| 15/3/2023 | Olympiacos defeats Maccabi Tel Aviv 3-0 (25-16, 25-21, 25-16) following their 3-0 victory in Tel Aviv and win the Challenge Cup in volleyball, becoming the first Greek team to do so. Dragan Travica wins the MVP title of the Finals |
| 15/3/2023 | Mimis Papaioannou, a legendary soccer star for AEK Athens and the club’s top scorer, dies aged 81, after struggling with health issues for years. Papaioannou played for AEK for 17 years, winning 5 championship titles (1963, 1968, 1971, 1978, 1979) and 3 Cups (1964, 1966, 1978). He scored 289 goals (first all-time scorer for AEK) in 566 games. He was capped 61 times with Greece scoring 21 goals. Hw was also a model of fair play, never once, throughout his entire career, being shown a red card. His wax figure is in the new Agia Sophia Stadium museum and his name is honoured on one of the four pillars of the Stadum, alongside other important figures of the club's history such as Kostas Nestoridis, Stelios Serafidis and Thomas Mavros. |
| 15/3/2022 | Kyrie Irving scores a career-high 60 points, most in the Nets’ NBA history, to lead Brooklyn to a 150-108 victory over the Orlando Magic, shooting 20 for 31, including 8 of 12 on three-pointers, in 35 minutes. He made 12 of 13 free throws in matching the highest-scoring game in the NBA this season. Irving scored 41 points in the first half, the most in the first two quarters since Kobe Bryant had 42 against Washington on 28/3/2003. |
| 15/3/2021 | Daniil Medvedev defeats Pierre-Hugues Herbert 2-1 and wins the Marseille Open. For the first time since July 2005, a man not named Federer, Nadal, Djokovic or Murray is in the top two of the @FedEx ATP Rankings. |
| 15/3/1999 | Toni Savevsky scores his 50th goal in the championship, against Paniliakos, in Pyrgos completing a 10-year career with AEK. He scored his first goals, 10 years earlierm against Apollon Kalamaria in Thessalonikh on 29/19/1989 |
| 15/3/1991 | Sergey Bubka becomes the first pole vaulter to jump 6.10m at an international indoors meeting in San Sebastian, Spain |
| 15/3/1985 | Giannis Kouros runs 200km in 15:11.10 at Montauban, France (Guinness record) |
| 15/3/1966 | Abe Saperstin, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters and ABA dies at the age of 63 |
| 15/3/1966 | Canadian Donald Jackson becomes the first athlete to perform a triple lutz jump |
| 15/3/1962 | Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first and only NBA player to have scored more than 4.000 points in one season (50.4 points per game) |
| 15/3/1959 | Robert Foster sets a world record as he stays under water for 13 minutes and 42.5 seconds |
| 15/3/1958 | Maurice Strokes of the Rochester Royals is struck by encephalopathy during a play-off game. He falls in a coma and becomes paralysed. After 12 years of treatment he will die of heart attack aged 36 |
| 15/3/1957 | Hartpool goalkeeper Neil McBane (51years and 120 days old) becomes the oldest to play in a national league. The second oldest player is Sir Stanley Matthews who played with Fulham against Stoke on February 6, 1965 at the age of 50 |
| 15/3/1956 | First showing of the film of Vassilis Georgiadis "Masters of the Football Field" with five international footballers: Stathis Mandalozis, Costas Linoxylakis, Lakis Petropoulos, Andreas Mouratis and Costas Poulis starring. The script of the film belongs to Iakovos Kambanellis and music to Argyris Kounadis |
| 15/3/1920 | Manchester United Billy Meredith becomes the oldest international (45 years and 229 days old) after playing for Wales against England at Wembley |
| 15/3/1892 | Liverpool FC is founded by Anfield owner John Houlding, a handful of supporters and just three Everton first-team players, following Everton’s leaving Anfield in a dispute over rent. The team’s first name was “Everton FC and Athletic Grounds Company plc”, but, when the Football Council on 4/2/1892 ruled that it could not approve membership of a new club with the same name as an existing member, it was renamed to Liverpool. The club's first competitive match will be at home to Higher Walton on 3/9/1892 with Liverpool winning 8-0 |
| 15/3/1877 | First official cricket match between Australia and England in Melbourne. Australia wins by 45 runs |
| 15/3/1869 | Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, play their first game against Great Western |
