| 26/11/2024 | Barcelona Polish striker Robert Lewandowski scores twice against Brest (3-0) and makes history by becoming only the third player in Champions League history to surpass 100 goals in the European competition (101 in 126 games). Cristiano Ronaldo, with 140 goals in 186 games, is the all-time top scorer followed by Nionel Messi (129 goals in 163 games). |
| 26/11/2024 | Panathinaikos FC announces the contract extension of 24-year-old striker Fotis Ioannidis until the summer of 2028 making him the highest-paid Greek footballer in the Superleague |
| 26/11/2010 | It’s the last day of circulation for the daily newspaper “TO VIMA”. 8.000 readers buy the last issue and more than 800.000 visit the electronic version, which will continue to be published along with the “printed” Sunday issue. |
| 26/11/1999 | Pyrros Dimas (85 kg) wins 3 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze) after lifting a total of 387.5kgs at the World Weightlifting Championships held at Peace and Friendship Stadium. Young Christos Spyrou wins 1 silver medal in the same category |
| 26/11/1995 | 8 people die when a wall collapses during a cricket game between India and New Zealand |
| 26/11/1984 | Giannis Kouros runs 1.000 km starting from Colac, Australia. He sets 2 records (500km in 60h and 23m, 1.000km in 136h and 17m) |
| 26/11/1982 | Football tragedy in Algiers when the stadium roof collapses (10 dead and 535 wounded) |
| 26/11/1981 | Dutch chess player Max Euwe, the fifth world chess champion, dies in Amsterdam at the age of 80. He was a mathematician, author of many chess books, world champion (1935-1937) by defeating Alexander Alekhine by 15,5-14,5, and president of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978. |
| 26/11/1972 | AEK's biggest home defeat by Olympiacos (1-5) |
| 26/11/1971 | Rod Laver becomes the first millionaire tennis player |
| 26/11/1961 | Phostiras’ Charalambos Chatzidimou scores the first goal by a direct corner kick in the history of the football first division against Apollon Kalamaria |
| 26/11/1956 | Soviet Vyacheslav Yvanov wins the gold medal in rowing at Melbourne Olympics. While celebrating his victory he drops the medal in the lake |
| 26/11/1956 | Giorgos Roubanis wins the bronze medal (4.50m) in pole vault at Melbourne Olympics. 19 athletes from 12 countries take part in that event. Bob Richards takes first place (4.56m) and Bob Gutowski second (4.53m). It is the first Olympic medal for Greece after 44 years |
| 26/11/1941 | Amateur tennis champion Bobby Riggs turns professional |
