Olympiacos F.C. season 2008-09

Infobox Football club season
club =

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season = 2008–09
manager = flagicon|ESP Ernesto Valverde
chairman = flagicon|GRE Socratis Kokkalis
league = Super League Greece
league result = "1st"
cup1 = Greek Cup
cup1 result =
cup2 = UEFA Champions League
cup2 result = Third qualifying round
cup3 = UEFA Cup
cup3 result = "Group stage"
cup4 =
cup4 result =
league topscorer =
Luciano Galletti (3)
Diogo Luis Santo (3)
Darko Kovačević (3)
season topscorer =
Diogo Luis Santo (5)
Darko Kovačević (5)
highest attendance =
lowest attendance =
prevseason = 2007-08
nextseason = "2009-10"The 2008–09 season is Olympiacos 50th consecutive season in the Super League Greece, but they are competing in the UEFA Cup after a long 11-year participation in the UEFA Champions League, as they were eliminated in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round by the Cypriot Anorthosis. In the beginning of the summertime Olympiacos unveiled Spanish Ernesto Valverde as their new coach. [cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=702323.html |title=Olympiacos turn to Valverde |publisher=UEFA.com |language=English |date=2008-05-28 |accessdate=2008-05-29]

quad

Fs player|no=27|nat=Greece|name=Konstantinos Lambropoulos|pos=DF" Under 20s"Fs player|no=31|nat=Greece|name=Aristides Soiledis|pos=MF " Under 20s"

ummer Squad Changes for the 2008-09 Season

InFs player|no=5|nat=Greece|name=Georgios Galitsios|pos=DF "loan return from AEL 1964"Fs player|no=8|nat=Spain|name=Oscar Gonzalez |pos=FW " from Zaragoza"Fs player|no=10|nat=Brazil|name=Diogo Luis Santo|pos=FW " from Portuguesa"Fs player|no=20|nat=Brazil|name=Dudu Cearense|pos=MF " from PFC CSKA Moscow"Fs player|no=21|nat=Greece|name=Avraam Papadopoulos|pos=DF " from Aris"Fs player|no=23|nat=Argentina|name=Sebastian Leto|pos=MF " loan from Liverpool"Fs player|no=33|nat=Greece|name=Giannis Papadopoulos|pos=MF "from Iraklis FC"Fs player|no=74|nat=Slovakia|name=Pavel Kovać|pos=GK "from Apollon Kalamarias"

Total spending: loss 23,800,000 €

OutFs player|no=74|nat=Croatia|name=Tomislav Butina|pos=GK "Released by Club and moved to Dinamo Zagreb"Fs player|no=23|nat=Cyprus|name=Michalis Konstantinou|pos=FW "Released by Club"Fs player|no=10|nat=Argentina|name=Leonel Núñez|pos=FW " moved to Independiente"Fs player|no=10|nat=Democratic Republic of the Congo|name= Lomana LuaLua |pos=FW " moved to Al Ahli"

Total income: gain 5,500,000 €

Out on loan

Fs player|no=13|nat=Hungary|name=Zsolt Laczko|pos=MF "to Leicester City"Fs player|no=77|nat=Brazil|name=Leozinho|pos=MF "to OFI Crete"Fs player|no=28|nat=Argentina|name=Cristian Raúl Ledesma|pos=MF " to San Lorenzo"Fs player|no=24|nat=Greece|name=Georgios Katsikogiannis|pos=MF " to Levadeiakos"

Current national players

Fs player|no=2|nat=Greece|name=Christos Patsatzoglou|pos=DF 26 (1)Fs player|no=14|nat=Poland|name=Michał Żewłakow|pos=DF 74 (2)Fs player|no=25|nat=Argentina|name=Fernando Belluschi|pos=MF 2 (0)Fs player|no=28|nat=Argentina|name=Cristian Raúl Ledesma|pos=FW 3 (0)Fs player|no=35|nat=Greece|name=Vasilis Torosidis|pos=DF 10 (0)Fs player|no=77|nat=Slovenia|name=Mirnes Sisic|pos=MF 3 (1)

