Olympiacos Football Club are a Greek professional association football club based in Piraeus, Attica, who currently play in the Super League Greece. They have played at their current home ground, Karaiskaki, since their foundation in 1925. Olympiacos entered the E.P.S. Piraeus in their first season, winning the league 3 times in a row 1925-1928.
Olympiacos was founded on March 10, 1925, in the port of Piraeus, when the members of Peiraikos Podosfairikos Omilos(Sport and Football Club of Piraeus) decided, during a historical assembly, to dissolve the two clubs in order to establish a unified new one, with an emblem depicting the profile of an Ancient Olympic Games winner. Notis Kamberos announced the name Olympiacos and Michalis Manouskos completed it to its full name, Olympiacos Syndesmos Filathlon Pireos. The Andrianopoulos brothers, however, were those who significantly raised the reputation of the club and added glory to it. Members of a prosperous family, they made the name of Olympiacos known over Greece. Jimmy, Dinos, Giorgos and Vassilis were the first to play. Leonidas made his appearance later on and played for a short time. The club's offensive line, made up of the five brothers, soon became legendary. Olympiacos immediately caught the attention of locals, back then their fanbase consisted mainly of the working class,with the team filling the Piraeus Velodrome, present day Karaiskakis Stadium and becoming EPSP Champions (Enosi Podosferikon Somation Pireos - Regional Championship in Peiraias) the seasons 1925,1926,1927[1]
In 1926, the Hellenic Football Federation was founded and organized the Panhellenic Championship, the 1927-1928 seazon, the first national championship, were the regional champions from EPSA league(Athens), EPSP league(Peiraias) and EPSM league(Thessaloniki) compete for the national title through play-offs with Aris FC becoming the first champion. Up to 1958-59 the Panhellenic Championship was organized this way however the following season (1928–29) Olympiacos came to a dispute with the Hellenic Football Federation and did not participate in the championship with Panathinaikos and AEK Athens decided to follow Olympiacos and did the same. During that season they played friendly games with each other and together formed a group called P.O.K..The second Panhellenic Championship took place in 1929-30 and the 3rd found Olympiacos winning the Greek national league title, the 1930-31 season, for the first time in his history. It was going to be a very successful era.Since that time the club's first team has competed in numerous nationally and internationally-organised competitions.
All players who have played in 50 or more such matches are listed below. Some players who have played fewer matches are also listed; these are players from the club's early days, when fewer matches were played in a season, and players who fell short of the 50 total but made a significant contribution to the club's history, for instance by setting a club record.
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- Giorgos Andrianopoulos 1929-31
- Vassilis Andrianopoulos 1929-33
- Leonidas Andrianopoulos 1929-36
- Christoforos Ragkos 1929-36, 1937-40
- Giannis Vazos 1931-49
- Theologos Symeonidis 1932-46
- Spyros Depountis 1934-36, 1938-46
- Stelios Christopoulos 1947-53
- Giorgos Darivas 1948-57
- Babis Drosos 1948-58
- Babis Kotridis 1949-52, 1953-61
- Thanasis Bebis 1950-53, 1954-63
- Themis Moustaklis 1953-58
- Giannis Ioannou 1953-60
- Elias Yfantis 1953-64
- Kostas Polychroniou 1954-68
- Antonis Poseidon 1956-64
- Stelios Psychos 1957-63
- Konstantinos Papazoglou 1957-64
- Aristidi Papazoglou 1959-67
- Giorgos Sideris 1959-70, 1971-72
- Pavlos Grigoriadis 1962-65
- Pavlos Vasileiou 1963-70
- Grigoris Aganian 1964-71
- Vasilis Botinos 1964-72
- Nikos Gioutsos 1964-74
- Vasilis Siokos 1968-78
- Georgios Delikaris 1969-78
- Petros Karavitis 1970-81
- Michalis Kritikopoulos 1973-80
- Babis Stavropoulos 1973-78
- Kostas Davourlis 1974-77
- "Maik" Galakos 1973-81
- Meletis Persias 1976-85
- Nikos Vamvakoulas 1977-85
- Vangelis Kousoulakis 1979-86
- Giorgos Kokolakis 1979-88
- Konstantinos Orfanos 1980-85
- Nikos Anastopoulos 1980-87, 1989-92
- Tasos Mitropoulos 1981-92, 1997-98
- Giorgos Vaitsis 1985-88, 1991-94
- Sakis Moustakidis 1987-90
- Panagiotis Sofianopoulos 1987-94
- Giotis Tsalouchidis 1987-96
- Nikos Tsiantakis 1987-96
- Minas Hantzidis 1987-96
- Theodoros Pahatouridis 1987-96
- Vassilis Karapialis 1991-00
- Alexandros Alexandris 1994-03
- Grigoris Georgatos 1995-99, 2000-01, 2003-07
- Stelios Giannakopoulos 1996-03
- Andreas Niniadis 1996-03
- Lambros Choutos 1999-04
- Ieroklis Stoltidis 2003-10
- Konstantinos Mitroglou 2007-10, 2012-14
- Savvas Kofidis
- Dinos Andrianopoulos
- Yiannis Andrianopoulos
- Stelios Andrianopoulos
- Georgios Anatolakis
- Achilleas Grammatikopoulos
- Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos
- Fanis Katergiannakis
- Nikos Dabizas
- Nikos Kambolis
- Kyriakos Karataidis
- Ioannis Kyrastas
- Andreas Mouratis
- Takis Lemonis
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Notable players
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- Ilias Rossidis
- Savas Theodoridis
- Kostas Karapatis
- Stelios Kourkouklatos
- Thanasis Bebis
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- Andreas Mouratis
- Theologos Symeonidis
- Dionisis Minardos
- Filipos Kouradis
- Themis Moustaklis
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(Alpha Ethniki:period 1959-79)
(Professional Championship:period 1979-2006)
(Superleague:period 2006–present)
Notes
- Olympiacos FC Players
External links
- Olympiacos CFP Official Website
- Olympiacos Supporters Official Website
- Olympiacos The Eternal Champion - RSSSF Official Website
References
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- Founded in March 10, 1925 - Based in Piraeus
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