Olympiacos F.C.

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Olympiacos
Full nameΟλυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς
Olympiakos Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós
(Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus)
Nickname(s)Thrylos (Legend)
Erythroleykoi (Red-Whites)
Founded10 March 1925; 99 years ago (1925-03-10)
GroundKaraiskakis Stadium
Capacity33,334[1][2]
OwnerEvangelos Marinakis
PresidentEvangelos Marinakis
ManagerJosé Luis Mendilibar
LeagueSuper League Greece
2022–23Super League Greece, 3rd of 14
WebsiteClub website
Current season
Active departments of Olympiacos
Water Polo
(Women's)
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(Men's)		 Table tennis
Athletics Swimming Boxing
Sailing Canoeing Rowing
Fencing Kickboxing Taekwondo
Wrestling Football B Basketball B

Olympiacos F.C. (Greek: ΠΑΕ Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. Greek pronunciation: [olibiaˈkos]), known simply as Olympiacos or Olympiacos Piraeus, is a Greek professional football club based in Piraeus. Part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP (Olympiakós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós, "Olympic Club of Piraeus Sportsmen"), their name was inspired from the ancient Olympic Games and along with the club's emblem, the laurel-crowned Olympic athlete, symbolize the Olympic ideals of ancient Greece.[3] Their home ground is the Karaiskakis Stadium, a 33,334-capacity stadium in Piraeus.[4]

Founded on 10 March 1925, Olympiacos is the

fourth star above their crest, each one representing 10 League titles.[10]

In European competitions, Olympiacos' best performance is their current presence in the UEFA Europa Conference League semi-finals. They have also advanced to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League in 1998–99, where they lost a semi-final spot in the last minutes of their second leg match against Juventus, as well as in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals in 1992–93. Olympiacos is by far the highest ranked Greek club in the UEFA rankings, occupying the 32nd place in the ten-year ranking,[11] and the 46th in the five-year ranking as of 2023,[12] and one of the founding members of the European Club Association.[13] Olympiacos have also won the Balkans Cup in 1963, at a time when the competition was considered the second most important in the Balkans after the European Cup,[14] becoming the first ever Greek club to win an international competition.

Olympiacos is the most popular football club in Greece,[15][16][17] and gathering strong support from Greek communities all over the world.[18][19] With 83,000 registered members as of April 2006, the club was placed 9th in the 2006 list of football clubs with the most paying members in the world; that figure increased to 98,000 in 2014.[20] Olympiacos share a long-standing rivalry with Panathinaikos, with whom they contest in the "derby of the eternal enemies", the most classic football derby in Greece and one of the most well known around the world.[21][22][23][24][25][26][27]

History

Early years (1925–1931)

The founders of Olympiacos (1925)
Vassilis and Leonidas Andrianopoulos
Notis Kamperos inspired the name and the emblem of the club

Olympiacos was founded on 10 March 1925, in the

Vassilis and Leonidas Andrianopoulos raised the reputation of the club and brought it to its current glory.[3] Yiannis, Dinos, Giorgos and Vassilis were the first to play, while Leonidas, the youngest of the five, made his debut later on and played for the club for eight years (1927–1935). The club's offensive line, made up of the five brothers, became legendary, rising to a mythical status and soon Olympiacos gained enormous popularity and became the most successful and well-supported club in Greece. Back then, their fan base consisted mainly of the working class, with the team's home ground at Neo Phaliron Velodrome, before moving to its current Karaiskakis Stadium. They became Piraeus Champions in 1925 and 1926.[29]

Olympiacos line-up in 1928

In 1926, the

Panhellenic Championship in the 1927–1928 season. This was the first national championship, where the regional champions from EPSA league (Athens), EPSP league (Piraeus) and EPSM league (Thessaloniki) competed for the national 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 season (1928–29) a dispute arose 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 course of that season, the three of them played friendly games with each other and formed a group called P.O.K.

Meanwhile, the 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 force in Greek football; they set a record by remaining undefeated against all Greek teams for three consecutive seasons (14 March 1926 to 3 March 1929), counting 30 wins and 6 draws in 36 games. Those results ignited an enthusiastic reception from the Greek press, who called Olympiacos Thrylos ("Legend") for the first time in history.

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 notable players of the first era in the club's history (1925–1931) were Achilleas Grammatikopoulos, Lalis Lekkos, Philippos Kourantis
, Nikos Panopoulos, Charalambos Pezonis and Kostas Terezakis.

Domination in Greece and World War II (1931–1946)

Olympiacos fearsome trio of attackers during the 1930s (from left): Christoforos Raggos, Giannis Vazos, Theologos Symeonidis

The rise of the new decade marked a substantial rise in Panhellenic Championship's popularity throughout Greece. In October 1931, Giorgos and

Greek Championship top scorer award
four times (1933, 1936, 1937 and 1947).

In addition, the club managed to win the

V. Andrianopoulos 16', 68', 88', Raggos 24', Vazos 69', 70'), which is the biggest away victory in this derby's history.[3][31]

On 28 October 1940,

Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and fought against the Germans in many fronts.[33] He was executed wearing Olympiacos shirt and shorts, as was his last wish: "Shoot me and kill me with my Olympiacos shirt on, and do not blindfold me, I want to see the colours of my team before the final shot."[34][35] Michalis Anamateros was also an active 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 temporary hold.[3]

The Legend (1946–1959)

Andreas Mouratis captained Olympiacos and played in 295 games for the club (1945–1955)
Ilias Rossidis
, key players of the Olympiacos team of the 1950s

After the war, Olympiacos saw many of its key-players of the pre-war era retire, with many significant changes being made in the team's roster. Olympiacos captain and prolific scorer 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. As soon as regular fixtures recommenced, the Piraeus club returned to their dominant position 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 home 15 Championship titles in a total of 23 completed seasons of the Greek League. The six-straight Greek Championships won by Olympiacos from 1954 to 1959 was an unmatched achievement in Greek football history, an all-time record which stood for 44 years, up until Olympiacos managed to win seven-straight Greek Championships from 1997 to 2003.[3]

