Olympiacos F.C.
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Olympiacos F.C. (Greek: ΠΑΕ Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. [olibiaˈkos]), known simply as Olympiacos or Olympiacos Piraeus, is a Greek professional football club based in Piraeus. Part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP (Olympiakós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós, "Olympic Association of Piraeus Sportsmen"), their name was inspired from the ancient Olympic Games and along with the club's emblem, the laurel-crowned Olympic athlete, symbolize the Olympic ideals of ancient Greece.[3] Their home ground is the Karaiskakis Stadium, a 33,334-capacity stadium in Piraeus.[4]
Full name | Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς
Olympiakos Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós (Olympic Association of fans of Piraeus) | |||
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Nickname(s) | Thrylos (Legend) Erythroleykoi (Red-Whites) | |||
Founded | 10 March 1925; 99 years ago (1925-03-10) | |||
Ground | Karaiskakis Stadium | |||
Capacity | 33,334[1][2] | |||
Owner | Evangelos Marinakis | |||
President | Evangelos Marinakis | |||
Manager | José Luis Mendilibar | |||
League | Super League Greece | |||
2023–24 | Super League Greece, 3rd of 14 | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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Founded on 10 March 1925, Olympiacos is the most successful club in Greek football history,[5] having won 47 League titles, 28 Cups (18 doubles), 4 Super Cups, all records[6] and two International titles, the UEFA Europa Conference League in 2023–24 and the Balkans Cup in 1963.[7]. Τotalling 81 titles (79 National and 2 International titles), Olympiacos is 9th in the world in total titles won by a football club.[8] The club's dominating success can be further evidenced by the fact that all other Greek clubs have won a combined total of 41 League titles, while Olympiacos also holds the record for the most consecutive Greek League titles won, with seven in a row in two occasions (1997–2003 and 2011–2017), breaking their own previous record of six consecutive wins in the 1950s (1954–1959), when Olympiacos was unequivocally nicknamed Thrylos. (Greek: Θρύλος, "The Legend"). Having won the 2014–15 League title, Olympiacos became the only football club in the world to have won a series of five or more consecutive championships for five times in their history, a record that was praised by FIFA with a congratulatory letter of its president, Sepp Blatter.[9] They are also the only Greek club to have won six consecutive national Cups (1957–1963) as well as six League titles undefeated (1937, 1938, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1955).[10] Olympiacos are one of only three clubs to have never been relegated from the top flight of Greek football, and by winning the 2012–13 title, their 40th in total, they added a fourth star above their crest, each one representing 10 League titles.[11]
Internationally, Olympiacos is the only Greek football club in history to have won a major European trophy, winning the UEFA Europa Conference League in 2023–24. With their 2024 triumph, they became the first club outside the biggest four European leagues (Premier League, Serie A, La Liga and Bundesliga) to win a UEFA competition since 2011.[12][13] They are also the highest ranked Greek club in the UEFA rankings, occupying the 36th place in the ten-year ranking,[14] and the 43rd in the five-year ranking as of 2024.[15] They are one of the founding members of the European Club Association.[16]
Olympiacos is the most popular football club in Greece,[17][18][19] and gathering strong support from Greek communities all over the world.[20][21] With 83,000 registered members as of April 2006, the club was placed 9th in the 2006 list of football clubs with the most paying members in the world; that figure increased to 98,000 in 2014.[22] Olympiacos share a long-standing rivalry with Panathinaikos, with whom they contest in the "derby of the eternal enemies", the most classic football derby in Greece and one of the most well known around the world.[23][24][25][26][27][28][29]