Olympiacos F.C.

Olympiacos
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Full name	P.A.E. Olympiacos C.F.P.
Nickname(s)	Legent, "Red and whites"
Founded	1925
Ground	Karaiskakis Stadium,; Piraeus, Attica, Greece; (capacity: 33,344 )
Chairman	Vangelis Marinakis
Manager	José Luis Mendilibar
League	Super League Greece
2021/22	1st (Champions)

P.A.E. Olympiacos C.F.P. is a football club which plays in Greece. The club based in Piraeus, Greece. The colours of Olympiacos is red and white and its emblem is an adolescent with a crown made of laurel, representing an ancient Olympic Games winner. It is the most successful Greek team. Up to 2021-22 season they have won forty-seven League titles, twenty-eight Greek Cups and four Greek Super Cups, more titles than any other Greek team and it is one of the three teams that have never been relegated from the first division.

Olympiacos is the most popular Greek club with around two and a half million fans in Greece and was placed ninth on the list with the most paid up members in the world in 2006, having 83,000 registered members as of April 2006. They share a great and long-standing rivalry with Panathinaikos.

Stadium

The Karaiskakis Stadium during a 2009–10 UEFA Champions League match against Arsenal

The Karaiskakis Stadium is the current (since 2004) and traditional home of Olympiacos. With a capacity of 32,115, it is the largest football-only stadium and the second largest football stadium in Greece. It was built in 1895 as Neo Phaliron Velodrome, to host the cycling events for the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Olympiacos started using it since its foundation in 1925. In 1964 it 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.

Olympiacos left the Karaiskakis Stadium temporarily and played at the newly built Athens Olympic Stadium in 1984. 1989 the team returned to their traditional home, where they played until 1997. Olympiacos went back to the Athens Olympic Stadium till 2002. In 2002 they movedto the Georgios Kamaras Stadium in Rizoupoli, home of Apollon Smyrnis till 2004

In 2003 the stadium was given to Olympiacos in order to build a football-only ground to be used for the football tournament of the 2004 Olympics. Olympiacos got exclusive use of the stadium until 2052. The old stadium was demolished in the spring of 2003 and the new one was completed on 30 June 2004 .^[2] The stadium als has a museum of Olympiacos.^[3]

Current squad

As of 26 August 2022^[4]

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Tomáš Vaclík
2	DF	Šime Vrsaljko
4	MF	Mady Camara
5	MF	Andreas Bouchalakis (captain)
6	MF	Yann M'Vila
7	MF	Kostas Fortounis
8	MF	Pierre Kunde
9	FW	Ahmed Hassan
10	MF	Philip Zinckernagel
11	FW	Youssef El-Arabi (vice-captain)
14	DF	Thanasis Androutsos
15	DF	Sokratis Papastathopoulos
16	DF	Doron Leidner
17	MF	Marios Vrousai
18	FW	Hwang Ui-jo (on loan from Nottingham Forest)
19	MF	Georgios Masouras

No.	Position	Player
22	MF	Aguibou Camara
23	DF	Leonardo Koutris
24	DF	Ousseynou Ba
26	DF	Pipa
28	MF	Mathieu Valbuena (third-captain)
30	MF	Konrad de la Fuente (on loan from Marseille)
31	GK	Ögmundur Kristinsson
33	MF	Hwang In-beom
44	DF	Kostas Manolas
45	DF	Oleg Reabciuk
47	FW	Aboubakar Kamara
66	DF	Pape Abou Cissé
77	MF	Garry Rodrigues
88	GK	Konstantinos Tzolakis
97	MF	Lazar Ranđelović

Honours

Domestic competitions

Super League Greece
- Winners (47) (record): 1930–31, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1950–51, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1986–87, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
Greek Cup
- Winners (28) (record): 1946–47, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1967–68, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1980–81, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1998–99, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2019–20
Greek Super Cup
- Winners (4) (record): 1980,^[5] 1987, 1992, 2007
Football Cup of Greater Greece|Greater Greece Cup
- Winners (3) (record): 1969, 1972, 1976

European competitions

UEFA Youth League
- Winners (1): 2023–24
Balkans Cup
- Winners (1): 1963

Regional

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

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

Olympiacos F.C. Media

The founders of Olympiacos (1925)
The legendary Andrianopoulos brothers: (from left) Yiannis, Dinos, Giorgos, Vassilis and Leonidas Andrianopoulos
Notis Kamperos inspired the name and the emblem of the club
Leonidas Andrianopoulos
Olympiacos fearsome trio of attackers during the 1930s (from left): Christoforos Raggos, Giannis Vazos, Theologos Symeonidis
Andreas Mouratis, Babis Kotridis, Ilias Rossidis, key players of the Olympiacos team of the 1950s
Ilias Rosidis, the captain of the club during the golden era of the 1950s
Márton Bukovi coached Olympiacos to two consecutive Greek League titles (1965–66, 1966–67)