Olympiacos

Olympiacos are a Greek professional football club who are part of the Olympiacos CFP sports club based in Piraeus. 

They currently play their football in the Superleague of Greece and are the most successful team in the country, with 40 championships and 26 Greek Cups. They have also achieved the league and cup double on 16 different occasions.

The club play their home games at the Karaiskakis Stadium, which has the capacity to hold 31,115 fans. 

Olympiacos were founded on March 10th, 1925. The members of Sport and Football Club of Piraeus and Piraeus Fans Club FC decided to merge together to form a unified club. 

The first official Greek Championship was set up in 1927 and was known as the HFF Panhellenic Championship. Olympiacos won it for the first in the 1930-1931 season. There were just seven other teams on that occasion and they finished five points ahead of rivals Panathinaikos.

The Piaraeus club then went on to win five further titles through the 1930s, as they dominated the early stages of the competition.

After a nine-year period without the championship, Olympiacos got their hands on it again in 1947 when they pipped Iraklia Thessaloniki by a point to win their seventh crown. A year later they successfully defended it.

From 1953 to 1959 the club set a record as they won six straight league titles. Panathinaikos broke that run in 1960 to deny them that year when the league was expanded to six teams and rebranded the Alpha Ethniki.

In the 1990s, the most popular club in Greece broke their own record by winning seven consecutive championships. That run started in 1997 and went through to the new millennium in 2003. Again, Panathinaikos denied them further success by securing the 2004 Alpha Ethniki by two points.

Olympiacos are yet to win a European competition but they have twice made it through to the quarter-finals of Europe's premier event. In 1992-1993 they reached the last eight of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Wins over Chernomorets Odessa and AS Monaco moved them into the quarter-finals where they were beaten 4-2 over two legs by Atletico Madrid.

In the UEFA Champions League they were also two rounds away from the final in 1998-1999. After winning Group A with 11 points, they drew Juventus in the knockout stage of the competition. Unfortunately for them, they were beaten 3-2 by the Italian club. 

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