Pafos FC

Pafos

Full name	Pafos Football Club
Founded	10 June 2014 (2014-06-10)
Ground	Stelios Kyriakides Stadium
Capacity	9,3001
Chairman	Roman Dubov
Head coach	Ricardo Sá Pinto
League	First Division
2025–26	First Division, 4th of 14
Website	pafosfc.com.cy
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Pafos Football Club (Greek: Πάφος F.C.) is a professional football club based in Paphos, Cyprus. Founded on 10 June 2014 following the merger of AEP Paphos and AEK Kouklia, the club represents the wider Paphos region in the Cypriot First Division. Pafos play home matches at the Stelios Kyriakides Stadium, which has a capacity of 9,394, though their European home matches are played at the Alphamega Stadium (capacity 10,830) due to the former falling short of UEFA standards.

The club won their first major honour, the Cypriot Cup, in 2024 and secured a first league championship in 2024–25. Pafos made their European debut in the UEFA Europa Conference League in 2024–25, reaching the round of 16, and entered the UEFA Champions League qualifiers for the first time in 2025–26 as domestic champions.² After surviving two 2025–26 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Pafos also won their subsequent play-off against Red Star Belgrade and advanced to the league phase.³

Pafos FC was formed to consolidate senior football in the Paphos district. AEP Paphos and AEK Kouklia voted to combine operations in June 2014; the new club played its first season in the Cypriot Second Division.⁴⁵ Pafos won promotion in 2014–15 as Second Division runners-up, were relegated in 2015–16, and returned to the top flight at the first attempt in 2016–17.⁶⁷⁸

In 2017 the club came under the control of Total Sports Investments, linked with British-based businessman Roman Dubov, and began a programme of professionalisation across the first team and academy. The training centre in Paphos underwent significant renovation in 2020.⁹¹⁰ Spanish coach Juan Carlos Carcedo was appointed head coach in June 2023.¹¹

Pafos won the 2023–24 Cypriot Cup—the club's first major trophy—by defeating Omonia 3–0 in the final on 18 May 2024 at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia.¹² The victory qualified the club for European competition for the first time.

In 2024–25 Pafos entered the UEFA Europa Conference League in the second qualifying round, overturning a first-leg defeat to Žalgiris with a 3–0 home win to advance 4–2 on aggregate.¹³¹⁴ They eliminated CSKA 1948 (after extra time) and CFR Cluj (on penalties) to reach the league phase, where they recorded home wins over Astana and other positive results against seeded opposition.¹⁵¹⁶

In February 2025, Pafos faced Omonia in what was billed as the first all-Cypriot tie in UEFA competition; after a 1–1 first leg in Nicosia, Pafos won the return in Limassol to advance 3–2 on aggregate to the round of 16, where they were eliminated by Djurgårdens IF.¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹

Pafos secured the 2024–25 league title—their first—by beating Aris Limassol 4–0 on 5 May 2025 and were officially crowned champions later that month.²⁰²¹

As Cypriot champions, Pafos entered the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League in the second qualifying round and defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 2–1 on aggregate (1–1 home, 1–0 away at a neutral venue in Serbia).²²²³ In the third qualifying round they beat Dynamo Kyiv 3–0 on aggregate (1–0 away in Lublin, 2–0 home at Alphamega Stadium) to reach the play-off round for the first time.²⁴²⁵²⁶ In the play-offs, Pafos eliminated Serbian side Red Star Belgrade with a 3–2 aggregate victory, securing their first-ever place in the UEFA Champions League league stage.²⁷²⁸

On 5 January 2026, Pafos announced that Head Coach Juan Carlos Carcedo had bought out his contract, and the contracts of Sergio Domínguez Cobo and Sebastián Corona, and had left the club for a new project.²⁹ Four days later, on 9 January 2026, Pafos announced the appointment of Albert Celades as their new Head Coach on a contract until 2027.³⁰ On 28 April, Pafos announced that they had terminated their contract with Albert Celades, and that Ricardo Sá Pinto had been appointed as the clubs new Head Coach.³¹³²

