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Panathinaikos Football Club ( greek : ΠΑΕ Παναθηναϊκός Α.Ο. [ panaθinaiˈkos ] ( ) ), known as Panathinaikos, or by its full identify, and the name of its parent sports club, Panathinaikos A.O. or PAO ( Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος ; Panathinaïkós Athlitikós Ómilos, “ All-Athenian acrobatic Club ” ), is a greek master football club based in the capital-city of Athens, Greece.

Created in 1908 as “ Podosfairikos Omilos Athinon ” ( Football Club of Athens ) by Georgios Kalafatis, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] they play in the Super League Greece, being one of the most successful clubs in Greek football and one of three clubs which have never been relegated from the circus tent division. Amongst their major titles are 20 greek Championships, 18 greek Cups, achieving eight times the Double, and 3 greek Super Cups. [ 6 ] They are besides one of the two clubs that won a championship undefeated, going without a personnel casualty in a top-flight campaign in the 1963–64 season. Panathinaikos is besides the most successful greek golf club in terms of achievements in the european competitions. It is the only Greek team that has reached the european Cup ( by and by renamed UEFA Champions League ) final in 1971 ( which they lost to Ajax Amsterdam 2–0 ), and besides the semi-finals twice, in 1985 and 1996. It is besides the only Greek team that has played for the Intercontinental Cup ( 1971 ). Furthermore, they have reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League on another two occasions ( in 1992 and 2002 ), equally well as the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup doubly ( 1988 and 2003 ). They have besides won the Balkans Cup in 1977. Panathinaikos is a penis of the European Club Association. Since the 1950s, the club maintains some of the oldest and most successful academies in Greece, producing endowment for the beginning team and feeding the greek national football team. They have played their home games in the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, considered their traditional home crunch, and the Athens Olympic Stadium. According to researches and polls, Panathinaikos is one of the most democratic football teams in Greece. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] They hold a long-run competition with Olympiacos, the clash between the two teams being referred to as the “ Derby of the ageless enemies. ” [ 10 ]

history [edit ]

early years [edit ]

According to the official history of the cabaret, Panathinaikos was founded by Giorgos Kalafatis on 3 February 1908, when he and 40 other athletes decided to break away from Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos following the club ‘s decisiveness to discontinue its football team. [ 11 ] The appoint of the newfangled cabaret was “ Podosferikos Omilos Athinon ” ( Football Club of Athens ). It was founded with the aim of spreading and making more known this newly sport ( football ) to the athenian and greek public in general. besides, the intention of the founders was to create a team for all of Athens and to be connected with the rest of the European football movement, which was already active agent. [ 12 ] The first gear president elected was Alexandros Kalafatis, brother of Giorgos. The ground of the team was in Patission Street. [ 13 ] Oxford University athlete John Cyril Campbell was brought in as bus, the first base prison term that a foreigner was appointed as the coach of a greek team. [ 13 ] Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, the big greek athlete of the early twentieth hundred, played as goalkeeper for the fresh team .
The first team of 1908 In 1910, after a dispute among a number of circuit board members, Kalafatis with most of the players—also followed by Campbell—decided to pull out of POA and secured a new prime in Amerikis Square. Subsequently, the name of the cabaret changed to Panellinios Podosferikos Omilos ( “ Panhellenic Football Club ” ) and its colours to green and whiten. By 1914, Campbell had returned to England but the club was already at the clear of Greek football with players such as Michalis Papazoglou, Michalis Rokkos and Loukas Panourgias. In 1918, the team adopted the trifolium ( white clover ) as its emblem, as proposed by Michalis Papazoglou. [ 14 ] In 1921 and 1922, the Athens-Piraeus FCA organized the inaugural two post- WWI championships, in both of which PPO was declared supporter. By that stagecoach, the baseball club had outgrown both the grounds in Patission Street and Amerikis Square, due chiefly to its expansion in other sports, and began to look at vacant domain in the area of Perivola on Alexandras Avenue as its electric potential newly grate. [ 14 ] After long discussions with the Municipality of Athens, an agreement was last reached and in 1922 Leoforos ( “ Avenue ” in Greek ) was granted to the club. [ 13 ] The move to a permanent dwelling ground besides heralded another—final—name change to Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (PAO), “ All-Athenian Athletic Club “, on 15 March 1924, [ 13 ] from nowadays on a multi-sport club. however, the decision was already taken by 1922. In 1926, the Hellenic Football Federation ( HFF ) was founded and the beginning greek Championship under its authority took locate in 1927 .
The ace team of 1930 Panathinaikos won undefeated the Championship of 1929–30 under the steering of József Künsztler and Angelos Messaris as the team ‘s ace player. [ 15 ] other luminary players of this Belle Époque period of the team were Antonis Migiakis, Diomidis Symeonidis, Mimis Pierrakos and Stefanos Pierrakos, among others. They thrashed rivals Olympiacos 8–2, a leave that still remains the biggest succeed either team has achieved against its rival, with Messaris scoring three goals. [ 16 ] The team besides defeated Aris 1–4 aside in Thessaloniki. Messaris, who scored again three goals, became a bomber and tone for the fans .

