Ethnikos Piraeus F.C.

Ethnikos Piraeus
Full nameEthnikos Piraeus 1923
(Εθνικός Πειραιώς 1923)
Founded21 November 1923; 100 years ago (1923-11-21)
GroundKeratsini Municipal Stadium, Keratsini, Greece
Capacity1,500
ChairmanIoannis Patlakas
ManagerVangelis Chantes
LeagueGamma Ethniki
2023–24Gamma Ethniki (Group 4), 2nd
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. (Greek: Εθνικός Πειραιώς) is a Greek football club based in Piraeus and its parent sports club is Ethnikos OFPF. The club was officially formed on 21 November 1923 as Keravnos Piraeus (English: Lightning), but existed unofficially since 1922. One year later the club was renamed to Young Boys Titan, after some players' secession that formed Peiraikos Podosfairikos Omilos (English: Piraeus' Football Group). The club was renamed to Ethnikos (English: National) on 23 December 1924, after it merged with Peiraikos Podosfairikos Omilos.

Ethnikos Piraeus is one of the founding members of Hellenic Football Federation in 1928, and represented Piraeus to the finals of the Panhellenic Championship's inaugural season in 1927–28. They have won the 1932–33 Greek Cup, thus they are one of the only 11 clubs that have won either the domestic championship or domestic the cup in Greece. Ethnikos was one of seven clubs, including AEK Athens, PAOK, Panathinaikos, Aris Thessaloniki, Olympiacos and Panionios, never to have been relegated from the league until 1990. They have also been involved in international football playing a number of friendlies against famous clubs such as Inter Milan, Galatasaray, and Hungary national football team in the 1950s, and participated in the Balkans Cup on two occasions.[1] They have had a turbulent recent history, and are currently competing in the third division Gamma Ethniki.

  1. ^ "Balkan Cup 1970-79". Archived from the original on 2022-11-26. Retrieved 2023-02-02.