Olympiacos F.C. 1229550 226127424 2008-07-16T22:58:25Z 99.248.231.30 /* Notable Former Players */ {{see|Olympiacos CFP}} {{Football club infobox | clubname = Olympiacos F.C.| current = Olympiacos F.C. season 2007-08 | image = [[Image:Olympiakos4.svg|150px|Olympiacos CFP's emblem]] | fullname = ''PAE Olympiacos Syndesmos Filathlon Pireos'' <br />(Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus F.C.)| nickname =''Τhrylos'' (Legend) <br /> ''Erythrolefki'' (Red-Whites) <br /> ''Kokkini'' (Reds) <br /> ''Los niños del Pireo'' (The boys of Piraeus) <br /> | founded = [[March 10|10 March]], [[1925]]| ground = [[Karaiskákis Stadium]]<br />[[Piraeus]], [[Greece]]| capacity = 33,334 | chairman = {{flagicon|Greece}} [[Sokratis Kokkalis]]| manager = {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Ernesto Valverde]] | league = [[Super League Greece]] <br> ''(Σούπερ Λίγκα Ελλάδα)''| season = [[Super League Greece 2007-08|2007-08]] | position = Super League Greece, '''Champion''' | pattern_la1=_whitelower|pattern_b1=_stripesonwhite|pattern_ra1=_whitelower| leftarm1=FF2400|body1=FF2400|rightarm1=FF2400|shorts1=FF2400|socks1=FF2400| pattern_la2= |pattern_b2=_redwhitestriped_sides |pattern_ra2= |leftarm2=FFFFFF |body2=FFFFFF |rightarm2=FFFFFF |shorts2=FFFFFF |socks2=FFFFFF | }} '''Olympiacos F.C.''', also known as '''Olympiacos C.F.P.''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Oλυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς Ο.Σ.Φ.Π. - '''Olympiacos Syndesmos Filathlon Pireos'''), ''Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus'', is a [[Greece|Greek]] [[association football]] club, part of [[Olympiacos CFP]], based in [[Piraeus]], [[Athens]]. Olympiacos is considered one of the big three football clubs in [[Greece]] and it is one of the only four teams that have never been relegated from the first division. Olympiacos are by far the most successful club in Greece, having won the [[Super League Greece|Greek League]] 36 times, the [[Greek Football Cup|Greek Cup]] 23 times, 3 [[Greek Super Cup]]s and 1 [[Balkans Cup]], more titles than any other Greek team. Olympiacos is also one of the founding members of the [[European Club Association]]. ==History== ===Early years and domestic success=== The team named Olympiacos was founded on [[March 10]], [[1925]], when the members of the "Piraeus Football Club" and the "Piraeus Fan Club" decided, during a historical assembly, to dissolve the two clubs in order to establish a unified new one, with an emblem depicting the profile of an [[Ancient Olympic Games]] champion. Notis Kamberos announced the name ''Olympiacos'' and Michalis Manouskos completed it to its full name, ''Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus''. The Andrianopoulos brothers, however, were those who significantly raised the reputation of the club and added glory to it. Children of a prosperous family, they made the name of Olympiacos known over [[Greece]]. Jimmy, Dinos, Giorgos, and Vassilis were the first to play. Leonidas made his appearance later on, and played for a short time. The club's offensive line, made up of the five brothers, soon became legendary and, hence, Olympiacos is also known as ''Thrylos'' (Legend), after this classic side of the 1930s which won a hatful of titles. Olympiacos immediately caught the attention of locals, with the team filling the Piraeus Velodrome (now the [[Karaiskákis Stadium]]); back then their fanbase consisted mainly of the working class. In 1926 the [[Hellenic Football Federation]] (EPO) was founded and in 1927 it organized the first [[Super League Greece|Panhellenic Championship]]. However in the following season (1928-29) Olympiacos came to a dispute with the Hellenic Football Federation and did not participate. [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[AEK Athens F.C.|AEK Athens]] decided to follow Olympiacos, and together they formed a group called [[P.O.K.]]. During that season they played friendly games with each other. The second Panhellenic Championship took place in 1929-30, with the champions of the regional leagues of [[Athens Football Clubs Association|Athens]], [[Piraeus]] and [[Thessaloniki]] playing in [[playoff]] in order to determine the national champion. Up to 1958-59 the Greek Championship, then known as the ''Panhellenic Championship'', was organized this way. The first championship as a national league, called ''Alpha Ethniki'', was held in the [[1959-60 in Greek football|1959-60]] season. Olympiacos won the Greek title for the first time in the 1930-31 season. It was going to be a very successful era. By 1940, Olympiacos had already won six championships in eleven seasons and by 1960 they had won fifteen championships in twenty-three seasons, as well as nine [[Greek football Cup|Greek Cups]], making for six doubles. The legendary Olympiacos team of the 1950s, with key performers such as [[Andreas Mouratis]], [[Ilias Rossidis]], Thanassis Bebis, Elias Yfantis, Kostas Polychroniou, Giorgos Darivas and Savas Theodoridis, won the title six consecutive times, from 1954 to 1959, combining it with the cup in 1957, 1958 and 1959 to celebrate the only third double in a row to have ever been won in Greek football history. It is worth mentioning that Olympiacos for several seasons was not allowed to make use of the Karaiskákis Stadium and, with permission from Panathinaikos, found a temporary home in [[Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium]], the ground of the eternal enemy. ===Sporadic success and stone years=== The 60s and the early 70s were not as fruitful for Olympiacos, having won only two championships and six cups. Another glorious chapter began in 1972, after Nikos Goulandris became president. He appointed Lakis Petropoulos as coach and signed star players Giorgos Delikaris, [[Yves Triantafyllos]], Julio Losada, Milton Viera and Dimitris Persidis. Under Goulandris presidency, Olympiacos won the title three times in a row from 1973 to 1975, combining it with the cup in 1973 and 1975. The highlight for that side was the [[1973-74 in Greek football|1973-74]] season, when Olympiacos won the league with record points (59) and goals (102). Following Goulandris resignation from the presidency in 1975, the team went through a relative "dry" period in the second half of the 1970s. However in the early 80s, Olympiacos emerged again as the dominant power in the Greek football winning the title four times in a row ([[1979-80 in Greek football|1980]], [[1980-81 in Greek football|1981]], [[1981-82 in Greek football|1982]], [[1982-83 in Greek football|1983]]). Key players during this period included forward [[Nikos Anastopoulos]], midfielder [[Tasos Mitropoulos]] and goalkeeper [[Nikos Sarganis]]. [[Alketas Panagoulias]], who had also been manager of the [[Greece national football team|Greek national football team]] and the [[United States men's national soccer team|United States national soccer team]], coached the team between 1981 and 1983 and again in the [[1986-87 in Greek football|1986-87]] season, earning the championship title in 1982, 1983 and 1987. 