Furthermore, during the same period (1946–1959), the club won 8 Greek Cups out of 13 editions (

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 club's popularity and spread the word of Olympiacos' superiority throughout Greece.[3] Hence, after the club's record-breaking performance in the trophy-laden era of the 1950s, the club gained unequivocally the nickname of Thrylos, meaning "The Legend".[3][36][37]

On 13 September 1959, Olympiacos made its debut in Europe against

Milan for the 1959–60 European Cup and became the first Greek club that ever played in the European competitions.[38] The first leg 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 goal ever scored by a Greek club (and by a Greek player as well) in the European competitions.[39] Milan's prolific goalscorer José Altafini equalised the match with a header in the 33rd minute, after a cross by Giancarlo Danova. Ilias Yfantis scored an outstanding goal and gave Olympiacos the lead 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).[39] Altafini scored his second goal once again with a header (72nd minute), after a free-kick by Nils Liedholm. The match ended 2–2, with Olympiacos putting in a great performance against the Italian champions, despite the fact that they had no foreign players in their roster, while Milan had four world-class foreign players, such as Altafini, Liedholm, Juan Alberto Schiaffino and Ernesto Grillo.[39] In the second leg Milan won 3–1 (Giancarlo Danova 12', 26', 85'; Psychos
68') and qualified for the next round, despite Olympiacos' good performance especially in the second half.

First international success and Márton Bukovi era (1960–1972)

Márton Bukovi coached Olympiacos to two consecutive Greek League titles (1965–66, 1966–67)

Olympiacos entered the 1960s by winning the

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 last 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 competition, winning the

Koševo Stadium (3–3).[41] In the final, they faced Levski Sofia, winning the first match in Piraeus (1–0, Giorgos Sideris 37') and losing the second match in Vasil Levski Stadium with the same score.[41] In the third decisive final in Istanbul (a neutral ground), Olympiacos beat Levski 1–0 in Mithatpaşa Stadium with a goal by Mimis Stefanakos in the 87th minute and won the Balkans Cup.[42]

The club went on to win the

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).[44] They won the 1966 title with 23 wins and 4 draws in 30 games and in the decisive away match against Trikala, an estimated 15,000 ecstatic Olympiacos fans swarmed into the city of Trikala to celebrate the win (0–5) and the Championship title after seven years.[45][46]

The next season 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 coach Míchel's guidance, broke his own record by winning 13 out of the 14 first matches of the 2013–14 season.[47] They won the title in a convincing way and with some notable 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 plethora of chances for a much bigger score.[48] Bukovi became a legend for the club's fans and his creation, the Olympiacos team of 1965–67, became nothing short of legendary. A special 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").[49]

Shortly before the end of the 1966–67 season, a

Giorgos Andrianopoulos, club legend and president of the club for 13 years (1954–1967) was forced out of the club's presidency by the military regime.[50] Furthermore, the regime canceled the transfer of Giorgos Koudas to Olympiacos[51] and days later another blow was delivered to the club: Márton Bukovi, already a legend and architect of the great 1965–67 team, was forced out of Greece by the military junta, being labeled a communist.[52][53] He left Greece on 21 December 1967, along with Mihály Lantos.[54]

Goulandris era (1972–1975)

Another chapter began in 1972, after

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 only 14.

In European competitions, they managed to eliminate

Gigi Riva, Angelo Domenghini, Enrico Albertosi, Pierluigi Cera, Sergio Gori and Fabrizio Poletti.[56] Olympiacos managed to beat Cagliari twice, 2–1 in Piraeus and 1–0 in Cagliari, becoming the first ever Greek football club to win on Italian soil.[56] In the next round 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 win in Piraeus, which ended Tottenham's undefeated streak and marked the first ever victory of a Greek football club against an English side.[57] Two years later, 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[58] and semi-finalists of the previous season. The first leg was played in Celtic Park, where Celtic had never been defeated, running an undefeated streak of 36 straight home games in all European competitions (27 wins, 9 draws) from 1962 to 1974. Olympiacos took the lead through Milton Viera's strike in the 36th minute, with Celtic equalising late in the game.[59] The away draw gave Olympiacos the advantage and they finished the job in Piraeus, after a spectacular 2–0 win against the Scottish Champions with Kritikopoulos and Stavropoulos finding the net.[60] In the next round, they were drawn to play against Anderlecht for a place in the quarter-finals of the competition. Anderlecht won the first leg with 5–1 and Olympiacos' task seemed impossible. In the second leg in Greece, however, Olympiacos put on a dominant display and almost reached a winning score in a match that was marked by referee Károly Palotai's decisions.[61] Olympiacos beat Anderlecht 3–0, while Palotai disallowed four Olympiacos goals[62] and did not give at least three clear penalties committed by Anderlecht players,[63] while Stavropoulos was shown a red card for no good reason.[64] The match is widely known in Greece as the "Palotai massacre"[65][66]
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)

Following Goulandris resignation from the presidency in 1975, the team went through a relative dry spell in the second half of the 1970s. However, in the summer of 1979, the Greek championship turned professional and

Giorgos Vaitsis, Jorge Barrios, Andreas Bonovas, Alexis Alexiou and Vasilis Papachristou.[3]

Oleg Blokhin

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

Giorgos Vaitsis and a goalless draw at Karaiskakis Stadium in the second leg. They did not manage to qualify for the semi-finals, however, as they were eliminated by Atlético Madrid (1–1 draw at home, 3–1 loss in Madrid).[3]

The Golden Era (1996–2010)

Seven consecutive Championships, near-miss to UEFA Champions League semi-finals (1996–2003)

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[69]

In 1996,

Real 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.

