Its name means shield and its colours are cyan and white.

The football team of the club participated in the 1939–40 Panhellenic Championship.

During the next decades the team was playing mostly in the Second Division, while in the 1956–57 Greek Cup was eliminated at the quarter-finals.

In 1967, the team was merged with the other football club of the city, Orfeas Xanthi, and formed Skoda Xanthi F.C.

However, after the end of the Greek military junta, the football team was formed again.