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Olympiacos Men's Volleyball ( el, Ολυμπιακός, ), commonly referred to as Olympiacos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name as Olympiacos CFP, is the men's
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department of the major
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multi-sport club,
Olympiacos CFP 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 ...
, based 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 ...
,
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. The department was founded in 1926 and their home ground is the Melina Merkouri Indoor Hall in Agios Ioannis Rentis, Piraeus. Olympiacos is the most successful club in Greek volleyball history, having won 30 Greek Volley League titles, 16
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, 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
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(with seven final four participations), two in the
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and one in the
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, 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 and 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
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. Olympiacos came to European prominence again by playing in the
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final; at the same time, the women's department won their respective
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. 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. Given the fact that Olympiacos is one of the most popular sports clubs in Greece, the men's volleyball department also receives great home support. Apart from some top Greek players such as Marios Giourdas, Giorgos Ntrakovits, Sakis Moustakidis, Vasilis Kournetas, Antonis Tsakiropoulos, Kostas Christofidelis,
Mitar Tzourits Mitar Djuric ( el, Δημήτρης Τζούριτς, sr-Cyrl, Митар Дурић; born ) or Dimitris Tzourits is a Serbian-Greek male volleyball player. He competed at the 2011 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship with Trentino Volle ...
, Olympiacos has also attracted over the years some foreign world-class players including
Ivan Miljković Ivan Miljković ( sr-cyrl, Иван Миљковић ; born 13 September 1979) is a Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team in 1998–2012, Olympic Champion 2000, European Champion (2001, 2011), medalist o ...
,
Lorenzo Bernardi Lorenzo Bernardi (born 11 August 1968) is an Italian professional volleyball coach and former player, a silver medallist at the Olympic Games Atlanta 1996, two–time World Champion (1990, 1994), and a two–time European Champion (1989, 1995). ...
,
Jeff Stork Jeffrey Malcolm Stork (born July 8, 1960 in Longview, Washington) is an American former volleyball player. He was a member of the US national team that won the gold medal in the 1988 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympi ...
, Marcos Milinkovic,
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, Raimonds Vilde,
Vasa Mijić Vasa Mijić (born 11 April 1973) is a Serbian volleyball player, who won the gold medal with the Yugoslavian Men's National Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Standing at 1.86 m, he played as a libero. Career Mijić was named ''Best Digger'' at t ...
, Tom Hoff, Goran Vujević, Henk-Jan Held,
Osvaldo Hernández Osvaldo Hernández Chambell (born 11 July 1970 in Camagüey) is an Italian volleyball player originally from Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the isl ...
and
Fabian Drzyzga Fabian Drzyzga (born 3 January 1990) is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as a setter for Asseco Resovia. He was a participant in the Olympic Games (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020) and is a two–time World Champion (2014, 2018). Personal ...
.


Honours


Domestic competitions

* Greek Volley League ** Winners (30) (record): 1968, 1968−69, 1973−74, 1975−76, 1977−78, 1978−79, 1979−80, 1980−81, 1982−83, 1986−87, 1987−88, 1988−89, 1989−90, 1990−91, 1991−92, 1992−93, 1993−94, 1997−98, 1998−99, 1999−00, 2000−01, 2002−03, 2008−09, 2009−10, 2010−11, 2012−13, 2013−14, 2017−18, 2018−19, 2020−21 *
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 (16) (record): 1980−81, 1982−83, 1988−89, 1989−90, 1991−92, 1992−93, 1993−94, 1996−97, 1997−98, 1998−99, 2000−01, 2008−09, 2010−11, 2012−13, 2013−14, 2015−16, 2016−17 *
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): 2012−13, 2014−15, 2015−16, 2016−17, 2017−18, 2018−19 *
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 * Double ** Winners (14) (record): 1980−81, 1982−83, 1988−89, 1989−90, 1991−92, 1992−93, 1993−94, 1997−98, 1998−99, 2000−01, 2008−09, 2010−11, 2012−13, 2013−14


