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Olympiacos CFP

File:Olympiakos4.svg
Full name	Olympiacos CFP (Template:Polytonic)
Nickname(s)	Erythrolefki (Red-Whites) Thrylos (Legend) Gavroi (Anchovies)
Founded	1925
Ground	Karaiskaki Stadium, Piraeus, Greece
Capacity	33,334
Chairman	Sokratis Kokkalis
Manager	Trond Sollied
League	Super League Greece (Σούπερ Λίγκα Ελλάδα 2007)
2005-06	Champions
Home colours Away colours

Olympiacos CFP is the most popular and one of the largest multisport club in Greece.With activities in 17 different competitive departments, including football, all of which are prominent and have won many distinctions around the world, it is one of the largest and most successful sports clubs in the world and the most successful in Greece. The total number of athletes of Olympiacos is more than 3,800, the ranks of which include Olympic winners and World Champions. The club boasts European and international titles in football (soccer), basketball (Olympiacos BC), volleyball (Olympiacos SC), waterpolo and athletics. Fans point out as remarkable the fact that Olympiacos is the only Greek sports club to have done the Treble in two different sports and additionally the only one to have won european titles in three of the 4 most popular team sports (Basketball, volleyball, waterpolo and they have also won a Balkans Cup in football).

Supporters

Olympiacos is the most popular club of Greece, as the researches related to the fanbases of the greek teams have shown. In the past the great percentage of Olympiacos fans came from the working class represented mostly in Piraeus and other Athens lower-class regions, something that has changed a lot and now Olympiacos does not really represent any particular social group. They are also supported by strong economical and political groups.

The fiercest rivalry of Olympiacos is with their eternal enemy Panathinaikos, which is the most classic derby of Athens and whole Greece. The rivalry exists in terms of topicality (Piraeus vs downtown Athens), popularity (they are the most popular clubs), the past social background differencies (Olympiacos was the working class team while Panathinaikos represented the middle and higher class) and the antagonism for the biggest greek sports club. All these make this derby one of the biggest in Europe.

Other important rivals are AEK Athens (the third giant of Athens) and PAOK from Thessaloniki. Especially the matches against PAOK are believed to be the most classic Athens vs Thessaloniki (or South vs North) rivalry and the hatred between their fans is extreme. Ethnikos Piraeus is the classic Olympiacos rival in Piraeus.

Olympiacos fans are in good relationship with the fans of Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrad) and fans of each team are often present in some important matches of the other, especially at the derbies against the arch-rivals Panathinaikos (PAOK as well) and Partizan respectively.

Olympiacos Football Club

With an outstanding 34 national championships in football in 70 seasons, Olympiakos is the most successful team in Greece. According to the current world club ranking of the International Federation of Football and Statistics for the year ending November 30, 2006 , Olympiacos is No. 55 in the World. (AEK is No.45 and Panathinaikos is No.81).

History

Domestic history

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 new unified one. Notis Kamberos announced the name "Olympiacos" and Michalis Manouskos completed it to its full name, "Olympiacos Fan Club 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 Olympiakos known all over Greece. Yiannis, 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, Olympiakos is also known as Thrilos(Legend). The team's emblem is a laurel-wreath-crowned-teenager.

Olympiakos immediately caught the attention of locals, with the team filling the Piraeus Velodrome (now the Karaiskakis stadium); back then their fanbase consisted mainly of the working class.

In 1926 the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) was founded and in 1927 organized the first Greek Championship. However in the following season (1928/29) Olympiacos came to a dispute with the Hellenic Football Federation and did not participate. Panathinaikos and AEK Athens FC decided to follow Olympiakos and together they formed a group called P.O.K.. During that season they played friendly games with each other.The second Greek Championship took place in 1929/30 with the champions of the regional leagues of Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki playing in Playoffs in order to determine the national champion. Up to 1959 the Greek Championship, then known as the Pan-Hellenic Championship, was organized this way. The first championship as a national league was held in the 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 6 Championships in 11 seasons and by 1960 they had won 15 Championships in 23 seasons as well as 9 National Cups making for 6 Doubles. The legendary Olympiacos team of the 50s, with key performers such as Andreas Mouratis, Elias Rossidis, Thanassis Bebis, Elias Yfantis, Kostas Polychroniou, Giorgos Darivas and Savas Theodoridis, won the title 6 consecutive times, from 1954 to 1959, combining it with the cup in 1957, 1958 and 1959 to celebrate the only 3rd double in a row to have ever been won in Greek Football history.

