Panathinaikos Athens (basketball)

Panathinaikos Athens (basketball)
Nickname	I Prasini (The Greens), Trifili ( Shamrock ) Eksasteri (Six-Star)
Founded	1922
Hall	Nikos Galis Arena (18,900 seats)
Homepage	www.paobc.gr
owner	Dimitrios Giannakopoulos
president	Dimitrios Triantopoulos
Trainer	Georgios Vovoras
league	Basket League 2018/19: 1st place
Colours	green white
home Away
successes
38 × Greek champions 19 × Greek cup winners 2 × European Champion Clubs' Cup 4 × ULEB Euroleague 1 × Intercontinental Cup

Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (short form PAO ; Greek Παναθηναϊκός listen ^{? / I} , ΠAO) also refers to the basketball department of Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (all-Athens sports club) from Athens . PAO currently plays in the Greek A1 league , the highest league in the country. With 38 championships and a total of 63 titles, Panathinaikos is the most successful club in Greece and has already had world stars such. B. Dominique Wilkins , Dino Rađa , Dejan Bodiroga , Šarūnas Jasikevičius or Byron Scott under contract. The club has won the Europa League six times so far.

history

1922–1945: The first steps

Panathinaikos in 1940

In 1922, 14 years after the club was founded, Panathinaikos Athens offered its members a basketball department for the first time. It was thanks to Giorgos Kalafatis who had traveled to Paris for sports competitions three years earlier and brought the international rules for this sport with him on his return. Panathinaikos was one of the first Greek clubs to offer a basketball department. PAO played its games in the open air.

The first basketball championship in Greece was held in the 1927/1928 season. The preliminary form of today's league, which was also often interrupted by the Second World War, was called "Panellinio Protathlima A Katigorias" (Πανελλήνιο Πρωτάθλημα Α Κατηγορίας) at that time . Until the end of the war, however, the club could not win a championship.

1946–1966: The first titles

PAO won its first championship in 1946. After winning the unbeaten regional championship in Athens and Piraeus , the team prevailed in the final series with 3-0 wins. Six more championships were to follow by 1966 (1947, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1961, 1962), which should make the Panathinaikos the most successful team in Greece at this point. While the top division of Greece from 1964 was called "Protathlima Ethnikis Katigorias" (Πρωτάθλημα ιθνικής Κατηγορ )ας), the year 1959 represents an important point in the club's history. Below the east curve of the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium , the first sports hall was opened in Greece. The hall, which can hold around 1,500 spectators, served Panathinaikos from then on as a home.

1967–1984: Rise to Greece's leading force

Kolokithas

Under the leadership of outstanding players such as Dimitrios Kokolakis , Georgios Kolokithas , Apostolos Kontos or Panagiotis Koroneos , Panathinaikos dominated Greek basketball like no other team before during the 1970s and early 1980s. In 18 years the club won twelve championships and won the cup , which was held for the first time in 1976, to the Leoforos Alexandras three times .

Konstantinos Mourouzis laid the foundation stone when he took over as a coach at PAO in 1966. Under him, the club was able to win six championships in the following eight years. In 1969 Panathinaikos succeeded in setting an international exclamation mark for the first time. If you were eliminated early from the European Cup competitions, this time you made it to the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup . Three years later, the club even made it to the semi-finals of the European Cup , where they had to admit defeat to the top Italian team Pallacanestro Varese . In 1975 Richard Dukshire took over as coach of the clover leaves and became the first foreigner to hold this position and win a championship. Under Konstantinos Politis , who was coach at Panathinaikos between 1978 and 1982 and a few years earlier under Dukshire as an active player at the club, the club's streak of success continued. Led by players like Agamemnon Ioannou and David Stergakos , the club achieved three championships and two cup wins under Politis. In 1982 he made the first double in the club's history with Panathinaikos and made it to the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners 'Cup and the European Champions' Cup in 1980 and 1981.

1985–1995: The Dark Decade

In the early 1980s, one player fundamentally changed Greek basketball, as a result of which Panathinaikos' dominance was to end. Nikos Galis , who went down in history as one of the best basketball players in Europe of all time, moved to Aris Thessaloniki and together with Panagiotis Giannakis they led their club to the top of Greece. Only PAOK Thessaloniki around the Star Center Panagiotis Fasoulas were able to stand up to this time and thus underpinned the supremacy of Thessaloniki in northern Greece .

In 1987, the club was now playing in the sports hall of Glyfada in the south of Athens, Pavlos Giannakopoulos took over the basketball department of Panathinaikos Athens. The big entrepreneur Giannakopoulos, together with his brother Athanassios owner of a pharmaceutical company which is represented all over the Balkans , had tried unsuccessfully for the football department of PAO eight years earlier . In 1990 Giannakopoulos signed Fragiskos Alvertis , who was to become the most successful basketball player in Greece at Panathinaikos, captain and figurehead of the club for the next 19 years. In order to realize this transfer, Panathinaikos had to hand over a transfer fee as well as the best player in his water polo department at the time, Dimitrios Seletopoulos, to Alverti's club Glyfada.

