It was officially founded in 1924, but its history begins in 1919 when the
Greece Football Clubs Association was founded. During the 1923–24 Championship of the E.P.S. Greece, the Athenian teams had many complaints from the referee, who they accused of being biased against them in favor of the club of
Piraeus. The climax of the protests was the withdrawal from the championship of three teams of Athens on 30 March 1924, two games before its end and while the title seemed to be decided between O.F. Piraeus and A.P.S. Piraeus, who eventually won the title. The teams that left were
Panathinaikos,
Apollon Athens and
Athinaikos Almost immediately, those three clubs, together with
Atromitos,
Panionios and the then-founded Milon Athens, created the "Athens Football Clubs Association" (E.S.P. Athens) and proceeded to hold a separate championship with the participation of five clubs. The founding clubs of the association were: •
AEK Athens •
Goudi Athens •
Atromitos •
Panathinaikos •
Panionios •
Apollon Athens In the early 2000s, the associations of the former the Prefecture of
East Attica were split off, creating the
East Attica Football Clubs Association, as well as the counterparts of the former Prefecture of
West Attica by founding
West Attica Football Clubs Association. ==League==