Olympiacos F.C.

greek association football club
For the parent multi-sport club, see Olympiacos CFP
Football baseball club

Olympiacos Football Club ( greek : ΠΑΕ Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. greek pronunciation : [ olimbiaˈkos ] ), besides known merely as Olympiacos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name as Olympiacos C.F.P. ( Oλυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς Olympiakós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós, “ Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus ” ), is a greek professional football club based in Piraeus, Attica. share of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, their name was inspired from the ancient Olympic Games and along with the baseball club ‘s emblem, the laurel-crowned Olympic athlete, symbolize the Olympic ideals of ancient Greece. [ 3 ] Their home ground is the Karaiskakis Stadium, a 32,115-capacity stadium in Piraeus. [ 4 ] Founded on 10 March 1925, Olympiacos is the most successful club in greek football history, [ 5 ] having won 46 League titles, 28 Cups ( 18 Doubles ) and 4 Super Cups, all records. [ 6 ] Τotalling 78 home trophies, Olympiacos is 9th in the earth in sum titles won by a football club. [ 7 ] The cabaret ‘s dominating success can be far evidenced by the fact that all other greek clubs have won a combine entire of 39 League titles, while Olympiacos besides holds the criminal record for the most back-to-back greek League titles won, with seven in a row in two occasions ( 1997 – 2003 and 2011 – 2017 ), breaking their own previous record of six consecutive wins in the 1950s ( 1954 – 1959 ), when Olympiacos was unambiguously nicknamed Thrylos ( greek : Θρύλος, “ The Legend ” ). Having won the 2014–15 League title, Olympiacos became the alone football golf club in the world to have won a series of five or more back-to-back championships for five times in their history, a record that was praised by FIFA with a congratulatory letter of its president, Sepp Blatter. [ 8 ] They are besides the alone greek club to have won five consecutive national Cups ( 1957 – 1961 ), arsenic well as six League titles undefeated ( 1937, 1938, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1955 ). [ 9 ] Olympiacos are one of only three clubs to have never been relegated from the lead escape of Greek football, and by winning the 2012–13 style, their 40th in total, they added a fourth star topology above their crest, each one representing 10 League titles. [ 10 ] In european competitions, Olympiacos best performances are their presence in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in 1998–99, losing the semi-final spot in the survive minutes of their second leg match against Juventus, a well as in the UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup quarter-finals in 1992–93. The Red-Whites are by far the highest rank greek club in the UEFA rankings, occupying the thirty-seventh place in Europe in the five-year rate and the 30th in the ten-year rank as of 2021, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] and one of the founding members of the European Club Association. [ 13 ] Olympiacos won the Balkans Cup in 1963, at a time when the rival was considered the second most important in the region after the european Cup, [ 14 ] becoming the beginning ever Greek club to win an external contest. Olympiacos is the most popular football club in Greece, [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] besides being the most democratic cabaret among the population of Athens, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] and gathering strong support from greek communities all over the universe. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] With 83,000 register members as of April 2006, the club was placed 9th in the 2006 list of football clubs with the most paying members in the earth ; that figure increased to 98,000 in 2014. [ 22 ] Olympiacos share a long-standing competition with Panathinaikos, with whom they contest in the “ bowler hat of the endless enemies “, the most classic football bowler hat in Greece and one of the most well known around the world. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ]

history [edit ]

early years ( 1925–1931 ) [edit ]

The founders of Olympiacos ( 1925 ) Notis Kamperos inspired the name and the emblem of the club Olympiacos was founded on 10 March 1925, in the athenian port city of Piraeus. The club ‘s initial bearing, as stated in the statutes, was the systematic cultivation and growth of its athletes ‘ possibilities for participation in acrobatic competitions, the spread of the Olympic athletic ideal and the forwarding of sportsmanship and fanship among the youth according to egalitarian principles, by stressing a goodly, ethical and social footing as its foundation. Members of “ Piraikos Podosfairikos Omilos FC ” ( Sport and Football Club of Piraeus ) and “ Piraeus Fans Club FC ” decided, during a historic fabrication, [ 30 ] to dissolve the two clubs in order to establish a new unite one, which would bring this new imagination and active to the residential district. Notis Kamperos, a senior officeholder of the Hellenic Navy, proposed the name Olympiacos and the profile of a laurel-crowned Olympic winner as the emblem of the new club. Michalis Manouskos, a outstanding Piraeus industrialist, expanded the name to its complete and current condition, Olympiacos Syndesmos Filathlon Pireos. Besides Kamperos and Manouskos, among the most celebrated establish members were Stavros Maragoudakis, the post position film director ; Nikos Andronikos, a merchant ; Dimitrios Sklias, a classical Army policeman ; Nikolaos Zacharias, an lawyer ; Athanasios Mermigas, a notary public ; Kostas Klidouchakis, who became the first goalkeeper in the clubhouse ‘s history ; Ioannis Kekkes, a stockbroker ; and above all, the Andrianopoulos family. Andrianopoulos, a syndicate of well-established Piraeus merchants, played a pivotal role in the establish of Olympiacos. The five brothers, Yiannis, Dinos, Giorgos, Vassilis and Leonidas Andrianopoulos raised the repute of the club and brought it to its current glory. [ 3 ] Yiannis, Dinos, Giorgos and Vassilis were the inaugural to play, while Leonidas, the youngest of the five, made his debut late on and played for the club for eight years ( 1927–1935 ). The club ‘s offensive pipeline, made up of the five brothers, became legendary, rising to a fabulous condition and soon Olympiacos gained enormous popularity and became the most successful and well-supported cabaret in Greece. Back then, their fan basis consisted chiefly of the working class, with the team ‘s home flat coat at Neo Phaliron Velodrome, before moving to its current Karaiskakis Stadium. They became Piraeus Champions in 1925 and 1926. [ 31 ]
Olympiacos line-up in 1928 In 1926, the Hellenic Football Federation was founded and organized the Panhellenic Championship in the 1927–1928 temper. This was the first national championship, where the regional champions from EPSA league ( Athens ), EPSP league ( Piraeus ) and EPSM league ( Thessaloniki ) competed for the home title during play-offs, with Aris becoming the first champion. The Panhellenic Championship was organized in this manner up until 1958–59. however, in the second temper ( 1928–29 ) a quarrel rebel between Olympiacos and the Hellenic Football Federation and as a result, the club did not participate in the championship, with Panathinaikos and AEK Athens deciding to follow Olympiacos. During the run of that season, the three of them played friendly games with each other and formed a group called P.O.K. . meanwhile, the golf club continued to dominate the Piraeus Championship, winning the 1926–27, 1928–29, 1929–30 and 1930–31 titles and started establishing themselves as the leading military unit in Greek football ; they managed to set a phonograph record by staying undefeated against all greek teams for three directly years ( from 14 March 1926 to 3 March 1929 ), counting 30 wins and only 6 draws in 36 games. Those results ignited an enthusiastic reception from the greek crusade, who called Olympiacos Thrylos ( “ Legend ” ) for the first base clock time in history. [ 32 ] The fourth Panhellenic Championship took place in 1930–31 and found Olympiacos winning the greek national league title for the first time ever, which was a milestone that marked the begin of a very successful era in Olympiacos history. Olympiacos put in a bang-up performance during the competition and won the entitle identical convincingly with 11 wins, 2 draw and only one game lost. They managed to score 7 wins in 7 matches at home, beating Panathinaikos, AEK Athens, Aris, Iraklis and PAOK with the same score : 3–1. The sole exception was the match against Ethnikos, where Olympiacos netted 4 goals and won with 4–1. Besides the Andrianopoulos brothers and Kostas Klidouchakis, other celebrated players of the first era in the baseball club ‘s history ( 1925–1931 ) were Achilleas Grammatikopoulos, Lakis Lekkos, Philippos Kourantis, Nikos Panopoulos, Charalambos Pezonis and Kostas Terezakis .