It is worth mentioning that Olympiakos for several seasons was not allowed to make use of the Karaiskaki Stadium and, with permission from Panathinaikos, found a temporary home in “Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium”.

The 60s and the early 70s were not as fruitful for Olympiakos, the club having won just 5 Championships and 8 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. The highlight for that side was the 1973/74 season, when Olympiakos won the league with record points (59) and goals (102). Under Goulandris Presidency, Olympiacos won the title 3 times in a row. Following Goulandris resignation from the presedency in 1975, the team went through a relative "dry" period in the second half of the 70s. However in the early 80s, Olympiacos emerged again as the dominant power in the Greek football winning the title 4 times in a row (1980,1981,1982,1983). Key players during this period included forward Nikos Anastopoulos, midfielder Tasos Mitropoulos and goalkeeper Nikos Sarganis.

Olympiakos experienced its darkest days from the mid-1980s until the mid-90s. In the mid 80s Olympiakos came into the hands of Greek businessman George Koskotas. Soon Koskotas was accused of and convicted for embezzlement, leaving Olympiakos deep in debt. On the pitch, the team without a serious management went nine seasons without a league title (1987/88 to 1995/96).

The situation improved after Socrates Kokkalis took over Olympiakos's shares in 1993. Having agreed to a settlement of the club's debts with the Greek government (a long term deal acoording 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 Dusan Bajevic, who had just left AEK Athens FC following a clash with the management team regarding financial issues and uncertainty. The same season Kokkalis signed for the red-whites all the young talents he could find in the Greek market, such as Predrag Djorgevic, Grigoris Georgatos, Stelios Giannakopoulos, Giorgos Anatolakis and eventually Dimitris Mavrogenidis, Alexis Alexandris, Giorgos Amanatidis, Andreas Niniadis, all of which proceeded to play for Olympiakos for at least 5 years and became household names.

Hence Olympiacos' "decade of domination" began, with success attracting players of international magnitude like Zlatko Zahovič, Giovanni, Rivaldo and World Champion Christian Karembeu. Olympiacos won seven consecutive Championships (beating their own record of 6), with their best campaign ironically being Bajevic's, in 1999, when they celebrated the double. Following coaches had big shoes to fill and Kokkalis wasn't prepared to give them time to do it: Olympiacos employed 11 coaches in just 4 years. The most known are Ioannis Matzourakis (now coaching Skoda Xanthi), Takis Lemonis (Levadiakos), Oleg Protasof, Sinica Gogic 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 season Olympiacos had the advantage over AEK FC as they've beat it twice (2-3 and 4-3), while they secured the 2002/03 Championship on goal difference, as Panathinaikos had won 3-2 the first game, but was destroyed 3-0 in the second to last game of the season.

In the 2003/04 season, Olympiacos finished second to the reformed Panathinaikos after switching 3 coaches in a year, loosing the championship for the first time after seven years of absolute dominance!

For the 2004/05 season, Olympiakos appointed again Dusan Bajevic and transferred 1999 World Footballer of the Year and reigning World Champion Brazilian Rivaldo. The end of the season found Olympiakos with both domestic trophies (Championship and the Greek Cup) but without their manager Dusan Bajevic, 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, Olympiacos achieved to win all the 4 derbies against their major rivals, Panathinaikos and AEK, something only achieved once more, during the season 1972/73. The combined goal total in these 4 matches was 11-3 in favour of Olympiacos. They beat their 2nd biggest rival AEK Athens 3-0 in the Greek Cup Final to clinch their 2nd straight double.

