The Panthessaliko Stadium is a
stadium located at
Volos
Volos ( el, Βόλος ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the sixth most populous city of Greece, and the capital of the Magnesia regional unit ...
,
Greece
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. The stadium was the site of
football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
matches during the
2004 Summer Olympics. It was officially opened on July 30, 2004 and has a capacity of 22,700 seats, though only 21,100 seats were made publicly available for the Olympic matches. The Panthessaliko Stadium is the home stadium of the
Volos N.F.C. who plays on the
Super League Greece. It also hosted the
2017 Greek Football Cup Final, where
PAOK defeated
AEK 2–1.
It hosted the
2020 Greek Football Cup Final between
AEK and
Olympiacos
Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number ...
. In 2022, it hosted a pair of matches of the
Greece national football team
The Greece national football team ( el, Εθνική Ελλάδας, ) represents Greece in men's international football matches and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. Greece play most ...
both won by Greece.
References
Olympicproperties.gr profile
External links
Venues of the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletics (track and field) venues in Greece
Football venues in Greece
Multi-purpose stadiums in Greece
Olympic football venues
Sport in Volos
Sports venues completed in 2004
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