| 23/1/2025 | Andreas Stamatiadis, one of AEK's greatest footballers, dies at the age of 89. With AEK he had 488 appearances in official matches with 138 goals and won two championships (1963, 1968) and three Greek cups (1956, 1964, 1966). He capped with the Men's National Team 8 times. He retired in 1969 and almost immediately he started a brilliant coaching career. |
| 23/1/2017 | Vangelis Panakis, who played as a left winger/forward for Panathinaikos FC from 1951 to 1965 dies at the age of 83. In 91 games, he scored 57 goals and was considered one of the top players in Greece. He played 14 times with the national team scoring 5 goals. His real surname was Panopoulos but he was stuck with Panakis following a mistaken spelling of his name on the bread ration coupon during the German occupation. |
| 23/1/2017 | 86-year-old Bernie Ecclestone is replaced by Chase Carey as chief executive of the Formula One Group, though he has been appointed as chairman emeritus and will act as an adviser to the board |
| 23/1/2017 | Tassos Georgiou, the son of sports journalist Giorgos Georgiou, dies at the age of 35. Tassos was suffering from "Friedreich Ataxia", an autosomal recessive inherited disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system. |
| 23/1/2014 | Veteran football striker Panagiotis (Takis) Papadimitriou dies aged 65. He was one of the greatest scorers in the history of Panathinaikos where he played for ten years. He participated in 161 games in Division A’ and scored 47 goals, winning 4 championships (1969, 1970, 1972, 1977), 2 Greek Cups (1969, 1977) and 1 Balkan Club’s Cup (1977). Before the end of his career, he played for two seasons with OFI (1978 to 1980) and Panionios (1980 to 1982) and in 1982 he was transferred to Panegialios but shortly afterwards he was forced to stop due a serious injury. He was nicknamed "Michel Platini" because of his similarity to the famous French footballer. He competed in more than 250 official matches (249 in Division A’) and scored over 80 goals (73 in Division A’). |
| 23/1/2006 | Francisco Guglielmetti dies at the age of 95. He was born on the 26th of November 1911 and was the oldest living Olympic champion, who in 1932 in Low Angeles won the gold medal in long horse vault, gymnastics. Until his last moment he was active in sports as he was vice president of the club Pro Patria |
| 23/1/2004 | KK Palace, a football team in Ondangwa, Namibia, becomes internationally known for taking part in the longest Penalty-Shootout ever, where they beat F.C. Civics Windhoek after 48 kicks and a 17–16 victory in the first round of the NFA Cup after a 2-2 draw after 90 minutes (there was no extra-time played in that tournament). |
| 23/1/2003 | The most prominent italian business leader Gianni Agnelli, head of FIAT and Juventus, dies aged 81 |
| 23/1/2001 | 18 year-old Bournemouth striker Jermaine Defoe scores his 10th goal in consecutive games setting a post-war scoring record in England. The next record in Defoe's sights was set by legendary Everton striker Dixie Dean, who scored in 12 successive games in the 1930-31 season |
| 23/1/1996 | Greece poses official candidature for the 2004 Olympics in Lausanne. Gianna Angelopoulou and her husband Theodoros lead the effort |
| 23/1/1988 | Bob Benoit wins a $100.000 bonus by becoming the first bowler ever to win a televised tournament |
| 23/1/1983 | Legendary tennis player Bjorn Borg announces his retirement. In his career, from 1974 until 1981, he won 11 Grand Slam titles, 5 in Wimbledon and 6 in French Open. |
| 23/1/1958 | Real Madrid beat Sevilla 8-0 in the quarter-final of the UEFA Champions League 1957–58 in Santiago Bernabéu recording the largest margin of victory after the preliminary rounds in either competition |
| 23/1/1939 | 36-year-old Matthias Sindelar, the captain of the Austrian Wunderteam, the national team of Austria, known as the “Mozart of football”, is found dead along with his girlfriend Camilla Castignola at her Vienna apartment. Suspicions will mount as to the cause of Sindelar’s death but the police will rapidly declare that both died of asphyxiation by carbon monoxide fumes from a faulty heater. Earlier on 3/4/1938, Austria and Germany played a “Reconciliation Match” to celebrate the union. For obvious political reasons, the Austrians had been advised not to score but Sindelar humiliated the Nazis by scoring one goal and celebrating the second. Nicknamed “the Paper Man” due to his height and slim build, Sindelar spent his entire professional career with FK Austria Vienna, joining them in 1924, scoring 600 goals in 700 matches. From 1926 to 1937, he capped 43 times for his country, scoring 27 goals. In 1998, he will be named Austria's sportsman of the century and he will be voted the best Austrian footballer of the 20th Century in a 1999 poll by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). Austrian writer Friedrich Torberg will dedicate the poem "On the death of a footballer" to Sindelar. |
| 23/1/1933 | Boxers Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiter fight an exhibition match in a London TV set. It is the first (experimental) telecast of a boxing match |
| 23/1/1931 | Olympiacos Nicosia founded. The team played 3 times in the greek football league. During the period 1967-74 Cyprus champions played in Greece |
