Olympiacos S.C.

Olympiacos S.C. is the volleyball team of the Greek sports club Olympiacos. It was founded in 1930 and has won 23 National Championships, 13 Greek Cups and 1 Greek Super Cup. They are ranked among the top European teams and they are the most successful Greek club.

Olympiacos are the dominants of Greek volleyball, having gained the most national championships and cups while they are the only Greek team to have won European trophies (2 CEV Top Teams Cup). They have also played in many Final Four in the European competitions which makes them one of the biggest volleyball clubs of Europe.

Olympiacos have a women volleyball team as well which was founded in 1992. Contrary to the men's team, women of Olympiacos had never played a major role until 2007, when they finished second in the Greek league and eliminated their eternal enemy Panathinaikos in the Greek Cup. In the season 2007-08 the women department reached the quarter finals of the Challenge Cup.

Honours

(Total titles: 42)

Men

Domestic

• Greek Championship: 25

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

• Greek Cup: 12

1981, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2009, 2011

• Greek Super Cup: 2

2000, 2010,2011

European

• CEV Cup Winners' Cup: 2

1996, 2005

Other

• Double: 10

1981, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2009, 2011

Notes

• In 1994, a Final Four tournament was held instead of a cup competition, where all international players were excluded because of the upcoming World Cup. Olympiacos won the tournament but that title is not considered an official one by the Hellenic Volleyball Federation.[1]

Women

Domestic

• Greek Championship:
  • Runners-up (3): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• Greek Cup: (1)2011
  • Runners-up (1): 2010

Winners (1): 2011

International record

Selected Former Players

• Apostolos Armenakis
• Goran Vujevic
• Stylianos Amarianakis
• Georgios Dragovits
• Scott Fortune
• Ivo Gavrilov
• Marios Giourdas
• Ernando Gómez
• Bengt Gustavsson
• Hendrik Jan "Henk Jan" Held
• Osvaldo Hernández Chambert
• Ray Salmon
• Georgios Kazamias
• Dimitrios Kazazis
• Plamen Konstantinov
• Vasilios Kournetas
• Ioannis Laios
• Vasa Mijić
• Milan Markovic
• Athanasios Moustakidis
• Stefanos Polyzos
• Stylianos Prosalikas
• Igor Runov
• Jeff Stork
• Antonios Tsakiropoulos
• Hristo Tsvetanov
• Marcos Milinkovic
• Lorenzo Bernardi
• Urbanowicz Leszek
• Raimond Vilde
• Boyan Yordanov
• Ivan Miljković
• Tom Hoff
• Huber Eno
• Pablo Meana

Current Squad 2011/2012

  Captain

External links

• Official Website of Olympiacos Piraeus (Greek) (English)
• Olympiacos Volleyball Unofficial Site (Greek)
• Ελληνική Ομοσπονδία Πετοσφαίρισης (Greek)