*Appearances (Goals)

Competitions

Overall

uper League Greece

Classification

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

uper League Greece

"All times at EET"

footballbox
date=2008-08-30
time=19:00
team1=Olympiacos
score=3 – 1
report= [http://www.galanissportsdata.com/football/national/season2008_09/aetblgame.asp?game=1 (Report)]
team2=Asteras Tripolis
goals1=Galletti goal|61 goal|63|pen.
Kovačević goal|81
goals2=Cesarec goal|45+2|pen.
stadium=Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
attendance=20,404
referee= ----footballbox
date=2008-09-13
time=16:45
team1=Skoda Xanthi
score=0 – 1
report= [http://www.galanissportsdata.com/football/national/season2008_09/aetblgame.asp?game=10 (Report)]
team2=Olympiacos
goals1=
goals2=Diogo goal|72
stadium=Skoda Xanthi Arena, Xanthi
attendance=4,409
referee= ----footballbox
date=2008-09-21
time=19:00
team1=Olympiacos
score=4 – 1
report= [http://www.galanissportsdata.com/football/national/Season2008_09/aetblgame.asp?game=22 (Report)]
team2=Panserraikos
goals1=Kovačević goal|23
Galletti goal|27
Diogo goal|81
Oscar goal|88
goals2=Tadiz goal|85|pen.
stadium=Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
attendance=25,234
referee= ----footballbox
date=2008-09-27
time=19:00
team1=OFI
score=0 – 0
report= [http://www.galanissportsdata.com/football/national/season2008_09/aetblgame.asp?game=25 (Report)]
team2=Olympiacos
goals1=
goals2=
stadium=Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion
attendance=9,384
referee= ----footballbox
date=2008-10-05
time=21:15
team1=Olympiacos
score=2 – 0
report= [http://www.galanissportsdata.com/football/national/season2008_09/aetblgame.asp?game=39 (Report)]
team2=AEK Athens
goals1=Kovačević goal|63
Diogo goal|66
goals2=
stadium=Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
attendance=30,074
referee=

UEFA Champions League

"All times at CET"

Third qualifying round

footballbox
date=2008-08-13
time=20:00
team1=Anorthosis flagicon|CYP
score=3 – 0
report= [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/fixturesresults/round=15275/match=303812/index.html (Report)]
team2=flagicon|GRE Olympiacos
goals1=Torosidis goal|4|o.g.
Sosin goal|17
Laban goal|85
goals2=
stadium=Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca
attendance=10,500
referee=Olegário Benquerença flagicon|POR----footballbox
date=2008-08-27
time=20:00
team1=Olympiacos flagicon|GRE
score=1 – 0
report= [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/fixturesresults/round=15275/match=303828/index.html (Report)]
team2=flagicon|CYP Anorthosis
goals1=Belluschi goal|54
goals2=
stadium=Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
attendance=32,000
referee=Herbert Fandel flagicon|GER

UEFA Cup

"All times at CET"

First round

footballbox
date=2008-09-16
time=20:00
team1=Nordsjælland flagicon|DEN
score=0 – 2
report= [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/fixturesresults/round=15284/match=303952/report=rp.html (Report)]
team2=flagicon|GRE Olympiacos
goals1=
goals2=Mitroglou goal|74
Leto goal|90+3
stadium=Farum Park, Farum
attendance=5,184
referee= Stefan Messner flagicon|AUT----footballbox
date=2008-10-02
time=20:45
team1=Olympiacos flagicon|GRE
score=5 – 0
report= [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/fixturesresults/round=15284/match=303992/index.html (Report)]
team2=flagicon|DEN Nordsjælland
goals1=Torosidis goal|11
Diogo goal|30goal|43
Kovačević goal|72goal|80
goals2=
stadium=Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
attendance=27,000
referee= Igor Egorov flagicon|RUS

References

External links

[http://www.olympiacos.org/ Olympiacos F.C. official website]
* [http://soccernet.espn.go.com/team?id=435&cc=5739/ Olympiacos F.C. on ESPN]
* [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/fixturesresults/index.html UEFA Champions League]