About Ethnikos Piraeus

Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. (Greek: Εθνικός Πειραιώς) or simply Ethnikos is a Greek football club based in Piraeus and its parent sports club is Ethnikos OFPF. The club was officially formed on 21 November 1923 as Keravnos Piraeus (English: Lightning Piraeus), but existed unofficially since 1922. One year later the club was renamed to Young Boys Titan, after some players' secession that formed Peiraikos Podosfairikos Omilos (English: Piraeus' Football Group). The club was renamed to Ethnikos (English: National) on 23 December 1924, after it merged with Peiraikos Podosfairikos Omilos.

Ethnikos Piraeus is one of the founding members of Hellenic Football Federation in 1928, and represented Piraeus to the finals of the Panhellenic Championship's inaugural season in 1927–28. Ethnikos ranks 10th all time in first division victories (427) despite last competing in the first tier back in 1998–99 season.

They have won the 1932–33 Greek Cup, thus they are one of the only 11 clubs that have won either the domestic championship or domestic the cup in Greece. Ethnikos was one of seven clubs, including AEK Athens, PAOK, Panathinaikos, Aris Thessaloniki, Olympiacos and Panionios, never to have been relegated from the league until 1990. They have also been involved in international football playing a number of friendlies against famous clubs such as Inter Milan, Galatasaray, and the great Hungary national football team in the 1950s, and participated in the Balkans Cup on two occasions. They have had a turbulent recent history, and are currently competing in the third division Gamma Ethniki.