domination in Greece and World War II ( 1931–1946 ) [edit ]

The originate of the new ten marked a substantial wax in Panhellenic Championship ‘s popularity throughout Greece. In October 1931, Giorgos and Yiannis Andrianopoulos, emblematic players and founding members of Olympiacos, retired from active football. however, modern heroes emerged, such as Giannis Vazos, Christoforos Raggos, Theologos Symeonidis, Michalis Anamateros, Spyros Depountis, Aris Chrysafopoulos, Nikos Grigoratos, Panagis Korsianos adenine well as the iconic brothers Giannis and Vangelis Chelmis and the golf club won five Championships in nine seasons ( 1932–33, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38 ) and by 1940, Olympiacos had already won six Championships in the football team beginning seasons of the Panhellenic Championship. [ 3 ] Especially Giannis Vazos, Christoforos Raggos and Theologos Symeonidis composed a formidable trio of attacking players, scoring numerous goals and became nothing light of legendary. Giannis Vazos played for 18 years for Olympiacos ( 1931–1949 ), and managed to score 450 goals in 364 games ( 179 goals in 156 official games ) for the club, being the club ‘s second all-time scorer, winning besides the greek Championship top scorekeeper award four times ( 1933, 1936, 1937 and 1947 ). In addition, the club managed to win the 1936–37 and 1937–38 Championship titles undefeated. Ιn greek Cup, the team did not manage to win the contest in its first four editions, despite some great wins such as the record-setting 1–6 away victory against Panathinaikos in Leoforos Stadium in 1932 ( V. Andrianopoulos 16 ‘, 68 ‘, 88 ‘, Raggos 24 ‘, Vazos 69 ‘, 70 ‘ ), which is the biggest aside victory in this bowler hat ‘s history. [ 3 ] [ 33 ] On 28 October 1940, Fascist Italy invaded Greece, and several Olympiacos players joined the Hellenic Army to fight against the Axis invaders. [ 3 ] Chistoforos Raggos was heavily injured in his left leg in January 1941, and was n’t able to play football again. Leonidas Andrianopoulos suffered severe frostbite in the albanian front and about lost his life, while Nikos Grigoratos was injured in the leg during the Battle of Klisura. [ 34 ] Furthermore, after the subsequent german occupation of Greece, Olympiacos players joined the greek Resistance and fought ferociously against the Nazis. [ 3 ] Olympiacos player Nikos Godas, an emblematic calculate for the club, was captain of the greek People ‘s Liberation Army ( ELAS ) and fought against the Germans in many fronts. [ 35 ] He was executed wearing Olympiacos shirt and shorts, as was his last regard : “ Shoot me and kill me with my Olympiacos shirt on, and do not blindfold me, I want to see the color of my team before the final shoot. ” [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Michalis Anamateros was besides an active agent member of the greek resistance and was killed in 1944. Olympiacos paid a heavy price during the destructive war, the Axis occupation and the ensuing Greek Civil War and the club ‘s progress was put on temp apply. [ 3 ]

The Legend ( 1946–1959 ) [edit ]

Andreas Mouratis captained Olympiacos and played in 295 games for the club (1945–1955) After the war, Olympiacos saw many of its key-players of the pre-war earned run average retire, with many significant changes being made in the team ‘s roll. Olympiacos captain and prolific scorekeeper Giannis Vazos remained in the club, along with Giannis Chelmis. New important players joined the club, such as Andreas Mouratis, Alekos Chatzistavridis, Stelios Kourouklatos and Dionysis Minardos. adenine soon as even fixtures recommenced, the Piraeus club returned to their dominant status in greek football. From 1946 to 1959, Olympiacos won 9 out of the 11 greek Championships ( 1947, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 ), bringing dwelling 15 Championship titles in a sum of 23 completed seasons of the Greek League. The six-straight greek Championships south korean won by Olympiacos from 1954 to 1959 was an matchless accomplishment in greek football history, an all-time criminal record which stood for 44 years, astir until Olympiacos managed to win seven-straight greek Championships from 1997 to 2003. [ 3 ] furthermore, during the lapp menstruation ( 1946–1959 ), the golf club won 8 Greek Cups out of 13 editions ( 1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959 ), frankincense completing 6 Doubles ( 1947, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959 ), three of which being back-to-back ( 1957–1959 ). [ 3 ] The fabled Olympiacos team of the 1950s, with key performers such as Andreas Mouratis, Ilias Rossidis, Thanasis Bebis, Ilias Yfantis, Babis Kotridis, Kostas Polychroniou, Giorgos Darivas, Babis Drosos, Antonis Poseidon, Savvas Theodoridis, Kostas Karapatis, Mimis Stefanakos, Thanasis Kinley, Stelios Psychos, Giannis Ioannou, Themis Moustaklis, Vasilis Xanthopoulos, Dimitris Kokkinakis, Giorgos Kansos, Kostas Papazoglou and Aristeidis Papazoglou marked Olympiacos ‘ period of absolute domination in Greek football, which skyrocketed the golf club ‘s popularity and spread the bible of Olympiacos ‘ transcendence throughout Greece. [ 3 ] Hence, after the clubhouse ‘s record-breaking operation in the trophy-laden era of the 1950s, the club gained unambiguously the nickname of Thrylos, meaning “ The Legend ”. [ 3 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] On 13 September 1959, Olympiacos made its debut in Europe against Milan for the 1959–60 european Cup and became the foremost greek clubhouse that always played in the european competitions. [ 40 ] The inaugural stage was held at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus and Olympiacos took the lead with a goal by Kostas Papazoglou ( 1–0 ), which was the first gear goal always scored by a greek golf club ( and by a greek player as well ) in the european competitions. [ 41 ] Milan ‘s prolific goalscorer José Altafini equalised the match with a heading in the 33rd moment, after a crisscross by Giancarlo Danova. Ilias Yfantis scored an great finish and gave Olympiacos the spark advance again in the 45th minute of the game, when he controlled the ball between Cesare Maldini and Vincenzo Occhetta and unleashed a powerful volley, burying the ball into the back of the net ( 2–1 ). [ 41 ] Altafini scored his second goal once again with a header ( 72nd minute ), after a free-kick by Nils Liedholm. The pit ended 2–2, with Olympiacos putting in a bang-up performance against the italian champions, despite the fact that they had no foreign players in their roll, while Milan had four first extraneous players, such as Altafini, Liedholm, Juan Alberto Schiaffino and Ernesto Grillo. [ 41 ] In the moment leg Milan won 3–1 ( Giancarlo Danova 12 ‘, 26 ‘, 85 ‘ ; Psychos 68 ‘ ) and qualified for the next round of golf, despite Olympiacos ‘ estimable operation particularly in the second half .