Mavrogenidis 54', Ofori-Quaye 90'), despite the fact that they played for more than 60 minutes in the game with ten players.[71] 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 lead, but Olympiacos scored a crucial away goal in the 90th minute of the game with a penalty by Andreas Niniadis, a goal that caused the 10.000 Olympiacos fans who travelled to Italy[72] to erupt into joyous ecstasy. In the second leg in Athens, Olympiacos totally dominated the match, and scored the goal that put them in the driving seat in the 12th minute of the game, when Siniša Gogić's powerful header found the back of the net after Grigoris Georgatos's superb cross. They also missed an outstanding chance to double the lead, when Giorgos Amanatidis' powerful header from short distance was saved by Michelangelo Rampulla.[73] Olympiacos kept the ticket to the semi-finals in his hands until the 85th minute, when Juventus, who hadn't produced any chances in the game, equalised the score after a crucial mistake by Dimitris Eleftheropoulos, who had been the team's hero in all the previous games.[73] 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 next four seasons (

Oleg Protasov (Bajević had left the club 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 closing 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 derby by two clear goals in order to overthrow their rivals in the championship race.[74] Olympiacos beat Panathinaikos 3–0 (Giovanni 3', Giannakopoulos 15' 48') in a dominant display in Rizoupoli[74] and celebrated the all-time record of seven straight Championships, which was a dream and a historic objective for the club and especially for the fans.[75]

Five consecutive Championships, Two presences in UEFA Champions League knockout phase (2004–2010)

Rivaldo
Antonis Nikopolidis

In 2004, Olympiacos rehired Dušan Bajević and signed the

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 combined goal total in these four matches was 11–3 in favour of Olympiacos. They also 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 consecutive matches in the championship, breaking their own past record.[77]

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 consecutive championship, but failed to win the Greek Cup after a surprise elimination by PAS Giannina.[78]

In the summer of 2007, Olympiacos made very expensive transfers like

Lazio.[81] However, the team's less than satisfactory performance in the league, coupled with the defeat from Chelsea in Stamford Bridge for the knockout phase, prompted club owner Sokratis Kokkalis to sack coach Takis Lemonis. The team's assistant manager, 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 prominent transfers, signing

Diogo Luis Santo and Matt Derbyshire and appointed Ernesto Valverde as the new coach with a three-year contract worth approximately €6 million.[82] The 2008–09 season started badly for Olympiacos, with the team losing their first few official matches, against Anorthosis Famagusta for the Champions League third qualifying round, and was eliminated from the tournament, which resulted to a seat in the UEFA Cup first round, where Olympiacos beat Nordsjælland to qualify for the group stage. The team also started well in the 2008–09 Super League Greece, winning every match at home, but facing difficulties away. 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 spectacular 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

Asteras Tripolis and Enzo Maresca from Sevilla. Many other players returned from loan spells, such as former 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 great success, as they qualified for the Champions League final 16, finishing second in Group H only 3 points behind Arsenal,[84] despite the absence of numerous first-team players due to injuries. They faced Bordeaux in the final 16 and lost the first match at home (0–1). In the second match, despite Bordeaux's early lead, Olympiacos leveled the match and missed some great chances to score a second goal, before eventually losing in the dying moments of the match (1–2). Domestically, Olympiacos secured a 2–0 derby win over arch-rivals Panathinaikos, with striker Kostas Mitroglou scoring twice.[85] However, this was only a highlight in an otherwise below-par season for the club, as they not only lost the championship to Panathinaikos, but were also defeated in four out of their six playoff games, eventually finishing last, in the 5th position of the league table;[86] this result 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 qualifying round the following season.

New presidency, seven consecutive championships and European ascent (2010–2017)

Ernesto Valverde
Kevin Mirallas

In 2010, Evangelos Marinakis, a successful shipping magnate, bought the team from Sokratis Kokkalis.[3] During the first year of his presidency, Marinakis appointed fans' favourite Ernesto Valverde as coach (who came back for a second 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

Greek Cup to complete the 15th domestic double in the club's history.[3] In European competitions, Olympiacos had a solid 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 win 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 up to play against Metalist Kharkiv in the Last 16 of the competition.[3] They won the first match in Ukraine with David Fuster
scoring the winning goal (0–1) but in the second match, despite their early lead and the plethora of missed chances (they hit the woodwork twice in the first half), they conceded two goals in the last nine minutes of the game and lost the qualification to the quarter-finals.

Olof Mellberg

At the end of the season, Ernesto Valverde announced his decision to return to Spain, thus ending his second successful spell at Olympiacos. The club announced the Portuguese

fourth star on top of the club's emblem, which was a major goal for the club and especially for the fans.[3]

The expectations for the

Roberto, Alejandro Domínguez, Vladimír Weiss, Delvin N'Dinga and Leandro Salino. Olympiacos had a great season both domestically and internationally.[3] In Europe, they were drawn in Group C of the 2013–14 Champions League alongside Paris Saint-Germain, Benfica and Anderlecht. After a strong performance in the group, Olympiacos finished second with ten points and qualified for the Last 16 at the expense of Benfica (1–0 win in Piraeus, 1–1 draw in Lisbon) and Anderlecht (0–3 win in Brussels, 3–1 win in Piraeus). In the round of 16, they were drawn to play against Manchester United. Olympiacos, after a solid display, won the first leg with a comfortable 2–0 (Alejandro Domínguez 38', Campbell 55'), in a match where they dominated totally and missed chances to even extend the lead.[3] Despite the two-goal advantage which put them within touching distance of a quarter-final place for the first time since 1999, Olympiacos lost 3–0 in the second leg in Old Trafford, having missed an outstanding double chance to equalize the score in the 40th minute. The Greek champions pushed on in the last ten minutes to find the crucial away goal, but to no avail. Although the ticket to the quarter-finals slipped out of the club's hands, Olympiacos' overall performance and the fact that the club managed to qualify to the knockout phase (round of 16) of the Champions League for the third time in six years (2007–08, 2009–10, 2013–14), marked a very successful European campaign. Domestically, Olympiacos won their history's 41st Greek Championship very convincingly, 17 points ahead of second-placed PAOK.[3] He also participated in the International Champions Cup 2014
where he won 3rd place.

