{{About||the football club|Athlitiki Enosi Larissa F.C.}} {{main|A.E.L. 1964|}} {{more citations needed|date=September 2012}} {{Infobox Basketball club | color1 = white | color2 = maroon | name = AEL 1964 | nickname = ''Vasilissa Tou Kampou''<br/>(Queen of The Lowland) | logo = AEL1964-Crest.svg | image_size = 120px | leagues = Thessaly league ESKATH | founded = 1993 | history = '''AEL 1964'''<br/>(1993 – 2006)<br/>'''AEL G.S.'''<br/>(2006– 2009)<br/>'''G.S. Olympia Larissas'''<br/>(2009 – 2010)<br/>'''AEL 1964'''<br/>(2010 – Present) | arena = Larissa Neapolis Arena | capacity = 5,500<ref>[http://www.stadia.gr/larissa/larissa.html Larissa Neapolis Arena.]</ref> | location = Larissa, Greece | colors = Maroon and White <br/>{{color box|maroon}} {{color box|white}} | president = | vice-presidents = | coach = | championships = | website = [https://www.e-ael.gr/ e-ael.gr] | h_body = b22222 | h_pattern_b = _thinsidesonwhite | h_shorts = b22222 | h_pattern_s = _blanksides2 | a_body = b22222 | a_pattern_b = _thinwhitesides | a_shorts = b22222 | a_pattern_s = _white_border }}
'''A.E.L. 1964 B.C.''' (Greek: Α.Ε.Λ. 1964 K.A.E.) is a Greek professional basketball team.
The club is located in Larissa, Greece, a city that is part of the Thessaly periphery. The team is a part of the Athletic Union of Larissa multi-sports club. When the team competed in the top-tier Greek League, they played their home games at the Larissa Neapolis Arena.
==Team's names== *'''AEL 1964''': (1993–2006)<br/>Team Colors: Maroon and White *'''AEL GS''': (2006–2009)<br/>Team Colors: Maroon and White *'''A.E. Larissa''': (2010–Present)<br/>Team Colors: Maroon and White
==History== The Greek basketball club Gymnastikos S. Larissas was founded in Larissa in 1928. In 2006, Gymnastikos merged with the multi-sports club of Athletic Union of Larissa, which did not have a fully professional level men's basketball section at the time. Gymnastikos' basketball team then became the new basketball section for AEL 1964, under the new name of '''AEL 1964 G.S.''', with the newly merged club retaining all of the rights and history of the original club, G.S. Larissas. The colours were maroon and white like AEL, while the new club carried AEL's badge also.
In 2009, AEL 1964 G.S. then merged with another basketball club from Larissa, Olympia Larissa, to form '''G.S. Olympia Larissa'''. G.S. Olympia Larissa finished last in the Greek Basket League 2009–10 season, and that combined with financial problems, caused it to be relegated down to the Greek lower divisions. As a result, in 2010, the two clubs of AEL 1964 and Olimpia Larissa, separated back from each other, after having merged.
AEL then continued on for the 2010–11 season, under the name of AEL 1964, playing in the Greek lower divisions. A new independent club based on the original Gymnastikos S. Larissas basketball section, called Nea Gymnastikos S. Larissas, was also formed in 2011. This was because 5 years time had passed since the original Gymnastikos club had merged with AEL 1964, and in the original merger agreement, it allowed for another new club to form locally using the Gymnastikos name and logo, after 5 years had passed.
==Honours== Thessaly League ESKATH: *Winners (4): 2000, 2002, 2013, 2023
==Arena== AEL plays their home games at the Larissa Neapolis Arena, which can seat up to 5,500 people for basketball games.<ref>[http://www.stadia.gr/larissa/larissa.html More data: its capacity may be increased to about 5,500 through the addition of an extra lower tier of seats.]</ref>
==Roster== {{Basketball roster header|team=A.E.L.1964 B.C. | color1 = white| bg1 = maroon| color2 = maroon| bg2 = white}} <!-- list of players --> {{player3 | num = 5 | nat = GRE| first = Apollon| last =Deligiorgis | pos = PG | m = 1.92|kgs = |year = 1993|month = 07|date =03 }} {{player3 | num= 8 | nat = GRE| first =Sakis| last =Koutinas| pos =SF| m =1.98| kgs = | year |month = | date = | }} {{player3 | num = 9 | nat = GRE|first =Alexandros| last =Kouvelas| |pos =SG/SF|m =1.94|kgs = |year = |month = |date = }} {{player3 | num = 10| nat = GRE| first =Nikos| last = Tsoutsos| pos = PF | m = 2.02|kgs = 105|year = 1982|month = 12|date =30 }} {{player3 | num = 11| nat = GRE| first= Michalis| last= Politis| pos = PG| m = 1.90|kgs = |year = 1988|month = 09|date = 21}} {{player3 | num = 14| nat = GRE| first =Giannis| last = Papachristos| pos = SG/SF | m = 1.92|kgs = |year =1980 |month =01 |date =19 }} {{player3 | num = 15| nat = GRE| first = Giannis| last = Staboulis| pos = PF| m = 2.02|kgs = |year = |month = |date = }} {{player3 | num = 18| nat = GRE| first =Giannis| last = Maltetsos | pos =PF | m = 2.04|kgs =|year =1985|month = 09|date =14}} <!-- end list of players --> {{Basketball roster footer | head_coach = Avraam Papadopoulos * | asst_coach =
| Team manager = | roster_url = https://www.e-ael.gr/basket/basket/basket-news | accessdate = 02/08/2016 }}
==Notable players== {{Basketball notable players criteria}} {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} *20px Nestoras Kommatos *20px Giannis Kyriakopoulos *20px Dimitris Bogdanos *20px Giorgos Apostolidis *20px Markos Kolokas *20px Nikos Papanikolopoulos *20px Michalis Tsairelis *20px Fotios Lampropoulos *20px Sotirios Manolopoulos *20px Marios Matalon *20px Theodoros Zaras *20px Zlatko Bolić *20px Rudy Mbemba *20px Amit Tamir *20px Héctor Romero *20px Sammy Mejia *20px Arthur Lee *20px Rod Brown *20px Torin Francis *20px Billy Keys *20px David Teague *20px Lance Williams {{colend}}
==Head coaches== *20px Yannis Christopoulos
==See also== *G.S. Olympia Larissa *Gymnastikos S. Larissas
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links == *[https://www.e-ael.gr/ AEL Athletic Club website] {{in lang|el}} *[http://basketball.eurobasket.com/team/Greece/AE-Larissas-1964/18314 Eurobasket.com Team Page]
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