Panionios Athens
Panionios Athens is a Greek sports club from Nea Smyrni . In addition to a football , basketball and volleyball department , Panionios also offers handball , judo , athletics , chess , swimming , gymnastics and water polo . After Panathinaikos and AEK , Panionios is Athens' largest and most popular club.
The association was founded on January 1, 1890 . It was an initiative of a hundred men from the Orpheas music association . They wanted to offer sporting activities for young people and adults in Smyrna (now Izmir ) in Asia Minor. After just one year, the association had over 1,000 members. After Smyrna was captured by the Turkish army in 1922, the Panionios association was founded by expellees in the new Athens district of Nea Smyrni .
Soccer
Panionios Athens | ||||
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Basic data | ||||
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Surname | PAE Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis |
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Seat | Nea Smyrni | |||
founding | January 1, 1890 | |||
president | Georgios Katsifarakis | |||
Website | panioniosfc.gr | |||
First soccer team | ||||
Head coach | José Anigo | |||
Venue | Nea Smyrni | |||
Places | 11,700 | |||
league | Super League | |||
2018/19 | 6th place | |||
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After the Second World War, Panionios built a new stadium called Nea Smyrni.
In December 2001 the club was restructured into a professional football organization called Panionios NFC.
In December 2004, the Greek public prosecutor's office and UEFA investigated the UEFA Cup group match between Panionios Athens and Dinamo Tbilisi . It was about the suspicion of match-fixing. British bookmakers had registered high stakes on a Georgian leadership at break and a victory for the Greeks, which also happened: Tbilisi was 1-0 ahead during the break, but Panionios still won 5-2. However, the initial suspicion could not be substantiated.
A point game between Panionios and Olympiacos Piraeus could not start on January 9, 2004 because of serious riots and was not repeated. For both teams, the game that was not played was scored with zero points.
In the riots between rival fan groups from both clubs, 13 police officers and one spectator were injured. On January 15, 2005, both clubs were severely punished by the Greek Association for the excesses of the spectators. Olympiakos had to pay 300,000 euros, Panionios 110,000 euros after a decision by the EPO football association. In addition, three points were deducted from both teams and spectators were not allowed in the following four home games of the clubs.
Since the 2006/07 season, the German Ewald Lienen was the head coach at Panionios Athens. On November 11, 2008, Ewald Lienen terminated his contract prematurely.
Title / Statistics
- Greek Cup Winner : 1979, 1998
- Greek cup finalists : 1951, 1952, 1961, 1967, 1989,
- Best placement ( 1st division ): 2nd place (1971)
- Worst place ( 1st division ): 17th place (1996)
player
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Nikolaos Anastopoulos
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Thomas Christiansen
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Panagiotis Fyssas
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Stathis Chaitas
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Ioannis Pathiakakis
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Gary Owen
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Nikolaos Pentzaropoulos
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Georgios Dedes
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Kostas Nestoridis
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Leonildo Lima Batista (Noni Lima)
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Leonidas Kampantais
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Arkadiusz Klimek
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Andreas Lagonikakis
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Grigoris Makos
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Thomas Mavros
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Dimitrios Saravakos
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Athanasios Saravakos
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Milinko Pantic
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Jaroslav Drobný
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Marcelo Pletsch
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Michael Delura
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Thomas Cichon
Trainer
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Egon Piechaczek (1983-1984)
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Ewald Lienen (2006-2008)