Soccer

Olympiacos beat its most important enemy Panathinaikos in a race to win once again the Greek Championship. The game did not offer much spectacle to the tens of thousands of fans that were in the Apostolos Nikolaidis stadium in Athens....

Greece will play against Romania in next month's 2014 World Cup qualifying playoffs for one space among the 32 teams in Brazil next summer. The first leg of the clash will take place in Athens on Friday Nov. 15. Greece...

Despite a 2-0 victory to Liechtenstein on Tuesday, Greece had to settle for a place in the World Cup qualifying play-offs as their bid to overhaul Bosnia-Herzegovina at the top of Group G ended in disappointment. Greece took a comfortable...

Greece won the world cup qualifier game over Slovakia with the second team producing own goal in a game that did not offer much spectacle from both sides. However, it was a pivotal match in Group G since Greece was...

A bomb blast occurred shortly after 03:00 in the morning outside the Athens offices of a fan club for Greek Premier League football club Panathinaikos in Petralona, at the intersection of Alkifronos and Kiriadon streets. According to information, the local...

Two months after the government turned off the public television network and fired all 2,656 of its workers in an economy move, the interim station began airing news programs on Aug. 21 and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) stopped...

Javier Saviola, a 31-year-old Argentinian soccer player, has joined Olympiacos Piraeus and will sign a two-year contract with the club worth 1.6 million euros ($2.1 million) and received a bonus of 400,000, about $527,000 as well. Arriving at Athens International...

Greece's rising young soccer stars have made it in the knockout round of the last 16 teams participating in the FIFA U-20 World Cup , held in Turkey that runs through 13, after tying Paraguay, 1-1. That came after...

The Greek National football (soccer) team will debut a new uniform in a game against Lithuania on June 7, switching to Nike gear, from the company that became famous four decades ago with running shoes and adopted the name...

Kalloni, a small town in the west-central part of the island of Lesvos, will see its soccer team play next year in the Greek Super League only five years after the club came into existence. The team plays in a...

Olympiakos completed its sixth double in the last decade winning a record 26th Greek Cup when it beat Asteras Tripolis 3-1 in the final on Saturday. Watch Olympiacos' players receiving the cup: TzqyEiJJ3Co The game was attended by almost 40.000 spectators at...

The coach of the Greek football club PAOK, Giorgos Donis was dismissed on April 29, as PAOK announced, after the team was eliminated in the Greek Cup semi-finals by Asteras Tripolis on April 27. According to sources, Donis has sent...

Fabri Gonzalez has joined a growing list of coaches at the beleaguered once-dominant Greek soccer team Panathinaikos to get the boot, the third one this year to be sacked this season after disappointing results, and after he said some...

Demis Nikolaidis, former AEK Athens player and president, testified to the police on March 28 regarding the club’s unpaid taxes, and was released to give testimony next week to the Athens public prosecutor. "I gave myself to the authorities of...

AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis scored the winning goal in his team’s 2-1 Super League victory over Veria on Saturday but celebrated by giving the Nazi salute to spectators at the Olympic Stadium. The gesture earned rebukes from politicians, fellow...