First external achiever and Márton Bukovi era ( 1960–1972 ) [edit ]

Olympiacos entered the 1960s by winning the 1960 and 1961 Greek Cups, thus completing five consecutive greek Cup wins, which is an all-time record in greek football history. In this ten, a hard side was created with players from the recently 1950s and newfangled important players, such as Giannis Gaitatzis, Nikos Gioutsos, Pavlos Vasileiou, Vasilis Botinos, Giannis Fronimidis, Christos Zanteroglou, Grigoris Aganian, Stathis Tsanaktsis, Mimis Plessas, Giangos Simantiris, Pavlos Grigoriadis, Savvas Papazoglou, Stelios Besis, Sotiris Gavetsos, Tasos Sourounis, Vangelis Milisis, Orestis Pavlidis, Panagiotis Barbalias and final but not least the prolific goalscorer Giorgos Sideris, top-scorer in the club ‘s history with 493 goals in 519 matches in all competitions ( 224 goals in 284 greek Championship matches ). In 1963, Olympiacos became the first ever Greek club to win a non-domestic rival, winning the Balkans Cup, which marked the first international success by any greek football club. The Balkans Cup was a very popular external competition in the 1960s ( the 1967 final attracted 42.000 spectators ), [ 42 ] being the second most crucial international club competition for clubs from the Balkans ( after the european Champions ‘ Cup ). [ 42 ] Olympiacos topped his group after some celebrated wins, beating Galatasaray 1–0 at the Karaiskakis Stadium ( Stelios Psychos 49 ‘ ), [ 43 ] vitamin a well as FK Sarajevo ( 3–2 ) and FC Brașov ( 1–0 ), bagging besides two away draws against Galatasaray ( 1–1 ) in Mithatpaşa Stadium ( Metin Oktay 78 ‘ – Aristeidis Papazoglou 6 ‘ ) and FK Sarajevo in Koševo Stadium ( 3–3 ). [ 43 ] In the final, they faced Levski Sofia, winning the first gear match in Piraeus ( 1–0, Giorgos Sideris 37 ‘ ) and losing the moment equal in Vasil Levski Stadium with the same score. [ 43 ] In the third base critical concluding in Istanbul ( a neutral ground ), Olympiacos beat Levski 1–0 in Mithatpaşa Stadium with a finish by Mimis Stefanakos in the 87th infinitesimal and won the Balkans Cup. [ 44 ] The club went on to win the 1963 and 1965 Greek Cups, completing seven greek Cup titles in nine years. however, the years 1959–1965 were not fruitful for Olympiacos in the greek Championship, as the team was not able to win the title for six years. This mediocre performance led Olympiacos board to hire the fabled Márton Bukovi as the baseball club ‘s capitulum coach, with Mihály Lantos ( outstanding extremity of the Hungary national team of the 1950s wide known as the “ Mighty Magyars “ or “ Aranycsapat “ ) as his adjunct coach. [ 45 ] The innovative hungarian coach, pioneer of the 4–2–4 formation ( along with Béla Guttmann and Gusztáv Sebes ) was a solid tactician and favoured attacking football and very demanding coach sessions. [ 45 ] Bukovi ‘s innovatory tactics and groundbreaking training methods transformed Olympiacos and created a potent, attacking team with constant actor apparent motion and solid combination game that often played spectacular football. [ 46 ] Under Bukovi ‘s guidance and with the great performance of cardinal players such as Giorgos Sideris, Nikos Gioutsos, Kostas Polychroniou, Vasilis Botinos, Aristeidis Papazoglou, Pavlos Vasileiou, Giannis Gaitatzis, Christos Zanteroglou, Grigoris Aganian, Mimis Plessas, Giannis Fronimidis and Orestis Pavlidis, Olympiacos won 2 straight greek Championships ( 1966, 1967 ). [ 46 ] They won the 1966 title with 23 wins and 4 draws in 30 games and in the decisive away equal against Trikala, an estimated 15,000 ecstatic Olympiacos fans swarmed into the city of Trikala to celebrate the gain ( 0–5 ) and the Championship entitle after seven years. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] The next temper 1966–67, Olympiacos won 12 out of the first 14 games in the league, which was an all-time record in greek football history, which lasted for 46 years and up until 2013, when Olympiacos, under bus Míchel ‘s guidance, broke his own record by winning 13 out of the 14 first matches of the 2013–14 season. [ 49 ] They won the title in a convincing way and with some noteworthy wins, like the 4–0 smashing victory against arch-rivals Panathinaikos at the Karaiskakis Stadium ( Vasileiou 17 ‘, Sideris 20 ‘, 35 ‘, 62 ‘ ), where Olympiacos played spectacular football and missed a overplus of chances for a much bigger score. [ 50 ] Bukovi became a legend for the club ‘s fans and his initiation, the Olympiacos team of 1965–67, became nothing short of fabled. A extra anthem was written for Bukovi ‘s Olympiacos and became popular throughout Greece : “Του Μπούκοβι την ομαδάρα, τη λένε Ολυμπιακάρα” ( “ Bukovi ‘s mighty team is called Olympiacos ” ). [ 51 ] curtly before the end of the 1966–67 temper, a military coup d’état took locate and the Colonels seized power in Greece, establishing a dictatorship. The regimen of the Colonels had lay waste to consequences for Olympiacos. [ 3 ] In December 1967, Giorgos Andrianopoulos, club caption and president of the baseball club for 13 years ( 1954–1967 ) was forced out of the club ‘s presidency by the military government. [ 52 ] Furthermore, the regimen canceled the remove of Giorgos Koudas to Olympiacos [ 53 ] and days by and by another shove off was delivered to the cabaret : Márton Bukovi, already a caption and architect of the capital 1965–67 team, was forced out of Greece by the military military junta, being labeled a communist. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] He left Greece on 21 December 1967, along with Mihály Lantos. [ 56 ]

Goulandris earned run average ( 1972–1975 ) [edit ]

