Asteras is a professional football club based in Tripoli. It was established in 1931. The colours of the club are yellow and blue. Its home stadium is Asteras Tripolis Stadium, which has a capacity of 7,616 seats.
Asteras competed in the Arcadian regional league and won 5 successive titles from 1957 to1962. Asteras is one of the founding members of Beta Ethniki, where the team played from 1961 to 1963.
In 2005 the club won the fourth division. The next season Asteras finished atop of the third division and progressed to the Football League in 2006. The team finished in the 1st place after the successful 2006/2007 season.
On May 12, 2007 Asteras got promoted to the Superleague Greece for the first time in its history. The team made a brilliant debut in the first division, gaining a 1-0 home victory over Panathinaikos. Their first away win in the Superleague Greece was a 3-0 thrashing of OFI. Asteras also won a 2–1 victory over AEK, becoming the only club who had ever defeated Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, PAOK and AEK Athens in its debut season in the Superleague Greece.
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