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[[Image:OSFP.gif|frame|Olympiakos - team crest]]Olympiakos F.C. was founded in 1925, when the members of "Piraeus Football Club" and of "Piraeus Fans Club" decided, during a historical assembly, the dissolution of the two clubs and the foundation of a new one. Notis Kamberos announced the name OLYMPIAKOS and Michalis Manouskos completed it to OLYMPIAKOS FAN CLUB OF PIRAEUS.
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{| style="border-collapse:collapse; font-size:90%;  text-align:left;" width=300 border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=#B0D3FB
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|-
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| colspan=2| [[Image:OSFP.gif|frame|center|OSFP - team crest]]
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|-
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!bgcolor=#efefef align=right|Teams Colors:
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| Red White
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!bgcolor=#efefef align=right|Sponsors:
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| Siemens, Puma, Citibank, Vodafone
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!bgcolor=#efefef align=right|Founded:
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| 1925
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!bgcolor=#efefef align=right|Address:
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| Alexandras Square - Zeas Port<br>Piraeus 185 34<br>Greece
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!bgcolor=#efefef align=right|Telephone:
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| +30 210-4143000
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!bgcolor=#efefef align=right|Fax:
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| +30 210-4143113/4
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!bgcolor=#efefef align=right|Email:
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|  info@olympiacos.org
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!bgcolor=#efefef align=right|Web Site:
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| [http://www.olympiacos.org/ olympiacos.org]
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!bgcolor=#efefef align=right|Stadium:
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| [[Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium|Georgios Karaiskakis]]
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!bgcolor=#efefef align=right|Capacity:
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| 33,500
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'''Olympiakos F.C.''' was founded in [[1925]], when the members of "Piraeus Football Club" and of "[[Piraeus Fans Club FC]]" decided, during a historical assembly, the dissolution of the two clubs and the foundation of a new one. Notis Kamberos announced the name OLYMPIAKOS and Michalis Manouskos completed it to OLYMPIAKOS FAN CLUB OF PIRAEUS.
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==The Legend==
 
The players of the newly founded Olympiakos were excellent. The Andrianopoulos brothers, however, were those who raised the reputation and added glory to the club. Children of a prosperous family, they made the name of Olympiakos known all over Greece.
 
The players of the newly founded Olympiakos were excellent. The Andrianopoulos brothers, however, were those who raised the reputation and added glory to the club. Children of a prosperous family, they made the name of Olympiakos known all over Greece.
  
