Panathinaikos (table tennis club)
| Nicknames | The Trifolium Vazeli |
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| Founded | 1924 |
| Based in | Athens, Greece |
| Stadium | Leoforos Alexandras Stadium |
| President | Panagiotis Malakates |
| Head coach | Lefteris Makras Nikos Zervas |
| Website | pao1908.com pao1908.com |
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The table tennis department of Panathinaikos A.O. was founded in 1924 by the great player Nikos Mantzaroglou. Through the next decades Panathinaikos became one of the best table tennis teams in Greece with a lot of successes in both men and women.
In 1974, the men's team had its biggest success in the European competitions. In the ETTU Cup, Panathinaikos passed Turnerschaft Innsbruck, Centro Sportivo Milano, TTC Rot-Weiß Hamburg and reached the semi-finals, where they disqualified by Hertha BSC Berlin.
Honours
[edit]- Greek Clubs' Championship, Men (12):
- 1951, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1975
- Greek Clubs' Championship, Women (3):
- 1972, 1973, 1974
- Greek Cup, Men (3):
- 1965,1966, 1969
- Greek Cup, Women (2):
- 1972, 2022
ETTU Cup, Men
- Semi-finals (1): 1974
- ETTU Europe Trophy, Men
- Winners (1): 2024
- ETTU Europe Trophy, Women
- Winners (1): 2022
Current players
[edit]Season 2024–25
Men's squad[edit]
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Women's squad[edit]
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Former Notable players
[edit]Men
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Andrej Gaćina
Jorge Campos
Emmanuel Lebesson
Spyros Giannakopoulos- Giannis Kalogiannis
- Nikos Kostopoulos
- Maria Louka
- Stamatina Louka
- Nikos Mantzaroglou
- Kostas Priftis
- Lena Ralli
- Eleni Vlachaki
Jakub Dyjas
Kristian Karlsson
Betty Janes Klosky
Women
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Sources
[edit]- 100 years Panathinaikos, Liveri, 2008
- Official website (in Greek)