After a long wait, the hosts finally debut in the championship. The debut was a good year, after winning 3-0 at Levadiakos from moving. Earlier, Panathinaikos had to pass two preliminary rounds to reach this stage, managing to eliminate them without losing Brondby and AIK. Back in the Europa League, the Greeks now hope to repeat the performance in the 2009-2010 season, the last time they were able to move groups of European competitions.

On the other side, the Dutch seem to have managed to overcome the difficult period, which culminated with elimination from the Champions League. Ajax was imposed in the last two stages of the championship without even pimeasca empty and P.Bosz seems that reestablished the ship. 3 wins in 4 matches played away, “lancers” may address the meeting still more thinking about moving to Heracles, the championship where recupereat has 5 points against Feyenoord.

The two teams met last time last summer in a friendly match in which Ajax was won 2-0. Earlier in the 1996-1997 edition of the Champions League, they have shared victories. If Panathinaikos was won 1-0 in Amsterdam, Ajax took his revenge two weeks later and won the contest in Athens with an emphatic 3-0.