Another chapter began in 1972, after Nikos Goulandris became president of the club. He reinstated all the big members of Olympiacos dining table that had been forced out by the military regimen ( including Giorgos Andrianopoulos ) and opened-up the member election summons, establishing a new, trustworthy board of directors. [ 57 ] He appointed Lakis Petropoulos as head coach and signed top-class players, creating a great roll with key performers such as Giorgos Delikaris, Yves Triantafyllos, Julio Losada, Milton Viera, Panagiotis Kelesidis, Michalis Kritikopoulos, Takis Synetopoulos, Romain Argyroudis, Maik Galakos, Nikos Gioutsos, Giannis Gaitatzis, Vasilis Siokos, Thanasis Angelis, Lakis Glezos, Petros Karavitis, Kostas Davourlis, Giannis Kyrastas, Dimitris Persidis, Lefteris Poupakis and Babis Stavropoulos. Under Goulandris ‘ presidency, Olympiacos won the greek Championship three times in a rowing ( 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75 ), combining it with the greek Cup in 1973 ( beating PAOK 1–0 in the final ) and 1975 ( beating Panathinaikos 1–0 in the final ) to celebrate two Doubles in three years. [ 3 ] Ιn the 1972–73 season, Olympiacos won the title by conceding merely 13 goals in 34 matches, which is an-all-time record in greek football history. The team ‘s best year though, was undoubtedly the 1973–74 season, when Olympiacos won the league with 26 wins and 7 draws in 34 games, scoring an all-time record of 102 goals and conceding lone 14. In european competitions, they managed to eliminate Cagliari in the 1972–73 UEFA Cup, a major impel in italian football during the late 1960s and the early 1970s, ( 1970 Serie A Champions, 1972 Serie A deed contenders ), with first italian international players like Gigi Riva, Angelo Domenghini, Enrico Albertosi, Pierluigi Cera, Sergio Gori and Fabrizio Poletti. [ 58 ] Olympiacos managed to beat Cagliari doubly, 2–1 in Piraeus and 1–0 in Cagliari, becoming the first ever Greek football baseball club to win on italian soil. [ 58 ] In the future orotund they faced the competition ‘s defending champions Tottenham Hotspur, who were undefeated for 16-straight games in all european competitions. Olympiacos did not manage to qualify against Spurs, but they managed to get a 1–0 gain in Piraeus, which ended Tottenham ‘s undefeated streak and marked the first always victory of a greek football baseball club against an english side. [ 59 ] Two years late, Olympiacos entered the 1974–75 european Cup and they were drawn to face Kenny Dalglish ‘s Celtic, one of the strongest teams in european football at that time [ 60 ] and semi-finalists of the previous season. The first branch was played in Celtic Park, where Celtic had never been defeated, running an undefeated streak of 36 straight dwelling games in all european competitions ( 27 wins, 9 draws ) from 1962 to 1974. Olympiacos took the run through Milton Viera ‘s affect in the 36th infinitesimal, with celtic equalising late in the crippled. [ 61 ] The away draw gave Olympiacos the advantage and they finished the job in Piraeus, after a outstanding 2–0 gain against the scots Champions with Kritikopoulos and Stavropoulos finding the net. [ 62 ] In the future round off, they were drawn to play against Anderlecht for a target in the quarter-finals of the rival. Anderlecht won the first base leg with 5–1 and Olympiacos ‘ undertaking seemed impossible. In the second leg in Greece, however, Olympiacos put on a dominant display and about reached a winning score in a match that was marked by reviewer Károly Palotai ‘s decisions. [ 63 ] Olympiacos beat Anderlecht 3–0, while Palotai disallowed four Olympiacos goals [ 64 ] and did not give at least three clear up penalties committed by Anderlecht players, [ 65 ] while Stavropoulos was shown a crimson menu for no commodity reason. [ 66 ] The catch is wide known in Greece as the “Palotai massacre” [ 67 ] [ 68 ] with Olympiacos coming close to one of the biggest comebacks in european Cup history .

domination in the early 1980s, UEFA Cup quarter-finalists ( 1975–1996 ) [edit ]

Following Goulandris resignation from the presidency in 1975, the team went through a relative dry spell in the second one-half of the 1970s. however, in the summer of 1979, the greek championship turned professional and Stavros Daifas became owner and president of the golf club. [ 3 ] Olympiacos emerged again as the dominant effect in Greek football, winning the title four times in a rowing ( 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 ) with players like the persistent goalscorer Nikos Anastopoulos, Martin Novoselac, Vicente Estavillo, Thomas Ahlström, Roger Albertsen, Maik Galakos, Tasos Mitropoulos, Takis Nikoloudis, Nikos Sarganis, Nikos Vamvakoulas, Giorgos Kokolakis, Vangelis Kousoulakis, Petros Michos, Takis Lemonis, Christos Arvanitis, Petros Xanthopoulos, Stavros Papadopoulos, Meletis Persias, Giorgos Togias and Kostas Orfanos. Kazimierz Górski, the iconic polish passenger car, led Olympiacos to the 1980, 1981 and 1983 titles ( winning besides the Double in 1981, the 9th Double in Olympiacos ‘ history ) [ 3 ] while Alketas Panagoulias, who had besides been director of the Greek national football team and the United States national team american samoa well, led the team to the 1982 title after a memorable 2–1 succeed ( Estavillo 6 ‘, Anastopoulos 69 ‘ ) against arch-rivals Panathinaikos in the crucial Championship concluding match in Volos. [ 69 ] With Panagoulias as head coach, Olympiacos won the 1986–87 style equally well, having a upstanding roll with players from the early 1980s like Anastopoulos, Mitropoulos, Michos, Xanthopoulos and other firm players like Miloš Šestić, Giorgos Vaitsis, Jorge Barrios, Andreas Bonovas, Alexis Alexiou and Vasilis Papachristou. [ 3 ]
Olympiacos experienced its darkest days from the late-1980s until the mid-’90s. In the mid-’80s, Olympiacos came into the hands of Greek businessman George Koskotas who was soon accused of and convicted for embezzlement, leaving Olympiacos trench in debt. The cabaret went through a menstruation of administrative turbulence until 1993, when Sokratis Kokkalis became majority stockholder and president of the club. a soon as he took the cabaret ‘s presidency, Kokkalis agreed a liquidation to pay off all the club ‘s debts and started reorganising and restructuring the club. [ 3 ] On the deliver, the team, with all the fiscal and managerial problems, angstrom well as the lack of strong administrative leadership until the Kokkalis arrival, spend nine seasons without a league title, from 1988 to 1996, despite the foreign top-class players that played for the club at that period, such as Lajos Détári, Oleh Protasov, Juan Gilberto Funes, Bent Christensen, Hennadiy Lytovchenko, Yuri Savichev, Andrzej Juskowiak, Daniel Batista, Fabián Estay and the spinal column of solid greek players like Vassilis Karapialis, Kiriakos Karataidis, Giotis Tsalouchidis, Nikos Tsiantakis, Giorgos Vaitsis, Minas Hantzidis, Theodoros Pahatouridis, Savvas Kofidis, Chris Kalantzis, Gιorgοs Mitsibonas, Ilias Talikriadis, Alekos Rantos, Panagiotis Sofianopoulos, Ilias Savvidis and Michalis Vlachos. [ 3 ] This period is thus called as Olympiacos’ stone years. [ 70 ] Nevertheless, the golf club brought home plate the 1990 ( beating OFI Crete 4–2 in the final examination ) and 1992 greek Cups ( beating PAOK 2–0 in the second gear stage of the double final in Piraeus ), a well as the 1992 Greek Super Cup, beating AEK 3–1 in the concluding. In addition, the team, under the steering of the fabled ukrainian coach Oleg Blokhin, managed to reach the quarter-finals of the 1992–93 UEFA Cup Winners ‘ Cup, eliminating Arsène Wenger ‘s Monaco, after a hard-fought 1–0 away win in Stade Louis II with a late finish by Giorgos Vaitsis and a scoreless hook at Karaiskakis Stadium in the second peg. They did not manage to qualify for the semi-finals, however, as they were eliminated by Atlético Madrid ( 1–1 draw at dwelling, 3–1 loss in Madrid ). [ 3 ]

The Golden Era ( 1996–2010 ) [edit ]

seven consecutive Championships, near-miss to UEFA Champions League semi-finals ( 1996–2003 ) [edit ]

