100 Years Olympiacos

It has gone down in modern Greece's collective memory as the greatest sporting tragedy the country has ever known. A bloody Sunday in '81, with 21 immortal dead...

 It wasn't just a football match, it was a historic event, an almost absurd experience, where the result took a back seat to the tension, the drama and an existential rush

An executive whose dedication to the Club and winning spirit were unparalleled - he was at the helm at crucial moments in Olympiacos’ history, when his presence guaranteed that the team performed at its very best

The Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Olympiacos’ home and other historic venues

A prolific Olympiacos scorer, he took his last breath wearing the red-and-white jersey

 Argentine passion, unique inspirations and football as an... art form – components that bestowed unforgettable memories to Olympiacos fans and aficionados of the game everywhere

The man responsible for the first Greek version of the ‘galacticos’ and his legendary love for Olympiacos

The team that Evangelos Marinakis created …with one stroke won seven championships in a row (2011-2017). The role of Ernesto Valverde, the Iberian “school” and the pattern that still holds today

On the centennial anniversary of the Club's founding in 1925, his figure stands tall. He was an institution who wrote his life's work in red and white

The Olympiacos Foundation broke new ground when it was created, with respect to the heritage and the millions of Olympiacos fans - and with a desire to always emphasize that Olympiacos is more than just a team

This football genius from Uruguay inextricably linked his name with the Piraeus team, so much so that it became a motto sung by the fans in the stands

Some of the all-time greats who played in the red and white stripes.

...or, how Ilias Hatzipavlis and Tasos Bountouris, two Olympiacos athletes, became legends in a sport where the wind decides everything...and nothing

With Thodoris Vlachos and Charis Pavlidis at the helm, the titles began to... rain down. Having grown up at Olympiacos, they went on to help their club grow in its turn

His speech is often allegorical and sometimes poetic - similar to the way he played

The Basque trainer that fans took into their hearts, like few others, was the first to mix football and... geometry in his palette

On the one hand, Yves Triantafyllos, and Romain Argyroudis, on the other. Between them numerous fond football memories

He never left Olympiacos, even when he coached elsewhere, ever the foot soldier and the epitome of the reliable solution

The revolution of the '70s and Olympiacos’ first major triumph with the... orange ball

An emblematic team leader, an outstanding person who honored wher role as captain of the women’s volleyball team and became its ‘banner’

The legacy left by Faidon Matthaiou is a veritable ‘sports encyclopedia’. Players and coaches didn’t give him the nickname by chance

Istanbul 2012 and London 2013: A team that reminded fans to believe in miracles. Vassilis Spanoulis, Giorgios Printezis and the rest of the team pulled off an unbelievable double achievement

His heart, passion and unforgettable saves made him a legend between the posts, and he treated the fans to multiple moments of sheer magnificence

A group of ex-swimmers started something in 1988 which is still remembered today. Olympiacos’ most successful women’s team, and one of the top two water polo powerhouses in Europe for a decade

A unique personality and the epitome of the notion of ‘utility player’ on the field, he recorded the most appearances of the 20th century for Olympiacos

 According to many, he was the most accomplished player in Greek football in the first two decades of the 21st century

Spyros Gianniotis and Apostolos Christou embodied and continue to embody the athletic ideal that Olympiacos represents. Dominant in their competitions and athletes that have hung Olympic medals around their necks in swimming

Olympiacos’ aquatic dream has a name - the swimmer who broke the Greek 100-meter freestyle record on no fewer than six occasions, and who created a red-and-white model program

Vasilis Botinos was a legendary figure in the history of Olympiacos, and anyone who saw him work his... magic agrees you’d be hard-pressed to find his match today

 He’s vying for the unofficial title of top Olympiacos player of all time, and in all sports. He’s ‘Kill Bill’, and he’s eternal

Nikos Gioutsos arrived from a football-advanced Hungary to a relative backwater Greece in the early 1960s. His repatriation was achieved through an intervention by renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis, with his transfer to Olympiacos reminiscent of a spy novel

He played like a teenager until the end of his career - a living link between the generations of Olympiacos basketball fans - a career full of consistency, soul and shots that made history.

An internationally known Magyar manager who oversaw another glorious chapter in Olympiacos’ history. Even today, his resignation and the reasons behind it still resonate more than the titles he won for the Reds.

When Pedro Martins arrived at Olympiacos, no one even knew who he was—apart from Vangelis Marinakis. When he left, he’d broken several key Club records

From the wholesale produce market to the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, ‘Fontakas’, as he was called, was a prolific goal-scorer, a powerful player and a personality that exceeded the boundaries of the pitch to become a catchphrase for an entire Olympiacos era

When it comes to football, Piraeus is reminiscent of the small “Gaulish village” in the hugely popular comics series “Asterix”. It’s there that a short but massively talented player, one with the heart of a champion, arrived at the right place and time for Olympiacos and manager Pedro Martins.