| 24/1/2025 | Mimis Domazos, the "general" of Greek football, dies at the age of 83. With Panathinaikos, he played in a total of 502 championship matches, a performance that ranks him first in participations in the history of the team. He captained Panathinaikos for 15 years, winning 13 titles, 9 championships, 3 Cups and one Balkan Cup. The highlight of his “golden” era was PAO’s participation in the UEFA European Cup final in 1971 at Wembley, against Ajax. That year, he was voted the tenth best player in Europe, with Johan Cruyff being on the top of the list. In 1978-1980 he played for AEK Football Club, winning a championship. In 1980 he returned to Panathinaikos, where he completed his career at the age of 35. He has made a total of 536 appearances in the league with Panathinaikos and AEK and is in first place of all time in appearances while with the 2 teams he has won 14 titles. He capped 50 times with the Greek National Team and has scored 4 goals, while for several years he was the team’s captain. |
| 24/1/2021 | Four players and the president from the Brazilian football club Palmas die in a plane crash. The group was travelling separately from the rest of the team after testing positive for coronavirus and were on their last day of isolation. The team were on their way to the central region of Goiânia to play a Copa Verde match against Vila Nova. The victims were identified as the club president, Lucas Meira, and the players Lucas Praxedes, Guilherme Noé, Ranule and Marcus Molinari. There were no survivors on board. |
| 24/1/2020 | Antonis Dais dies of heart failure at the age of 56 years. He was working for Olympiacos Basketball Club since 1992. In his early years, he was manager of the youth department while during the past years he was assistant to the manager of the men’s team. |
| 24/1/2009 | 43-year-old Sofoklis Pilavios is elected president of the Hellenic Football Federation |
| 24/1/2008 | Andreas Vgenopoulos announces the creation of Panathenian Unifying Movement (PEK) and proposes the participation of businessmen in the company’s (Panathinaikos FC) stock capital |
| 24/1/2005 | Nikos Mourkakos, one of the top administrative managers of Ethnikos for almost 40 years, since 1950, and the first sportscaster of the Military Forces Radio, broadcasting football matches every Sunday from 1954 to 1963, dies at the age of 82. In parallel, he wrote lines for many folk songs, which became huge successes |
| 24/1/2004 | Brazil’s “black diamond”, forward Leonidas da Silva dies aged 91. He participated in two World Cups and was the first scorer at the 1938 World Cup with 8 goals |
| 24/1/1998 | Krzysztof Warzycha overcomes Antonis Antoniadis to become Panathinaikos all-time leading scorer with 182 goals in a match against Apollon Athens (5-2) |
| 24/1/1997 | Martina Hingis from Switzerland becomes the youngest female tennis player to win a Grand Slam after defeating Mary Pierce 6-2, 6-2, for the Australian Open in Melbourne |
| 24/1/1994 | Gymnast Ioannis Melissanidis takes the PSAT award. The young champion received accolade when he dedicated the gold medal he earned at the European Juniors to the memory of his friend turkish gymnast Murat Kanbas who died in a car accident before the games. For this gesture he was awarded the ''Ipektsi'' prize |
| 24/1/1977 | FIFA decides the organization of a World Cup for footballers aged 16-19 years to be played every two years. The first World Cup will be held in June of the same year and because there will not be enough time for qualifying games, FIFA will decide on the participating teams. These will be Spain, France, Austria, Hungary and Soviet Union |
| 24/1/1976 | According to a decision issued by the Sports Court, the 22-year-old Panionios footballer Thomas Mavros, is set free to trasnfer to any team since he was under aged when he, in 1970, signed his contract. Mavros will move to AEK of president Loukas Barlos and coach Frantisek Fandrok |
| 24/1/1947 | The NFL adds a fifth referee and allows ''sudden death'' in playoff games |
| 24/1/1930 | Primo Carnera makes his boxing debut. He knocks out Big Boy Patterson in 70 seconds in front of 20.000 spectators |
| 24/1/1922 | Apostolos Nikolaidis makes his debut in an official match with Panathinaikos against Piraikos Sindesmos (0-0) for the Athens-Piraeus Championship |
| 24/1/1900 | Newcastle Badminton Club, the oldest english club, is founded |
