Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) is a major
multi-sport club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
based in
Piraeus
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,
Greece
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. Olympiacos is parent to a number of different competitive departments which participate in
football,
basketball
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,
volleyball
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,
water polo
Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...
,
handball,
athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competi ...
,
swimming
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,
table tennis
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and
boxing
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amongst many othersand have won numerous European and domestic titles over the club's history.
Olympiacos CFP is one of the most successful and
decorated multi-sport clubs in
Europe
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,
being the only Greek club, as well as one of the few European multi-sport clubs to have won as many as
19 International titles –including
17 major European titles, 1 Intercontinental title and 1 Balkan title– in five sports (
Football,
Basketball
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,
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...
,
Water Polo
Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...
,
Wrestling
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) (no other Greek club have won more than seven European titles). Overall, Olympiacos is the most successful Greek multi-sport club in terms of International titles won (
19), European titles won (
17), European Championships won (
8), participations in European and International finals (
42 –19 times Champions, 23 times Runners-up–) and the only Greek multi-sport club to have won European titles in three different
team sport
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s (
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
,
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...
,
water polo
Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...
). They have won European titles with six of their sports departments (
men's basketball,
men's volleyball,
women's volleyball,
men's water polo,
women's water polo
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,
men's wrestling),
while no other multi-sport club in Greece has more than two European title-winning sports departments.
[ Ελληνικοί αθλητικοί σύλλογοι με διεθνή τρόπαια (in Greek)]
Specifically,
Olympiacos Football Team has won 1
Balkans Cup (
1963
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),
Olympiacos Men's Basketball Team have won 3
Euroleagues (
1997
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,
2012
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,
2013
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)
and 1
FIBA Intercontinental Cup
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(
2013
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),
Olympiacos Men's Volleyball Team have won 2
CEV Cup
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Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup. In 2000 it was renamed CEV Top Teams Cup and in 2007 it was renamed CE ...
s (1996, 2005),
Olympiacos women's volleyball team have won 1
CEV Challenge Cup
The CEV Challenge Cup is the third tier official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe.
It started in the 1980–81 season under the name CEV Cup. In 2007 it was renamed CEV Challenge Cup.
History
* CEV Cup (1980 ...
(
2018
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),
Olympiacos Men's Water Polo Team have won 2
LEN Champions Leagues (
2002,
2018
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),
and 1
LEN Super Cup
The LEN Super Cup is an annual water polo match organized by LEN and contested by the reigning champions of the two European club competitions, the LEN Champions League and the LEN Euro Cup.
From 1976 to 2002, the LEN Super Cup was contested betwe ...
(2002),
Olympiacos women's water polo team have won 3
LEN Euro Leagues (
2015,
2021
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,
2022
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), 1
LEN Trophy
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History
Names of the competiti ...
(
2014
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) and 3
LEN Super Cups (2015, 2021, 2022) and
Olympiacos Men's Wrestling Team has won 1 European CELA Cup (2006). In total, Olympiacos departments (Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Water Polo, Wrestling)
have reached 42 times the final (19 times Champions, 23 times Runners-up) of the most prestigious and important European and Worldwide competitions, which is an all-time record for a Greek multi-sport club.
The club has also won one
Triple Crown
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* Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
* Tri ...
in
Men's basketball in
1997
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(
FIBA Euroleague,
Greek League,
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most ...
), two Quadruple Crowns in 2002 and 2018 in
Men's water polo (
2002 LEN Chanpions League,
2002 LEN Super Cup,
2002 Greek Championship,
2002 Greek Cup –
2018 LEN Champions League,
2018 Greek Championship,
2018 Greek Cup, 2018 Greek Super Cup), two Quadruple Crowns in 2021 and 2022 (
2021 LEN Euro League,
2021 LEN Super Cup, 2021 Greek League, 2021 Greek Cup –
2022 LEN Euroleague,
2022 LEN Super Cup,
2022 Greek League,
2022 Greek Cup) and one continental Treble in 2015 (
2015 LEN Euroleague,
2015 LEN Super Cup The 2015 LEN Super Cup was a water polo
Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing ...
,
2015 Greek League) in
women's water polo
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and one continental Treble
in
women's volleyball in 2018 (
CEV Challenge Cup
The CEV Challenge Cup is the third tier official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe.
It started in the 1980–81 season under the name CEV Cup. In 2007 it was renamed CEV Challenge Cup.
History
* CEV Cup (1980 ...
,
Greek championship
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,
Greek Cup
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The Greek Cup is the second most ...
).
With the 2002 achievement,
Olympiacos Men's Water Polo Team became the first club ever in
Water polo
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history (since the establishment of the modern Champions League format in 1996) to win four out of four competitions in a single year, thus completing the quadruple.