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]]. Soon Koskotas was accused of and convicted for embezzlement, leaving Olympiacos deep in debt. On the pitch, the team without a serious management went nine seasons without a league title, 1988 to 1996. This period was known as ''Olympiacos' stone years''. It is worth mentioning that [[1987-88 in Greek football|1987-88]] was the worst season ever for Olympiacos, as the club finished 8th in the championship, playing to avoid the relegation in most of the season. ===Absolute domination=== The situation improved after [[Socratis Kokkalis]] took over Olympiacos' shares in 1993. Having agreed to a settlement of the club's debts with the Greek government, a long term deal according to which the capital was to be paid without any of the large amounts of interest, Kokkalis slowly resurrected the team, first by appointing successful coach [[Dušan Bajević]] in 1996, who had just left AEK Athens, following a clash with the management team regarding financial issues and uncertainty. The same season Kokkalis signed for the Reds all the young talents he could find in the Greek market, such as [[Predrag Đorđević]], [[Grigorios Georgatos]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Georgios Anatolakis]] and eventually [[Dimitris Mavrogenidis]], [[Alexandros Alexandris]], Giorgos Amanatidis, Andreas Niniadis, all of which proceeded to play for Olympiacos for at least five years and became household names. Hence Olympiacos' "decade of domination" began, with success attracting players of international magnitude like [[Zlatko Zahovič]], [[Giovanni Silva de Oliveira|Giovanni]], and [[FIFA World Cup|World Champions]] [[Rivaldo]] and [[Christian Karembeu]]. Olympiacos won seven consecutive championships (beating their own record of six), with their best campaign ironically being Bajevic', in [[1998-99 in Greek football|1998-99]], when they celebrated the double and their qualification to the quarterfinals of the [[UEFA Champions League 1998-99|Champions League]], their best ever European campaign. Following coaches had big shoes to fill and Kokkalis wasn't prepared to give them time to do it; Olympiacos employed eleven coaches in just four years. The most known are [[Ioannis Matzourakis]] (former coach of [[Skoda Xanthi F.C.|Skoda Xanthi]]), [[Takis Lemonis]] (who resigned from coatching Skoda Xanthi at the end of 2006 to manage again Olympiacos, replacing [[Trond Sollied]]), [[Oleg Protasov]], [[Siniša Gogić]] and [[Nikos Alefantos]]. Despite the constant management changes, Olympiacos kept on winning championships, albeit collecting the same points as the 2nd ranked team in their last two. In the [[2001-02 in Greek football|2001-02]] season, Olympiacos had the advantage over AEK Athens, as they had beat it twice (2-3 and 4-3), while they secured the [[Alpha Ethniki 2002-03|2002-03]] championship on goal difference, as Panathinaikos had won 3-2 the first game, but was defeated 3-0 in the second, to last game of the season. In the [[2003-04 in Greek football|2003-04]] season, Olympiacos finished second, after switching three coaches in a year, losing the championship for the first time after seven years of absolute dominance. For the [[2004-05 in Greek football|2004-05]] season, Olympiacos appointed again Dušan Bajević and transferred [[1999 FIFA World Player of the Year|1999 World Footballer of the Year]] and reigning World Champion [[Brazilian people|Brazilian]] Rivaldo. The end of the season found Olympiacos with both domestic trophies (the championship and the cup) but without their manager Bajević, as he resigned. Therefore Olympiacos appointed [[Trond Sollied]]. They also made a great hit on the market by signing arch-rival Panathinaikos' striker [[Michalis Konstantinou]]. During the season [[2005-06 in Greek football|2005-06]], Olympiacos achieved to win all the four derbies against their major rivals, Panathinaikos and AEK, something only achieved once more, during the season [[1972-73 in Greek football|1972-73]]. The combined goal total in these four matches was 11-3 in favour of Olympiacos. They also beat their second biggest rival AEK Athens 3-0 in the Greek Cup Final to clinch their second straight double and managed to win 16 consecutive times in the championship, thus breaking their own record. After that, Socrates Kokkalis put full faith in Trond Sollied and signed seven, though not expensive, players according to his recommendations, in hoping that the club will achieve the double for the third straight time for only the second time in Greek footballing history. However, Sollied did not live up to the club's expectations on the [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]] competition and was replaced by Takis Lemonis at the end of 2006. In the summer of 2007, Olympiacos made very expensive transfers like [[Darko Kovačević]] and [[Luciano Galletti]] and was part of the most expensive transfer in Greek football history, by selling striker-midfielder [[Nery Castillo]] to the [[Ukraine|Ukranian]] club [[FC Shakhtar Donetsk]] for the record sum of 20 million Euro (27.5 million US Dollars). Because of a clause in Castillo's contract, Olympiacos received 15 million Euro, whereas the other 5 million Euro were given directly to the player. Olympiacos is by far the most successful club in Greek football history. Indeed they have more championships (36) to their name than arch-rivals Panathinaikos (19) and AEK Athens (11) put together, while the Reds have equal number of titles to all the other crowned teams together, 36 vs 36. Olympiacos also hold the Cup winning-record, with 23. ==Stadium== [[Image:Athens Karaiskaki stadium panorama.jpg|thumb|250px|Karaiskákis Stadium]] {{Main|Karaiskákis Stadium }} The [[Karaiskákis Stadium]] ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Γήπεδο Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης) is in the [[Faliro]] area of [[Piraeus]], [[Greece]]. It is the home ground for the football section of the [[Olympiacos CFP]]. Furthermore, it hosts the [[Greece national football team|Greek national football team]]. The stadium is named after [[Georgios Karaiskakis]], hero of the [[Greek War of Independence]], who was mortally wounded in this area. During their history, Olympiacos also used other stadiums as home ground, mainly the [[Olympic Stadium (Athens)|Olympic Stadium of Athens]] in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, when it was closed for renovation work, for the [[2004 Summer Olympics|Athens Olympics 2004]]. They also used [[Georgios Kamaras Stadium|Rizoupoli Stadium]] during 2002-04. ==European campaigns== {{see|Olympiacos in European Cups}} Olympiacos' best moments at European level came with appearances in the quarter-finals of the [[UEFA Champions League 1998-99]], where [[Juventus F.C.