After that, Socrates Kokkalis put full faith in Trond Sollied and signed 7 players according to his recommendations, in hoping that the club will achieve the double for the 3rd straight time for only the second time in Greek Footballing history.

European campaigns

Despite their long presence on the Champions League groups, Olympiacos has yet to win a single away game. On 31 away games in total they have 0 wins, 7 ties and 24 defeats, they tend to be a strong home team though. Olympiacos is also the team to suffer the worst defeat in Champions League history by suffering a 7-0 defeat in Turin against Juventus in 2003, but also managed a great 6-2 victory against the finalsts of the previous year Bayer Leverkusen at Rizoupoli Stadium (Athens) in 2002. Despite their unrivalled domestic domination, Olympiacos rarely perform well at European level.

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

Season	Round	Notes
Champions League
1998-99	Quarterfinal	eliminated by Juventus
Cup Winners Cup
1992-93	Quarterfinal	eliminated by Atlético Madrid

In 1998-1999, last Olympiacos was drawn in Group A for the UEFA Champions League, along with Ajax Amsterdam, FC Porto and Dinamo Zagreb “Thrylos” typically won all 3 home games, but also managed to secure 2 away draws and a ticket to the quarter-finals.

There they met Juventus F.C. In the first leg at Delle Alpi, Juventus beat Olympiacos 2-1 which meant that Olympiacos only needed a 1-0 victory to proceed to the semi-finals. A vintage performance, scoring early with Sinisa Gogic and never allowing their opponents to create chances, was 5 minutes away to making that scenario come true. Dimitris Eleftheropoulos, Olympiacos’ goalkeeper, however, misjudged the flight of the ball in a seemingly harmless cross and Juventus had the last laugh and escaped with a 1-1 draw, 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 won him the UEFA Champions League Goalkeeper of the Competition even, they still held him responsible for the disqualification and to this day there is no conversation about the ’98-’99 campaign without a mention of the keeper’s error.

Arguably the most impressive incident supporting this folklore tale is the 2001-2002 UEFA Champions League away match 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 the final 2-2 draw.

In 2004-2005 Olympiacos was drawn in Group A once again, this time against Liverpool FC, AS Monaco FC and Deportivo. Rivaldo made an inspiring debut for Olympiacos, in Spain against his former Spanish team Deportivo but “Thrylos” only managed to get a draw. The team predictably won all three home games in the freshly renovated Georgios 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 2 teams that have managed to collect 10 points and not qualify for the next round. They went to Anfield to play the last match against Liverpool FC and in order to progress they had either to not lose, or to score and not lose by more than one goal.

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. Despite that Olympiacos needed to concede three goals in the second half to be eliminated, Liverpool achieved to score those three goals (3-1) which marked the premature end of yet another Olympiacos UEFA Champions League Campaign. Liverpool FC were the ones to progress and they, incidentally, went on to actually lift the trophy, producing a similar display in the final.

Olympiacos’ 2004-2005 European effort didn’t end there however, as they were seeded to continue in the UEFA Cup. They were drawn against French team FC Sochaux for the round of 32 and proceeded thanks to 2 more 1-0 victories. In the round of sixteen they faced Newcastle United and were easily eliminated with two losses, thus putting an end to the club’s third most successful European Campaign.

Current squad

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	MF	GRE	Pantelis Kafes
2	DF	GRE	Christos Patsatzoglou
3	DF	FRA	Didier Domi
5	DF	GRE	Michalis Kapsis
6	MF	GRE	Ieroklis Stoltidis
7	MF	MEX	Nery Castillo
8	MF	SRB	Milos Maric
9	FW	CYP	Ioannis Okkas
10	MF	BRA	Rivaldo
11	MF	SRB	Predrag Đorđević
14	DF	POL	Michał Żewłakow
16	MF	CIV	Marco Ne
17	MF	GRE	Giannis Taralidis
18	FW	ECU	Félix Borja
19	DF	GRE	Athanasios Kostoulas
21	MF	GRE	Grigorios Georgatos