[Εγραψε ιστορία! Ο λόγος για τον Ολυμπιακό που έγραψε τη δική του χρυσή ιστορία στο πόλο αφού κέρδισε 6–5 την ουγγρική Βάσας μέσα στο σπίτι της και είναι η μοναδική ομάδα στην ιστορία του αθλήματος που κατάφερε να κατακτήσει και τα τέσσερα τρόπαια που διεκδίκησε](_blank)
(in Greek), rizospastis.gr, 31/12/2002 After the
2015 LEN Euroleague win of
Olympiacos women's water polo team, Olympiacos CFP became the only multi-sport club in European Water Polo history after
Pro Recco
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Pro Recco is the most successful club in men's water polo. In men's domesti ...
to have been crowned European Champions with both its men's and women's departments,
and the only one with both its departments currently active (
Pro Recco women's department has been dissolved since 2012).
A similar impressive feat was achieved by Olympiacos CFP in another team sport in 2018: after the
2017–18 CEV Women's Challenge Cup
The 2017–18 CEV Women's Challenge Cup was the 38th edition of the European Challenge Cup volleyball club tournament, the former "CEV Cup".
Format
The tournament is played on a knockout format, with 37 teams participating. Initially 10 teams pl ...
win of
Olympiacos women's volleyball department, Olympiacos CFP became the only multi-sport club in Greece and one of the very few in European volleyball history to have won European titles with its men's and women's teams.
Olympiacos men's basketball team holds several distinctions. Winning their third Euroleague title in 2013, they are the inaugural and only Greek club (
only the third club in European basketball history) to be
consecutive title defenders in the modern
Final Four era of the Euroleague. They beat
Real Madrid in the final of the
2012–13 Euroleague Final Four
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in
London
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, 100–88.
Olympiacos CFP has nurtured some of the greatest Greek athletes. Olympiacos' athletes have become
Olympic medal
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winners, as well as World and European champions, while they are integral part of the Greek national teams. The club maintains Academies with
state of the art training facilities, where thousands of children have the opportunity to learn about sports and practice. Olympiacos CFP have granted Greek sports and the club itself numerous
Olympic
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Sports
Competitions
* Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896
** Summer Olympic Games
** Winter Olympic Games
* Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ...
, Worldwide and European honours. Olympiacos had 30 of its athletes and coaches from nine of its sports departments participating in the
2016 Summer Olympics.
Olympiacos is the most popular Greek club with around four million fans inside Greece and millions of others in the
Greek communities all over the world. As of April 2006, Olympiacos has 83,000 registered members and it's placed in the top ten of the clubs with the most paying members in the world, holding the ninth place just ahead of
Real Madrid. In 2014, that figure increased and the team boasts 98,000 registered members. Olympiacos CFP was the first Greek club that made it possible for its fans to become members, and granted them the right of voting for the board of directors.
History
Olympiacos CFP was founded on March 10, 1925 in
Piraeus
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, as a football club initially, and the club's aim, as stated in the statutes, is the systematic cultivation and development of its athletes’ possibilities for participation in athletic competitions, the spreading of the
Olympic
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Sports
Competitions
* Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896
** Summer Olympic Games
** Winter Olympic Games
* Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ...
athletic ideal and the promotion of sportsmanship and fanship among the youth according to egalitarian principles, by stressing a healthy, ethical and social basis as its foundation. Members of "Piraikos Podosfairikos Omilos FC" (Sport and Football Club of Piraeus) and "Piraeus Fans Club FC" decided, during a historical assembly, to dissolve the two clubs in order to establish a new unified one, which would bring this new vision and dynamic to the community.
Notis Kamperos, a senior officer of the
Hellenic Navy, proposed the name ''Olympiacos'' and the profile of a laurel-crowned
Olympic
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Sports
Competitions
* Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896
** Summer Olympic Games
** Winter Olympic Games
* Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ...
winner as the emblem of the new club.
Michalis Manouskos, a prominent Piraeus
industrialist, expanded the name to its complete and current status, ''Olympiacos Syndesmos Filathlon Pireos'', a name that symbolizes and encompasses the morality, the honour, the vying, the splendor, the sportsmanship and the fair play value of the
Olympic ideal of
Ancient Greece
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, which was totally consistent with the club's emblem. Besides Kamperos and Manouskos, among the most notable founding members were Stavros Maragoudakis, the Post Office director, Nikos Andronikos, a merchant, Dimitrios Sklias, a
Hellenic Army
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officer, Nikolaos Zacharias, an attorney, Athanasios Mermigas, a notary public,
Kostas Klidouchakis, who became the first
goalkeeper
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in the club's history, Ioannis Kekkes, a stockbroker, and above all, the Andrianopoulos family. Andrianopoulos, a family of well-established Piraeus merchants, played a pivotal role in the founding of Olympiacos. The five brothers,
Yiannis,
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Persons Giorgos
* Giorgos Agorogiannis, Greek footballer
* Giorgos Alkaios, pop musician and singer
* Gio ...