[[Image:Adrianopoulos_Brothers.jpg|thumb|250px|The legendary Adrianopoulos brothers.]]Yiannis, Dinos, Giorgos and Vassilis were the first to play. Later on, Leonidas made his appearance, while Stelios also played for a short time. The five brothers in the offence became a legend. That's why Olympiakos is called "Legend". Olympiakos' emblem is a laurel-crowned adolescent and the club's colors are red-white.
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[[Image:Adrianopoulos_Brothers colour.jpg|thumb|250px|left|The legendary Andrianopoulos brothers.]][[Yiannis Andrianopoulos|Yiannis]], [[Dinos Andrianopoulos|Dinos]], [[Giorgos Andrianopoulos|Giorgos]] and [[Vasilis Andrianopoulos|Vassilis]] were the first to play. Later on, [[Leonidas Andrianopoulos|Leonidas]] made his appearance, while [[Stelios Andrianopoulos|Stelios]] also played for a short time. The five brothers in the offence became a legend. That's why Olympiakos is called "Legend". Olympiakos' emblem is a laurel-crowned adolescent and the club's colors are red-white.
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In [[1926]], at the first Greek Championship, Olympiacos had a dispute with the [[Hellenic Football Federation|EPO]] and the EPO banned all teams from playing against them. In the same year, [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[AEK FC|AEK]] banded with Olympiacos and formed POK, a group of the three main Athenian teams that showed solidarity against the EPO in response to their expulsion from the Greek League and all three teams were expelled from the league in [[1928]] for Olympiacos' sake. They were reinstated the next year.
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==A winning team==
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Olympiacos won the Greek Championship for the first time in the [[1931 Football Championship|1930-31]] period and has since become the most decorated Greek team winning the Greek Championship 32 times out of a total of 68. Indeed they have more championships to their name than arch-rivals [[AEK FC|AEK Athens]] and [[Panathinaikos FC]] put together.
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The [[World War II|second world war]] prefaced a golden era in the late [[1940s]] and [[1950s]], as Olympiacos collected nine league championships and eight Greek Cups. With key performers such as [[Andreas Mouratis]], [[Elias Rossidis]], [[Thanasis Bebis]], [[Elias Yfantis]], [[Kostas Polychroniou]], [[Giorgos Darivas]] and [[Savvas Theodoridis]], they won six consecutive titles from 1954-59. But even in the lean years, the club remained the team everyone wanted to beat.
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In 1963, Panathinaikos stood by Olympiacos and POK and it helped Olympiakos when, due to a conflict with the Greek Football Association, Olympiakos was not allowed to make use of the Karaiskaki stadium. As a result Olympiakos had no place to train or play. [[Loukas Panourgias]], a board member at Panathinaikos, arranged for [[Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium]] to be the temporary home of Olympiakos for its training and matches.
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The team also holds the record for the greatest number of consecutive Championships won: Seven during the 1996-[[1997|97]] to the 2002-[[2003|03]] periods. (Previous record was also held by Olympiakos: Six during the 1953-[[1954|54]] to 1958-[[1959|59]] period).
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Another glorious chapter began to unfold 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]]. The highlight for that side was the 1973/[[1974|74]] season, when Olympiakos won the league with a record tally of points (59) and of goals (102). It was a question, not of whether they would win, but of how many they would score.
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==The dark days==
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Olympiakos then lived their darkest days between the mid-1980s and mid-[[1990s|90s]].In the mid-[[1980s|80’s]] Olympiakos came into the hands of Greek tycoon [[George Koskotas]]. Soon after, Koskotas was accused of and convicted for embezzlement, leaving Olympiacos deep in debt. On the pitch, the team went ten years without a league title from 1987-97. But for the intervention of [[Constantine Mitsotakis]], Greece’s prime-minister at the time,  Olympiacos’s outstanding debts would have led to the club’s relegation. Instead, Mitsotakis passed Olympiakos on to [[Socrates Kokkalis]], a figure just as controversial as Koskotas, thus saving the club.
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==Modern era==
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[[Image:OSFP_champions.jpg|thumb|300px|Socrates Kokkalis celebrating with his players.]]The situation improved after Socrates Kokkalis took over Olympiakos's shares of in [[1993]], having agreed a settlement of the club's debts with the Greek government. Kokkalis slowly resurrected the team, his most significant step being to hire [[Dusan Bajevic]] as coach in the summer of [[1996]]. Ever since, Olympiakos have been Greek champions - even after Bajevic left in [[1999]].
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In the 2003-04 season Olympiakos finished second but came back to win the title again, with coach Dusan Bajevic, in [[2004]]-05. Dusan Bajevic was the man behind the Olympiakos success in the late [[1990s|90s]]. He was the man to put together and coach a team of great players, the likes of [[Predrag Djordjevic]], [[Grigoris Georgatos]], [[Stelios Giannakopoulos]], [[Giorgos Anatolakis]] etc.
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On [[April 27]], [[2005]], Olympiakos beat [[AEK FC|AEK]] during the end of the extra time, the score was 2-1.  Olympiakos advanced to the finals on Wednesday [[May 25]], [[2005]] and won the game against Aris winning one more double.
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After the playoffs and the victory, Olympiakos' previous coach Dusan Bajevic of Serbia resigned under the pressure of a fraction of the fans and also due to the indecisiveness of the board concerning his future. [[Trond Sollied]] of Norway replaced him who, in turn, was replaced in December of [[2006]] by [[Takis Lemonis]]. In March, [[2008]], Lemonis was sacked.
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Olympiakos' best moments in Europe came with appearances in the 1992/[[1993|93]] UEFA Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals - where they lost to Club Atlético de Madrid - and in the last eight of the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League, when Juventus FC beat them.
  
 
== Trophies ==
 
== Trophies ==
===Championships (33)===
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===Championships (45)===
 
{|
 
{|
|valign=top|<ol><li>1931
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|valign=top|<ol><li>[[1931 Football Championship|1931]]</li>
<li>1933
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<li>[[1933 Football Championship|1933]]</li>
<li>1934
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<li>[[1934 Football Championship|1934]]</li>
<li>1936
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<li>[[1936 Football Championship|1936]]</li>
<li>1937
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<li>[[1937 Football Championship|1937]]</li>
<li>1938
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<li>[[1938 Football Championship|1938]]</li>
<li>1947
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<li>[[1947 Football Championship|1947]]</li>
<li>1948
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<li>[[1948 Football Championship|1948]]</li>
<li>1951
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<li>[[1951 Football Championship|1951]]</li>
|valign=top|<ol start=10>
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<li>[[1954 Football Championship|1954]]</li>
<li>1954
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|valign=top|<ol start=11>
<li>1955
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<li>[[1955 Football Championship|1955]]</li>
<li>1956
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<li>[[1956 Football Championship|1956]]</li>
<li>1957
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<li>[[1957 Football Championship|1957]]</li>
<li>1958
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<li>[[1958 Football Championship|1958]]</li>
<li>1959
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<li>[[1959 Football Championship|1959]]</li>
<li>1966
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<li>[[1966 Football Championship|1966]]</li>
<li>1967
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<li>[[1967 Football Championship|1967]]</li>
<li>1973</ol>
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<li>[[1973 Football Championship|1973]]</li>
|valign=top|<ol start=19>
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<li>[[1974 Football Championship|1974]]</li>
<li>1974
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<li>[[1975 Football Championship|1975]]</li>
<li>1975
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|valign=top|<ol start=21>
<li>1980
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<li>[[1980 Football Championship|1980]]</li>
<li>1981
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<li>[[1981 Football Championship|1981]]</li>
<li>1982
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<li>[[1982 Football Championship|1982]]</li>
<li>1983
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<li>[[1983 Football Championship|1983]]</li>
<li>1987
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<li>1987</li>
<li>1997
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<li>1997</li>
<li>1998</td>
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<li>1998</li>
|valign=top|<ol start=28>
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<li>1999</li>
<li>1999
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<li>2000</li>
<li>2000
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<li>2001</li>
<li>2001
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|valign=top|<ol start=31>
<li>2002
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<li>2002</li>
<li>2003
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<li>2003</li>
<li>[[Football A Ethniki 2004|2004]]
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<li>2004</li>
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<li>2006</li>
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<li>2007</li>
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<li>2008</li>
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<li>2009</li>
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<li>2011</li>
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<li>2012</li>
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<li>2013</li>
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|valign=top|<ol start=41>
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<li>2014</li>
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<li>2015</li>
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<li>2016</li>
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<li>2017</li>
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<li>2020</li>
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<li>2021</li>
 
