Panathinaikos F.C. Academy

Panathinaikos FC Academy

Full name	Panathinaikos FC Soccer Schools
Founded	1956
Ground	Georgios Kalafatis Sports Center
Owner	Panathinaikos F.C.
Chairman	Giannis Alafouzos
Technical Director	Giannis Samaras
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Panathinaikos maintains youth and amateur departments since the 50's, while Panathinaikos F.C. manage them since 1981. They cooperate with a network of 55 soccer schools in Greece (Panathinaikos FC Soccer Schools), while they were the first Greek club with academies abroad (Cyprus, USA, Australia, Canada, Israel).

History

Since 1928 József Künsztler, coach of the first team, tried to rejuvenate the team with players from the second (reverse) team.

During the 50's the ex-player of the team, Antonis Migiakis, had the leading role on the creation of the first youth departments of the club. First coaches were Harry Game and Svetislav Glišović. Migiakis was appointed later also as a coach the years 1967-69, 1971-74 και 1981-85. Andreas Papaemmanouil had also significant contribution.

During the presidency of Yiorgos Vardinogiannis the Academy was re-organized. Alf Ramsey was appointed as Technical Director, while all the youth departments were housed in Paiania (training ground).

In 2005 Panathinaikos won the Copa Amsterdam, the annual youth football tournament, organized and hosted by AFC Ajax.

Since 2013, the academies are housed in the Georgios Kalafatis Sports Center, the new athletic center of Panathinaikos FC.

Honours

• Greek Amateur Cup¹: (2)
  • 1994, 1995

• Athens Cup¹: (2)
  • 1993, 1994

• Greek U-21 Championship: (2)
  • 2005, 2012

• Greek U-18 Championship: (1)
  • 2009

• Copa Amsterdam:
  • Winners (1): 2005

• Puskás Cup:
  • Runners-up (2): 2010, 2013

¹Competitions for amateur footballers, won by Panathinaikos' U-21 team (or Panathinaikos Amateurs, as it was called at that time).

Players

U-20 squad

^{[1] [2]} Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Sokratis-Giorgos Vasilas GK Theodoros Lampiris GK Vasilis Xenopoulos GK Konstantinos Chalkidis DF Stefanos Evangelou DF Andreas Xiros DF Marios Tzanoulinos DF Alexandros Triantafyllopoulos DF Antonis Ikonomopoulos DF Manolis Samios DF Konstantinos Valmas DF Andreas Zikos DF Vangelis Theocharis DF Fanis Mavrommatis DF Giannis Andreou

No. Position Player DF Vangelis Theocharis DF Giorgos Servilakis MF Paschalis Staikos MF Vasilis Angelopoulos MF Giorgos Angelopoulos MF Theodoros Mingos MF Giannis Bouzoukis MF Petros Agasiotis MF Christos Kountouriotis FW Michail Niouman FW Lazaros Lamprou FW Spyros Papanikolaou FW Anastasios Chatzigiovannis FW Sotiris Pispas FW Dimitris Silvestridis

Notable players

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  Angelos Basinas

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  Giannis Goumas

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  Stefanos Kapino

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  Giorgos Karagounis

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  Sotirios Kyrgiakos

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  Charalampos Mavrias

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  Sotiris Ninis

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  Spyros Risvanis

Notable players coming from the club's youth departments include:

• Georgios Alexopoulos
• Vasilis Angelopoulos
• Kostas Antoniou
• Angelos Basinas
• Kostas Chalkias
• Diamantis Chouchoumis
• Lambros Choutos
• Christos Donis
• Spyros Fourlanos
• Giannis Goumas
• Stefanos Kapino
• Giorgos Karagounis
• Stefanos Kotsolis
• Sotirios Kyrgiakos
• Anastasios Lagos
• Spiros Livathinos
• Charalampos Mavrias
• Nikos Marinakis
• Sotiris Ninis
• Spyros Risvanis
• Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos
• Alexandros Tzorvas
• Georgios Vakouftsis

Personnel

Academies staff

Position	Name
Youth Academy Technical Director	Giannis Samaras
U-20 coach	Vaggelis Samios
U-17 coach	Kostas Frantzeskos
U-16 coach	Spiros Marangos
U-15 coach	Aris Kiriazis
U-14 coach	Thomas Mavroudis
U-13 coach	Manolis Papadakis
U-12 coach	Kostas Tarasis
U-11 coach	Dimitris Klis
Fitness Coach	Alexis Alexopoulos
Management support	Giannis Koulouriotis
Secretariat	Alkisti Agrimaki
Scouter	Dimitris Markos
Scouter	Andreas Lagonikakis
Scouter	Kostas Mpatsinilas
Scouter	Giorgos Famelis
Scouter	Markos Tsompanopoulos

References

1. "U-20". pao.gr. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
2. "ΠΑΝΑΘΗΝΑΪΚΟΣ Κ20: Με διπλή προπόνηση ξεκίνησε η προετοιμασία – 29 ποδοσφαιριστές στο ρόστερ". football-academies.gr. Retrieved 10 July 2014.

External links

• Panathinaikos soccer schools