Syndesmos Filathlon Katerinis Pierikos (Greek: Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Κατερίνης Πιερικός,[1] Supporters' Association of Katerini Pierikos), founded in 1961, is a Greek multi-sport club and parent club of Pierikos F.C., based in the town of Katerini, capital of Pieria regional unit, located in Central Macedonia, Greece.
[2] SFK Piericos was founded on April 11, 1961 after the merging of Alexander the Great Katerini's F.C.
and within the same year, Katerini's new team managed to gain promotion to the First National League.
The demise of Alexander the Great and the failure of promotion of Olympus lead the "calm" thinkers to a revolutionary thought at that time, the Unification.
The creation of a representative strong football club made out of the wonderful material of both teams it was the demand of the times.
Thoughts of the merger have begun to mature as other federations in the provinces have followed suit because of financial and other problems.
The decision for the joint meeting of the representatives of the two clubs is taken by the Prefect of Pieria, Konstantinos Nalbantis and the Mayor of Katerini, Vassilios Tavantzis.
The first meeting was held in the Prefecture on Saturday, March 18, 1961, with the chairman and rapporteur of the subject, the Prefect, who stated to the representatives of Olympus and Alexander the Great: There really was a mood for union.
The decisions on the issue of the General Meetings of the two clubs were decided on Tuesday, April 11, 1961.
General Meeting took place at the "Agrotikon" cafe on I. Dragoumi Street and Olympus F.C.
The General Meeting of Alexander the Great was held with 90 members present, unanimously voting in favor of the merger, after an hour-long process.
On the contrary, the General Meeting of Olympus has been quite noisy, with reactions, leavings, dissensions and departures.
gave its first friendly game, in which Panathinaikos scored 3-0 with two goals by Fulidis and one by Bikas.
Its name: SUPPORTERS' ASSOCIATION OF KATERINI "PIERIKOS", its logo the regenerated from its ashes Phoenix.
The shirt emblem it was difficult for the seamstress of the time to embroider on the jersey the regenerated Phoenix by its ash, instead of that, it was preferred to sew a circular Π, which was established in the consciousness of all Greek sportsmen as a mark and logo of the Pierikos F.C.
Inspired by the Real of the five consecutive Champions League Cups at the time in Europe.
There were so many hard fouls and tackles on both sides that Pierikos was left with 10 players and Olympiakos Kozani's with 9 cause of red cards.
The dream, the hope and the desire for distinction, has unite all the Katerinians who, in the name of this sport, raised the white and black emblem and made it known throughout Greece and not only.
In 1968-69 he repeated his success and again won 5th place and played in the 1969 Balkans Cup with Bulgaria's Beroe Stara Zagora and Turkey's PTT Ankara.
On the big team of that time following players where participated: Drandakis, Kefalidis, Taxidis, Portokalidis, Mystakides, Sidiropoulos, Kyziroglou, Christoforidis, Orphanides, Foulidis, Amanatidis, Theodoridis.
The basketball division ceased to exist in the summer of 2008 when GAS Archelaos Katerinis and SFK Pierikos B.C.
On June 19, 2019 SFK Pierikos proceeded to an early General Meeting in order to elect and appoint a new Board.
The club uses also Municipal training facilities in the area of the National Stadium District.