Panionios BC
Nickname	Κυανέρυθροι (Blue-reds) Ιστορικός (Historic) Πάνθηρες (Panthers)
Leagues	Greek Basket League Greek Cup
Founded	1919
History	Panionios G.S.S. (1919–present)
Arena	Glyfada Makis Liougas Sportshall
Capacity	3,232
Location	Glyfada,Greece
Team colors	Red and Blue
President	Thodoris Mikropoulos, Panagiotis Iliadis
Team manager	Fanis Christodoulou
Head coach	Aris Lykogiannis
Championships	Greek Cup (1)
Retired numbers	8, 4
Website	pgssbc.gr
Home Away

Departments of Panionios G.S.S.
Football Basketball Basketball (women's) Volleyball Waterpolo Handball Athletics Gymnastics Swimming Cycling Judo Chess

Panionios B.C. (Greek: Πανιώνιος KAE), known in European competitions asPanionios Athens^[1] is theGreek professionalbasketball club that is based inNea Smyrni, and that plays its home games inGlyfada, Greece. The club is also widely known as Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, or Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis, which is the Pan-Ionian Gymnastic Club ofSmyrna. This is usually abbreviated to the club name of Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ. Panionios B.C. is the basketball department of thePanionios Gymnastic Club that is based in Nea Smyrni.

Panionios B.C. has been a long-time club of thetop-tier levelGreek Basket League, which is considered one of the best national domestic basketball leagues in Europe. Panionios B.C. has also competed in theEuropean-wide top-tier levelEuroLeague. For sponsorship reasons, the club has also been known as PanioniosOn Telecoms and PanioniosForthnet, as well as several other sponsorship names.

Some of the well-known players that have played with the club over the years have included:Faidon Matthaiou,Takis Koroneos,Makis Dendrinos,Dimitris Fosses,Kostas Missas,Fanis Christodoulou,Giannis Giannoulis,Boban Janković,P. J. Brown,Panagiotis Giannakis,Henry Turner,Thurl Bailey,Travis Mays,Žarko Paspalj,Byron Dinkins,Mitchell Wiggins,Theo Papaloukas,Jure Zdovc,Laurent Sciarra,Nikos Chatzis,Georgios Sigalas,Angelos Koronios,Dimos Dikoudis,Nikos Oikonomou,Georgios Diamantopoulos,Stratos Perperoglou,Michalis Pelekanos,Ender Arslan,Miloš Vujanić,Alex Stepheson,Errick McCollum, andTyrese Rice, among others.

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  (The official logo ofPanionios' parent club.)
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  (The official logo of Panionios' basketball club.)

The basketball clubs' parent athletic union, thePanionios Gymnastic Club, was founded in 1890, inİzmir,Ottoman Empire (located today in the modern country ofTurkey), making it one of the oldest sporting clubs in Europe. The sporting clubs' basketball department was founded in 1919. After the Greek military suffered defeat in theGreco-Turkish War in 1922, the club was transferred to theAthenian suburb ofNea Smyrni, in Greece.

The basketball department, Panionios B.C., began participation in theGreek Basket League starting in the 1928–29 season, and finished in second place in the league that year. Panionios B.C. finished in third place in the league the next year.

Panionios B.C. competed in thetop-tier Greek basketball league, in consecutive years, from the 1981–82 season until the2014–15 season. In the 1986–87 season, Panionios played in the championship finals series of the Greek League, losing out toAris, and their two Greek basketball legendsNikos Galis andPanagiotis Giannakis (Giannakis would later go on to play for Panionios). In 1991, led byFanis Christodoulou, the team won theGreek Cup title, by defeatingPAOK by a score of 73–70. Panionios also played in the finals game of the Greek Cup in both 1977 and 1995. Ιn the1993–94 season, after an exciting run in theEuropean 3rd-tier levelFIBA Korać Cup, and after scoring a couple of wins againstMaccabi Tel Aviv in the quarterfinals, Panionios reached the semifinals, and played againstPAOK Bravo. This marked the first civil conflict between Greek basketball clubs in European-wide competitions, ever.

The club finished in 3rd place in the Greek League in the 1995–96 season, under theirhead coach at the time,Dušan Ivković, and thus qualified to theEuroLeague for the 1996–97 season. In theFIBA EuroLeague 1996–97 season, the team was coached byEfthimis Kioumourtzoglou. Two years later, in 1999, Panionios once again reached the semifinals of the FIBA Korać Cup, where they were again eliminated, this time from the super favorites of the tournament,FC Barcelona, which featuredSasha Djordjević.

In theGreek League 2007–08 season, under the ownership ofElias Lianos, the founder ofProton Bank, Panionios, led byIvan Zoroski,Giannis Kalampokis, and charismatic head coachNenad Marković, finished in 3rd place in the Greek League. They came back from an 0–2 series deficit in the deciding best-of-five league third-place series againstMaroussi, and won the series 3–2. That secured the team a place in theEuroLeague competition for theEuroLeague 2008–09 season. This marked the club's first EuroLeague appearance in more than a decade.^[2]

After the2014–15 season, Panionios wasrelegated to theGreek 2nd Division, after 33 consecutive seasons with a presence in the top-tier levelGreek Basket League.^[3] For the 2015–16 season, Panionios preferred to play in thethird-tier of Greece, thesemi-pro levelGreek B Basket League, due to financial difficulties.^[4] They werepromoted up to theGreek 2nd Division for the2016–17 season.