</ol>
 
</ol>
 
|}
 
|}
  
=== Cups (21) ===
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=== [[Greek Football Cup|Cups]] (28) ===
 
{|
 
{|
 
|valign=top|<ol>
 
|valign=top|<ol>
<li>1947
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<li>1947</li>
<li>1951
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<li>1951</li>
<li>1952
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<li>1952</li>
<li>1953
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<li>1953</li>
<li>1954
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<li>1954</li>
<li>1957</ol>
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<li>1957</li>
|valign=top|<ol start=7><li>1958
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<li>1958</li></ol>
<li>1959
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|valign=top|<ol start=8><li>1959</li>
<li>1960
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<li>1960</li>
<li>1961
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<li>1961</li>
<li>1963
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<li>1963</li>
<li>1965</ol>
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<li>1965</li>
|valign=top|<ol start=13><li>1968
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<li>1968</li>
<li>1971
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<li>1971</li></ol>
<li>1973
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|valign=top|<ol start=15><li>1973</li>
<li>1975
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<li>1975</li>
<li>1981
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<li>1981</li>
<li>1990</ol>
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<li>1990</li>
|valign=top|<ol start=19><li>1992
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<li>1992</li>
<li>1999
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<li>1999</li>
<li>[[Football Cup 2004|2004]]</ol>
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<li>2004</li></ol>
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|valign=top|<ol start=22><li>2006</li>
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<li>2008</li>
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<li>2009</li>
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<li>2012</li>
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<li>2013</li>
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<li>2015</li>
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<li>2020</li>
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|}
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== Star Players ==
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Some of the best players to wear Olympiakos' jersey:
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=== 30s - 40s ===
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*[[Yiannis Andrianopoulos]]
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*[[Giorgos Andrianopoulos]]
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*[[Dinos Andrianopoulos]]
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*[[Vasilis Andrianopoulos]]
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*[[Leonidas Andrianopoulos]]
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*[[Stelios Andrianopoulos]]
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*[[Kostas Klidouchakis]]
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*[[Christoforos Rangos]]
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*[[Yiannis Vazos]]
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*[[Stelios Vazos]]
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*[[Theologos Symeonidis]]
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*[[Achilleas Grammatikopoulos]]
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*[[Philippos Kourantis]]
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*[[Aris Chrysafopoulos]]
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*[[Orestes Kokkinakis]]
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*[[Dimitris Sofras]]
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*[[Kostas Terezakis]]
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*[[Tasos Dioletis]]
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*[[Charalambos Pezonis]]
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*[[Vasan Vazikian]]
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*[[Nikos Grigoratos]]
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*[[Panagiotis Koroneos(footballer)|Panagiotis Koroneos]]
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*[[Lalis Lekkos]]
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*[[Grigoris Kounelis]]
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*[[Yiakoumis Alifrangis]]
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*[[Kostas Yiannaros]]
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*[[Kostas Schinas]]
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*[[Giorgos Vagiakakos]]
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*[[Panagiotis Dotsikas]]
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*[[Lazaros Katsiyiannis]]
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*[[Dimitris Livas]]
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*[[Kostas Pavlou]]
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*[[Dinos Vellas]]
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*[[Sotiris Panoliaskos]]
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*[[Vasilis Koskinas]]
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*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]]
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*[[Stelios Kourouklatos]]
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*[[Mimis Apostolopoulos]]
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*[[Dionysios Minardos]]
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*[[Angelos Vasiliadis]]
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*[[Nikos Vasiliou]]
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*[[Nikos Panopoulos]]
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*[[Giorgos Piliouris]]
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*[[Yiannis Theodoridis]]
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*[[Nikos Karnesis]]
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*[[Vasilis Zarkadis]]
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*[[Panagis Korsianos]]
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*[[Lakis Anamateros]]
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*[[Avgoustis Remoundos]]
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*[[Giorgos Malevris]]
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*[[Yiannis Helmis]]
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*[[Aristides Louvaris]]
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*[[Nikos Zakkas]]
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*[[Andreas Mouratis]]
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*[[Lefteris Triantafyllou]]
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*[[Loukianos Giokas]]
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=== 50s - 60s ===
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*[[Giorgos Darivas]]
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*[[Kostas Karapatis]]
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*[[Gerasimos Yermenis]]
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*[[Babis Drosos]]
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*[[Thanasis Bebis]]
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*[[Elias Rossidis]]
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*[[Babis Kotridis]]
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*[[Yiannis Ioannou]]
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*[[Vasilis Xanthopoulos]]
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*[[Sotiris Gavetsos]]
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*[[Savvas Theodoridis]]
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*[[Giorgos Kansos]]
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*[[Giorgos Kopanidis]]
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*[[Petros Christofidis]]
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*[[Themistocles Moustaklis]]
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*[[Thanasis Soulis]]
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*[[Kostas Karpathakis]]
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*[[Elias Yfantis]]
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*[[Stavros Tsochos]]
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*[[Kostas Polychroniou]]
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*[[Kostas Mesolongitis]]
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*[[Mimis Stefanakos]]
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*[[Filippos Tsantakis]]
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*[[Vangelis Karafoulidis]]
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*[[Kostas Papazoglou]]
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*[[Nikos Kambolis]]
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*[[Tasos Sourounis]]
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*[[Michalis Soulandros]]
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*[[Giorgos Laimos]]
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*[[Fotis Dakouvanos]]
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*[[Giorgos Sideris]]
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*[[Stathis Tsanaktzis]]
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*[[Stelios Psychos]]
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*[[Antonis Poseidon]]
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*[[Yiangos Simantiris]]
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*[[Paraschos Avgitidis]]
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*[[Takis Spetseris]]
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*[[Panagiotis Barbalias]]
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*[[Lakis Sofianos]]
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*[[Mimis Plessas (football)|Mimis Plessas]]
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*[[Vangelis Milisis]]
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*[[Stefanos Eliadis]]
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*[[Savvas Sfairopoulos]]
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*[[Kyriakos Kalkitanidis]]
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*[[Yiannis Frantzis]]
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*[[Thrasyvoulos Kambouropoulos]]