In 1993 the Greek championship lost its amateur status and was officially established as a professional league under the name "Epangelamtiko Protathlima A1" (Επαγγελματικό Πρωτάθλημα Α1). From then on Giannakopoulos invested large sums of money in transfers to lure top players such as Galis, Giannakis, Antonio Davis , Arijan Komazec , Žarko Paspalj , Tiit Sokk or Alexander Volkov to Athens. Despite all efforts, the club was only able to win the cup twice during this period (1986, 1993) and also had to watch how arch rivals Olympiacos Piraeus ended Aris' supremacy.

The years 1994 and 1995 stand out internationally during this period, when they qualified for the Final Four tournament in the European Cup and took third place.

1996: PAO at the top of Europe

Wilkins

After the attack on Europe's most important club title in basketball failed in 1994 and 1995, Giannakopoulos made a spectacular transfer at the beginning of the 1995/1996 season. None other than NBA All-Star Dominique Wilkins moved to Greece and caused great enthusiasm among the club's supporters. After Wilkins, who is still regarded as the most important transfer of a European team, was welcomed by hundreds of fans at the airport, the club's management decided to move to the much larger Olympic Hall , where PAO still plays its home games to this day. 8,000 fans attended the start of training and showed what high expectations they had of the team around their new star. At Panathinaikos Wilkins met players like Alvertis, Giannakis or the Croatian Stojko Vranković and at that time formed one of the strongest teams in Europe. Under the star coach Božidar Maljković , PAO made it into the final four for the third time in a row, which was held in Paris . After defeating CSKA Moscow in the semifinals , they met FC Barcelona in the final and beat them 67:66 and Wilkins was elected MVP . Panathinaikos became the first club in Greece to win a European championship.

European Champion's Cup trophy (left)

After winning the Greek Cup before, the only thing missing was the championship to make the triple perfect. However, after Wilkins fell out with Maljković and consequently left the team prematurely, PAO lost the final series with 2-3 against Olympiacos.

In the same year Panathinaikos played against "Olimpia Venado Tuerto" from Argentina for the Intercontinental Cup . After losing the first game on September 4, 1996 in Rosario with 83-89, two victories followed in Athens on September 10 and 12 (83-78, 101-76), the PAO the third title within just a few months bestowed.

The first championship after 14 long years was to take place in 1998 under Lefteris Subotic. Giannakopoulos had previously signed NBA stars Dino Rađa and Byron Scott . In the same season, PAO started as a big favorite in the competition for the European Cup Winners' Cup . The club marched through the competition without any major problems and in some cases achieved significant victories over foreign competitors. In the semifinals PAO met Stefanel Milano and after winning the first leg in Athens with 77-58, the supporters were already dreaming of their second European Cup title. All the more surprising for everyone was the unexpectedly clear 61-86 defeat in Rome , which meant leaving the competition.

1999–2012: The Obradović era

100th anniversary of the association

In the summer of 1999, Panathinaikos had previously won the Greek championship for the 21st time, Pavlos Giannakopoulos brought the most successful coach in Europe to Athens at the time. Željko Obradović , multiple European Cup winner and former Yugoslav national player, took over the coaching position at Panathinaikos Athens and became the most successful coach in European basketball history in the following 13 years. With him, his compatriot and center Željko Rebrača also moved to Athens. Together with Dejan Bodiroga , Ferdinando Gentile , Alvertis and the German Michael Koch , the club qualified in 2000, four years after their first success in the European Cup, with a total of 17: 4 wins clearly for the final four in Thessaloniki . In front of a home crowd Panathinaikos reached the final and defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv there with 73-67, which was synonymous with the second European Cup victory in the club's history. In the same year, the "Greens" again secured the Greek championship and made it into the final of the Greek cup competition. In the following season, the club again reached the final of the European Cup, renamed Suproleague . As in the previous year, they met Maccabi Tel Aviv again in Paris , but lost the match 67-81. The successes from the previous year could be repeated at the national level.

In 2002 the team traveled as an outsider to the final four tournament of the ULEB Euroleague in Bologna . After beating Maccabi Tel Aviv in the semifinals, as expected, with 83-75, in the final on May 5th they faced the favored hosts of Buckler Bologna, players like Antoine Rigaudeau or the later NBA stars Manu Ginóbili and Marko Jarić are under contract had. In the final game, Panathinaikos was able to win the game with 89-83 despite a clear gap in the meantime. The most important players in this third European Cup victory for PAO were İbrahim Kutluay and Dejan Bodiroga who scored 22 and 21 points respectively. In the following four years Panathinaikos could only show one qualification for a Final Four tournament internationally (2005). At the national level, however, the club was able to win the championship and three of four cup competitions every year.

