the team has been regularly feeding greece's national rugby union team since its founding. the first selected players are present from the first team in greece. vaggelis vassiliadis and iannis rizos then in spartakos joined the team in 2005 and played against azerbaijan in baku. then, several other players are called to strengthen the national: stavros bochoris and georgios gravalas. in 2008, the greek team joined the top division and young players are called from the lions, newly formed team: thodoris fotiou, kostas evaggelopoulos. at the same time, greece's under-20 team is formed, also composed by many players of the lions team: larentzakis, batianis, terezakis, evaggelopoulos. for some, the youth team will be the way to integrate the senior team such as terezakis and evaggelopoulos. rizos and bochoris continue to participate regularly in international fira-aer competitions.