the 1960–61 season Iraklis finished 8th and achieved a record 4–0 win against Atromitos Piraeus. [8] The club also reached the Greek Cup semi-finals that season, getting eliminated by Panionios. [7] [8] The following two seasons Iraklis played in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, getting eliminated both times, by F.K. Vojvodina and Real Zaragoza respectively. [7] In the league, Iraklis secured the 6th position for the 1961–62 season, a club record at the time. [7] [8] The rest of the 1960s, Iraklis secured mid-table positions repeating the club record in the 1969–70 season. In 1965, Kostas Aidiniou, a player that together with fellow Greek international Zacharias Chaliabalias would lead the club for the following decade, debuted for Iraklis. [9] During the 1968–69 season Iraklis matched its record win as it won AEL Limassol by a 4–0 margin. [8] in Greek). Ελληνική Ποδοσφαρική Ομοσπονδία (Hellenic Football Federation). Archived from the original on 11 May 2010 . Retrieved 14 February 2011.

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a b c d Ο Ηρακλής έχασε το ρόπαλο (in Greek). Ελευθεροτυπία. 13 November 2005 . Retrieved 14 February 2011. All club football in Greece was suspended from 1941 to 1945 due to the German occupation of the country. [6] After the war period, the club was constantly competing with Aris for the Thessaloniki championship, which gave upon its winner the right to participate in the Greek championship. Iraklis participated in the 1947 Greek Cup final, where was defeated 5–0 by the dominant Greek team of that era, Olympiacos. In the 1950s, the team solidified its position among the top teams in Greece along with Olympiacos, AEK Athens, Panathinaikos, Aris and PAOK. Nevertheless, the club struggled with financial difficulties in an ailing Greek economy. Thessaloniki (where many refugees from the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 had settled) was particularly damaged by the economic downturn. The highlight of the decade was the 1957 Greek Cup final, in which Iraklis was once again defeated by Olympiacos, 2–0. In July 2021, an agreement between the club and Triglia F.C. was announced and Iraklis will officially be in Super League 2 for the 2021–2022 season and they finished seventh (7th). Unofficial Fanzine #021 Συν-ταλαίπωρε, συνοπαδέ που για να κρατάς αυτό το τεύχος στα χέρια σου σημαίνει ότι πήγες να δεις αυτόν τον ΗΡΑΚΛΗ κόντρα στη Καλαμαριά μια Πέμπτη στις