PAO won their fourth European Cup in 2007 in front of their home crowd in the Athens Olympic Hall. After winning the cup and a few weeks later the championship, this was synonymous with the first triple in the club's history. With TAU Ceramica , to which they failed in the fight for entry into the Final Four tournament last year , and CSKA Moscow they prevailed against two of the biggest rivals of recent years and defeated the Russians in the final with 93-91. Ramūnas Šiškauskas (20 points), Dimitrios Diamantidis (15 points) who was also elected MVP and Dejan Tomašević (16 points) were among the mainstays in the final .

On February 8, 2009 Panathinaikos reached the 97-50 success over Panionios Athens as the first Greek club their 1000th victory in the top national league. Three months later, on May 3, 2009, Panathinaikos won his fifth European Cup in Berlin's O ₂  World . After beating arch rivals Olympiakos with 84-82 in the semifinals , they defeated CSKA Moscow with 73-71 in the final, just like two years before. PAO achieved their last European Cup victory in 2011 in Barcelona . Opponent in the final was once more Maccabi Tel Aviv who could be beaten 78-70.

On June 12, 2012, Obradović and the Panathinaikos management announced the end of their 13-year collaboration in a joint press release. Under Obradović, Panathinaikos won eleven championships (2000, 2001, 2003–2011) and seven cup victories (2003, 2005–2009, 2012), the European Cup (2000) and the ULEB Euroleague four times (2002, 2007, 2009, 2011) ). Under the Serbs, Panathinaikos rose to become the most successful team in Europe in the new millennium and since the introduction of the Final Four mode in general.

2007-2008 Euroleague

Since 2012: the rebuilding

With the departure of Obradović in summer 2012, a number of players left the club who were among the top performers in recent years. In addition to Michael Batiste and Šarūnas Jasikevičius, the most important departures were the Greek national players Nick Calathes , Konstantinos Kaimakoglou , Efstratios Perperoglou and Ian Vougioukas, as well as long-time assistant coach Dimitrios Itoudis . There were also changes at management level for the club this summer. After 25 years and 29 titles won, team owner and president Pavlos Giannakopoulos gave his shares in the club to his son Dimitrios on July 26, 2012. The task of rebuilding took over Argiris Pedoulakis who was also active as a player for the club during his active time. Pedoulakis managed to win the national double with the cup and the championship in the first season.

Panathinaikos and the national team

The Panathinaikos players have been the backbone of the Greek national team since its inception. From the youth teams to the men's selection, players such as Kokolakis , Kontos , Ioannou , Alvertis and Diamantidis were among the top performers. For example, the European champions 2005 and vice world champions 2006 Greece with Diamantidis, Chatzivrettas , Tsartsaris , Spanoulis , Dikoudis , Fotsis and Papadopoulos had seven (of the twelve) players in the squad who were under contract with Panathinaikos or who made their big breakthroughs there.

Even at the 2006 World Cup in Japan , where Greece won the silver medal, players with direct links to Panathinaikos made up the largest part of the Greek national team. In detail these were Chatzivrettas, Diamantidis, Dikoudis, Fotsis, Papadopoulos, Spanoulis and Tsartsaris.

Venue

Olympia Hall

Panathinaikos plays its home games in the OAKA Olympic Indoor Hall , which was built in 1995 and is the largest sports hall in Greece and one of the largest in Europe. During the 2004 Olympic Games , the gymnastics and trampoline competitions and the basketball finals took place here. The hall can accommodate a different number of spectators depending on the sport (17,500 for gymnastics and trampoline jumping, 19,250 for basketball games). The modernization work, which took five million euros to complete, was completed on July 30, 2004, the official reopening took place on August 10 .

Indoor shot

Despite its young age, the Athens Olympic Hall already has a number of major major events to show that were held in it before the Olympic Games. These included the 1995 U21 Basketball World Cup, the 1995 European Basketball Championship and the 1998 World Basketball Championship .

On May 20, 2006 , the Eurovision Song Contest was held in the Olympiahalle. In 2007 the Olympiahalle hosted the Final Four tournament of the ULEB Euroleague , which Panathinaikos won in front of their home crowd.

Panathinaikos in the media

In the Greek mass media , Panathinaikos Athens is represented as well as hardly any other Greek team. In addition to the two sports newspapers Derby and I Prasini , which all pursue the interests of the club and support its policy, the Prasinos Palmos magazine is broadcast once a week on the private broadcaster High TV . In the approximately two-hour broadcast, topics are dealt with in the various departments of the association.

The basketball division's games are all televised. In the 2010/2011 season, the ULEB Euroleague games will be broadcast by the pay-TV broadcaster Novasport and the private broadcaster Skai TV. The home games in the championship and in the cup are also broadcast by Novasport.

logo

On the club logo of the basketball department, in addition to the three- leaf clover typical of Panathinaikos and the year the club was founded, a basketball and six gold stars can be seen. The meaning of the stars has changed in the course of the club's history. In the beginning, these were symbolic of ten national championships each, but since 2000 they have only been awarded for winning the European Cup or the ULEB Euroleague. The six stars stand for the successes in Paris (1996), Thessaloniki (2000), Bologna (2002), Athens (2007), Berlin (2009) and Barcelona (2011).

