Soccer

FIFA and UEFA sent a joint letter to the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO), warning that if the government's proposed sports legislation proceeds, it will mean the end of Greek football teams' presence in international competitions, underlining that such a proposal...

PAOK Salonika stayed top with a 3-2 home win over Panthrakikos on Sunday when the Greek Super League resumed after a one-week suspension imposed for an attack on a refereeing official. PAOK seemed jaded after their midweek Europa League win...

Kostas Katsouranis' stardom is slowly rising in his club FC Pune, after his season's fourth goal against Ateltico de Kolkata for Matchday 11 of the inaugural Indian Super League. Even though in its first season, the Indian league is far more exciting than...

A 4-0 defeat to Atletico Madrid in Vicente Calderon stadium sees Olympiacos in third place now, dropping hopes of qualifying to the Champions League's final 16. Raul Garcia scored the first, passing the relay to Madjukic who finished off the...

Atletico is hosting Olympiacos for matchday five of the Champions league stages at the Vicente Calderon of Madrid (8:45pm local time - 9:45pm Athens time). The Greek champions are aiming for at least point in search of the first two spots that lead to the final...

  The Greek Football Federation (EPO) announced that all leagues will resume this weekend following an agreement between the board of referees (KED) and the Superleague. In response to the cowardly attack on referee Christoforos Zografos, EPO decided to postpone all games of...

The British newspaper Dailymail ran an in-depth analysis of 34 leagues across the globe and the Greek one emerged as the worst of the lot. The Premier League and the Bundesliga topped the charts. Most of us that follow Greek soccer...

The Hellenic Soccer Federation (EPO) convened today and decided that there won't be any professional soccer games in Greece this weekend. EPO decided not to appoint referees for the league games that start on Saturday. The decision was made in...

Greece was defeated for the third time in a row, this time from Serbia, in a friendly match that took place in Chania, Crete. Petrovic and Gudelj scored for the winning side. In repetition of their recent stream of dull games, Greece...

A prosecutor has called the chiefs of two of Greece's biggest soccer clubs and the head of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) to answer questions regarding the violent attack against a referee last week. The attack that resulted in the serious...

After the horrific loss against the Faroe Islands in Athens, the president of the football federation of Greece (EPO), Giorgos Sarris, has decided to give Claudio Ranieri the sack and send him back to Italy. It's only been ten years since the Greeks...

Greece have just lost 0-1 to the Faroe Islands for the Euro 2016 qualifiers in one of the biggest upsets in the history of football! The little island country north of the UK is celebrating their most important sport's victory ever. With...

Since 2009, FIFA has been presenting an award for the most beautiful goal of the season. Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and Zlatan Ibrahimovic have been amongst the previous winners with the latter being represented again with his wondrous back-heel goal...

Bayern Munich, Juventus and Barcelona come close, but nonetheless still lose the battle to AEL Kalloni for Europe's best defensive team so far this season. It sounds like a hoax, but it's far from that, as the club from the...

Greek Super League leader PAOK Salonika saw its gap at the top of the standings cut to two points after a 2-1 defeat to Panathinaikos and Olympiacos's 5-1 thrashing of Panthrakikos. PAOK went 1-0 down after Abdul Ajagun (51) opened...