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*[[Savvas Papazoglou]]
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*[[Thanasis Loukanidis]]
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*[[Argyris Neofotistos]]
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*[[Pavlos Grigoriadis]]
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*[[Pavlos Vasiliou]]
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*[[Panagiotis Kyprianidis]]
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*[[Aristides Papazoglou]]
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*[[Yiannis Gaitatzis]]
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*[[Orestes Pavlidis]]
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*[[Nikos Tzinis]]
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*[[Grigoris Aghanian]]
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*[[Antonis Tzanetoulakos]]
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*[[Vasilis Botinos]]
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*[[Christos Zanteroglou]]
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*[[Yiannis Fronimidis]]
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*[[Kostas Diamantopoulos]]
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*[[Nikos Gioutsos]]
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*[[Takis Xarchakos]]
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*[[Alekos Livadas]]
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*[[Antonis Dermatis]]
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*[[Vasilis Siokos]]
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*[[Dimitris Rallis]]
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*[[Tasos Bountouris]]
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*[[Apostolos Kois]]
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*[[Stergios Stergiou]]
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*[[Giorgos Stoligas]]
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*[[Thanasis Angelis]]
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*[[Manolis Levantis]]
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*[[Giorgos Aravantinos]]
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*[[Nikos Tzortzis]]
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*[[Vangelis Liadelis]]
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*[[Miltiades Koumarias]]
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*[[Vasilis Liakos]]
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*[[Antonis Grypaios]]
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=== 70s - 80s ===
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{| width=90%
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*[[Diego Aguirre]]
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*[[Kostas Aidiniou]]
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*[[Roger Albertsen]]
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*[[Antonio Alchibar]]
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*[[Alexis Alexiou]]
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*[[Thomas Alstrom]]
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*[[Nikos Anastopoulos]]
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*[[Kyriakos Androutsos]]
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*[[Makis Angelinas]]
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*[[Antonis Antoniadis]]
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*[[Stratos Apostolakis]]
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*[[Romain Argyroudis]]
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*[[Christos Arvanitis]]
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*[[Haris Baniotis]]
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*[[Jorge Barrios]]
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*[[Andreas Bonovas]]
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*[[Vasilis Chardalias]]
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*[[Makis Chavos]]
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*[[Roland Courbis]]
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*[[Aris Damianidis]]
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*[[Kostas Davourlis]]
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*[[Giorgos Delikaris]]
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*[[Lajos Detari]]
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*[[Elias Diamantopoulos]]
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*[[Apostolos Drakopoulos]]
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*[[Vicente Estavillo]]
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*[[Manolis Forakis]]
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*[[Juan Gilberto Funes]]
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*[[Maik Galakos]]
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*[[Giorgos Gavasiadis]]
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*[[Sotiris Georgoudakis]]
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*[[Fotis Gerolimatos]]
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*[[Apostolos Glezos]]
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*[[Yiannis Gounaris]]
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*[[Savvas Gregory]]
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*[[Minas Hadjidis]]
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*[[Agapios Kaltaveridis]]
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*[[Christos Kaltsas]]
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*[[Petros Kanellos]]
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*[[Spiros Kapernekas]]
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*[[Giorgos Kapouranis]]
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*[[Nikos Kapsimalis]]
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*[[Petros Karavitis]]
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*[[Thomas Karipidis]]
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*[[Antonis Kasdovasilis]]
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*[[Jacek Kazimierski]]
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*[[Thomas Katsavakis]]
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*[[Panayiotis Kelesidis]]
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*[[Giorgos Kokolakis]]
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*[[Giorgos Kostikos]]
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*[[Kyriakos Koureas]]
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*[[Thanasis Kourkouvelas]]
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*[[Vangelis Kousoulakis]]
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*[[Nikos Kriezis]]
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*[[Michalis Kritikopoulos]]
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*[[Yiannis Kyrastas]]
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*[[Yiannis Lalas]]
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*[[Takis Lemonis]]
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*[[Leonidas Leonidou]]
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*[[Kostas Liolios]]
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*[[Julio Losada]]
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*[[Nikos Mariolis]]
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*[[Petros Michos]]
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*[[Michalis Milonas]]
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*[[Tasos Mitropoulos]]
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*[[Giorgos Moukeas]]
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*[[Sakis Moustakidis]]
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*[[Dimitris Muller]]
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*[[Nikos Nentidis]]
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*[[Miguel Nikolau]]
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*[[Takis Nikoloudis]]
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*[[Martin Novoselac]]
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*[[Kostas Orfanos]]
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*[[Theodoros Pachatouridis]]
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*[[Theodoros Pallas]]
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*[[Charalambos Papadopoulos|Pampoulis]]
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*[[Vasilis Papachristou]]
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*[[Yiotis Papadimitriou]]
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*[[Manolis Papadopoulos]]
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*[[Stavros Papadopoulos]]
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*[[Yiannis Papamichail]]
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*[[Vasilis Papangelis]]
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*[[Yiannis Papatheodorou]]
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*[[Tasos Pappas]]
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*[[Rafael Perone]]
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*[[Meletis Persias]]
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*[[Dimitris Persidis]]
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*[[Giorgos Plitsis]]
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*[[Lefteris Poupakis]]
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*[[Giorgos Prokovas]]
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*[[Christos Pseftis]]
 +
*[[Alekos Rantos]]
 +
*[[Thomas Rohrbach]]
 +
*[[Hokan Sandberg]]
 +
*[[Kostas Saraliotis]]
 +
*[[Nikos Sarganis]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Semertzidis]]
 +
*[[Milos Sestic]]
 +
||
 +
*[[Takis Sofianopoulos]]
 +
*[[Niels Sorensen]]
 +
*[[Vasilis Sorotos]]
 +
*[[Derrick Spence]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Spiropoulos]]
 +
*[[Babis Stavropoulos]]
 +
*[[Takis Synetopoulos]]
 +
*[[Stephanos Theodoridis]]
 +
*[[Elias Talikriadis]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Togias]]
 +
*[[Yves Triantafillos]]
 +
*[[Yiotis Tsalouchidis]]
 +
*[[Nikos Tsiantakis]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Tzikitzelas]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Vaitsis]]
 +
*[[Nikos Vamvakoulas]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Vasilopoulos]]
 +
*[[Milton Viera]]
 +
*[[Vasilis Vouzas]]
 +
*[[Petros Xanthopoulos]]
 +
*[[Theodoros Zeledidis]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Zindros]]
 +
*[[Andreas Zoannos]]
 +
|}
 +
 
