Pagrati B.C. (alternate spellings: Pagkrati, Pagratiou, Pagkratiou, Pangrati, Pangratiou, Pangkrati, Pangkratiou) is a Greek professional
basketball
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club. The club is located in the
Pangrati
Pangrati or Pagrati ( el, Παγκράτι) is a neighborhood in Central Athens, Greece, having an estimated population of 35,173 residents. Named after the ancient sanctuary of Hercules Pancrates ("All Powerful"), its frontage runs from Vasil ...
neighborhood of
Athens
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,
Greece
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. The team competes in the
Greek 2nd Division.
History
The A.O. Pagrati Athens parent sports athletic association was founded in 1929. The sport club's basketball department, Pagrati B.C., was founded in 1938.
Ιστορία Τμήματος Μπάσκετ Ανδρών .
/ref> Around the era of 1950, was the basketball club's first peak period, which established it as one of the big Greek clubs of that era. In 1979, the team was in a downward spiral, as it was downgraded to the Greek 3rd Division.
In 1988, the club returned to the top-tier level Greek League, and it stayed in the top Greek Division for the next 6 years. After that 6-year run in the Greek top-tier level ( A1), the club again struggled in the lower Greek divisions, until it was promoted up to the Greek 2nd Division, for the 2006–07 season.
Arena
Pagrati B.C. plays its home games at the METS Indoor Hall, which is located in the Pangrati
Pangrati or Pagrati ( el, Παγκράτι) is a neighborhood in Central Athens, Greece, having an estimated population of 35,173 residents. Named after the ancient sanctuary of Hercules Pancrates ("All Powerful"), its frontage runs from Vasil ...
neighborhood of Athens
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. The arena features two basketball courts, as well as volleyball
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and handball
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courts. The arena is used by all of Pagrati's major athletic departments.
The volleyball
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teams of Panathinaikos VC Men and Panathinaikos VC Women, have also used the venue to host home games. The arena has also been used to judo
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matches. For basketball games, the arena has a seating capacity
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of 1,500 people.
Season by season
Notable players
Greece:
* Tasos Antonakis
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* Efthimis Bakatsias
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* Ioannis Chatzinikolas
* Ioannis Dimakos
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* Stavros Elliniadis
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* Stavros, Kar ...
* Georgios Gasparis
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* Giannis Giannopoulos
* Panagiotis Kafkis
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* Dinos Kalampakos
* Panagiotis Karatzas
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* Ioannis Karamalegkos
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* Antonis Lanthimos
* Yorgos Lanthimos
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* Nikos Liakopoulos
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* Takis Maglos Takis may refer to:
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* Takis Kanellopoulos a Greek film director
* T ...
* Nikos Michalos
* Filippos Moschovitis
* Spyros Motsenigos
* Stathis Papadionysiou
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* - Nick Paulos
* Andreas Petropoulos
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* Ioannis Rodostoglou
* Michalis Romanidis
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* Vangelis Sakellariou
Evangelos "Vangelis" Sakellariou (alternate spellings: Vagel, Vaggelis) (Greek: Ευάγγελος "Βαγγέλης" Σακελλαρίου; born October 4, 1989 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek professional basketball player who last played for Ion ...
* Alexandros Sigkounas
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* Vangelis Sklavos
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* Aris Tatarounis
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Tataro ...
* Sakis Tzalalis
* Fotis Vasilopoulos
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* Dimitris Lolas
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Europe:
* - Bryan Bracey
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* Slaviša Koprivica
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Professional career
While p ...
USA:
* Earl Harrison
* John Hudson
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* Thomas Jordan
* Richard Rellford
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* Wayne Tinkle
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Rest of Americas:
* Ian Lockhart
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College career
Lockhart played college ...
Head coaches
* Mimis Stefanidis
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S ...
* Aris Raftopoulos Aris or ARIS may refer to:
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* Aris (surname)
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* Aris Alexandrou, Greek writer
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* Aris Howard, Former Pr ...
* Johnny Neumann
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High school and col ...
* Makis Dendrinos
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* - Steve Giatzoglou
Stylianos "Steve" Giatzoglou (alternate spellings: Yatzoglou, Yantzoglou; Greek: Στυλιανός "Στηβ" Γιατζόγλου; born 11 December 1949), is a Greek American professional basketball coach, and the president of the Union of Greek ...
* Rajko Toroman
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Before 2016, he served as a team consultant for the Barako Bull Energy Cola and the Petron Blaze Boosters i ...
* Apostolos Kontos
* Aris Lykogiannis
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He coached Ikaros Kallitheas from 2009 to ...
* Vassilis Fragkias
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Playing career
Fragkias played club basketball with the Greek club Zografou.
Coaching caree ...
* Dimitris Papadopoulos
* Dinos Kalampakos
* Dimitris Liogas Dimitris (Δημήτρης) is the Modern Greek form of the older forms Demetrios, Dimitrios (Δημήτριος, usually Latinized as Demetrius) and may refer to:
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* Giannis Giannopoulos
Notes
References
External links
Official Team Website
Eurobasket.com Team Profile
{{Greek A2 Basket League
Pagrati B.C.
1938 establishments in Greece
Basketball teams established in 1938
Basketball teams in Greece