- 2008–09 Olympiacos F.C. season
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Olympiacos 2008–09 season Chairman Socratis Kokkalis
Manager Ernesto Valverde
Super League Greece 1st UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round UEFA Cup Round of 32 Greek Cup Final Top goalscorer League:
Luciano Galletti (14)
All:
Diogo Luis Santo (20)Highest home attendance 30,185 vs Benfica Lowest home attendance 20,392 vs Asteras Tripolis ← 2007–08 2009–10 → The 2008–09 season was 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.[1]
Contents
Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. Position Player 1 GK Leonidas Panagopoulos 2 DF Christos Patsatzoglou 3 DF Didier Domi 4 DF Leonardo 5 DF Georgios Galitsios 6 MF Ieroklis Stoltidis (vice-captain) 7 MF Luciano Galletti 8 FW Óscar 9 FW Darko Kovačević 10 FW Diogo Luís Santo 11 MF Predrag Đorđević (captain) 14 DF Michał Żewłakow 15 DF Raúl Bravo 18 DF Paraskevas Antzas 19 MF Konstantinos Mendrinos No. Position Player 20 MF Dudu Cearense 21 DF Avraam Papadopoulos 22 FW Kostantinos Mitroglou 23 MF Sebastian Leto 25 MF Fernando Belluschi 27 DF Konstantinos Lambropoulos Under 20s 30 DF Anastasios Pantos 31 MF Aristides Soiledis Under 20s 33 MF Giannis Papadopoulos 35 DF Vasilis Torosidis 50 GK Pavel Kovać 71 GK Antonis Nikopolidis (vice-captain) 92 DF Kyriakos Papadopoulos 36 MF Giorgos Niklitsiotis Summer Squad Changes for the 2008-09 Season
In Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. Position Player 5 DF Georgios Galitsios loan return from AEL 1964 8 FW Óscar González Marcos from Real Zaragoza 10 FW Diogo Luís Santo from Portuguesa 20 MF Dudu Cearense from CSKA Moscow 21 DF Avraam Papadopoulos from Aris 23 MF Sebastian Leto loan from Liverpool 33 MF Giannis Papadopoulos from Iraklis 50 GK Pavel Kovać from Apollon Kalamarias Total spending:
€23.8 million
Out Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. Position Player 74 GK Tomislav Butina Released and moved to Dinamo Zagreb 87 GK Michalis Sifakis (Released) 23 FW Michalis Konstantinou Released 10 FW Leonel Núñez moved to Independiente 32 FW Lomana LuaLua moved to Al-Arabi Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. Position Player 13 MF Zsolt Laczko to Leicester City 77 MF Leozinho to OFI Crete 28 MF Cristian Raúl Ledesma to San Lorenzo 24 MF Georgios Katsikogiannis to Levadeiakos Current national players
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. Position Player 2 DF Christos Patsatzoglou 34 (1) 14 DF Michał Żewłakow 84 (3) 21 DF Avraam Papadopoulos 4 (0) 25 MF Fernando Belluschi 2 (0) 28 FW Cristian Raúl Ledesma 3 (0) 35 DF Vasilis Torosidis 20 (1) 77 MF Mirnes Šišić 9 (2) 7 MF Luciano Galletti 13 (3) - Appearances (goals)
Competitions
Overall
Competition Started round Current
position / roundFinal
position / roundFirst match Last match Super League Greece — 1st 30 Aug 2008 26 Apr 2009 Champions League Third qualifying round — Third qualifying round 13 Aug 2008 30 Aug 2008 UEFA Cup First round Round of 32 16 Sep 2008 Greek Cup Round 4 Round 5 29 Oct 2008 Last updated: 17 December 2008
Source: CompetitionsSuper League Greece
Classification
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation 1 Olympiacos 30 22 5 3 50 14 +36 71 2009–10 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round 2 PAOK 30 18 9 3 39 16 +23 63 Super League Greece 2008–09 Playoffs 3 Panathinaikos 30 17 10 3 51 18 +33 61 4 AEK Athens 30 14 13 3 40 24 +16 55 5 Larissa 30 12 13 5 36 26 +10 49 Updated to games played on April 26, 2009
Source: Super League Greece 2008-09
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.Results summary
Overall Home Away Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD 30 22 5 3 50 14 +36 71 13 1 1 33 8 +25 9 4 2 17 6 +11 Last updated: April 26, 2009
Source: Super League GreeceResults by round
Round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Ground H A H A H H A H A H A H H A H A H A H A A H A H A H A A H A Result W W W D W W L W D W W W W D W W W W W W Last updated: December 22, 2008.
