| 25/11/2022 | Ecuador forward Enner Valencia on Friday became the first South American and fourth player overall in FIFA World Cup history to score six consecutive goals for his nation. Portuguese Eusebio in 1966, Paolo Rossi with Italy in 1982 and Oleg Salenko with Russia in 1994 have recorded the feat before Valencia |
| 25/11/2021 | Long-time basketball team manager Stratos Kostalas dies aged 66. A beloved figure in women's basketball, member of the Spartak Moscow Suburbs team which won four EuroLeague and one EuroCup title, and also a former team manager of Panathinaikos, PAOK, Aris, Iraklis, and Panionios. |
| 25/11/2020 | Argentina soccer legend Diego Maradona, dies aged 60, succumbed to heart failure. He played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Sevilla and Newell's Old Boys during his club career. He won the championship of 1981 with Boca, one Cup, one League Cup and one Super Cup with Barcelona, one UEFA Cup, two Serie A titles, one Cup and one Super Cup with Napoli. In his international career with Argentina, he earned 91 caps and scored 34 goals. Maradona played in four FIFA World Cups, including the 1986 World Cup in Mexico where he captained Argentina and led them to victory over West Germany in the final, and won the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player. In the 1986 World Cup quarter final, he scored both goals in a 2–1 victory over England that entered football history for two different reasons. The first goal was an unpenalized handling foul known as the "Hand of God", while the second goal followed a 60m dribble past five England players, voted "Goal of the Century" by FIFA.com voters in 2002. |
| 25/11/2018 | Demis Nikolaidis, former footballer of AEK and the national team, is the presenter of the new sports show of OPEN TV |
| 25/11/2005 | George Best, ex Manchester United and Northern Ireland star, dies at the age of 59 in London, basically due to alcohol problems he had for the most of his adult life even though he received a liver transplant in 2002. The “fifth Beatle”, who left Manchester United at the age of 28 having scored 178 goals in 466 appearances wasted his talent in drinking, women and cars and he stated once that “if I had been ugly, you would never have heard of Pele” |
| 25/11/2005 | 34-year-old 2001 FIA World Rally Champion Richard Burns dies of astricytoma, a form of brain tumour. In 1993 he joined the Subaru Rally Team for the British Championship alongside Alistair McRae where he won 4 Rallies becoming the youngest British Champion that year. On 25/11/2001, he became the first Englishman to win the World Rally Championship. He also raced with Mitsubishi and Peugeot |
| 25/11/1999 | Dimitris Bayeris presents his biography on Vassilis Sillis, one of the top Greek sprinters in the 50s. His 400m record (47.7, 1962) lasted 8 years (Stavros Tziortzis, 47.7, 1970) |
| 25/11/1999 | Viktor Mitrou (77 kg) wins 2 silver medals after lifting 370 kgs at the World Weightlifting Championships held at Peace and Friendship Stadium |
| 25/11/1992 | During the Club Brugge - CSKA Moscow (1-0) match, Club Brugge player Daniel Amokachi scores the 1st goal in the Champions League main tournament |
| 25/11/1992 | Marco van Basten becomes the first player in the history of Champions League to score a hat-trick, when he scores all four goals of his team AC Milan in the home game against IFK Goteborg (4-0) |
| 25/11/1988 | Two great chess players get married, Donaldson and Akhmilovskaya |
| 25/11/1978 | Eric Clapton’s album Backless is released, on the back cover of which a West Bromwich Albion scarf is positioned. In the 1978–79 season, Clapton sponsored West Brom's UEFA Cup home game against Turkish club Galatasaray. |
| 25/11/1970 | Peter Shilton makes his debut as England's goalkeeper in a match against East Germany at Wembley. He will become England's most capped player (125 caps) |
| 25/11/1964 | The 16th Chess Olympiad closes in Tel Aviv. Greek maitre Stavros Iatridis won the gold medal. Iatridis became president of the Greek Chess Federation in 1967. He died in a car accident in 1976 aged 89 |
| 25/11/1961 | Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics scores his 15.000th point in NBA. Only Dolph Schayes has scored more |
| 25/11/1953 | Hungary (featuring legendary players like Puskas, Kocsis and Hidegkuti) humiliate England 6-3, at Wembley in front of 100.000 spectators, at a match which will remain in history as "The Match of the Century", eventhough it is a friendly game. It is the first game to be televised in 14 countries and the last of Alf Ramsey. Notable is the fact that the Central Party Committee refused for 6 months to allow the match to be played, fearing humiliation as the English were unbeatable at home, despite the pressure of the president of the association Sandor Barcs |
| 25/11/1948 | Philadelphia Warrior Howie Dallmar equals his own NBA record after missing all 15 attempted shots in a game against the Washington Capitols |
| 25/11/1944 | First baseball commissar Kenesaw Mountain Landis dies of heart attack aged 78. He held his post for 24 years |
| 25/11/1892 | Pierre de Coubertin gives his famed speech at the Sorbonne University in Paris, which will lead to the announcement of the revival of the Olympic Games on 23/6/1894 in the same place. |
