| 2021 Acropolis Rally | |
| Native Name: | EKO Acropolis Rally of Gods 2021 |
| Round: | 9 |
| Season No: | 12 |
| Championship: | 2021 World Rally Championship |
| Previous Round: | 2021 Ypres Rally |
| Next Round: | 2021 Rally Finland |
| Rallybase: | Lamia, Central Greece |
| Start: | Athens, Attica |
| Finish: | Lamia, Central Greece |
| Startdate: | 9 |
| Enddate: | 12 September 2021 |
| Stages: | 15 |
| Stagekm: | 292.19 |
| Stagekm Note: | [1] |
| Transportkm: | 993.66 |
| Overallkm: | 1,253.15 |
| Surface: | Gravel |
| Driver1: |  Kalle Rovanperä |
| Codriver1: | Jonne Halttunen |
| Team1: |  Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT |
| Time1: | 3:28:24.6 |
| Driver2: |  Andreas Mikkelsen |
| Codriver2: |  Elliott Edmondson |
| Team2: |  Toksport WRT |
| Time2: | 3:37:27.1 |
| Driver3: |  Kajetan Kajetanowicz |
| Codriver3: | Maciej Szczepaniak |
| Time3: | 3:39:48.2 |
| Powerstage Driver: | Kalle Rovanperä |
| Powerstage Codriver: | Jonne Halttunen |
| Powerstage Team: | Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT |
| Powerstage Time: | 8:34.8 |
| Crewsreg: | 55 |
| Teamsstart: | 48 |
| Teamsfinish: | 43 |
The 2021 Acropolis Rally (also known as the EKO Acropolis Rally of Gods 2021) was a motor racing event for rally cars that held over four days between 9 and 12 September 2021.[2] It marked the sixty-fifth running of the Acropolis Rally. The event was the ninth round of the 2021 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3. The 2021 event was based in the town of Lamia in Central Greece and contested over fifteen special stages totalling 292.192NaN2 in competitive distance.[1]
Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila were the reigning rally winners.[3] However, they did not defend their titles as Latvala retired from the competition.[4] Volkswagen Motorsport, the team they drove for in 2013, when Acropolis Rally held a World Rally Championship event last time, were the defending manufacturers' winners, but they did not defend their title neither when Volkswagen retired from the championship at the end of .[5] Robert Kubica and Maciek Baran were the reigning rally winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but they did not defend their titles since Kubica was competing the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.[6]
Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen were the overall rally winners. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturer's winners.[7] In the World Rally Championship-2 category, Andreas Mikkelsen won the class with his new co-driver Elliott Edmondson.[8] In the World Rally Championship-3 category, Yohan Rossel and Alexandre Coria finished first in the class.[9] However, they were disqualified from the results after the rally as the front subframe on their Citroën C3 Rally2 was found to be overweight during the post-event scrutineering. The polish crew of Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Maciej Szczepaniak subsequently became the WRC-3 winners.[10]
Reigning World Champions Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia entered the round with a thirty-eight-point lead, with the crew of Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin and of Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe shared second. In the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT held a forty-one--point lead over defending manufacturers' champions Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, followed by M-Sport Ford WRT.
In the World Rally Championship-2 standings, Andreas Mikkelsen and Ola Fløene held an eleven-point lead ahead of Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen in the drivers' and co-drivers' standings respectively, with Marco Bulacia Wilkinson and Marcelo Der Ohannesian in third. In the teams' championship, Toksport WRT led Movisport by thirty-seven points, with M-Sport Ford WRT in third.
In the World Rally Championship-3 standings, Yohan Rossel and Alexandre Coria were the championships leaders, followed by Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Maciek Szczepaniak, with Nicolas Ciamin and Yannick Roche in third.
