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<div>[[Category:Football Clubs]][[Image:Panachaiki-Patras.png|thumb|150px|left|Panachaiki - team crest]]<br />
[[Image:Panachaiki1960s.jpg|thumb|300px|1969 team photo. Top: Nikolaou, [[Giorgos Sarantopoulos]], Karabinas, Liaros, Sideris. Bottom: [[Themis Rigas]], [[Andreas Michalopoulos]], [[Vasilis Stravopodis]], [[Kostas Davourlis]], Kapandritis.]]<br />
[[Image:Giorgossarantopoulos.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Giorgos Sarantopoulos]] in a spectacular save]]<br />
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Panachaiki's history starts before 1900. Specifically, in [[1891]] before the first modern Olympic games in Patra the Panachaikos Gymnastikos Syllogos was established, which later joined Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron (est. 1894), and then the joint teams ([[1923]]) became Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi. First soccer game held in Patras in 18/01/1899 had as opponents Panachaikos G.S. vs Team of British Ship «Boxier» 4-2. With the founding of the club, soccer started to spread throughout Patra, in a time where athletics, weight lifting and wrestling were king.<br />
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Soccer picked the interest of most youngsters in Patra and very soon the Enosi Podosferikon Somation Patron was established, which started to put together local championships from the [[Achaea prefecture|Achaea]], [[Elis prefecture|Ileia]] and [[Aitoloakarnania prefecture]]s. This meant a chance for Panachaiki to prove themselves not only to [[Patra]] but the rest of [[Greece]]. Panaitolikos, Apollon Patron, and [[Panaigialios FC|Panaigialios]] were the main Panachaiki rivals. Although those clubs were much stronger, Panachaiki officials managed to overcome the difficulties presented and in time made their club "Queen of [[Peloponnesus]]".<br />
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A major problem that cost Panachaiki to be amongst the top teams in Greece was the distance between Patra and Athens. At that time the distance had to be covered by a six hour car-drive, and half-day with a boat! This meant that Panachaiki could only compete in regional tournaments and in the 1953-1954 season they won the Paneparchiako Championship.<br />
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[[Kostas Davourlis]], one of the greatest Greek soccer talents the past 35 years scored 191 goals in 360 games with Panachaiki.<br />
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Their most successful season was in [[1973]] when they finished 4th in the Greek [[Football A Division|A' Division]] and earned an UEFA Cup berth.<br />
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Colours: Red and black.<br />
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The team plays in the [[Pampelonisiako Stadium]] which was utilized for the Athens [[2004 Summer Olympics]]. The team played in the 2002-03 season at the [[Football A Division|Greek First Division]]. Recently demoted, they are seeking promotion in the near future into the top flight.<br />
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== Star Players ==<br />
===70s - 80s===<br />
*[[Kostas Davourlis]]<br />
*[[Andreas Michalopoulos]]<br />
*[[Themis Rigas]]<br />
*[[Petros Leventakos]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Spiropoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Stravopodis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Ioakimidis]]<br />
*[[Antonis Tzanetoulakos]]<br />
*[[Mimis Spetzopoulos]]<br />
*[[Zacharias Pytichoutis]]<br />
*[[Angelos Kremmydas]]<br />
*[[Michalis Bellis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Sarantopoulos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Papayiannopoulos]]<br />
*[[Yiannis Psaras]]<br />
*[[Christos Apostolidis]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Deliyiannis]]<br />
*[[Nikos Karamanlis]]<br />
*[[Takis Economopoulos]]<br />
*[[Vasilis Georgopoulos]]<br />
*[[Elvio Mana]]<br />
*[[Dragan Perovic]]<br />
*[[Walter Wagner]]<br />
*Sideris<br />
*M. Spanosotiropoulos<br />
*Christos Nikolaou<br />
*Liaros<br />
*Takis Kemenidis<br />
*Vassilis Karambinas<br />
*Dionysis Kapandritis<br />
*Odysseas Zevgaridis<br />
*Margaritis<br />
*Plessas<br />
*Thymios Pefanis<br />
*Saraliotis<br />
*Kyriakos Androutsos<br />
*Sotiris Avgerinopoulos<br />
*Jiannis Dandelis<br />
*Drougoutis<br />
*Andreas Zoannos<br />
*Kachris<br />
*Kyriakidis<br />
*Kostas Leventis<br />
*Emmanouil Pappas <br />
*Nikos Stamatopoulos<br />
*Tanidis<br />
*Drougoutis<br />
*A. Moulatsiotis<br />
*Aris Nikolopoulos<br />
*E. Sasanis<br />
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===90s - Today===<br />
*[[Giorgos Mirtsos]]<br />
*[[Christos Mikes]]<br />
*[[Giorgos Vaitsis]]<br />
*[[Amaechi Ottiji]]<br />
*[[Dimitris Genas]]<br />
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]<br />
*[[Roland Iliadis]]<br />
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==Coaches==<br />
*[[Nikos Alefantos]]<br />
*[[Nikos Anastopoulos]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.panachaiki.gr Official website]<br />
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