Ethnikis will take over its headquarters in SEF from January

Ethnikos has acquired its football home as it will play at the SEF football stadium from January 1, 2024. The agreement was signed between the mayor of Piraeus, the president of the SEF, the state and Ethnikos.

The mayor of Piraeus, Yiannis Moralis, emphasized in his speech: “Today is a pleasant day with good news for the national football team, which will receive its own headquarters in the SEF in order to be able to compete in its city from January 1, 2024 and not be forced to go to the sports fields of other municipalities. It was a request from Ethnikos to compete at the Peace and Friendship Stadium.

In this context, we have initiated the necessary measures with the President of SEF. and OPAN and today we signed the concession for the 11×11 field to the Municipality of Piraeus so that we can proceed with the construction of a 1500-seat stand and operational interventions so that the national team can compete in the best possible conditions. Our goal is of course for Ethnikis to acquire a modern sports facility in Schistos.

Ownership still needs to be resolved moving forward and I believe we will have good news with Schistos in 2024. At the same time, the remaining teams trained as before in the SEF stadium. It is a good synergy between four parties, the Municipality of Piraeus, OPAN, SEF and Ethnikos and I would like to thank her

President of SEF Christina Tsiligiri for our friendly cooperation. It is a start to solving this problem that has plagued Ethnikos for 19 to 20 years. As a city administration, we will always be close to the clubs in our city and will do our best to help find sports facilities and of course to create new sports infrastructure“.

The President of SEF Christina Tsiligiri emphasized in her speech: “From its inception, the Stadium of Peace and Friendship has aimed to actively contribute to the development of the wider Piraeus area.

Through this process, SEF As a side quest, it entails self-improvement and a long process of healing from wounds and bad memories. After all, the country’s stadiums are in the spotlight these days. As an administration of the SEF, we have put sport at the forefront in recent years, with various activities taking place in our facilities.

In implementing our master plan, we place great emphasis on modernizing our stadium with changes that enable the transition to a new digital and at the same time environmentally friendly reality. The 11×11 football field in the area surrounding the Peace and Friendship Stadium is a valuable asset of our organization, which we have been renting to the municipality of Piraeus for several years with the aim of supporting the region’s football teams but also promoting the sporting ideal. It is one of the final touches on the canvas of our interventions.
The Municipality of Piraeus, in collaboration with SEF and OPAN They will take all the necessary measures in the near future so that the football field can be declared the official headquarters of the Piraeus national team. Finally, I would like to thank the Mayor of Piraeus, Yiannis Moralis, with whom we have a great partnership“.

The President of the Organization for Culture, Sports and Youth, Iosif Vourakis, emphasized, among other things: “Some things don’t happen when you try, but they do when too many people try. In this particular case, it was the mayor’s instruction to proceed with this project.

We worked with Ms. Athina Glykas, without whom we would not have done anything without the finance department. If the President of the 3rd Municipality, Charalambos Liakostavros, had not been by our side for the last four years, we would not have been able to maintain this stadium.

It will now be a professional stadium that will serve all teams and those who train and play their games, as well as the national team, which will now compete at home in Piraeus.

Therefore, Ethnikos’ request for a headquarters in Piraeus is an obligation for us to find it. We found her. Late; Possibly. What matters is that we did it.

The most important thing is to get started. And you know very well that with the city administration, both in the first five years in which I did not participate and in the second in which I did participate, we reach the end when the beginning is made“.

President of the National OFPF Yannis Patlakas noted: “Ethnikis turns 100 this year. We are very pleased that “water is now coming into the groove”. We think we’re going to do a lot of things. The city administration is always by our side, as is the administration of SEF in everything we asked for. Everything is done methodically and correctly. Thank you very much and keep it up“.