Soccer

Panathinaikos won the game against Asteras 1-0 on Sunday, maintaining a 3 point lead over PAOK in the Greek league playoffs. Marcus Berg scored with a header in the 51st minute and led Panathinaikos to victory. Berg connected to a cross from the...

A new piece of legislation tabled in Parliament on Friday would sacrifice a section of a major park located in the Athens suburb of Nea Filadelfia for AEK to build a new soccer stadium. The draft law proposes that AEK will be allowed to use 6,000...

Violent incidents between so-called 'supporters' of Panathinaikos and PAOK Salonika marred the Greek Super League play-off in Athens on Sunday as rival groups of thugs threw flares and seats at each other and the riot police. The game at the Apostolos Nikolaidis stadium was delayed by...

Panathinaikos is the new Greek Cup title-holder after beating PAOK at Athens' Olympic Stadium on Saturday, April 26th, 2014. Marcus Berg scored a hat trick to lead Panathinaikos to a 4-1 triumph in the 18th Greek Cup final. The other...

Greek police are taking severe measures in order to deal with the final match of the Greek Football Cup between the teams of PAOK and Panathinaikos (PAO), which will take place this Saturday at 8pm at the OAKA Stadium...

  Greek Police arrested seven people on Wednesday in Thessaloniki, north Greece for alleged participation in the hooliganism that marred the feisty – and fishy – Greek Cup semi-final between PAOK and Olympiakos. The suspects allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at the Greek police officers...

The Greek Cup semi-final second leg match between PAOK and Olympiakos was held up for over an hour on Wednesday after PAOK fans set the Greek champions' bench on fire. PAOK won 1-0 to overturn its 2-1 deficit from the...

While Olympiakos lifted its 41st championship title, secured last month with games to spare, in front of a home crowd at the Karaiskakis Stadium Sunday, their 1-0 victory in the last fixture of the season also doomed their opponents, Apollon Smyrnis, to relegation...

As the Fifa World Cup 2014 in Brazil closes in, US news agency Associated Press reports Greece’s national football team as  “a rare success story in a country struck by financial crisis that battered everything from public health to achievement in most...

Fifteen years ago, at the height of the NATO bombing of Serbia, one of Greece’s top football teams, AEK Athens defied an international embargo and traveled to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, to play a friendly match against FC Partizan in a show of...

A new political is unfolding Monday concerning the candidates for the forthcoming municipal elections in Piraeus. Many eminent citizens of Piraeus, along with local forums, are urging shipping tycoon and chairman of Olympiakos FC, Vangelis Marinakis, to run for mayor, a move that would...

  Just a day after celebrating its 100th anniversary, Aris, one of Greece's best-known football clubs, has been relegated to the second division for only the third time in its history. Ergotelis F.C delivered the final blow, sealing Aris' fate with a painful 0-2 victory...

A Greek government minister has tabled a bill that would allow the construction of AEK Athens' new stadium “Hagia Sophia.” As the Greek sports newspaper “Ora ton Spor” (Time for Sports) reports, the Greek Minister of Environment Energy and Climate Change,...

Robin Van Persie scored a clinical hat-trick to secure the 3-0 win Manchester United needed to progress past Olympiakos into the last eight of the Champions League at Old Trafford on Wednesday night. The two-goal lead taken into the game...

The Greek national team lost the friendly match against South Korea 0-2. Greece failed to impress and surely needs a lot of improvement in order to keep up with the upcoming challenge of the World Cup. This was the...