Season	League									Cypriot Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
2014–15	2nd	2nd	26	19	5	2	55	19	62	First Round			Radmilo Ivančević Sofoklis Sofokleous
2015–16	1st	12th	36	8	12	16	41	58	36	Quarterfinal	Nassir Maachi	11	Sofoklis Sofokleous José Manuel Roca Apostolos Makrides
2016–17	2nd	2nd	26	17	6	3	51	24	57	First Round			Dimitris Ioannou
2017–18	1st	10th	36	11	9	16	36	51	42	Semifinal	Daniel Sikorski Kévin Bérigaud	7	Luka Elsner Steven Pressley
2018–19	1st	8th	32	12	8	12	39	50	38	Quarterfinal	Adam Nemec	16	Steven Pressley Željko Kopić
2019–20	1st	7th	23	8	6	9	26	28	30	Second Round	Onni Valakari	5	Željko Kopić Cameron Toshack
2020–21	1st	7th	40	18	9	13	58	38	63	Second Round	Onni Valakari Kévin Bérigaud	13	Cameron Toshack Dmytro Mykhaylenko Stephen Constantine
2021–22	1st	6th	32	11	13	8	39	30	46	Second Round	Onni Valakari	10	Darko Milanič Míchel Salgado (Acting Head Coach)
2022–23	1st	4th	32	17	12	7	60	30	63	Semifinal	Jairo	18	Henning Berg Míchel Salgado (Acting Head Coach)
2023–24	1st	5th	36	18	8	10	60	33	62	Champions	Jairo	16	Juan Carlos Carcedo
2024–25	1st	1st	36	26	4	6	67	21	82	Runners Up	Jairo	13	Juan Carlos Carcedo

UEFA Team Ranking (2025/26)

Rank	Country	Team	Points
81		Lech Poznań	27.250
82		FCSB	25.500
83		Pafos	24.125
84		AEK Athens	24.000
85		Nottingham Forest	23.903

Last update: 30 May 2026
Source: [1]

The logo of Pafos FC is a variation of AEP Paphos's logo and a refresh of Pafos FC's first logo, including the name of the team and town and the classic figure of the Cypriot hero Evagoras Pallikarides. The logo also includes the team's colours, blue, white, and gold.³³³⁴ The emblem was renewed during the period 2018–19, making the depiction of the hero Evagoras Pallikarides more prominent.

From 2019 to 2023, Pafos FC's kits were manufactured by Jako. Starting with the 2023–24 season,³⁵ Pafos FC transitioned to Puma, both for the Main Team and for Academy, as their official kit supplier, though the club retained its core sponsors — Korantina Homes,³⁶ LF Group,³⁷ and Cablenet.³⁸

As of 2 July 2026³⁹

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  NED Jay Gorter 4 DF  BRA David Luiz 5 DF  ESP David Goldar 6 MF  POR Guga 7 DF  BRA Bruno Felipe 8 MF  POR Domingos Quina 9 FW  CGO Mons Bassouamina 11 FW  BRA Jajá 12 MF  SWE Ken Sema 14 DF  CYP Nikolas Ioannou 18 FW  BRA Lelê (on loan from Fluminense) 19 DF  FRA Axel Guessand

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF  BRA Biel Teixeira (on loan from Sporting CP) 23 DF  GHA Derrick Luckassen 26 MF  BIH Ivan Šunjić 30 MF  ROU Vlad Dragomir (captain) 33 FW  BRA Anderson Silva 35 DF  BRA Pedrão (on loan from Cruzeiro) 47 MF  AZE Murad Mammadov 50 MF  POR Alexandre Brito 71 GK  CYP Michalis Papastylianou 77 DF  CPV João Correia 88 MF  POR Pêpê 98 GK  CYP Charalampos Kyriakidis

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 10 FW  BEL Landry Dimata (at Chongqing Tonglianglong until 31 December 2026) 16 MF  CYP Christos Efzona (at Olympiakos Nicosia until 30 June 2026) 36 MF  GUI Mamadou Kané (at Ethnikos Achna until 30 June 2026)

Senior Management
Vice President	George Ioannou
CEO	Charis Theocharous
COO	Rustam Khafizov
Sporting Director	Cristiano Giaretta
Head Scout	Rodolfo Filipe Aniceto Vaz
Senior Scout	Pedro Henrique
CFA Representative	Filippos Georgiou
Technical staff
Head coach	Ricardo Sá Pinto32
Assistant Coach	Nuno Morais40
Fitness Coach	Leandro De Sousa Mendes40
Goalkeeping Coach	Ricardo Janota
Strength Coach	Daniel Caraça
Doctor	Ivan Akimov
Physio	Charalampos Karagiannis
Physio	Nicolas Gonçalves
Sports Scientist	Luis Vita
Video Analyst	Kaio Fonseca
Team Manager	Xenofon Onisiforou
Nutritionist	Max Bogaert
Kit Manager	Laurentiu Lungu
Kit Manager	Marius Mihalcea
Other staff
Director of Finance	Egor Tkachenko
Commercial Director	Andrey Finerman
Head of Media and Communications	Christoforos Matheou
Head of Football Operations	Michalis Kiriakou
Media officer	Raphael Michael
Social Media	Alia Spyropoulou
Photographer	Andrii Lichko

