Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium - Aris F.C. - The World Stadium Tour

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The Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium or Charilaou Ground is a football stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece.
It was built in 1951 as the home stadium of Aris F.C., one of the most popular football clubs in Greece.
For many years, the ground's official name was Aris Stadium, until it was renamed in honour of Kleanthis Vikelidis, a legendary player of Aris FC in the 1930s.
However, most commonly referred to as "Charilaou Stadium", after the district in which it was built.
The stadium's capacity was 23,200 although it got limited to 22,800 after the renovations for the 2004 Summer Olympics, where it served as a training ground for Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
The Charilaou is a pure football stadium without running track for athletics competitions.
The stadium sometimes is called by the Aris fans as "La Bombonera", inspired by the emblematic home ground of Boca Juniors, a friendly club of Aris, who play often friendly matches with.
It is related also with the atmosphere created by Aris fans.
Aris FC, commonly known as Aris Thessaloniki or simply Aris, is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece.
The club competes in the Super League Greece.
Founded in 1914, the club was a founding member of the Macedonian Football Clubs Association, as well as the Hellenic Football Federation.
The colours of the club are golden/yellow, a dominant colour in the culture of Macedonia and reminiscent of the Byzantine heritage of Thessaloniki, and black.
It is named after Ares, the ancient Olympian "God of War," associated also with courage and masculinity, whose image is portrayed on the club's logo as depicted in the Ludovisi Ares sculpture.
It is considered as one of the biggest teams in Greece and is part of the multi-sports club Aris Thessaloniki.
Aris was also one of the strongest and most popular teams in Greece during the interwar period.
They have won the Greek championship three times (1928, 1932, 1946), the Greek Cup once (1970), and they had an undefeated home record in European competitions for 28 matches from 1968 to 2020.
Matches against PAOK are local derbies and an event that splits Thessaloniki and Northern Greece in two.
Aris' main fan club is called Super 3 and has a symbol a bulldog.
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Let Paok win. The Champions must come to Thessaloniki and not to Arapia 💕🍓❤️💕