European competitions

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** ''Runners-up (2):'' 1991−92, 2001−02 * CEV Cup Winners' Cup / CEV Top Teams Cup / CEV Cup ** Winners (2): 1995−96, 2004−05 ** ''Runners-up (2):'' 1996−97, 1997−98 *
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� ...
** ''Runners-up (1):'' 2017–18


Worldwide competitions

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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 ...
: ** ''Third (1):'' 1992


International record


The road to CEV Cup Winners Cup / CEV Cup victories


The road to the 1996 CEV Cup Winners' Cup victory


The road to the 2005 CEV Top Teams Cup victory


Supporters

Olympiacos fans are renowned for their passionate and fervent support to the team, with the atmosphere at home matches regarded as extremely intense and intimidating to such an extent that is rarely seen in volleyball matches. In the decade of the 1900s and the early 2000s, Olympiacos was among the top powers in European volleyball (7 consecutive European Final Four participations, four in the CEV Champions League –1992, 1993, 1994, 1995– and three in the CEV Cup Winners' Cup –1996, 1997, 1998–, winners of the 1996 CEV Cup Winners' Cup, twice Runners-up of the CEV Champions League in 1992 and 2002, twice Runners-up of the CEV Cup Winners' Cup in
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and
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, third place in the world in the
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in 1992 and fourth place in the 1996 CEV European Super Cup) and one of the best supported volleyball teams in Europe. In the 1992 CEV Champions League Final Four in
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, an estimated 20,000 Olympiacos fans crowded the
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for the semi-final against
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and 20,000 more for the final against il Messaggero Ravenna. Volleyball legend
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and three times Olympic gold medalist, a key member of il Messaggero Ravenna at the time, talked about the 1992 CEV Champions League Final in a 2018 interview: "''That particular CEV Champions League Final Four in Piraeus was really a very special experience. Even now as we speak, the first thing that comes to my mind was the unbelievable atmposhere that we all lived in that volleyball game in Athens 26 years ago. In that day I cherished the Greek supporters and the passion of Olympiacos fans for volleyball. It was something unique."'' In the 1996 CEV Cup Winners' Cup Final Four which was held again in Piraeus and the Peace and Friendship Stadium, an estimated 18,000 to 20,000 Olympiacos fans filed into SEF and created the most intense atmosphere, pushing the team to their first ever European title against the
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side Bayer Wuppertal, after a hard-fought 3–2 win. After the victory, hundreds of ecstatic Olympiacos fans stormed the court and celebrated the title with the players. Olympiacos hosted the Final Four of the CEV Top Teams Cup in 2005 and Olympiacos supporters relived some of the 1990s moments. 15,000 fans packed the Peace and Friendship Stadium and provided once again an electric atmosphere, helping Olympiacos to win their second European title, after a 3–0 win against the
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side Ortec Nesselande Rotterdam in the final. In 2018 Peace and Friendship Stadium lived once again some of its timeless glory, as an estimated 12,000 Olympiacos fans created an extraordinary atmosphere in the final of the
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against Bunge Ravenna. Ravenna's
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n star Paul Buchegger talked about the atmosphere in the post-game interview: "''The atmosphere, the fans were really great. It was a "red hell", when I entered the court I had
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. I have never played in front of such a big crowd."''


