Panionios GSS FC
Full name	PAE Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis (Pan-Ionian Gymnastic Association of Smyrna FC)
Nickname(s)	Kyanerythri (Blue-Reds) Istorikos (Historic)
Founded	1890 İzmir
Ground	Panionios Stadium, Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece (Capacity 11,700 (all-seated))
Chairman	Georgios Katsifarakis
Manager	Ewald Lienen
League	Super League Greece (Σούπερ Λίγκα Ελλάδα 2007)
2006-07	Super League Greece, 5th
Home colours Away colours

Panionios GSS FC (Greek: Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης - Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis), the Pan-Ionian Gymnastic Association of Smyrna, is a Greek association football club based in the Athenian suburb of Nea Smyrni, Greece. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Ä°zmir, historically Smyrna, is the third most populous city of Turkey and the countrys largest port after Ä°stanbul. ... Nea Smyrni Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Athens, Greece. ... Nea Smyrni or Nea Smirni (Greek: Νέα Σμύρνη, literally New Smyrna) is a suburb in the southwestern part of Athens, Greece. ... This article is about the capital of Greece. ... Rungnado May Day Stadium is the worlds largest football stadium. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Greece. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... Ewald Lienen (born November 28, 1953 in Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock) is a German former professional footballer, who is currently manager of Greek club Panionios. ... For other sports leagues which may be referred to by this name, see List of professional sports leagues. ... This is the inaugural Super League Greece season. ... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Location of Ionia Ionia (Greek Ιωνία; see also list of traditional Greek place names) was an ancient region of southwestern coastal Anatolia (in present-day Turkey, the region nearest Ä°zmir,) on the Aegean Sea. ... Smyrna (Greek: Σμύρνη) is an ancient city (today Ä°zmir in Turkey) that was founded by ancient Greeks at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... This article is about the capital of Greece. ... Nea Smyrni or Nea Smirni (Greek: Νέα Σμύρνη, literally New Smyrna) is a suburb in the southwestern part of Athens, Greece. ...

The club currently competes in the Super League Greece. For other sports leagues which may be referred to by this name, see List of professional sports leagues. ...

Early history

The club was founded in 1890 in İzmir, Ottoman Empire, under the name of "Orpheus Music and Sports Club". In 1893 some Orpheus members keen on sports formed a separate organization, the "Gymnasion Club", and started holding yearly sports competitions. In 1898, Orpheus and Gymnasion merged again to form PGSS. After the Greek military defeat in 1922 the club was transferred to the Athenian suburb of Nea Smyrni. The club has a tradition of cultivating all major sports and was the first Greek club to establish a track and field division for women, in 1925. With the gradual transformation of men's football and basketball into professional sports, Panionios FC and Panionios BC became privately owned clubs operating under the auspices of the traditional "amateur sports" PGSS. Year 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ... Ä°zmir, historically Smyrna, is the third most populous city of Turkey and the countrys largest port after Ä°stanbul. ... Ottoman redirects here. ... For other uses, see Orpheus (disambiguation). ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Combatants Greece Turkish Revolutionaries Commanders Gen Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Gen Anastasios Papoulas, Gen Georgios Hatzianestis Ali Fethi Okyar, Ä°smet Ä°nönü, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Fevzi Çakmak Strength 200,000 men 120,000 men (plus village protectors) Casualties 23,500 dead; 20,820 captured 20,540 dead; 10,000 wounded The... Nea Smyrni or Nea Smirni (Greek: Νέα Σμύρνη, literally New Smyrna) is a suburb in the southwestern part of Athens, Greece. ... Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Panionios BC is a Greek professional basketball club. ...

Recent history

Panionios has spent nearly its entire history in the Greek First Division (now called 'Superleague'), having missed out from competing in Greek football's top division only twice in its more than 100-year history. Within this, Panionios rose quite often to high levels, with top achievement in terms of the league being the 2nd position that the club reached in 1971, losing the title to AEK. ...

