Panionios Water Polo Club

Panionios Water Polo Club

Founded	1985 (refounded)
League	A1 Ethniki Water Polo
Based in	Nea Smyrni, Greece
Arena	Nea Smyrni naratorioum
Colors
President
Head coach
Website	http://www.pgss.gr/

Panionios Water Polo Club is the water polo team of Panionios multi sport club. It has got teams both men and women. Men's team of Panionios plays in A1 Ethniki (first division) and women's team plays in A2 Ethniki (second division).

Men's team

Panionios had had a water polo team by the period it had based in Smyrna, before 1922. It kept up the team when it had come in Athens but some time later it was dissolved. The water polo team of Panionios was refounded again in 1985, after the building of natatorium in Nea Smirni. In season 1994-95, Panionios won the championship of A2 Ethniki (second division) and promoted in A1 Ethniki (first division). Since 2005, Panionios stars in the championship, finishing in the first places every year.^[1] Soonly it had successes in European competitions. It played two times in the final of LEN Euro Cup (2009 and 2011) but was defeated. Panionios had played five times in the final of Greek cup but has been defeated in all matches.

Recent seasons

Season	Division	Place	Notes
2001-02	A2 Ethniki	1st	Promoted to A1
2002-03	A1 Ethniki	8th
2003-04	A1 Ethniki	4th
2004-05	A1 Ethniki	3rd
2005-06	A1 Ethniki	3rd	Finalist Greek Cup
2006-07	A1 Ethniki	5th
2007-08	A1 Ethniki	3rd	Finalist Greek Cup
2008-09	A1 Ethniki	2nd	Finalist Greek Cup, Finalist Len Euro Cup
2009-10	A1 Ethniki	2nd	Finalist Greek Cup
2010-11	A1 Ethniki	4th	Finalist Greek Cup, Finalist Len Euro Cup
2011-12	A1 Ethniki	5th
2012-13	A1 Ethniki	9th
2013-14	A1 Ethniki	8th
2014-15	A1 Ethniki	11th	Relegated to A2

Honours

• A1 Ethniki
  • Runners-up (2):2009, 2010
• Greek Water Polo Cup
  • Runners-up (5): 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• LEN Euro Cup
  • Runners-up (2):2009, 2011

Women's team

The women team of Panionios was founded in 1988. In season 1993-94 played in first division (A1 Ethniki) but it relegated. It played again in first division from season 2009-10 to 2011-12. In the last season (2012–13) played in A2 Ethniki and finished in second place.

Recent seasons

Season	Division	Place	Notes
2007-08	A2 Ethniki	2nd
2008-09	A2 Ethniki	1st	Promoted to A1
2009-10	A1 Ethniki	6th
2010-11	A1 Ethniki	7th
2011-12	A1 Ethniki	8th	Relegated to A2
2012-13	A2 Ethniki	2nd

References

1. "Panionios Water Polo History". pgss.gr. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

External links

• Panionios Water polo team
• Αφιέρωμα υδατοσφαίρισης ανδρών Α1: Πανιώνιος Hellenic Swimming Federation, Official Page (Greek)