Athletic Club of Nea Smyrni Milon () or simply AONS Milon is a multisport club in

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

that based in

Nea Smyrni Nea Smyrni (, ''Néa Smýrni'', "New Smyrna") is a municipality and a town in South Athens, Greece. At the 2021 Greek census, 2021 census, it had 72,853 inhabitants. It was named after the former Greek city Smyrna (today's İzmir in Turkey), whe ...

. It was founded in 1928 by a group of refugees which came in

. The club's colours are green and black. The home of the club is the Milon Gymnasium with a capacity of 1,300 seats.

History

The club was founded in 1928 in

by a group of refugees. The first name of the club was Athletic Club of Nea Smirni (in Greek ΑΟΝΣ/AONS). Some years later the Tennis Club of Nea Smyrna was incorporated in AONS. Until 1939 this club was the unique club of Nea Smyrni but that year moved there

Panionios Panionios G.S.S. Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ.), the ''Pan-Ionian Gymnastics Club of Smyrna'' (Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, ''Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis''), ...

that was moved from Athens. During 1958 many athletes from Milon Alexandria, a Greek club in Egypt, was incorporated in AONS and the name of the club changed to AONS Milon. In 1968, the gymnasium of the club was built in Nea Smyrni. Milon has many departments in several sports. The basketball team has played in first division (A1 Ethniki) two times while several well known basketball players have played for Milon. It is noteworthy that NBAer top scorer Mitchell Wiggins has played for Milon in 1993 season. Milon Volleyball team has won 2 Greek Championships. Volleyball team has played 13 times in first division, last of them was the period 2020–2021.

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