,
Dinos
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,
Vassilis and
Leonidas Andrianopoulos
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Career
Andrianopoulos played club football for Olympiacos, alongside his four older ...
raised the reputation of the club and brought it to its current glory. Yiannis, Giorgos, Dinos and Vassilis were the first to play, while Leonidas, the youngest of the five, made his debut later on and played for the club for eight years (1927–1935). The club's offensive line, made up of the five brothers, became legendary, rising to a mythical status and soon Olympiacos gained enormous popularity and became the most successful and well-supported club in Greece. Olympiacos is also known as ''Thrylos'' (The Legend), after the legendary, classic side of the 1950s which won a hatful of titles.
Olympiacos departments – history and honours
Team sports
Football
Olympiacos football team is the
most successful club in
Greek football history, having won 47
League titles, 28
Cups
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and 4
Super Cups, all records. Τotalling 79 national trophies, Olympiacos is 9th in the world in total titles won by a football club. The club's dominating success can be further evidenced by the fact that all other Greek clubs have won a combined total of 38 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
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–
2003 and
2011–
2017
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), breaking their own previous record of six consecutive wins in the 1950s (
1954–
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
), when Olympiacos was unequivocally nicknamed ''Thrylos'' ( el, 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.
They are also the only Greek club to have won five consecutive
national Cups (
1957
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–
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
), as well as six
League titles undefeated (
1937,
1938,
1948,
1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...
,
1954,
1955). 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.
In European competitions, Olympiacos best performances are their presence in the
UEFA Champions League
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quarter-finals in
1998–99, losing the semi-final spot in the last minutes of their second leg match against
Juventus, as well as in the
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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quarter-finals in
1992–93
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. The Red-Whites are the highest ranked Greek club in the
UEFA rankings, occupying the 29th place in Europe as of 2018,
and one of the founding members of the
European Club Association
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. Olympiacos won the
Balkans Cup in
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...
, at a time when the competition was considered the second most important in the region after the
European Cup, becoming the first ever Greek club to win an international competition.
*
Balkans Cup
** Winners (1) (shared Greek record):
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...
*
Greek Championship
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** Winners (47) (record):
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
* January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
* January 22 – Sir I ...
,
1933,
1934
Events
January–February
* January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.
* January 15 – The 8.0 Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maxi ...
,
1936
Events
January–February
* January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
,
1937,
1938,
1947,
1948,
1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...
,
1954,
1955,
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ...
,
1957
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year ...
,
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
,
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
,
1966,
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
,
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: ...
,
1974,
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
,
1980,
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
,
1982,
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...
,
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, ...
,
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
,
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
,
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
,
2000
File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...
,
2001,
2002,
2003,
2005,
2006,
2007,
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
,
2009,
2011,
2012
File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gat ...
,
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...
,
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
,
2015,
2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ...
,
2017
File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a s ...
,
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...
,
2021
File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ...
,
2022
File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeypo ...
*
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most ...
** Winners (28) (record):
1947,
1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...
,
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
,
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yug ...
,
1954,
1957
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year ...
,
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
,
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
,
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Jan ...
,
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
,
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...
,
1965,
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Janu ...
,
1971,
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: ...
,
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
,
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
,
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...
,
1992,
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
,
2005,
2006,
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
,
2009,
2012
File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gat ...
,
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...
,
2015,
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...
*
Greek Super Cup
The Greek Super Cup ( el, Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity ( el, Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek association football one-match competition which w ...
** Winners (4) (record): 1980,
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, ...
,
1992,
2007
*
Greater Greece Cup
** Winners (3) (record):
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
,
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar tim ...
,
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 ...
Basketball
Olympiacos men's basketball team is
one of the most successful clubs in European basketball, having won three
Euroleague Championships, one
Triple Crown
Triple Crown may refer to:
Sports Horse racing
* Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
* Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)
** Triple Crown Trophy
** Triple Crown Productions
* Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
* Tri ...
, one
Intercontinental Cup, thirteen
Greek Championships, ten
Greek Cups and one
Greek Super Cup
The Greek Super Cup ( el, Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity ( el, Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek association football one-match competition which w ...
. As a traditional European powerhouse, Olympiacos have also been five times EuroLeague runners-up and, having played a total of eight finals, they are the Greek club with the most
EuroLeague Final
The EuroLeague Finals are the championship finals of the EuroLeague competition. The EuroLeague is the highest level tier, and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe.
