Olympiakos Volou FC
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| Full name | Olympiacos Volos 1937 FC |
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| Nickname(s) |
Austriakoi (Austrian Boys) Erythrolefki (The Red-Whites) |
| Founded | 1937 |
| Ground | Volos Municipal Stadium |
| Capacity | 9,000 |
| Chairman | Panagiotis Mpotsivalis |
| Manager | Timos Kavakas |
| League | 2016–17 Gamma Ethniki |
| 2014–15 | Football League, 3rd |
| Website | Club home page |
Olympiacos Volou Football Club (Greek: Ποδοσφαιρικός Σύλλογος Ολυμπιακός Βόλου ), is a Greek football club based in the city of Volos. They were participating in Football League before they withdraw from the league in February 2016 due to economic problems. Currently they participate in Football League 2.
In 1938 Olympiacos achieves the biggest distinction made from a provincial team at the time, succeeding to enter the final eight in Greek Football Cup.
In 1947 Olympiacos wins its first Thessalian championship. The year 1954 is very successful for the team. Furthermore, Olympiakos make a great win over Doxa Dramas in an away game and Olympiakos becomes Panprovincional champion of Northern Greece and wins its ticket to the Panhellenic Championship, where they take the decent 5th place.
The 1955 year then became a notable one in the club history: while the city of Volos was damaged by some earthquakes, Olympiakos Volou had a scheduled Greek Cup match to play in Athens against AEK for the Greek Cup in Athens. Due to the city being heavily damaged and due to lack of media information, it seemed Olympiakos Volou would not have managed to get to Athens in time. However, the team ultimately managed to arrive in the Greek capital city and even eliminated AEK by beating them 0–1 and go further to the quarter-finals.
In 1960 the team reached the round of 16 in Greek Cup. In 1961 it merged with local club Ethnikos Volos, with Ethnikos-Olympiakos Volou being the new denomination, despite this the team is still commonly referred as Olympiakos Volou. In the same year Olympiakos wins the Central Greece championship and had the opportunity to win the promotion in A' Ethniki through a play-off match, whict the team lost.
In 1962–63 Olympiakos completed the B' Ethniki league in a remarkable fifth place. In the following season the team ended first, together with Trikala, but lost the promotion once again in a play-off match. This was followed by a fourth and a second place in the two next seasons, before Olympiakos finally managed to get promoted to the top flight in 1966, after winning the Panthessalian championship and then defeating Panelefsiniakos and Kavala on play-offs.
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