Panathinaikos Volleyball Club is the professional volleyball

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Panathinaikos

Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos is a multi-sport club based in Athens, Greece. It has the shamrock as its official emblem and green and white as its colours...

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Athens

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-based multi-sport club. Founded in 1919, it is one of the oldest volleyball clubs in Greece

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History

The first dynamic presence of the team is dated back in the years 1927–29 with many popular players of the time such as the historical member of the board Apostolos Nikolaidis as well as players such as Aravositas, Gkoumas, Arg. Nikolaidis, Papageorgiou and Papastefanou. In the following years the interest for volleyball became less until before the Second World War when Panathinaikos presented a powerful team with leader players such as Labrou, Vallidis, Momferatos, Tzoumanis, Proselentis, Lykouris, Kakridis and more.

In recent years, Panathinaikos' volleyball club has won many titles and honors due to the fact that the team roster has always included some of the leading volleyball players. The first and most popular generation of players of 60’s was Andreas and Nikos Bergeles, as well as Iliopoulos, Leloudas, Chasapis, Emmanouil, Perros and Fotiou who opened the road for the next generations. The most important achievement of the team was the participation in the final of the European Cup in 1980 with players such as Georgantis, Agrapidakis, Iliopoulos, Papadopoulos, Malousaris, Gkountakos, Astras, Kokkinaras and Koliopoulos one of the most talented players to be part of this team. In the following years, Panathinaikos team continued to dominate the Greek championship with players such as Kazazis, Tentzeris, Gontikas, Galakos, Dimitriadis, Margaronis, Karamaroudis and Andreopoulos.

Two of the most successful periods have been 1994-95 and 1995-96 seasons, when Panathinaikos won 2 championships in a raw with Stelios Prosalikas as head coach and Andreopoulos, Triantafillidis, Philippov, Spanos, Hatziantoniou, Ouzounof, A. Kovatsef, S. Kovatsef, Karamaroudis, Mavrakis, Konstantinidis, Zakynthinos, Koutouleas, Tonev as players.

Today, after a transition period, Panathinaikos is aiming again at the top. The renaissance of the team was demonstrated at the 2006 Top Teams Cup Final-4 in Palma de Mallorca

Palma de Mallorca

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, where Panathinaikos came third. Notable was the fan support, since it was the first major volleyball tournament in Europe where such a large number of fans (over 500) have travelled more than 2.000 km to support their team.

Honours

• Greek Championship: (19)
  • 1960, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1995, 1996, 2004, 2006

• Greek Cup: (6)
  • 1982, 1984, 1985, 2007, 2008, 2010

• Greek Super Cup: (1)
  • 2006

Current men's volleyball squad

As of September 2010   Stathis Ntonas  Nikos Angelopoulos  Iraklis Papadopoulos  Nikos Zoupanis  Milos Stojkovic  Tomasz Józefacki  Thanasis Protopsaltis  Theologos Daridis  Nikos Boutsouris

Team Manager:   Roulis Agrapidakis

Selected former players

Frank Depestele

Frank Depestele

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 Dante Amaral

Dante Amaral

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 Marcelo Elgarten

Marcelo Elgarten

Marcelo Elgarten is a Brazilian volleyball player. He won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Individual awards:* 2007 Pan-American Games "Best Setter"* Men's World Cup 2007; Rated 3rd best setter....

 Roberto Minuzzi Andre Nascimento Cleber De Oliveira Plamen Konstantinov

Plamen Konstantinov

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 Dimo Tonev  Liberman Agamez Petr Pláteník Dalibor Polak Fabrice Bry

Fabrice Bry

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 Renaud Herpe Guillaume Samica Björn Andrae

Björn Andrae

Björn Andræ is a German volleyball player. He is playing in Panathinaikos.- Career :He began to play with SCC Berlin. After that, he went to VfB Friedrichshafen. His next clubs were Noicom Cuneo, Sempre Volley Padua and then Mlekpol AZS Olsztyn. In 2008 he transferred to Panathinaikos...