Title holders
* ......1958 Rīgas ASK
* 195 ...
appearances. They have also participated in ten
EuroLeague Final Four
The EuroLeague Final Four is the final four format championship of the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague professional club basketball competition. The Euroleague Basketball Company used the final four format for the first time in 2002, f ...
s. They play their home matches at
Peace and Friendship Stadium
The Peace and Friendship Stadium ( el, Στάδιο Ειρήνης και Φιλίας, Stadio Eirinis kai Philias), commonly known by its acronym SEF, is a multi-purpose indoor arena that is located in Piraeus, on the coastal zone of Attica, Gre ...
.
They are the first Greek club that ever played in a Euroleague Final (
1994
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), and they won their first Euroleague title in
1997
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, achieving the first
Triple Crown
Triple Crown may refer to:
Sports Horse racing
* Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
* Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)
** Triple Crown Trophy
** Triple Crown Productions
* Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
* Tri ...
ever for a Greek team. As European champions, Olympiacos played in the
1997 McDonald's Championship and reached the final of the tournament, where they met
Michael Jordan's
NBA champions
A champion (from the late Latin ''campio'') is the victor in a challenge, contest or competition. There can be a territorial pyramid of championships, e.g. local, regional / provincial, state, national, continental and world championships, a ...
, the
Chicago Bulls
The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Bulls compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded on January ...
. During the 1990s, besides their constant achievements in EuroLeague, also adding a third place in
1999
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, Olympiacos dominated the
Greek Basket League
The Greek Basket League (GBL), often also referred to as the Greek A1 Basketball League, or Greek Basketball Championship (originally called Panhellenic Basketball Championship), and also known as the Stoiximan Basket League for sponsorship reaso ...
with five consecutive titles, at a time when the Greek championship was considered
Europe's best national basketball league. Thus,
FIBA
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA ; French: ) is an association of national organizations which governs the sport of basketball worldwide. Originally known as the (hence FIBA), in 1989 it dropped the word ''amateur'' from its nam ...
declared Olympiacos as the "Best European Team of the 1990s".
Olympiacos returned to the very top of European basketball in
2010, when they reached the final against Barcelona in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
, but mostly in
2012
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, when they won their second EuroLeague title in
Istanbul
)
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, by rallying from 19 points down in the championship game, to beat
CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow (russian: ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet era, it was a central piece of the big So ...
62–61, on the last shot of the game, achieving the greatest comeback in European basketball finals history, and one of the greatest ever seen in European continental basketball. In
2013
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, Olympiacos won their third EuroLeague title and became the only Greek club and only the third club in European basketball history to be crowned back-to-back European champions in the modern
EuroLeague Final Four
The EuroLeague Final Four is the final four format championship of the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague professional club basketball competition. The Euroleague Basketball Company used the final four format for the first time in 2002, f ...
era, after beating
Real Madrid 100–88 in the
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
final. Later on, Olympiacos won the
Intercontinental Cup, celebrating a third international title in 17 months.
*
Intercontinental Cup
**Winners (1) (shared Greek record):
2013
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*
European Championship
**Winners (3):
1997
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,
2012
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,
2013
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*
Greek Championship
The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), or Super League 1, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced ''Alpha Ethniki'' at the top of ...
**Winners (13): 1949, 1960, 1976, 1978, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2022
*
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most ...
**Winners (10): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1994, 1997, 2002, 2010, 2011, 2022
*
Greek Super Cup
The Greek Super Cup ( el, Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity ( el, Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek association football one-match competition which w ...
**Winners (1): 2022
Men's volleyball
Olympiacos men's volleyball team is the
most successful club in Greek volleyball history, having won 30
Hellenic Volley League titles, 16
Cups
CUPS (formerly an acronym for Common UNIX Printing System) is a modular printing system for Unix-like computer operating systems which allows a computer to act as a print server. A computer running CUPS is a host that can accept print jobs ...
, 6
League Cups, all national records, and 2
Super Cups. They are the only volleyball club in Greece to have won a European competition, with 2
CEV Cup Winners' Cup/CEV Top Teams Cups (1996, 2005), and a traditional powerhouse in European volleyball, having been runners-up in all three main
CEV competitions, two times in the
CEV Champions League
The CEV Champions League is the top official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe. The competition is organised every year by the European Volleyball Confederation.
Formula (2018–19 to present) Qualification
A tot ...
(with seven final four participations), two in the
CEV Cup
The CEV Cup is the second tier official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe. The competition takes place every year.
Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup. In 2000 it was renamed CEV Top Teams Cup and in 2007 it was renamed CE ...
and one in the
CEV Challenge Cup
The CEV Challenge Cup is the third tier official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe.
It started in the 1980–81 season under the name CEV Cup. In 2007 it was renamed CEV Challenge Cup.
History
* CEV Cup (1980 ...
, totalling seven European finals.
