Panionios B.C. ( Greek: Πανιώνιος KAE), known in European competitions as Panionios Athens is the Greek professional

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club that is based in Nea Smyrni,

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, and that plays its home games in Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece. The club is also widely known as Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, or Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis, which is the Pan-Ionian Gymnastic Club of

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. This is usually abbreviated to the club name of Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ. Panionios B.C. is the basketball department of the Panionios Gymnastic Club that is based in Nea Smyrni,

. Panionios B.C. has been a long-time club of the top-tier level

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, which is considered one of the best national domestic basketball leagues in Europe. Panionios B.C. has also competed in the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague. For sponsorship reasons, the club has also been known as Panionios

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and Panionios Forthnet, as well as several other sponsorship names. Some of the well-known players that have played with the club over the years have included: Faidon Matthaiou, Takis Koroneos, Makis Dendrinos, Dimitris Fosses,

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, Fanis Christodoulou, Giannis Giannoulis, Boban Janković,

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Logos

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History

Early years

The basketball clubs' parent athletic union, the Panionios Gymnastic Club, was founded in 1890, in

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(located today in the modern country of

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), making it one of the oldest sporting clubs in Europe. The sporting clubs' basketball department was founded in 1919. After the Greek military suffered defeat in the Greco-Turkish War in 1922, the club was transferred to the

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suburb of Nea Smyrni, in Greece. The basketball department, Panionios B.C., began participation in the

starting in the 1928–29 season, and finished in second place in the league that year. Panionios B.C. finished in third place in the league the next year.

Rise of the club to prominence in Greek basketball

Panionios B.C. competed in the top-tier Greek basketball league, in consecutive years, from the 1981–82 season until the 2014–15 season. In the 1986–87 season, Panionios played in the championship finals series of the Greek League, losing out to Aris, and their two Greek basketball legends

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and Panagiotis Giannakis (Giannakis would later go on to play for Panionios). In 1991, led by Fanis Christodoulou, the team won the Greek Cup title, by defeating PAOK by a score of 73–70. Panionios also played in the finals game of the Greek Cup in both 1977 and 1995. Ιn the 1993–94 season, after an exciting run in the European 3rd-tier level

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, and after scoring a couple of wins against Maccabi Tel Aviv in the quarterfinals, Panionios reached the semifinals, and played against PAOK Bravo. This marked the first civil conflict between Greek basketball clubs in European-wide competitions, ever. The club finished in 3rd place in the Greek League in the 1995–96 season, under their

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at the time,

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, and thus qualified to the EuroLeague for the 1996–97 season. In the FIBA EuroLeague 1996–97 season, the team was coached by Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou. Two years later, in 1999, Panionios once again reached the semifinals of the FIBA Korać Cup, where they were again eliminated, this time from the super favorites of the tournament,

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, which featured Sasha Djordjević. In the Greek League 2007–08 season, under the ownership of Elias Lianos, the founder of Proton Bank, Panionios, led by Ivan Zoroski, Giannis Kalampokis, and charismatic head coach Nenad Marković, finished in 3rd place in the Greek League. They came back from an 0–2 series deficit in the deciding best-of-five league third-place series against Maroussi, and won the series 3–2. That secured the team a place in the EuroLeague competition for the EuroLeague 2008–09 season. This marked the club's first EuroLeague appearance in more than a decade.

Decline of the club

After the 2014–15 season, Panionios was relegated to the Greek 2nd Division, after 33 consecutive seasons with a presence in the top-tier level

. For the 2015–16 season, Panionios preferred to play in the third-tier of Greece, the semi-pro level

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, due to financial difficulties. They were promoted up to the Greek 2nd Division for the 2016–17 season. They won the Greek 2nd Division title of the 2016–17 season, and were promoted back up to the top-tier level league, for the 2017–18 season. Due to financial difficulties, Panionios was demoted down to the Greek 3rd Division, prior to the 2020–21 season.

Panionios in international competitions

Arenas

Panionios played its domestic Greek League home games at "Artakis" Nea Smyrni Indoor Hall, a now demolished 1,832-seat arena that was owned by the Nea Smyrni municipality. They used the arena from its opening in 1979 to 2006, and from 2009 to its close in 2019. From 2006 to 2009, the club used the Helliniko Olympic Arena, which was built for the

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, and has a capacity of 15,000, as its home arena. At various times, the club has also used the National Athletic Center Glyfada Makis Liougas, which has a capacity of 3,232. In 2019, the club moved into the Sofia Befon Palaio Faliro Indoor Hall for the 2019–20 season. The arena seats 1,204 people.Αυτό είναι το νέο Κλειστό Γήπεδο του Παλαιού Φαλήρου .
/ref> It was opened in 2017. The municipality of Nea Smyrni has begun the construction of a new modern-style multi-use indoor arena, called the Boban Janković Indoor Hall, named after Boban Janković, which is being built on the same location as the old Nea Smyrni Indoor Hall. The new arena is scheduled to be open for the 2022–23 season. The club will play at a smaller arena in Nea Smyrni neighborhood, Andreas Varikas Indoor Hall, until its new arena is completed.

Honours and titles

Domestic competitions

* Greek League : ''Runners-up (1)'': 1986–87 * Greek Cup : Winners (1): 1990–91 : ''Runners-up (2)'': 1976–77, 1994–95 * Greek 2nd Division (1961–1986) / Greek 2nd Division (1986–present) : Winners (3): 1973–74, 1980–81, 2016–17 * Greek 3rd Division : Winners (1): 2015–16

European competitions

: ''Semifinalist (2)'': 1993–94, 1998–99

Other competitions

* Athens, Greece Tournament : Winners (1): 2011

International record

Season by season results

Notable players

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* Theodoros Karamanolis *

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* Vassilis Kikilias * Takis Koroneos *

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* Zisis Sarikopoulos *

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* Ioannis Sioutis *

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* Joao Santos *

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USA: * William Avery (basketball), William Avery * Thurl Bailey *

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* Byron Dinkins *

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* Antonio Harvey *

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Oceania: * Brad Newley

Head coaches

Top players in games played and points scored in the Greek Basket League (since the 1992–93 season)

Panionios team leaders in games played and points scored, since the

became fully

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, starting with the 1992–93 season. * Through the 2019–20 season. : :

References

External links

Panionios B.C. Official Website

Eurobasket.com Team Page

Greek Basket League Team PageEuroCup Official Team PageEuroleague.net Panionios B.C. Team ProfilePanionios Panthers Club
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