As of match played 29 May 2026

	Name	Years	League apps	League goals	Cup apps	Cup goals	Super Cup apps	Super Cup goals	Europe apps	Europe goals	Total apps	Total goals
1	Vlad Dragomir	2021–Present	152	17	19	3	2	0	32	4	205	24
2	Jairo	2021-2025	127	55	16	4	1	0	18	1	162	60
3	Onni Valakari	2020–2025	136	40	15	6	0	0	7	0	158	46
4	Bruno Felipe	2023–Present	104	10	13	0	2	0	31	2	150	12
5	Pêpê	2023–2024, 2024–Present	95	5	14	4	2	0	28	1	139	10
6	Josef Kvída	2020–2025	124	4	11	0	0	0	1	0	136	4
7	Muamer Tanković	2022–2025	96	28	14	2	1	0	23	4	134	34
8	Jajá	2024–2025, 2025–Present	71	9	12	5	2	0	29	6	114	20
9	Ivica Ivušić	2023–2025	79	0	14	0	1	0	17	0	111	0
9	David Goldar	2023–Present	71	9	9	1	2	0	29	2	111	12

As of match played 29 May 2026

	Name	Years	League apps	League goals	Cup apps	Cup goals	Super Cup apps	Super Cup goals	Europe apps	Europe goals	Total apps	Total goals	Ratio
1	Jairo	2021-2025	127	55	16	4	1	0	18	1	162	60	0.37
2	Onni Valakari	2020–2025	136	40	15	6	0	0	7	0	158	46	0.29
3	Muamer Tanković	2022–2025	96	28	14	2	1	0	23	4	134	34	0.25
4	Anderson Silva	2024–2025, 2025–Present	68	20	8	7	2	0	29	5	108	31	0.29
5	Kévin Bérigaud	2018-2022	68	22	3+	2	0	0	0	0	71+	24	0.34
6	Vlad Dragomir	2021–Present	152	17	19	3	2	0	32	4	205	24	0.12
7	Adam Nemec	2018–2020	42	17	6	5	0	0	0	0	48	22	0.46
7	João Correia	2024–Present	53	17	6	0	2	0	24	5	85	22	0.26
9	Jajá	2024–2025, 2025–Present	71	9	12	5	2	0	29	6	114	20	0.18
10	Nassir Maachi	2015–2016	31	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	32	13	0.41

As of match played 29 May 2026

Manager name	From	To	Duration	P	W	D	L	Win %
Radmilo Ivančević	1 July 2014	14 October 2014	105 days
Sofoklis Sofokleous	1 November 2014	9 November 2015	1 year, 8 days
José Manuel Roca	17 November 2015	14 December 2015	27 days
Apostolos Makridis	16 December 2015	31 May 2016	167 days
Dimitris Ioannou	14 June 2016	31 May 2017	351 days
Luka Elsner	30 June 2017	21 January 2018	205 days	23	6	6	11	26.09
Steven Pressley	31 January 2018	9 October 2018	251 days	22	8	5	9	36.36
Željko Kopić	19 October 2018	6 November 2019	1 year, 18 days	41	16	11	14	39.02
Jeremy Steele (Caretaker)	6 November 2019	13 December 2019	37 days	5	3	1	1	60
Cameron Toshack	13 December 201941	20 October 202042	312 days	21	8	5	8	38.1
Dmytro Mykhaylenko	20 October 202043	31 January 202144	103 days	16	4	5	7	25
Stephen Constantine	4 February 202145	30 June 202146	146 days	18	12	2	4	66.67
Darko Milanič	30 June 202147	10 May 202248	314 days	33	11	14	8	33.33
Míchel Salgado (Caretaker)	14 May 202249	22 May 2022	8 days	2	1	0	1	50
Henning Berg	11 June 202250	3 April 202351	296 days	33	17	11	5	51.52
Míchel Salgado (Caretaker)	3 April 2023	24 June 2023	82 days	9	3	3	3	33.33
Juan Carlos Carcedo	24 June 202311	5 January 202629	2 years, 195 days	129	74	25	30	57.36
Sofyane Cherfa (Caretaker)	5 January 2026	9 January 202630	4 days	1	1	0	0	100
Albert Celades	9 January 202630	28 April 202631	109 days	21	9	6	6	42.86
Ricardo Sá Pinto	28 April 202632		75 days	6	3	1	2	50