All jerseys between 1919 and 2014

player

Parrots Thomas Papapetrou Fredette Calathes

Starting lineup for the 2019/2020 season

Transfers 2020/2021

Additions Zach Auguste ( Galatasaray ) Eleftherios Bochoridis ( Aris Thessaloniki ) Marcus Foster ( Hapoel Holon ) Pierre Jackson ( South Bay Lakers ) Leonidas Kaselakis ( Promitheas Patras ) Nemanja Nedović ( AX Armani Milano ) Howard Sant-Roos ( CSKA Moscow ) Aaron White ( CB 1939 Canarias ) 000

Departures Ioannis Athinaiou ( GS Peristeri ) Rion Brown ( Tofaş Spor ) Nick Calathes ( FC Barcelona ) Wesley Johnson (destination unknown) Nikolaos Pappas ( wheelchair basketball Panathinaikos) Andy Rautins (destination unknown) Tyrese Rice (career ended) Deshaun Thomas (Alvark Tokyo) Ian Vougioukas (destination unknown) Jacob Wiley ( CB Gran Canaria )

¹ Is on loan

Current squad

No.	Surname	nationality	position	Size (cm]	vintage	since
06th	Georgios Papagiannis		center	220	1997	2018
10	Ioannis Papapetrou		Forward	206	1994	2018
14th	Nikolaos Persidis		Guard	196	1995	2019
23	Konstantinos Papadakis		Guard	191	1998	2019
32	Jimmer Fredette		Guard	188	1989	2019
44	Konstantinos Mitoglou		Forward	210	1996	2017
50	Ben Bentil		Forward	206	1995	2019
	Zach Auguste		center	208	1994	2020
	Eleftherios Bochoridis		Guard	196	1994	2020
	Marcus Foster		Guard	191	1995	2020
	Pierre Jackson		Guard	180	1991	2020
	Georgios Kalaitzakis		Guard	195	1999	2020
	Leonidas Kaselakis		Forward	202	1990	2020
	Nemanja Nedović		Guard	191	1991	2020
	Howard Sant-Roos		Forward	201	1991	2020
	Aaron White		Forward	206	1992	2020

Cadre depth

Item	starter	Bank	Bank	reserve
C.	Parrots	Auguste
PF	Mitoglou	White	Bentil
SF	Papapetrou	Sant Roos		Kaselakis, Persidis
SG	Nedović	Foster		Fredette
PG	Jackson	Bochoridis	Kalaitzakis	Papadakis

Significant or famous former players

→ Extensive data on the former key performers can be found on Panathinaikos Athens (basketball) / names and numbers .

Greek actors

The following is a selection of major or well-known players who have been under contract with Panathinaikos in the past. When listing the titles won, only those are taken into account that fall within the period in which the respective players were active at Panathinaikos. The information on completed games refer to assignments in the A1 Ethniki. For players who are still active, all information is correct as of October 9, 2013.

Alvertis

• Fragiskos Alvertis (1990-2009; Forward; 525 games)

155 times national player; Panathinaikos record holder with 525 first division games; with 4,698 points scored in the championship record hunter of Panathinaikos; Member of the 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributor ; seven participations in the Greek All Star Game; eight participations in world and European championships as well as in the Olympic Games; MVP of the Greek Championship 2003

Title: eleven championships, eight cup wins, two European championship cups, three ULEB Euroleague championships, one Intercontinental Cup

• Nikolaos Chatzivrettas (2003-2009; Guard; 204 games)

116-time national player; European Champion 2005; Vice World Champion 2006; Stankovic Cup winner 2006; two participations in the Greek All Star Game; five participations in world and European championships as well as in the Olympic Games

Title: six championships, five cup wins, two ULEB Euroleague championships

Diamantidis

• Dimitrios Diamantidis (2004-2016; Guard; 396 games)

124 times national player; European Champion 2005; Vice World Champion 2006; Stankovic Cup winner 2006; twelve participations in the Greek All Star Game; seven participations in world and European championships as well as in the Olympic Games

Title: nine championships, ten cup wins, three ULEB Euroleague championships

• Antonios Fotsis (1997–2001, 2002–2003, 2008–2011, 2013–2017; Forward)

189 times national player; European Champion 2005; Vice World Champion 2006; Bronze medal at the 2009 European Championships; Stankovic Cup winner 2006; four participations in the Greek All Star Game; nine participations in world and European championships as well as in the Olympic Games

Title: ten championships, six cup wins, one European championship, two ULEB Euroleague championships

Galis

• Nikos Galis (1992–1995; Guard)

116-time national player; European Champion 1987; Vice European Champion 1989; European Basketball Player of the Year 1987; Member of the 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributor ; Member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame ; six participations in world and European championships, four times MVP of the Greek championship

Title: a cup win

• Panagiotis Giannakis (1994-1996; Guard)

record-breaking Greek national player with 351 appearances; most successful basket hunter of the Greek national team with 5,307 points; European Champion 1987; Vice European Champion 1989; Gold medal at the Mediterranean Championships in 1979; ten participations in world and European championships as well as in the Olympic Games