|Juventus]] beat them, and in the [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1992-93]] quarter-finals, where they lost to [[Atlético Madrid]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/club=2610/club.html |title=Club facts: Olympiacos |publisher=[[UEFA|UEFA.com]] |language=English |date= |accessdate=2008-03-12}}</ref> [[Image:Chelsea Olympiakos CL07-08 04.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Chelsea - Olympiacos Champions League 2008]] Olympiacos had not a single away win during their first ten years in the [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]]. In 31 away games in total, they had no wins, 7 ties and 24 defeats, until they managed to beat [[SV Werder Bremen]] in [[Bremen]] for the group stage of the [[UEFA Champions League 2007-08|Champions League 2007-08]], on [[October 3]], [[2007]]. They tend to be a strong home team though, as they were never defeated at home during their first four years in the Champions League, having 13 consecutive undefeated games. Another proof for that is that they achieved one of the biggest victories in Champions League history in the season [[UEFA Champions League 2002-03|2002-03]], a stunning 6-2 against the finalists of the previous year [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen]] at the [[Georgios Kamaras Stadium|Rizoupoli Stadium]] in Athens. ===Season 1998-99=== In [[UEFA Champions League 1998-99]], Olympiacos was drawn in Group A for the Champions League, along with [[AFC Ajax]], [[F.C. Porto|Porto]] and [[NK Dinamo Zagreb|Croatia Zagreb]]. There, "Thrylos" won all three home games, but also managed to secure two away draws and a ticket to the quarter-finals. There they met Juventus. In the first leg at the [[Stadio delle Alpi]], Juventus beat Olympiacos 2-1 which meant that Olympiacos only needed a 1-0 victory to proceed to the semifinals. A vintage performance, scoring early with [[Siniša Gogić]] and never allowing their opponents to create chances, was 5 minutes away to making that scenario come true. However, [[Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos]], Olympiacos’s goalkeeper, misjudged the flight of the ball in a seemingly harmless cross and Juventus had the last laugh and escaped with a 1-1 draw from the [[Olympic Stadium (Athens)|Athens Olympic Stadium]], which was the beginning of the "Late-Goal Curse" that superstitious supporters firmly believe hangs upon the team, especially in away matches. Olympiacos’ supporters couldn’t believe how they fumbled such a huge opportunity to play in the semi-finals and even though they recognized Eleftheropoulos’ efforts up to that point, great efforts that even earned him the "UEFA Champions League Goalkeeper of the Competition"-award, they still held him responsible for the disqualification and up to this day there is no conversation about the "1998-99 campaign" without a single mention of the goalkeeper’s severe mistake. Arguably the most impressive incident supporting this folklore tale is the [[UEFA Champions League 2001-02]] away match at [[Riazor Stadium]] against [[Deportivo de La Coruña]], where Olympiacos managed to turn the game around and led 1-2 from 1-0, when, literally in the last seconds, with the referee ready to whistle for full-time, Eleftheropoulos miscommunicated with his centre-back in another innocent lob and gave away an easy, as unlikely, goal to the opposition forward for an unexpectable 2-2 draw. ===Season 2004-05=== In [[UEFA Champions League 2004-05]] Olympiacos was drawn in Group A once again, this time against [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]], [[AS Monaco FC|AS Monaco]] and Deportivo. [[Rivaldo]] made an inspiring debut for Olympiacos, in [[Spain]] against his former Spanish team Deportivo but "Thrylos" only managed to get a 0-0 draw. The team predictably won all three home games in the freshly renovated Karaïskákis Stadium, notably with the same score, 1-0, meanwhile losing 2-1 away against AS Monaco. With one match to go and in a very bizarre combination of results, Olympiacos were in danger of being one of only two teams in Champions League history that have managed to collect 10 points and still unable to qualify for the next round. They went to [[Anfield]] to play the last match against Liverpool and in order to progress they had either not to lose, or to score and not lose by more than one goal difference. Rivaldo turned back the years to show the capacity crowd why he was named "[[European Footballer of the Year]]" in 1999. He opened the scoring with a foul he earned after an impressive solo-effort for the 0-1 Olympiacos lead, which was the half-time result. Olympiacos needed to concede three goals in the second half to be eliminated and indeed Liverpool managed to score those three goals, with the end result being 3-1, which marked the premature end of yet another Olympiacos Champions League campaign. Liverpool were the ones to progress and they, incidentally, went on to actually lift the trophy, producing a similar display in the final. Olympiacos’s 2004-2005 European effort didn’t end there however, as they were seeded to continue in the [[UEFA Cup]]. They were drawn against [[France|French]] team [[FC Sochaux-Montbéliard]] for the "round of 32" and proceeded thanks to two more 1-0 victories. In the "round of 16" they faced [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]] and were easily eliminated with two losses, thus putting an end to the club’s third most successful European Campaign. ===Current season=== {{see|Olympiacos F.C. season 2007-08}} [[Image:Chelsea Olympiakos CL07-08 05.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Chelsea - Olympiacos Champions League 2008]] In [[UEFA Champions League 2007-08]], Olympiacos was drawn in [[UEFA Champions League 2007-08 group stage|Group C]], against [[Real Madrid C.F.