[71]Predrag Đorđević won a record 12 Greek League titles with Olympiacos and is the club’s record foreign goalscorer with 158 goals in 493 official matches [72] Club legend Giovanni won five Greek League titles and scored 98 goals in 208 official games for Olympiacos In 1996, Socratis Kokkalis appointed Dušan Bajević as the team ‘s head coach. [ 3 ] By that time, Olympiacos had already a identical potent roll, with players like Kyriakos Karataidis, Vassilis Karapialis, Grigoris Georgatos, Alexis Alexandris, Giorgos Amanatidis, Nikos Dabizas and Ilija Ivić. Upon Bajević ‘s arrival, Kokkalis opted to strengthen the team importantly in order to create a very potent roll that would dominate Greek football for years to come. He purchased the highly rated prospects Predrag Đorđević and Stelios Giannakopoulos from Paniliakos, outbidding both AEK Athens and Panathinaikos ; signed Refik Šabanadžović, Andreas Niniadis, Giorgos Anatolakis and Alekos Kaklamanos ; and brought Olympiacos Academy product Dimitris Eleftheropoulos back from his loan spell at Proodeftiki. [ 3 ] With all these players up front, Olympiacos stride to the 1996–97 championship by 12 clear points over AEK and 20 points over the third Panathinaikos in Bajević ‘s first gear season in mission ; this was the club ‘s first greek championship in nine seasons, putting an end to the “ rock years ” and officially beginning Olympiacos ‘ earned run average of domination. [ 3 ] In the adjacent season, 1997–98, Dimitris Mavrogenidis, Siniša Gogić, Ilias Poursanidis and the ghanaian striker Peter Ofori-Quaye were transferred to the golf club and Olympiacos won the 1997–98 Championship. Bajević ‘s team, along with AEK and Panathinaikos, were closely separated in the table, but finally Olympiacos made an important aside win against Panathinaikos ( 0–2 ) [ 73 ] and celebrated the second consecutive championship, with three points difference from Panathinaikos. Olympiacos participated for the inaugural time in the UEFA Champions League group stage and took third place in a hood group, leaving Porto in one-fourth place, while real number Madrid, the eventual champions, topped the group and qualified for the quarter-finals. The 1998–99 season was undoubtedly one of the best seasons in Olympiacos history. [ 3 ] They won the 1998–99 greek Championship quite convincingly, with ten points difference from AEK and 11 from third-placed Panathinaikos, and besides celebrated the domestic double, [ 3 ] bring base the 1998–99 greek Cup after a convincing 2–0 succeed against arch-rivals Panathinaikos in the concluding ( Mavrogenidis 54 ‘, Ofori-Quaye 90 ‘ ), despite the fact that they played for more than 60 minutes in the game with ten players. [ 74 ] In european competitions, they entered the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage, being drawn in a group with Ajax, Porto and Croatia Zagreb. They won the group and qualified to the quarter-finals, gathering 11 points with 3 home wins against Ajax ( 1–0 ), Porto ( 2–1 ) and Croatia Zagreb ( 2–0 ) and two away draws in Porto ( 2–2 ) and Zagreb ( 1–1 ). In the quarter-finals of the competition, they faced Juventus, with the first leg in Turin. Juventus took a 2–0 precede, but Olympiacos scored a all-important away goal in the 90th infinitesimal of the game with a punishment by Andreas Niniadis, a goal that caused the 10.000 Olympiacos fans who travelled to Italy [ 75 ] to erupt into joyous ecstasy. In the moment leg in Athens, Olympiacos wholly dominated the match, and scored the finish that put them in the drive seat in the 12th infinitesimal of the game, when Siniša Gogić ‘s herculean header found the rear of the net after Grigoris Georgatos ‘s brilliant cross. They besides missed an outstanding opportunity to double the lead, when Giorgos Amanatidis ‘ knock-down header from brusque distance was saved by Michelangelo Rampulla. [ 76 ] Olympiacos kept the ticket to the semi-finals in his hands until the 85th minute, when Juventus, who had n’t produced any chances in the plot, equalised the seduce after a crucial mistake by Dimitris Eleftheropoulos, who had been the team ‘s hero in all the former games. [ 76 ] Despite the big disappointment from the way the qualification to the semi-finals was lost, the presence of the team in the Champions League quarter-finals, their best-ever european campaign, combined with the domestic double, marked a very successful season for the club, arguably the best in their long history. [ 3 ] The future four seasons ( 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03 ) Olympiacos signed first players of bang-up magnitude such as Giovanni, Zlatko Zahovič and the World champion Christian Karembeu, a well as early top-class players including Pär Zetterberg, Zé Elias, Nery Castillo, Christos Patsatzoglou, Lampros Choutos and Stelios Venetidis. These transfers strengthened even more the already hard roll from the previous successful years and under the guidance of coaches like Giannis Matzourakis, Takis Lemonis and Oleg Protasov ( Bajević had left the cabaret in 1999 ). Olympiacos managed to win seven consecutive greek Championships ( 1997 – 2003 ), breaking their own past record of six ( 1954 – 1959 ). Olympiacos won their seventh consecutive title after a breathtaking closure of the 2002–03 greek league : Olympiacos was hosting arch-rivals Panathinaikos in matchday 29, who led the table with a three-point difference. Olympiacos needed to win the bowler hat by two clear goals in holy order to overthrow their rivals in the championship race. [ 77 ] Olympiacos beat Panathinaikos 3–0 ( Giovanni 3 ‘, Giannakopoulos 15 ‘ 48 ‘ ) in a prevailing display in Rizoupoli [ 77 ] and celebrated the all-time phonograph record of seven straight Championships, which was a dream and a historic objective for the clubhouse and specially for the fans. [ 78 ]

Five consecutive Championships, Two presences in UEFA Champions League smasher phase ( 2004–2010 ) [edit ]