Panionios has produced all three major Greek strikers of the 1980s, namely Nikos Anastopoulos (later of Olympiakos), Thomas Mavros (later of AEK), and Dimitris Saravakos (later of Panathinaikos). Other notable players coming out of the club include Nikos Tsiantakis (later of Olympiakos) and Takis Fyssas, later of Panathinaikos and member of Greek national team. Nikos Anastopoulos was a Greek football player, one of the most feared strikers in Greece during the late 1970s and the 1980s. ... Thomas Mavros Born on May 31, 1954, was one of the best strikers that ever played in Greece. ... ... Dimitris Saravakos (born 26 July 1961) is one of the best Greek soccer players ever. ... Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (Greek: Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος,  ), widely known both as Panathinaikos or PAO, is a Greek multisport club based in Athens, Greece. ... Nikos (Nikolaos) Tsiantakis (born 20 October 1963) is a retired Greek football midfielder. ... Olympiacos CFP is a Greek football club, part of the Olympiacos sports club founded in 1925, which plays in the port city of Piraeus. ... Panagiotis Takis Fyssas (born 12 June 1973 in Athens) is a Greek left-back, currently playing for Heart of Midlothian and the Greek national football team, for whom he has been capped nearly 50 times. ... First international Greece 1 - 4  Italy (Athens, Greece; 7 April 1929) Biggest win Greece 8 - 0  Syria (Athens, Greece; 25 November 1949) Biggest defeat  Hungary 11 - 1 Greece (Budapest, Hungary; 25 March 1938) World Cup Appearances 1 (First in 1994) Best result Round 1, 1994 European Championship Appearances 2 (First...

In December 2001, working around bankruptcy legislation, the club was renamed to Neos ("New") Panionios FC, to avoid the threat of relegation from the first division because of financial difficulties. 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: December 2 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days after Dynegy canceled a US$8. ...

Change of ownership

In 2004, shipowner Constantinos Tsakiris was elected president of the "amateur sports" PGSS. Panionios won the women's Basketball Championship in 2006, the club's first in a team sport, and the women's volleyball team advanced to the first division. In 2006, Tsakiris acquired 85% of Neos Panionios FC stock and started restructuring the team from scratch. He changed the name of the club back to the original "Panionios GSS" FC and hired German coach Ewald Lienen who, during his first year created a team that made it to the top 5 of the Greek Super League and on to the UEFA Cup. Tsakiris has also unveiled an ambitious plan to have the aging football ground and athletics track demolished, and build a modern multi-sport arena in its place. Constantinos Tsakiris speaking at a Panionios presentation. ... Ewald Lienen (born November 28, 1953 in Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock) is a German former professional footballer, who is currently manager of Greek club Panionios. ... The Super League (Greek: ) is the highest professional football league in Greece. ... The UEFA Cup (also known as European Cup 3, CE3 or C3) is a football competition for European club teams, organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). ...

Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Miroslav Koenig 2 DF Giannis Maniatis 3 DF Josef Gaspar 4 DF Sékou Berthé 5 DF Marcelo Jose Pletsch 7 MF Manolis Skoufalis 8 MF Kostas Kapetanos 9 FW Rafik Djebbour 10 FW Lourenço da Silva 11 FW Christos Aravidis 12 GK Charalambos Tabasis 13 DF Evaggelos Koutsopoulos 14 DF Grigoris Makos 15 MF Bennard Yao Kumordzi 16 MF Rebeiro Wagner

No. Position Player 17 FW Albi Kondi 18 FW Michael Delura 19 MF Ivica Majstorović 20 MF Fanouris Goundoulakis 21 MF Nikos Spiropoulos 22 GK Dario Kresic 23 MF Dario Fernandez 24 FW Kyriacos Pavlou 25 DF Giannis Kontoes 26 DF Lazaros Bourelakos 28 MF Marios Nicolaou 29 FW Dimitrios Sialmas 30 DF Spyros Gitsalis 33 MF Efthymios Gousoulis -- MF Dimitris Siovas -- FW Lampros Choutos

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Squad Changes for 2007/08 season

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Famous former players

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National titles

Greek Cups (2)

1979, 1998 The Greek Football Cup (Greek: ), commonly known as the Greek Cup, is a knockout cup competition in Greek football, run by and named after Hellenic Football Federation. ...

Balkan Cup (1)

1971 In 1961, a Balkans Cup for clubs from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, and Yugoslavia was introduced. ...

Notable European campaigns

The Cup Winners Cup was a football club competition between the winners of the European domestic league cups. ... The season 1997-98 of the Cup Winners Cup football club tournament was won by S.S. Lazio in the final against RCD Mallorca for their first title in the competition. ... Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to SS Lazio or simply Lazio, is an Italian professional sports club most noted for its football section, founded in 1900 and based in Rome. ...

See Also

• Panionios Forthnet

Panionios BC is a Greek professional basketball club. ...

External links

• Official football club website
• Official basketball club website
• Greek wikipedia entry
• Panionios Stadium
• official Panthers fan club
• Panionios 1890 unofficial website
• Leshi filon panioniou fan club
• unofficial fan website