|Real Madrid CF]], [[SV Werder Bremen]] and [[S.S. Lazio|SS Lazio]]. Following a draw 1-1 to Lazio in [[Karaiskákis Stadium]], it is the season that Olympiacos made their first ever away win in the Champions League, a 3-1 win against Werder Bremen in [[Weserstadion]], turning the game around from 0-1. In the third game, Olympiacos was finally defeated 4-2 to Real Madrid at the [[Santiago Bernabéu Stadium]], after a heart-breaking match in which the Greek team was playing with 10 men from the 13th minute and was leading the score to the 68th with 2-1, turning it around from 0-1 and wasting a lot of chances to score more. Real Madrid scored their third goal in the 83th, but Olympiacos came close to score many times during the last minutes of the match and leave [[Madrid]] with the draw, when Real secured the win with a last-minute goal. Olympiacos opened the second round of the group stage with a draw 0-0 to Real Madrid in Karaiskákis Stadium and kept alive the record of being undefeated by Real Madrid in Athens in four matches, while the Reds moved a step closer to qualifying for the last 16 after coming from behind to defeat Lazio 2-1 in [[Stadio Olimpico]]. On [[December 11]], Olympiacos smashed Werder Bremen 3-0 at the Karaiskákis Stadium in Athens, which ensured their place in the knock out stage of the tournament. In the [[UEFA Champions League 2007-08 knockout stage|knockout stage]] Olympiacos faced [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]. At the first match in Athens, the Reds achieved a scoreless draw against the Blues, but they were eliminated in the second leg in [[Stamford Bridge (stadium)|Stamford Bridge]] after they lost 3-0. Despite Olympiacos' successful european campaign, Lemonis was sacked less than a week later, due to the club's lower-than-expected performance of the team in the Super League. He was replaced by his assistant [[José Segura]]. On 28 May of 2008, Olympiacos appointed Ernesto Valverde from [[R.C.D. Espanyol]] as manager,with a contract worth about 6,000,000 € for a 3 year agreement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=670758.html |title=Lemonis leaves Olympiacos post |publisher=[[UEFA|UEFA.com]] |language=English |date= |accessdate=2008-03-12}}</ref> ===International Record=== {| class="toccolours" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="margin:0.5em;" |- bgcolor=#CADCFB ! Season ! Achievement ! Notes |- !colspan="4" bgcolor=#EFEFEF | [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup / UEFA Champions League]] |- | align="center" | [[European Cup 1974-75|1974-75]] | align="center" | '''Last 16''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[R.S.C. Anderlecht|RSC Anderlecht]] 1-5 in Brussels, 3-0 in Athens |- | align="center" | [[European Cup 1982-83|1982-83]] | align="center" | '''Last 16''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[Hamburger SV]] 0-1 in Hamburg, 0-4 in Athens |- | align="center" | [[European Cup 1983-84|1983-84]] | align="center" | '''Last 16''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[S.L. Benfica|SL Benfica]] 1-0 in Athens, 0-3 in Lisboa |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 1998-99|1998-99]] | align="center" | '''Quarter-finals''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[Juventus F.C.|Juventus FC]] 1-2 in Turin, 1-1 in Athens |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2007-08|2007-08]] | align="center" | '''Last 16''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea FC]] 0-0 in Athens, 0-3 in London |- !colspan="4" bgcolor=#EFEFEF | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]] |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1963-64|1963-64]] | align="center" | '''Last 16''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[Olympique Lyonnais]] 1-4 in Lyon, 2-1 in Athens |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1965-66|1965-66]] | align="center" | '''Last 16''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United FC]] 0-4 in London, 2-2 in Athens |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1968-69|1968-69]] | align="center" | '''Last 16''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[Dunfermline Athletic F.C.|Dunfermline Athletic FC]] 0-4 in Dunfermline, 3-0 in Athens |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1986-87|1986-87]] | align="center" | '''Last 16''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[AFC Ajax]] 0-4 in Amsterdam, 1-1 in Athens |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1990-91|1990-91]] | align="center" | '''Last 16''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[U.C. Sampdoria|UC Sampdoria]] 0-1 in Athens, 1-3 in Genova |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1992-93|1992-93]] | align="center" | '''Quarter-finals''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[Atlético Madrid]] 1-1 in Athens, 1-3 in Madrid |- !colspan="4" bgcolor=#EFEFEF | [[UEFA Cup]] |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup 1989-90|1989-90]] | align="center" | '''Last 16''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[AJ Auxerre]] 1-1 in Athens, 0-0 in Auxerre |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup 2004-05|2004-05]] | align="center" | '''Last 16''' | align="left" | eliminated by [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United FC]] 1-3 in Athens, 0-4 in Newcastle |- |} <br clear=all> {| |valign="top" width=33%| '''Most notable wins''' {| class="toccolours" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="margin:0.5em;" |- bgcolor=#CADCFB ! Season ! ! Match ! ! Score |- !colspan="5" bgcolor=#EFEFEF | [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup / Champions League]] |- | align="center" | [[European Cup 1974-75|1974-75]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic FC]] | | align="center"| '''2-0''' |- | align="center" | [[European Cup 1974-75|1974-75]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[R.S.C. Anderlecht|RSC Anderlecht]] | | align="center"| '''3-0''' |- | align="center" | [[European Cup 1983-84|1983-84]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[AFC Ajax]] | | align="center"| '''2-0''' |- | align="center" | [[European Cup 1983-84|1983-84]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[S.L. Benfica|SL Benfica]] | | align="center"| '''1-0''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 1997-98|1997-98]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP'''- [[F.C. Porto|FC Porto]] | | align="center"| '''1-0''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 1998-99|1998-99]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[AFC Ajax]] | | align="center"| '''1-0''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2000-01|2000-01]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP'''- [[Valencia CF]] | | align="center"| '''1-0''' <sup>1</sup> |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2002-03|2002-03]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen]] | | align="center"| '''6-2''' <sup>2</sup> |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2003-04|2003-04]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[Galatasaray S.K.