Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós (, ) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Founded on 16 May 1924 and officially recognized on 10 March 1925, Olympiacos is parent to a number of different competitive departments which participate in football, basketball, volleyball, water polo, handball, athletics, swimming, table tennis and boxing amongst many othersand have won numerous European and domestic titles over the club's history. Olympiacos has also completed various doubles, trebles and quadruples.
Nicknamed Thrylos (Legend) and Gavros (Anchovy), Olympiacos SFP is traditionally considered an anti-systemic club representing the working classes of Piraeus and fighting against the system and Athenian aristocracy represented by Panathinaikos.
Olympiacos is the most successful and decorated multi-sports club in Europe, having surpassed Barcelona in 2024 and being the only Greek club, as well as one of the few European multi-sport clubs to have won as many as 26 International titlesOlympiacos' 13 International titles, palo.gr, 21/11/2015 (in Greek) –including 24 major European titles, 1 Intercontinental title and 1 Balkan title– in six sports (Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Water Polo, Wrestling, Table Tennis) (no other Greek club have won more than ten European titles). Additionally, by also counting all friendly tournaments and minor and unofficial titles, Olympiacos had 700 trophies in 1962, which have increased since then. Overall, Olympiacos is the most successful Greek multi-sport club in terms of International titles won (26), European titles won (24), European Championships won (11), participations in European and International finals (54 –26 times Champions, 28 times Runners-up–) and the only Greek multi-sport club to have won European titles in four different team sports (football, basketball, volleyball, water polo). They have won European titles with nine of their sports departments (men's football, youth football, men's basketball, men's volleyball, women's volleyball, men's water polo, women's water polo, men's wrestling, men's table tennis) while no other multi-sport club in Greece has more than three European title-winning sports departments.Ελληνικοί αθλητικοί σύλλογοι με διεθνή τρόπαια (in Greek)
Specifically, Olympiacos Men's Football Team have won 1 UEFA Europa Conference League (2024) and 1 Balkans Cup (1963), Olympiacos Youth Football Team have won 1 UEFA Youth League (2024), Olympiacos Men's Basketball Team have won 4 EuroLeagues (1997, 2012, 2013, 2026) and 1 FIBA Intercontinental Cup (2013), Olympiacos Men's Volleyball Team have won 2 CEV Cups (1996, 2005) and 1 CEV Challenge Cup (2023), Olympiacos Women's Volleyball Team have won 1 CEV Challenge Cup (2018), Olympiacos Men's Water Polo Team have won 2 LEN Champions Leagues (2002, 2018) and 1 LEN Super Cup (2002), Olympiacos Women's Water Polo Team have won 4 LEN Champions Leagues (2015, 2021, 2022, 2026), 1 LEN Trophy (2014) and 4 LEN Super Cups (2015, 2021, 2022, 2026), Olympiacos Men's Wrestling Team has won 1 CELA Cup (2006)Olympiacos Wrestling: 2006 European Cela Cup triumph, Olympiacos Museum, 04/12/2011 (in Greek) "την πρώτη θέση στο Κύπελλο Ευρωπαϊκής Ομοσπονδίας (Cela Cup) που διεξήχθη στην πόλη Σρέτζανιν της Σερβίας κατέκτησε η ομάδα ελληνορωμαϊκής πάλης του Ολυμπιακού" (in Greek). nooz.gr. 4 December 2006. and Olympiacos Men's Table Tennis Team have won 1 ETTU Europe Trophy (2023). In total, Olympiacos departments (Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Water Polo, Handball, Wrestling, Table Tennis) have reached 54 times the final (26 times Champions, 28 times Runners-up) of the most prestigious and important European and Worldwide competitions, which is an all-time record for a Greek multi-sport club.
Olympiacos FC is also the only club in European football to have won two UEFA trophies in a single season, having won the UEFA Europa Conference League title with its Senior Team and the UEFA Youth League title with its Youth Team in the same year (2024).