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	MF	TUR	Erol Bulut
23	FW	CYP	Michalis Konstantinou
28	MF	GRE	Konstantinos Mendrinos
30	DF	GRE	Anastasios Pantos
32	DF	GRE	Georgios Anatolakis
33	GK	BEL	Erwin Lemmens
34	GK	GRE	Kleopas Giannou
36	MF	GRE	Giannoulis Fakinos
40	FW	NGA	Haruna Babangida
55	DF	BRA	Julio Cesar Santos Correa
71	GK	GRE	Antonios Nikopolidis
74	GK	CRO	Tomislav Butina
77	FW	GRE	Charilaos Pappas
87	GK	GRE	Leonidas Panagopoulos
88	MF	SRB	Miloš Marić

Squad changes during 2006/2007 season

In:

• Tomislav Butina
• Abdeslam Ouaddou
• Felix Borja
• Marco Ne
• Michal Zewlakow
• Didier Domi
• Julio Cesar Santos Correa
• Charilaos Pappas return from Apollon Kalamarias

Out:

• Gabriel Schurrer free transfer to Málaga CF
• Tasos Kyriakos free transfer to Aris Thessaloniki
• Spyros Vallas on loan to AE Larisa
• Dimitris Mavrogennidis free transfer to Iraklis Thessaloniki
• Stelios Venetidis free transfer to AEL 1964
• Alexandre Joaquim D'Akol on loan to Kerkyra FC
• Yaya Touré transferred to AS Monaco
• Daniel Garcia Lara free transfer
• Abdeslam Ouaddou free transfer (Dec. 2006)

Selected Former Players

Alekos Alexandris , Nikos Anastopoulos, Dinos Andrianopoulos Giorgos Andrianopoulos Vassilis Andrianopoulos Yiannis Andrianopoulos Thanasis Bebis, Vassilis Botinos, Georgios Delikaris, Mike Galakos, Stelios Giannakopoulos, Nikos Gioutsos, Achilleas Grammatikopoulos Christos Kaltsas, Nikos Kambolis, Vassilis Karapialis, Kyriakos Karataidis, Babis Kotridis Antonis Antoniadis Tasos Mitropoulos Andreas Mouratis Takis Lemonis

Ilias Rossidis Nikos Sarganis Georgios Sideris, Yves Triantafyllos, Giotis Tsalouchidis, Nikos Tsiantakis, Giannis Vazos Ilias Yfantis, Julio Losanta, Emil Kremenliev, Rashidi Yekini, Giovanni Silva de Oliveira, Zé Elias, Fabian Estay, Bent Christensen, Christian Karembeu, Lajos Détári, Pär Zetterberg, Oleg Protasov, Gennadiy Litovchenko Miloš Šestić Zlatko Zahovič

Football Club Honours

(Total Titles: 59)

• 34 Championships: 1931, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1966, 1967, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
• 22 Cups: 1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1981, 1990, 1992, 1999, 2005, 2006
• 2 Super Cups: 1987, 1992
• 1 Balkan Cup: 1963

source: Hellenic Football Federation http://www.epo.gr

Olympiacos Basketball Club

Main article: Olympiacos BC

Olympiacos BC is a Greek basketball team. A part of the Olympiacos CFP family, the team was founded in 1925, and is one of the oldest and most tradition-rich clubs in Europe. Olympiacos is typically a strong contender in both the Greek League and the Euroleague. The team is frequently referred to as the "Chicago Bulls of Europe," due to the fact that the two clubs wear the same colours and had played an exhibition game in 1997, during the Bulls' NBA dynasty. Their greatest success was a magnificent run during the 90s,winning 5 Greek championships in a row and 2 Greek cups, also by participating in 3 Euroleague final four competitions and winning in 1997 in Rome the Euroleague title(in the past two competitions they managed to eliminate their rivals Panathinaikos in the semifinal). Last but not least they had the major honour when FIBA selected Olympiacos as the Best Team of the 90s in Europe.

