Full name | Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς (Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) |
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Nickname(s) |
Thrylos (The Legend) Kokkinoi (The Reds) Erythrolefkoi (The Red and Whites) Dafnostefanomenos (The laurel-crowned) |
Short name | OSFP or OLY (For European Games Only) |
Founded | 10 March 1925 |
Ground | Karaiskakis Stadium |
Capacity | 32,115 |
Owner | Evangelos Marinakis |
Chairman | Evangelos Marinakis |
Manager | Besnik Hasi |
League | Superleague Greece |
2016–17 | Superleague Greece, 1st |
Website | Club website |
Olympiacos F.C. (Greek: ΠΑΕ Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π.), also known simply as Olympiacos, Olympiakos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name as Olympiacos C.F.P. (Greek: Oλυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, transliterated "Olympiakós Sýndesmos Filáthlo̱n Peiraió̱s", Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus), is a Greek professional football club, part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus. Their name was inspired from the Ancient Olympic Games and along with the club's emblem, the laurel-crowned adolescent Olympic winner, encompass and symbolise the morality, the honour, the vying, the splendor, the sportsmanship and the fair play value of the Olympic ideal of Ancient Greece.
Founded on 10 March 1925, Olympiacos is the most successful club in Greek football history, having won 44 Greek League titles, 27 Greek Cups,– totalling 17 doubles – and 4 Greek Super Cups, for a total of 75 national titles, all records. Olympiacos' dominating success can be further evidenced by the fact that all other Greek clubs have won a combined total of 37 League titles.
Olympiacos also holds the record for the most consecutive Greek League titles, as they are the only team to have won seven consecutive League titles (1997–2003), having broken their own previous record of six consecutive from the club's trophy-laden era of the 50s (1954–1959), when Olympiacos gained unequivocally the nickname of Thrylos (Greek: Θρύλος, The Legend).