Notable players

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Ivan Miljković Ivan Miljković ( sr-cyrl, Иван Миљковић ; born 13 September 1979) is a Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team in 1998–2012, Olympic Champion 2000, European Champion (2001, 2011), medalist o ...
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Lorenzo Bernardi Lorenzo Bernardi (born 11 August 1968) is an Italian professional volleyball coach and former player, a silver medallist at the Olympic Games Atlanta 1996, two–time World Champion (1990, 1994), and a two–time European Champion (1989, 1995). ...
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Fabian Drzyzga Fabian Drzyzga (born 3 January 1990) is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as a setter for Asseco Resovia. He was a participant in the Olympic Games (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020) and is a two–time World Champion (2014, 2018). Personal ...
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* Michalis Alexandropoulos * Kaloudis Alexoudis * Sotiris Amarianakis * Andreas Andreadis * Christos Angelidis *
Apostolos Armenakis Apostolos Armenakis (born ) is a Greek male volleyball player. He was part of the Greece men's national volleyball team The Greece men's national volleyball team is the national team of Greece. It is governed by the Hellenic Volleyba ...
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Theodoros Bozidis Theodoros Bozidis (born ) is a retired Greek male volleyball player. He was part of the Greece men's national volleyball team at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Argentina. Clubs * Iraklis Thessaloniki Gymnasticos Syllogos ...
* Akis Chatziantoniou * Dimitris Chorianos * Kostas Christofidelis * Anestis Dalakouras * Theologos Daridis * Giorgos Dermatis * Christos Dimitrakopoulos * Iraklis Doriadis * Giorgos Dragovits *- Mitar Đurić * Giannis Fakas *- Dima Filippov * Andreas Frangos * Vasilis Galakos * Marios Giourdas * Dimitrios Gkaras * Kostas Goudakos *- Konrad Guzda * Makis Kanellos * Theoklitos Karipidis * Dimitris Kazazis * Menelaos Kokkinakis * Tasos Koublis * Rafail Koumentakis * Kostas Kourbetis * Vasilis Kournetas * Pavlos Kouzounis *
Chrysanthos Kyriazis Chrysanthos Kyriazis (born ) is a retired Greek male volleyball player. He was part of the Greece men's national volleyball team at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Argentina. He played for Olympiacos. Clubs * Olympiacos ...
* Giannis Laios * Andreas Lorandos *
Giorgos Lykoudis Giorgos, Yiorgos or Yorgos ( el, Γιώργος) is a common abbreviation of the given name Georgios. Notable people with the name include: Persons Giorgos * Giorgos Agorogiannis, Greek footballer * Giorgos Alkaios, pop musician and singer * Gio ...
* Thanos Maroulis * Thanasis Michalopoulos * Avgoustinos Michalos *
Dimitris Mitropoulos Dimitri Mitropoulos ( el, Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος; The dates 18 February 1896 and 1 March 1896 both appear in the literature. Many of Mitropoulos's early interviews and program notes gave 18 February. In his later interviews, howe ...
* Sakis Moustakidis * Kyriakos Pantelias * Achilleas Papadimitriou * Giorgos Papazoglou * Panagiotis Pelekoudas * Giorgos Petreas * Stefanos Polyzos *
Stelios Prosalikas Stelios Prosalikas ( el, Στέλιος Προσαλίκας, born ) is a retired Greek male volleyball player and volleyball coach. As a player, he had 44 appearances with Greece men's national volleyball team. He played for Olympiacos for 10 yea ...
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Kostas Prousalis Konstantinos Prousalis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Προύσαλης; born 6 October 1980) is a Greek male volleyball player. He was part of the Greece men's national volleyball team. He competed with the national team at the 2004 Summer Olymp ...
* Giannis Roumeliotakis *
Nikos Roumeliotis Nikos ( el, Νίκος, ''Níkos'') is a Greek given name. It originates from Greek ''Nikolaos'', which means "victory of the people".Liddell & Scott, Abridged Greek Lexicon Although used as a proper first name, Nikos is also a popular nickname of t ...
* Nikos Smaragdis * Dimitris Soultanopoulos * Giorgos Stefanou * Kostas Stivachtis * Giannis Takouridis * Kostas Tambouratzis * Lefteris Terzakis * Andreas Theodoridis * Michalis Triantafyllidis * Antonis Tsakiropoulos * Paraskevas Tselios * Sotiris Tsergas * Manos Xenakis * Vasilis Xerovasilas * Nikos Zoupanis *
Jorge Elgueta Jorge Elgueta (born ) is a former Argentine male volleyball player and current coach. He was part of the Argentina men's national volleyball team. He competed with the national team at the Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournamen ...
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Pablo Meana Pablo Meana (born June 10, 1975 in Necochea) is a male volleyball player from Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina ...
*- Marcos Milinkovic * Leonardo Caldeira * Athos Ferreira Costa * Paulino Dirceu *
Luiz Felipe Fonteles Luiz Felipe Marques Fonteles (born 19 June 1984) is a Brazilian volleyball player, member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team in 2005–2016 and currently plays for Japanese team, JTEKT Stings, on club level. He is the 2016 Olympic ...
* Todor Aleksiev * Krasimir Gaydarski * Ivaylo Gavrilov * Nikolay Jeliazkov * Plamen Konstantinov * Lyudmil Naydenov * Dimo Tonev *