Basketball Club Honours

(Total Titles: 17)

   * 9 A1 Championships: 1949, 1960, 1976, 1978, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
   * 7 Cups: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1994, 1997, 2002
   * 1 Euroleague: 1997

The most successful season for Olympiacos is 1996-1997 when they won the Triple Crown (the Greek Championship, Greek Cup and Euroleague), achievement which remains unbeatable by any other Greek team. The only European team that achieved such a tremendous achievement is CSKA Moscow in 2006.

Olympiacos Volleyball Club

Main article: Olympiakos SC

The men's volleyball department is among the oldest and most historic departments of the Club. It was established in 1930 and is almost a "permanent resident" at the top of Hellenic Volleyball, having won 21 National Championships and 10 Hellenic Cups. Olympiacos Volleyball team is ranked among the top European teams with a constant presence at the European Championships finals and two Cup of Cups in 1996 & 2005.

Honours

• Greek Championships: 22
  • 1968, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
• Greek Cups: 11
  • 1981, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001
• Super Cup: 1
  • 2000
• European Cup Winners Cup\Top Teams Cup: 2
  • 1996, 2005

Olympiacos Water Polo Club

Olympiacos is among the founding members of the Hellenic Federation of Swimming Fans. Today the Federation has been renamed to Hellenic Federation of Swimming. During the history of water polo Olympiacos boasts a brilliant course marked with Championships and success both in Greece and abroad.

(Total Titles: 31)

• 19 Championships: 1933, 1934, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1969, 1971, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
• 9 Cups: 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
• 1 European Champions League: 2002
• 1 European Super Cup: 2002

• 2 Championship (women): 1995, 1998

The greatest moment in the club's history was its victory in the 2002 European Champions Cup, after beating Honved in the final. Olympiacos had also played in the final of the previous year, as well as two European Cup finals in the late 90's. In 2002, Olympiacos also won the European Super Cup, after beating in the final the European Cup-Winner.

Swimming Department

The swimming department was established roughly at the same time as Olympiacos S.C. itself, in 1925. The club is considered a "champion for life" in swimming and has produced legendary athletes, who were prominent in Greece and distinguished themselves in European and World Events.

(Total Titles: 47)

• 48 Greek championships - 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Sailing Department

The sailing department was established in 1963 and since then, has won Olympic distinctions (3 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals), 2 gold medals in World Championships as well as 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medal in European Championships. It should be noted that the sailing department successfully organized the FINN World Championships in 1998 and 2002 at the club's new marine training facilities in Alexandras Square, Piraeus. The leading athlete in the FINN Category is World Champion and Olympiacos athlete, Aimilios Papathanassiou.

Titles (35):

• 35 Men's Championships:

Dragon: 1970, 1971, 1972.

Finn: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.

Laser: 1976.

Optimist: 1987.

Soling: 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993.

Star: 1986, 1987, 1995.

Table Tennis Department

The Table Tennis Department (Ping-Pong) was established in 1959 and has both a Men's and a Women's division. From 1962 to1967 they won every single women's Hellenic Championship, while from 1967 to 1986 they won all Hellenic Championships in the mixed categories. In the last few years, having benefited by the sponsorship of Thrilos SA, they have emerged even more confidently in title - challenging and have achieved important distinctions both in the men's and in the women's divisions.

(Total Titles: 30)

Men Single (4): 1980, 2003, 2004, 2005
Men Cup (3): 2003, 2004, 2005
Women Single (14): 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1975, 1981, 1982, 1983, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006
Women Cup (9): 1965, 1966, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2001, 2005, 2006

Boxing Department

The boxing department was established in 1948 and from 1968 until 1975 kept winning the Hellenic Championship. In 1970 they won the title in all categories! The department continues to produce athletes of the highest standards and often Pan-hellenic champions, while it boasts international achievements, as in the case of Vassilis Papoutsakis and Constantinos Petropoulos, who won 2nd place in their categories at the European Championship in 2001 and Vaggelis Papoutsakis 3rd place at the World Championship in 2001.

