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Introduction
Football is the most popular sport in Greece, followed by basketball.
Selected general articles
- The Hellenic Football Federation (HFF), also known as the Greek Football Federation (Greek: Ελληνική Ποδοσφαιρική Ομοσπονδία; ΕΠΟ), is the governing body of football in Greece. It contributes in the organisation of Superleague Greece and organizes the Greek Cup and the Greece national team. It is based in Athens. Read more...
- Greek Amateur Cup (Greek: Κύπελλο Ερασιτεχνικών Ομάδων Ελλάδος) is one of the most known competitions for amateur teams in Greece. Read more...
- The Greek Super Cup (Greek: Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος) or, officially known in the past, Cup of Friendship and Solidarity (Greek: Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek association football one match competition, which was contested annually by the Super League champion club and the winners of the Greek Cup. Read more...
- The Greek football PSAP awards are a number of awards given annually by the Greek Union of Professional Football Players (PSAP). These awards are given annually to players playing in the Superleague Greece, Football League and Football League 2. Managers and referees are also awarded by the PSAP on an annual basis. Read more...
- The Super League Greece (Greek: Ελληνική Σούπερ Λίγκα) or Souroti Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest professional football league in Greece. It was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced Alpha Ethniki at the top of the Greek football league system. The league consists of 16 teams and runs from August to May, with teams playing 30 games each. As of August 2017, Superleague Greece is ranked 14th in the UEFA ranking of leagues, based on performances in European competitions over the last five years.
Since the foundation of the first official Panhellenic Championship in 1927, only six clubs have won the title, with the "big three" of Greater Athens (Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens) dominating and only Aris Thessaloniki, PAOK and AE Larissa managing to break their dominance on a few occasions. The current champions are AEK Athens, who have won a total of 12 titles and won the 2017–18 league title. Read more... - The 2015 Greek football scandal emerged on 6 April 2015 when prosecutor Aristidis Korreas' 173-page work was revealed. Telephone tapping operated by the National Intelligence Service of Greece since 2011 has played a significant role in the case. According to the prosecutor's conclusion, Olympiakos F.C. owner Evangelos Marinakis along with Greek Football Federation members Theodoros Kouridis, and Georgios Sarris are suspected of directing a criminal organization since 2011. The goal behind their scheme was to "absolutely control Greek football's fate by the methods of blackmailing and fraud", exploiting the self-governing ("autonomy") status of national football federations promoted by FIFA and UEFA. Referees, judges, football directors and chairmen are also involved in the scandal. All defendants deny charges. Olympiakos are the champions of the Greek Superleague at the time. Read more...
- This is a list of the major honours won by football clubs in Greece. It lists every Greek association football club to have won any of the major domestic trophies, the Greek League, the Greek Cup, the Greek Super Cup and the Greek League Cup, since Greek clubs have not won any major official European competition yet. Read more...
- The Super League Greece (Greek: Ελληνική Σούπερ Λίγκα) or Souroti Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest professional football league in Greece. It was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced Alpha Ethniki at the top of the Greek football league system. The league consists of 16 teams and runs from August to May, with teams playing 30 games each. As of August 2017, Superleague Greece is ranked 14th in the UEFA ranking of leagues, based on performances in European competitions over the last five years.
Since the foundation of the first official Panhellenic Championship in 1927, only six clubs have won the title, with the "big three" of Greater Athens (Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens) dominating and only Aris Thessaloniki, PAOK and AE Larissa managing to break their dominance on a few occasions. The current champions are AEK Athens, who have won a total of 12 titles and won the 2017–18 league title. Read more... - The FCA Winners' Championship (Greek: Πρωτάθλημα Πρωταθλητριών Ε.Π.Σ.) was a Greek football league competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all local Football Clubs' Associations championships in Greece. It is not considered part of the Greek football league system, due to a lack of formal structure, requiring all local FCA championships to have been completed prior to its start. The FCA Winners' Championship was ←founded in 1960, and held annually until 1962, as an experimental format for a 2nd tier in the Greek football league system. The competition was once again established and held annually during 1968−1977 going by the name "Amateur Championship" as a means of achieving promotion to the formally-structured Beta Ethniki (the official 2nd tier of the Greek football league system, renamed in 2010 to Football League).
