A2_Ethniki_Women's_Volleyball Knowpia

A2 Ethniki Women's Volleyball
Sport	Volleyball
No. of teams	38
Country	Greece
Continent	Europe
Most recent; champion(s)	AOF Porfyras
Promotion to	A1 Ethniki Women's Volleyball
Official website	www.volleyball.gr

A2 Ethniki Women's Volleyball is the 2nd-tier of championship of women's volleyball in Greece. Since current year, the championship is held in four subgroups of teams.^[1] The winners of each subgroups take part in play off games. The winners of play off team take part in final four and three best teams promote to A1 Ethniki. In current season the winners are AOF Porfyras, Iraklis Kifissias and APS Corinthos.^[2] From 2017 to 2018 season established a second level in A2 category named as Women's Pre League.^[3]^[4]

Winners edit

Recent winners edit

Two groups

Season	1st Group	2nd Group	Source
2008–09	Apollonios Keratsiniou	Anatolia College	^[5]
2009–10	AEK	SA Peiramatikou	^[6]

Three groups

Season	1st Group	2nd Group	3rd Group	Source
2010–11	Artemis Korydallou	FO Vrilissia	Makedones Axiou
2011–12	Rethymno V.C.	Trachones V.C.	DAS Oraiokastrou	^[7]
2012–13	Pannaxiakos V.C.	ASP Iones	EO Stavroupolis
2013–14	Thira V.C.	GS Ilioupolis	Anatolia College	^[8]
2014–15	Asteras Agiou Dimitriou	Filathlitikos Larissaikos	Aris

Final Four system

Season	1st place	2nd place	3rd place	4th place	Source
2015–16	APS Thetis	AS Elpis	AS Makedones	Ilisiakos	^[9]
2016–17	AOF Porfyras	Iraklis Kifissias	APS Corinthos	XAN Thessaloniki	^[2]

Pre League system

Season	Preleague Winner	A2 Winner
2017–18	Ilisiakos	Protathlites Pefkon

Current teams edit

Pre League edit

The clubs taking part in the 2017–18 league are:

Preleague
APS Thetis AEK Athens X.A.N. Thessaloniki Ilisiakos GS Petroupolis AO Lamias FO Vrilissia Panionios V.C. Apollon Kalamarias ZAON GS Messaras AO Egaleo

A2 League edit

The clubs taking part in the 2017–18 league are:^[10]

1st Group	2nd Group
1st Subgroup	1st Subgroup	2nd Subgroup
AON Amazones AGS ArtemisThetis Enosi Vyrona AE Ilioupolis AE Agias Paraskevis AO Kydon Messiniakos AO Poseidon OP Rethymnou	GSG Niki AO Neas Byssas A.O. Kavala Archelaos Katerinis GAS Megas Alexandros AS Elpis APS Navarchos Botsis MAS Nea Genia	AS Giannena AS Asclepios EA Larissas GS Nikaias ASK Langada EO Stavroupolis P.A.O.K. V.C.

References edit

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