APS Olympiacos Patras (Greek.: Α.Π.Σ. Ολυμπιακός Πατρών ''A.P.S Olympiakos Patron'') is a sports club in

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association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

and

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 Summ ...

. The team plays with the EPS Achaias and the EPO number 1788.

Logo

The logo is the same as

Olympiacos Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number ...

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 Saronic ...

in suburban

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

Field

In 1926, refugees from

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bought several fields and built a stadium for Olympiacos where it still has the name

Prosfygika Stadium Prosfygika Stadium ( el, Γήπεδο Προσφυγικών, ''Gipedo Prosfygikon'') is a football (soccer) stadium in Patras, Greece. It is named after its first Greek refugees, refugees that arrived from Asia Minor in 1922, a region now part o ...

and is the third oldest field in Greece after

Karaiskaki The Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium ( el, Στάδιο Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης), commonly referred to as the Karaiskakis Stadium ( el, Στάδιο Καραϊσκάκη, ), is a football stadium in Piraeus, Attica, Greece, and the h ...

and Leoforos Alexandras ( Kypseli. The team was founded in 1927, nearly two years after the construction, with the game with Olympiacos Petralona which won 4–1.

History

From the first year of the founding they play with

Panachaiki Panachaiki G.E. (Greek: Παναχαϊκή Γυμναστική Ένωση, ''Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi'', "Pan- Achaean Gymnastic Union") is a Greek multi-sport club based in the city of Patras, Greece. The history of Panachaiki began in 1891, ...

, Thyella, Patraikos and

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. Olympiacos founded from refugee players with members from Apollon Smyrna in which after the Greco-Turkish War in 1922 arrived and relocated to Patras and built the today's neighbourhood of

Prosfygika Prosfygika (Greek: Προσφυγικά, meaning "refugee settlement") is a List of neighbourhoods in Patras, neighbourhood in the southern Greek city of Patras. It was founded in 1922 as displaced persons from Asia Minor arrived in the city after ...

. Together who brought love to

. In 1925, the team was one of the oldest in Patras, with the color of red and white, the same as

Piraeus. In the beginning in July 1925, six players from Panachaiki and four from Legkos Asteras, all of them refugees as Mercury and the colour blue and white. The jersey colors changed later on. Their first game in history was with Lefko Astera, as Hermes which became the only to receive that name. As Olympiacos, their first game was with "Cavallo" who won 7–1. Their first game was Panachaiki-Olympiacos on November 9, 1925 who won 0-2 for the championship at the time. In 1933, the team played with

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, they played with the teams that once had a Greek population,

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and Izmir. In 1960, the team entered the second division in the 1959-60 and again in the 1960–61 season.

Volleyball

Olympiacos also has a volleyball club dating back to 1927. In 2005, the team entered the A2 Division. Olympiacos also has a basketball team. In their first years, it also played water polo.

Standings (Football (soccer))

Achaia FCA

Achievements

Football (soccer)

*Second division participants: 1962, 1967 * Achaia Championships: 1926, 1927, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1967

Dodgeball?

* Second Division Championships: 2005

References

*Newspapers: ''

Peloponnisos The Peloponnese (), Peloponnesus (; el, Πελοπόννησος, Pelopónnēsos,(), or Morea is a peninsula and geographic region in southern Greece. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth land bridge which ...

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I Imera ''I Imera'' (Greek: Η Ημέρα, English: The Day) was a newspaper that is based in Patras in the Achaea regional unit in Greece. Its editor-in-chief was Theodoros Kamperos. See also *List of newspapers in Greece References *''The first ver ...

'', '' Proodos'', ''

I Gnomi The number of national daily newspapers in Greece was 68 in 1950 and it increased to 156 in 1965. Mid through the Greek financial crisis in 2016, on a national level there were 15 daily general interest, 11 daily sports, 4 daily business, 10 week ...

'', '' Patras Spor'', '' Neologos'', '' Patraiki Evdomadas'', '' Fos'', '' Allagi'', '' Ta Gegonota'' and '' Ethnikos Kyrix'' *''Lefkoma, 100 Years of Football (Soccer) in Patras'' - City of

2006 *Patras Press Museum *''Achaia Peri Athlitikou parelthontas'' Kostas Kokkovikas 2004 *''Fostiras 35 hronia porias'' (''Fostiras = 35 Years'') Vasileios Kyriazis 2005 *http://www.acxaoi3.com{{Dead link, date=April 2020 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes Association football clubs established in 1926 Sport in Patras Football clubs in Western Greece 1926 establishments in Greece