Domestically, Olympiacos holds the record for the
most consecutive championships won, with eight in a row (1987–1994), and for winning
seven championships undefeated (1968, 1974, 1979, 1981, 1988, 1991, 2018). Internationally, their most successful period was between 1992 and 2005, when they came to be included amongst the top volleyball powers in Europe. During this period, apart from their two European trophies, they progressed to eleven final fours in total, seven of them consecutive between 1992–1998 (the first four in the CEV Champions League and the next three in the CEV Cup Winners' Cup); they also won a fourth place in the
CEV Super Cup and a third in the
FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship
The FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship is an international men's club volleyball competition organised by the '' Fédération Internationale de Volleyball'' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The competition was first contested ...
. Olympiacos came to European prominence again by playing in the
2017–18 CEV Challenge Cup
The 2017–18 CEV Challenge Cup was the 38th edition of the CEV Challenge Cup
The CEV Challenge Cup is the third tier official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe.
It started in the 1980–81 season under the nam ...
final; at the same time, the
women's department won their respective
2017–18 CEV Women's Challenge Cup
The 2017–18 CEV Women's Challenge Cup was the 38th edition of the European Challenge Cup volleyball club tournament, the former "CEV Cup".
Format
The tournament is played on a knockout format, with 37 teams participating. Initially 10 teams pl ...
. In this way, Olympiacos became the first volleyball club that had men and women playing simultaneously in European finals, and one of the very few to have won European trophies in both departments.
*
European Cup
** Winners (2) (Greek record):
1996,
2005
*
Greek Championship
The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), or Super League 1, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced ''Alpha Ethniki'' at the top of ...
** Winners (30) (record): 1968, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2010,
2011,
2013
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, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021
*
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most ...
** Winners (17) (record): 1981, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
*
Greek League Cup The EPAE Cup, known as the Greek League Cup, a now defunct football competition, took place only once, in the year 1989–90 season. AEK Athens is the only winner of the League Cup, beating Panionios (3–3 and 3–1 on penalties), Aris (5–2), ...
** Winners (6) (record): 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
*
Greek Super Cup
The Greek Super Cup ( el, Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity ( el, Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek association football one-match competition which w ...
** Winners (2): 2000, 2010
Men's water polo
Olympiacos men's water polo team is
one of the most successful teams in Europe and a traditional powerhouse of continental water polo, having won 2
LEN Champions League
The LEN Champions League is the top-tier European professional water polo club competition with teams from up to 18 countries. It is organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation.
The competition started in 1963 as European Cup. A change of na ...
s (
2001–02,
2017–18), 1
LEN Super Cup
The LEN Super Cup is an annual water polo match organized by LEN and contested by the reigning champions of the two European club competitions, the LEN Champions League and the LEN Euro Cup.
From 1976 to 2002, the LEN Super Cup was contested betwe ...
(2002) and 2 Triple Crowns (2002, 2018), the only Greek club to have been crowned European Champions. They have also been six times runners-up (counting nine European finals overall), three in the LEN Champions League (
2000–01,
2015–16,
2018–19), two in the
LEN Cup Winners' Cup
The LEN Cup Winners' Cup was a European water polo club competition organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation. National cup winners qualified for the tournament. After 2003, the nationalcup winners qualified for the LEN Euroleague, and the cu ...
(1997–98, 1998–99) and one more in the LEN Super Cup (
2018
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). In 2001–02, Olympiacos became the first club ever in water polo history to win all four competitions they claimed (LEN Champions League, LEN Super Cup, Greek League, and Greek Cup), completing a
Continental Quadruple. They won their
second Continental Quadruple in 2017–18 season (LEN Champions League, Greek League, Greek Cup, Greek Super Cup). After the
2014–15 LEN Euro League win of the
women's department, parent club Olympiacos CFP became the second sports club in continental water polo history to have been crowned European Champions with both its men's and women's teams and the only one in Europe with both these departments currently active.
Domestically, Olympiacos is the most titled club in Greek water polo history, as the club's 64 domestic titles (67 overall) are the most out of any Greek club. They have won 36
League titles, a record 23
Cups
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, a record 5
Super Cups, and a record 20 Doubles. They are the dominant force since 1992, having set a number of records including a winning streak of 163 straight wins in both the Greek League's regular season and playoffs, which lasted from May 2013 to May 2019.
*
European Championship
** Winners (2) (Greek record):
2002,
2018
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*
European Super Cup
** Winners (1) (Greek record): 2002
*
Greek Championship
The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), or Super League 1, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced ''Alpha Ethniki'' at the top of ...
** Winners (36): 1927, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1969, 1971, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
*
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most ...
** Winners (23) (record): 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
*
Greek Super Cup
The Greek Super Cup ( el, Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity ( el, Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek association football one-match competition which w ...
