| 28/2/2025 | Mondo Duplantis breaks the men’s pole vault world record for the 11th time at the All Star Perche in Clermont-Ferrand with a sensational first time clearance at 6.27m. Olympic bronze medallist Emmanouil Karalis breaks (for the 5th time in 2025) the Greek national record in pole vault clearing 6.02, adding 1cm to the national record he set at last week’s Greek Indoor Championships. |
| 28/2/2023 | At least 57 people are killed and 85 injured when the passenger train IC 62 traveling from Athens to Thessaloniki carrying more than 350 people collides with a freight train shortly before midnight, in Tembi, near the city of Larissa, leaving strewn carriages and heaps of debris in its wake. Among the victims is the 22-year-old footballer Iordanis Adamakis, in whose honor the locker room of the Rhodes football team will be named after him. On March 1, the semifinals of the Greek Football Cup Olympiacos-AEK and PAS Lamia-PAOK. will be postponed following the Prime Minister’s, Konstantinos Mitsotakis’s, declaration of three days of national mourning in wake of the deadliest train collision in Greek history. |
| 28/2/2022 | Following the invasion of Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA act in unison to suspend Russian teams from international football competitions until further notice. The suspension means Russia will not be able to face Poland in a World Cup play-off semi-final next month, while its women’s team will also be barred from this summer’s European Championship in England and its remaining club side in European competition, Spartak Moscow, will no longer compete in the Europa League. In addition, UEFA ends sponsorship deal with Gazprom. IOC recommends that International Sports Federations and sports event organisers not invite or allow the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials in international competitions. |
| 28/2/2018 | The ESIEA Cultural Foundation honors 15 veterans in sports journalism. The honored journalists, with Harris Lyberopoulos being the oldest (born in 1922), are Dinos Vendikos, Giannis Diakogiannis, Fedon Konstantoudakis, Giorgos Liveris, Dimitris Lyberopoulos, Petros Linardos, Costas Mitropoulos, Andreas Bomis, Giorgos Pantouris, Lefteris Papadopoulos, Makis Papazisis, Dimitris Papanagiotou, Stavros Tsochos and Vangelis Fountoukidis. |
| 28/2/2000 | UEFA announces that players who celebrate a goal lifting their skirt to reveal political or commercial messages will be shown the yellow card. Their case will be examined by the UEFA disciplinary committee |
| 28/2/1999 | Proodeftiki's first win over Iraklis in 31 years. PAOK's first away win over Panathinaikos in 15 years |
| 28/2/1999 | The Greek rhythmic team (featuring Irini Aindili, Eva Christodoulou, Hara Karyami, Anna Pollatou, Maria Georgatou and Kleoniki Georgakopoulou) wins the first gold medal (38.767 points) in its history at the Madera International Tournament |
| 28/2/1991 | Even without their fans, Aris beat Leverkusen 133-117 for the European Champions Cup. Aris were punished for the violence that broke out when the lights went out during a devastating game against Barcelona |
| 28/2/1960 | The 8th Winter Olympics close in Squaw Valley, California. 531 men and 146 women from 30 countries took part |
| 28/2/1956 | Panathinaikos footballer Antonis Tsolinas dies. He was capped three times by the National Football Team of Greece, with four goals, all scored in a single game against Bulgaria (6-1) |
| 28/2/1946 | “Le Equipe” (the team), the French daily newspaper devoted to sports is first published. Initially, it will circulate three times per week and from 1948 it will become daily. The paper owes its life to its ancestor “L’Auto”, which started publishing after the demise of “Le Velo”, caused by the 19th century French scandal involving the officer Alfred Dreyfus who was accused of selling secrets to the Germans, France’s old enemy. |
| 28/2/1940 | First televised intercollegiate basketball game. Pittsburgh beat Fondham 50-37 at Madison Square Garden |
| 28/2/1935 | The International Olympic Committee recognises FIBB's (afterwards FIBA) independence |
