Founded in 1888, Messiniakos Gymnastic Club is the oldest athletic club in Greece. Messiniakos' traditional colours are green and white.

Messiniakos has made a name of itself in many sports (football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

, volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, athletics

Athletics (track and field)

Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...

, weight-lifting etc.) and has produced very good athletes, such as OFI

OFI Crete

OFI , the Sportfriends Association Heraklion, is a Greek association football club based in Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Outside Greece, the club is generally known as OFI Crete F.C., however, the name Crete is not actually part of the club's official title.OFI is the club with most...

's Brazilian footballer Davidson and Louis Tsatoumas

Louis Tsatoumas

Louis Tsatoumas is a Greek long jumper.He won his first major senior medal in 2007 at the European Indoor Athletics Championships, where he claimed the silver medal behind an Italian record-breaking Andrew Howe. On 2 June 2007 in Kalamata Tsatoumas jumped 8.66 metres, achieving a personal...

 in track and field, who is one of the biggest hopes for Greek athletics. The club used to be home to the Papaflessia

Papaflessia

Papaflessia is an annual international athletics meeting that is held in Kalamata, Greece. The meeting falls within the European Athletic Association's calendar of meeting...

 international athletics meeting. The volleyball team had excellent appearances in the First Division, but is not participating at the current time.

The football team participated in the Second Division in the 2006-07 season. Its president is international businessman Stavros Papadopoulos

Stavros Papadopoulos

Stavros Papadopoulos, is a Greek businessman and the former owner of Kalamata FC and Apollon Kalamarias. He bought both these teams when they were in the third division and second division, respectively, and invested substantial money into them and eventually took both those teams up to the first...

. Papadopoulos is the former owner of Kalamata

Kalamata FC

Kalamata F.C. is a professional football club based in Kalamata, Greece, currently competing in Delta Ethniki.-Background:Kalamata F.C. was formed in 1967 in a merger among Apollon Kalamata and other local sides.- History :...

 and Apollon Kalamaria

Apollon Kalamarias

Apollon Kalamarias is a Greek association football club based in the district of Kalamaria, in southeast Thessaloniki, Greece.The club was suspended from playing in the Second Division for the 2009-10 season, due to unsettled debts...

. He bought both those teams when they were in the Third Division and Second Division, respectively, and invested substantial money into those teams and eventually took both those teams up to the first division.

Papadopoulos has shown he has the same plan for Messiniakos. He bought the team a few years back when it was just a local team, not even in Fourth Division

Greek Fourth Division

Delta Ethniki or Regional Championship is called the semi-professional league in Greece. The participants are divided into ten regional groups, consisting of sixteen clubs...

. He has invested money into the team and brought in talented young players. During this time the team has achieved promotion from a non-league team all the way up to the second division, but has been relegated to the Third Division for the upcoming season after finishing in second last place in 2007.