2008–09 Olympiacos F.C. season

2008–09 Olympiacos F.C. season
Olympiacos
2008–09 season
Chairman Greece Socratis Kokkalis
Manager Spain 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 Greece GK Leonidas Panagopoulos
2 Greece DF Christos Patsatzoglou
3 France DF Didier Domi
4 Brazil DF Leonardo
5 Greece DF Georgios Galitsios
6 Greece MF Ieroklis Stoltidis (vice-captain)
7 Argentina MF Luciano Galletti
8 Spain FW Óscar
9 Serbia FW Darko Kovačević
10 Brazil FW Diogo Luís Santo
11 Serbia MF Predrag Đorđević (captain)
14 Poland DF Michał Żewłakow
15 Spain DF Raúl Bravo
18 Greece DF Paraskevas Antzas
19 Greece MF Konstantinos Mendrinos
No. Position Player
20 Brazil MF Dudu Cearense
21 Greece DF Avraam Papadopoulos
22 Greece FW Kostantinos Mitroglou
23 Argentina MF Sebastian Leto
25 Argentina MF Fernando Belluschi
27 Greece DF Konstantinos Lambropoulos Under 20s
30 Greece DF Anastasios Pantos
31 Greece MF Aristides Soiledis Under 20s
33 Greece MF Giannis Papadopoulos
35 Greece DF Vasilis Torosidis
50 Slovakia GK Pavel Kovać
71 Greece GK Antonis Nikopolidis (vice-captain)
92 Greece DF Kyriakos Papadopoulos
36 Greece 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 Greece DF Georgios Galitsios loan return from AEL 1964
8 Spain FW Óscar González Marcos from Real Zaragoza
10 Brazil FW Diogo Luís Santo from Portuguesa
20 Brazil MF Dudu Cearense from CSKA Moscow
21 Greece DF Avraam Papadopoulos from Aris
23 Argentina MF Sebastian Leto loan from Liverpool
33 Greece MF Giannis Papadopoulos from Iraklis
50 Slovakia GK Pavel Kovać from Apollon Kalamarias

Total spending: decrease €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 Croatia GK Tomislav Butina Released and moved to Dinamo Zagreb
87 Greece GK Michalis Sifakis (Released)
23 Cyprus FW Michalis Konstantinou Released
10 Argentina FW Leonel Núñez moved to Independiente
32 Democratic Republic of the Congo FW Lomana LuaLua moved to Al-Arabi

Total income: increase €5.5 million

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 Hungary MF Zsolt Laczko to Leicester City
77 Brazil MF Leozinho to OFI Crete
28 Argentina MF Cristian Raúl Ledesma to San Lorenzo
24 Greece 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 Greece DF Christos Patsatzoglou 34 (1)
14 Poland DF Michał Żewłakow 84 (3)
21 Greece DF Avraam Papadopoulos 4 (0)
25 Argentina MF Fernando Belluschi 2 (0)
28 Argentina FW Cristian Raúl Ledesma 3 (0)
35 Greece DF Vasilis Torosidis 20 (1)
77 Slovenia MF Mirnes Šišić 9 (2)
7 Argentina MF Luciano Galletti 13 (3)
  • Appearances (goals)

Competitions

Overall

Competition Started round Current
position / round		 Final
position / round		 First 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: Competitions

Super 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 Greece

Results 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
Ukraine Metalist Kharkiv 4 3 1 0 3 0 +3 10
Turkey Galatasaray 4 3 0 1 4 1 +3 9
Greece Olympiacos 4 2 0 2 9 3 +6 6
Germany Hertha BSC 4 0 2 2 1 6 −5 2
Portugal Benfica 4 0 1 3 2 9 −7 1

