Rangers put the disappointment of losing Dynamo Kyiv in the third qualification of the Champions League last season to achieve the quarter -finals of the Europa League before losing a sporty Bilbao.
However, the Greek Superleague placed over the second have their own record after going through two rounds before they lost in the play-offs against Braga two years ago.
Last season they made Bootev Plovdiv a total of 6-1 in the second qualification round of the Europa League before they lost to Ajax punishments.
They then beat Lens in the play-off of the Conference League before they took 13th place in the league phase and reached the 16th round and lost to the later semi-finalists Fiorentina.
Panathinaikos have never lost against Scottish opponents in seven games, although – after they defeated Aberdeen in the group phase – Rangers in the Europa League round of 2008 of 32 goals after a 1-1 draw at Ibrox in Athens.
Five years earlier, they also drew 1-1 in Athens, but won 3-1 at Ibrox in the Champions League group, while their youngest meetings with a Scottish club in qualifying was a 5-0 defeat against Motherwell in 2011.
The Portuguese head coach Rui Vitoria, appointed in October, won seven trophies with Benfica and led Al-Nassr to the semi-finals of the African Champions League 2020, while Spartak Moscow won her Europa League group in front of Leismeister City and Napoli while he was responsible.
The former midfielder of Liverpool Youth, Pedro Chirivella, the Spaniard signed by Nantes, is one of three summer runs together with the left -back Giorgos Kyriakopoulos, who left Monza from the AA series after her descent.
Midfielder Manolis Siopis, who was signed by Cardiff City in January, is another of her five Greece international matches, while they have limited nine more for their countries.
Among them are Uruguay wingers Fakundo Pellistri, who played a handful of games with Manchester United in four years, once Southampton Lareer Midfielder Filip Duricic and United States Center-Back-Back-Back-Back Erik Palmer-Brown, once of Manchester City.
Whether Rangers in the early phases of reconstruction under the new head coach Russell Martin the Greeks to reach the third qualification round of the Champions League or fall into the Europa League equivalent, teams with the like youngest European family tree.
In the Top tournament there is Viktoria Plzen from the Czech Republic or Switzerland, while Besiktas of Türkiye or Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine are probably more impressive in Europe equivalent.
Even if Rangers reach the play-offs of the Champions League, Benfica, Brann, Club Brugge, Nice or Salzburg still have to be overcome.