2026

Events

January 22: Severe weather causes two deaths as torrential rain and gale-force winds sweap across much of Greece.
January 25: Greece defeats Italy 12-5 to win bronze in the European water polo championship. This marks the first time a Greek team won a medal in this sport.
January 26: An explosion and fire causes the death of five women at the biscuit factory "Violanta" near the city of Trikala.
January 27: Seven fans of PAOK FC die in a minibus crash in Romania while traveling to a Europa League game at Lyon, France.

February 4: 15 migrants die, off the coast of Chios, when their speedboat collides with a Greek Coast Guard vessel.
February 21: Panathinaikos lift the Greek Basketball Cup after defeating Olympiakos 79-68
February 28: Emmanouil Karalis clears 6.17m at the Greek Indoor Championships in Paiania making him the second all-time recordman in the pole vault.

April 5: Lefteris Petrounias wins gold in the rings at the Cairo World Championships.
April 25: OFI defeat PAOK 3-2 in extra time to lift the Greek Football Cup.

May 24: Olympiakos defeat Real Madrid 92-85 to win the Euroleague title.
May 26: Former PM Alexis Tsipras announces the creation of his new political party the "Greek Coalition of the Left" whose acronym in Greek is EL.A.S.
May 30: George Franks breaks the Greek record for the 400m with a 44.88 performance at the NCAA Division I meet in Kentucky, USA.

July 26: Greece defeat Hungary 15-14 to win the water polo World Cup.
July 26: Miltos Tentoglou equals the Greek record in the long jump with an 8.66m performance in Volos.
July 29: Three firefighters lose their lives fighting fires that broke out throughout Greece.

August 27: Emmanouil Karalis clears 6.20m at the Diamond League meeting in Zurich to set a new Greek record in the pole vault.

October 3: Greece hands over the remains of Tsar Samouil to Bulgaria. In return, Greece receives artifacts stolen by Bulgarian forces during World War I.