| 12/12/2023 | Kostas Nestoridis, one of the legends of AEK, dies at the age of 93. He started his career at Panionios, where he played for seven years (1948-1955). With AEK, he capped 263 times, scoring 228 goals. For five years he was the top scorer of the First National League (1959-1963). In fact, he was the first player for AEK to score in an official European game in the 1963/64 season. In 1966, he went to Hellas Melbourne, where he remained for a year, scoring 33 goals, while also becoming the top scorer in the Victoria State League (1966). He ended his football career playing for Vyzantas Megaron (1967) and Aiantas Salaminas (1968). Nestoridis also served AEK as a coach for two terms in the 1982/83 and 1983/84 seasons. |
| 12/12/2016 | Cristiano Ronaldo wins the Ballon d'Or award by a record margin of 429 points ahead of second placed Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann, who came third. It is Ronaldo's fourth Ballon d'Or, the most of any European player in the history of the award. |
| 12/12/2005 | Journalist Akis Athanassopoulos dies at the age of 44 |
| 12/12/2000 | 26 year-old play maker Haris Brkic of Partizan Belgrade is shot in front of ''Pionir'' Hall after leaving a training session with his team. He succombs in hospital one day later |
| 12/12/1999 | Olympiacos-Paniliakos 2-1. Defender Kyriakos Karataidis completes 347 appearances with Olympiacos surpassing Giannis Gaitatzis (346). Karataidis made his debut with Olympiacos in a match against Panionios on October 9, 1988. Mimis Domazos holds the record for Panathinaikos (505), Mimis Papaioannou for AEK (480), Giorgos Koudas for PAOK (504), Dinos Kouis for Aris Salonica (473), Daniel Papadopoulos for Iraklis (417), Stathis Haitas for Panionios (460) and Nikos Nioplias for OFI Crete (363) |
| 12/12/1999 | Kavala-Panionios 3-7. For the first time Panionios score 7 goals in an away win. It is also the first Greek league match that ends with that score |
| 12/12/1984 | Marton Esterhazi, the Hungarian international is transferred to AEK |
| 12/12/1975 | Former Olympiacos president Giorgos Andrianopoulos declares “I’m not convinced of the club’s liability” and practically absolves Panathinaikos of the accusation that PAO’s ex-player Giorgos Rokidis, accepted a proposition by Antonis Mantzavelakis, and offered money to the players of Iraklis, Halabalias and Nikoloudis, to have diminished performance at the Greek Cup game at Kaftanzoglio stadium, which was won by Panathinaikos by 1-2, known also as “the case of the flowers” |
| 12/12/1968 | Arthur Ashe becomes the first black tennis player to be the world's No 1 |
| 12/12/1959 | Bruce McLaren becomes the youngest pilot (22 years and 104 days old) to win a Grand Prix race, in Sebring, Florida |
| 12/12/1930 | The “Sintrivani” field, PAOK’s home court, is inaugurated with the friendly match against Aris, where PAOK wins by 2-1 |
| 12/12/1899 | George F. Bryant from Boston patents the golf tee |