|Galatasaray SK]] | | align="center"| '''3-0''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2004-05|2004-05]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool FC]] | | align="center"| '''1-0''' <sup>3</sup> |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2004-05|2004-05]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[AS Monaco FC]] | | align="center"| '''1-0''' <sup>4</sup> |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2005-06|2005-06]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP'''- [[Real Madrid C.F.|Real Madrid CF]] | | align="center"| '''2-1''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2007-08|2007-08]] | | align="left" | [[SV Werder Bremen]] - '''Olympiacos CFP''' | | align="center"| '''1-3''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2007-08|2007-08]] | | align="left" | [[S.S. Lazio|SS Lazio]] - '''Olympiacos CFP''' | | align="center"| '''1-2''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2007-08|2007-08]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[SV Werder Bremen]] | | align="center"| '''3-0''' |- !colspan="5" bgcolor=#EFEFEF | [[Cup Winners' Cup]] |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1971-72|1971-72]] | | align="left" | [[FC Dynamo Moscow]] - '''Olympiacos CFP''' | | align="center"| '''1-2''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1992-93|1992-93]] | | align="left" | [[AS Monaco FC]] - '''Olympiacos CFP''' | | align="center"| '''0-1''' |- !colspan="5" bgcolor=#EFEFEF | [[UEFA Cup]] |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup 1972-73|1972-73]] | | align="left" | [[Cagliari Calcio]] - '''Olympiacos CFP''' | | align="center"| '''0-1''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup 1972-73|1972-73]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur FC]] | | align="center"| '''1-0''' <sup>5</sup> |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup 1999-00|1999-00]] | | align="left" | [[Juventus F.C.|Juventus FC]] - '''Olympiacos CFP''' | | align="center"| '''1-2''' |- |} <br clear=all> Notes * 1 [[Valencia CF]] was the runner-up of [[UEFA Champions League 2000-01|Champions League 2000-01]] * 2 [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen]] was the runner-up of [[UEFA Champions League 2001-02|Champions League 2001-02]] * 3 [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool FC]] was the winner of [[UEFA Champions League 2004-05|Champions League 2004-05]] * 4 [[AS Monaco FC]] was the runner-up of [[UEFA Champions League 2003-04|Champions League 2003-04]] * 5 [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur FC]] was the winner of [[UEFA Cup 1971-72]] |valign="top" width=33%| '''Biggest wins''' {| class="toccolours" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="margin:0.5em;" |- bgcolor=#CADCFB ! Season ! ! Match ! ! Score |- !colspan="5" bgcolor=#EFEFEF | [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup / Champions League]] |- | align="center" | [[European Cup 1974-75|1974-75]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[R.S.C. Anderlecht|RSC Anderlecht]] | | align="center" | '''3-0''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 1997-98|1997-98]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[FC Mozyr-ZLiN|FC Mozyr]] | | align="center" | '''5-0''' <sup>1</sup> |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2002-03|2002-03]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen]] | | align="center" | '''6-2''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2003-04|2003-04]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[Galatasaray S.K.|Galatasaray SK]] | | align="center" | '''3-0''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Champions League 2007-08|2007-08]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[SV Werder Bremen]] | | align="center"| '''3-0''' |- !colspan="5" bgcolor=#EFEFEF | [[Cup Winners' Cup]] |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1968-69|1968-69]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[Dunfermline Athletic F.C.|Dunfermline Athletic FC]] | | align="center" | '''3-0''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1986-87|1986-87]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[Union Luxembourg]] | | align="center" | '''3-0''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1986-87|1986-87]] | | align="left" | [[Union Luxembourg]] - '''Olympiacos CFP''' | | align="center" | '''0-3''' |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1992-93|1992-93]] | | align="left" | [[FC Chornomorets Odessa]] - '''Olympiacos CFP''' | | align="center" | '''0-3''' |- !colspan="5" bgcolor=#EFEFEF | [[UEFA Cup]] |- | align="center" | [[UEFA Cup 1993-94|1993-94]] | | align="left" | '''Olympiacos CFP''' - [[PFC Botev Plovdiv]] | | align="center" | '''5-1''' |- |} <br clear=all> Notes *3rd Qualification round |} ===UEFA Club Rankings=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- ! Rank !! Form !! Previous Rank !! Country !! Team !! Points |- |41||[[Image:RedDownArrow.svg|15px]]||24||{{flagicon|Scotland}}||[[Celtic F.C.]]||52.013 |- |42||[[Image:RedDownArrow.svg|15px]]||32||{{flagicon|Switzerland}}||[[FC Basel]]||51.993 |- |43||[[Image:RedDownArrow.svg|15px]]||20||{{flagicon|Netherlands}}||[[AFC Ajax]]||51.610 |- |'''44'''||[[Image:GreenUpArrow.svg|15px]]||'''52'''||{{flagicon|Greece}}||'''[[Olympiacos F.C.|Olympiacos]]'''||'''51.525''' |- |45||[[Image:GreenUpArrow.svg|15px]]||66||{{flagicon|Turkey}}||[[Fenerbahçe]]||51.468 |- |46||[[Image:GreenUpArrow.svg|15px]]||49||{{flagicon|Ukraine}}||[[Shakhtar Donetsk]]||49.932 |- |47||[[Image:GreenUpArrow.svg|15px]]||78||{{flagicon|England}}||[[Bolton Wanderers]]||46.914 |- |} ===UEFA club competition record=== ''As of [[30 May]] [[2008]].'' {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;" |- !|Competition !|Pld !|W !|D !|L !|GF !