a series of bad decisions were made from Giannis Alafouzos, who chose to let most of the players that had contributed to a very good season go. Spaniard Dani Poyatos signed on as head of the club on 22 July 2020 for two years, taking over from George Donis' work. Poyatos was sacked after a poor start of the season on 12 October and was replaced by László Bölöni. After a disappointing fifth position in the league and the failure to guide them to a European qualification spot Bölöni was sacked and replaced by Ivan Jovanović. During the 21-22 season under the management of Ivan Jovanović, the team achieved its major goal of returning to European Competitions finishing fourth, and won their 19th Greek Cup, beating PAOK 1-0 in the final ending an eight-year trophy drought. Ivan Jovanović was offered a two year extension to his contract, which he accepted. For the third qualifying round of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League, Panathinaikos FC drew Czech football club SK Slavia Prague with the first leg taking place in Eden Arena - Prague on Thursday the 4th of August and the second leg in Athens a week later. These were the first matches in European Competition for the club in five years. SK Slavia Prague won the tie 3-1, thanks to a 2-0 victory in home soil and a 1-1 draw in Athens. Contrary to the disappointment in Europe, Panathinaikos had a very strong start to the season in the domestic league, winning twelve and drawing one matche by until the break for the World Cup. Crest and colours Crest evolution White was the colour that was first used by the team in 1908 (probably like that of the first crest). The first symbol of the club was an association football ball of the era. In 1911, the colours changed to green and white. In 1918, Michalis Papazoglou proposed the trifolium, symbol of harmony, unity, nature and good luck, as emblem of Panathinaikos. The officials of the club were looking for a universal, non-nationalistic or localistic, symbol aiming to represent the whole Athens at the country and further at the world. Papazoglou used to have it sewn on his shirt since he was competing for a club in his native Chalcedon, Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey). He was possibly inspired by Billy Sherring, an Irish Canadian athlete who had won the Athens