Panathinaikos FC 1971 Retro Football Shirt

We now know of Panathinaikos as Greece's most successful team in European club football, but no-one was expecting the miraculous European Cup campaign that took the Greens all the way to the Final of the 1970-71 tournament.

No Greek club had ever progressed beyond the Quarter-Final of any European competition before, yet this memorable campaign and the prolific goalscoring of Antonis Antoniadis saw them overcome major clubs like Everton, Slovan Bratislava and Red Star Belgrade en route to a meeting with Ajax at Wembley.

The Dutch side proved too strong on the night, but the result mattered little as their very presence in European football's showpiece game hugely elevated the status and the reputation of the Greek game. Later that same year PAO represented Europe in the Final of the Intercontinental Cup against Nacional of Uruguay.