# 2020–21 Panathinaikos F.C. season

The 2020–21 Panathinaikos season was the club's 62nd consecutive season in Super League Greece. They also competed in the Greek Cup, falling in the quarter-final stage to PAS Giannina.

## Players

| No. | Name | Position (s) | Date of Birth (Age) | Signed from | Notes |
| Goalkeepers |||||||
| 1 | Sokratis Dioudis | GK | (1993-02-03) 3 February 1993 (age 31) | Aris Thessaloniki | |
| 15 | Vasilis Xenopoulos | GK | (1998-04-20) 20 April 1998 (age 26) | Youth system | |
| 61 | Christos Chatzigiannakis | GK | (2002-03-09) 9 March 2002 (age 22) | Youth system | |
| 68 | Nikos Christogeorgos | GK | (2000-01-18) 18 January 2000 (age 24) | Youth system | |
| Defenders |||||||
| 3 | Juankar | LB / LM | (1990-03-30) 30 March 1990 (age 34) | Málaga | |
| 4 | Fran Vélez | CB | (1991-06-23) 23 June 1991 (age 33) | Aris Thessaloniki | |
| 5 | Bart Schenkeveld | CB | (1991-08-28) 28 August 1991 (age 33) | Melbourne City | |
| 12 | Ilias Chatzitheodoridis | LB / LM | (1997-12-05) 5 December 1997 (age 26) | Brentford | |
| 14 | Facundo Sánchez | RB | (1990-03-07) 7 March 1990 (age 34) | Estudiantes | |
| 38 | Dimitris Karagiannis | CB | (2001-02-27) 27 February 2001 (age 23) | Youth system | |
| 44 | Achilleas Poungouras | CB | (1995-12-13) 13 December 1995 (age 28) | PAOK | |
| 58 | Yohan Mollo | RW / LW / RB | (1989-07-18) 18 July 1989 (age 35) | Sochaux | |
| 77 | Spyros Tzavidas | RW / LW / RB | (2001-08-21) 21 August 2001 (age 23) | Youth system | |
| Midfielders |||||||
| 6 | Younousse Sankharé | MF / DM | (1989-03-10) 10 March 1989 (age 35) | CSKA Sofia | |
| 7 | António Xavier | RW | (1992-07-06) 6 July 1992 (age 32) | Tondela | |
| 8 | Yassin Ayoub | MF | (1994-03-06) 6 March 1994 (age 30) | Feyenoord | |
| 11 | Anastasios Chatzigiovanis | RW / LW | (1997-05-31) 31 May 1997 (age 27) | Youth system | |
| 17 | Cheikh Niasse | DM / CB | (2000-01-19) 19 January 2000 (age 24) | Lille | On loan |
| 18 | Giannis Bouzoukis | MF / RW | (1998-03-27) 27 March 1998 (age 26) | Youth system | |
| 19 | Lucas Villafáñez | MF / RW | (1991-10-04) 4 October 1991 (age 33) | Atlético Morelia | |
| 20 | Dimitris Serpezis | MF | (2001-03-14) 14 March 2001 (age 23) | Youth system | |
| 21 | Dimitrios Kourbelis | DM / CB | (1993-10-02) 2 October 1993 (age 31) | Asteras Tripoli | |
| 22 | Aitor Cantalapiedra | RW / LW | (1996-02-10) 10 February 1996 (age 28) | Twente | |
| 23 | Yeni Ngbakoto | RW / LW | (1992-01-23) 23 January 1992 (age 32) | Guingamp | |
| 37 | Andreas Athanasakopoulos | MF | (2001-11-27) 27 November 2001 (age 22) | Youth system | |
| 55 | Sotiris Alexandropoulos | DM / MF | (2001-11-26) 26 November 2001 (age 22) | Youth system | |
| 57 | Uffe Bech | RW / LW | (1993-01-13) 13 January 1993 (age 31) | Hannover 96 | |
| 88 | Maurício | MF | (1988-10-21) 21 October 1988 (age 36) | PAOK | |
| Forwards |||||||
| 9 | Federico Macheda | CF | (1991-08-22) 22 August 1991 (age 33) | Novara | |
| 10 | Carlitos | CF | (1990-06-12) 12 June 1990 (age 34) | Al Wahda | |
| 27 | Fotis Ioannidis | CF | (2000-01-10) 10 January 2000 (age 24) | Levadiakos | |
| 99 | Argyris Kampetsis | CF | (1999-05-06) 6 May 1999 (age 25) | Borussia Dortmund II | |

## Transfers
### Summer window
#### In

| Squad # | Position | Player | Transferred From | Fee | Date |
| 22 | MF | Aitor Cantalapiedra | Twente | Free | 24 June 2020 |
| 4 | DF | Fran Vélez | Aris Thessaloniki | Free | 7 July 2020 |
| 7 | MF | António Xavier | Tondela | Free | 30 July 2020 |
| 19 | MF | Lucas Villafáñez | Atlético Morelia | Free | 6 August 2020 |
| 27 | FW | Fotis Ioannidis | Levadiakos | €60,000 | 10 August 2020 |
| 14 | DF | Facundo Sánchez | Estudiantes | Free | 23 August 2020 |
| 3 | DF | Juankar | Málaga | Free | 9 September 2020 |
| 16 | DF | Antoñito | Real Valladolid | Free | 26 September 2020 |
| 88 | MF | Maurício | PAOK | Free | 11 October 2020 |