crisis and WWII years [edit ]

In 1931, a good discrepancy between leading board extremity Apostolos Nikolaidis from one side, and some players ( most notably Angelos Messaris ) and club ‘s officials on the other side, [ 14 ] regarding the professionalization in the Greek football, which lasted two years, damaged the club and led to a counterproductive period. In the meanwhile, the HFF Greek Cup had commenced in 1932. The last brilliantly consequence for the Greens before World War II was winning the Cup for the first time in 1940 against Aris, 3–1. In 1940, with the break out of the Greco-Italian War, many players of the club joined the Hellenic Army. Mimis Pierrakos was killed during the war ( late, during the 1950s, his bones were transferred from Albania spinal column to Athens ). During the Axis Occupation of Greece from 1941 to 1944, many players of the team became members of United Panhellenic Organization of Youth ( PEAN ) resistance organization., [ 17 ] while Michalis Papazoglou had a leading role in the resistance group of Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz .P After this long crisis period, Panathinaikos had to wait until 1949 to win again a greek championship under the guidance of the austrian coach Johann Strnad. That lapp year, Vangelis Panakis and Kostas Linoxilakis came to the club and promptly became the side ‘s new star players. Panathinaikos was again champion for the 1952–53 Panhellenic Championship. Until 1959, the team had besides won seven of the end eight Athens Championships, the regional championships organised in Greece. In 1959, Mimis Domazos, the emblematic captain of the team, made his first appearance with Panathinaikos and the lapp year took place the first season under the new system of Alpha Ethniki ( 1959–60 Alpha Ethniki ). Panathinaikos was the champion team .

1960s : The Golden Decade, the Bobek ‘s rejuvenation [edit ]

During the following years, Panathinaikos were again champions in 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1969 and 1970. furthermore, the team won two more greek Cups, in 1967 and 1969. besides, during these years, a hanker work of rejuvenation took place in the clubhouse. luminary players retired, such as Panakis, Linoxilakis, Takis Loukanidis and Andreas Papaemmanouil, and the team had to count on young players like Domazos, Antonis Antoniadis, Anthimos Kapsis, Kostas Eleftherakis and Takis Ikonomopoulos. Stjepan Bobek was the main contributor to this process. In 1963, he became the cabaret ‘s fountainhead coach, changing the playing vogue of the team to a 4–3–3 and created a newly team based on young players ( the “ Bobek ‘s rejuvenation ” ). Under his guidance, Panathinaikos won the championship of 1964 without a loss, making them one of the two teams that has won the greek Championship ( with its mod system ) undefeated. [ 11 ] celebrated players of the team included Panakis, Domazos, Takis Ikonomopoulos, Totis Filakouris, Frangiskos Sourpis and Aristidis Kamaras. With the establishment of the greek military regimen, the president of the united states of the baseball club, Loukas Panourgias, was forced out of the presidency. The contract of Bobek was canceled by the State, while Apostolos Nikolaidis, the old player, coach and official of the clubhouse, went on trial. [ 18 ] In 1967, the big Béla Guttmann came as bus, but he soon left and ex-player Lakis Petropoulos was appointed. Under his guidance, Panathinaikos won the championships of 1969 ( with a doubling ) and 1970 .

Puskás years and the epic poem road to Wembley [edit ]

1970–71 european Cup finalists [edit ]

In 1971, under the steering of Ferenc Puskás, Panathinaikos were 1970–71 european Cup finalists, the first base and only Greek team until nowadays, losing 2–0 to Ajax at Wembley Stadium. [ 11 ] In the road to the final, they eliminated Jeunesse Esch, Slovan Bratislava, Everton and Red Star Belgrade. [ 11 ] [ 19 ] celebrated players included the captain Mimis Domazos, Anthimos Kapsis, Aristidis Kamaras, Kostas Eleftherakis, Totis Filakouris and the goalkeepers Takis Ikonomopoulos and Vasilis Konstantinou. Antonis Antoniadis was the top scorer in the competition scoring ten-spot goals. In the lapp year, Panathinaikos played for the 1971 Intercontinental Cup ( ascribable to the refusal of Ajax to participate ), where they lost to Uruguayan golf club Nacional ( 1–1 in Greece, 2–1 in Uruguay ). [ 20 ] Totis Filakouris was the scorekeeper for the greek clubhouse. During the stopping point amateurish years of Greek football, the Trifolium won one more backing in 1972. Antonis Antoniadis was again lead scorer with 39 goals ( besides second in Europe ). His phonograph record remains until nowadays in the Greek league. With the collapse of the military regimen, Apostolos Nikolaidis became again active for the baseball club and was appointed honorary president of Panathinaikos. In 1975, one of the greatest coaches of his era, the brazilian Aymoré Moreira, who chiefly worked in Brazil ( World Cup Champion with the brazilian national team in 1962 ), was appointed. After a year-and-a-half of poor people results, however, he was replaced by Kazimierz Górski. With Górski, Panathinaikos won the doubling in 1977, followed by a Balkans Cup victory in the same class. [ 21 ] celebrated extraneous players who played for the team during the late 1970s include Juan Ramón Verón, Araquem de Melo and Óscar Álvarez .

