Olympiacos S.C.

Olympiacos S.C.

Full name	Olympiacos SC
Nickname	Red-Whites
Founded	1930
Ground	Melina Merkouri (Rendis), Piraeus, Greece (Capacity: 3,000)
Chairman	Leonidas Theodorakakis
League	A1
2010-11 season	1st
Uniforms
Current 　 Home 　 Away 　 Libero

Olympiacos S.C. is the volleyball team of the Greek sports club Olympiacos. It was founded in 1930 and has won 23 National Championships, 13 Greek Cups and 1 Greek Super Cup. They are ranked among the top European teams and they are the most successful Greek club.

Olympiacos are the dominants of Greek volleyball, having gained the most national championships and cups while they are the only Greek team to have won European trophies (2 CEV Top Teams Cup). They have also played in many Final Four in the European competitions which makes them one of the biggest volleyball clubs of Europe.

Olympiacos have a women volleyball team as well which was founded in 1992. Contrary to the men's team, women of Olympiacos had never played a major role until 2007, when they finished second in the Greek league and eliminated their eternal enemy Panathinaikos in the Greek Cup. In the season 2007-08 the women department reached the quarter finals of the Challenge Cup.

Honours

(Total titles: 42)

Men

Domestic

• Greek Championship: 25

1968, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011

• Greek Cup: 12

1981, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2009, 2011

• Greek Super Cup: 2

2000, 2010,2011

European

• CEV Cup Winners' Cup: 2

1996, 2005

Other

• Double: 10

1981, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2009, 2011

Notes

• In 1994, a Final Four tournament was held instead of a cup competition, where all international players were excluded because of the upcoming World Cup. Olympiacos won the tournament but that title is not considered an official one by the Hellenic Volleyball Federation.[1]

Women

Domestic

• Greek Championship:
  • Runners-up (3): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• Greek Cup: (1)2011
  • Runners-up (1): 2010

Winners (1): 2011

International record

Season	Achievement	Notes
Champions Cup
1981-82	4th place / Final Four
1991-92	2nd place / Final Four	defeated by Il Messaggero Ravenna
1992-93	3rd place / Final Four
1993-94	4th place / Final Four
1994-95	3rd place / Final Four
Champions League
2000-01	4th place / Final Four
2001-02	2nd place / Final Four	defeated by Lube Banca Macerata 1-3
Cup Winners Cup/Top Teams Cup
1995-96	Winners / Final Four	won Bayer Wuppertal
1996-97	2nd place / Final Four	defeated by Alpitour Traco Cuneo
1997-98	2nd place / Final Four	defeated by Alpitour Traco Cuneo
2004-05	Winners / Final Four	won Ortec Nesselande Rotterdam 3-0

Selected Former Players

• Apostolos Armenakis
• Goran Vujevic
• Stylianos Amarianakis
• Georgios Dragovits
• Scott Fortune
• Ivo Gavrilov
• Marios Giourdas
• Ernando Gómez
• Bengt Gustavsson
• Hendrik Jan "Henk Jan" Held
• Osvaldo Hernández Chambert
• Ray Salmon
• Georgios Kazamias
• Dimitrios Kazazis
• Plamen Konstantinov
• Vasilios Kournetas
• Ioannis Laios
• Vasa Mijić
• Milan Markovic
• Athanasios Moustakidis
• Stefanos Polyzos
• Stylianos Prosalikas
• Igor Runov
• Jeff Stork
• Antonios Tsakiropoulos
• Hristo Tsvetanov
• Marcos Milinkovic
• Lorenzo Bernardi
• Urbanowicz Leszek
• Raimond Vilde
• Boyan Yordanov
• Ivan Miljković
• Tom Hoff
• Huber Eno
• Pablo Meana

Current Squad 2011/2012

Number	Name	Height (m)	Date of Birth	Position	Nationality
1	Andres Ronaldo Jimenez	2.00	09/01/1990	Opposite	Colombia
3	Gerasimos Kanellos	2.01	25/08/1987	Middle Blocker	Greece
4	George Petreas	2.01	19/11/1986	Middle Blocker	Greece
5	Sotirios Sotiriou	1.98	20/04/1986	Opposite	Greece
6	Giannis Livathinos	1.83	19/04/1977	Setter	Greece
7	Dima Filippov	1.98	04/12/1990	Setter	Greece
8	Marek Novotny	2.02	04/05/1977	Spiker	Czech Republic
9	Menelaos Kokkinakis	1.93	21/01/1993	Spiker	Greece
10	Andreas Andreadis	2.06	14/01/1982	Middle Blocker	Greece
11	Pavlos Kouzounis	1.85	13/08/1987	Libero	Greece
14	Giannis Markou	1.92	10/01/1992	Middle Blocker	Greece
15	Kostas Ioannou	1.92	01/01/1982	Spiker	Greece
18	Panagiotis Feleris	1.86	28/08/1993	Libero	Greece

  Captain

Nat.	Position	Name
	Head Coach	Giannis Kalmazidis
	Assistant Coach	Kyriakos Kamberidis
	Trainer	Kyriakos Moutesidis
	Physiotherapists	Giorgos Papageorgiou
	Statistician	Makis Margaritis
	Property Attendant	Spiros Bletsas
	Team Manager	Vasilis Kallimanis

External links

• Official Website of Olympiacos Piraeus (Greek) (English)
• Olympiacos Volleyball Unofficial Site (Greek)
• Ελληνική Ομοσπονδία Πετοσφαίρισης (Greek)