Elliniki Podosferiki Omospondia

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Elliniki Podosferiki Omospondia
Association logo
founding 1926
FIFA accession 1927
UEFA accession 1954
president Evangelos Grammenos
Secretary General Pafsanias Papanikolaou
National teams A national team
U-21 Greece
women's national
team youth national teams
Clubs (approx.) 5773 (of which 3700 active)
Homepage Off. Homepage EPO

Elliniki Podosferiki Omospondia (EPO, Greek Ελληνική Ποδοσφαιρική Ομοσπονδία ) is the Greek football association .

history

The Football Association of Greece was founded in 1926 and joined FIFA a year later . When UEFA was founded in 1954, the Greek Confederation was one of the founding members. The most successful year so far for Greek football was 2004 when the men's national team surprisingly won the European Championship . In the same year, the women's national team took part in a major tournament for the first time. However, she benefited from the fact that she did not have to qualify for the Olympics as a host and was eliminated without winning points or scoring.

organization

The association, based in Athens, organizes the Super League and the national cup games . He also organizes the games of the senior national team, all youth national teams (U17, U19, U21 ) and the women's national team.

Dispute with FIFA

On July 3, 2006, FIFA announced that the Greek Football Association was violating the political independence required by FIFA and that it would be suspended for an indefinite period of time. Thus, the Greek association was forced to implement previously proposed legislative changes against the interference of the state in the affairs of the association. FIFA issued an ultimatum until July 15, 2006. In Greece it was speculated that FIFA would assume that the association would not be able to implement the changes in such a short time, which means the exclusion of all national teams and clubs of Greece from all international competitions would have. There were also doubts about the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League final in Athens, despite the fact that it had been scheduled beforehand .

However, on July 7, 2006, and thus much earlier than anticipated, the Greek government changed the existing sports law in agreement with the Football Association.

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIFA announcement on new elections
  2. ↑ spiegel.de, Fifa lock: Greek government gives in
  3. ↑ UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .