Orfeas Nicosia

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AC Orfeas Nicosia
File:Orfeas Nicosia football club emblem.gif
Founded May 15, 1948; 76 years ago (1948-05-15)
Ground Orfeas Stadium
League Cypriot Fourth Division

Orfeas Nicosia (Greek: Ορφέας Λευκωσίας) is a football club from the Cypriot capital of Nicosia. It was founded in 1948. The club colors are yellow and green. It has participated in the Cypriot First Division four times, from 1959 until 1963. The club's highest achievement is finishing 7th in the 1961-62 season.[1][2]

The club's home ground is unique in being situated adjacent to the medieval Venetian walls of Nicosia, now part of the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus, which has divided the Greek and Turkish parts of the island since the Turkish invasion in 1974.


Achievements

1958, 1965
1979
2003

References

  1. Orfeas Nicosia - Titles, Statistics, Graphs Foot-base.com Retrieved 21 Dec 2012.
  2. 2008–09 Cypriot League Standings The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 21 Dec 2012.

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