![]() ![]() The team to represent Greece compiled of players from Athens, hence the Athens City selection, and in the final they conceded 9 goals from the Denmark XI in the first half alone, and thereby they withdrew from the final at half time, and were then invited to a play-off in a match to decide the second place, but Athens declined and were promptly ejected from the tournament. Greece had no club team invited in the 1900 Olympics and the 1904 Olympics, but then hosted the 1906 Olympics, competing against a Danish club team again ( DBU Copenhagen) and two club teams from the Ottoman Empire ( Smyrna and Thessaloniki). The first three editions of the Olympic football event (1900–06) had an unofficial status, as the event was not yet open for national football teams to compete, and only had limited participation of three or four club teams from a few nations. On 12 April 1896, a Greek XI represented by Podilatikos Syllogos Athinon lost to a Denmark XI by either 9–0 or 15–0, at the Neo Phaliron Velodrome in Athens in a demonstration game during the 1896 Olympic Games. ![]() See also: Football in Greece The national team for the Inter-Allied Games in Paris, 1919. During that period, they occupied a place in the top 20 of the FIFA World Rankings for all but four months, and reached an all-time high of eighth in the world from April to June 2008, as well as in October 2011. In the decade after the 2004 victory, Greece qualified for the finals tournaments of all but one major competition entered, reaching the quarter-finals at the UEFA Euro 2012 and the round of 16 at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Their triumph earned them a place in the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup. During the tournament, Greece defeated the hosts in both the opening game of the tournaments and again in the final. Dismissed as rank outsiders before the tournament, Greece defeated some of the favourites in the competition including defending European champions France and hosts Portugal. UEFA Euro 2004 marked the highest point in Greece's football history when they won the tournament in only their second participation. Greece did not qualify for another major tournament until the 1994 FIFA World Cup and after an undefeated qualifying campaign, they produced a poor performance in the finals, losing all three group matches without scoring. ![]() Their qualification to the then eight-team UEFA European Championship gave them a position in the top eight European football nations that year. Their first appearance in a major tournament was at UEFA Euro 1980 where they were knocked out in the group stage. ![]() From the 1980s they have experienced the first taste of, but not a banquet, of football achievement. Greece had a small presence in international football. Greece is one of only ten national teams to have been crowned UEFA European Champions. Starting in 2023, Greece play their home matches in Nea Filadelfeia, a suburb of Athens, at the newly built Agia Sophia Stadium. The Greece national football team ( Greek: Εθνική Ελλάδας, Ethniki Elladas) represents Greece in men's international football matches and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation, the governing body for football in Greece. ![]()
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