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Panathinaikos Handed Heavy Fine Over Olympiacos Game Clashes

Panathinaikos F.C. is likely to lose 1.2 million euros due to the incidents that took place on the day of Greece's biggest soccer derby. The Greek Superleague's disciplinary committee has punished Panathinaikos for the extensive clash that took place before...

11/29/2015: Latest Greek Super League Results with Video

Olympiakos's Kostas Fortounis notched a second-half double as they took advantage of a slip by rivals Panathinaikos to extend their lead at the top of the Super League with a 3-1 home-win over Asteras Tripolis on Sunday. Marco Silva's side, who...

Retired Greek Athlete Piyi Devetzi May Lose Medals for Failed Doping Test

Retired Greek athlete Piyi Devetzi, who competed in the triple jump and long jump competition could lose her bronze and silver Olympic Games medals after failing a doping test. Segas, Greece’s track and field federation, was informed by IAAF, the...

Bayern Munich Thrash Olympiacos in Champions League Encounter

Olympiacos's impressive Champions League run was cut short on Tuesday evening at the Allianz Arena at the feet of Bayern Munich who defeated the Greek team 4-0. Douglas Costa, Robert Lewandowksi, Thomas Muller and Kingsley Coman scored for Bayern Munich, in a victory that...

Panathinaikos President Will Not Resign

Greek businessman Giannis Alafouzos expressed his intention of resigning from his post as active President of Panathinaikos FC on Saturday, November 21, after the incidents that occurred before the Olympiakos-Panathinaikos match. However, he changed his mind after a 3-hour...

11/22/2015: Latest Greek Super League Results with Video

AEK Athens' improvement under new coach Gus Poyet continued with a 2-1 win at Panthrakikos (video) in the Greek championship on Sunday as they went fourth on a weekend overshadowed by violence that saw the Athens derby cancelled. AEK’s win,...

Greek Derby Postponed As Fans Clash with Riot Police (video)

Saturday's "Derby of the Eternal Enemies" was doomed before kick off. The Greek Superleague's fixture between Panathinaikos F.C. and Olympiacos F.C., Greece's most fierce athletic rivalry, was marred by clashes between Panathinakos supporters and riot police, around as well as inside Panathinaikos's Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium,...

Greece's Biggest Soccer Derby Kicks Off

The Greek Superleague is often a competition for bragging rights more than anything else. No other fixture reflects this better than the upcoming clash between Panathinaikos F.C. and Olympiacos F.C., at Panathinaikos's "Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium" on Saturday. "The Derby of the Eternal Enemies",...

Greece and Turkey Play Out Goalless Draw in Istanbul

The men's Greek National Football Team took on the Turkish National Football Team in a friendly exhibition match in Istanbul on Tuesday night. Neither of the two teams were able to break the deadlock in a game that did not produce...

Luxembourg Beat Greece 1 – 0 in Shocking Loss at Coach Skibbe's Debut Match

The debut of Michael Skibbe on Greece's bench was marked by yet another loss of the national football team, as this time they were beaten 1-0 at a friendly game in Luxembourg. Greece's players didn't manage to score again as...

Andrea Stramaccioni Named Coach of Greece's Panathinaikos

Former Inter Milan and Udinese coach Andrea Stramaccioni will be the new coach of Panathinaikos, the Greek Super League club announced on Sunday. The 39-year-old Italian manager has signed a two-year deal with the Athens team to take over from...

11/08/2015: Latest Greek Super League Results with Video

Panionios - Platanias  2 - 1 (video) Kalloni - Xanthi  2 - 2 (video) Atromitos - Panathinaikos  1 - 2 (video) Olympiakos Piraeus - Iraklis  2 - 0 Levadiakos - Veria  1 - 1 (video) PAOK - Panthrakikos  3 - 3 (video) AEK Athens -...

33rd Athens Authentic Marathon Attracts Record Number of Participants

On the occasion of the 33rd Athens Authentic Marathon, a big celebration took place in Athens. The event that took place in the Greek capital attracted a record number of participants. The total number of entries this year reached 43,000 in...

City of Athens Prepares for Sunday's Marathon

The capital of Greece is preparing for Sunday's 33rd Athens Marathon, as athletes from around the world are set to take over the streets of Athens. This year 43,000 people have signed up to run in the various races that take...

Soccer Fans Fight Outside Athens International Airport

Serbian and Croatian organized football supporters clashed outside the Athens International Airport on Thursday afternoon. Around 60 Serbian fans attacked 30 Dinamo Zagreb fans, upon the latter group's arrival at the airport, Kathimerini newspaper reports. Five people are being treated in the airport's...