In the

Skoda Xanthi 3–1 in the final.[87]

Kostas Fortounis

The 2015–16 season started with a new manager replacement, as Marco Silva took over the management over his fellow countryman Vitor Pereira,[88] while the squad was strengthened with the world-class presence of Esteban Cambiasso and a number of other players with European competition experience, including Kostas Fortounis, Felipe Pardo, Sebá, Manuel Da Costa, Brown Ideye and Alfreð Finnbogason.[89] In a tough Champions League group that included Bayern München, Arsenal and Dinamo Zagreb, Olympiacos managed to record 9 points through a 3–2 away win over the Gunners at the Emirates Stadium, considered by many as one of the club's most important European victories, as well as two more wins against Dinamo (1–0 away and 2–1 at home). Last matchday saw the team face Arsenal at the Karaiskakis stadium, needing a 1–0 or 2–1 defeat to the Gunners, as the worst-case scenario, to advance to the knockout phase of the competition based on the away goals rule; the Red-Whites eventually lost 3–0 and continued their European journey in the UEFA Europa League, where they were eliminated by Anderlecht in the first knockout stage.[88] Despite the above, Olympiacos broke the record for most European competition victories recorded by a Greek club, with 97 over the 96 of second-placed Panathinaikos as of the summer of 2016.[90] Domestically, Olympiacos had perhaps their most successful season in years, as the team managed to secure their 43rd Greek Championship, and 6th consecutive, on the last day of February 2016, considered a national record for the earliest time, within a league campaign, when a title is clinched.[88] The team managed to finish their league campaign with a 30-point difference over their arch rivals Panathinaikos, who came in second. The team's 85 points over the course of 30 matchdays, including a 28–1–1 overall result breakdown with 13 away wins and a perfect 15 victories out of 15 home games, are also considered a national record.[90] However, despite the club's expectations of doing the double, they did not manage to win the Greek Cup as they finished runners-up to rivals AEK after a 2–1 loss in the final.

The

Osmanlispor. The frequent manager change negatively affected the team's stability and rhythm in domestic competitions as well. Firstly, Olympiacos failed to qualify for the Greek Cup final after being ousted by AEK, who advanced on the away goals rule after a 2–2 aggregate draw. Secondly, despite the fact that the Reds clinched their 44th Greek Championship, and 7th consecutive for the second time in Greek football history, they only managed to do so with a six-point difference (67 to 61) over PAOK
.

2017– 2023

Mathieu Valbuena

At the start of the

Mehdi Carcela, Jagoš Vuković, Björn Engels, Uroš Đurđević, Emmanuel Emenike and Panagiotis Tachtsidis
.

Aggregate victories over

Óscar García was subsequently appointed with a vision of increasing attacking efficiency and discipline.[98] Domestically, Olympiacos' Greek Cup run ended in the quarter-finals, marking their third consecutive year that they failed to lift the Cup. In the Super League the Red-Whites conceded the title to AEK three matchdays before completion, thus ending a run of seven consecutive championship wins and leading to the dismissal of García after two months at the club's helm, with Christos Kontis finishing the season as caretaker manager. Portuguese Pedro Martins was appointed head coach in order to lead Olympiacos at the following 2018–19 season.[99]

In the

Europa League group stages, in which they faced Italian giants AC Milan, Spanish side Real Betis as well as F91 Dudelange. Having 2 wins,1 draw and 2 losses Thrylos needed a 2 goal or more victory against Milan to advance to the Round of 32, which they eventually earned with a 81st-minute penalty by Kostas Fortounis, eliminating the Rossoneri. The 2018-19 campaign eventually came to an end by Dynamo Kyiv in the Round of 32,with a 2-2 draw in Piraeus followed by a 1-0 defeat in Kyiv. Domestically, despite having a way better season compared to 2017-18, the Red-Whites fell short champions PAOK, finishing just 5 points behind, while also suffering from a shock elimination to Lamia(3-3 away,0-1 at home) in the cup
, ending the season trophyless for the second year in a row.

Despite his failure on a domestic level,

AEK Athens 1-0 in the cup
final, marking one of their most successful seasons both domestically and internationally.

Youssef El-Arabi

The

Emirates and closing their campaign with a win. Domestically they dominated the league once again, finishing 26 points above 2nd-placed PAOK, to whom they lost the Greek Cup
in the dying moments of the final.

The beginning of the 2021-22 season had Olympiacos suffer from a shock elimination in the Champions League, where they lost to Bulgarian Ludogorets Razgrad 4-1 on penalties after 2 draws in Piraeus(1-1) and Razgrad(2-2) in the third qualifying round. They then beat ŠK Slovan Bratislava in the play-off round to secure a Europa League group stage spot. In a group with Eintracht Frankfurt, Fenerbahçe and Antwerp, Olympiacos finished second behind Eintracht with 3 wins and 3 losses to the knockout-round play-offs, where they met Italian side Atalanta who proved to be superior in quality eliminating them 5-1 on aggregate. Despite securing another Greek championship rather easily, Thrylos failed to win the cup for the second year in a row being eliminated by PAOK again on away goals. This season is widely considered one of the weakest in recent years, with many players disappointing with their performances and transfers like Henry Onyekuru and Kostas Manolas being heavily criticized. Martins, however, remained manager of the club and renewed his conract for a fifth year, becoming one of the managers with the longest stay in the club.

After four seasons and winning 3 League titles with the club, Martins got fired from Olympiacos, in August 2022, and Spanish prodigy Carlos Corberán was appointed as the new head coach.[100] He was succeeded by Mitchell, who later resigned and the 2022–23 season was completed by José Anigo.