Hristo Tsvetanov Hristo Tsvetanov ( bg, Христо Цветанов; born 29 March 1978, in Cherven Bryag) is a Bulgarian male volleyball player who was a member of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team. He was a part of the Bulgarian national team that ...
* Boyan Yordanov *
Andrey Zhekov Andrey Zhekov ( bg, Андрей Жеков; born March 12, 1980) is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and current head coach of Levski Volley. He entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhe ...
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Justin Duff Justin Duff (born 10 May 1988) is a Canadian volleyball player, a member of Canada men's national volleyball team and Polish club Espadon Szczecin, a bronze medalist of NORCECA Championship (2011, 2013). In July 2016, he was named to Canada's 2 ...
*- Jason Haldane *
Gavin Schmitt Gavin Charles Schmitt (born 27 January 1986) is a former Canadian volleyball player, who started playing volleyball in Saskatoon for the Saskatchewan Huskies volleyball club and eventually went on to win the silver medal with the Canada men's nat ...
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Liberman Agámez Liberman Cristhofer Agámez Urango (born 15 February 1985) is a Colombian volleyball player. He was member of the Colombia men's national volleyball team (2005-2015). In 2017, he signed a contract with Sporting.Tomislav Čošković * Rolando Despaigne *
Osvaldo Hernández Osvaldo Hernández Chambell (born 11 July 1970 in Camagüey) is an Italian volleyball player originally from Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the isl ...
* Salvador Hidalgo Oliva * Rodolfo Sánchez * Janne Heikkinen *
Olli Kunnari Olli Kunnari (born February 2, 1982) is a Finnish volleyball player. He is one of the key players in the Finnish national volleyball team. During the early years of his career, he played in the Finnish Champion league. In year 2004, he left F ...
* Mikko Oivanen * Eemi Tervaportti * Renaud Herpe * Marcus Böhme * Christian Fromm *
Christian Pampel Christian Pampel (born 6 September 1979 in Gehrden) is a volleyball player from Germany. He currently plays and coaches at TSV Mimmenhausen. Career Christian Pampel started his career in Hochstetten in 1995. After three years in the Volleyb ...
* Simon Tischer *
Lorenzo Bernardi Lorenzo Bernardi (born 11 August 1968) is an Italian professional volleyball coach and former player, a silver medallist at the Olympic Games Atlanta 1996, two–time World Champion (1990, 1994), and a two–time European Champion (1989, 1995). ...
* Paolo Merlo * Dragan Travica * Hermans Egleskalns * Raimonds Vilde * Božidar Ćuk * Henk-Jan Held * Wytze Kooistra * Jeroen Rauwerdink *
Fabian Drzyzga Fabian Drzyzga (born 3 January 1990) is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as a setter for Asseco Resovia. He was a participant in the Olympic Games (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020) and is a two–time World Champion (2014, 2018). Personal ...
* Leszek Urbanowicz * José Rivera * Andrei Spînu *- Igor Runov * Dejan Bojović * Slobodan Boškan * Dejan Brđović * Konstantin Čupković *- Milan Jurišić *- Milan Marković *
Vasa Mijić Vasa Mijić (born 11 April 1973) is a Serbian volleyball player, who won the gold medal with the Yugoslavian Men's National Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Standing at 1.86 m, he played as a libero. Career Mijić was named ''Best Digger'' at t ...
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Ivan Miljković Ivan Miljković ( sr-cyrl, Иван Миљковић ; born 13 September 1979) is a Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team in 1998–2012, Olympic Champion 2000, European Champion (2001, 2011), medalist o ...
* Aleksandar Okolic * Veljko Petković *- Goran Vujević * František Ogurčák * Alen Pajenk * Tonček Štern *
Tine Urnaut Tine Urnaut (born 3 September 1988) is a Slovenian volleyball player who plays for JTEKT Stings and the Slovenian national team. With Slovenia, he was the runner-up of the European Volleyball Championship three times, in 2015, 2019 and 2021. Ca ...
* Bengt Gustafson * Andrii Diachkov * Oleksiy Gatin * Igor Popov * Carson Clark * Scott Fortune * Tom Hoff * Jayson Jablonsky * Reid Priddy * Riley Salmon *
Jeff Stork Jeffrey Malcolm Stork (born July 8, 1960 in Longview, Washington) is an American former volleyball player. He was a member of the US national team that won the gold medal in the 1988 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympi ...
* Donald Suxho *
Ernardo Gómez Ernardo "Harry" Andrés Gómez Cañas (born July 30, 1982 in Bolívar) is a Venezuelan former professional volleyball player, who won the gold medal with the Venezuela national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep ...
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Iván Márquez Luciano Marín Arango, aka "Iván Márquez" (born June 16, 1955) is a Colombian guerrilla leader, member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), part of its secretariat higher command and advisor to the Northwestern and Caribbea ...
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Osvaldo Hernández Osvaldo Hernández Chambell (born 11 July 1970 in Camagüey) is an Italian volleyball player originally from Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the isl ...
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Olli Kunnari Olli Kunnari (born February 2, 1982) is a Finnish volleyball player. He is one of the key players in the Finnish national volleyball team. During the early years of his career, he played in the Finnish Champion league. In year 2004, he left F ...


