Greek sports (V)

Basketball in Greece (II):


International championships won:

Panathinaikos Athens

World Cup for Champion Clubs: (1996)

 Greek Basketball League English

Euroleague: (1996, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2011)

Olympiacos Piraeus

Euroleague: (1997, 2012)

AEK Athens

Saporta Cup: (1968, 2000)

Aris Thessaloniki

Saporta Cup: (1993)

Korać Cup: (1997)

FIBA Champions Cup: (2003)

PAOK Thessaloniki

Saporta Cup: (1991)

Korać Cup: (1994)

Maroussi Athens

Saporta Cup: (2001)

International successes of the Greek national basketball teams
Since winning the senior men's basketball EuroBasket 1987, the record of Greek national basketball shows numerous successes. Ten's national youth teams especially have recorded successes in international competitions.
Successes of the men's senior national team
Since the senior Greek national basketball team won its first EuroBasket in 1987, it has been a regular competitor at the EuroBasket, FIBA World Championship, and the Summer Olympics. The men's senior national team from 1987 included legendary players such as Nikos Galis, Panayiotis Yiannakis, Panagiotis Fassoulas, and Theofanis Christodoulou. Panayiotis Yiannakis also later became the senior team's head coach and he led the Greeks to win the European Championship (EuroBasket) again in the year 2005 at Belgrade. Yiannakis became the first person ever to have succeeded in winning the FIBA European Championship (EuroBasket) both as a player and as a head coach. After Greece had earlier in 2004 also won the European Championship in football, it gave Greece the rare extinction of being the European champion in the two most important team ball sports at the same time. At the 2006 FIBA World Championship held in Japan, Greece reached the final and won the silver medal. They accomplished this after becoming the only team at the tournament to beat Team USA, whom they defeated in the semifinals by a score of 101-95.