Greek authorities launched a ban on paper tickets for all league soccer matches on Tuesday as part of an effort to crack down on the violence that has plagued the sport for decades.
SOCCER
PAOK returned from 2-0 down to snatch a precious point at AEK.
Panathinaikos came from behind to inflict AEK’s first defeat in 22 league games and allow PAOK to go top of the Super League table.
AEK and PAOK emerged victorious from their Sunday challenges at the Super League playoffs.
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.
Gus Poyet is aiming to build on a tradition as he tries to become the latest foreign coach to take Greece to a European Championship.
Greece has got one final hurdle to clear on its way to the Euro 2024, after thrashing Kazakhstan on Thursday with a 5-0 score in Athens.
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.
Hosts Germany will play two friendly matches against Ukraine and Greece in June days before the start of the European championships on home soil, the team said on Tuesday.
Volos scored a precious road win on the opening day of the Super League playouts, while PAS Giannina increasingly appears doomed to relegation.
PAOK and Olympiakos produced historic reversals of their poor results a week earlier.
In Turkey’s version of mini-soccer, amateur teams typically made up of friends or co-workers get together after work or on weekends for friendly but intense 7-a-side games on artificial turf.
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.
The lead of the Super League race has changed hands again, as PAOK lost at home to Aris and AEK has overtaken it.
Olympiakos and PAOK have a mountain to climb if they are to qualify from their round-of-16 ties
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.
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