** Winners (5) (record): 1997, 1998, 2018, 2019, 2020
Olympiacos women's water polo
Olympiacos women's water polo team is
one of the most successful clubs in Europe and a traditional powerhouse of continental water polo, having won 3
LEN Euro Leagues in
2015,
2021
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, and
2022
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, 3
LEN Super Cups in 2015, 2021, 2022 and 1
LEN Trophy
The LEN Euro Cup is the second-tier European water polo club competition run by the Ligue Européenne de Natation for those clubs who did not qualify for the LEN Champions League. The cup was inaugurated in 1992.
History
Names of the competiti ...
in
2014
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and having, overall, a commanding presence in European competitions. Besides the 3 LEN Euro Leagues, 3 LEN Super Cups and 1 LEN Trophy titles, they were runners-up of the
LEN Euroleague
The LEN Champions League is the top-tier European professional water polo club competition with teams from up to 18 countries. It is organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation.
The competition started in 1963 as European Cup. A change of nam ...
in 2017 and 2019, runners-up of the
LEN Super Cup
The LEN Super Cup is an annual water polo match organized by LEN and contested by the reigning champions of the two European club competitions, the LEN Champions League and the LEN Euro Cup.
From 1976 to 2002, the LEN Super Cup was contested betwe ...
in 2014, runners-up of the LEN Trophy in 2008 and 2018 and they have participated, altogether, in 9
Champions' Cup / Euro League Final Fours (1996, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022), as well as in 5 LEN Trophy Final Fours (2001, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2018), being semi-finalists of the same competition in 2009 and 2012. Domestically, Olympiacos is the most successful Greek club, having won a record 13
Greek Championships, a record 4
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most ...
s, a record 1
Greek Super Cup
The Greek Super Cup ( el, Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity ( el, Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek association football one-match competition which w ...
and a record 3 Doubles. They also hold the all-time record for the most consecutive
Greek Championships, as they are the only team to have won
9 consecutive Greek Championship titles (2014–2022).
In 2014 Olympiacos won the
LEN Trophy
The LEN Euro Cup is the second-tier European water polo club competition run by the Ligue Européenne de Natation for those clubs who did not qualify for the LEN Champions League. The cup was inaugurated in 1992.
History
Names of the competiti ...
in the
Final Four in Florence, beating home team
Firenze
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10–9 in the final. One year later, Olympiacos were crowned
European Champions, winning the LEN Euro League in the
2015 Final Four in Piraeus, after a 10–9 win in the final against the then-reigning champions
Sabadell, who were undefeated for more than 3 years with 115 consecutive wins in all competitions. Olympiacos lifted the LEN Euro League title undefeated and having won 8 straight matches without even a single draw. As European Champions, Olympiacos participated in the final of the
2015 LEN Super Cup The 2015 LEN Super Cup was a water polo
Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing ...
and won the title after a 10–6 win against
Plebiscito Padova, thus completing a continental Treble in 2015 (
LEN Euro League,
LEN Super Cup
The LEN Super Cup is an annual water polo match organized by LEN and contested by the reigning champions of the two European club competitions, the LEN Champions League and the LEN Euro Cup.
From 1976 to 2002, the LEN Super Cup was contested betwe ...
,
Greek Championship
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), winning season's all three available titles.
In 2021 Olympiacos won their
second LEN Euro League title in
Budapest
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, beating home teams
UVSE
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(9–8 in the semi-final) and
Dunaújvárosi (7–6 in the final) with a roster composed entirely of
Greek
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Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
players. They went on to win the Greek League and the Greek Cup, thus completing the first ever Triple Crown for a Greek club in the sport's history, which eventually became a Quadruple Crown after winning the 2021 LEN Super Cup.
In 2022 Olympiacos were crowned
back-to-back European Champions in
Piraeus
Piraeus ( ; el, Πειραιάς ; grc, Πειραιεύς ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens' city centre, along the east coast of the Saron ...
, beating
UVSE
UVSE is a professional water polo club from Budapest, Hungary, founded in 2008. It was split off from Újpesti TE, which afterwards folded. They have teams in the men's and women's Hungarian First Division. The women have won the 2014–15 and ...
(18–11 in the semi-final) and
Sabadell (11–7 in the final). And later completed a back-to-back Quadruple Crown after beating
Ethnikos (11-4) in the 2022 LEN Super Cup.
After the 2015 LEN Euroleague win of Olympiacos women's water polo team, Olympiacos CFP became the only multi-sport club in European Water Polo history after
Pro Recco
A.S.D. Pro Recco (Official name: Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Pro Recco) is an Italian water polo club from Recco, in Liguria. It currently plays in Serie A1.