 +
=== 90s - 2000s ===
 +
{| width=90%
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|- valign=top
 +
||
 +
*[[Alekos Alexandris]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Amanatidis]]
 +
*[[Kofi Amponsah]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Anatolakis]]
 +
*[[Paraskevas Antzas]]
 +
*[[Aruna Babangida]]
 +
*[[Bozidar Bandovic]]
 +
*[[Daniel Batista]]
 +
*[[Fernando Belluschi]]
 +
*[[Felix Borja]]
 +
*[[Raul Bravo]]
 +
*[[Erol Bulut]]
 +
*[[Tomislav Butina]]
 +
*[[Nery Castillo]]
 +
*[[Julio Cesar Santos Correa|Julio Cesar]]
 +
*[[Nikos Dabizas]]
 +
*[[Matt Derbyshire]]
 +
*[[Diogo Luis Santos|Diogo]]
 +
*[[Predrag Djordjevic]]
 +
*[[Didier Domi]]
 +
*[[Dudu Cearense|Dudu]]
 +
*[[Dimitris Eleftheropoulos]]
 +
*[[Fabian Estay]]
 +
*[[Yiannis Fetfatzidis]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Galitsios]]
 +
*[[Luciano Galletti]]
 +
*[[Grigoris Georgatos]]
 +
*[[Stelios Giannakopoulos]]
 +
*[[Giovanni Silva de Oliveira|Giovanni]]
 +
*[[Sinisa Gogic]]
 +
*[[Takis Gonias]]
 +
*[[Vasilis Ioannidis (OSFP)|Vasilis Ioannidis]]
 +
*[[Ilija Ivic]]
 +
||
 +
*[[Andrzej Juskowiak]]
 +
*[[Pantelis Kafes]]
 +
*[[Alekos Kaklamanos]]
 +
*[[Chris Kalantzis]]
 +
*[[Michalis Kapsis]]
 +
*[[Christian Karembeu]]
 +
*[[Vasilis Karapialis]]
 +
*[[Theofilos Karasavvidis]]
 +
*[[Koulis Karataidis]]
 +
*[[Savvas Kofidis]]
 +
*[[Michalis Konstantinou]]
 +
*[[Pavel Kovac]]
 +
*[[Darko Kovacevic]]
 +
*[[Emil Kremenliev]]
 +
*[[Cristian Ledesma]]
 +
*[[Leonardo de Jesus Geraldo|Leonardo]]
 +
*[[Sebastian Leto]]
 +
*[[Gennadi Litovchenko]]
 +
*[[Lomana LuaLua]]
 +
*[[Enzo Maresca]]
 +
*[[Petros Marinakis]]
 +
*[[Dimitris Mavrogenidis]]
 +
*[[Kostas Mendrinos]]
 +
*[[Kostas Mitroglou]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Mitsibonas]]
 +
*[[Vasilis Mouratidis]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Niklitsiotis]]
 +
*[[Antonios Nikopolidis]]
 +
*[[Andreas Niniadis]]
 +
*[[Leonel Nunez]]
 +
*[[Peter Ofori-quaye]]
 +
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]
 +
*[[Oscar Gonzalez Marcos|Oscar]]
 +
 
