Full name | Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς (Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus) |
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Founded | 10 March 1925 |
Ground |
Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus, Greece |
Capacity | 32,115 |
Owner | Abisso Holdings Limited |
Chairman | Evangelos Marinakis |
Manager | Takis Lemonis |
League |
Superleague Greece Greek Cup UEFA Champions League UEFA Europa League |
2015–16 | Superleague Greece, 1st |
Website | Club home page |
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 43 Greek League titles, 27 Greek Cups,– totalling 17 doubles – and 4 Greek Super Cups, for a total of 74 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).