Title: a European Champion's Cup

Ikonomou

• Nikos Ikonomou (1991–1999; Forward; 243 games)

116-time national player; U-20 Vice European Champion 1992; U-16 European Champion 1989; Silver medal at the 1991 Mediterranean Championships; seven participations in the Greek All Star Game; five participations in world and European championships as well as in the Olympic Games

Titles: two championships, two cup wins, a European Cup, an Intercontinental Cup

• Agamemnon Ioannou (1974–1990, Guard)

64-time national player; European champion 1987

Title: six championships, three cup wins

• Giorgos Kalaitzis (1997-2006; Guard; 221 games)

56-time national player; U-19 World Champion 1995; two participations in the Greek All Star Game; three participations in European championships

Titles: eight championships, three cup wins, one European championship, one ULEB Euroleague championship

• Dimitrios Kokolakis (1969–1983; Center)

179-time national player; with a total of twelve championships won by Greek record holders; Gold medal at the Mediterranean Championships in 1979; four participations in European championships

Title: nine championships, three cup wins

Accounts

• Apostolos account (1969–1983; Forward)

114-time national player; two participation in European championships

Title: nine championships, three cup wins

• Panagiotis Koroneos (1968–1985; Guard)

150 times national player; three participation in European championships

Title: eleven championships, three cup wins

• Vasilios Spanoulis (2005-2006, 2007-2010; Guard; 131 games)

132 times national player; European Champion 2005; Vice World Champion 2006; Bronze medal at the 2009 European Championships; Stankovic Cup winner 2006; U20 European Champion 2002; Bronze medal at the U18 European Championship in 2000; Silver medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Championships; Balkan Sportsman of the Year 2009; four participations in the Greek All Star Game; seven participations in world and European championships as well as in the Olympic Games

Title: four championships, three cup wins, one ULEB Euroleague championship

• Konstantinos Tsartsaris (2002-2013; Forward; 345 games)

123 times national player; European Champion 2005; Vice World Champion 2006; Stankovic Cup winner 2006; four participations in the Greek All Star Game; six participations in world and European championships as well as in the Olympic Games

Title: ten championships, eight cup wins, three ULEB Euroleague championships

Christodoulou

Other important players are u. a. the European champion Liveris Andritsos , Ioannis Bourousis , Fanis Christodoulou , Dimos Dikoudis and Lazaros Papadopoulos , the Greek record holder for Erstligaeinsätze Nikos Boudouris , the two-time triple-winner Dimitris Papanikolaou and Georgios Kolokithas , john korfas , Fedon Mattheou , Apostolos Nikolaidis , Konstantinos Patavoukas , Konstantinos Politis , David Stergakos , Kiriakos Vidas and Evangelos Vourtzoumis .

Legionaries

Scott

The most famous legionnaire who has played for Panathinaikos so far is the US-American and nine-time NBA all-star Dominique Wilkins , who is still regarded as the most important transfer of a European team in basketball. Wilkins, who belongs to the elite circle of twelve players who have scored more than 25,000 points in the NBA and is a member of the Hall of Fame , moved from the Boston Celtics to Panathinaikos Athens in 1995 and helped the club win their first European Cup in club history. The most important and successful legionnaire in the club's history is Michael Batiste . In ten seasons between 2003 and 2014 he won the ULEB Euroleague three times with the club . He also won nine championships and seven cup wins, which makes him one of the most successful players in Europe. An equally significant player was the three-time NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers Byron Scott . Other outstanding players from the United States include Antonio Davis , Tony Delk , Kenyon Jones , Darryl Middleton , four-time NBA champion John Salley, and Johnny Rogers and Drew Nicholas . The last two won two European Cups with Panathinaikos.

Rađa

Probably the most important European players in the history of Panathinaikos are the Serb Dejan Bodiroga and the Croat Dino Rađa . The two-time world and three-time European champion Bodiroga played for Panathinaikos for four years and was also able to win the European league twice during this period. Despite the fact that he never played in the NBA, he was considered one of the best players in the world. After four years in the NBA and two European championship titles, Ra spieltea played for Panathinaikos between 1997 and 1999 and was able to win as many championships in these two years. Another important player is the multiple world and European champion Dejan Tomašević from Serbia, who, with a total of 23 titles in his career, is one of the most successful players in the world.

Other important players from the former Yugoslavia are the Serbs Žarko Paspalj , Željko Rebrača and Miloš Vujanić , the Croatians Arijan Komazec and Stojko Vranković , the Slovenes Sani Bečirovič and Jaka Lakovič and the Montenegrins Nikola Peković and Vlado Šćepanović .

Jasikevičius

Outstanding players are also the Lithuanians Šarūnas Jasikevičius , who with an annual salary of 4.2 million euros was the highest-paid basketball player in Europe of all time, and Ramūnas Šiškauskas , the Argentinians Marcelo Nicola , Pepe Sánchez , Hugo Sconochini , the English NBA player John Amaechi and Ukrainian Alexander Volkov . Players like Oded Kattash , İbrahim Kutluay , Ferdinando Gentile , Pat Burke , Ferran Martínez and Tiit Sokk were also active for Panathinaikos.

