From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match31 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against AE Kition, and it could have been more.
Squad2 Nov 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match31 Oct 2026
Apollon cannot stop winning
5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad2 Nov 2026
17 goals and a season average of 7.45. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 9.63 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Apollon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Simão was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Apollon
Vasilije Janjičić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to APOEL to sit and watch. I want to come back to Apollon and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 8 matches say the rest.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
In brief
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The dugout
No hiding place for Bruno Gaspar
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Boardroom
112% of the income goes out in wages at Apollon
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match24 Oct 2026
3‑0, and Lazar Marković took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Apollon tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Apollon can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Garry Rodrigues, 35, rolls back the years — 8.17
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.17 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Apollon right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Lazar Marković
14 goals and a season average of 7.34 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad26 Oct 2026
David Simão was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.44 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Vasilije Janjičić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Apollon are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Triumph
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.14, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match19 Oct 2026
The view from the top for Apollon
21 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Apollon right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Emanuel Aiwu in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Apollon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
13 goals and a season average of 7.29. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Apollon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Simão was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
Omonoia made Apollon work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market19 Oct 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Dani Escriche has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Apollon.
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Triumph
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match10 Oct 2026
Doxa will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Apollon were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Joel Asoro takes the afternoon — 9.70
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Joel Asoro provided it, and the 9.70 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.65 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Mateo Pérez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mateo Pérez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Apollon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Emanuel Aiwu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
David Simão falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 4‑0, Stelios Georgiou could afford to be generous.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Josef Kvída gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Triumph
Squad5 Oct 2026
6 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 10‑1 against Agia Napa, and it could have been more.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The match ball belongs to Joel Asoro, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Apollon
Connor Goldson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 10.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 10.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match3 Oct 2026
11 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Apollon and Agia Napa in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pedro Marques, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Match23 Sep 2026
Apollon through in the cup
A 4‑0 win over Agia Napa, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.66, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Apollon — 7.46
1 for Donaldo Açka, marked 7.46, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Apollon
Emanuel Aiwu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Apollon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Simão was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emanuel Aiwu, and the manager let it.
Match26 Sep 2026
Apollon come up short against AEL
AEL left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match26 Sep 2026
After 5 games, Apollon finally taste it again
The first defeat in 5 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against AEL; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
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Triumph
Match19 Sep 2026
3‑0, and Lazar Marković took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Apollon tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.22, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Apollon make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Apollon have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Emanuel Aiwu in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Apollon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Apollon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Simão was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Joel Asoro at his very best
Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Apollon.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑0, Stelios Georgiou could afford to be generous.
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Triumph
Squad14 Sep 2026
A move Vasilije Janjičić would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Vasilije Janjičić is living that version at Apollon, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.97 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Mateo Pérez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mateo Pérez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Apollon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match12 Sep 2026
Apollon cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Apollon
David Simão and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Emanuel Aiwu falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Valentinos Ioannou has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Antonis Kolias has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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Triumph
Market7 Sep 2026
NK Maribor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Apollon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Brandon Thomas had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
David Simão pops up at the right end — 7.60
7.60, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Apollon close the window on a squad of their own making
21 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The Apollon board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Market7 Sep 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Apollon have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Apollon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emanuel Aiwu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Apollon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Triumph
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market31 Aug 2026
Omonoia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Apollon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $3.6M sale of Ali Youssef
He is going to NK Maribor, the club has $3.6M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market31 Aug 2026
NK Maribor pay $3.6M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Apollon
Emanuel Aiwu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Apollon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Simão is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Lazar Marković’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Apollon.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Apollon have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
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Player ratings
A masterclass from Lazar Marković
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Apollon
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Apollon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mateo Pérez has agreed terms with APOEL for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Emanuel Aiwu in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Apollon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Danilo Špoljarić again, and this time the name on the line is AEL. Apollon are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Agapios Vrikkis
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Apollon will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Morgan Brown, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Donaldo Açka falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Konstantinos Stylianou had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market17 Aug 2026
Mateo Pérez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Apollon they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No thanks: Edi Semedo rejects the move
Apollon had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Aris, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Connor Goldson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Apollon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Simão was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Apollon know which stage they are at.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Olympiacos have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market17 Aug 2026
At 36, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Pedro Marques’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Apollon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Aris, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Apollon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Aiwu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Konstantinos Balogiannis was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marios Soteriou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicholas Stylianou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Charalambos Kolias has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Emanuel Aiwu knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Apollon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lazar Marković commits to Apollon for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Apollon
Emanuel Aiwu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Praxitelis Vouros falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Connor Goldson’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
9 new faces, and Apollon are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Marius Man is in the works
Apollon have made the call to Astra. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Márcio Machado is in the works
Apollon have made the call to Astra. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Apollon, another week without a signature from Konstantinos Balogiannis.
In brief
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The dugout
Emanuel Aiwu knocks on the manager’s door
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Market
Experience through the door at Apollon