Notable coaches

* Kostas Ampelas * Kyriakos Pantelias * Dimitar Zahariev * Giannis Laios * Vladimir Kondra * Gian Paolo Montali * Zoran Gajić * Daniele Ricci * Ljubomir Travica * Claudio Cuello *
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* Giannis Kalmazidis * Dimitris Kazazis *
Roberto Piazza Roberto Piazza (born 29 January 1968) is an Italian professional volleyball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Netherlands national team and Allianz Milano. Honours As a player * CEV Cup ** 1987–88 – with Maxic ...
* Slobodan Boškan * Fernando Muñoz Benitez *
Alberto Giuliani Alberto Giuliani (born 25 December 1964) is an Italian professional volleyball coach. He is the current head coach of the Turkey national team and the Greek team, Olympiacos. Personal life His son, Ludovico (born 1998) is a volleyball player, p ...


Players


2022–2023 Roster


Technical and managerial staff


Captains

* Michalis Triantafyllidis (1989–1994) * Sakis Moustakidis (1994–1996) * Giorgos Dragovits (1996–2001) * Marios Giourdas (2001–2003) * Antonis Tsakiropoulos (2003–2007) * Vasilis Kournetas (2007–2009) * Dimitris Soultanopoulos (2009–2010) * Andreas Andreadis (2010–2012) * Kostas Christofidelis (2012–2015) * Menelaos Kokkinakis (2015–2017) * Kostas Christofidelis (2017–2019) * Giorgos Petreas (2019–2020) * Kostas Stivachtis (2020–2022)


Historical performance in Volleyleague


Stats


Positions


Kit manufacturer

The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Olympiacos team.


Sponsorship

Primary sponsors include: main sponsors like Porto Petrol other sponsors: Athens Medical Group, Nova Sports and Astari Plastikoy.


See also

* Olympiacos Women's Volleyball Team


References


External links


Olympiacos CFP Official Website – Men's Volleyball
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