|GA |- | '''[[UEFA Champions League|ECCC]]'''||102||29||25||48||121||169 |- | '''[[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|ECWC]]'''||33||14||6||13||43||47 |- | '''[[UEFA Cup|UCUP]]'''||44||20||6||18||57||68 |- | '''[[UEFA Super Cup|SCUP]]'''||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- | '''[[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup|UIC]]'''||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- | '''[[Intercontinental Cup (football)|EUSA]]'''||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- | '''Total'''||'''179'''||'''63'''||'''37'''||'''79'''||'''221'''||'''284''' |} ==Supporters== [[Image:Gate7 against panathinaikos.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Inside the Karaiskákis Stadium during a game Olympiacos vs Panathinaikos]] {{see|Popularity of Greek teams}} Olympiacos has always been the most popular Greek team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tanea.gr//Article.aspx?d=19980203&nid=4001164&sn=ΟΜΑΔΑ&spid=227 |title=Πρώτος στις προτιμήσεις |publisher=[[Ta Nea]] |language=Greek |date=1998-02-03 |accessdate=2008-03-12}}</ref> The Reds, coming from the port of [[Athens]], [[Piraeus]], was the team of the [[working class]]. Since the 1950s when Olympiacos was the dominant, winning consecutive titles, their popularity increased throughout [[Greece]] and their fanbase was enlarged, to become the most well supported football club. In addition to this, Olympiacos attracted fans from all the social classes and their fanbase changed enough. Several newspapers and magazines have conducted polls during the last decade, which clearly - more or less - give Olympiacos as the most popular team, with a varying 30-35% among the fans, which corresponds to around two millions of supporters in Greece. According to these polls, Olympiacos is the most popular at alla ages, in the working and [[middle class]] and in all the education levels, while they are the most supported team in Athens, [[Central Greece]], the [[Peloponnese]] and [[Thessaly]]. In terms of politics, the vast majority of Olympiacos fans comes from the [[centre-right]] and [[centre-left]] of the [[political spectrum]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=110,dt=23.05.2004,id=24200380,32090684 |title=Οι μεγάλοι γίνονται μεγαλύτεροι |publisher=[[Eleftherotypia]] |language=Greek |date=2004-05-23 |accessdate=2008-03-12}}</ref> Olympiacos and [[Red Star Belgrade|FK Crvena Zvezda]] fans have developed a deep friendship. Many times Olympiacos supporters from several fan-clubs have attended Crvena Zvezda's matches, especially against their old rival [[FK Partizan]], and vice-versa. ==Rivalries== Olympiacos' main rival is [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]], in the so-called [[derby of the eternal enemies]]. Each game between these two clubs splits [[Athens]] and the whole of [[Greece]] in two. The rivalry is based on the social status of the fanbases and the fact that these are the most successful Greek clubs in [[Association football|football]] and the Greek sports in general. Olympiacos used to represent the working and the middle classes while Panathinaikos the upper class. Now the fanbases of both are almost similar. This derby is considered the classic derby of the capital and Greece, and exists in [[basketball]], [[volleyball]], [[water polo]] and other sports. Many times some violent incidents between the fans of the two sides have occurred, like the death of [[Mihalis Filopoulos]], a [[Panathinaikos]] fan, in a clash of [[Hooliganism|hooligans]] supporting the two clubs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=268759 |title=Fan’s Death Shocks Greece |publisher=Goal.com |language=English |date=2007-03-30 |accessdate=2008-03-12}}</ref> The next major rivals of Olympiacos are [[AEK Athens FC|AEK Athens]] and [[PAOK FC|PAOK]]. AEK is considered the third giant of Greek football, the animosity between the two clubs is intense and got worse when [[Dušan Bajević]] left AEK for Olympiacos in 1996. The rivalry [[Olympiacos and PAOK rivalry|Olympiacos against PAOK]] started in the 1960s when Olympiacos tried to acquire the "icon" of PAOK, [[Giorgos Koudas]]. Another classic rival of Olympiacos is [[Ethnikos Piraeus F.C.|Ethnikos Piraeus]], the second most successful club of [[Piraeus]] but this rivalry is not so fierce anymore due to the fact that Ethnikos plays in lower divisions the last years. The match against [[Aris Thessaloniki F.C.|Aris Thessaloniki]] also carries a certain rivalry towards it. ==Squad== {{main|Olympiacos F.C. season 2007-08}} === Current squad 2007/08 === {{Fs start}} {{Fs player|no=1|nat=Greece|name=[[Leonidas Panagopoulos]]|pos=GK}} {{Fs player|no=2|nat=Greece|name=[[Christos Patsatzoglou]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs player|no=3|nat=France|name=[[Didier Domi]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs player|no=4|nat=Brazil|name=[[Leonardo de Jesus Geraldo|Leonardo]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs player|no=5|nat=Greece|name=[[Georgios Galitsios]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs player|no=6|nat=Greece|name=[[Ieroklis Stoltidis]] ''([[vice-captain]])''|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=7|nat=Argentina|name=[[Luciano Galletti]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=8|nat=Spain|name=[[Oscar González Marcos|Óscar]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=9|nat=Serbia|name=[[Darko Kovačević]]|pos=FW}} {{Fs player|no=11|nat=Serbia|name=[[Predrag Đorđević]] ''([[captain (football)|captain]])''|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=14|nat=Poland|name=[[Michał Żewłakow]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs player|no=15|nat=Spain|name=[[Raúl Bravo]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs player|no=16|nat=Greece|name=[[Panayiotis Stamogiannos]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=18|nat=Greece|name=[[Paraskevas Antzas]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs player|no=19|nat=Greece|name=[[Konstantinos Mendrinos]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=20|nat=Greece|name=[[Lefteris Matsoukas]]|pos=FW}} {{Fs player|no=21|nat=Greece|name=[[Avraam Papadopoulos]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs mid}} {{Fs player|no=22|nat=Greece|name=[[Kostantinos Mitroglou]]|pos=FW}} {{Fs player|no=23|nat=Greece|name=[[Georgios Niklitsiotis]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=24|nat=Greece|name=[[Georgios Katsikogiannis]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=25|nat=Argentina|name=[[Fernando