In 2004, Olympiacos rehired Dušan Bajević and signed the 1999 World Footballer of the year and 2002 World Champion Brazilian ace Rivaldo and the 2004 european supporter Antonis Nikopolidis. The end of the season found Olympiacos winning the domestic double and having a becoming Champions League display, gathering ten points in a hood group aboard Liverpool, Monaco and Deportivo de La Coruña and losing the reservation to the knockout phase in the last four minutes of the last game against the eventual european champions Liverpool at Anfield. Bajević left the club and the norwegian passenger car Trond Sollied was hired in his set. [ 79 ] They club signed Cypriot striker Michalis Konstantinou from Panathinaikos, 2004 european champion defender Michalis Kapsis from Bordeaux and the versatile box-to-box Ivorian midfielder Yaya Touré. During the 2005–06 season, Olympiacos won all the four derbies against their major rivals, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens, something only achieved once more, during the season 1972–73. The combine goal total in these four matches was 11–3 in party favor of Olympiacos. They besides beat AEK Athens 3–0 in the greek Cup Final to clinch their second-straight double and managed to win an all-time record of 16 straight matches in the championship, breaking their own by record. [ 80 ] After a record-breaking season, in the 2006 summer transfers, Trond Sollied signed Michał Żewłakow, Júlio César and Tomislav Butina among others. however, he did not live up to expectations in the 2006–07 Champions League and was replaced by Takis Lemonis at the end of 2006. Lemonis transferred the young star Vasilis Torosidis, and led Olympiacos in their third gear straight championship, but failed to win the greek Cup after a storm elimination by PAS Giannina. [ 81 ] In the summer of 2007, Olympiacos made identical expensive transfers like Luciano Galletti, Darko Kovačević, Raúl Bravo, Lomana LuaLua, Cristian Ledesma and Leonel Núñez. They besides brought back the solid greek defender Paraskevas Antzas and signed the very talented young striker Kostas Mitroglou from Borussia Mönchengladbach. Furthermore, they accomplished the most lucrative sale in greek football history after selling striker-midfielder Nery Castillo to ukrainian golf club Shakhtar Donetsk for the criminal record sum of €20 million ( $ 27.5M ). [ 82 ] Because of a article in Castillo ‘s contract, Olympiacos received €15 million, with the remaining €5 million given directly to the musician. [ 83 ] Furthermore, a controversy started between the team and Rivaldo, as Olympiacos did not wish to renew the actor ‘s contract despite the fact that Rivaldo had featured heavily in the cabaret ‘s successful campaigns, both in Greece and overseas. Former player Ilija Ivić was selected for the role of the team ‘s football conductor. The team did not start well in the greek championship, but it achieved a stun operation in the Champions League, qualifying for the last 16 as they finished second in their group, grade on 11 points with group winners Real Madrid, eliminating Werder Bremen and Lazio. [ 84 ] however, the team ‘s less than satisfactory performance in the league, coupled with the defeat from Chelsea in Stamford Bridge for the hard phase, prompted club owner Sokratis Kokkalis to sack passenger car Takis Lemonis. The team ‘s adjunct coach, José Segura, coached the team for the remainder of the season. Olympiacos managed to win both the greek Championship and Cup, but Segura left the club at the end of the season. In the summer of 2008, Olympiacos made outstanding transfers, signing Dudu Cearense, Avraam Papadopoulos, Diogo Luis Santo and Matt Derbyshire and appointed Ernesto Valverde as the new coach with a three-year contract worth approximately €6 million. [ 85 ] The 2008–09 season started badly for Olympiacos, with the team losing their beginning few official matches, against Anorthosis Famagusta for the Champions League third base qualifying round, and was eliminated from the tournament, which resulted to a seat in the UEFA Cup first round, where Olympiacos outwit Nordsjælland to qualify for the group stage. The team besides started well in the 2008–09 Super League Greece, winning every match at home, but facing difficulties aside. They ended up winning the greek Championship and the greek Cup, celebrating the 14th double in Olympiacos history. After an impressive UEFA Cup run at home, with some dramatic wins against Benfica ( 5–1 ) and Hertha BSC ( 4–0 ), the team managed to get through to the round of 32, facing french side Saint-Étienne. In the summer of 2009, Olympiacos signed major players, such as Olof Mellberg from Juventus for €2.5 million, [ 86 ] midfielder Jaouad Zairi from Asteras Tripolis and Enzo Maresca from Sevilla. many other players returned from loanword spells, such as early Real Madrid defender Raúl Bravo, Georgios Katsikogiannis and midfielder Cristian Ledesma. Olympiacos appointed former Brazil legend Zico as their coach and started the 2009–10 season with bang-up achiever, as they qualified for the Champions League final examination 16, finishing second in Group H alone 3 points behind Arsenal, [ 87 ] despite the absence of numerous first-team players due to injuries. They faced Bordeaux in the concluding 16 and lost the first pit at home ( 0–1 ). In the irregular match, despite Bordeaux ‘s early on precede, Olympiacos leveled the match and missed some big chances to score a second goal, before finally losing in the dying moments of the couple ( 1–2 ). Domestically, Olympiacos secured a 2–0 bowler hat winnings over arch-rivals Panathinaikos, with striker Kostas Mitroglou scoring twice. [ 88 ] however, this was only a highlight in an differently below-par season for the club, as they not only lost the backing to Panathinaikos, but were besides defeated in four out of their six playoff games, finally finishing final, in the fifth position of the league table ; [ 89 ] this consequence marked the team ‘s worst ranking since being placed 8th in 1988, and meant that the club would start their Europa League campaign from the second modification round the follow season .

New presidency, seven consecutive championships and european ascent ( 2010–2017 ) [edit ]

In 2010, Evangelos Marinakis, a successful embark baron, bought the team from Sokratis Kokkalis. [ 3 ] During the first year of his presidency, Marinakis appointed fans ‘ front-runner Ernesto Valverde as coach ( who came back for a second gear tenure in the club ) and signed players with international pedigree, such as Albert Riera, Ariel Ibagaza, Kevin Mirallas, Marko Pantelić and François Modesto. [ 3 ] As a result, Olympiacos won the greek title for the 38th time in its history, 13 points ahead of second-placed Panathinaikos. In the 2011–12 season, the team ‘s roll was strengthened with players like Jean Makoun, Pablo Orbaiz, Iván Marcano, Rafik Djebbour and Djamel Abdoun and with Ernesto Valverde as their passenger car for the second straight season, Olympiacos had a identical successful campaign both domestically and internationally. They won both the Greek league and the greek Cup to complete the 15th domestic double in the club ‘s history. [ 3 ] In european competitions, Olympiacos had a hearty Champions League campaign, having been drawn in Group F against Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund and Marseille. Despite delivering nine points in the group, with two emphatic wins against Arsenal and Dortmund at home ( both with a 3–1 scoreline ) and an away acquire against Marseille ( 0–1 ), they lost the qualification to the knock-out stage after Marseille ‘s controversial 2–3 away win in Dortmund in game 6, with Marseille scoring two goals in the last five minutes of the match to come back from an early 2–0 Dortmund lead. [ 3 ] Olympiacos continued in Europa League where he was drawn to play against Rubin Kazan. The greek champions eliminated the russian side with two wins ( 1–0 in both Kazan and Piraeus ) and were improving to play against Metalist Kharkiv in the last 16 of the contest. [ 3 ] They won the first match in Ukraine with David Fuster scoring the winning finish ( 0–1 ) but in the second match, despite their early leave and the overplus of miss chances ( they hit the carpentry doubly in the first one-half ), they conceded two goals in the concluding nine minutes of the game and lost the qualification to the quarter-finals.