As of 1987, the FCA Winners' Championship role was diminished to determining promotion to the Delta Ethniki (the fourth tier of the Greek football league system) by the local FCA champions. In fact, during the 2002−03 season, due to a re-structuring of the Greek football league system, the FCA Winners' Championship was contested by Delta Ethniki Group winners, as a means of determining which clubs would eventually earn promotion to the Gamma Ethniki (thus effectively cutting down the number of promoting teams from 10 to 5, winners being determined in single knockout matches held at neutral grounds). The 19th edition of the competition took place during the 2011−12 post-season period. Read more... - Greece Olympic football team represents Greece in international football competitions in Olympic Games. The selection is limited to players under the age of 23, except three overaged players. The team is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation (HFF). Read more...
- The Superleague Greece Youth Leagues is a system of youth football leagues that are managed, organised and controlled by the Superleague. Youth Leagues are the organizational events involving the superleague clubs' infrastructure teams. It was established in 2002 as a single category, and in 2008 it split into two, until 2013 to three age levels. Previously known as the "Amateur Championship". Read more...
- The Pan-Hellenic Women's Football Championship (Greek: Πανελλήνιο Πρωτάθλημα Γυναικών), also known as the Panelinio Protathlima or Women's Alpha Ethniki, is the highest professional women's football league in Greece.
The Pan-Hellenic Women's Football Championship was founded in 1987. Prior to 1990, the championship was organised by the regional football associations. In 1990, the Hellenic Football Federation created a committee on women's football which organized the championship. In 1990 became the first organisation from the EPO which however were named test and the Greek federation him did not recognize as official organisation. The current winner as well as the most-times winner is PAOK. Read more... - The World Military Cup is a football competition for national military teams. It is organized by the International Military Sports Council (CISM). The tournament has been held since 1946 and was originally called the World Military Championship. The name changed for the 2001 edition. When the multi-sport Military World Games was set up in 1995, the football championship was incorporated into it, but it is still being held independently every two years.
A women's tournament, World Military Women's Championship, was started in 2001. Read more... - The Gamma Ethniki Cup is a football competition cup introduced the 2013–14 season. Only the clubs of the new Football League 2 (Gamma Ethniki) are those that participate. The Gamma Ethniki Cup winner will compete at the end of the season with the winner of the Amateurs' Cup for Amateurs' Super Cup. Read more...
- Koriopolis (Greek: Κοριόπολις) is the name given by the Greek press to a match fixing scandal in Greek football that came to light in June 2011. The investigation centres on offences that include illegal gambling, fraud, extortion and money laundering.
The name Koriopolis is a pun on the name of the Italian scandal of Calciopoli in 2006, and the Greek word korios (phone tap). Read more...
The Greece national football team (Greek: Εθνική Ελλάδος, Ethniki Ellados) represents Greece in association football and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. Greece's main home grounds are located in the capital-city Athens at the Olympic Stadium in Maroussi and also in the port of Piraeus at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium. Greece is one of only ten national teams to have been crowned UEFA European Champions.
At the UEFA Euro 1980 Greece made their first appearance in a major tournament and although they did not make it through the group stage, their qualification to the then eight-team tournament gave them a position in the top eight European football nations that year. Greece had to wait until 1994 to experience their first FIFA World Cup participation, but after an undefeated qualifying run they produced a poor performance in the final tournament, losing all three group matches without scoring. Read more...- Gamma Ethniki (Greek: Γ΄ Εθνική Ερασιτεχνική Κατηγορία, C National Amateur Division), is the third highest football league in Greece. Read more...
- P.O.K. (from the initial letters of Panathinaikos, Olympiacos and Konstantinoupolis-AEK-) was a coalition, a kind of an athletic trust, of the three main football teams of the Greater Athens area (the "big three") which lasted until the mid 60's. The term dates to in 1927, when Olympiacos F.C., Panathinaikos F.C. and AEK F.C. withdrew from the Greek Championship after disagreements with the Hellenic Football Federation (HFF), mainly over the championship's financial status. The HFF determined that league's revenues would be equally divided between all teams that participated. Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and AEK did not agree with this, and formed a group called P.O.K. During that season, they played friendly matches with each other.
The name P.O.K. is currently used to allude to the continuing dominance of the three clubs in the National A Division. Rarely does a team outside these three finish in the top three spots of the Championship; doing so is called "breaking the P.O.K.". Since 1928, only three other teams - Aris F.C. (Thessaloniki), AE Larissa and PAOK F.C. - have won the Greek Championship. The last-named is considered the main team that has "broken the P.O.K.", most recently having finished second in the 2008/09 season, leaving Panathinaikos and AEK in third and fourth places. Read more... - Below is the list of Greek Superleague's top goalscorers by season.
