Recently Greece has been increasingly established as a key destination for millions of tourists from all over the world, who prefer alternative forms of tourism.
One of these is sports tourism, a sector in which the Ministry of Sport has invested in order to link sport with the country’s economy and the development of local communities, especially those that have not yet been exploited for tourism.
We believe that sport is a vehicle for the development of societies on an economic and moral level and we remain faithful to the Olympic Ideals that were born in our country.
We are convinced that we will manage to give the added value that every place deserves to the blessed Greek land.
A very important focus of our policy is to upgrade the National Sports Facilities, and our intention is to completely renovate the Kaftanzoglio Stadium. The Kaftanzoglio Stadium have an increase in its budget of 150% coming from the state’s fundingin order to become completely operative as soon as possible. Resources that are unprecedented in terms of increase for such a funding.
Ioannis Vroutsis
Alternate Minister of Sports
Kaftanzoglio is a complete multi-activity sports complex that occupies an area of 106,534 square meters, belongs to the General Secretary of Sports and includes:
- The central athletics-football stadium, of Olympic standards, with a capacity of 27,560 spectators, which hosts athletics and football sports.
- The auxiliary athletics-football field with changing rooms.
- The auxiliary throwing field with changing rooms.
- The indoor training center (K3) for heavy sports, athletics and gymnastics. This is a dedicated training building that features an indoor gym with four 120m tartan runways, an indoor pole vault gym and a range of multi-sport training rooms. The elite athletes of SEGAS – KYAATH train in this building.
- Training rooms and indoor warm-up corridor that operate around the perimeter of the main field and under the stands of the Stadium.
- Four-story administration building with offices, official suites, journalists’ areas and an organized press room.
The stadium features:
- Photo-finish, axial to the finish line
- Ergometric center
- Clinic
- Doping control
- 2 first aid areas
- 4 gyms
- Athletes’ warm-up area
- Physiotherapy rooms
- 2 hot tubs
- 4 saunas for 8 people