Vardinogiannis earned run average ( 1979–2012 ) [edit ]

In 1979, Greek football turned professional. The Vardinogiannis class purchased PAO ‘s football department and Giorgos Vardinogiannis became president. [ 14 ] Panathinaikos were one of the beginning greek clubs that formed a women ‘s team in 1980, but that department is presently inactive. The transformation period lasted a few years, but in 1982 the golf club won its first professional era trophy, the greek Cup, and during the 1980s they would go on winning two championships ( 1984, 1986 ), four more greek Cups ( 1984, 1986—with a 4–0 against Olympiacos in the final—, 1988, 1989 ) and the Greek Super Cup in 1988. The great star of the team during these years was Dimitris Saravakos, nicknamed “ The Kid. ” Saravakos, a high-technique explosive midfielder and iconic captain of Panathinaikos, was the alsolute idol for the fans during the 1980s, while early players included Nikos Sarganis, Spiros Livathinos, Velimir Zajec, Juan Ramón Rocha, Christos Dimopoulos and Giannis Kyrastas. In the 1984–85 season, Panathinaikos, with bus Jacek Gmoch and stars Dimitris Saravakos, Velimir Zajec, Juan Ramón Rocha and Ioannis Kyrastas, made a run in Europe, eliminating Feyenoord, Linfield and IFK Göteborg to reach the semi-finals of the european Cup, where they were knocked out by Liverpool. [ 11 ] In 1987–88, they made it besides to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, eliminating Juventus, Auxerre and Budapest Honvéd. Dimitris Saravakos was top scorer of the competition. The 1990s were an even more successful period for the clubhouse, both nationally and internationally. Four greek championships ( 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996 ), four greek Cups ( 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995 ) and two greek Super Cups ( 1993, 1994 ) were awarded to the club. In the 1991–92 season, Panathinaikos reached besides the last eight of the european Cup and took depart in the first ever european tournament to have a group stage. [ 22 ] In 1995–96, with Juan Ramon Rocha as coach and key players Krzysztof Warzycha, Józef Wandzik, Stratos Apostolakis, Georgios Georgiadis, Dimitris Markos, Giannis Kalitzakis, Giorgos Donis and Juan Jose Borrelli, Panathinaikos reached the Champions League semi-finals, finishing first in the group stage against Nantes, Porto, Aalborg BK and eliminating Legia Warsaw in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, Panathinaikos faced Ajax, recording an impressive 0–1 first base leg aside victory with Krzysztof Warzycha scoring the winning goal. Ajax had a read of 22 undefeated international matches until then, with Panathinaikos breaking their serial. The greek team, however, suffered a 0–3 defeat on the second leg. frankincense, Panathinaikos was denied introduction to a Champions League final once more .
In the summer of 2000, President Giorgos Vardinogiannis resigned from his duties with complaints for the refereeing situation in Greece and passed his shares to his nephew Giannis Vardinogiannis, who changed the style of the cabaret ‘s management. Angelos Anastasiadis was initially appointed bus of the team and late the ex-player Giannis Kyrastas. With the arrival of coach Sergio Markarian, Panathinaikos reached the quarter-finals of the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League, being eliminated by Barcelona. Panathinaikos had passed the first group stage as the exceed club against Arsenal, Mallorca and Schalke 04, and the second gear group stage as second against Real Madrid, Porto and Sparta Prague. In the inaugural stage of the quarter-finals, Panathinaikos managed to defeat Barcelona by 1–0 in Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium. [ 23 ] The second peg in Camp Nou was to be an consequential one. Panathinaikos scored first thanks to a beautiful goal by Michalis Konstantinou but finally was eliminated as Barcelona scored three goals. [ 24 ] Ιn Europe, Panathinaikos made it to the quarter-finals of UEFA Cup quarter-finals. En route, the Greek team had knocked-out Litex Lovech, Fenerbahçe ( with an impressive 4–1 succeed in Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium ), Slovan Liberec and Anderlecht. During the quarter-finals, although winning the first base match in Estádio hyrax Antas against eventual winners of