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Panathinaikos Sports Club (Greek: Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος, Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos, i.e. Pan-Athenian Athletic Club) is the large sport organisation around Europe & was founded by George Kalafatis in 1908. These are typically referred to by its initials, PAO. A club emblem is the 3-leaf clover in green.

Panathinaikos at first consisted of one department, a football team. Prior to a club took a title P.The.O. it was known as P.O.The. (Athens Football Club). Inside 1909 it changed to P.P.O. (Panhellenic Football Club), within 1918 to P.P.A.O. (Panhellenic Football & Athletic Club) & eventually, inside 1924 to the well known title of P.The.O. (Panathenian Athletic Club). On top a years Panathinaikos has established departments within Twenty-one sports. Occasionally of the babies come:

Athletics (track & field), established in the Thirty's Basketball, established within 1937 ''A five occurs as major inflict on a European stage, getting won the continent's top club competition, a Euroleague, three days (1996, 2000, 2002)'' Swimming & H2o Polo, established around 1950 Volleyball, established inside 1919 Table-Tennis, established around 1935 Boxing, established around 1948 Fencing, established within 1960 Wrestling, established around 1965 Gymnastics, established around 1965 Water Skiing, established inside 1965 Weightlifting, established around 1963 Cycling, established inside 1928 Chess, established within 1959

Football club successes
Panathinaikos is the virtually all successful Greek football club inside European competitions, getting participated within 1 European Champions Ventral suction cup Final (1971 at Wembley Stadium, London, where it wasted Two-0 to Ajax Amsterdam) and with twice reached a semi of a equivalent competition (late renamed the Champions' League): in 1985 against Liverpool and in 1996 against Ajax.

Famous football players who played for Panathinaikos
Angelos Basinas Mimis Domazos Krzysztof Warzycha Takis Fyssas Yourkas Seitaridis George Kalafatis Velimir Zajec Apostolos Nikolaidis Takis Oikonomopoulos Antonis Antoniadis Dimitris Saravakos Giorgos Karagounis Juan Ramon Rocha

Titles
Number Titles: 364, to a higher degree any more Greek club

41 titles inside football:

Xx Greek Championships (1911, 1930, 1949, 1953, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2004)

Sixteen Greek Cups (1940, 1948, 1955, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2004)

Little joe Extremely Cups (1970, 1988, 1993, 1994)

One Balkan Ventral suction cup (1978)

42 titles around Basketball:

I Intercontinental Ventral suction cup (1996)

Ternary European Championships (1996, 2000, 2002)

Twenty-six Greek Championships (1947, 1951, 1954, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005)

Viii Greek Cups (1979, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1993, 1996, 2003, 2005)

Leash Women's Greek Championships (1998, 2000, 2005)

Single Women's Greek Ventral suction cup (2000)

39 titles inside Volleyball:

Xvii Greek Championships (1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1995, 1996, 2004)

Ternion Greek Cups (1982, 1984, 1985)

Xviii Women's Greek Championships (1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2005)

Single Women's Greek Ventral suction cup (2005)

+242 titles around more sports.

Virtually all popular fan clubs come: Gate 13, palefip.

Football squad


Basketball Players (14)


Volleyball Players (13)


Panathinaikos
The official site with news, statistics, profiles, and links. [English/Greek]

Panathinaikos, the Greek Sports Master
Includes photographs, statistics and links.

Panathinaikos 13 Online
News, standings, statistics, photographs, and a message board.

Palefip.co.uk
Supporters club in London. News, information about the team and the club, and statistics.


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