 +
 
 +
||
 +
*[[Tasos Pantos]]
 +
*[[Avraam Papadopoulos]]
 +
*[[Yiannis Papadopoulos]]
 +
*[[Petros Pasalis]]
 +
*[[Christos Patsatzoglou]]
 +
*[[Oleg Protasov]]
 +
*[[Savvas Poursaitidis]]
 +
*[[Elias Poursanidis]]
 +
*[[Rivaldo]]
 +
*[[Zizi Roberts]]
 +
*[[Refik Sabanadzovic]]
 +
*[[Elias Sapanis]]
 +
*[[Yuri Savichev]]
 +
*[[Elias Savvidis]]
 +
*[[Gabriel Schurrer]]
 +
*[[Stelios Sfakianakis]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Skartados]]
 +
*[[Ieroklis Stoltidis]]
 +
*[[Foto Strakosha]]
 +
*[[Kyriakos Tochouroglou]]
 +
*[[Vasilis Torosidis]]
 +
*[[Yaya Toure]]
 +
*[[Grigoris Troupkos]]
 +
*[[Stavros Tziortzopoulos]]
 +
*[[Spyros Vallas]]
 +
*[[Mirsa Varesanovic]]
 +
*[[Stelios Venetidis]]
 +
*[[Michalis Vlachos]]
 +
*[[Rashid Yekini]]
 +
*[[Kleopas Yiannou]]
 +
*[[Jaouad Zairi]]
 +
*[[Michal Zewlakow]]
 
|}
 
|}
  
 +
=== 2010s - present ===
 +
{| width=90%
 +
|- valign=top
 +
||
 +
*[[Djamel Abdoun]]
 +
*[[Roy Carroll]]
 +
*[[Franco Costanzo]]
 +
*[[Ljubomir Fejsa]]
 +
*[[Kostas Fortounis]]
 +
*[[David Fuster]]
 +
*[[Jose Holebas]]
 +
*[[Moises Hurtado]]
 +
*[[Ariel Ibagaza]]
 +
*[[Javito]]
 +
||
 +
*[[Giorgos Katsikoyiannis]]
 +
*[[Colin Kazim-Richards]]
 +
*[[Jean Makoun]]
 +
*[[Yiannis Maniatis]]
 +
*[[Ivan Marcano]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Masouras]]
 +
*[[Balazs Megyeri]]
 +
*[[Kevin Mirallas]]
 +
*[[Francois Modesto]]
 +
*[[Vicente Monje]]
 +
||
 +
*[[Pablo Orbaiz]]
 +
*[[Marko Pantelic]]
 +
*[[Tasos Papazoglou]]
 +
*[[Alekos Paschalakis]]
 +
*[[Yiannis Potouridis]]
 +
*[[Albert Riera]]
 +
*[[Dennis Rommedahl]]
 +
*[[Kostas Tzolakis]]
 +
*[[Francisco Yeste]]
 +
 +
 +
|}
  