the trophy FC Porto of José Mourinho, with the header of Emmanuel Olisadebe, they were eliminated in the moment leg after extra fourth dimension. [ 25 ] celebrated players of this team included Takis Fyssas, Giorgos Karagounis, Antonis Nikopolidis, Angelos Basinas, Nikos Lyberopoulos, Michalis Konstantinou, Giourkas Seitaridis, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Paulo Sousa, Goran Vlaović, Rene Henriksen, Joonas Kolkka, Jan Michaelsen and Emmanuel Olisadebe, considered by the fans one of the best teams in the club ‘s history. During 2002–03 Alpha Ethniki season, they lost the greek championship in the death two games by arch-rivals Olympiacos. Under the guidance of Israeli coach Itzhak Shum, Panathinaikos managed to win the championship in 2004. [ 26 ] They won besides the Cup, beating Olympiacos 3–1 in the final, making the double. [ 27 ] New players like Ezequiel González, Lucian Sanmartean and Markus Münch had signed the summer before. In the Champions League, they came third base in the group stage facing Manchester United, VfB Stuttgart and Rangers. however, Shum was unexpectedly fired early in the adjacent season ( 2004–05 ) and Zdeněk Ščasný succeeded him on the bench. Panathinaikos finished second in the championship, while in the Champions League they came again third in the group phase facing Rosenborg, PSV and Arsenal. They continued in the UEFA Cup, where they were eliminated by Sevilla. In 2005, major changes were made in the team ‘s roll. Players like Angelos Basinas and Michalis Konstantinou departed, while others like Flávio Conceição, Igor Bišćan and Andreas Ivanschitz arrived. Ščasný gave his seat to Alberto Malesani. At the start of the 2006–07 season, Malesani left the team and was replaced by Hans Backe, who left only three months after his appointee ; Víctor Muñoz was his successor. For the 2007–08 season, Panathinaikos hired José Peseiro .
On 22 April 2008, and under coerce from the fan base, chief stockholder Giannis Vardinogiannis gave a press league in which he announced the decision of his syndicate to reduce their share in the club to 50 % —after 30 years of fully ownership—through an €80 million increase of the caller ‘s capital stock. After the negotiations and the partake capital increase, the Vardinogiannis family would hold 56 % of the golf club, the amateurish Club 10 % and the other shareholders 34 % ( with independent investors Andreas Vgenopoulos, Pavlos Giannakopoulos, Adamantios Polemis and Nikos Pateras ). Nikos Pateras was selected to be the raw president of the united states of the golf club .
Following the major changes in 2008, Panathinaikos hired Henk ten Cate as coach and bought many expensive players, such as Gilberto Silva from Arsenal and Gabriel from Fluminense. In the 2008–09 season, the Greens proved that they could hold their weight in the Champions League by reaching the last 16. however, they disappointed in the greek Championship, finishing third in the regular season, though they managed to come second overall after the playoff mini-league. The 2009–10 season was a successful one for Panathinaikos. During the summer transmit period, the golf club bought Djibril Cissé from Marseille, Kostas Katsouranis from Benfica, Sebastián Leto from Liverpool and versatile early players, spending more than €35 million in total. Henk ten-spot Cate leave in December to be replaced by Nikos Nioplias. The team managed to reach the end 16 of the Europa League, eliminating A.S. Roma after two perplex matches in Olympic Stadium of Athens and Stadio Olimpico. [ 28 ] Panathinaikos besides won both the greek Championship and the greek Cup, beating Aris by 1–0 in the final of the latter, thanks to a goal by Sebastián Leto. [ 29 ] In 2011, due to fiscal problems and management disagreements, Panathinaikos sold Cissé for €5.8 million to Lazio and first-choice goalkeeper Alexandros Tzorvas to Palermo to reduce the budget. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] New players then entered, such as Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Toché, Vitolo and Zeca. The club besides changed their president and chose Dimitris Gontikas to be the new president. Panathinaikos failed to qualify to the group stage of 2011–12 Champions League after they were knocked out by Odense BK 4–5 on aggregate .

recent years ( 2012– ) [edit ]