They won the Greek 2nd Division title of the 2016–17 season, and were promoted back up to the top-tier level league, for the2017–18 season. Due to financial difficulties, Panionios was demoted down to theGreek 3rd Division, prior to the 2020–21 season.

Panionios played its domesticGreek League home games at "Artakis" Nea Smyrni Indoor Hall, a now demolished 1,832-seat arena that was owned by the Nea Smyrni municipality. They used the arena from its opening in 1979 to 2006, and from 2009 to its close in 2019.^[5] From 2006 to 2009, the club used theHelliniko Olympic Arena, which was built for the2004 Summer Olympics, and has a capacity of 15,000, as its home arena.^[6] At various times, the club has also used theNational Athletic Center Glyfada Makis Liougas, which has a capacity of 3,232.^[7]

In 2019, the club moved into theSofia Befon Palaio Faliro Indoor Hall for the2019–20 season.^[8][9][10] The arena seats 1,204 people.^[11] It was opened in 2017.

The municipality of Nea Smyrni has begun the construction of a new modern-style multi-use indoor arena, called the Boban Janković Indoor Hall, named afterBoban Janković, which is being built on the same location as the old Nea Smyrni Indoor Hall. The new arena was scheduled to open for the 2022–23 season but after many delays the stadium is still unfinished. The club will play at a smaller arena in Nea Smyrni neighborhood, Andreas Varikas Indoor Hall, until its new arena is completed.

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Panionios B.C. retired numbers
N°	Nat.	Player	Position	Tenure
4		Fanis Christodoulou	SF/PF	1983–1997
8		Boban Janković	SF	1992–1993

Panionios roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age G 1 Woolridge, Ryan 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 82 kg (181 lb) 28 –(1996-11-16)16 November 1996 G 3 Milentigievits, Iakovos 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 82 kg (181 lb) 28 –(1997-01-11)11 January 1997 G 6 Ray, Kendrick 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 31 –(1994-01-26)26 January 1994 F/C 7 Tsalmpouris, Georgios 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in) 109 kg (240 lb) 28 –(1996-06-22)22 June 1996 PF 12 Chougkaz, Robert 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 24 –(2000-10-04)4 October 2000 C 14 Kaklamanakis, Dimitris 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 95 kg (209 lb) 31 –(1994-01-25)25 January 1994 F/C 15 Davis, Devin 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 29 –(1995-05-29)29 May 1995 SF 19 Saloustros, Christos 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 93 kg (205 lb) 34 –(1990-03-29)29 March 1990 G/F 25 Brown, Rion 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 98 kg (216 lb) 33 –(1991-09-03)3 September 1991 PG 30 Cannady, Devin 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 83 kg (183 lb) 28 –(1996-05-21)21 May 1996 C 35 Nnoko, Landry 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 113 kg (249 lb) 30 –(1994-04-09)9 April 1994 SF 55 Dimitrakopoulos, Iasonas 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 24 –(2000-06-11)11 June 2000 PG 88 Gkikas, Nikos (C) 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 81 kg (179 lb) 34 –(1990-11-22)22 November 1990	Head coach Aris Lykogiannis Assistant coach(es) Dimitrios Tsaldaris Spyros Karadimas Konstantinos Limnaios Athletic trainer(s) Stratos Tsampis Team Manager Giannis Dalles Team Captain Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 9 March 2025

• Greek League

Runners-up (1): 1986–87

• Greek Cup

Winners (1): 1990–91

Runners-up (2): 1976–77, 1994–95

• Greek 2nd Division (1961–1986) /Greek 2nd Division (1986–present)

Winners (3): 1973–74, 1980–81,2016–17

Runners-up (1): 2023-24

• Greek 3rd Division

Winners (1): 2015–16

• Greek UNICEF Basketball Cup

Winners (2): 2022–23, 2023–24

• FIBA Korać Cup

Semifinalist (2):1993–94,1998–99

• Athens, Greece Tournament

Winners (1): 2011

Head Coach	Years
Michalis Kyritsis	1982–1983, 1987–1988
Makis Dendrinos	1983–1987, 1997–1998
Vlade Đurović	1988–1993
Kostas Missas	1993–1994, 2002
Dušan Ivković	1994–1996
Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou	1996–1997
Lefteris Subotić	2000–2001
Panagiotis Giannakis	2001–2002
Georgios Kalafatakis	2002–2004, 2017
Memos Ioannou	2004–2006
Nikos Linardos	2006
Luka Pavićević	2006–2007
Minas Gekos	2007
Nenad Marković	2007–2008, 2009–2010
Alex Trifunović	2008–2009
Georgios Bartzokas	2010–2012
Thanasis Skourtopoulos	2012
Ioannis Sfairopoulos	2012–2014
Vangelis Alexandris	2014–2015
Chris Chougaz	2015, 2018
Vangelis Ziagkos	2015–2016, 2017–2018
Nikos Oikonomou	2016–2017, 2018–2019
Vassilis Fragkias	2018–2019
Ioannis Livanos	2019
Linos Gavriel	2019–2020

Panionios team leaders in games played and points scored, since theGreek Basket League became fullyprofessional, starting with the 1992–93 season.

• Through the2019–20 season.

Rank	Player	Games Played
1.	Marios Batis	174

Rank	Player	Points Scored
1.	Georgios Diamantopoulos	2,676

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