So far, three players from Germany have played for Panathinaikos. The most important and successful actor was Michael Koch . The European champion from 1993 played for PAO between 1996 and 2001 and won with the club, in addition to four championships, in 2000 the European Cup of National Champions . Germany's record international player Patrick Femerling switched to Panathinaikos in 2004 and, in addition to two championships, was also able to win the cup twice. Sascha Hupmann was under contract with the Athenians between 1997 and 1999 and was also able to win two championships.

Retired Numbers

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  Fans

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  Fragiskos Alvertis
  Forward
  1990-2009

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  Dimitrios Diamantidis
  Guard
  2004–2016

Trainer

A number of well-known and respected coaches have been under contract with Panathinaikos. The best known are the Serbs Željko Pavličević, Božidar Maljković and Željko Obradović . The most important Greek coach is Konstantinos Politis who can look back on two terms and was able to lead the Greek national team to their first European championship in 1987.

1963-1965 Nikolaos Milas 1965-1966 Mio Stevanovic 1966–1974 Konstantinos Mourouzis 1974–1975 Richard Dukshire 1975–1978 Konstantinos Anastasatos 1978–1982 Konstantinos Politis 1982–1984 Christos Kefalos 1984-1986 Michalis Kyritsis 1986–1987 Konstantinos Mourouzis 1987–1988 Richard Dukshire 1988-1989 Michalis Kyritsis 1989-1991 Christos Ioardanidis 1991–1993 Željko Pavličević 1993–1994 Konstantinos Politis 1994-1995 Efthimios Kioumourtzoglou

1995–1997 Božidar Maljković 1997-1998 Lefteris Subotic 1999–2012 Željko Obradović 2012–2014 Argiris Pedoulakis 2014 Fragiskos Alvertis (interim trainer)00000 2014–2015 Duško Ivanović 2015 Sotirios Manolopoulos (interim coach)00000 2015–2016 Aleksandar Đorđević 2016 Argiris Pedoulakis00000 2016-2018 Xavier Pascual Vives 2018-2019 Rick Pitino 2019 Argiris Pedoulakis00000 2019 Georgios Vovoras (interim trainer)00000 2019-2020 Rick Pitino 2020– Georgios Vovoras0000

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  Željko Pavličević

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  Božidar Maljković

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  Željko Obradović

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  Duško Ivanović

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  Aleksandar Đorđević

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  Xavier Pascual Vives

Fans

Graffiti at the entrance to Gate 13

Panathinaikos was the first club in Greece to have an organized fan base. In 1966 a group of young Panathinaikos fans founded the so-called Gate 13 . The aim was to get tickets for games more easily and to prevent the opposing supporters from infiltrating their own fan scene. The name was based on the entrance that the audience used to get to the block of the same name on the west stand of the local Apostolos-Nikolaidis Stadium .

Gate 13 was very well organized and continued to develop in the following years, not least thanks to the European cup successes of the soccer team. In addition to Gate 13, there were also other fan clubs that mainly used the name of their respective district for their names.

A prominent point in the history of PAO's fan scene was the 80s. As there were riots at soccer games in Greece in previous years, the then club president of the soccer department Georgios Vardinogiannis decided to dissolve and ban the various groups at Gate 13 to found the so-called PA.LE.FI.P instead. From then on, this was the only fan group officially recognized by the club. Part of the scene opposed this policy and acted again under the name Gate 13 from 1986 . At this time the "Green Club" was founded, which was renamed the "Green Cockneys Club" shortly afterwards. In 1988 the "Mad Boys" and in 1991 the "Zografou" fan club were founded. In 1993 these then merged under the name "Athens Fans" before the Mad Boys split off again in 1995. In 1997 the club's management tried for the last time to smash all fan groups except for PA.LE.FI.P, but this time too this attempt was unsuccessful. So Gate 13 still exists today and dominates the scene in Panathinaiko's fan scene through its appearance and choreography.

There are currently around 40 Panathinaikos fan clubs in Athens, with membership ranging between 60 and 700. There are a total of 7,000 members in the city of Athens alone. In the rest of Greece there are another 50 fan clubs. Most of these clubs have their own premises, which are maintained through membership fees and the sale of merchandise items. Most of the members come from the district in which the fan club is located.

Fan rivalries

Panathinaikos fans at a home game

The biggest opponent and arch rival of Panathinaikos fans is the unloved local neighbor Olympiacos Piraeus . This aversion can mainly be explained by their origin. In addition to their origins, the Attic basin , the two clubs are also connected by the large number of sports departments where the respective fans of the two clubs regularly meet. Derbies between these two clubs have been arousing great emotions for decades and it is not uncommon for riots between the two fan camps.

