Olympiacos Water polo Club

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Olympiacos Water polo Club is the water polo team of the Greek sports club Olympiacos. It was founded in 1925 and was among the founding members of the Hellenic Federation of Swimming Fans. Today the Federation has been renamed to Hellenic Federation of Swimming.

Olympiacos is amongst the most successful Greek and European teams as they have won numerous titles in greek and european competitions. In the Greek League Olympiacos along with their eternal enemy of Piraeus, Ethnikos, share the majority of the titles of Champion but Olympiacos is the only greek team to have won the Champions League and the European Super Cup, in 2002 when they won Honvend in Budapest and Vasas respectively. They have also participated in 3 more finals, one in the Champions League and two in the Cup Winners' Cup.

The club has also a women's team which is also successful and belongs to the top Greek teams having won 2 championships. They have also participated in a Champions Cup and a Len Trophy final four.

1 Actual Roster
2 International record
3 Honours
4 External Links

[edit] Actual Roster

Νο	Player	Date of Birth	Height
1	Nikos Deligiannis	03.09.1976	1.91
9	Christos Floros	31.01.1982	1.88
13	Dionysis Stathopoulos	01.01.1978	1.83
4	Nikitas Kochilas	01.03.1983	1.82
12	Tasos Schizas	18.02.1977	1.92
18	Andria Comantina	23.05.1977	1.96
0	Slobodan Nikic	25.01.1983	1.95
0	Giorgos Katsoulakis	25.04.1984	1.91
2	Sakis Platanitis	28.02.1974	1.86
21	Giorgos Afroudakis	17.10.1976	1.94
0	Giannis Kochilas	01.03.1983	1.85
3	Gerasimos Salpadimas	20.01.1979	1.82
5	Thodoros Chatzitheodorou*	01.10.1976	1.92
6	Argyris Theodoropoulos	13.01.1981	1.88
7	Giorgos Doskas	01.01.1984	1.81
14	Vaggelis Delakas	08.02.1985	1.90
19	Tihomil Vranies	10.11.1977	1.89
20	Petros-Stefanos Santa	21.05.1976	1.86
Coach: Vaggelis Pateros

captain

[edit] International record

Men

Season	Achievement	Notes
Champions League
2000-01	Final	defeated by VK Jug Dubrovnik
2001-02	Winner	won Budapest Honvéd FC
Cup Winners' Cup
1997-98	Final	defeated by Ferencvárosi TC
1998-99	Final	defeated by Mladost HL Zagreb, lost 4-13 in Zagreb, won 10-6 in Athens
European Super Cup
2001-02	Winner	won Vasas SC

[edit] Honours

Total Titles: 34

Men
- Greek Championships: 19
  - 1933, 1934, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1969, 1971, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- Greek Cups: 9
  - 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
- Greek Super Cups: 2
  - 1997, 1998
- European Champions League: 1
  - 2002
- European Super Cup: 1
  - 2002