SOCCER

National team lets Greeks down
SOCCER

Greece has missed out on the Euro 2024 finals, as its poor game in the so-called “match of the decade” at Georgia ended in a shootout defeat to the hosts.


Germany to play Ukraine, Greece in final warmup games for Euro 2024
SPORTS

Germany will play Ukraine and Greece in its final warmup games before hosting the European Championship. The team will face Ukraine in Nuremberg on June 3, and four days later Greece, the 2004 European champion, in Mönchengladbach, the German soccer federation said on Tuesday.



Torches land fans in dock
SPORTS

Six AEK Athens soccer fans have until Wednesday to prepare their pleas after their arrest on Sunday for lighting two torches on the roof of an apartment building next to the Athanasios Diakos Stadium in Lamia, central Greece, where their team went head to head with the local side.



Israeli soccer fans assault foreigner in downtown Athens
NEWS

Tension erupted among soccer fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv earlier on Thursday in Syntagma Square in downtown Athens with the Israeli team’s fans allegedly assaulting a man of Arab descent who was exiting the metro station. 

Request for VAR renewal
SPORTS

Greek soccer authorities have requested a meeting with Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou and Deputy Sports Minister Yiannis Vroutsis for the renewal of the contract for video assistant referee (VAR) technology, the officiating system assisting on-field referees in a soccer match, which expires in September. The request came after the executive committee of the Hellenic […]


Probe into online threats against soccer committee observer
SPORTS

The Permanent Committee for Combating Violence said on Tuesday it will forward to the competent prosecutor the complaints lodged by its observer at the Greek soccer league PAOK-Olympiakos match on February 18, for threatening online posts against him.