Another big rival is the second largest Athens club AEK . Here, too, the reasons are primarily to be found in the geographical proximity and the size of the two clubs.

Outside Athens, only PAOK Thessaloniki and Aris Thessaloniki are seen as real rivals.

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Panathinaikos hymn comes from Georgios Mouzakis (born August 15, 1922 - August 27, 2005) from 1958. Georgios Ikonomidis wrote the text.

Greek Σύλλογος μεγάλος δεν υπάρχει άλλος δεν υπάρχει άλλος πιο δυναμικός. Kαι χιλιάδες φίλοι μόλις δουν τριφύλλι ζήτω λένε ο Παναθηναϊκός. Παναθηναϊκέ, Παναθηναϊκέ, Παναθηναϊκέ μεγάλε και τρανέ. Παναθηναϊκέ, Παναθηναϊκέ, πρωταθλητή σ'όλα τα σπορ παντοτινέ. Σ'έχουνε δοξάσει οι γνωστοί σου άσσοι που λεβέντες είναι όλοι με καρδιά. Ελλάδα που έχει τέτοια .eta Χαίρεται ομάδα που της νίκης έχει τα πάντα κλειδιά Παναθηναϊκέ, Παναθηναϊκέ, Παναθηναϊκέ μεγάλε και τρανέ. Παναθηναϊκέ, Παναθηναϊκέ, πρωταθλητή σ'όλα τα σπορ παντοτινέ.

German There is no team as big as you, there is no other team as dynamic. And thousands of followers, as soon as they see the shamrock, cheer “long live Panathinaikos” Panathinaikos, Panathinaikos, Panathinaikos you great and glorious. Panathinaikos, Panathinaikos, eternal master of all sports. You were honored by your famous stars, who are all heroes with big hearts. The whole of Greece is happy to have such a club that always has the keys to victory Panathinaikos, Panathinaikos, Panathinaikos you great and glorious. Panathinaikos, Panathinaikos, eternal master of all sports.

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Title banner in summer 2007

With 38 national championships, 19 cup wins and four ULEB Euroleague victories, Panathinaikos is the record holder of three competitions. In total, the club has won 64 titles since it was founded - significantly more than any other club in Greece.

• Greek champions (38 × record):

1946, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

• Greek Cup Winner (19 × record):

1979, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1993, 1996, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019

• European Champion Clubs' Cup (2 ×):

1996, 2000

• ULEB Euroleague winner (4 × record):

2002, 2007, 2009, 2011

• Intercontinental Cup (1 ×):

1996

• Greek double (11 × record):

1982, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019

• Triple (2 ×):

2007, 2009

Statistics and records

The highest victories in the A1 Ethniki

Source:

encounter	Result	difference	season
Panathinaikos - Panellinios	112-42	+70	2010/2011
Makedonikos - Panathinaikos	44-106	+62	2006/2007
Panathinaikos - Panionios Athens	109-55	+54	2010/2011
GS Lavrio - Panathinaikos	57-111	+54	2017/2018
Panathinaikos - Esperos Athens	97-45	+52	1999/2000
Panathinaikos - Ilisiakos Athens	101-49	+52	2012/2013
Panionios Athens - Panathinaikos	59-107	+48	2009/2010

Other records

• Panathinaiko's basketball department holds a number of European records such as:
  • the highest average attendance in the ULEB Euroleague (11,770 spectators, 2008-2009 season)
  • Most points scored in a ULEB Euroleague game: (123; November 21, 2007)

Squad of European Cup winners

The six victorious Final Four participations

The following is an overview of the squads that were able to achieve a European Cup victory.

The most successful player for Panathinaikos is Fragiskos Alvertis , who can boast five European Cup victories. This is followed by Michael Batiste (as the most successful legionnaire), Dimitrios Diamantidis , Antonios Fotsis and Konstantinos Tsartsaris with three European Cup victories each.

The most successful coach is the Serb Željko Obradović with five European Cup wins.

