Panathinaikos FC are going to collaborate with EFDN

Panathinaikos FC are going to collaborate with EFDN

The European Football for Development Network is happy to announce that Panathinaikos FC are joining the network.

Panathinaikos F.C. are a Greek professional football club based in the City of Athens. Panathinaikos can literally be translated as “Panathenaic,” which means “of all Athens.” Created in 1908 as “Podosfairikos Omilos Athinon” (Football Club of Athens) by Georgios Kalafatis. They play in the Super League Greece, being one of the most successful clubs in Greek football and one of three clubs which have never been relegated from the top division. Amongst their major titles are twenty-six Greek Championships, twenty-one Greek Cups, achieving eight times the Double, and five official Greek Super Cups. They are also the only club that won a championship undefeated, going without a loss in a top-flight campaign (1963-64 season), a feat that no other club in Greece has ever been able to achieve.

They have played their home games in the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, considered their traditional home ground, and the Athens Olympic Stadium. They hold a long-term rivalry with Olympiacos, the clash between the two teams being referred to as the “Derby of the eternal enemies”.

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The history of Panathinaikos is inextricably linked to the forefront of Greek football inside and outside the four lines of the field.

Athletes and countless fans with the shamrock on their chest will always remind the persistence of Giorgos Kalafatis to found Panathinaikos in 1908, by the time that football was still an unknown word for most people. Since then, we became a synonym of history, sports and culture of the Greek capital.

Even in the era of the “Great War”, when the team was playing from time to time with the one of the Allied Forces till the end of the occupation, when for the first time the Greek flag was raised at the stadium of Leoforos as a symbol of freedom, Panathinaikos constituted an integral part of the Athenian society.

“We were united, standing all together during the happy and the sad moments. We were standing all together in every season, with its own requirements, steadily motivated by our love for Panathinaikos, which was making us feel much more human.”