| 27/12/2024 | Olympiacos wins the “Club Revelation” award for 2024 during the Globe Soccer Awards ceremony held in Dubai. It is the first team in the history of UEFA that wins both a European trophy (Conference League) and Youth League. |
| 27/12/2020 | Dallas Mavericks lead the Los Angeles Clippers 77-27 at half-time, setting an NBA record for the largest lead at half-time in the shot clock era. The final score will be 124-73. |
| 27/12/2008 | Amateur footballer David Pratt is being credited with earning the second fastest ever red card after being sent off just three seconds into a game. The Chippenham striker lunged at Bashley's Chris Knowles in the seventh-tier Southern Premier Division. Bashley defeated Chippenham 2-1. The first red card was given to Cross Farm Park Celtic’s striker Lee Todd, when he swore in surprise after the referee blew the whistle for kick-off right behind him. |
| 27/12/1996 | Italian national Roberto Baggio is deceived by an investment company based in Rimini which promised enormous profits from tax reliefs defelcating a total of 6 billion lirettes ($400 million) |
| 27/12/1980 | Birmingham goalkeeper Tony Coton makes his debut in a match against Sunderland (3-2). 90 seconds after he enters the game he saves a penalty kick |
| 27/12/1974 | At a dramatic meeting of the Board of Directors of Olympiacos, Vice President Andrianos Danos reads to the members of the board the telegram of President Nicos Goulandris from Gstaad in Switzerland announcing his resignation. |
| 27/12/1951 | Australia beat USA 5-0 for the Davis Cup in Adelaide |
| 27/12/1939 | Sporting News vote ''the year's best in baseball'': Larry McPhail (executive), Leo Durocher (Brooklyn Dodgers coach) and Joe di Maggio (NY Yankees player) |
| 27/12/1937 | The German custom authorities forbid, with no excuse, the entrance of Argentinian Juan Carlos Zabala, Olympic champion in the marathon race in the 1932 Games of Los Angeles, in Germany. Zabala participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games but he didn’t manage to finish the marathon |
| 27/12/1934 | Greece are held to a 2-2 draw at Leoforos by Romania for the 4th Balkan Cup. Greece had beaten Yugoslavia (2-1) four days earlier. A few days later, on the 1st of January 1935, they will lose to Bulgaria (1-2) |
| 27/12/1892 | NC Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in the first black college football game |
