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Greek international Kostas Manolas sealed a historic Roma comeback to eliminate Lionel Messi's Barcelona from this year's Champions League. Manolas' glancing header on the 82nd minute sparked scenes of pure elation among the locals as Roma overcame a 4-1 deficit...

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 giants Olympiacos Piraeus have named Portuguese manager Pedro Martins as a new coach. Martins, 47, replaces Spaniard Oscar Garcia, who quit last week after club president Evangelos Marinakis sent the entire first team squad on holiday as punishment for under-performing. Garcia...

Most of us struggle to keep that twice-a-week workout promise, so imagine enduring punishing sessions at the gym, weightlifting and climbing nearby mountains four times a week -- and all before going to do a day's work. That is a...

The city of Athens has been awarded the hosting of the 2018 Basketball Champions League Final Four. Four teams, representing four different countries, will be participating in the pinnacle event of Basketball Champions League’s second season which will be played...

After only three months at the helm of Greek champions Olympiacos, Spanish coach Oscar Garcia announced he is leaving the Piraeus club. “I decided, with the agreement of the club, to finish our cooperation today to give the team more...

On April 4, 1968 a Greek sporting triumph took place when AEK won the European Cup in basketball in front of 80,000 spectators at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. It was the first time in the history that a Greek...

AEK inched forward to the Greek title after an emphatic win over Athenian rivals Panathinaikos (3-0) at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday. A Sergio Araujo double and a Rodrigo Galo strike meant that AEK needs four points from the  four...

The Greek island of Crete will be hosting, on June 3, the International Mountain Race Psiloritis "Run in the Steps of Zeus". During the race, mountain racers from all over the world will challenge running in one of the most...

Although most people would find the idea of running a 21-kilometer (13 mile) half-marathon a challenge, for 20 would-be athletes in Ioannina the obstacles are higher than most. They are residents of a recently re-opened refugee camp in Katsikas, north-west...

The president of the Greek club PAOK was banned from all football stadiums for three years for storming onto the pitch with a gun during a league game, the league's disciplinary committee said on Thursday. The club were also stripped...

A FIFA representative visiting Greece after a series of violent incidents in football games has recommended the country be suspended from the sport's governing body. If the recommendation by Herbert Huebel is officially adopted by FIFA, Greek teams and the...

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...

The Greek Super League on Tuesday posted its confirmed fixtures list for the 26th and 27th games of its ill-fated 2017/2018 season. Greek football's senior league competition was suspended on March 12 by the government following scenes of PAOK owner...

Greece's top division football resumes on Saturday after a three-week suspension imposed by the Deputy Ministry of Sports Giorgos Vasileiadis. The 16 Superleague clubs unanimously accepted the terms of the deputy minister for harsher penalties on clubs for acts of...