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The Indoor Hall is the regular home court for the Greek Basket League professional basketball club Panathinaikos. It is also the primary home court of the senior Greek National Basketball Team . The arena was used to host the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals stages of the 1998 FIBA World Championship .
Panathinaikos' long-time home court is the O.A.K.A., which is the largest indoor venue in Greece. It is located in Marousi, and is a part of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex. The venue was completed in 1995, and renovated for the 2004 Summer Olympics. It is considered to be one of the biggest and most modern indoor sports arenas in all of Europe.
Once in Athens, some 150 Bad Blue Boys met with Gate 13 supporters and proceeded to AEK Athens stadium where the clash with AEK supporters took place. [9] During the course of the riots AEK fan Michalis Katsouris was fatally stabbed in his arm and bled out as a result. [ 9 ]
Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni stated that such a project would revitalise the area as well as benefit the club. In 2012, bureaucracy problems, such as Panathinaikos' and the country's bad financial situation due to the economic crisis , didn’t allow the construction of the new stadium.
The Derby of the Eternal Rivals (Greek: Ντέρμπι των αιωνίων αντιπάλων), also called Mother of All Battles (Greek: Μητέρα των μαχών), is the name of the basketball local derby in Attica (Piraeus and Athens) between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos.
AEK faced Volos, who were at the bottom of the play-offs table, which resulted in a 4-0 home win and the achievement of the 2022-23 league for AEK Athens. Panathinaikos won the 2023–24 Greek Football Cup by defeating Aris in the final with 1-0, [53] thus clinching their 20th Greek Cup title and sealing their position in next year's UEFA ...
The Big Three (Greek: Οι μεγάλοι τρεις, hoi megaloi treis) is the nickname of the three most successful sports clubs in Greece, all of whom are located within the so called Attica basin or Athens metropolitan area. The football teams of AEK, Olympiacos and Panathinaikos have a great rivalry, and are usually the main contenders for ...
In 1971, Panathinaikos became the first and only Greek team – so far – to have reached the final of a European competition, when they faced Ajax in Wembley Stadium for the European Cup, losing 2–0. In the late 1970s, when football became professional in Greece, the club's football department passed to the hands of the Vardinogiannis family.