| 15/9/2016 | Olympiacos defeat Young Boys 0-1 in the «Stade de Suisse» for the1st matchday of the group stage of Europa League and becomes the first Greek team to reach 100 wins in Europe. Meanwhile, the Greek champions, with the goal of Esteban Cambiasso, record the 10th away win in the last 7 years. |
| 15/9/2016 | Dimosthenis Michalentzakis wins the gold medal (and 12th overall medal for Greece) in the 100 meters butterfly (class S9) final, with a time of 59 seconds and 27 tenths, which is a new Paralympic record |
| 15/9/2016 | Michalis Seitis finishes sixth in the final of the 400 meters T43-44 at the Rio Paralympic Games with 49.66 but makes a new world record in the T44 category, breaking his own 49.81, within a few hours. A little bit earlier, the Greek sprinter had covered the same distance in 49.66, breaking American’s David Prince 49.87, recorded in 2013 in San Antonio. |
| 15/9/2016 | Slovan Liberec midfielder Jan Sykora scoes the fastest goal in Europa League history against Qarabag. Sykora's ninth-second tally bested Vitolo's effort a year earlier for Sevilla, when the Spaniard scored after 13.21 seconds against Villarreal. |
| 15/9/2011 | 55-year-old Makis Psomiadis is arrested in Anavyssos. An arrest warrant was pending against him since June, 23 and the sports court had excluded him in his absentia from football. On September 20 he will be released and one week later he will leave abroad. He will be arrested again in Fyrom on 9/11/2011 and will be deported to Greece on 30/4/12. |
| 15/9/2008 | The greek team wins 8 medals at the Beijing Paralympic Games. Paschalis Stathelakos wins the gold medal, breaking the world record with 11.75, in men’s shot put F40, the world record holder (1:21.25) Christos Tampaxis wins the gold medal with 1:23.15 and Andreas Katsaros the bronze with 1:44.53 in men’s 50m backstroke S1, Charalambos Taiganidis wins the silver medal in 50m freestyle S13 with 24.19, Pavlos Mamalos wins the silver medal in men’s powerlifting 82.50kg with 225.0, Athanasios Barakas wins the bronze medal in long jump F11 with 6.17, Giorgos Kapellakis wins the bronze medal in 50m backstroke S2 with 1:07.31 and Maria Stamatoula wins the silver medal in women’s shot put F32-34/52/53, breaking the paralympic record in the F32 category with 5.64. |
| 15/9/2002 | Italy win women's World Volleyball Championship by defeating USA 3-2 at the final in Berlin |
| 15/9/2000 | The 27th Olympic Games open in Sydney, Australia. 10.200 athletes from 200 countries take part in 28 events. The games are covered by 15.000 journalists. 9.2 million tickets are sold, and 3.5 billion people all over the world watch the games from TV. Aboriginal runner Cathy Freeman lights the Olympic flame. North and South Korean athletes march onto the field united under a neutral flag |
| 15/9/1999 | Russian referee Serguei Khusainov and his three deputees appointed by UEFA for the match between Haifa Hapoel and Brugges, are immediately replaced when they are found drunk |
| 15/9/1995 | A bomb goes off at Sakhtior's ground in Donetsk during a football match killing 6 (Sakhtior's president among them) |
| 15/9/1994 | Panathinaikos play their 100th football european match. They beat Pirin 0-2 for the European Cup Winners Cup |
| 15/9/1991 | USA women's gymnastic team wins the first medal in its history (silver) at the World Championships in Indianapolis |
| 15/9/1982 | First football match in OAKA Stadium. Olympiacos beat Oester (Sweden) 2-0 for the European Champions Cup |
| 15/9/1965 | PAOK play their first international match. They beat Wiener Sport 2-1 (Koudas, Mouratidis) for the Exhibitions Cup (later UEFA) at Toumba stadium. They will be eliminated after losing 6-0 at Vienna's Sport Club Platz |
| 15/9/1953 | America's National Boxing Association adopts the 10-point scoring system for all matches |
| 15/9/1951 | Emil Zatopek sets new 20000m world record with 1:01.15.8 |
| 15/9/1930 | USA beat England in the first international bridge tournament in London |
| 15/9/1919 | The first issue of the morning newspaper “Kathimerini”, founded by Georgios Vlachos, is printed. After his death in 1951, his daughter Eleni will be in charge. On 8/3/1941, while the Germans were preparing to attack Greece, the newspaper will publish its founder’s famous article - a letter to Hitler. On 21/4/1967, because of the coup d’etat, Eleni Vlachou will stop the newspaper’s circulation and will restart it on 15/9/1974, exactly 55 years after the first issue. In 1987, the newspaper will be sold to Olympiacos FC president Giorgos Koskotas and one year later to the Alafouzos Group of Companies. |
| 15/9/1894 | Michel Breal suggests to his friend Pierre de Coubertin a race from Marathon to Pnika in order to feature it in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens. One week after, on 23/9, Coubertin will inform IOC president Dimitiros Vikelas about Breal’s “Marathon Cup” offer, which will be manufactured in Paris. |
