 Apollon acquired its own stadium in 1894.At this point we should examine a little the background of the foundation of the first ground of Apollon.Fourteen years before, in 1880, Ioannis Damvergis with Apostolos Psaltof, Stefanos Papamihalis and I. Makroulidis, all students of the Evangelic Faculty of İzmir, created an off-hand gym in some open space, known with the name "love arena".