year	competition	venue	Squad	Trainer
1996	European Champions Cup	Paris	Fragiskos Alvertis , Panagiotis Giannakis , Nikos Ikonomou , John Korfas , Konstantinos Patavoukas , Evangelos Vourtzoumis , Stojko Vranković , Dominique Wilkins , Tzanis Stavrakopoulos, Miroslav Pecarski, Christos Miriounis	Božidar Maljković
2000	European Champions Cup	Thessaloniki	Fragiskos Alvertis , Giorgos Kalaitzis , Johnny Rogers , Antonios Fotsis , Ferdinando Gentile , Dejan Bodiroga , Nikolaos Boudouris , Željko Rebrača , Pat Burke , Oded Kattash , Georgios Karagoutis, Michael Koch , Konstantinos Maglos	Željko Obradović
2002	ULEB Euroleague	Bologna	Fragiskos Alvertis , Dejan Bodiroga , Giorgos Kalaitzis , Ioannis Sioutis, Johnny Rogers , İbrahim Kutluay , Damir Mulaomerović, Darryl Middleton , Lazaros Papadopoulos , Ioannis Giannoulis, Pepe Sánchez , Corey Albano	Željko Obradović
2007	ULEB Euroleague	Athens	Fragiskos alvertis , Dimitris Diamantidis , Tony Delk , Dejan Tomasevic , Sani Bečirovič , Michael Batiste , ramūnas šiškauskas , Nikos Chatzivrettas , Dimos Dikoudis , Kostas Tsartsaris , Miloš Vujanić , Dusan Sakota , Vassilis Xanthopoulos , Dimitris Papanikolaou , Robertas Javtokas	Željko Obradović
2009	ULEB Euroleague	Berlin	Fragiskos Alvertis , Michael Batiste , Nikolaos Chatzivrettas , Dimitrios Diamantidis , Antonios Fotsis , Šarūnas Jasikevičius , Dušan Kecman , Drew Nicholas , Nikola Peković , Efstratios Perperoglou , Dusan Sakota , Giorgi Schermadini , Vasilios Spanoulisin , Konstant . Tsriosartsin	Željko Obradović
2011	ULEB Euroleague	Barcelona	Michael Batiste , Georgios Bogris , Nick Calathes , Dimitrios Diamantidis , Antonios Fotsis , Konstantinos Kaimakoglou , Ioannis Karamalegos, Aleks Marić , Drew Nicholas , Efstratios Perperoglou , Romain Sato , Milenko Tepić , Konstantinos Tsartsaris , Ian Vougioukas. , Fotis Zoumposas	Željko Obradović

Sponsors and suppliers

Shirt from the 2008/09 season

Panathinaikos Athens first appeared in 1977 with a shirt sponsor. The Belgian oil company Fina became the first company to become the main sponsor of the association. The current main sponsor is the Greek sports betting provider OPAP .
The German sporting goods manufacturer adidas has been equipping the Athenians since 2001 .

Overview of all suppliers and jersey sponsors of Panathinaikos Athens:

Period	Outfitter	Shirt sponsor	Branch
1977–?	-	Fina	Mineral oil company
1982-1986	Converse	Motor Oil Hellas	Mineral oil company
1986-1988	Nike
1989-1990		-	-
1990-1991		PRO-PO	Sports betting provider
1991-1993		-	-
1993-1994	Reebok	Maxwell full	-
1994-1995	adidas		-
1995-1997	Nike	Beck's	brewery
1997-1998	pony	V6
1998-1999		-
1999-2000	Nike	-
2000-2001		Bake Rolls	Food industry
2001-2009	adidas	Nokia	telecommunications
2009–2012		Cosmote	telecommunications
2012–		Pame Stichima	Sports betting provider

Women's department

history

As the first club in Greece, Panathinaikos founded a basketball team for women in 1937. For the next few years and until 1956 they were among the leading forces in their own country and in 1950 they won the Athens City Championship. In the period that followed, however, the club began a sporting decline and so the club soon found itself in the lowlands of the amateur leagues. It was not until 1977, when the club's officials decided to focus on the women's department again, that this development was stopped. In the following years Panathinaiko rose category by category until they were back in the House of Lords. Since the foundation of the A'Ethniki in 1984, the club has been a permanent member of the highest Greek league and has since won four championships and the cup once .

At the European level, the club has taken part twice in the women's Euroleague. The greatest international success came in 1998 when Panathinaikos made it to the quarter-finals of the Ronchetti Cup.

Venue

The women's section plays its home games in the sports hall below the east curve of the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium . The hall, which seats around 1,500, was built in 1959 and was the first of its kind in Greece.

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In total, the Panathinaikos women's basketball division won five titles.

• Greek master (4 ×): 1998, 2000, 2005, 2013
• Greek cup winner (1 ×): 2000

Current squad

Spathari and Chavale

number	Surname	nationality	position	Size (cm]
5	Elena Vlani	Greece	Guard	174
8th	Aristea Maglara	Greece	Guard	168
11	Mariantzel Lavari	Greece	Guard	173
10	Dimitra Chavale	Greece	Forward
14th	Anastasia Slouka	Greece	Guard	182
15th	Eleana Christinaki	Cyprus	Guard	181
17th	Evi Dimitriou	Greece	Forward
22nd	Stavria Koniali	Cyprus	Guard	170
30th	Katerina Spathari	Greece	Guard	172
33	Afroditi Kosma	Greece	Forward	187
41	Diana Delva	United States	center	188
44	Roula Paschopoulou	Greece	center	191

Coach: Ioannis Gereoudakis

Eminent former players

• Toula Kalentzou
• Viktoria Klantzou
• Anastasia Kostaki
• Evina Maltsi
• Parthena Nikolaidou
• Trisha Skibbe

See also

• A1 Ethniki
• Basketball in Greece
• Greek national basketball team

Web links

Commons : Panathinaikos Athens (basketball)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Unofficial fan page of the women's section

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1. ↑ www.paobc.gr  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Press release on Obradović's departure (in English)
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4. ↑ Stadionwelt - Issue 17, April / May 2006
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