Pro Recco is the most successful club in men's water polo. In men's domesti ...
to have been crowned European Champions with both its
men's and women's departments and the only club with both its departments currently active (
Pro Recco women's department has been dissolved since 2012).
*
European Championship
** Winners (3) (Greek record):
2015,
2021
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,
2022
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*
European Super Cup
** Winners (3) ( Greek record): 2015, 2021, 2022
*
European Cup
** Winners (1):
2014
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*
Greek Championship
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** Winners (13) (record): 1995, 1998, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
*
Greek Cup
The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
The Greek Cup is the second most ...
** Winners (4) (record): 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
*
Greek Super Cup
The Greek Super Cup ( el, Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity ( el, Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek association football one-match competition which w ...
** Winners (1) (record): 2020
Olympiacos women's volleyball
Olympiacos women's volleyball team is one of the most successful volleyball clubs in Greece and the country's most successful in European competitions, having won 8
Greek League titles, a record 9
Cups
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, a record 7 Doubles, a
CEV Challenge Cup
The CEV Challenge Cup is the third tier official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe.
It started in the 1980–81 season under the name CEV Cup. In 2007 it was renamed CEV Challenge Cup.
History
* CEV Cup (1980 ...
(2018) and a
Continental Treble
A treble in association football is achieved when a club team wins three trophies in a single season. A ''continental treble'' involves winning the club's national league competition, main national cup competition, and main continental trophy. A ...
(2018), the only women's volleyball club in Greece to have won a European title. They hold the unique records for winning
eight consecutive Greek League titles (2013–2020),
nine consecutive national Cups (2011–2019) and
seven consecutive Doubles (2013–2019).
The season 2017–18 was the most successful in the club's history and the most successful by any Greek women's volleyball club in history; besides winning the aforementioned CEV Challenge Cup in their second final presence in a row, they won the domestic competitions undefeated, with 25–0 wins in the League, finishing the season with only two sets lost in an unprecedented 75–2 set record, and 4–0 wins in the Cup with a 12–1 set record, achieving a Continental Treble and their sixth consecutive domestic Double. In the same season, the
men's volleyball team reached the
CEV Challenge Cup
The CEV Challenge Cup is the third tier official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe.
It started in the 1980–81 season under the name CEV Cup. In 2007 it was renamed CEV Challenge Cup.
History
* CEV Cup (1980 ...
final and Olympiacos became the first Greek volleyball club that had men and women playing simultaneously in European finals, and one of the very few in the continent to have won European trophies in both departments.
*
European Cup
** Winners (1) (Greek record): 2018
*
Hellenic Championship
** Winners (8): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
*
Hellenic Cup
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** Winners (9) (record): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Women's basketball
Olympiacos women's basketball team was initially founded in 1947, being one of the best women's basketball clubs in Greece during the 1950s and the early 1960s, when they won 3
Women's Division Center Championships (1956, 1958, 1959), which was the most important competition of Greek women's basketball at the time (until 1967–68 when the
Greek Women's Basketball League
The Greek women's Basketball League, also known as A1 Ethniki (A1 National) Women's Basketball is the most important competition of Greek women's professional basketball. It is organised by the EOK (Hellenic Basketball Federation). It began with th ...
was officially organized). The department was dissolved in the mid-1960s and after a long period of inactivity, it was reorganized in 2015.
In 2015–16 season, which was the first after its reorganization, Olympiacos won the double undefeated; they won the Greek Women's Basketball League, Greek League with 22 wins in 22 matches, sweeping arch-rivals Panathinaikos with 4–0 wins in the finals and also clinched the :Greek Women's Basketball Cup, Greek Cup title, beating Panathinaikos once again in the final (63–60). They managed to repeat this achievement in 2016–17, 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons, thus winning a record four consecutive undefeated Doubles with a record 134 straight wins in both the Greek Championship and the Greek Cup.
* Greek Women's Basketball League, Greek Championship
** Winners (6): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
* Greek Women's Basketball Cup, Greek Cup
** Winners (5) (record): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
Olympiacos H.C., Men's handball
Olympiacos H.C., Olympiacos men's handball department was founded in 1931 and it has won 3 Greek Men's Handball Championship, Greek Handball Championships, 2 Greek Men's Handball Cup, Greek Cups and 2 Doubles.
In 2017–18 season, which was the first after its reorganization, Olympiacos won the domestic double. They won the Greek Men's Handball Championship, Greek Handball Championship by beating AEK H.C., AEK Athens with 3–2 wins in the finals in a dramatic fashion, as they overturned an initial 0–2 win lead by AEK and took three straight wins to secure the League title. They also won the Greek Men's Handball Cup, Greek Cup, beating P.A.O.K. H.C., PAOK in the semi-final and A.C. Doukas School, ASE Douka in the final to complete the domestic Double.