Matches

Super League Greece

All times at EET

2008-08-30
19:00
 Olympiacos 3 – 1 Asteras Tripolis Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 20,392
Galletti Goal 61' Goal 63' (pen.)
Kovačević Goal 81'		 (Report) Cesarec Goal 45+2' (pen.)
2008-09-13
16:45
 Skoda Xanthi 0 – 1 Olympiacos Skoda Xanthi Arena, Xanthi
Attendance: 4,409
(Report) Diogo Goal 72'
2008-09-21
19:00
 Olympiacos 4 – 1 Panserraikos Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 25,234
Kovačević Goal 23'
Galletti Goal 27'
Diogo Goal 81'
Óscar Goal 88'		 (Report) Tadiz Goal 85' (pen.)
2008-09-27
19:00
 OFI 0 – 0 Olympiacos Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion
Attendance: 9,384
(Report)
2008-10-05
21:15
 Olympiacos 2 – 0 AEK Athens Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 30,074
Kovačević Goal 63'
Diogo Goal 66'		 (Report)
2008-10-19
19:00
 Olympiacos 2 – 0 Panthrakikos Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Referee: 23,693
Galletti Goal 66' Goal 73' (Report)
2008-10-26
19:00
 Aris 1 – 0 Olympiacos Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Thessaloniki
Referee: 16,370
Javito Goal 18' (Report)
2008-11-02
19:00
 Olympiacos 2 – 0 Ergotelis Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 26,058
Kovačević Goal 28'
Dudu Goal 34'		 (Report)
2008-11-09
19:00
 Panathinaikos 0 – 0 Olympiacos Olympic Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 60,401
(Report)
2008-11-16
19:00
 Olympiacos 2 – 0 PAOK Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 29,458
Patsatzoglou Goal 45'
Diogo Goal 86'		 (Report)
2008-11-22
19:00
 Iraklis 0 – 3 Olympiacos Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki
Attendance: 9,066
(Report) Đorđević Goal 34'
Belluschi Goal 39'
Dudu Goal 81'
2008-11-30
19:00
 Olympiacos 4 – 1 Panionios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 27,487
Belluschi Goal 31'
Diogo Goal 52'
Mitroglou Goal 78'Goal 80'		 (Report) Goundoulakis Goal 87'
2008-12-07
19:00
 Olympiacos 1 – 0 Levadiakos Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 22,337
Belluschi Goal 28' (Report)
2008-12-13
16:45
 Larissa 1 – 1 Olympiacos Alkazar, Larissa
Attendance: 5,062
Solano Goal 74' (Report) Belluschi Goal 52'
2008-12-21
19:00
 Olympiacos 2 – 1 Thrasyvoulos Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 20,033
Leto Goal 21'
Galletti Goal 90+3' (pen.)		 (Report) Chloros Goal 29'

UEFA Champions League

All times at CET

Third qualifying round

2008-08-13
20:00
 Anorthosis Cyprus 3 – 0 Greece Olympiacos Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca
Attendance: 10,500
Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)
Torosidis Goal 4' (o.g.)
Sosin Goal 17'
Laban Goal 85'		 (Report)
2008-08-27
20:00
 Olympiacos Greece 1 – 0 Cyprus Anorthosis Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 27,904
Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)
Belluschi Goal 54' (Report)

UEFA Cup

All times at CET

First round

2008-09-16
20:00
 Nordsjælland Denmark 0 – 2 Greece Olympiacos Farum Park, Farum
Attendance: 5,184
Referee: Stefan Messner (Austria)
(Report) Mitroglou Goal 74'
Leto Goal 90+3'
2008-10-02
20:45
 Olympiacos Greece 5 – 0 Denmark Nordsjælland Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 24,515
Referee: Igor Egorov (Russia)
Torosidis Goal 11'
Diogo Goal 30'Goal 43'
Kovačević Goal 72'Goal 80'		 (Report)

Group stage

2008-10-23
20:15
 Galatasaray Turkey 1 – 0 Greece Olympiacos Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul
Attendance: 23,500
Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)
Kewell Goal 25' (Report)
2008-11-27
20:45
 Olympiacos Greece 5 – 1 Portugal Benfica Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 30,185
Referee: Stéphane Lannoy (France)
Galletti Goal 1'
Patsatzoglou Goal 17'
Diogo Goal 24'Goal 53'
Belluschi Goal 44'		 (Report) David Luiz Goal 33'
2008-12-03
20:45
 Metalist Kharkiv Ukraine 1 – 0 Greece Olympiacos Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: William Collum (Scotland)
Edmar Goal 88' (Report)
2008-12-18
20:45
 Olympiacos Greece 4 – 0 Germany Hertha Berlin Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 30,063
Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
Dudu Goal 55'
Galletti Goal 68' (pen.)
Torosidis Goal 87'
Diogo Goal 88'		 (Report)

Round of 32

2009-02-18
 Olympiacos Greece 1 – 3 France Saint-Étienne Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Referee: Lucílio Batista (Portugal)
Đorđević Goal 63' Ilan Goal 12'
Dernis Goal 43'
Gomis Goal 90'
2009-02-26
 Saint-Étienne France – Greece Olympiacos Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne

Greek Cup

Fourth round

2008-10-29
 Diagoras 2 – 3 Olympiacos Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes
Triantafyllou Goal 30'Goal 66' (Report) Óscar Goal 14'
Diogo Goal 67'
Kovačević Goal 84'

Fifth Round


 OFI – Olympiacos Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion
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References

  1. ^ "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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