Crest and colours [edit ]

When, in 1925, the fusion of the two clubs of Piraeus, Athlitikos Podosfairikos Syllogos Pireos and Omilos Filathlon Pireos, gave parentage to the new football clubhouse, the latter was unanimously baptized Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus, a mention inspired from the Ancient Olympic Games, the morality, the compete, the luster, the sportsmanship and the fair play ideal that were represented in Ancient Greece. Consequently, after Notis Kamperos ‘s proposal, the club adopted the laurel-crowned adolescent as their emblem, which symbolizes the Olympic Games winner, a crest that undergo minor changes through the ages. Red and white were chosen as the color of the peak ; red for the heat and victory and white for the virtue and honor. [ 103 ] [ 104 ] The distinctive kit of the team is that of a shirt with crimson and white vertical stripes, and red or white shorts and socks. The shirt has taken different forms during the history of the club, for example with thin or wide stripes. The second most coarse kit out is the all-red one and next the all-white one. Olympiacos has used several other colours during its history as an away or third base kit, with the most luminary of them being the monotint black or silver one. The most common kits of Olympiacos during their history are these below ( the year of each one is index ) :

Kit development [edit ]

Olympiacos historical shirts Since 1979, when football became master in Greece, Olympiacos had a specific kit manufacturer and since 1982 a particular shirt patron american samoa well. The following postpone shows in detail Olympiacos kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors by year :

stadium [edit ]

The Karaiskakis Stadium, situated at Neo Faliro in Piraeus, is the current ( since 2004 ) and traditional home plate of Olympiacos. With a capacity of 32,115, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it is the largest football-only stadium and the second largest football stadium overall in Greece. It was built in 1895 as Neo Phaliron Velodrome, to host the cycling events for the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, and the pitch was covered with curm. Olympiacos started using it since its basis in 1925. In 1964, the stadium was renovated and was given its stream appoint after Georgios Karaiskakis, a military commanding officer of the Greek War of Independence, with an athletics track around the pitch. [ 108 ] Olympiacos left the Karaiskakis Stadium temporarily to play dwelling matches at the newly built Athens Olympic Stadium in 1984. After a five-year consumption ( 1984–1989 ) of the biggest stadium in Greece, the team returned to their traditional home, where they played until 1997. It was then that Olympiacos got back to the Athens Olympic Stadium, where they stayed for another menstruation of five years ( 1997–2002 ). In 2002, the Olympic Stadium was closed for renovation works due to the 2004 Summer Olympics and Olympiacos moved to the Georgios Kamaras Stadium in Rizoupoli, home of Apollon Smyrnis, for the follow two seasons ( 2002–2004 ). interim, the Karaiskakis Stadium had fallen in disrepair and was not anymore suitable for football matches. In 2003, its use passed to Olympiacos in order to build a football-only ground, to be used for the football tournament of the 2004 Olympics. In refund, Olympiacos got exclusive use of the stadium until 2052, covering all care costs and besides paying 15 % of tax income to the greek State. The old stadium was demolished in the spring of 2003 and the raw one was completed on 30 June 2004 at a entire monetary value of €60 million. [ 109 ] Nowadays, the Karaiskakis Stadium is one of the most mod football grounds in Europe, besides hosting the museum of Olympiacos, [ 110 ] with several facilities around .

corroborate [edit ]

Olympiacos ‘ traditional fanbase comes from the city of Piraeus, where the club is based, american samoa well as a good partially of the rest of the Athens area. The golf club ‘s popularity increased during the 1950s after winning straight titles and setting several records, and they became the best-supported football club in the area. traditionally, Olympiacos used to represent the working course, but the club has constantly attracted fans from all the social classes and their fanbase is not associated with any specific social group anymore. [ 111 ] Olympiacos is the most popular greek club according to UEFA [ 15 ] and numerous polls and researches. [ 113 ] [ 114 ] several newspapers and magazines ‘ polls rank Olympiacos as the most popular club in Greece with a share varying between 30–40 % among the fans and more or less 30 % in full population, which corresponds to around three and a half millions of supporters in Greece. [ 16 ] [ 115 ] The club is overwhelmingly popular in Piraeus, where about half of its population supports Olympiacos, [ 116 ] while their support in the whole of Athens reaches 45.1 % of the fans, making them the most popular club in the greek capital. [ 117 ] They are besides the most popular club in the work class with a share of 37 % and in all historic period groups, [ 116 ] american samoa well as among both male and female fans ; [ 118 ] the huge majority of their fans comes from the centre-left and centre-right of the political spectrum. [ 116 ] Outside of Athens, Olympiacos is the most popular club in Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Thessaly, the Aegean and the ionian Islands. [ 119 ] Additionally, they have the highest average all-time attendance in Greek football, having topped the attendance tables in most of the seasons in Super League Greece history. [ 120 ]

Friendships [edit ]

In 2006, Olympiacos was placed in the top ten of the clubs with the most paying members in the world, holding ninth place, just ahead of Real Madrid. [ 121 ] As of April 2006, the golf club had some 83,000 registered members. [ 122 ] Olympiacos and Red Star Belgrade fans have developed a deep friendship, calling themselves the “ Orthodox Brothers ”. [ 123 ] Usually, Olympiacos supporters from several fan-clubs attend Red Star ‘s matches, specially against their old rival Partizan, and vice versa. More recently, the Orthodox Brothers have started to include fans of Spartak Moscow in their club. Olympiacos fans are renowned for their passionate and ardent subscribe to the team, with the air at home matches regarded as intimidate. When they played Newcastle United at home in the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, the match was televised in the United Kingdom on Channel 5 and the guest observer was former England international Tony Cottee, who was constantly mentioning how bang-up the atmosphere was. During the game he was asked whether it was the most atmospheric stadium he had been to and replied : “ I ‘d have to say it credibly is. You hear a distribute about versatile places and the standard atmosphere there but when you go you realise it ‘s not all that … But this place is the actual consider. ” [ 124 ] The experience Czech external winger Jaroslav Plašil paid further testament to the hostile atmosphere created by Olympiacos fans at home before his team Bordeaux visit the Karaiskakis Stadium, where he had played during his fourth dimension with Monaco and stated, “ It was one of the most intense atmospheres I ‘ve ever experienced in a stadium, so I expect it will be a piece like hell for us. Their supporters in truth can help their team. ” [ 125 ] Former Paris Saint-Germain ace striker Zlatan Ibrahimović speak of his admiration for Olympiacos supporters after an Olympiacos–Paris Saint-Germain meet on 17 September 2013 : “ They played in presence of their fantastic public. Olympiacos supporters were amazing. My ally Olof Mellberg played here and he talked to me about the supporters. I never saw it survive, but now I understand. It ‘s amaze. It ‘s a big advantage for Olympiacos. ” [ 126 ] [ 127 ] PSG billionaire owner Nasser Al-Khelaifi stated, “ I have big respect for the fans here. I ‘ve never seen fans like Olympiacos ‘ fans in my biography. ” [ 128 ] PSG and Brazil external winger Lucas Moura in an interview with goal.com stated that Olympiacos home ground was the most acute and heated stadium he ‘s ever played in. [ 129 ] [ 130 ] [ 131 ]
The history of the Karaiskakis Stadium and Olympiacos was marked by the worst tragedy that ever hit greek sports, known as the Karaiskakis Stadium disaster. On 8 February 1981, Olympiacos hosted AEK Athens for a league pit, which ended 6–0, in an unprecedented victory for the host team of Piraeus. During the final minutes of the game, thousands of Olympiacos fans at the Gate 7 rushed to the exit, to get to the stadium ‘s main entrance and celebrate with the players, but the doors were about closed and the turnstiles distillery in place, making the die about impossible. [ 132 ] As people continued to come down from the stands, unable to see what happened, the stairs of Gate 7 became a death bunker ; people were crushed, tens of fans were seriously injured and blackjack young people died, most of them by suffocation. [ 133 ] In memory of this event, every class on 8 February, there is a memorial military service at the stadium in honor of the supporters that died in that incident. The serve is attended by thousands of fans every year, who are rhythmically shouting the give voice, “ Αδέρφια, ζείτε, εσείς μας οδηγείτε. ” ( Adhélfia, zíte, esís milliampere odhiyíte, “ Brothers, you live, you are the ones who guide us. ” ). At the tribune separate of the stadium where Gate 7 is now, some seats are colored black alternatively of red, shaping the number “ 7 ”, whereas there is besides a memorial on the easterly side of the stadium, bearing the names of all 21 supporters killed on that day in the stadium. [ 134 ] evening though this incident affected about entirely the fanbase of Olympiacos, other teams occasionally pay their respects to the people killed a well, as they consider the incidental to be a calamity not only for one team, but for the unharmed nation. In the past, even foreign teams, such as Liverpool and Red Star Belgrade, have honoured the incident ‘s victims. [ 135 ]