Belluschi]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=27|nat=Greece|name=[[Konstantinos Lambropoulos]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs player|no=29|nat=Argentina|name=[[Cristian Raúl Ledesma]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=30|nat=Greece|name=[[Anastasios Pantos]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs player|no=31|nat=Greece|name=[[Aristides Soiledis]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=32|nat=Democratic Republic of the Congo|name=[[Lomana LuaLua]]|pos=FW}} {{Fs player|no=35|nat=Greece|name=[[Vasilis Torosidis]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs player|no=50|nat=Slovakia|name=[[Pavel Kovać]]|pos=GK}} {{Fs player|no=71|nat=Greece|name=[[Antonis Nikopolidis]] ''([[vice-captain]])''|pos=GK}} {{Fs player|no=77|nat=Slovenia|name=[[Mirnes Sisič|Mirnes Šišić]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=92|nat=Greece|name=[[Kyriakos Papadopoulos]]|pos=DF}} {{Fs player|no=|nat=Greece|name=[[Andreas Vasilogiannis]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=|nat=Greece|name=[[Giannis Papadopoulos]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs player|no=|nat=Greece|name=[[Konstantinos Kotsaridis]]|pos=MF}} {{Fs end}} ==Squad Changes for 2007/2008 season== ===In:=== {{Fs start}} {{Fs player|no=5|nat=Greece|name=[[Georgios Galitsios]]|pos=DF}} ''(From [[Larissa F.C.|Larissa]] for €800,000)'' {{Fs player|no=8|nat=Spain|name=[[Oscar González Marcos|Óscar]]|pos=MF}} ''(From [[Real Zaragoza]] for €2,500,000)'' {{Fs player|no=21|nat=Greece|name=[[Avraam Papadopoulos]]|pos=DF}} ''(From [[Aris FC]] for €2,500,000)'' {{Fs player|no=50|nat=Slovakia|name=[[Pavel Kovac]]|pos=GK}} ''(From [[Apollon Kalamarias]] for €300,000)'' {{Fs player|no=--|nat=Greece|name=[[Giannis Papadopoulos]]|pos=MF}} ''(From [[Iraklis FC]] for €800,000)'' {{Fs end}} Total spending: {{loss}} € 6,900,000 ===Out:=== {{Fs start}} {{Fs player|no=5|nat=Brazil|name=[[Julio Cesar Santos Correa|Julio Cesar]]|pos=DF}} ''(Released)'' {{Fs player|no=10|nat=Argentina|name=[[Leonel Núñez]]|pos=FW}} ''(To [[Club Atlético Independiente|Independiente]] for € 2,500,000)'' {{Fs player|no=23|nat=Cyprus|name=[[Michalis Konstantinou]]|pos=FW}} ''(Released)'' {{Fs player|no=74|nat=Croatia|name=[[Tomislav Butina]]|pos=GK}} ''(Released)'' {{Fs player|no=77|nat=Brazil|name=[[Leozinho]]|pos=MF}} ''(Released)'' {{Fs player|no=87|nat=Greece|name=[[Michalis Sifakis]]|pos=GK}} ''(Released)'' {{Fs end}} Total income: {{profit}} € 2,500,000 ====Out on loan==== {{Fs start}} {{Fs player|no=13|nat=Hungary|name=[[Zsolt Laczko]]|pos=MF}} ''to [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]'' {{Fs end}} ===Managers=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Manager ! Assistant Manager ! Goalkeeping Coach ! Condition Trainer ! Director of Youth Football |- | '''[[Ernesto Valverde]]''' | '''Ion Aspiazu''' | '''Alekos Rantos''' | '''&ndash;''' | '''Herman Vermeulen''' |} ===Off-Season friendly matches for 2008/2009 season=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !|Teams !|Date !|Time !|Score !|Location !|Scorers |- | '''Olympiacos - SV Hull'''||[[4 July]]||17:00 LT||6-0||[[Seefeld, Tirol|Seefeld]], [[Austria]]||[[Aristides Soiledis|Soiledis]], [[Leonel Núñez|Núñez]], [[Darko Kovačević|Kovačević]], [[Mirnes Šišić|Šišić]], [[Kostantinos Mitroglou|Mitroglou]], [[Predrag Đorđević|Đorđević]] |- | '''Olympiacos - [[Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski|Grodzisk]]'''||[[10 July]]||18:00 LT||0-2||[[Seefeld, Tirol|Seefeld]], [[Austria]]||[[Filip Ivanovski|Ivanovski]], Mihalovski |- | '''FC Hemmen - Olympiacos'''||[[19 July]]||[[To be determined|TBD]]||-||[[Hemmen]], [[Netherlands]]||- |- | '''[[FC Groningen]] - Olympiacos'''||[[23 July]]||[[To be determined|TBD]]||-||[[Groningen (city)| Groningen]], [[Netherlands]]||- |- | '''[[FC Twente]] - Olympiacos'''||[[26 July]]||[[To be determined|TBD]]||-||Oldenzaac, [[Netherlands]]||- |- | '''Olympiacos - [[Getafe CF]]'''||[[31 July]]||22:00 LT||-||[[Pireaus]], [[Greece]]||- |- | '''Olympiacos - [[Racing de Santander|Racing Santander]]'''||[[6 August]]||22:00 LT||-||[[Pireaus]], [[Greece]]||- |} ==Club officials== ===Board of Directors=== *President: '''[[Sokratis Kokkalis]]''' *Vice-President: '''Giorgos Louvaris''' *Vice-President: '''[[Petros S. Kokkalis|Petros Kokkalis]]''' *Managing Director: '''[[Petros S. Kokkalis|Petros Kokkalis]]''' *General Manager: '''Ioannis Chrisikopoulos''' *Director of Football: '''Kiriakos Dourekas''' *Technical Manager: '''&ndash;''' ===Coaching Staff=== *Manager: '''[[Ernesto Valverde]]''' *Assistant Manager: '''Ion Aspiazu''' *Goalkeeping Coach: '''Alekos Rantos''' *Fitness Coach: '''Alexantro Caseres''' *Strength & Conditioning Coach: '''Nikos Karidas''' *Team Attendant: '''Petros Rigoutsos''' *Chief Scout & European Scout: '''Antreas Niniadis''' *Director of Youth Football: '''&ndash;''' ===Medical Staff=== *Club Doctor: '''Dr. Giannis Anagnostopoulos''' *Assistant Club Doctor: '''&ndash;''' *First Team Physiotherapist: '''Theodoros Balidis''' ==Sponsorship== *Official Shirt Sponsor - '''[[Vodafone]]''' *Official Sport Clothing Manufacturer - '''[[Puma AG|Puma]]''' *Official Athletism Sponsor - '''[[Citibank]]''' *Official Stadium Sponsor - '''[[Siemens]]''' *Official Communication Sponsor - '''[[Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi|ERT]]''' *Official Casual Clothing Manufacturer - '''Glou''' *Official Sport Drink - '''[[Powerade]]''' *Official Health Service Provider - '''Athens Medical Group''' ===Other Sponsors=== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} *'''[[Citröen]]''' *'''11880''' *'''General Union''' *'''[[Amstel (beer)|Amstel]]''' *'''Hellas On Line''' *'''[[Coca-Cola]]''' *'''[[TUI AG|TUI Hellas]]''' {{col-2}} *'''Tsakiris Chips''' *'''[[Trident (gum)|Trident]]''' *'''[[Stihl]]''' *'''[[Dia (supermarket chain)|DIA]]''' *'''[[Smirnoff]]''' *'''[[Experimental & Applied Sciences|EAS]]''' {{col-end}} ===Notable Former Players=== {{col-begin-small}} {{col-3}} ;Greece *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Alexandros Alexandris]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Nikos Anastopoulos]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Georgios Anatolakis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Dinos Andrianopoulos]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Giorgios Andrianopoulos]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Yiannis Andrianopoulos]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Leonidas Andrianopoulos]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Vassilis