Greece Fan Groups

[Satchmo Distel]

Panathanaikos is Gate 13. Graffiti everywhere on Syros:

http://gate13.gr/?p=1645

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/panathinaikos+gate+13

Gate 7 is Olympiacos, based in Piraeus and had that name before the 1981 disaster at the location.

Ultras culture seems to have expanded and intensified rapidly following the formation of Gate 13 in November 1966 (hence Gate 13 1966).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_13

[EIM]

https://youtu.be/GLEOmqdxbC4

This is one of my all-time favourite YouTube videos. PAOK's Gate 4.

[super furry dice]

My one trip to Panathanaikos - great ground - was the week after the Ultras had been banned from attending by the Greek FA, resulting in Gate 13 and 14 ends being closed for the game I attended. I was told it was a combination of violence earlier that season and the Ultras owning their end so much, they'd been able to sneak pyro launching devices into it so that could put on "better" displays but health and safety went mad on them for that as well.

I went to Olympiacos the day after and stood among their Gate 7 Ultras on the occasion of the marking of the anniversary of the Karaiskakis Stadium disaster. It isn't easy to go in the Ultras end, they police the tickets and do the stewarding, but we'd met some on the flight over from London who insisted we joined them. It was an experience, on one hand being among the pyro and chanting was pretty incredible, but on the other the worst Ultra stereotypes came to the fore - control freakery, little Ultra police wondering around the end telling people when they had to sing, what they could or couldn't photograph, when they may need to sit down, the majority clad in black clobber.... one of our group left at half-time as he hated it that much and I'd not do it again.

Gate 7 are right-wing as well which ain't ever gonna win me over, Gate 13 apparently are apolitical. AEK's ultras - Original 21 - are left-wing, but I've still not watched them.

Away fans are banned at the top levels which having seen small fights at two lower league Greek games were away fans could attend, doesn't surprise me.

[Satchmo Distel]

I should get some PAOK visuals when I'm Thessaloniki. Fortunately it won't coincide with their Conference League game v Beitar Jerusalem on July 27 (Beitar ultras are extreme right-wing racists which I suspect receive political approval).

[steviecowden]

AEK's ultras - Original 21 - are left-wing, but I've still not watched them.
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i think i was in amongst the AEK ultras when i caught a uefa cup game at vitesse arnhem in,i think,1999.mental atmosphere,very boisterous

[Satchmo Distel]

Gate 1 is Olympiacos Volos, founded in 1937, who now play in the shadow of the Volos franchise club, which was formed by dissolving an existing club after Olympiacos turned down a merger with another local club. Their nickname is Austrian Boys.

https://e-thessalia.gr/austrian-boys...-efialtis-soy/

The franchise club was formed by the mayor, whom Gate 1 violently oppose

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volos_F.C.

[Satchmo Distel]

Gate 10 is Iraklis (Heracles), symbolized as HPA 10. Antiracist: "Refugees welcome, tourists fuck off."

https://twitter.com/ultras_antifaa/s...5a0Fcw5LA&s=19

[Satchmo Distel]

I missed this story last week and it may transpire that Zagreb were the main culprits:

https://www.marca.com/en/football/ch...c5e8b456a.html

[anton pulisov]

Got a distinctly bad vibe off some of the Croatian fans in Poznan for the Ireland game at Euro 2012. Most of them were grand, but the small minority would make you think twice about going to a match involving Croatia.

[Satchmo Distel]

I would also imagine that there are Croatian fans living and/or working in Greece so I would wonder if a ban on travel would be wholly effective.