Panathinaikos WPC

Panathinaikos WPC
Nicknames	The Shamrock Green Submarines
Founded	1930
League	A1 Ethniki
Based in	Athens, Greece
Arena	Ilisio Swimming Pool
Colours	Green and White
President	Ilias Mihalarias
Head coach	Konstantinos Loudis
Website	panathinaikos1908.gr

Active departments of Panathinaikos A.C.
Football	Basketball (Men's)	Basketball (Women's)
Volleyball (Men's)	Volleyball (Women's)	Water Polo
Rugby	Baseball	Field Hockey
Swimming	Athletics	Table Tennis
Fencing	Wrestling	Weightlifting
Boxing	Cycling	Shooting
Archery	Diving	Modern Pentathlon
Karate	Kickboxing	Athletic Club

Panathinaikos Water Polo Club, founded in 1930, is the water polo department of Panathinaikos, the Athens-based Greek multi-sport club. Despite its early establishment it doesn't have any particular honours so far. The best result it has achieved in the A1 Ethniki Water Polo is the third place.^[1]

History in the Greek Championship

The Panathinaikos Water Polo Club was initially established in 1930, but three years later, it was forced to close because of the lack of a swimming pool. The club was re-established in 1959. Without facing any particular difficulties it won the tournaments of the lower divisions and managed to qualify for the first division 3 years later, in 1962. In the years 1963, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 Panathinaikos WPC reached the third position. In 1993 PAO WPC returned for another time to second division. Until now PAO WPC have never won a national title.

In 2011 the club took the third place, along with the participation ticket for the first time in its history in the LEN Euroleague. The club ended up in the third place once again in the season 2013-2014.

Greek Cup

In the Greek Water Polo Cup Panathinaikos has reached the semi-finals in the seasons: 1983-84, 1984-85, 2001-02, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12.

European Honours

Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre

In its first participation in the LEN Euroleague (2011–12), Panathinaikos succeeded in advancing from the preliminary round to the first group stage. The club succeeded in winning against Kharkiv and VK Primorac Kotor (8-11) but it was eventually eliminated from the second group stage.
Following its elimination from the Euroleague, PAO went on to compete in the LEN Trophy, where it advanced until the round of "16" after winning against Le Ben and eventually having a draw 7-7 against Galatasaray.^[2] Finally Panathinaikos did not advance to the quarter finals after being eliminated by Panionios 6-8 in OAKA, and 13-14 (10-12) in Nea Smirni.^[3]

Current Roster

2014–2015

No.	Nat.	Player	Birth
colspan=6 style="color:#fff;background:#008040" "|Goalkeepers (3)
--		Filippos Karampetsos	1977
--		Iason Grigoriadis	1996
--		Michalis Michalopoulos	1996
colspan=6 style="color:#fff;background:#008040" "|Defense (5)
--		Nikitas Kochilas	1983
--		Ioannis Spyropoulos	1997
--		Panteleimon Kalogerakos	1996
--		Andrija Komadina	1977
--		Panagiotis Bourgos	1997
colspan=6 style="color:#fff;background:#008040" "|Midfield (9)
--		Ioannis Pantazopoulos	1997
--		Nikolaos Gerakoudis	1995
--		Dimos Dermitzakis	1991
--		Ioannis Kourliaftis	1989
--		Ioannis Garanis	1997
--		Anastasios Oikonomidis	1996
--		Stathis Hatzistefanou	1997
--		Panagiotis Papadogonas	1987
--		Argyris Theodoropoulos	1981
colspan=6 style="color:#fff;background:#008040" "|Offense (4)
--		Georgios Afroudakis	1976
--		Charis Charalampopoulos	1990
--		Michael Sartzetakis	1996
--		Dimitris Papadimitriou	1998
colspan=6 style="color:#fff;background:#008040" "|Coach
		Konstantinos Loudis

Notable players

References

External links

• http://www.panathinaikos.org/Departments/Water_Polo/