Crest and colours

When, in 1925, the merger of the two clubs of Piraeus, Athlitikos Podosfairikos Syllogos Pireos and Omilos Filathlon Pireos, gave birth to the new football club, the latter was unanimously baptized Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus, a name inspired from the Ancient Olympic Games, the morality, the vying, the splendor, 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 underwent minor changes through the ages. Red and white were chosen as the colours of the crest; red for the passion and victory and white for the virtue and purity.[101][102]

The typical kit of the team is that of a shirt with red 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 wider stripes. The second most common kit 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 kit, with the most notable 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 indicant):

Kit evolution

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Olympiacos historical shirts

Since 1979, when football became professional in Greece, Olympiacos had a specific kit manufacturer and since 1982 a specific shirt sponsor as well. The following table shows in detail Olympiacos kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors by year:

Period Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
1979 Umbro —
1980
Puma
1980–1982
ASICS Tiger
1982 Adidas
1982–1984
ASICS Tiger
Fiat
1984–1985 Travel Plan
1985–1988
Puma
Citizen
1988 Toyota
1989 Bank of Crete
1989–1990 —
1990–1992 Diana
1992–1993 Umbro
1993–1994 Lotto
1994–1995 Adidas Ethnokarta MasterCard
1995–1997
Puma
1997–2000 Aspis Bank
2000–2005 Umbro Siemens Mobile
2005–2006 Puma Siemens
2006–2009 Vodafone
2009–2010 Citibank
2010–2013 Pame Stoixima
2013–2015 UNICEF[103]
2015– Adidas Stoiximan.gr[104]

Stadium

Main article: Karaiskakis Stadium
See also:
Rizoupoli Stadium
The Karaiskakis Stadium during a 2009–10 UEFA Champions League fixture against Arsenal

The Karaiskakis Stadium, situated at Neo Faliro in Piraeus, is the current (since 2004) and traditional home 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 foundation in 1925. In 1964, the stadium was renovated and was given its current name after Georgios Karaiskakis, a military commander of the Greek War of Independence, with an athletics track around the pitch.[105]

Olympiacos left the Karaiskakis Stadium temporarily to play home matches at the newly built

Apollon Smyrnis
, for the following two seasons (2002–2004).

Meanwhile, 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 return, Olympiacos got exclusive use of the stadium until 2052, covering all maintenance costs and also paying 15% of revenue to the Greek State. The old stadium was demolished in the spring of 2003 and the new one was completed on 30 June 2004 at a total cost of €60 million.[106] Nowadays, the Karaiskakis Stadium is one of the most modern football grounds in Europe,[citation needed] also hosting the museum of Olympiacos,[107] with several facilities around.[citation needed]

Support

Olympiacos fans provide their support with extreme passion at home, as well as away matches. Here, at the Karaiskakis Stadium against Chelsea for the knockout stage of the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League.
Stadion Crvena Zvezda, Belgrade, featuring the brotherhood between the fans of Olympiacos and Red Star Belgrade
.

Olympiacos' traditional fanbase comes from the city of Piraeus, where the club is based, as well as a good part of the rest of the Athens area. The club's popularity increased during the 1950s after winning consecutive titles and setting several records, and they became the best-supported football club in the country. Traditionally, Olympiacos used to represent the working class, but the club has always attracted fans from all the social classes and their fanbase is not associated with any specific social group anymore.[108][109]

Olympiacos is the most popular Greek club according to UEFA[15] and numerous polls and researches.[110] Several newspapers and magazines' polls rank Olympiacos as the most popular club in Greece with a percentage varying between 30 and 40% among the fans and more or less 30% in total population, which corresponds to around three and a half millions of supporters in Greece.[16][111] The club is overwhelmingly popular in Piraeus, where almost half of its population supports Olympiacos,[112] while their support in the whole of Athens reaches 30% of the fans, making them the 3rd most popular club in the Greek capital. They are also the most popular club in the working class with a percentage of 37% and in all age groups,[112] as well as among both male and female fans;[113] the vast majority of their fans comes from the centre-left and centre-right of the political spectrum.[112] Outside of Athens, Olympiacos is the most popular club in Central Greece, the Peloponnese, and Thessaly. 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.[114]

Friendships

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.[115] As of April 2006, the club had some 83,000 registered members.[116] Olympiacos and Red Star Belgrade fans have developed a deep friendship, calling themselves the "Orthodox Brothers".[117] Usually, Olympiacos supporters from several fan-clubs attend Red Star's matches, especially 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 fervent support to the team, with the atmosphere at home matches regarded as intimidating. When they played

Channel 5 and the guest commentator was former England international Tony Cottee, who was constantly mentioning how great 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 probably is. You hear a lot about various places and the atmosphere there but when you go you realise it's not all that... But this place is the real deal."[118] The experienced Czech international 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 time 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 bit like hell for us. Their supporters really can help their team."[119] Former Paris Saint-Germain superstar striker Zlatan Ibrahimović spoke of his admiration for Olympiacos supporters after an Olympiacos–Paris Saint-Germain match on 17 September 2013: "They played in front of their fantastic public. Olympiacos supporters were amazing. My friend Olof Mellberg played here and he talked to me about the supporters. I never saw it live, but now I understand. It's amazing. It's a big advantage for Olympiacos."[120][121] 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 life."[122] PSG and Brazil international winger Lucas Moura in an interview with goal.com stated that Olympiacos home ground was the most intense and heated stadium he's ever played in.[123][124][125]

The
Gate 7
tragedy

Main articles:
Gate 7 (Olympiacos F.C.)

