Panathinaikos-Real: Bring the trophy, from Germany

The big moment has arrived… What his friends have been waiting for Panathinaikou since 2011 and what seemed like a midsummer night’s dream a few months ago is now a reality. Ergin Ataman’s team is in the Final 4 of Berlin and tonight (21:00, Novasports Prime, News Bulletin 247 and sport-fm.gr) they will fight against the mighty Real Madrid to add the seventh star the jersey.

Madrid, with just seven defeats in 38 matches all season in Euroleague but also a deafening appearance in the semi-final with Olympiakos (at least for one half) is the favourite. However Panathinaikos, who has six wins in seven finals, who last April was 17th but this year he was second, who made the Turkish coach’s statements that a while ago seemed to be prophetic in some graphics, he is capable of everything. And one more great crossing will be attempted on Sunday night.

Panathinaikos has the right people who know the localities. The coach Ataman is in the final for the fourth time in the last five years and is looking to make it three personal titles. The Kostas Sloukas in the twelfth Final 4 of his career in the eighth final of his career he wants to reach the fourth trophy and if he succeeds it will be with a third different team, after Olympiakos (2012, 2013) and Fenerbahce (2017).

On the side of the “clover” will be at least twice as many as the approximately 4,000 fans on Friday. Thousands of fans of the team have started since Friday the search for a ticket and a way to get to Berlin and the Uber Arena will resemble something from… OAKA, since the most… pessimistic calculations speak of 8,000 spectators.

THE Real, on the contrary, has its own motivations. And if the twelfth jewel in the crown is not enough for the “queen”, she wants to note the first back-to-back after the Ephesus of… Ataman and to break the curse who wants the first team of the regular season in the modern Euroleague not to conquer it at the end of the season. The best attack and defense of the season will rely on the momentum to increase its supremacy as the multiple winner of the institution, ahead of CSKA (8) and Panathinaikos with Maccabi (6) that follow.

Referees of the match will be Fernando Rocha (Portugal), Ilia Belosevic (Serbia) and Mendy Difalla (France). The latter two also managed Panathinaikos’ semi-final against Fenerbahce, while Rocha was not in either of the two semi-finals.

At 18:00 the short final between Olympic and the Fenerbahce. Two disappointed teams will play a meaningless match, since there is not even the motivation of… the bronze medal and it is certain that they would have preferred to have already returned to their base to devote themselves to the championship.

For the fiftieth time

In total, Panathinaikos and Real have faced each other 49 times and the six-star team has 18 wins compared to Real’s 31. Analytically:

1962/1963 Panathinaikos-Real 73-97 (Championship Round 1)

1962/1963 Real-Panathinaikos 90-60 Champions Cup (First Round-Champions Cup)

1983/1984 Real-Panathinaikos 104-78 (Cup Quarterfinals)

1983/1984 Panathinaikos-Real 99-97 (Cup Quarterfinals)

1990/1991 Real-Panathinaikos 88-65 (Second Round Korats)

1990/1991 Panathinaikos-Real 82-102 (Second Round Korats)

06/01/1995 Panathinaikos-Real 77-64 (Euroleague Groups)

23/02/1995 Real-Panathinaikos 66-68 (Euroleague Groups)

26/10/1995 Panathinaikos-Real 54-52 (Euroleague Groups)

04/01/1996 Real-Panathinaikos 80-73 (Euroleague Groups)

10/21/1999 Panathinaikos-Real 96-69 (Euroleague First Round)

08/12/1999 Real-Panathinaikos 63-66 (Euroleague First Round)

06/12/2001 Real-Panathinaikos 70-78 (Euroleague First Phase)

02/14/2002 Panathinaikos-Real 77-88 (Euroleague First Phase)

14/12/2005 Panathinaikos-Real 87-71 (Euroleague First Phase)

08/02/2006 Real-Panathinaikos 73-90 (Euroleague First Phase)

06/12/2007 Panathinaikos-Real 92-85 (Euroleague First Phase)

01/31/2008 Real-Panathinaikos 95-87 (Euroleague First Phase)

05/11/2009 Real-Panathinaikos 80-70 (Euroleague First Phase)

12/17/2009 Panathinaikos-Real 67-76 (Euroleague First Phase)

12/10/2012 Real-Panathinaikos 85-78 (Euroleague First Phase)

11/15/2012 Panathinaikos-Real 79-68 (Euroleague First Phase)

25/01/2013 Panathinaikos-Real 54-58 (Top 16)

21/03/2013 Real-Panathinaikos 73-74 (Top 16)

01/22/2015 Real-Panathinaikos 83-65 (Top 16)

20/03/2015 Panathinaikos-Real 85-69 (Top 16)

16/11/2016 Real-Panathinaikos 87-84 (Regular Season)

16/03/2017 Panathinaikos-Real 88-82 (Regular Season)

24/11/2017 Panathinaikos-Real 82-80 (Regular Season)

08/03/2018 Real-Panathinaikos 92-75 (Regular Season)

04/17/2018 Panathinaikos-Real 95-67 (Playoffs)

04/19/2018 Panathinaikos-Real 82-89 (Playoffs)

25/04/2018 Real-Panathinaikos 81-74 (Playoffs)

27/04/2018 Real-Panathinaikos 89-82 (Playoffs)

19/12/2018 Real-Panathinaikos 89-68 (Regular Season)

28/03/2019 Panathinaikos-Real 73-74 (Regular Season)

04/17/2019 Real-Panathinaikos 75-72 (Playoffs)

19/04/2019 Real-Panathinaikos 78-63 (Playoffs)

23/04/2019 Panathinaikos-Real 82-89 (Playoffs)

26/12/2019 Panathinaikos-Real 75-87 (Regular Season)

24/02/2020 Real-Panathinaikos 96-78 (Regular Season)

15/12/2020 Panathinaikos-Real 93-97 (Regular Season)

27/01/2021 Real-Panathinaikos 76-66 (Regular Season)

15/10/2021 Real-Panathinaikos 88-65 (Regular Season)

31/03/2022 Panathinaikos-Real 87-86 (Regular Season)

06/10/2022 Panathinaikos-Real 68-71 (Regular Season)

01/02/2023 Real-Panathinaikos 83-68 (Regular Season)

07/12/2023 Panathinaikos-Real 78-90 (Regular Season)

29/02/2024 Real-Panathinaikos 86-97 (Regular Season)