| 14/5/2025 | Kylian Mbappé scores against Mallorca and reaches 28 goals in 32 games in LaLiga 2024/25, the most by a player in his first season for Real Madrid in the history of the competition (Alfredo Di Stéfano, 27 in 1953/54) |
| 14/5/2023 | Giorgos Christovasilis, the longest-serving president of PAS GIANNINA professional football club, dies at the age of 68, following an illness. In his 15 years in office, he managed to “stabilize” PAS in Superleague, with the biggest achievement being that of playing in Europe in the 2015-16 season. It was the first European summer of "Ajax of Epirus", and the highlight of the club were the 4 matches against Oudts and Alkmaar. At the same time, he came very close to the dream of a Greek Cup final, since PAS reached the semi-finals of the competition twice. |
| 14/5/2006 | George Vassilakopoulos is re-elected as FIBA Europe president after a successful leadership in the period 2002-2006, during which he managed to overcome the financial problems and lead the federation to a stable situation |
| 14/5/2002 | The chief coach of Dynamo Kiev, and arguably one of the most influential coaches in football history, Valeriy Lobanovski dies aged 63 |
| 14/5/1989 | First Tour de Trump held in Atlanta |
| 14/5/1978 | Bill (William Powell) Lear dies at the age of 78. He is best known for founding the Lear Jet Corporation, a manufacturer of business jets |
| 14/5/1977 | Liverpool become the first team to win the Premiership for the 10th time after drawing with West Ham (0-0) |
| 14/5/1975 | Dynamo Kiev (featuring Blokhin, Roudakov, Muntjan, Konkov and Burjak) become the first Soviet team to win the European Cup Winners Cup after defeating Ferencvaros 3-0 in Basel, Switzerland |
| 14/5/1959 | Nikolaos Athanassiadis, one of the founders of Ethnikos AC in 1893, dies |
| 14/5/1957 | The national volleyball team of Greece plays its first post-war match against Romania at Panellinios Hall and is defeated with 3-0. Karolos Papoulias, player of Ethnikos AC in long jump and volleyball and later Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of Democracy plays with the national team |
| 14/5/1927 | BBC's first broadcast of a cricket game. Essex - New Zealand at Leyton |
| 14/5/1904 | The third Olympic Games open in St Louis, USA along with the events of the International Exhibition. There is confusion about the Games starting day- many people claim it was on July 1. As in Paris 1900, the Games ended up in total failure. Pierre de Coubertin was opposed to entrusting America with the games, and declined to attend. Many European athletes followed his example. Finally 687 athletes (only 50 from Europe) from 18 countries took part. Greek athlete Periklis Kakoussis of Panellinios GS won the gold medal in weightlifting (111,67kgr) |
| 14/5/1754 | 22 Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Kingdom of Fife decide to move their golfing activities from Edinburgh to St Andrews and present a silver club to be competed for over the links of St Andrews, where the oldest university of St in Scotland and the third oldest in Britain exists. Their motives are two-fold; to enjoy the sport, but also by staging an annual contest for a significant trophy they hope to restore the reputation of St Andrews, as the home of golf |