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 match, which ended 6–0, in an unprecedented triumph for the host team of Piraeus. During the last 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 almost closed and the turnstiles still in place, making the exit almost impossible.[126] As people continued to come down from the stands, unable to see what happened, the stairs of Gate 7 became a death trap; people were crushed, tens of fans were seriously injured and twenty-one young people died, most of them by suffocation.[127]

In memory of this event, every year on 8 February, there is a memorial service at the stadium in honour of the supporters that died in that incident. The service is attended by thousands of fans every year, who are rhythmically shouting the phrase, "Αδέρφια, ζείτε, εσείς μας οδηγείτε." (Adhélfia, zíte, esís mas odhiyíte, "Brothers, you live, you are the ones who guide us."). At the tribune part of the stadium where Gate 7 is now, some seats are colored black instead of red, shaping the number "7", whereas there is also a monument on the eastern side of the stadium, bearing the names of all 21 supporters killed on that day in the stadium.[128]

Even though this incident affected almost solely the fanbase of Olympiacos, other teams occasionally pay their respects to the people killed as well, as they consider the incident to be a tragedy not only for one team, but for the whole country. In the past, even foreign teams, such as Liverpool and Red Star Belgrade, have honoured the incident's victims.[129]

Rivalries

Main articles:
Olympiacos–A.E.K. rivalry, Olympiacos–PAOK rivalry, and Piraeus derby
Olympiacos fans in Karaiskakis Stadium during a 3–2 derby win against rivals Panathinaikos.

Traditionally, Olympiacos' main rival is Panathinaikos and their so-called "derby of the eternal enemies" is a classic local derby in Attica, the most famous fixture in Greek football and one of the most well known around the world.[108] The two clubs are the most successful, having won together a total of 67 League titles (Olympiacos 47, Panathinaikos 20), and the most popular football clubs in Greece. The rivalry also encompasses social, cultural and regional differences; Olympiacos, coming from the famous port of Piraeus, used to be very popular in the working to middle classes, while Panathinaikos, of downtown Athens, was considered the representative of middle to higher social classes, although this differentiation has weakened nowadays and the two clubs have similar fanbases.[109] Most recent notorious incidents include a fan's death in 2007, during a pre-arranged clash between hooligans on the occasion of a women's volleyball game between the two clubs, which caused major upset in Greece,[130] and the abandonment of a derby in 2012 after riots at the Athens Olympic Stadium, which resulted in major fires in parts of it.[citation needed]

Olympiacos also shares a traditional

rivalry with AEK Athens, in one more local derby of the Greek capital with the other member of the so-called Big three,[131] but also with PAOK, in the fiercest inter-city rivalry in Greece between the most popular clubs of the two largest Greek cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, a rivalry that erupted in the 1960s for the sake of footballer Giorgos Koudas.[132] A popular rivalry used to be the Piraeus derby, between Olympiacos and Ethnikos Piraeus
, the second most successful football club in the region, but the fixture has faded-out due to Ethnikos' constant presence in lower divisions in the last decades. It remains a derby in water polo where Olympiacos and Ethnikos compete in the top division.

European performance

Main article: Olympiacos F.C. in European football
Olympiacos players arrayed in Stamford Bridge, in the second match for the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League first knockout round against Chelsea.

Olympiacos has a long presence in the

Milan for the 1959–60 European Cup, the first ever Greek club to compete in a European competition. Olympiacos was also the first Greek club to advance to the next round of any European competition, 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 spot in the last minutes by Juventus, and in the 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals, losing to Atlético Madrid.[134][135][136]

Olympiacos is by far the highest ranked Greek club in the

2009–10 UEFA Champions League first knockout round. Olympiacos also holds the all-time record attendance for a Greek club of 75,263 in a 1982–83 European Cup match against Hamburg at the Athens Olympic Stadium.[139]

Olympiacos has eliminated (in either knockout matches or group stages) clubs like

Milan, Liverpool, Manchester United, Ajax, Juventus, Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund, Benfica, Porto, Celtic, Olympique Lyonnais, Olympique Marseille, Atlético Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla, Leverkusen, Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, Red Star Belgrade, PSV Eindhoven among many others. Olympiacos has also won the Balkans Cup in 1963, at a time when the competition was considered the second most important in the region after the European Cup,[14]
becoming the first ever 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 knockout stage (Last 16) of the competition (2007–08, 2009–10, 2013–14).

UEFA competition record

European
Team		 Competition Season Pld W D L GF/GA
Olympiacos European Cup / UEFA Champions League 35 186 66 36 84 222–283
Olympiacos UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 9 33 14 6 13 43–47
Olympiacos UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League 27 128 53 25 50 186–171
Olympiacos UEFA Europa Conference League 1 6 4 0 2 12–8
Results Total 68 353 137 67 149 463–510

Best campaigns

Season Achievement Notes
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
1974–75 Last 16 eliminated by Anderlecht 1–5 in Brussels, 3–0 in Patras
1982–83 Last 16 eliminated by Hamburg 0–1 in Hamburg, 0–4 in Athens
1983–84 Last 16 eliminated by Benfica 1–0 in Athens, 0–3 in Lisbon
1998–99 Quarter-finals eliminated by Juventus 1–2 in Turin, 1–1 in Athens
2007–08 Last 16 eliminated by Chelsea 0–0 in Piraeus, 0–3 in London
2009–10 Last 16 eliminated by Bordeaux 0–1 in Piraeus, 1–2 in Bordeaux
2013–14 Last 16 eliminated by Manchester United 2–0 in Piraeus, 0–3 in Manchester
European Cup Winners' Cup
1961-62 Last 16 eliminated by Dynamo Žilina 2–3 in Piraeus, 0–1 in Žilina
1963–64 Last 16 eliminated by Lyon 1–4 in Lyon, 2–1 in Piraeus
1965–66 Last 16 eliminated by West Ham United 0–4 in London, 2–2 in Piraeus
1968–69 Last 16 eliminated by Dunfermline Athletic 0–4 in Dunfermline, 3–0 in Piraeus
1986–87 Last 16 eliminated by Ajax 0–4 in Amsterdam, 1–1 in Athens
1990–91 Last 16 eliminated by
Sampdoria 0–1 in Piraeus, 1–3 in Genoa
1992–93 Quarter-finals eliminated by Atlético Madrid 1–1 in Athens, 1–3 in Madrid
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
1989–90 Last 16 eliminated by Auxerre 1–1 in Piraeus, 0–0 in Auxerre
2004–05 Last 16 eliminated by Newcastle United 1–3 in Piraeus, 0–4 in Newcastle
2011–12 Last 16 eliminated by
Metalist Kharkiv 1–0 in Kharkiv, 1–2 in Piraeus
2016–17 Last 16 eliminated by
Beşiktaş 1–1 in Piraeus, 1–4 in Istanbul
2019–20 Last 16 eliminated by Wolverhampton Wanderers 1–1 in Piraeus, 0–1 in Wolverhampton
2020–21 Last 16 eliminated by Arsenal 1–3 in Piraeus, 1–0 in London

