Panathinaikos F.C. Academy

Panathinaikos FC Academy

Full name	Panathinaikos FC Soccer Schools
Founded	1956
Ground	Georgios Kalafatis Sports Center/Paiania (training ground)
Owner	Panathinaikos F.C.
Chairman	Giannis Alafouzos
Technical Director	Giannis Samaras
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Panathinaikos maintains youth and amateur departments since the 50's, while Panathinaikos F.C. manage them since 1981. They cooperate with a network of 55 soccer schools in Greece (Panathinaikos FC Soccer Schools), while they were the first Greek club with academies abroad (Cyprus, United States, Australia, Canada, Israel).

History

Since 1928 József Künsztler, coach of the first team, tried to rejuvenate the team with players from the second (reverse) team.

During the 50's the ex-player of the team, Antonis Migiakis, had the leading role on the creation of the first youth departments of the club. First coaches were Harry Game and Svetislav Glišović. Migiakis was appointed later also as a coach the years 1967-69, 1971-74 και 1981-85. Andreas Papaemmanouil had also significant contribution.

During the presidency of Yiorgos Vardinogiannis the Academy was re-organized. Alf Ramsey was appointed as Technical Director, while all the youth departments were housed in Paiania (training ground).

In 2005 Panathinaikos won the Copa Amsterdam, the annual youth football tournament, organized and hosted by AFC Ajax.

Since 2013, the academies are housed also in the Georgios Kalafatis Sports Center, the new athletic center of Panathinaikos FC.

Honours

• Greek Amateur Cup¹: (2)
  • 1994, 1995
• Athens Cup¹: (2)
  • 1993, 1994
• Greek U-21 Championship: (2)
  • 2005, 2012
• Greek U-18 Championship: (1)
  • 2009
• Copa Amsterdam:
  • Winners (1): 2005
• Puskás Cup:
  • Runners-up (2): 2010, 2013

¹Competitions for amateur footballers, won by Panathinaikos' U-21 team (or Panathinaikos Amateurs, as it was called at that time).

Players

U-20 squad

As of 1 September 2016^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Vasilios Xenopoulos GK Konstantinos Chalkidis DF Georgios Servilakis DF Charalampos Stratigis DF Konstantinos Valmas DF Christos Zervopoulos DF Manolis Samios DF Andreas Xiros DF Konstantinos Valmas DF Antonis Ikonomopoulos DF Alexandros Triantafyllopoulos DF Theofanis Mavromatis DF Giannis Andreou DF Andreas Zikos

No. Position Player MF Giorgos-Panagiotis Angelopoulos MF Konstantinos Apostolakis MF Vangelis Xepapadakis MF Leonidas Kalomoiris MF Anastasios Chatzigiovannis MF Christos Kountouriotis MF Theodoros Mingos MF Petros Agiasiotis MF Giannis Bouzoukis MF Vangelis Theocharis FW Sotiris-Pantelis Pispas FW Spyros Papanikolaou FW Athanasios Dimitroulas FW Kristo Shehu

Notable players

• 
  Angelos Basinas
• 
  Giannis Goumas
• 
  Stefanos Kapino
• 
  Giorgos Karagounis
• 
  Sotirios Kyrgiakos
• 
  Charalampos Mavrias
• 
  Sotiris Ninis
• 
  Spyros Risvanis

Notable players coming from the club's youth departments include:

• Georgios Alexopoulos
• Kyriakos Andreopoulos
• Vasilis Angelopoulos
• Kostas Antoniou
• Angelos Basinas
• Kostas Chalkias
• Diamantis Chouchoumis
• Lambros Choutos
• Christos Donis
• Spyros Fourlanos
• Nikos Giannitsanis
• Giannis Goumas
• Stefanos Kapino
• Giorgos Karagounis
• Stefanos Kotsolis
• Sotirios Kyrgiakos
• Anastasios Lagos
• Spiros Livathinos
• Charalampos Mavrias
• Nikos Marinakis
• Sotiris Ninis
• Spyros Risvanis
• Paschalis Staikos
• Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos
• Alexandros Tzorvas
• Georgios Vakouftsis
• Markos Vellidis

Personnel

Academies staff

Position	Name
Youth Academy Technical Director	Giannis Samaras
U-20 coach	Vaggelis Samios
U-17 coach	Kostas Frantzeskos
U-16 coach	Spiros Marangos
U-15 coach	Aris Kiriazis
U-14 coach	Thomas Mavroudis
U-13 coach	Manolis Papadakis
U-12 coach	Kostas Tarasis
U-11 coach	Dimitris Klis
Fitness Coach	Alexis Alexopoulos
Management support	Giannis Koulouriotis
Secretariat	Alkisti Agrimaki
Scouter	Dimitris Markos
Scouter	Andreas Lagonikakis
Scouter	Kostas Mpatsinilas
Scouter	Giorgos Famelis
Scouter	Markos Tsompanopoulos

References

External links

• Panathinaikos soccer schools