Panathinaikos ‘ downfall continued as a result of the serious riots in the Panathinaikos–Olympiacos bowler hat of 18 March 2012. The integral board leave office and Panathinaikos remained brainless for about two months. [ 32 ] however, the owner of Skai TV, Giannis Alafouzos, devised a plan to take Vardinogiannis ‘ shares ( 54.7 % ) and make them available to fans around Greece so that everyone could contribute a craved come, so that Panathinaikos could overcome the crisis. [ 33 ] His design seemed to be working, as a new 20-member board was elected with Dimitris Gontikas at the president of the united states ‘s professorship again, [ 34 ] though it was yet to be seen how the fans would respond to Panathinaikos ‘ name for help. On 2 July 2012, the PAO Alliance 2012 [ 35 ] ultimately opened to the public indeed that everyone could be a penis and contribute a craved measure in recurrence for privileges. After a few weeks of process, 8,606 members had signed up, some of which were stream or early Panathinaikos players, including Jean-Alain Boumsong, Sotiris Ninis, Gilberto Silva and Djibril Cissé, among others. On 18 July 2012, marked a historic day in Panathinaikos history, as Giannis Vardinogiannis gave his shares—54.7 % of Panathinaikos—to the Panathinaikos Alliance, thereby allowing Panathinaikos to have a clean beginning with their own fans at the steering wheel, who through elections ( amongst the members of the Alliance ) they compose the board of directors and elect the club ‘s president of the united states. The inaugural president elected was Giannis Alafouzos. The first season with the Panathinaikos Alliance at the helm was nothing short of abysmal for the club. While still enduring fiscal troubles, Panathinaikos finished sixth in the championship and failed to qualify for the european rival for the foremost time in 16 years .
For the 2013–14 season, the membership had risen up to 9,305 members. Starting the football year, both fans and journalists were identical doubting of Panathinaikos ‘ chances of a successful season, and many people expected the team to suffer relegation from the Super League Greece. [ citation needed ] In May 2013, Yannis Anastasiou was appointed director, and he planned a team based on players from the Panathinaikos Youth Academies joined by know foreign players looking to revive their careers. Despite the early incredulity, Panathinaikos ‘ fans supported the team through the harsh originate, and the season turned out to be a massive success in alight of the awful fiscal situation of the club and the young and inexperienced squad. The club finished fourth in the regular season and second after the playoffs ( meaning they qualified for the 2014–15 Champions League ), with Marcus Berg the circus tent scorer of the team. Panathinaikos besides won the 2013–14 Greek Football Cup after a 4–1 win over PAOK. [ 36 ] On 2 November 2015, after bad performances and a home trace with AEK Athens, coach Yannis Anastasiou was sacked and replaced by Andrea Stramaccioni. Further consecutive hapless results under the latter ‘s reign, combined with loss of dressing room control, led to the judgment of dismissal of Stramaccioni on 1 December 2016, with former Panathinaikos actor and Greece international Marinos Ouzounidis taking over the management at the club. Ouzounidis had some great moments with Panathinaikos and was broadly liked by the fans. His resignation, due to problems with owner Giannis Alafouzos sparked another roll of disappointment and hatred against Alafouzos from the fans. On 24 April 2018 UEFA decided to exclude Panathinaikos FC from participating in the next UEFA baseball club rival for which it would otherwise qualify in the adjacent three seasons as a leave of Financial Fair Play breaches [ 37 ] Giorgos Donis was announced as the new coach on 3 July 2018. [ 38 ] Coach Donis had a great startle of the temper despite beginning with −6 points in the championship, counting 6 consecutive wins that put Panathinaikos on top of the table. however, due to problems with his wage and a collide with Giannis Alafouzos, he was forced to resign in 2019. This situation made the relations between Alafouzos and the fans worse, [ 39 ] with protests and demonstrations during games against him. Panathinaikos remained one of the top cabaret in Greece, but its absence from european tournaments was a major gene in the fans ‘ disappointment with the ownership. During the summer of 2020, a series of bad decisions were made from Giannis Alafouzos, who chose to let most of the players that had contributed to a very good temper go. [ 40 ] Spaniard Dani Poyatos signed on as head of the club on 22 July 2020 for two years, taking over from George Donis ‘ work. [ 41 ] Poyatos was sacked after a poor begin of the season on 12 October and was replaced by László Bölöni. [ 42 ] After a disappoint one-fifth military position in the league and the failure to guide them to a european qualification blemish Bölöni was sacked and replaced by Ivan Jovanović. [ 43 ]

Crest and colours [edit ]

Crest evolution [edit ]