- Thomas Mavros is the all-time top goalscorer having scored a record 260 goals.
- Kostas Nestoridis and Antonis Antoniadis are the only players who have won the top goalscorer award 5 times.
- Kostas Nestoridis is also the only player who has won the top goalscorer award 5 consecutive times.
- Thomas Mavros is the youngest player to have scored a goal (16 years, 8 months and 17 days old). He scored the only goal in Panionios' 1-0 win against Pierikos on 17 February 1971.
- This is the list of Greek Second Division top goalscorers by season.
1983-84
Dimitris Tzeplidis of Edessaikos with 21 goals
Andreas Anagnostou of Pierikos with 16 goals
Christos Mesimerlis of Edessaikos with 15 goals
- The Greek football champions are the annual winners of Superleague Greece, the highest professional football league in Greece. Officially the title has been contested since the season 1927–28, in various forms of competition.
Until 1958–59, in what was called Panhellenic Championship, the regional champions formed a national group, from which the national champion was decided. In some occasions the title was decided in a final between regional champions. Since 1959–60, the top league has been formed in its current form (see Greek football league system), with the top level being called Alpha Ethniki until 2005–06, when Super League Greece was founded, without any change in competition format. Read more... - Football clubs from Superleague Greece have participated in European football competitions since 1959, when Olympiacos took part in the European Cup. In total, twenty Greek clubs have taken part in European competitions. Panathinaikos' run to the 1971 European Cup Final is the biggest achievement by any Greek club.
Panathinaikos' success includes two European Cup/UEFA Champions League semi-final appearances in 1985 and 1996. AEK Athens are the only Greek team to have reached the semi-final of the UEFA Cup, in 1977. Greek clubs have reached the quarter-final of major European competitions on another twelve occasions. Read more...
The Greece women's national football team represents Greece in international women's football. The only international tournament the team took place in were the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Automatically qualified as hosts, Greece lost all three matches in their group without scoring a goal. Read more...
The Greek Football Cup (Greek: Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or for sponsorship reasons the Football Cup OPAP, is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
Because it involves clubs of all standards playing against each other, there is the possibility for "minnows" from the lower divisions to become "giant-killers" by eliminating top clubs from the tournament and even theoretically win the Cup. Read more...
The Greece national under-20 football team is the national under-20 football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. The team competes in the FIFA U-20 World Cup, which is held every two years. To qualify for this tournament (which is held in odd years), the team must finish in the top six of the UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship from the previous year. Read more...- The Greek Women's Cup (Greek: Κυπελλούχοι Ελλάδας) is the national women's football cup competition in Greece. It was played out for three seasons from 2000 to 2002. It returned in 2013. Read more...
The Greece national under-21 football team is the national under-21 football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. The team competes in the European Under-21 Football Championship, held every two years.
The under-21 competition rules insist that players must be 21 or under at the start of a two-year competition, so technically it is up to an U-23 competition.To be eligible for the Greece National Team, all the football players must hold Hellenic (Greek) nationality and comply with the provisions of Article 15 of the regulations governing the Application of FIFA Statutes. A list of 35 football players must be submitted to the UEFA administration 30 days before the European Under-21 Football Championship opening match. Only 22 of the 35 players listed are authorised to take part in the final tournament and 3 of them must be goalkeepers. Read more...
The Greece national under-19 football team is the national football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation. In July 2007 the Under-20/19 Football Team finished second in the 2007 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship in Linz, Austria. They also reached the final of the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship. Read more...- The Football League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Stoiximan.gr Football League (after gambling website Stoiximan.gr), is the second highest professional football league in Greece, being a feeder-league to the top-level Super League. Read more...
The Greece national under-17 football team is the Under-17 years of age team of the Greece national football team.
This team is for Greek players aged 17 or under at the start of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (From 1982 to 2001 it was an Under-16 event). Read more...- The Amateurs' Super Cup Greece introduced from the 2013–14 season and is a single final played on a neutral ground, which sets the Hellenic Football Federation. In Amateurs' Super Cup Greece compete the winning team of Gamma Ethniki Cup with the winning team of Greek Football Amateur Cup for the emergence of the Greek Football Amateur Cup Winner for the season. Read more...
- This is a list of football clubs located in Greece and the leagues and divisions they will play in for 2018–19 season. Read more...
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Angelos Charisteas scoring Greece's winning goal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final.
The team of Panathinaikos against Ajax in the 1971 European Cup Final.
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