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 Piraeus FCA 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
In 1926, the Hellenic Football Federation was founded and organized the Panhellenic Championship, the 1927–1928 season, 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 official matches are listed.
Most Appearances Top 10 Most Capped Players RankPlayerNationalityApp1Predrag Đorđević4932Kyriakos Karataidis4423Georgios Anatolakis3644Kostas Fortounis3485Alexis Alexandris3336Kostas Polychroniou3057Dimitris Mavrogenidis3048Giorgos Sideris2859Georgios Amanatidis28410Vassilis Karapialis277
All Time Top Scorers
Top 10 Goalscorers RankPlayerNationalityGoals1Giorgos Sideris2242Nikos Anastopoulos1973Alexis Alexandris1704Predrag Đorđević1575Giovanni976Youssef El-Arabi947Kostas Fortounis948Stelios Giannakopoulos879Kostas Mitroglou8210Ayoub El Kaabi 82
Key †Club captains who have won a major Senior competition (competitions noted in notes section)*Club record holder¤Played their full career at Olympiacos
Greece
South & North America
Europe
Africa
Asia
Hwang In-beom 2022–23 Hwang Ui-jo 2022–23 Mehdi Taremi 2025–26 Karim Ansarifard 2017–18 Ehsan Hajsafi 2018
Oceania
Chris Kalantzis 1992–97 Steve Refenes 1992–96 Marko Stamenić 2024–25
Notable players (Panhellenic Championship:period 1925–59)
(Alpha Ethniki:period 1959–79)
(Professional Championship:period 1979–2006)
Club captains
DatesNameSeasons as captain1959–1961 Ilias Rosidis21961–1968 Kostas Polychroniou71968–1969 Giorgos Sideris11969–1970 Orestis Pavlidis11970–1972 Giannis Gaitatzis21972–1978 Vassilis Siokos61978–1980 Michalis Kritikopoulos21980–1986 Stavros Papadopoulos61986–1988 Petros Michos21988–1991 Tasos Mitropoulos31991–1995 Panagiotis Tsalouchidis41995–1996 Georgios Skartados11996–2001 Kyriakos Karataidis52001–2003 Alexis Alexandris22003–2009 Predrag Đorđević62009–2011 Antonis Nikopolidis22011–2013 Vasilis Torosidis22013–2014 Avraam Papadopoulos12014–2015 Giannis Maniatis12015–2016 David Fuster12016–2017 Alejandro Domínguez12017–2018 Alberto Botía12018–2019 Kostas Fortounis12019–2020 Omar Elabdellaoui12020–2023 Andreas Bouchalakis32023 Youssef El-Arabi12023–2024 Kostas Fortounis22024–2025 Georgios Masouras12025– Panagiotis Retsos3
Notes Olympiacos FC Players Foreign Players in Greece
External links Olympiacos FC Official Website Olympiacos Supporters Official Website Greece: List of Champions 1905–Present
References