White was the color that was first used by the team in 1908 ( credibly like that of the foremost crest ). The first symbol of the club was an association football ball of the earned run average. In 1911, the colours changed to green and white. In 1918, Michalis Papazoglou proposed the trifolium, symbol of harmony, oneness, nature and good luck, as emblem of Panathinaikos. [ 44 ] The officials of the club were looking for a universal, non-nationalistic or localistic, symbol aiming to represent the whole Athens at the state and farther at the earth. [ 45 ] Papazoglou used to have it sewn on his shirt since he was competing for a club in his native Chalcedon, Constantinople ( contemporary Istanbul, Turkey ). [ 46 ] He was possibly inspired by Billy Sherring, an irish canadian athlete who had won the Athens 1906 Olympic marathon ( 1906 Intercalated Games ) wearing a white outfit with a bad greens common wood sorrel on the thorax. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] [ 49 ] Georgios Chatzopoulos, member—and later president—of the club and director of the National Gallery, took over to design the newly emblem for the team. Up to the end of the 1970s, a trifolium ( green or flannel ) was sewed on heart ‘s side of the jersey and was large in size. With the begin of professionalism, the peak of the F.C. was created, accompanied by the golf club initials and the year of establish, 1908. [ 46 ] Until today, the team ‘s traditional colours are green and white ( green for health, nature, such as physiolatry, and white for merit ), although the white sometimes is omitted, used as pare or as an option. During the first years after the administration of k as Panathinaikos ‘ basal colour, players were wearing park shirts, white shorts and fleeceable socks. During the 1930s, an appearance with characteristic horizontal plunder was established. This motivative was used besides in the future decades as primary or second choice. Since then, the uniform style has changed many times, but green has always remained the team ‘s primary color .
Since 1979, when football became professional in Greece, Panathinaikos had a particular kit manufacturer and since 1983 a specific shirt patron a well. The following mesa shows in contingent Panathinaikos kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors by year :
Panathinaikos FC shirt history Panathinaikos alternative shirt ( 2008 )

Stadiums and facilities [edit ]

Panathinaikos ‘ traditional home ground since the early 1920s is the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, the oldest active agent football stadium in Greece, in the Ampelokipoi zone of cardinal Athens. The stadium is located on Alexandras Avenue and is most normally referred to as Leoforos ( Greek for “ Avenue ” ). It is considered one of the most historic stadiums in Greece, as it was used by the Greek national team as home ground for many years ( most recently for the UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying matches ) and even by Panathinaikos ‘ biggest rivals, AEK Athens and Olympiacos, on assorted occasions. Panathinaikos left Leoforos in 1984 to play in the newly built Athens Olympic Stadium. In 2000, then-club president of the united states Angelos Filippidis announced a tax return to the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, following a €7 million renovation. capacitance was reduced from 25,000 to 16,620, raw dressing rooms were built and modular stand roof was added in submission with UEFA requirements, but in 2004, nonindulgent standards were announced and the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium would need far expansion were it to remain desirable for UEFA-sanctioned matches. This was precluded by local zoning regulations and the team had to return to the Olympic Stadium once more until a new stadium, the proposed Votanikos Arena, was built. The Leoforos grate was ascribable for destruction. On 27 January 2007, the board of Panathinaikos decided to reuse the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium for the team ‘s 2007–08 domestic league and UEFA Cup home games. additionally, the clubhouse officials decided to install newly lawn, new seats and upgrade the wardrobe conference room and the restrooms. As of October 2013, and due to the cabaret ‘s and the state ‘s fiscal troubles, the construction of the Votanikos Arena has stopped and consequently the plans for the demolition of the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium have been put on defend. After another five-year spell at the Olympic Stadium, the team has returned to its traditional home ground once again. The current president of the club, Giannis Alafouzos, declared his intention for another renovation of the stadium and the capacity increase, while the Panathinaikos Movement made its propositions for a sum reconstruction. In 2019 the owner of Panathinaikos basketball team presented a fund design for the construction of the new football and basketball stadiums. The greek government confirmed in 2020 the construction of the newly stadiums in the Votanikos area to be completed by 2024 .
Paiania has been the train earth of Panathinaikos since 1981. That like class, the Academy of the cabaret was reorganized, becoming one of the best in the nation and feeding the first team with noteworthy players, such as Giorgos Karagounis, Angelos Basinas, Sotirios Kyrgiakos and Sotiris Ninis among others, key members of the Greek national team. In 2013, was decided the be active of the cabaret from the previous train plaza of Paiania to a new one, owned by the team. Located in the area of Koropi, Georgios Kalafatis Sports Center became a modern train labor and Academy base of Panathinaikos .

fiscal data [edit ]