The following crews entered the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, its support categories, the World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3, and privateer entries that were not registered to score points in any championship. Eleven entries for the World Rally Championship were received, as were ten in the World Rally Championship-2 and nineteen in the World Rally Championship-3.
| 20 | Andreas Mikkelsen | Elliott Edmondson | Toksport WRT | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo | ||
| 21 | Mads Østberg | Torstein Eriksen |  TRT World Rally Team | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||
| 22 |  Marco Bulacia Wilkinson |  Marcelo Der Ohannesian | Toksport WRT | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo | ||
| 23 | Nikolay Gryazin | Konstantin Aleksandrov |  Movisport | Ford Fiesta Rally2 | ||
| 24 | Teemu Suninen | Mikko Markkula | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta Rally2 | ||
| 25 |  Martin Prokop | Michal Ernst | M-Sport Ford WRT | Ford Fiesta Rally2 | ||
| 26 |  Sean Johnston | Alex Kihurani |  Saintéloc Junior Team | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||
| 27 |  Georg Linnamäe | James Morgan | ALM Motorsport | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo | ||
| 28 |  Oliver Solberg |  Aaron Johnston |  Hyundai Motorsport N | Hyundai i20 N Rally2 | ||
| 29 |  Crazy Leo | Tom Woodburn | Saintéloc Junior Team | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||
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| 30 | Yohan Rossel | Alexandre Coria | Yohan Rossel | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||
| 31 | Kajetan Kajetanowicz | Maciej Szczepaniak | Kajetan Kajetanowicz | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo | ||
| 32 | Fabrizio Zaldivar |  Carlos del Barrio | Fabrizio Zaldivar | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo | ||
| 34 | Chris Ingram | Ross Whittock | Chris Ingram | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo | ||
| 35 | Emil Lindholm | Reeta Hämäläinen | Emil Lindholm | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo | ||
| 36 | Daniel Chwist | Kamil Heller | Daniel Chwist | Hyundai i20 R5 | ||
| 37 |  Emilio Fernández | Ruben Garcia | Emilio Fernández | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo | ||
| 38 | Alberto Heller | Marc Martí | Alberto Heller | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||
| 39 | Miguel Díaz-Aboitiz | Diego Sanjuan de Eusebio | Miguel Díaz-Aboitiz | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo | ||
| 40 |  Lambros Athanassoulas | Nikolaos Zakheos | Lambros Athanassoulas | Hyundai i20 N Rally2 | ||
| 41 |  Alex Tsouloftas | Stelios Elia | Alex Tsouloftas | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | ||
| 42 | Fabrizio Arengi Bentivoglio | Massimiliano Bosi | Fabrizio Arengi Bentivoglio | Škoda Fabia R5 | ||
| 43 |  Paulo Nobre | Gabriel Morales | Paulo Nobre | Škoda Fabia R5 | ||
| 45 | Giorgos Kehagias | Marios Tsaousoglou | Giorgos Kehagias | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo | ||
| 46 | Roustemis Panagiotis | Konstantinos Nikolopoulos | Roustemis Panagiotis | Citroën DS3 R5 | ||
| 47 | Panagiotis Hatzitsopanis | Nikolaos Petropoulos | Panagiotis Hatzitsopanis | Ford Fiesta Rally2 | ||
| 48 | Vasileios Velanis | Ioannis Velanis | Vasileios Velanis | Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo | ||
| 49 | Ioannis Plagos | Alkiviadis Rentis | Ioannis Plagos | Citroën C3 Rally2 | ||
| 50 | Spyridon Galerakis | Konstantinos Soukoulis | Spyridon Galerakis | Škoda Fabia R5 | ||
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| 51 | Simos Galatariotis | Antonis Ioannou | Simos Galatariotis | Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 | ||
| 58 |  Molly Taylor | Sebastian Marshall | M-Sport Poland | Ford Fiesta Rally3 | ||
| 65 | Carlo Covi | Michela Lorigiola | Carlo Covi | Peugeot 208 R2 | ||
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All dates and times are EET (UTC+3).
Frédéric Miclotte