Football League

Girls living in orphanages in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas have formed a football team and qualified for the Third Women's Football League that will start in February.

The team is called the Family and Social Policy Youth and Sports Club, named after the Family and Social Services Ministry.

The 2021 Ziraat Turkish Cup final will be held with fans back in the stadium at one-thirds of the total seating capacity, the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) announced on May 9.

The final between Beşiktaş and Fraport-TAV Antalyaspor will be played in İzmir's Göztepe Gürsel Aksel Stadium on May 18.

Ανακοινώθηκε το πρόγραμμα της Football League σε Βορά και Νότο που ξεκινάει το Σάββατο 27 Μαρτίου

The Greek soccer federation decided on Monday the relegation of OFI Crete to the second division, and of second-tier club Aiginiakos to the third division, for fixing last year's Football League match between them. In response a firm of hardcore OFI fans threatened against the Greek national team playing its home games in Iraklio.

Olympiakos will return to Xanthi for a third time this season as it has drawn the local team in the round of 16 of the Greek Cup, while Panathinaikos will get the chance to avenge last year's elimination by Lamia.

After a year of being under the control of a FIFA normalisation committee, Greek football looks to be in a worse position than when FIFA parachuted itself in to take control. New data suggests that as many as 75% of the games in the country’s second tier Football League show signs of match-fixing under FIFA’s stewardship.

VOLLEYBALL: The women's national team has advanced to the play-offs for qualification to the World Cup as it finished second in its pool in Croatia thanks to its 3-1 victory over Austria on Sunday. It will enter the play-off round on August 22-27 for a spot in the 2018 finals.

The Greek Super League, the country’s professional football body, has decided to limit the competing teams from 16 to 14 from the next season by a narrow majority. The body’s board members also decided to change the structure of the end of season play-offs, with the league’s champion also participating in the mini-championship at the end of the regular season.

OFI beat Panathinaikos and is threatening it with elimination from the Cup, while another second-division team, Anagennisi Karditsas held AEK to a draw in a midweek set of group stage games that had plenty of upsets.

About 30 helmeted hooligans attacked the Athens restaurant where the draw for the Greek second division football league took place resulting in four injuries and damages to facilities, parked cars and media equipment.

One news photographer was taken to hospital with cuts and bruises late Monday while three others were treated by ambulance crews.