Until 1979, football in Greece was still in amateur tied. The team, such as the early departments of Panathinaikos A.O., depended on the fiscal documentation of the club ‘s members, while the president of the united states ( responsible for all athletic departments ) was elected by the Board members. In 1979, the Greek football turned professional and the Vardinogiannis kin purchased the football department. Giorgos Vardinogiannis became the newly president. [ 14 ] Vardinogiannis family were the owners of the baseball club the next decades. On 22 April 2008, and under pressure from the sports fan infrastructure, main stockholder Giannis Vardinogiannis gave a press league in which he announced the decision of his class to reduce their partake in the baseball club to 50 % —after 30 years of full ownership—through an €80 million increase of the company ‘s capital stock. After the negotiations and the plowshare capital addition, the Vardinogiannis family would hold 56 % of the club, the amateur Club 10 % ( as ahead ) and the new shareholders 34 %. Pavlos Giannakopoulos, Nikos Pateras, Adamantios Polemis and Andreas Vgenopoulos were the main investors, plus other minor shareholders. Nikos Pateras was selected to be the new president of the united states. In 2011, due to fiscal problems and management disagreements, the focus decided to reduce the budget and sell many players. In 2012, the owner of Skai TV, Giannis Alafouzos, devised a plan to take Vardinogiannis ‘ shares ( 54.7 % ) and make them available to fans around Greece so that everyone could contribute, so that Panathinaikos could overcome the crisis. [ 33 ] His intention was to create a raw, for the Greek athletic standards, supporter-owned football club. On 2 July 2012, the Panathenaic Alliance finally opened to the populace so that everyone could be a extremity and contribute a craved sum in return for privileges. A few days late, Giannis Vardinogiannis gave his shares—54.7 % of Panathinaikos—to the Alliance, while the early shareholders maintained their percentage. The members of the Alliance through elections compose the display panel of directors and elect the cabaret ‘s president. The inaugural president elected was Giannis Alafouzos. In 2013, was decided the travel of the team from the previous discipline plaza of Paiania to a new one, owned by the clubhouse. Located in the area of Koropi, Georgios Kalafatis Sports Center became the fresh trail ground and academy base of Panathinaikos. For the 2014–15 temper, the membership had risen astir to 8,495 members contributing a full of €2,680,041 .

Season

Members

% Difference

Contribution

2012–13
8,606
–
€2,325,608

2013–14
9,305
+8.1 %
€2,580,836

2014–15
8,495
-8.7 %
€2,680,041

2015–16
8,802
+3.6 %
€905,265

2016–17
8,060
-8.4 %
€1,027,748

Panathinaikos presently is partially supporter-owned football club. According to the latest accounts in 2016 Panathenaic Alliance shares have been reduced to ( 15 % ), Giannis Alafouzos through Sortivo International Ltd and his own shares is the largest stockholder at ( 74 % ). [ 50 ] Giannis Alafouzos suddenly decided to quit the team in September 2017, announcing his departure in a written affirmation and inviting potential investors to express their interest in buying the team. stream sponsorships :

Supporters [edit ]

Panathinaikos was founded by middle class athletes ( with Giorgos Kalafatis as a samara figure ) aim of spreading and making more know football to the athenian and greek populace in general. besides, their intention was to create a team for all of Athens and to be connected with the rest of the European football motion, which was already active. [ 12 ] today, according to UEFA and numerous polls and researches by the biggest newspapers and poll companies in a couple of 20 years, Panathinaikos is the second most popular football team in Greece, with the difference behind Olympiacos to be varied between 2 % to 9 % and the remainder in front of the third base to be fluctuated between 17 % to 21 % among the fans. [ 7 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 8 ] [ 53 ] [ 9 ] They have the highest popularity in Athens metropolitan area [ 54 ] according to many of the represent polls, having besides a big fanbase in all greek prefectures, in Cyprus and in the greek diaspora. They historically have a large fanbase among the highly-educated Greek upper berth classify ( traditionally representing the erstwhile athenian company ), while they are besides popular among the middle and lower classes. Panathinaikos supporters hold both records of the most season tickets sales ( 31,091 in 2010 ) and highest average attendance for a unique season ( 44,942 in 1985–86 ) in the history of Greek football. The main organized supporters of Panathinaikos are known as Gate 13 ( established 1966 ), [ 55 ] the oldest sports fan association in Greece, which consists of around 80 clubs aboard Greece and Cyprus. [ 56 ] Gate 13 expressive style of supporting includes the use of green fireworks, large and modest green flags, displaying of banners and particularly the creation of colorful and large choreographies, noisy and ceaseless cheering and other supporters stuff. Gate 13 has over the years become a separate of the baseball club by affecting club decisions and by following the club on all occasions. They share a traditional friendship with Ultras Rapid Wien, [ 57 ] based chiefly on the common green and white colours. furthermore, they have been sharing since the early 10s ‘ close relations with Dinamo Zagreb ‘s Bad Blue Boys [ 58 ] ( based on their common competition with Red Star and Olympiacos fans, capital city teams and common obedience for each other ‘s ultras achievements ) and besides with Fedayin of A.S. Roma based on the capital city team component, their reciprocal esteem and the ancient Athens and ancient Roma cultural connection. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] PALEFIP ( Panhellenic golf club of Panathinaikos friends ) is another supporters organization. [ 61 ] Panathenaic Alliance, a corporate administration of the fan base, is the major stockholder of the football baseball club, making it presently the only supporter-owned football club in Greece. The members of the Alliance, through elections, compose the board of directors and elect the cabaret ‘s president of the united states. Panathinaikos Movement, founded in 2012, is besides a greek political party founded by people with an initial common their sexual love for the sports cabaret of Panathinaikos and the wish for a raw stadium for the football team, despite the bureaucracy of the greek state .

