{"id":3220,"date":"2026-04-29T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:57:00","slug":"international-recognition-for-panathinaikos-among-the-top-european-teams-without-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"International recognition for Panathinaikos: Among the top European teams without Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">The <b>Panathinaikos<\/b> ranks sixth on The Athletic&#8217;s list of the most historic <b>clubs<\/b> that have not won the <b>honorable trophy<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The inclusion of <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"15\">Panathinaikos<\/b> among <b>Europe<\/b> that have not won a title<b> Champions League<\/b> decided the prestigious British medium <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"170\">&#8220;Athletic&#8221;<\/b>. In the relevant ranking, the &#8220;trefoil&#8221; is in <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"233\">6th place<\/b>, being the only Greek representation, a fact that highlights its timeless European credentials.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Atletico Madrid host Arsenal in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final tonight. A place in the final in Budapest at the end of the month is at stake, of course, but so too is club history.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico and Arsenal are arguably the two biggest clubs in Europe never to&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/jldFUqXHbh<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) April 29, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">The Green&#8217;s historic run peaked in <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"47\">1971<\/b>, when they became the <b>first and only team from Greece to play in the final of the top intercollegiate competition<\/b>, at the iconic <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"196\">Webley<\/b> stadium. Despite the great successes that followed in the decades that followed, the club remained in the upper echelons of Europe, repeatedly coming close to the source.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\"><b>Significant milestones in Panathinaikos&#8217; European journey<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"6\">\n<li>The <b data-path-to-node=\"6,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"3\">1985<\/b>, when they reached the semi-finals of the Champions Cup, where they were eliminated by the mighty <b data-path-to-node=\"6,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"104\">Liverpool<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>The <b data-path-to-node=\"6,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"3\">1996<\/b>, with an appearance in the semi-finals of the Champions League and a historic 1-0 away win over <b data-path-to-node=\"6,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"113\">Ajax<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>The <b data-path-to-node=\"6,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"3\">2002<\/b>, on their way to the quarter-finals, where they beat <b data-path-to-node=\"6,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"64\">Barcelona<\/b> 1-0 in Athens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">The top of the British medium&#8217;s list is dominated by <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"55\">Atletico Madrid<\/b>, while the top five is completed by <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"112\">Arsenal<\/b>, <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"121\">Tottenham<\/b>, <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"130\">Valencia<\/b> and <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"143\">Anderlet<\/b>. In the positions below Panathinaikos are historic names such as <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"226\">St. Etienne<\/b>, <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"240\">Roma<\/b>, <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"248\">Rheims<\/b> and <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"259\">Dynamo Kyiv<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panathinaikos occupies the sixth place in &#8220;Athletic&#8217;s&#8221; list of the most historic clubs that have not won the prestigious trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}