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The five-man Andrianopoulos brothers founded Olympiacos CFP in 1925, composing the forward line which would dominate the fledgling Greek championship in the 1930s. All would move into local and national politics, their influence helping promote the club and organize the funding and construction of their home stadium Karaiskaki in the 1950s, another period of lengthy domestic success for the red-and-whites. A relatively lean period in the 1960s was reversed by ambitious club president Nikos Goulandris, who bought star names to knock Panathinaikos FC off their perch in 1973, the first of three straight titles.

A financial scandal in the early 1980s - at a time of four straight title wins - knocked the club back, and allowed a motivated AEK Athens FC side under talismanic Bosnian Serb coach Dusan Bajevic to rule the roost. In 1992, mobile-phone millionaire and owner of the Olympiacos basketball team, Socrates Kokkalis bought the football club and cleared all its debts. In 1996, Kokkalis pulled the surprise coup of buying Bajevic from AEK; with fellow Serbians Ilija Ivic and Sinisa Gogic up front, Olympiacos strode to the title by 12 clear points over AEK in Bajevic's first season in charge. With Grigoris Georgatos and another Serbian, playmaker Predrag Djordjevic, coming to the fore, Olympiacos took another title in 1997/98, and equipped themselves well in the UEFA Champions League the following season. Winning a tricky group over Ajax FC, Porto FC and NK Croatia (now Dinamo) Zagreb, Olympiacos lost to a late Antonio Conte goal for Juventus FC in the quarter-finals.

Although dominant at home, failure to match this progress the following season - and integrate expensive foreign stars Giovanni of Brazil and Slovenia's Zlatko Zahovic - saw Kokkalis and Bajevic fall out in late 1999. Meanwhile, Karaiskaki was proving a little shabby for prestigious European fixtures, and the club were looking to move to a new stadium, a 40,000 all-seater stadium in nearby Rendis. The Olympic Stadium began to play host to Olympiacos, and their gradual march to an unbroken run of seven league titles.

For 2002/03 and 2003/04, with the Olympic stadium under reconstruction and Rendis still under negotiation, Olympiacos play at Rizopoulis, home of modest Apollon Athens FC. On the pitch in the first of those two seasons, veteran striker Alexios Alexandris continued to score a hatful of goals, and Olympiacos pipped Panathinaikos to the title thanks to a 3-0 victory for the reigning champions in the season's penultimate round.

Έτος ίδρυσης: 1925
Πρόεδρος: Βαγγέλης Μαρινάκης
Διεύθυνση: Πλατεία Αλεξάνδρας - Λιμένας Ζέας
Πόλη: ΠΕΙΡΑΙΑΣ , ΤΚ: 185 34
Τηλ: 210 4143000
Fax: 210 4143113 - 4
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.olympiacos.org

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