Olympiacos is the most popular Greek clubhttp://www.sport24.gr/football/ellada/article344370.ece , Περισσότερους οπαδούς ο Ολυμπιακός. Σε πρόσφατη έρευνα σχετικά με τους περισσότερους οπαδούς, ο ΟΣΦΠ είναι 1ος, 30/06/2009 SPORT24, 15ετής έρευνα του Παντελή Κυπριανού (in Greek), το 36% (2.016.000) δηλώνουν Ολυμπιακοί, το 30% (1.680.000) Παναθηναϊκοί, Έρευνα της Focus, Οκτώβριος 2005 –Φεβρουάριος 2006, SPORT24, επίσημο blog του sport24 και του αθλητικού συντάκτη Στέλιου Μαρκάκη (in Greek), H πιο πρόσφατη... «απογραφή»: 36% Oλυμπιακοί (1,677 εκατομμύρια), 30,2% Παναθηναϊκοί, Sentragoal, Βαγγέλης Μπραουδάκης (in Greek)https://www.tanea.gr/news/greece/article/4524106/?iid=2, Έλαβον: ΟΣΦΠ 39%, ΠΑΟ 30%, ΑΕΚ 15%, ΠΑΟΚ 11%, Άρης 5%. Ύστερα από 15ετή έρευνα δύο πανεπιστημιακοί στο βιβλίο τους καταγράφουν την ιστορία και γεωγραφία του ελληνικού ποδοσφαίρου, 30/06/2009, ΤΑ ΝΕΑ – tanea.gr (in Greek)https://www.sportdog.gr/article/111831/oi-pio-polloi-einai-oi-olubiakoi, Πιο πολλοί είναι οι Ολυμπιακοί!, 26/06/2012 sportdog από έρευνα του ΣΚΑΙ (in Greek)http://www.contra.gr/Soccer/Europe/230473.html , Περισσότερους φιλάθλους η Μπαρτσελόνα, πρώτη ελληνική ομάδα ο Ολυμπιακός (in Greek) with around four million fans inside Greece and millions of others in the Greek communities all over the world."Red and White" Olympiacos moments in New York, Greek Reporter USA (usa.greekreporter.com), 04/06/2011Greek diaspora supports Olympiacos CFP , redplanet.gr (in Greek)Greek side Olympiakos looking forward to playing Melbourne Victory at Etihad Stadium in May. There are thousands of Olympiakos fans in Australia waiting to see our team in action., foxsports.com, 21/03/2012Olympiacos supporters of the Greek community in São Paulo, provided passionate support to Olympiacos basketball team, as they won the Intercontinental Cup, sportfm.gr, 08/10/2013 (in Greek)"Our Greek fans in Brazil were amazing". Olympiacos won the Intercontinental Cup in Brazil with Spanoulis, Printezis and Mantzaris praising Olympiacos fans from the Greek community in Brazil and thanking them for their support, gazzetta.gr, 08/10/2013 (in Greek)Olympiacos fans in Sao Paulo (in Greek)Olympiacos Club of New York and Greek diaspora honours Olympiacos President Evangelos Marinakis , The National Herald (thenationalherald.com) (in Greek) As of April 2006, Olympiacos has 83,000 registered members and is placed in the top ten of the clubs with the most paying members in the world, holding the ninth place just ahead of Real Madrid.https://www.gazzetta.gr/podosfairo/article/303148-aytoi-einai-oi-opadoi-stin-ellada, Αυτοί είναι οι οπαδοί στην Ελλάδα – Ο Ολυμπιακός έχει τους περισσότερους φιλάθλους στην Ελλάδα, 26/06/2012 Gazzetta (in Greek). In 2014, that figure increased and the team boasts 98,000 registered members. Olympiacos CFP was the first Greek club that made it possible for its fans to become members, and granted them the right of voting for the board of directors.