(Total Titles: 3)

• 3 Championship 1970, 1971, 1973

Track & Field Department

The track and field department was established in November 16, 1953 and since then it has produced Olympic medalists as well as World, European, Mediterranean, Balkan and Pan-Hellenic Champions. The department boasts some of the best athletes in the track and field events both in Greece and worldwide. Cases in point are Kenteris, Thanou, Maniani, Voggoli, Xanthou, Meletoglou, Dimotsios, Doupis, Polias, Polymerou, Papadias, Devetzi, Halkia, Karastamati, Iltsios, Redoumi, Papagianni and more

Titles:

• 1 Open Club's Championship (Men): 2000.

• 1 Open Greek Championship (Men): 2006.

Shooting Department

The shooting departments is amongst the most upwardly mobile departments of Olympiacos. Its ranks include World Champion Yorgos Salavadakis, while Olympiacos athletes N. Sakelaropoulos, K. Savorianakis and Stylianos Karabinakis are part of the Hellenic National Team.

Weight Lifting Department

The weightlifting department began its activities in 1960 and is made up of the Men's, Adolescents, Youth and Children's divisions, while five of the club's athletes are part of the Hellenic National Team. To name a few of our athletes, Christos Spyrou (7th place at the Sydney 2000 Olympics), Yorgos Vitsaras, Efthymis Vitsaras, Dionyssis Bazinas, Kimonas Stavrou. The Department participates in all three divisions of the Pan-hellenic Championship (A, B, C).

Wrestling Department

The wrestling department has been functioning for more than 30 years and includes the Men's, Adolescents and Children's divisions. In 1977-78 Olympiacos wrestling team won the Hellenic Championship and that same year participated in the European Cup. It should be noted that the wrestling department has produced distinguished athletes. The younger generation is continuing the tradition of success such as Xenofon Koutsioumbas 3rd place at the Men's World Championship in 2001 and 3rd place at the European Championship in 2003 and Yorgos Koutsioumbas 3rd place at the Adolescent's World Championship in 2001 and 6th place at the European Championship in 2002.

• 2 Championships 1978, 2006

Tennis Department

The tennis department was established in 1998 and is already successful, considering it has won a few distinctions in the children's and adolescents' tournaments where it has participated so far

Rowing Department

The Rowing Department was established in 1927 and it boasts big achievements and distinctions in the Hellenic and European Championships. The department includes rowing, canoe-kayak, kayak polo and kayak slalom. The new marine training facilities of Olympiacos in Alexandras Square have boosted the athletes of the department, who now train under excellent circumstances, that help them achieve their athletic goals

See also

• Olympiacos BC ,the basketball department of Olympiacos
• Karaiskaki Stadium
• Piraeus
• Faliro
• Olympic Games
• Super League Greece
• UEFA Champions League
• Football in Greece
• Football Clubs
• Sports
• Football

External links

• Red Empire - Videos, Photos and more The biggest red multimedia database
• Greek wikipedia entry
• PEFO Lavriou (news from Lavrio Pefo Club)
• [http://www.redordead7.gr (forum,video,photo,chat,Daily briefing )
• Official Website Greek or English
• Athens Club Of GATE7(Forum,Downloads,videos,sounds,news etc.)
• Rivaldo Official Website in 3 languages
• Puma Official Website for Rivaldo
• Karaiskaki Stadium official website
• Information and photos of Karaiskaki Stadium
• PEFO Netherlands- All the latest news about Olympiacos in English
• Thrylos Fans Network in Greek
• RED - DNA in Greek
• Red Wired Fans RWF
• Michalis Konstantinou Michalis Konstantinou Official Website.
• Antonis Nikopolidis Antonis Nikopolidis Official Website.
• Julio CesarJulio Cesar Official Website.
• Olympiacos Official website for Gate 7 tragedy 8/2/1981 karaiskaki stadium tragedy of Gate 7 where 21 people died after watching a football match against AEK FC