UEFA ranking

Further information: UEFA coefficient

5-year club ranking at the end of season 2018–19.[140]

Rank Club Points gained in season Total
2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19
33
 Belgium Anderlecht 10.000 11.000 16.000 6.000 3.000 46.000
33
 Spain Athletic Bilbao 10.000 17.000 9.000 10.000 – 46.000
35
 Greece Olympiacos 11.000 10.000 10.000 5.000 8.000 44.000
36
 Germany Wolfsburg 16.000 24.000 – – – 40.000
37
 Belgium Club Brugge 19.000 4.000 4.000 1.500 11.000 39.500

10-year club ranking at the end of season 2018–19.[141]

Rank Club Points gained in season Total
2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 Bonus
29
Roma
 9.000 16.000 1.500 – – 12.000 14.000 13.000 25.000 17.000 – 107.500
29
 Russia CSKA Moscow 20.000 14.000 16.000 1.500 6.000 8.000 7.000 7.000 17.000 9.000 2.000 107.500
31
 Greece Olympiacos 16.000 1.000 16.000 10.000 18.000 11.000 10.000 10.000 5.000 8.000 – 105.000
32
 Spain Villarreal 7.000 23.000 4.000 – – 12.000 23.000 9.000 8.000 16.000 – 102.000
33
 Netherlands PSV Eindhoven 12.000 18.000 16.000 5.000 5.000 6.000 18.000 6.000 1.000 6.000 5.000 98.000

Honours

Main article: Olympiacos F.C. honours

For the honours of the Youth Sector, see Olympiacos F.C. Youth Academy Honours.

Domestic

Leagues

  • 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

Cups

European

Other

  • Easter Cup
    • Winners (11) (record): 1928, 1929, 1934, 1936, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1959
  • Christmas Cup
    • Winners (11) (record): 1943, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962

Doubles and Trebles

  • Doubles
    • League and Greek Cup (18) (record):[a] 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
    • League and Piraeus Championship (13): 1931, 1934, 1937, 1938, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
    • Greek Cup and Piraeus Championship (8): 1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959
    • Greek Cup and Christmas Cup (7): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1959, 1960, 1961
    • Piraeus Championship and Easter Cup (7): 1929, 1934, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1959
    • Piraeus Championship and Christmas Cup (7): 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1959
    • League and Christmas Cup (5): 1948, 1951, 1954, 1956, 1959
    • League and Easter Cup (4): 1934, 1936, 1951, 1959
    • Easter Cup and Christmas Cup (4): 1943, 1951, 1953, 1959
    • League and Super Cup (3): 1980, 1987, 2007
    • Greek Cup and Easter Cup (3): 1951, 1953, 1959
    • Greek Cup and Balkans Cup (1): 1962–63
    • Greek Cup and Super Cup (1): 1992
  • Trebles
    • League, Greek Cup and Piraeus Championship (6): 1947, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959
    • League, Piraeus Championship and Christmas Cup (5): 1948, 1951, 1954, 1956, 1959
    • Greek Cup, Piraeus Championship and Christmas Cup (4): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1959
    • League, Greek Cup and Christmas Cup (3): 1951, 1954, 1959
    • League, Piraeus Championship and Easter Cup (3): 1934, 1951, 1959
    • Greek Cup, Piraeus Championship and Easter Cup (3): 1951, 1953, 1959
    • Greek Cup, Easter Cup and Christmas Cup (3): 1951, 1953, 1959
    • Piraeus Championship, Easter Cup and Christmas Cup (3): 1951, 1953, 1959
    • League, Greek Cup and Easter Cup (2): 1951, 1959
    • League, Easter Cup and Christmas Cup (2): 1951, 1959
    • League, Greek Cup and Christmas Cup (1): 1954
    • Greek Cup, Piraeus Championship and Christmas Cup (1): 1954
  • Quadruples
    • League, Greek Cup, Piraeus Championship and Christmas Cup (3): 1951, 1954, 1959
    • Greek Cup, Piraeus Championship, Easter Cup and Christmas Cup (3): 1951, 1953, 1959
    • League, Greek Cup, Piraeus Championship and Easter Cup (2): 1951, 1959
    • League, Greek Cup, Easter Cup and Christmas Cup (2): 1951, 1959
    • League, Piraeus Championship, Easter Cup and Christmas Cup (2): 1951, 1959
  • Quintuples
    • League, Greek Cup, Piraeus Championship, Easter Cup and Christmas Cup (2): 1951, 1959

Three-peats and Four-peats

  • Fifteen-peats (1)
    • Piraeus Championship: 1940, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959

Players

Current squad

As of 5 February 2024[143]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Greece GRE Alexandros Paschalakis
3 DF Argentina ARG Francisco Ortega
5 MF Portugal POR André Horta (on loan from Braga)
6 MF Portugal POR Chiquinho
7 MF Greece GRE Kostas Fortounis (captain)
8 MF Spain ESP Vicente Iborra
9 FW Morocco MAR Ayoub El Kaabi
10 MF Portugal POR Gelson Martins
11 FW Morocco MAR Youssef El Arabi (vice-captain)
14 DF Portugal POR Rúben Vezo
15 MF Greece GRE Sotiris Alexandropoulos (on loan from Sporting CP)
16 DF Angola ANG
Porto
)
17 MF Cape Verde CPV Jovane Cabral (on loan from Sporting CP)
18 DF Spain ESP Quini
19 MF Greece GRE Georgios Masouras
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 MF Portugal POR João Carvalho
22 FW Montenegro MNE Stevan Jovetić
23 DF Brazil BRA Rodinei
27 DF England ENG Omar Richards (on loan from Nottingham Forest)
29 FW Spain ESP Fran Navarro (on loan from Porto)
32 MF Argentina ARG Santiago Hezze
36 DF England ENG Nelson Abbey
41 DF France FRA Giulian Biancone
45 DF Greece GRE Panagiotis Retsos
56 MF Portugal POR Daniel Podence (on loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers)
74 DF Greece GRE Andreas Ntoi
77 MF Croatia CRO Ivan Brnić
88 GK Greece GRE Konstantinos Tzolakis