History
Olympiacos CFP was founded on 16 May 1924, and played some friendly games with other clubs, although it was officially recognized on March 10, 1925. It was founded in Piraeus, as a football club initially, and the club's aim, as stated in the statutes, is the systematic cultivation and development of its athletes' possibilities for participation in athletic competitions, the spreading of the Olympic athletic ideal and the promotion of sportsmanship and fanship among the youth according to egalitarian principles, by stressing a healthy, ethical and social basis as its foundation. Members of "Piraikos Podosfairikos Omilos FC" (Sport and Football Club of Piraeus) and "Piraeus Fans Club FC" decided, during a historical assembly, to dissolve the two clubs in order to establish a new unified one, which would bring this new vision and dynamic to the community. Notis Kamperos, a senior officer of the Hellenic Air Force, proposed the name Olympiacos and the profile of a laurel-crowned Olympic winner as the emblem of the new club. Michalis Manouskos, a prominent Piraeus industrialist, expanded the name to its complete and current status, Olympiacos Syndesmos Filathlon Pireos, a name that symbolizes and encompasses the morality, the honour, the vying, the splendor, the sportsmanship and the fair play value of the Olympic ideal of Ancient Greece, which was totally consistent with the club's emblem.Team Official Website of Olympiacos Piraeus (retrieved 20 May 2014) Besides Kamperos and Manouskos, among the most notable founding members were Stavros Maragoudakis, the Post Office director, Nikos Andronikos, a merchant, Dimitrios Sklias, a Hellenic Army officer, Nikolaos Zacharias, an attorney, Athanasios Mermigas, a notary public, Kostas Klidouchakis, who became the first goalkeeper in the club's history, Ioannis Kekkes, a stockbroker, and above all, the Andrianopoulos family. Andrianopoulos, a family of well-established Piraeus merchants, played a pivotal role in the founding of Olympiacos. The five brothers, Yiannis, Giorgos, Dinos, Vassilis and Leonidas Andrianopoulos raised the reputation of the club and brought it to its current glory. Yiannis, Giorgos, Dinos and Vassilis were the first to play, while Leonidas, the youngest of the five, made his debut later on and played for the club for eight years (1927–1935). The club's offensive line, made up of the five brothers, became legendary, rising to a mythical status and soon Olympiacos gained enormous popularity and became the most successful and well-supported club in Greece. Olympiacos is also known as Thrylos (The Legend), after the legendary, classic side of the 1950s which won a hatful of titles.
In 2011, Olympiacos also founded a women's football department, which was refounded in 2025 and currently participates in the Women's Beta Ethniki.
Olympiacos departments – history and honours
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Football
Olympiacos football team are the most successful club in Greek football history, and the only Greek club to have won a major European trophy by winning the UEFA Europa Conference League in 2024. They have also won 48 League titles, 29 Cups and 5 Super Cups, all records. Totalling 82 national trophies, Olympiacos was 9th in the world in total titles won by a football club in 2018. The club's dominating success can be further evidenced by the fact that all other Greek clubs have won a combined total of 38 League titles, while Olympiacos also holds the record for the most consecutive Greek League titles won, with seven in a row in two occasions (1997–2003 and 2011–2017), breaking their own previous record of six consecutive wins in the 1950s (1954–1959), when Olympiacos was unequivocally nicknamed Thrylos (, "The Legend").
Having won the 2014–15 league title, Olympiacos became the only football club in the world to have won a series of five or more consecutive championships for five times in their history, a record that was praised by FIFA with a congratulatory letter of its president, Sepp Blatter. They are also the only Greek club to have won five consecutive national Cups (1957–1961), as well as six League titles undefeated (1937, 1938, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1955). Olympiacos are one of only three clubs to have never been relegated from the top flight of Greek football, and by winning the 2012–13 title, their 40th in total, they added a fourth star above their crest, each one representing 10 League titles.
Olympiacos is the most successful Greek football club in European competitions, being the only club from Greece to have won a major European trophy; they won the UEFA Europa Conference League in 2023–24, sealing the title by beating Italian side Fiorentina 1–0 in the Final. With their 2024 triumph, they became the first club outside the biggest four European leagues (Premier League, Serie A, La Liga and Bundesliga) to win a UEFA competition since 2011.
UEFA Europa Conference League Winners (1) (shared European record): 2024 UEFA Youth League