Panathinaikos
Basketball
Panathinaikos Punished With Closed-Door Games
Euroleague Basketball has sanctioned Athens Panathinaikos to play four closed-door games and imposed a fine of 100,000 euros for illegal acts which took place during the Greek team’s quarter-final series against Barcelona. Panathinaikos' offenses are the use of illegal...
Greece
Relegated AEK's Appeal Bid Fails
AEK Athens' soccer team, relegated to the second division for the first time in 89 years after its most disastrous season ever, had its appeal against punishment measures rejected on April 25 by the Greek Football Federation (EPO) which...
Greece
The Decline And Fall Of AEK
The once-storied AEK Athens soccer franchise has hit hard times, beset with financial woes, a dwindling fan base, without a place to play, one of its young stars suspended for giving a Nazi salute, the arrest of its owner...
Basketball
Panathinaikos Fans Found With Firebombs
It's been a miserable season for fans of the Panathinaikos soccer and basketball teams which are not faring well in the Greek sports league, and now police arrested 10 of them who authorities said were trying to enter the...
Greece
Panathinaikos Dumps Fabri For Blasting Players
Fabri Gonzalez has joined a growing list of coaches at the beleaguered once-dominant Greek soccer team Panathinaikos to get the boot, the third one this year to be sacked this season after disappointing results, and after he said some...
Basketball
Panathinaikos Wins Hoop Final After Riot
In yet another violent match between Greece’s perennial basketball rivals, Panathiniakos beat Olympiakos, 81-78 in the Greek Cup final on Feb. 10, playing before near-empty stands after riot police cleared the stadium because of clashes between fans and objects...
Greece
Cup Final Halted Due to Crowd Violence (video)
The Cup final between arch rivals Olympiakos Piraeus and Panathinaikos was stopped on Sunday after a player was hit with a flare and fans invaded the court as the showpiece descended into farce.
Olympiakos' American centre Kyle Hines was struck...
Greece
Panathinaikos Picks Fabri Gonzalez of Spain as Coach
Fabri Gonzalez of Spain has been appointed coach of Panathinaikos following the team's 2-1 home defeat to Levadiakos at the weekend.
Panathinaikos announced Tuesday that the 57-year-old Gonzalez will replace the Argentine-born Juan Ramon Rocha, but said details would be...
Business
Family Feud Threatens Panathinaikos Basketball
The President of Greek basketball power Panathinaikos quit in disgust on Dec. 7 after he accused his family, who had put him in the position, of lying about the club’s tattered finances that he said led the team’s long-time...
Economy
Panathinaikos Struggling to Pay Electricity Bills
Panathinaikos, one of the oldest and most successful Greek football clubs, have fallen behind on payments for their electricity bills at the Olympic stadium which the club rents from the state.
In an open letter to the Greek Super League,...