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Wikipedia - O.F. Ierapetra F.C.
O.F. Ierapetra Football Club, short for Omilos Filathlon Ierapetra (Greek: Όμιλος Φιλάθλων Ιεράπετρας, translated: Ierapetra fans' club) and also simply known as OFI (Greek: ΟΦΙ − not to be confused with OFI Crete based in Heraklion, whose acronym is spelled differently (Greek: ΟΦΗ) in Greek), is a Greek professional football club based in Ierapetra, Lasithi, Crete, Greece. The club was established in 1970, and its traditional colors are black and white. It is the oldest and most successful football club representing the town of Ierapetra, hometown of one of the greatest Cretan players of all time: Petros Vouzounerakis, of whom the club's home ground is named after (Ierapetra Municipal Stadium «Manos Frantzikinakis»).
History
O.F. Ierapetra was founded in 1970 as a result of a merger between Thyella and Diagoras, the two clubs based in the town at the time. Throughout the 70s, O.F. Ierapetra played in the Pan-Hellenic Amateur Championship, which used to be the unofficial third tier of the Greek football league system. During the following decades, the club had a significant presence in the Delta Ethniki (4th level in the national league pyramid) of which they earned promotion to the Gamma Ethniki in 2006 after winning the Cretan Group championship title. For their first ever season in the Gamma Ethniki, the club failed to avoid relegation, largely due to inexperience, despite some memorable winning results against historic clubs such as Panachaiki.
In 2017, the club once again achieved promotion to the Gamma Ethniki after winning the Lasithi regional championship, where it still competes.
OF Ierapetras är en grekisk fotbollsklubb från staden Ierapetra på Kreta. Klubben grundades 1970 och spelar sina hemmamatcher på Municipal Stadium of Ierapetra.
OF Ierapetras har representerat Kreta i den grekiska fotbollspyramiden och har spelat i Football League, den tredje nivån i grekisk fotboll. Klubben har också deltagit i den grekiska cupen och har nått kvartsfinalen vid ett flertal tillfällen.
Klubbens mest framgångsrika period var på 1990-talet, då man vann Gamma Ethniki, den tredje nivån i grekisk fotboll, säsongen 1993-94. OF Ierapetras har också flera framgångsrika ungdomslag, som regelbundet deltar i nationella tävlingar.
Klubbens färger är blått och vitt, och lagets emblem är en karta över ön Kreta med en fotboll i mitten. OF Ierapetras har en stark fanbas på Kreta och är känd för sin passionerade atmosfär på hemmamatcher.