Greece

Liverpool FC, the current Premier League Champions, have signed the Greek defender Konstantinos Tsimikas, taking him away from the Olympiacos team and adding him to its powerful roster. He will reportedly wear #21 for his new side. Tsimikas, who is 24...

The Greek government on Wednesday has given permission to the country's Super League to restart the football season on June 6. A maximum of 300 spectators would be allowed into the grounds. Football came to an abrupt end at the...

Olympiacos celebrated one of its biggest achievements in its history by overturning a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Piraeus to win 2-1 in London on Thursday and secure a place in the last 16 of the Europa Cup. Youseff El...

Hundreds of people attended a ceremony on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the tragic deaths of 21 football fans on February 8, 1981. The Karaiskakis Stadium disaster is the biggest football tragedy in Greece’s history, and among the worst...

Speaking before the Greek Parliament on Thursday evening, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that his administration will seek an agreement with the international and European governing bodies of football to address issues with the country's troubled Superleague. Greece aims to draft...

Football transfer procedures always involve a great deal of money by anyone's measure, and Greek football players and clubs know that very well. These amounts of money seem to increase every single year, with Greek and foreign football clubs spending more...

PAOK Thessaloniki won the final of the Greek Cup against AEK Athens with a score of 1-0 on Saturday night at the Olympic Stadium of Athens, OAKA. This is the third consecutive year that PAOK wins the Greek Cup, against...

Much maligned in recent years, Greek football got a shot in the arm on Wednesday with two of the country's clubs fighting their way through to the playoffs of the UEFA Champions League. From a situation before the summer when...

It was 4 July 2004 when Greece's national football team did the unthinkable: They won the European Cup, sending millions of Greeks across the world into ecstasy. The Greek underdogs beat hosts Portugal and Cristiano Ronaldo in the final; they...

Sokratis Papastathopoulos, captain of Greece's national team, became the highest-paid Greek football player after he signed a three-year contract with English side Arsenal for €19 million ($22 million). According to Sport24.gr, Papastathopoulos' club Borussia Dortmund agreed the deal with the...

The Olympiacos family and Greek football in general, are mourning the death of Kostas Polychroniou, a great player and coach, who died of cancer on Friday at the age of 81. Olympiacos Football Club issued a statement saying, "We mourn...

The introduction of a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in Greek football has entered the final stretch with the launch of public consultation for the project. An open electronic international tender to award the contract for the VAR system will be held,...

A football game in the Peloponnese descended into chaos as players got involved in a massive fistfight immediately after the final whistle. The game between Iraklis Kalamata and Chandrinaikos, apparently a top-of-the-table clash in the lower local division of the...

Greece's Super League is facing even more turmoil as reports suggest top-flight Athenian club Panathinaikos' players have downed tools in a strike over salaries. Although the struggling side is expected to play their league game against Atromitos on Sunday, it...

Greek riot police used tear gas on Wednesday to disperse hundreds of football fans who had gathered to protest the state's handling of crisis-hit Greek soccer. Angry Olympiacos supporters gathered outside a conference center where Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos was...