Rivalries [edit ]

traditionally, Olympiacos ‘ main rival is Panathinaikos and their alleged Derby of the ageless enemies is a classic local bowler hat in Attica, the most celebrated regular in Greek football and one of the most well known around the worldly concern. [ 111 ] The two clubs are the most successful, having won together a sum of 66 League titles ( Olympiacos 46, Panathinaikos 20 ), and the most popular football clubs in Greece. The competition besides encompasses social, cultural and regional differences ; Olympiacos, coming from the celebrated port of Piraeus, used to be identical popular in the work to middle classes, while Panathinaikos, of downtown Athens, was considered the representative of middle to higher social classes, although this specialization has weakened nowadays and the two clubs have similar fanbases. Most holocene ill-famed incidents include a fan ‘s death in 2007, during a pre-arranged clang between hooligans on the occasion of a women ‘s volleyball game between the two clubs, which caused major swage in Greece, [ 136 ] and the abandonment of a bowler hat in 2012 after riots at the Athens Olympic Stadium, which resulted in major fires in parts of it. [ citation needed ] Olympiacos besides shares a traditional competition with AEK Athens, in one more local bowler hat of the greek capital with the other penis of the so call Big three, [ 137 ] but besides with PAOK, in the fiercest inter-city competition in Greece between the most democratic clubs of the two largest greek cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, a competition that erupted in the 1960s for the sake of football player Giorgos Koudas. [ 138 ] A democratic competition used to be the Piraeus bowler hat, between Olympiacos and Ethnikos Piraeus, the second most successful football golf club in the region, but the regular has faded-out due to Ethnikos ‘ constant presence in lower divisions in the last decades. It remains a bowler hat in water polo where Olympiacos and Ethnikos compete in the top part .

european performance [edit ]

Olympiacos has a long presence in the UEFA competitions, debuting on 13 September 1959, against Milan for the 1959–60 european Cup, the beginning always Greek club to compete in a european contest. Olympiacos was besides the first greek cabaret to advance to the future round of any european rival, eliminating Zagłębie Sosnowiec for the 1963–64 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup. Their best european campaigns are their presence in the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, where they lost a semi-final spotlight in the last minutes by Juventus, and in the 1992–93 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup quarter-finals, losing to Atlético Madrid. Olympiacos is by far the highest rate greek baseball club in the UEFA rankings, occupying the thirty-seventh place in Europe in the five-year rate and the 31st in the ten-year ranking as of 2019. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] They are besides the greek team with the most wins in all european competitions, leading besides the table with the most family and away wins, [ 139 ] [ 140 ] and the Greek team with the most games played in european level, celebrating their two-hundredth peer on 23 February 2010, against Bordeaux in the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League first gear knockout round. Olympiacos besides holds the all-time phonograph record attendance for a greek golf club of 75,263 in a 1982–83 european Cup match against Hamburg at the Athens Olympic Stadium. [ 141 ] Olympiacos has eliminated ( in either hard matches or group stages ) clubs like Milan, Arsenal, Ajax, Benfica, Porto, Borussia Dortmund, Lazio, Celtic, Werder Bremen, Anderlecht, Monaco, Deportivo La Coruña, Hertha BSC, Cagliari, PSV Eindhoven, GNK Dinamo Zagreb and Standard Liège among others. They have spent most of their european history in the UEFA Champions League, where they are wide known for being a solid home side, having run some long-standing sequences, such as the 15 straight UEFA Champions League unbeaten family matches since their debut in the tournament under its fresh format, when Manchester United stopped their criminal record in their fifth back-to-back participation, and their 15 wins in 19 UEFA Champions League home matches between 2009–10 and 2014–15. They have a huge read of home plate wins over traditional european powerhouses and UEFA Champions League winners like Real Madrid, Milan, Liverpool, Manchester United, Ajax, Juventus, Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund, Benfica, Porto, Celtic, Olympique Lyonnais, Olympique Marseille, Atlético Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla, Leverkusen, Galatasaray, Fenerbahce S.K., Red Star Belgrade, PSV Eindhoven among many others. Olympiacos has besides won the Balkans Cup in 1963, at a clock time when the rival was considered the second most important in the region after the european Cup, [ 14 ] becoming the first base always Greek club to win an international competition. From 2007 to 2016 Olympiacos participated seven times in the UEFA Champions League Group Stage, and gathered at least 9 points in every one of those seven groups, qualifying three times for the smasher degree ( last 16 ) of the competition ( 2007–08, 2009–10, 2013–14 ) .

UEFA competition record [edit ]

European
Team
Competition
Season
Pld
W
D
L
GF/GA

Olympiacos
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
34
184
66
35
83
221–278

Olympiacos
UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup
9
33
14
6
13
43–47

Olympiacos
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
25
105
48
17
40
159–134

Results
Total
66
322
128
58
136
423–459

Best campaigns [edit ]

UEFA ranking [edit ]

5-year club ranking at the end of season 2018–19. [ 142 ]
10-year club ranking at the end of season 2018–19. [ 143 ]

Honours [edit ]

domestic competitions [edit ]

european competitions [edit ]

regional [edit ]

Piraeus FCA Championship
- Winners (25) (record): 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959

Doubles [edit ]

Winners (18) (record): 1946–47, 1950–51, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1980–81, 1998–99, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2019–20

Players [edit ]

current team [edit ]

As of 18 September 2021[145]

bill : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on lend [edit ]

note : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

former players [edit ]

Personnel [edit ]

Coaching staff [edit ]

technical staff [edit ]

Position

Staff[148]

Team manager

Kit takers

Football department liaison office

Interpreter

Scouting staff [edit ]

medical staff [edit ]

Position

Staff[150]

Club doctor

Head of physiotherapy

Physiotherapists

Nutritionist

Masseur

management [edit ]

former presidents [edit ]

Statistics [edit ]

greek backing records [edit ]

Outline

Record

Champions in a row

7 (1997–2003, 2011–2017)

Undefeated Champions

6 (1936–37, 1937–38, 1947–48, 1950–51, 1953–54, 1954–55)

Series of five or more consecutive Championships

5 (World Record[8]) (1933–1938, 1954–1959, 1997–2003, 2005–2009, 2011–2017)

Record win

11–0 (vs Fostiras, 1973–74)

Most wins in a season

30 (1999–00)

Most goals scored in a season

102 (1973–74)

Fewest goals conceded in a season

13 (1972–73)

Longest sequence of wins

17 (1st day of 2015–16 – 17th day of 2015–16)

Longest sequence of unbeaten matches

58 (3rd day of 1972–73 – 27th day of 1973–74)

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

Official websites