Hellenic Football Federation

In response to a request by the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) for elite referees to officiate derby matches of the Greek soccer Super League, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin stressed that their safety in Greece "is a problem."

UEFA's National Associations Committee met in Athens on Tuesday.

The Greek capital last hosted a meeting of the European Confederation in September 2016, and Tuesday's was seen as a vote of confidence in the Hellenic Football Federation​​​​.

The president of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO), Takis Baltakos, said on Monday that he will ask for UEFA's assistance in bringing in elite and first-class referees for the remaining playoff matches of the Greek Superleague.

The failure to improve, even somewhat, the situation in Greece's professional football sector is now being demonstrated on almost a day-by-day basis.

Olympiakos and Atromitos are threatened with relegation, while their owner Evangelos Marinakis and Giorgos Spanos, Portuguese coach Ricardo Sa Pinto and a dozen others are threatened with very serious sanctions, all for corruption and match fixing in Greek soccer, according to a report on Athens radio station Sport FM.

Everyone knew that he was going to speak about all the problems. Besides, everybody knows that it was Olympiacos that initiated this debate and brought to the fore all the forms of corruption and immorality associated with Greek Football.

The head of FIFA's committee monitoring Greek soccer is formally proposing to the international federation the suspension of the local game from the international set-up, practically giving the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) a period of a few weeks to enforce the measures FIFA has recommended, or else face the so-called soccer Grexit.

FIFA has responded to the call by the Greek government and sent a mission to Athens that will meet with local officials on Wednesday.

The indicted general director of soccer's Super League and former president of the Greek Football Federation (EPO) Vassilis Gagatsis has denied that he mishandled 1 million Swiss francs given to EPO in 2008 by European soccer's governing body, UEFA, to help finance the rebuilding of soccer facilities damaged by devastating fires in the Peloponnese.

The general director of soccer's Super League and former president of the Greek Football Federation (EPO) Vasilis Gagatsis was indicted on Monday on corruption charges.