 +
==Coaches==
 +
*[[Yiannis Andrianopoulos]] ([[1925]]-[[1927]])
 +
*[[Jan Kopsiva]] ([[1927]]-[[1930]], [[1933]]-[[1934]], [[1936]]-[[1937]])
 +
*Josef Kovacs ([[1930]]-[[1932]])
 +
*Tibor Esser ([[1932]]-[[1933]])
 +
*Peter Pispalou ([[1934]]-[[1935]])
 +
*[[Nikos Panopoulos]] ([[1935]]-[[1936]])
 +
*Peter Lanz ([[1937]]-[[1938]])
 +
*[[Themos Asderis]] ([[1945]]-[[1947]])
 +
*[[Theologos Symeonidis]] ([[1948]]-[[1950]], [[1954]]-[[1955]])
 +
*[[Kostas Negrepontis]] ([[1955]])
 +
*[[Vangelis Helmis]] ([[1950]]-[[1954]], [[1956]], [[1962]]-[[1963]])
 +
**[[Yiannis Helmis]] - assistant
 +
*Dragisevic ([[1956]]-[[1957]])
 +
*[[Tibor Kemeny]] ([[1957]]-[[1958]])
 +
*[[Bruno Vale]] ([[1958]]-[[1960]])
 +
*[[Djina Simonovski]] ([[1960]]-[[1962]])
 +
*[[Alekos Hadjistavridis]] ([[1962]])
 +
*[[Andras Dolgos]] ([[1963]]-[[1964]])
 +
*[[Nandor Cserna]] ([[1964]]-[[1965]])
 +
*[[Marton Bukovi]] ([[1965]]-[[1967]])
 +
**[[Mihaly Lantos]] - assistant
 +
*[[Thanasis Soulis]] ([[1967]]-[[1968]])
 +
*[[Ljubisa Spaic]] ([[1968]]-[[1969]])
 +
*[[Thanasis Bebis]] ([[1969]], [[1983]], [[1985]])
 +
*[[Stjepan Bobek]] ([[1969]]-[[1970]])
 +
*[[Elias Yfantis]] ([[1970]])
 +
*[[Dan Georgiadis]] ([[1970]] - [[1971]])
 +
*[[Giorgos Darivas]] ([[1971]])
 +
*[[Lakis Petropoulos]] ([[1971]], [[1972]]-[[1975]])
 +
*[[Alan Ashman]] ([[1972]])
 +
*[[Giorgos Darivas]] ([[1971]], [[1976]])
 +
*[[Vic Buckingham]] ([[1975]]-[[1976]])
 +
*[[Les Shannon]] ([[1976]]-[[1977]])
 +
*[[Toza Veselinovic]] ([[1977]]-[[1980]])
 +
*[[Kazimierz Gorski]] ([[1980]]-[[1981]], [[1983]])
 +
*[[Helmut Senekowitsch]] ([[1981]])
 +
*[[Alketas Panagoulias]] ([[1981]]-[[1983]], [[1986]]-[[1987]])
 +
*[[Heinz Hoeher]] ([[1983]])
 +
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1983]]-[[1984]], [[1994]])
 +
*[[Georg Kessler]] ([[1984]]-[[1985]])
 +
*[[Antonis Georgiadis]] ([[1985]]-[[1986]], [[1993]])
 +
*[[Pavlos Grigoriadis]] ([[1987]], [[1988]])
 +
*[[Thijs Librechts]] ([[1987]]-[[1988]], [[1994]]-[[1995]])
 +
*[[Jacek Gmoch]] ([[1988]]-[[1989]])
 +
*[[Yiannis Gounaris]] ([[1989]])
 +
*[[Miltos Papapostolou]] ([[1989]])
 +
*[[Imre Komora]] ([[1989]]-[[1990]])
 +
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1990]]-[[1993]])
 +
*[[Ljubomir Petrovic]] ([[1993]])
 +
*[[Kostas Polychroniou]] ([[1993]]-[[1994]])
 +
*[[Nikos Gioutsos]] ([[1994]])
 +
*[[Stavros Diamantopoulos]] ([[1995]]-[[1996]])
 +
*[[Meletis Persias]] ([[1996]])
 +
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[1996]]-[[1999]], [[2004]]-[[2005]])
 +
*[[Alberto Bigon]] ([[1999]]-[[2000]])
 +
*[[Yiannis Mantzourakis]] ([[2000]])
 +
*[[Srecko Katanec]] ([[2002]]-[[2003]])
 +
*[[Trond Sollied]] ([[2005]]-[[2006]])
 +
*[[Takis Lemonis]] ([[2001]]-[[2002]], [[2006]]-[[2008]])
 +
*[[Jose Segura]] ([[2008]])
 +
*[[Temuri Ketsbaia]] ([[2009]])
 +
*[[Zico]] ([[2009]] - [[2010]])
 +
*[[Bozidar Bandovic]] ([[2010]])
 +
*[[Ewald Lienen]] ([[2010]])
 +
*[[Ernesto Valverde]] ([[2008]] - [[2009]], [[2010]] - [[2012]])
 +
*[[Leonardo Jardim]] ([[2012]] - [[2013]])
 +
*[[Antonis Nikopolidis]] ([[2013]])
 +
*[[Vitor Pereira]] ([[2015]])
 +
*[[Marco Silva]] ([[2015]] - [[2016]])
 +
*[[Paulo Bento]] ([[2016]] - [[2017]])
 +
*[[Pedro Martins]] ([[2018]] - [[2022]])
 +
*[[Carlos Corberan]] ([[2022]])
 +
*[[Michel]] ([[2013]] - [[2015]], [[2022]] - present)
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OSFP - team crest
Teams Colors: Red White
Sponsors: Siemens, Puma, Citibank, Vodafone
Founded: 1925
Address: Alexandras Square - Zeas Port
Piraeus 185 34
Greece
Telephone: +30 210-4143000
Fax: +30 210-4143113/4
Email: [email protected]
Web Site: olympiacos.org
Stadium: Georgios Karaiskakis
Capacity: 33,500


Olympiakos F.C. was founded in 1925, when the members of "Piraeus Football Club" and of "Piraeus Fans Club FC" decided, during a historical assembly, the dissolution of the two clubs and the foundation of a new one. Notis Kamberos announced the name OLYMPIAKOS and Michalis Manouskos completed it to OLYMPIAKOS FAN CLUB OF PIRAEUS.

The Legend

The players of the newly founded Olympiakos were excellent. The Andrianopoulos brothers, however, were those who raised the reputation and added glory to the club. Children of a prosperous family, they made the name of Olympiakos known all over Greece.

The legendary Andrianopoulos brothers.

Yiannis, Dinos, Giorgos and Vassilis were the first to play. Later on, Leonidas made his appearance, while Stelios also played for a short time. The five brothers in the offence became a legend. That's why Olympiakos is called "Legend". Olympiakos' emblem is a laurel-crowned adolescent and the club's colors are red-white.