Andrianopoulos]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Thanassis Bebis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Nikos Dabizas]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Giorgos Darivas]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Kostas Davourlis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Georgios Delikaris]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Grigoris Georgatos]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Achilleas Grammatikopoulos]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Minas Hantzidis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Vassilis Karapialis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Kiriakos Karataidids|Kiriakos Karataidis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Fanis Katergiannakis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Savvas Kofidis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Takis Lemonis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Dimitris Mavrogenidis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Tasos Mitropoulos]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Andreas Mouratis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Andreas Niniadis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Kostas Polychroniou]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Ilias Poursanidis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Ilias Rossidis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Nikos Sarganis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Savvas Theodoridis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Giorgos Sideris]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Panagiotis Tsalouchidis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Nikos Tsiantakis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Stylianos Venetidis]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} [[Ilias Yfantis]] {{col-3}} ;Albania *{{flagicon|Albania}} [[Foto Strakosha]] ;Argentina *{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[Juan Gilberto Funes]] *{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[Gabriel Schurrer]] ;Australia *{{flagicon|Australia}} [[Chris Kalantzis]] ;Brazil *{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Giovanni Silva de Oliveira|Giovanni]] *{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Luciano de Souza|Luciano]] *{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Rivaldo]] *{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Zé Elias]] *{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Edu Dracena]] *{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Júlio César Santos Correa|Júlio César]] ;Bulgaria *{{flagicon|Bulgaria}} [[Emil Kremenliev]] ;Chile *{{flagicon|Chile}} [[Fabian Estay]] ;Colombia *{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[Jorge Bermúdez]] ;Cote d'Ivoire *{{flagicon|Côte d'Ivoire}} [[Yaya Touré]] ;Croatia *{{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Martin Novoselac]] ;Cyprus *{{flagicon|SCG}} {{flagicon|Cyprus}} [[Siniša Gogić]] *{{flagicon|Cyprus}} [[Michalis Konstantinou]] ;Denmark *{{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Bent Christensen Arensøe|Bent Christensen]] ;France *{{flagicon|Greece}} {{flagicon|France}} [[Romain Argyroudis]] *{{flagicon|France}} [[Christian Karembeu]] *{{flagicon|Greece}} {{flagicon|France}} [[Yves Triantafyllos]] {{col-3}} ;Hungary *{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Lajos Détári]] ;Mexico *{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[Nery Castillo]] ;Nigeria *{{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Rashidi Yekini]] ;Poland *{{flagicon|Poland}} [[Andrzej Juskowiak]] ;Russia *{{flagicon|USSR}} {{flagicon|Russia}} [[Yuri Savichev]] ;Serbia *{{flagicon|SCG}} [[Ilija Ivić]] *{{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} [[Miloš Šestić]] ;Slovenia *{{flagicon|Slovenia}} [[Zlatko Zahovič]] ;Sweden *{{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Pär Zetterberg]] ;Ukraine *{{flagicon|USSR}} {{flagicon|Ukraine}} [[Gennadiy Litovchenko]] *{{flagicon|USSR}} {{flagicon|Ukraine}} [[Oleg Protasov]] ;Uruguay *{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[Jorge Walter Barrios]] *{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[Vicente Estavillio]] *{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[Julio Losanta]] *{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[Milton Viera]] {{col-end}} ==Honours== '''''Total titles: 63''''' ===Domestic=== ====League==== *{{Sport honours|[[Super League Greece]]|36|1931, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, [[Alpha Ethniki 1965-66|1966]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1966-67|1967]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1972-73|1973]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1973-74|1974]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1974-75|1975]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1979-80|1980]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1980-81|1981]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1981-82|1982]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1982-83|1983]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1986-87|1987]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1996-97|1997]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1997-98|1998]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1998-99|1999]], [[Alpha Ethniki 1999-2000|2000]], [[Alpha Ethniki 2000-01|2001]], [[Alpha Ethniki 2001-02|2002]], [[Alpha Ethniki 2002-03|2003]], [[Alpha Ethniki 2004-05|2005]], [[Alpha Ethniki 2005-06|2006]], [[Super League Greece 2006-07|2007]], [[Super League Greece 2007-08|2008]]}} ====Cups==== *{{Sport honours|[[Greek Football Cup|Greek Cup]]|23| [[Greek Cup 1946-47|1947]], 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1981, 1990, 1992, 1999, 2005, [[Greek Cup 2005-06|2006]], [[Greek Cup 2007-08|2008]]}} *{{Sport honours|[[Greek Super Cup]]|3|1987, 1992, 2007}} ===European=== *{{Sport honours|[[Balkans Cup]]|1|[[Balkans Cup 1961-62|1963]]}} ===Other=== *{{Sport honours|[[The Double|Double]]|13|1947, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1973, 1975, 1981, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2008}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== <!--===========================({{NoMoreLinks}})===============================--> <!--| DO NOT ADD MORE LINKS TO THIS ARTICLE. 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