Seasons in the twenty-first hundred [edit ]

Season

Category

Position

Cup

2000–01

Alpha Ethniki

2nd

QF

2001–02

Alpha Ethniki

3rd

R16

2002–03

Alpha Ethniki

2nd

QF

2003–04

Alpha Ethniki

1st

C

2004–05

Alpha Ethniki

2nd

R16

2005–06

Alpha Ethniki

3rd

R32

2006–07

Super League

3rd

RU

2007–08

Super League

2nd

R16

2008–09

Super League

2nd

QF

2009–10

Super League

1st

C

2010–11

Super League

2nd

QF

2011–12

Super League

2nd

R16

2012–13

Super League

6th

R16

2013–14

Super League

2nd

C

2014–15

Super League

2nd

R16

2015–16

Super League

3rd

QF

2016–17

Super League

3rd

SF

2017–18

Super League

11th

R16

2018–19

Super League

8th

R16

2019–20

Super League

4th

QF

2020–21

Super League

5th

QF

identify : R32 = Round of 32, R16 = Round of 16, QF = Quarter-finals, SF = Semi-finals, RU = Runners up, C = Champions .

Statistics and records [edit ]

Mimis Domazos holds the read for Panathinaikos appearances, having played 502 first-team matches between 1959 and 1980. [ 62 ] Striker Krzysztof Warzycha comes second, having played 390 times. [ 63 ] The record for a goalkeeper is held by Takis Ikonomopoulos, with 303 appearances. [ 64 ] Krzysztof Warzycha is the club ‘s top goalscorer with 288 goals in all competitions between 1989 and 2004, [ 65 ] having surpassed Antonis Antoniadis ‘ total of 180 in January 1998. [ 66 ] Panathinaikos record home attendance is 74,493, for a greek League match against AEK Athens in 1986 at the Olympic Stadium. [ 67 ] The record attendance for a Panathinaikos match at the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium is from 1967, when 29,665 spectators watched the Cup Winners ‘ Cup game between Panathinaikos and Bayern Munich. [ 68 ] Panathinaikos is one of the two clubs in the history of Greek football to finish a top-flight ( after 1959 ) campaign unbeaten. This happened in the 1963–64 season. [ 69 ]
One-Club players

Super League top scorers [edit ]

Most goals in a season [edit ]

Nationality

Player

Goals

Season

1
Greece
Antonis Antoniadis
39 goals (Greek record)
1971–72 (also second -less one goal- in Europe, “Silver Boot”)

circus tent scorers in european competitions [edit ]

Uefa Champions League

Nationality

Player

Times

Seasons

1
Greece
Antonis Antoniadis
1
1970–71

UEFA Cup

Nationality

Player

Times

Seasons

1
Greece
Dimitris Saravakos
1
1987–88

Domestic team ‘s records [edit ]

International record [edit ]

Honours [edit ]

domestic [edit ]

european competitions [edit ]

Worldwide competitions [edit ]

Doubles [edit ]

  • Winners (8): 1968–69, 1976–77, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1990–91, 1994–95, 2003–04, 2009–10

Trebles [edit ]

  • Winners (1):1976-77

1976–77 Alpha Ethniki, 1976–77 Greek Football Cup, 1977 Balkans Cup

regional [edit ]

Players [edit ]

current squad [edit ]

As of 20 September 2021[78]

eminence : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on lend [edit ]

eminence : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Panathinaikos B and Academy [edit ]

retire numbers [edit ]

13 – Ιn respect of Gate 13

early players [edit ]

contribution to the Greek national team [edit ]

overall, Panathinaikos has a significant contribution to the greek home football team. Giorgos Kalafatis, the founder of Panathinaikos, was the member of the Greek national team that participated in the Inter-Allied Games in Paris, while late he was besides a player/manager for Greece in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. During the next decades, Panathinaikos highlighted some of the best greek players in the history of Greek football, who contributed besides to the national team ( Migiakis, Linoxilakis, Loukanidis, Domazos, Antoniadis, Kapsis, Ikonomopoulos, Saravakos and so forth ). Six Panathinaikos players were members of the beginning appearance of the national team in a World Cup in 1994 ( Saravakos, Kolitsidakis, Apostolakis, Kalitzakis, Nioplias, Marangos ). Five players of the club were depart of the golden team of 2004 that won the UEFA Euro 2004 ( UEFA Euro 2004 ) : Giourkas Seitaridis, Angelos Basinas, Giannis Goumas, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Kostas Chalkias ( he did not play in any match ) .

Personnel [edit ]

management [edit ]

technical staff [edit ]

Club staff [edit ]

gallery [edit ]

See besides [edit ]

Sports
Other

References [edit ]

Official websites
News sites
Media