In 1926, at the first Greek Championship, Olympiacos had a dispute with the EPO and the EPO banned all teams from playing against them. In the same year, Panathinaikos and AEK banded with Olympiacos and formed POK, a group of the three main Athenian teams that showed solidarity against the EPO in response to their expulsion from the Greek League and all three teams were expelled from the league in 1928 for Olympiacos' sake. They were reinstated the next year.

A winning team

Olympiacos won the Greek Championship for the first time in the 1930-31 period and has since become the most decorated Greek team winning the Greek Championship 32 times out of a total of 68. Indeed they have more championships to their name than arch-rivals AEK Athens and Panathinaikos FC put together.

The second world war prefaced a golden era in the late 1940s and 1950s, as Olympiacos collected nine league championships and eight Greek Cups. With key performers such as Andreas Mouratis, Elias Rossidis, Thanasis Bebis, Elias Yfantis, Kostas Polychroniou, Giorgos Darivas and Savvas Theodoridis, they won six consecutive titles from 1954-59. But even in the lean years, the club remained the team everyone wanted to beat.

In 1963, Panathinaikos stood by Olympiacos and POK and it helped Olympiakos when, due to a conflict with the Greek Football Association, Olympiakos was not allowed to make use of the Karaiskaki stadium. As a result Olympiakos had no place to train or play. Loukas Panourgias, a board member at Panathinaikos, arranged for Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium to be the temporary home of Olympiakos for its training and matches.

The team also holds the record for the greatest number of consecutive Championships won: Seven during the 1996-97 to the 2002-03 periods. (Previous record was also held by Olympiakos: Six during the 1953-54 to 1958-59 period).

Another glorious chapter began to unfold 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. The highlight for that side was the 1973/74 season, when Olympiakos won the league with a record tally of points (59) and of goals (102). It was a question, not of whether they would win, but of how many they would score.

The dark days

Olympiakos then lived their darkest days between the mid-1980s and mid-90s.In the mid-80’s Olympiakos came into the hands of Greek tycoon George Koskotas. Soon after, Koskotas was accused of and convicted for embezzlement, leaving Olympiacos deep in debt. On the pitch, the team went ten years without a league title from 1987-97. But for the intervention of Constantine Mitsotakis, Greece’s prime-minister at the time, Olympiacos’s outstanding debts would have led to the club’s relegation. Instead, Mitsotakis passed Olympiakos on to Socrates Kokkalis, a figure just as controversial as Koskotas, thus saving the club.

Modern era

Socrates Kokkalis celebrating with his players.

The situation improved after Socrates Kokkalis took over Olympiakos's shares of in 1993, having agreed a settlement of the club's debts with the Greek government. Kokkalis slowly resurrected the team, his most significant step being to hire Dusan Bajevic as coach in the summer of 1996. Ever since, Olympiakos have been Greek champions - even after Bajevic left in 1999.

In the 2003-04 season Olympiakos finished second but came back to win the title again, with coach Dusan Bajevic, in 2004-05. Dusan Bajevic was the man behind the Olympiakos success in the late 90s. He was the man to put together and coach a team of great players, the likes of Predrag Djordjevic, Grigoris Georgatos, Stelios Giannakopoulos, Giorgos Anatolakis etc.

On April 27, 2005, Olympiakos beat AEK during the end of the extra time, the score was 2-1. Olympiakos advanced to the finals on Wednesday May 25, 2005 and won the game against Aris winning one more double.

After the playoffs and the victory, Olympiakos' previous coach Dusan Bajevic of Serbia resigned under the pressure of a fraction of the fans and also due to the indecisiveness of the board concerning his future. Trond Sollied of Norway replaced him who, in turn, was replaced in December of 2006 by Takis Lemonis. In March, 2008, Lemonis was sacked.

Olympiakos' best moments in Europe came with appearances in the 1992/93 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals - where they lost to Club Atlético de Madrid - and in the last eight of the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League, when Juventus FC beat them.

Trophies

Championships (45)

  1. 1931
  2. 1933
  3. 1934
  4. 1936
  5. 1937
  6. 1938
  7. 1947
  8. 1948
  9. 1951
  10. 1954
  1. 1955
  2. 1956
  3. 1957
  4. 1958
  5. 1959
  6. 1966
  7. 1967
  8. 1973
  9. 1974
  10. 1975
  1. 1980
  2. 1981
  3. 1982
  4. 1983
  5. 1987
  6. 1997
  7. 1998
  8. 1999
  9. 2000
  10. 2001
  1. 2002
  2. 2003
  3. 2004
  4. 2006
  5. 2007
  6. 2008
  7. 2009
  8. 2011
  9. 2012
  10. 2013
  1. 2014
  2. 2015
  3. 2016
  4. 2017
  5. 2020
  6. 2021

Cups (28)

  1. 1947
  2. 1951
  3. 1952
  4. 1953
  5. 1954
  6. 1957
  7. 1958
  1. 1959
  2. 1960
  3. 1961
  4. 1963
  5. 1965
  6. 1968
  7. 1971
  1. 1973
  2. 1975
  3. 1981
  4. 1990
  5. 1992
  6. 1999
  7. 2004
  1. 2006
  2. 2008
  3. 2009
  4. 2012
  5. 2013
  6. 2015
  7. 2020

Star Players

Some of the best players to wear Olympiakos' jersey:

30s - 40s

50s - 60s

70s - 80s

90s - 2000s


2010s - present


Coaches