 Dimitris Andreopoulos
Theodoros Baev

Theodoros Baev

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 Pavlos Karamaroudis Stelios Kazazis Michalis Koliopoulos Akis Sidiropoulos Tasos Tentzeris Michalis Triantafillidis Paweł Zagumny Łukasz Żygadło Dawid Murek

Dawid Murek

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 Andrija Gerić

Andrija Geric

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 Yuri Filippov Clayton Stanley Hernando Gomez

Selected former coaches

Carlos Xavier Weber Francisco dos Santos Andreas Bergeles Savvas Grozdanovic Alekos Leonis Stelios Prosalikas Gerasimos Theodoratos Mauro Berutto Roberto Sernioti

International record

Number	Player	Position	Height (m)
1	Gianluka Saraceni	Spiker	2.00
Opposite	2.00
6	Sakis Psarras	Setter	1.87
Setter	2.02
Spiker	1.98
Middle Blocker	2.05
Spiker	2.00
Opposite	1.98
13	Giorgos Kotsilianos	Spiker	1.98
14	Sotirios Pantaleon	Middle Blocker	2.04
15	Giannis Madouras	Middle Blocker	2.00
Opposite	1.83
Libero	1.85

Season	Achievement	Notes
Champions Cup CEV Champions League The CEV Champions League, or Indesit European Champions League is the top official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe and takes place every year.-Formula:In the first round take part 24 teams shared in 6 group stage....
1995-96		7th place
1996-97		5th place
Cup Winners Cup CEV Cup The CEV Cup is the second top official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe and takes place every year.Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup...
1976-77	Quarter-final
1979-80	Final Final (competition) The final of a competition is the match or round in which the winner of the entire event is decided.In sports competitions following a knockout system, where only two individuals or teams compete in each match, the final is usually played between the winners of two semi-finals...	defeated by Panini Modena Modena Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.... , 2-3 sets in Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
1981-82	Quarter-final
1983-84	Quarter-final
1987-88	Quarter-final
1988-89	Final four Final four Final Four isa sports term that is commonly applied to the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament, most notably NCAA Division I college basketball tournaments. The term usually refers to the four teams who compete in the two games of a single-elimination tournament's semi-final round...	3rd place
1989-90	Quarter-final
1990-91	Quarter-final
1991-92	Quarter-final
Top Teams Cup CEV Cup The CEV Cup is the second top official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe and takes place every year.Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup...
2005-06	Final four Final four Final Four isa sports term that is commonly applied to the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament, most notably NCAA Division I college basketball tournaments. The term usually refers to the four teams who compete in the two games of a single-elimination tournament's semi-final round...	3rd place
CEV Cup CEV Cup The CEV Cup is the second top official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe and takes place every year.Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup...
2001-02	Quarter-final	eliminated by Asystel Milano
2002-03	Quarter-final	eliminated by Tourcoing Tourcoing Tourcoing is a city in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune within the département of Nord.Tourcoing is situated near the cities of Lille and Roubaix and the Belgian border.-Main sights:...  Lille Metropole
2003-04	Final four Final four Final Four isa sports term that is commonly applied to the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament, most notably NCAA Division I college basketball tournaments. The term usually refers to the four teams who compete in the two games of a single-elimination tournament's semi-final round...	4th place
2008-09	Final Final (competition) The final of a competition is the match or round in which the winner of the entire event is decided.In sports competitions following a knockout system, where only two individuals or teams compete in each match, the final is usually played between the winners of two semi-finals...	2nd place

Historical performance in the league

	Panhellenic Championship								A' National																				A1 Division
Pos.	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11
1			1		1	1	1			1	1	1	1		1		1					1		1	1	1									1	1								1		1
2	2			2				2	2					2		2		2	2	2	2		2				2	2	2	2	2	2															2	2	2	2
3		3																																							3	3	3		3						3
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External links

• Panathinaikos Volleyball Department - Official website (in Greek & English)
• Panathinaikos Fans' Site (in Greek & English)
• Green CyBeR Fans' Site (in Greek & English)
• Panathinaikos Fan Site & Forum (in Greek & English)
• Panathinaikos Gate 13 Fans' Site (in Greek & English)
• Panathinaikos - the |G|reek |S|ports |M|aster website (in English)