Softball

The Greek Women’s National team will travel to Canada to compete in the 2016 Women’s World Championships held in Surrey, BC, Canada.  This will be Greece’s second participation in World Championships 10 years after competing in China and placing 9th in the competition.

The Women’s U22 National Team travelled to Pardubice, Czech Republic in July to compete in the U22 European Championships. The team had high hopes on improving their 3rd place finish in the previous U22 Championships. A difficult task as they faced some of the top European Softball Nations.

The Greek Women’s U22 National team will travel to the Czech Republic to compete in the 2016 European U22 Championship in Pardubice. The tournament will be held July 4-9, 2016.  Our team placed 3rd in the previous Championship held in Bulgaria and hopes this year to improve on that success.

Kostis Liarommatis met with Dr. Thomas Bach (President of IOC) and Mr. Capralos Spiridon (President of HOC) in the lighting of the Olympic Flame “Rio 2016” on April 21 in Ancient Olympia, where they had an extremely constructive debate on the new sport of Olympic Games Softball.  

This tournament is an early-season women’s fastpitch event that will be held on the weekend of April 9-10, 2016 at the Elliniko softball field.

This brand-new one day tournament is a great opportunity for players to compete and teams to prepare for the 2016 softball season.

The Greek Softball Federation President Kostis Liarommatis had the opportunity to meet the Major League Baseball Vice President and New York Yankees General Manager Joe Torre at a recent convention in Las Vegas Nevada.

The Greek Softball Federation is proud to announce Jimmy Kolaitis as the Women’s National Team Technical Advisor!  Mr. Kolaitis is currently the Assistant Coach at the University of Oregon.  Kolaitis helped the Ducks to Pac-12 titles and Women’s College World Series appearances in both 2014 & 2015.

The Greek National Softball team completed its 2015 campaign at the 19th European Championship finishing 10th overall.  2015 marks the first time in eight years that Greece has competed with a National Team.

The Greek Women’s National Team travels to the Netherlands to compete in the 2015 Women’s European Championships in Rosmalen.  The Tournament will be held July 19-25, 2015.  Our team plays its first game on Sunday against Slovakia at 14:15 local time.

On Sunday November 6, the 1st “PIGASUS” Mixed Team Coed Slowpitch Tournament took place at the Helleniko Softball fields with great success.

The trainings for children 8-16 years old will be held every Saturday and Sunday 10:30 to 12:30 in the morning in Greek Softball Stadium (near the old American base).  

August 3rd, Rio de Janeiro; IOC session approved the proposal of Tokyo 2020 organizing committee to include five extra sports in the 2020 Olympic Games.