* Greek Men's Handball Championship, Greek Championship
** Winners (3): 2018, 2019, 2022
* Greek Men's Handball Cup, Greek Cup
** Winners (2): 2018, 2019
* Greek Super Cup
** Winners (1): 2022
:el:Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. (μπιτς βόλεϊ), Beach volleyball
* Greek Championship
** Winners (1): 2016
Individual sports
Olympiacos (Swimming club), Swimming
* Greek Championship
**Winners (63) (record): 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 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, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
* Greek Cup (25m pool)
** Winners (4): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001
* Greek Championship (long-distance)
** Winners (9) (record): 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
* Greek Super Cup
** Winners (1) (record): 2015
* Greek Masters Championship
** Winners (1) (shared record): 2017
* Greek Open Water Championship
** Winners (1) (record): 2017
Olympiacos (athletics), Athletics
* Greek Open Championship (Men)
** Winners (15): 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
* Greek Indoors Championship (Men)
** Winners (10): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
* Greek Cross Country Championship (Men)
** Winners (12): 1965, 1966, 1967, 1984, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
* Panhellenic Club Championship (Men)
** Winners (1): 2000
* Open Greek Championship (Women)
** Winners (1): 2010
Olympiacos (table tennis club), Table tennis
* Greek Championship (Men)
** Winners (15): 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 2004, 2005, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022
* Greek Club Championship (Women)
** Winners (27) (record): 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2018, 2022
* Greek Cup (Men)
** Winners (7): 1971, 1972, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2022
* Greek Cup (Women)
** Winners (11) (record): 1965, 1966, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
:el:Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. (πάλη), Wrestling
* European Cup
** Winners (1) (Greek record): 2006
* Greek Championship (Men)
** Winners (2): 1976, 2006
:el:Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. (πυγμαχία), Boxing
* Greek Championship (Men)
** Winners (7): 1970, 1985, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
* Greek Championship (Women)
** Winners (2): 2012, 2015
:el:Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. (καταδύσεις), Diving
* Greek Championship
** Winners (9): 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971
Olympiacos (Sailing club), Sailing
* Greek Club Championship
** Winners (1): 1954
:el:Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. (ενόργανη γυμναστική), Gymnastics
* Greek Championship (Men)
** Winners (1): 1971
:el:Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. (κανόε καγιάκ), Canoe kayak
* Greek Championship
** Winners (1): 2018
European and worldwide honours
Sports variety in major competitions
For half a century, the dozens of appearances in the final phases of major events, in various sports, fit the olympic nature of the club:
The gate 7 tragedy
The history of the Karaiskakis Stadium and Olympiacos was marked by the worst tragedy that ever hit Sport in Greece, Greek sports, known as the Karaiskakis Stadium disaster. On 8 February 1981, Olympiacos hosted AEK Athens F.C., AEK Athens for a Alpha Ethniki 1980-81, League match, which ended 6–0, in an unprecedented triumph for the host team of Piraeus. During the last minutes of the game, thousands of Olympiacos fans at the Gate 7 rushed to the exit, to get to the stadium's main entrance and celebrate with the players, but the doors were almost closed and the turnstiles still in place, making the exit almost impossible. As people continued to come down from the stands, unable to see what happened, the stairs of Gate 7 became a death trap; people were crushed, tens of fans were seriously injured and twenty-one young people died, most of them by Asphyxia, suffocation.
In memory of this event, every year on February 8, there is a memorial service at the stadium in honor of the supporters that died in that incident. The service is attended by thousands of fans every year, who are rhythmically shouting the phrase "Αδέλφια, ζείτε, εσείς μας οδηγείτε." (Adhélfia, zíte, esís mas odhiyíte, "Brothers, you live, you are the ones who guide us."). At the tribune part of the stadium where Gate 7 is now, some seats are colored black instead of red, shaping the number "7", whereas there is also a monument on the eastern side of the stadium, bearing the names of all 21 supporters killed on that day in the stadium.
Even though this incident affected almost solely the fanbase of Olympiacos, other teams occasionally pay their respects to the people killed as well, as they consider the incident to be a tragedy not only for one team, but for the whole country. In the past, even foreign teams, such as Liverpool F.C. and Red Star Belgrade have honored the incident's victims.
Gallery
Football
Basketball (men's)
Olympiacos S.C., Volleyball (men's)
Olympiacos Water Polo Club, Water Polo (men's)
Olympiacos Women's Water Polo Team, Water Polo (women's)
Olympiacos women's volleyball, Volleyball (women's)
Olympiacos Women's Basketball, Basketball (women's)
Olympiacos CFP (Superleague Formula team), Racing (Superleague Formula)
References
External links
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Sports clubs established in 1925
Olympiacos,
Multi-sport clubs in Piraeus
1925 establishments in Greece