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The '''Karaiskaki Stadium''' is located in the [[Piraeus]] suburb of [[Neo Faliro]]. It is the home ground for the [[football (soccer)|football]] section of the [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] sports club. The stadium is named after [[Georgios Karaiskakis]], hero of the [[Greek Revolution]] of [[1821]] for national independence.

It was used during the [[1896 Summer Olympics]] as a velodrome where Frenchman Paul Masson took the three track cycling gold medals.

The Stadium was renovated during in [[1964]] and again in [[2004]] into a 33,334 capacity all seater stadium ready for the football competition of the [[2004 Summer Olympics]].

The last renovation took a record time of only 14 months, finishing just in time for the Olympic Games.

After the last deal ended in 1998, [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] are now using the stadium once again, on loan from 2003 and until 2052 and is traditionally labelled as the club's true home. The ticket sales average higher than any team's in recent decades for the [[Football A Division|National A Division]] history and are not expected to drop in the forseeable future.

Sales for national team matches have also been impressively higher, but this is for the most part due to [[National Football Team|Greece's]] success in [[Euro 2004]]

==External link==
*[http://www.athens2004.com/en/Venues/venues?oid=ac0802b31af59f00VgnVCMServer28130b0aRCRD Athens 2004 website]

[[Category:Athens Olympic venues]]
[[Category:Football venues in Greece]]

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-The '''Karaiskaki Stadium''' is located in the [[Piraeus]] suburb of [[Neo Faliro]]. It is the home ground for the [[football (soccer)|football]] section of the [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] sports club. The stadium is named after [[Georgios Karaiskakis]], hero of the [[Greek Revolution]] of [[1821]] for national independence.
+The '''Karaiskaki Stadium''' is located in [[Neo Faliro]], [[Piraeus]]. It is the home ground for the [[football (soccer)|football]] section of the [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] sports club. The stadium is named after [[Georgios Karaiskakis]], hero of the [[Greek Revolution]] of [[1821]] for national independence.
-It was used during the [[1896 Summer Olympics]] as a velodrome where Frenchman Paul Masson took the three track cycling gold medals.
+It was used during the [[1896 Summer Olympics]] as a velodrome where Frenchman Paul Masson took the three track cycling gold medals and was known as the "Velodrome" ("Podilatodromio") until [[1939]] when it received its present name.
 The Stadium was renovated during in [[1964]] and again in [[2004]] into a 33,334 capacity all seater stadium ready for the football competition of the [[2004 Summer Olympics]].

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 ==External link==
 *[http://www.athens2004.com/en/Venues/venues?oid=ac0802b31af59f00VgnVCMServer28130b0aRCRD Athens 2004 website]
 [[Category:Athens Olympic venues]]
 [[Category:Football venues in Greece]]