From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Zacharias Adoni 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matija Špoljarić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 213% of everything Karmiotissa earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Bashar Musa has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Bashar Musa’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Karmiotissa.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 7.81 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Karmiotissa had the best player on the pitch.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Karmiotissa are still strangers to each other
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Giorgos Naoum makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Steady
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Karmiotissa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 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 Karmiotissa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Francisco Ferreira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Chalkanoras Idaliou leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Panagiotis Elia was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Karmiotissa dressing room was either.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
A test against the best for Karmiotissa
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against PAEEK.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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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Crisis
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bashar Musa is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 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 Karmiotissa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Karmiotissa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matija Špoljarić 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑2 to AEZ Zakakiou, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Panagiotis Elia left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anninos Charalabous, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 27 he has taken a place rather than been given one, and somebody else has to find something to say about it. Karmiotissa have a decision that made itself.
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Steady
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Karmiotissa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Matija Špoljarić 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Francisco Ferreira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against AEZ Zakakiou in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I want to play”: Roman Lazăr speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Karmiotissa. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Roman Lazăr 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 Karmiotissa, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Petros Psychas’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Matija Špoljarić 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Francisco Ferreira 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Giorgos Naoum’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Karmiotissa.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 268% of everything Karmiotissa earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Vladan Elesin
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.28 — 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
15 new faces, and Karmiotissa 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Panagiotis Elia, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Crisis
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match23 Sep 2026
0‑1 against Spartakos Kitiou, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Roman Lazăr is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Karmiotissa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matija Špoljarić 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ká 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Karmiotissa, another week without a signature from Francisco Ferreira.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Panagiotis Elia left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Francisco Ferreira has just signed for Karmiotissa, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Matija Špoljarić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Francisco Ferreira 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Dennis Bakke Gaustad has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad21 Sep 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Karmiotissa will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.45 on the card, and the Karmiotissa support went home talking about one name.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Panagiotis Elia kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Zacharias Adoni 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Karmiotissa ran out of time with AEL. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad14 Sep 2026
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Match12 Sep 2026
A goal on 87 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.88 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Karmiotissa had the best player on the pitch.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ká 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Digenis Morfou leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Karmiotissa close the window on a squad of their own making
23 in and 3 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The offer went to AEL this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $676.9K — a club that wants Emmanuel Imanishimwe enough to be asked twice.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Zacharias Adoni 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matija Špoljarić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Karmiotissa are still strangers to each other
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Zacharias Adoni's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Karmiotissa will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Karmiotissa
A 0‑4 beating by Agia Napa was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Iraklis Gerolakkou is saying, and nobody at Karmiotissa is enjoying the guessing.
Squad31 Aug 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 Karmiotissa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ilija Milićević
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Karmiotissa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dino Semedo 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.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bruno Tavares arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Bruno Tavares has, at Karmiotissa, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market24 Aug 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 Karmiotissa can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Iraklis Gerolakkou keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Matija Špoljarić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bruno Tavares has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Karmiotissa know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market24 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Karmiotissa, another week without a signature from Bruno Tavares.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Karmiotissa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ká 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Benjamin Göschl is in the works
Karmiotissa have made the call to Rapid Wien. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No thanks: Petros Loizou rejects the move
Karmiotissa had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Iraklis Gerolakkou, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Pafos wanted more than $410.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Matija Špoljarić 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Karmiotissa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giannis Bastianos 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Stefanos Kittos has his answer from Karmiotissa; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Karmiotissa know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Steady
Market10 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Iraklis Gerolakkou is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $390.0K for Bruno
Karmiotissa have gone to Pafos with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 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 Karmiotissa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nektarios Ioannou 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nektarios Elia 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kyriakos Kyriakou 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Apollon 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Aris: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matija Špoljarić and Karmiotissa agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Matija Špoljarić 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
AE Kition 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Paralimni 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Iraklis Gerolakkou: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giannis Bastianos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Zacharias Panagiotou has his answer from Karmiotissa; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.