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Panathinaikos F.C.
Panathinaikos
Full name Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos
(Panathinaikos Athletic Club)
Nickname(s) To Trifylli (The Shamrock)
Oi Prasinoi (The Greens)
Founded February 3rd, 1908
Ground Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium
(Capacity: 16,003)
Current League Superleague Greece 
Website Club home page

Panathinaikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Athens. Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest clubs in Greek football. They have won 20 Greek Championships and 17 Greek Cups.

Panathinaikos is the most successful Greek club in terms of achievements in European competitions. They have reached the European Cup (later changed to UEFA Champions League) final in 1971 and the semi-finals in 1985 and 1996.

According to the vast majority of researches and polls, it is the second most popular football team in Greece.

Panathinaikos F.C. is the football department of Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (PAO), a multi-sport club. In 1979, the department became professional and independent. They have played their home games in a number of grounds, most significantly the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium – which is considered as their traditional home ground – and the Athens Olympic Stadium.

The club holds a long-term rivalry with Olympiacos and matches between the two teams are referred to as "Derby of the eternal enemies".

Panathinaikos F.C. is one of only two supporter-owned football clubs in Greece, along with Aris Thessaloniki.

History[]

Podosferikos Omilos Athinon[]

According to the official history of the club, 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 decision to discontinue its football team. The first name of the new club was Podosferikos Omilos Athinon (POA), the colours of the team were red and white and its home ground was in Patission Street. Oxford University athlete John Cyril Campbell was brought in as coach. It was the first time that a foreigner was appointed as the coach of a Greek team.

Panellinios Podosferikos Omilos[]

In 1910, after a dispute among a number of board members, Kalafatis with most of the players - also followed by Campbell - decided to pull out of POA and secured a new ground in Amerikis Square. Subsequently, the name of the club changed to Panellinios Podosferikos Omilos (PPO) and its colours to green and white. By 1914, Campbell had returned to England but the club was already at the top of Greek football with players such as Michalis Papazoglou, Michalis Rokkos and Loukas Panourgias.

In 1918, PPO adopted the shamrock as its emblem, as proposed by Michalis Papazoglou. In 1921 and 1922, the Athens-Piraeus FCA organized the first two post-WWI championships, in both of which PPO was declared champion. By that stage, the club had outgrown both the grounds in Patission Street and Amerikis Square, due mainly to its expansion in other sports, and began to look at vacant land in the area of Perivola on Alexandras Avenue as its potential new ground. After long discussions with the Municipality of Athens, an agreement was finally reached and in 1922 Leoforos ("Avenue" in Greek) was granted to the club.

Current squad[]

As of 8 January 2014
No. Position Player
1 Flag of Greece GK Stefanos Kapino (2nd vice-captain)
2 Flag of Greece DF Panagiotis Spyropoulos
3 Flag of Greece DF Diamantis Chouchoumis
4 Flag of Greece DF Giorgos Koutroubis
5 Flag of Greece DF Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos
6 Flag of Netherlands MF David Mendes da Silva
7 Flag of Belgium FW Viktor Klonaridis
8 Flag of Greece MF Anastasios Lagos (vice-captain)
9 Flag of Sweden FW Marcus Berg
10 Flag of Portugal MF Zeca (captain)
11 Flag of Sweden MF Emir Bajrami
12 Flag of Greece DF Nikos Marinakis
14 Flag of Nigeria MF Abdul Jeleel Ajagun
15 Flag of Greece GK Alexandros Tabakis
17 Flag of Greece FW Alexandros Mouzakitis
No. Position Player
18 Flag of Greece MF Christos Donis
19 Flag of Greece FW Nikolaos Karelis
20 Flag of Algeria MF Mehdi Abeid
21 Flag of Spain DF Nano
22 Flag of Uruguay FW Adrián Balboa
23 Flag of Croatia DF Gordon Schildenfeld
24 Flag of Greece DF Spyros Risvanis
25 Flag of Greece GK Stefanos Kotsolis
26 Flag of Greece FW Thanasis Dinas
27 Flag of Greece MF Evangelos Anastasopoulos
28 Flag of Greece MF Giannis Stamatakis
29 Flag of Greece FW Nikos Giannitsanis
32 Flag of Croatia MF Danijel Pranjić
33 Flag of Croatia FW Mladen Petrić
35 Flag of Greece GK Alexandros Anagnostopoulos

Out on loan[]

No. Position Player
Flag of Greece FW Konstantinos Apostolopoulos (on loan at Panachaiki)

External links[]

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Panathinaikos FC squad - 2023–24

1. Kapino 2. Spyropoulos 3. Chouchoumis 4. Koutroubis 5. Triantafyllopoulos 6. Mendes da Silva 7. Klonaridis 8. Lagos 9. Berg 10. Zeca 11. Bajrami 12. Marinakis 14. Ajagun 15. Tabakis 17. Mouzakitis 18. Donis 19. Karelis 20. Abeid 21. Nano 22. Balboa 23. Schildenfeld 24. Risvanis 25. Kotsolis 26. Dinas 27. Anastasopoulos 28. Stamatakis 29. Giannitsanis 32. Pranjić 33. Petrić 35. Anagnostopoulos

Manager:  Flag of Greece Yannis Anastasiou
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