| 15/2/2025 | Former Porto president Pinto da Costa dies at the age of 87. Da Costa was elected president of the Portuguese club in 1982 and remained in office for 43 consecutive years. During his tenure, Porto enjoyed glorious moments, winning, among others, a Champions League in the 2003-04 season, a Europa League in 2010-11, 23 league titles, as well as 16 Portuguese Cups. He was succeeded by Andre Villas-Boas in May 2024. |
| 15/2/2023 | Miltos Tentoglou, 7 days after being stripped from world leading jump (8.40) due to inappropriate shoes in Torun, “flies” at 8.41 recording world lead long jump in Poland, the second best in his career, after the 8.55 in Belgrade. |
| 15/2/2012 | Levadiakos striker Cicero Choubinho scores two goals against Panetolikos in a match which was postponed on 22/10 for the 7th matchday of Super League Football Championship. During that time, he was playing for OFI and he had scored one goal against AEK, creating a paradox of having played and scored for two different teams in the same matchday. |
| 15/2/2003 | Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, kicks a shoe, following the bad performance of the team against Arsenal, at the dressing rooms, which accidentally hits and gashes David Beckham’s left brow. Five months later, Beckham will leave Manchester for Real Madrid |
| 15/2/1993 | Former Secretary of Sports in Greece Giorgos Kassimatis dies |
| 15/2/1978 | Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in Las Vegas for the world heavyweight title. Nevertheless, the WBC awarded the title to Ken Norton when Spinks refused to fight him before the rematch with Ali |
| 15/2/1976 | The 12th Winter Olympic Games close in Innsbruck, Austria. The games begun on 4/2 with the participation of 900 men and 228 women from 37 countries participated in 37 events. Soviet Union is placed first in the medals table with 27 (13-6-8), East Germany second with 19 (7-5-7) and Norway third with 7 (3-3-1) |
| 15/2/1961 | Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 jet explodes as it hits the ground when landing at Berg, near Brussels airport. 73 people are killed, including the United States figure-skating team, 11 crew members and one man working in the field where the plane crashed. The American skaters were on their way to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to take part in the world championships which was due to take place the following week but was cancelled after the crash |
| 15/2/1946 | 33-year-old Edith Houghton becomes the first female scout in the major league after signing with the Philadelphia Phillies |
| 15/2/1932 | Eddie Eagan, member of the USA bobsled team, becomes the first to win gold medal in Summer (1920, boxing) and Winter (1932, bobsled) Olympic Games |
| 15/2/1932 | Lycimachos Kaftanzoglou (b. 1870) dies. Together with his father Lyssandros (1811-1885), famous architect who designed the Polytechneion and the Arsakeion, they were prominent citizens of Salonica. The biggest stadium in Northern Greece bears their name |
| 15/2/1930 | Weona beat Toluca in Illinois basketball tournament in 10 overtimes |
