Panionios Women's Basketball is the women's basketball department of Panionios GSS, the Greek multi-sport club based in

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. The first basketball department of the club was founded in 1919 and was one of the first in Greece. The women's department in turn was established in the post-war period. Its last reconstitution took place in the late 1990s. The club plays in A2 Ethniki (2nd tier) but recently it has played in

A1 Ethniki The Greek Basketball League (GBL), and also known as the Stoiximan Greek Basketball League (GBL) for sponsorship reasons, is the first tier level professional basketball league in Greece. It is run by the Hellenic Basketball Associat ...

. They have won one

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, in 2007.

History

Panionios Women's basketball team was founded in 1947. It took part in the local championship of Athens-Piraeus since those years there wasn't a Panhellenic women championship. The club ceased its activities for some years but it returned in action in the late 1990s. Panionios achieved to win the

Panhellenic championship The Super League Greece 1 (), or Stoiximan Super League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Greece and the highest level of the Greek football league system. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and repl ...

immediately after its promotion to A1 Ethniki. It is the only time that a Greek team wins a championship coming from a second division. The next years, Panionios is weakened and the current season it plays in A2 Ethniki.

Recent seasons

Honours

Greek Women's Basketball League The Greek women's Basketball League, also known as A1 Ethniki (A1 National) Women's Basketball is the most important competition of Greek women's professional basketball. It is organised by the EOK (Hellenic Basketball Federation). It began with t ...

**Winners (1): 2007 **Runners-up (1): 2008 *

Greek Women's Basketball Cup The Greek Women's Basketball Cup is the national women's basketball cup competition of Greece. It began with the 1995–96 season, and it is organised by the Hellenic Basketball Federation (EOK). So far, eleven clubs have won the cup. Most of the ...

**Runners-up (1): 2017

Roster

References

External links

Official pageWomen Panionios B.C.
at Eurobasket.com {{Panionios G.S.S. Panionios Women's basketball teams in Greece Basketball teams established in 1947 Basketball teams in Athens