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Olympiakos celebrated its 11th championship win on Sunday, June 14, and its third win over its main rival Panathinaikos with a score of 93-74 in the third game of the playoff finals. During the match that took place at the...

The Faroe Islands defeated Greece once again in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying Group F. Greece, who were the 2004 European champions saw their last hopes to advance to Euro 2016 finals eliminated. The hosts went 2-0 ahead with a goal...

Greek Sports Minister Stavros Kontonis characterized the Athens Olympic Games "a bad example" in an interview to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency on the occasion of the European Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Kontonis said that the way the Olympic Games were organized and the...

Greek football club Olympiakos has laid off their Portuguese coach Vitor Pereira after just six months during which the team won the Greek Championship and the Football Cup. According to Greek media, Pereira had been having talks with the Scottish club Rangers, a fact...

FIFA said it has suspended the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup because of the ongoing corruption scandal involving the world football governing body. It would be "nonsense to start any bidding process for the time being," FIFA Secretary...

Greek football player Kyriakos Papadopoulos has transferred to Bayer Leverkusen permanently after signing a five year contract. At the beginning of his career the 23-year-old defender used to play for Olympiakos, before joining Schalke 04 in 2010. On August 2014,...

The finale of the King Cup football tournament between Al-Nasr and Al-Hilal teams at King Abdullah Stadium in Jeddah on Friday took a happy turn with the help of the Greek football coach Giorgos Donis. Al-Hilal beat Al-Nasr 7-6 in a penalty...

Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday, four days after being re-elected to a fifth term. Blatter, 79, announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested...

Ghana international and former Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien arrived in Athens on Monday night to join Panathinaikos F.C. after the Athens-based club secured a Champions League spot last weekend. The 32-year-old football player is expected to begin the next chapter of his career...

Greek football club AEK was finally able to return to the country’s top football league, two years after the club’s financial collapse which caused it to fall to a lower league. AEK was able to achieve its second consecutive promotion...

The stars who made the difference in the Greek football arena during the Super League championship for the 2014/2015 season, according to NOVA, were finally announced. Among them, one can find Panathinaikos coach Yannis Anastasiou, who was named best coach, Argentine footballer playing for...

Greek-British Costas Takkas is one of the FIFA officials who were arrested on Wednesday in Switzerland on charges of corruption. Takkas is a former general secretary of the Cayman Islands football association and has worked as an advisor to CONCACAF...

Olympiakos has won the 27th Greek Football Cup and the 17th Double in the club’s history, after playing at the Olympic Stadium in Athens against Skoda Xanthi. The match ended with Olympiakos scoring 3 goals, while Skoda Xanthi scored 1. This...

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) sent positive feedback concerning the changes in Greece's new sports law, dropping the threat of a Greek soccer's "Grexit" from all future international tournaments. In a letter made public by the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) on Friday, FIFA expressed its satisfaction on...

Olympiacos lost its chance to win a 4th European Basketball Championship, as Real Madrid​ beat the Greek team 78-59 and became the 2015 Euroleague Champion. With more than 2,000 Greeks on their side, the Piraeus team was able to sporadically stun the Spanish defense...