Other players under contract

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
4 MF Guinea GUI Mady Camara

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Senegal SEN Ousseynou Ba (at İstanbul Başakşehir until 30 June 2024)
— DF Greece GRE Alexis Kalogeropoulos (at Volos until 30 June 2024)
— DF Brazil BRA Ramon (at Cuiabá until 31 December 2024)
— MF Spain ESP Pep Biel (at Augsburg until 30 June 2024)
— MF Guinea GUI Aguibou Camara (at Atromitos until 30 June 2024)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Scotland SCO Jordan Holsgrove (at Estoril until 30 June 2024)
— MF Cameroon CMR Pierre Kunde (at Atromitos until 30 June 2024)
— MF Argentina ARG Maximiliano Lovera (at Rosario Central until 30 June 2024)
— MF Portugal POR Pêpê (at Pafos until 30 June 2024)
— MF Greece GRE Marios Vrousai (at Rio Ave until 30 June 2024)

Former players

See also: List of Olympiacos F.C. players

Personnel

Coaching staff

See also: List of Olympiacos F.C. managers
Position Staff[144][145]
Manager Spain José Luis Mendilibar
Assistant manager Spain Fran Rico
Assistant manager / Fitness coach Spain Toni Ruiz
Goalkeeper coach Greece Panagiotis Agriogiannis
Fitness coach Greece Christos Mourikis
Rehabilitation trainer Greece Kostas Liougkos
Analysts Greece Giannis Vogiatzakis
Greece Iosif Loukas
Video analyst

Technical staff

Position Staff[146]
Team manager Greece Thodoris Kokkinakis
Liaison officers Greece Spiros Bitsakis
Greece Ilias Misailidis
Kit takers Greece Dimos Meris
Greece Panagiotis Papadimitriou
Greece Konstantinos Roussos
Interpreter Greece Marina Tsali

Scouting staff

Position Staff[147]
Chief Scout Greece Giannis Theodorou
Scouts Spain Jaime Cordón
Greece Simos Havos

Medical staff

Position Staff[148]
Club doctor Greece Andreas Piskopakis
Nutritionist
Physiotherapists Greece Nikos Lykouresis
Greece Stavros Petrocheilos
Greece Panagiotis Karamouzas
Greece Konstantinos Koulidis

Management

Position Staff[149][150][151][152]
President Greece Evangelos Marinakis
Vice Presidents Greece Ioannis Moralis
Greece Michalis Kountouris
Vice President / Managing Director Greece Dimitris Agrafiotis
Vice President / General Director Greece Kostas Karapapas
Members Greece Ioannis Vrentzos
Greece Konstantinos Barbis
Greece Christos Mistriotis
Greece Andreas Nasikas
Greece Giorgos Pavlou
Sports director Serbia Darko Kovačević
Strategic advisor France Christian Karembeu

Former presidents

Years Name
1925–1950 Greece Michalis Manouskos
1950–1954 Greece Thanasis Mermigas
1954–1967 Greece Giorgos Andrianopoulos
1967–1975 Greece Nikos Goulandris
1975–1978 Greece Kostas Thanopoulos
1978–1987 Greece Stavros Daifas
1987–1988 Greece Giorgos Koskotas
1988–1992 Greece Argyris Saliarelis
1992–1993 Greece Stavros Daifas
1993–2010 Greece Sokratis Kokkalis
2010–2017 Greece Evangelos Marinakis
2017–2021 Greece Giannis Moralis
2021–present Greece Evangelos Marinakis

Statistics

Greek Championship records

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)[153]
Series of five or more consecutive Championships 5 (
broken anchor][8]) (1933–1938, 1954–1959, 1997–2003, 2005–2009, 2011–2017
)
Record win 11–0 (vs
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
1973–74
)

Top scorers

The table refers to Olympiakos' top scorers in all official competitions.[154]

Classification Player Total goals
1 Giorgos Sideris 298
2 Nikos Anastopoulos 197
3 Alexis Alexandris 176
4 Predrag Đorđević 158
5 Nikos Gioutsos 128
6 Michalis Kritikopoulos 102
7 Elias Yfantis 101
8 Giannis Vazos 98
9 Giovanni 97
10 Youssef El-Arabi 95
11 Kostas Fortounis 94

The next table refers to the top scorers of Olympiakos only in the Greek championship

Classification Player Total goals
1 Giorgos Sideris 224
2 Nikos Anastopoulos 144
3 Alexis Alexandris 127
4 Predrag Đorđević 126
5 Nikos Gioutsos 98
6 Michalis Kritikopoulos 83
7 Kostas Fortounis 75
8 Aris Papazoglou 72
9 Youssef El-Arabi 68
10 Panagiotis Tsalouchidis 65

Olympiakos' top scorers in European competitions[155]

Classification Player Total goals
1 Youssef El-Arabi 20
2 Kostas Mitroglou 15
3 Predrag Đorđević 15
4 Nikos Anastopoulos 14
5 Kostas Fortounis 13

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ Only the League and Greek Cup doubles are considered official in the Greek football, the rest are made for informative and statistical purposes only.
  2. ^ a b c d e The total includes also those of longer repeats, even though those seasons are only mentioned in the longer repeats.

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