Source: Olympiacos FC
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Lose; W = Win; P = Postponed.UEFA Cup group stage
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Metalist Kharkiv
4 3 1 0 3 0 +3 10 Galatasaray
4 3 0 1 4 1 +3 9 Olympiacos
4 2 0 2 9 3 +6 6 Hertha BSC
4 0 2 2 1 6 −5 2 Benfica
4 0 1 3 2 9 −7 1 Matches
Super League Greece
All times at EET
2008-08-30
19:00Olympiacos 3 – 1 Asteras Tripolis Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 20,392Galletti 61'
63' (pen.)
Kovačević81'
(Report) Cesarec 45+2' (pen.)
2008-09-13
16:45Skoda Xanthi 0 – 1 Olympiacos Skoda Xanthi Arena, Xanthi
Attendance: 4,409(Report) Diogo 72'
2008-09-21
19:00Olympiacos 4 – 1 Panserraikos Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 25,234Kovačević 23'
Galletti27'
Diogo81'
Óscar88'
(Report) Tadiz 85' (pen.)
2008-09-27
19:00OFI 0 – 0 Olympiacos Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion
Attendance: 9,384(Report)
2008-10-05
21:15Olympiacos 2 – 0 AEK Athens Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 30,074Kovačević 63'
Diogo66'
(Report)
2008-10-19
19:00Olympiacos 2 – 0 Panthrakikos Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Referee: 23,693Galletti 66'
73'
(Report)
2008-10-26
19:00Aris 1 – 0 Olympiacos Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
Referee: 16,370Javito 18'
(Report)
2008-11-02
19:00Olympiacos 2 – 0 Ergotelis Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 26,058Kovačević 28'
Dudu34'
(Report)
2008-11-09
19:00Panathinaikos 0 – 0 Olympiacos Olympic Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 60,401(Report)
2008-11-16
19:00Olympiacos 2 – 0 PAOK Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 29,458Patsatzoglou 45'
Diogo86'
(Report)
2008-11-22
19:00Iraklis 0 – 3 Olympiacos Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki
Attendance: 9,066(Report) Đorđević 34'
Belluschi39'
Dudu81'
2008-11-30
19:00Olympiacos 4 – 1 Panionios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 27,487Belluschi 31'
Diogo52'
Mitroglou78'
80'
(Report) Goundoulakis 87'
2008-12-07
19:00Olympiacos 1 – 0 Levadiakos Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 22,337Belluschi 28'
(Report)
2008-12-13
16:45Larissa 1 – 1 Olympiacos Alkazar, Larissa
Attendance: 5,062Solano 74'
(Report) Belluschi 52'
2008-12-21
19:00Olympiacos 2 – 1 Thrasyvoulos Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 20,033Leto 21'
Galletti90+3' (pen.)
(Report) Chloros 29'
UEFA Champions League
All times at CET
Third qualifying round
2008-08-13
20:00Anorthosis 3 – 0 Olympiacos
Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca
Attendance: 10,500
Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)Torosidis 4' (o.g.)
Sosin17'
Laban85'
(Report)
2008-08-27
20:00Olympiacos 1 – 0 Anorthosis
Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 27,904
Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)Belluschi 54'
(Report) UEFA Cup
All times at CET
First round
2008-09-16
20:00Nordsjælland 0 – 2 Olympiacos
Farum Park, Farum
Attendance: 5,184
Referee: Stefan Messner (Austria)(Report) Mitroglou 74'
Leto90+3'
2008-10-02
20:45Olympiacos 5 – 0 Nordsjælland
Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 24,515
Referee: Igor Egorov (Russia)Torosidis 11'
Diogo30'
43'
Kovačević72'
80'
(Report) Group stage
2008-10-23
20:15Galatasaray 1 – 0 Olympiacos
Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul
Attendance: 23,500
Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)Kewell 25'
(Report)
2008-11-27
20:45Olympiacos 5 – 1 Benfica
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 30,185
Referee: Stéphane Lannoy (France)Galletti 1'
Patsatzoglou17'
Diogo24'
53'
Belluschi44'
(Report) David Luiz 33'
2008-12-03
20:45Metalist Kharkiv 1 – 0 Olympiacos
Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: William Collum (Scotland)Edmar 88'
(Report)
2008-12-18
20:45Olympiacos 4 – 0 Hertha Berlin
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 30,063
Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)Dudu 55'
Galletti68' (pen.)
Torosidis87'
Diogo88'
(Report) Round of 32
2009-02-18 Olympiacos 1 – 3 Saint-Étienne
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Referee: Lucílio Batista (Portugal)Đorđević 63'
Ilan 12'
Dernis43'
Gomis90'
2009-02-26 Saint-Étienne – Olympiacos
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Greek Cup
Fourth round
2008-10-29 Diagoras 2 – 3 Olympiacos Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes Triantafyllou 30'
66'
(Report) Óscar 14'
Diogo67'
Kovačević84'
Fifth Round
OFI – Olympiacos Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion 0-2 References
- ^ "Olympiacos turn to Valverde". UEFA.com. 2008-05-28. http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=702323.html. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
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