Ajax of Epirus PAS Giannina FC
Greece · Founded: 1966
PAS Giannina is a Greek football club from Ioannina, the capital of the Epirus region, founded on 8 July 1966 through the merger of several local clubs. It is the football section of the PAS Giannina multi-sport club and plays at the Zosimades Stadium, which holds about 7,600 spectators. Its blue and white colours earned it the nickname Ajax of Epirus.
PAS Giannina is the most successful club in Epirus and has spent many seasons in the Greek top flight since the 1970s, alternating with spells in the second tier.
In the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, its first European campaign, it beat Odd in the second qualifying round after extra time and then lost narrowly to AZ in the third. It played that home tie at the Peristeri Stadium in Athens because the Zosimades did not meet UEFA criteria.