#### Loan returns

| Squad # | Position | Player | Transferred From | Fee | Date |
| | MF | Dimos Chantzaras | Veria | Loan return | 1 July 2020 |
| | MF | Adriano Skenderaj | Ethnikos Piraeus | Loan return | 1 July 2020 |
| 24 | DF | Theofanis Mavrommatis | SønderjyskE | Loan return | 1 July 2020 |
| 54 | FW | Kristo Shehu | Bologna | Loan return | 1 July 2020 |
| 6 | MF | Fausto Tienza | Gimnàstic | Loan return | 1 July 2020 |
| 20 | FW | Nikos Vergos | Hércules | Loan return | 1 July 2020 |
| | DF | Thanasis Dimitroulas | Thesprotos | Loan return | 1 July 2020 |
| 17 | MF | Dimitris Emmanouilidis | Panionios | Loan return | 1 July 2020 |
| 29 | FW | Mark Sifneos | Apollon Larissa | Loan return | 1 July 2020 |
| 58 | DF | Yohan Mollo | Orléans | Loan return | 1 July 2020 |
| 59 | FW | Christian Konan | Levadiakos | Loan return | 1 July 2020 |

#### Out

| Squad # | Position | Player | Transferred To | Fee | Date |
| 10 | MF | Ghayas Zahid | APOEL | End of loan | 30 June 2020 |
| 57 | DF | Georgios Vagiannidis | Inter Milan | End of contract | 30 June 2020 |
| 3 | DF | Emanuel Insúa | AEK Athens | End of contract | 30 June 2020 |
| 2 | DF | Mattias Johansson | Gençlerbirliği | End of contract | 30 June 2020 |
| 16 | DF | Kostas Apostolakis | APOEL | End of contract | 30 June 2020 |
| 8 | MF | Christos Donis | Ascoli | End of contract | 30 June 2020 |
| 30 | DF | João Nunes | Puskás Akadémia | €200,000 | 1 July 2020 |
| 29 | FW | Mark Sifneos | Chiasso | Free | 17 July 2020 |
| 26 | MF | Anuar Tuhami | Real Valladolid | End of loan | 31 July 2020 |
| 22 | MF | Dominik Nagy | Legia Warsaw | End of loan | 31 July 2020 |
| 20 | FW | Nikos Vergos | Panetolikos | Free | 4 August 2020 |
| | DF | Thanasis Dimitroulas | Diagoras | Free | 20 August 2020 |
| 27 | GK | Konstantinos Kotsaris | Apollon Smyrnis | Free | 14 September 2020 |
| 4 | DF | Dimitrios Kolovetsios | Kayserispor | Free | 15 September 2020 |
| | MF | Dimos Chantzaras | Pierikos | Free | 24 September 2020 |

#### Loans out

| Squad # | Position | Player | Transferred To | Fee | Date |
| 6 | MF | Fausto Tienza | Gimnàstic | Loan | 10 August 2020 |
| 19 | FW | Juan José Perea | Volos | Loan | 2 September 2020 |
| 7 | MF | Dimitris Kolovos | Sheriff Tiraspol | Loan | 11 September 2020 |
| 23 | DF | Vangelis Theocharis | Levadiakos | Loan | 16 September 2020 |

### Winter window
#### In

| Squad # | Position | Player | Transferred From | Fee | Date | Ref |
| 6 | MF | Younousse Sankharé | CSKA Sofia | €250,000 | 31 January 2021 | |
| 23 | MF | Yeni Ngbakoto | Guingamp | Free | 1 February 2021 | |

#### Loans in

| Squad # | Position | Player | Transferred To | Fee | Date | Ref |
| 17 | MF | Cheikh Niasse | Lille | Loan | 1 February 2021 | |

#### Out

| Squad # | Position | Player | Transferred To | Fee | Date |
| 16 | DF | Antoñito | Cartagena | Free | 19 January 2021 |
| 47 | DF | Vasilis Zagaritis | Parma | €380,000 | 22 January 2021 |
| 24 | DF | Theofanis Mavrommatis | Atromitos | Free | 31 January 2021 |
| 59 | FW | Christian Konan | Logroñés B | Free | 3 February 2021 |
| 54 | FW | Kristo Shehu | Apollon Larissa | Free | 18 February 2021 |

#### Loans out

| Squad # | Position | Player | Transferred To | Fee | Date | Ref |
| 17 | FW | Dimitris Emmanouilidis | Fortuna Sittard | Loan | 22 January 2021 | |

## Competitions
### Super League Greece
#### Regular season
##### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 3 | AEK Athens | 26 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 41 | 29 | +12 | 48 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 4 | PAOK | 26 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 49 | 26 | +23 | 47 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 5 | Panathinaikos | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 30 | 19 | +11 | 45 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 6 | Asteras Tripolis | 26 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 27 | 25 | +2 | 42 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 7 | Volos | 26 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 26 | 32 | −6 | 33 | Qualification for the Play-out round |

##### Matches
#### Play-off round

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Olympiacos (C) | 36 | 28 | 6 | 2 | 82 | 19 | +63 | 90 | Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round |
| 2 | PAOK | 36 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 60 | 34 | +26 | 64 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Aris | 36 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 41 | 26 | +15 | 61 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round |
| 4 | AEK Athens | 36 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 53 | 45 | +8 | 60 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round |
| 5 | Panathinaikos | 36 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 41 | 34 | +7 | 53 | |
| 6 | Asteras Tripolis | 36 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 36 | 38 | −2 | 51 | |
* ↑ PAOK qualified for the Europa Conference League third qualifying round by winning the Greek Cup.