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Greek multi-section sports club founded in Piraeus in 1925. The most popular is the football section.

47 Greek champion titles winning:

28 Greek Cups

5 Greek Super Cups

1 Balkan Cup

Olimpiacos made their debut in European competition in the 1959/1960 season. In the UEFA European Cup, they lost to AC Milan 3-5 in the Qualifying Round. They made their first appearance in the Europa League in the 1972/1973 season when they defeated Calgliari Calcio 3-1 in the first round to lose to Tottenham 4-1 in the second round. They did best in the Cup Winners’ Cup where they reached the quarter-finals losing to Atletico Madrid 2-4. In the 2019/20 season in the Champions League they took third place, which makes them play in the 1/16 of the Europe.

Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos

Greek football club based in Athens. The club is known in Poland as AEK Athens.

13 titles of Greek champion

winning 16 Greek Cups

3 Greek Super Cups

League Cup

Founded in Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees from Constantinople due to the Greco-Turkish War, AEK is a club with 31 national championship titles (including twelve championships and fifteen Greek cups), providing the Greek national team with many players and regularly playing in European cups.

In the 2012/2013 season, the club was relegated from the top flight.

PAOK FC

PAOK is one of the biggest and most successful clubs in Greece. It was founded in 1926 as a club continuing the tradition of a Greek sports organization in Turkey named after the god Hermes (founded in 1875). The club performs at Tumba Stadium. PAOK is a three-time champion of Greece and an eight-time winner of the Greek Cup. This team has been playing at the highest league level continuously since the 1953/1954 season.

There are also other sports sections in the club besides football, e.g. basketball, volleyball or handball.

PANATHINAIKOS AO

Greek professional club football company based in Athens, Greece.

20 titles of Greek champion winning 19 Greek Cups

3 Greek Super Cups

1 Balkan Cup

The PO Athinon football club was founded in Athens on February 3, 1908, when Giorgos Kalafatis along with 40 other athletes decided to leave Panellinius GS after the club’s decision to suspend his football team. The name of the club meant Football Club of Athens and the club played on the pitch at Patission Street. In November 1908 he competed in the Greek Championship under the auspices of SEAGS (Association of Greek Athletic and Gymnastics Associations).

In 1910, after a dispute among board members, Giorgos Kalafatis, with most of the players and the coach, decided to withdraw from PO Athinon and started playing on a new ground in Amerikis Square. Then the name of the club changed to Panellinios PO (Polish Panhellenski Football Club), and the colors of the club were green and white. The club participated in football tournaments under the auspices of SEAGS until 1914, until World War I did not prevent the organization of subsequent seasons.

In 1918, the club changed its name to Panellinios PAO. In 1919, after founding the Association of Football Clubs of Athens-Piraeus (EPS), he took part in local games. In 1921, the Association changed its name to Enosi Podosferikon Somation Ellados (EPSE). In the seasons 1920/21 and 1921/22 he won the EPSE tournament. In 1922, the city authorities donated the area for the new Leoforos stadium. On March 15, 1924, the club adopted its current name of Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (PAO), (Polish: Pan-Athletic Athletic Club). In 1926, the Hellenic Football Federation (HFF) was founded, which organized the first official Greek championship in 1927. In the 1929/30 season, the club won its first official Greek title.

In 1979, the football club separated from the Association and was transformed into an independent structure of a professional sports club.

A new crisis hit the club when, on 20 December 2010, club president Nikos Pateras resigned, for the second time in 6 months (he first resigned from the presidency in March 2010, but then returned after three months, after which full funding of the club was resumed ). However, the club’s other major shareholders refused to take over the management of the club. Nikos Pateras proposed Adamantios Polemis as president, but Ioannis Vekris was approved. In 2011, due to financial problems and management disagreements, the Board decided to reduce the budget and sell many players. In 2012, Skai TV owner Giannis Alafouzos devised a plan to sell Vardinogiannis shares (54.7%) and make them available to fans across Greece so that Panathinaikos could overcome the crisis.

Niniejszy wpis: “Greckie Kluby Sportowe” opracowali Wieczorek, Paszkowski, Jurczyk, Dybała, Domżał, Świętaszczyk, Karasiński, Andrysiak, Marciniak w dniu 03.06.2023 ze szkoły SMS.LO Aleksandrów Łódzki.