2009–10 Olympiacos F.C. season

Olympiacos

2009–10 season
Chairman	Sokratis Kokkalis
Manager	Božidar Bandović
Super League Greece	2nd in regular season (5th in play-offs)
Greek Cup	Fourth round
UEFA Champions League	First knockout round
Highest home attendance	31,059 vs Panathinaikos (29 November 2009)
Lowest home attendance	16,056 vs Kavala (12 September 2009)
Average home attendance	21,341
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2008–09 2010–11 →

The 2009–10 season will be Olympiacos' 51st consecutive season in the Superleague Greece. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club will play in the season.

Events

Fourth kit

• 27 May 2009: Former Georgian international player Temuri Ketsbaia is appointed coach, replacing Ernesto Valverde from Spain.^[1]
• 19 June 2009: Antonios Nikopolidis, Dudu, and Luciano Galletti are appointed captains for the 2009–10 season.^[2]
• 23 June 2009: Swedish international Olof Mellberg is signed from Serie A sides Juventus.^[3] Matt Derbyshire is also signed from Premier League team Blackburn Rovers^[4] after previously being on loan with Olympiacos.
• 15 September 2009: Manager Temuri Ketsbaia is sacked despite not conceding a single goal in his time at the club he was replaced with Božidar Bandović who hasn't impressed at Olympiacos.^[5]

Teams and players 2009–10

First team

Roster update: 01 August 2009^[6]

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 Kyriakos Papadopoulos 3 DF Didier Domi 4 DF Olof Mellberg 5 DF Georgios Galitsios 6 MF Ieroklis Stoltidis 7 MF Luciano Galletti 8 MF Óscar 9 FW Matt Derbyshire 10 FW Diogo 11 MF Jaouad Zairi 14 DF Michał Żewłakow 15 DF Raúl Bravo 17 MF Andreas Vasilogiannis 18 MF Ioannis Fetfatzidis

No. Position Player 20 MF Dudu (Vice-captain) 21 DF Avraam Papadopoulos 22 FW Konstantinos Mitroglou 23 FW Giorgos Niklitsiotis 24 DF Leonardo 25 MF Enzo Maresca 28 MF Cristian Raúl Ledesma 30 DF Anastasios Pantos 31 MF Aristides Soiledis 33 MF Ioannis Papadopoulos 35 DF Vasilis Torosidis 50 GK Pavel Kováč 71 GK Antonios Nikopolidis (Captain) 78 GK Urko Rafael Pardo 88 MF Georgios Katsikogiannis

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

Players from the youth system

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 Kyriakos Papadopoulos 17 MF Andreas Vasilogiannis 23 FW Giorgos Niklitsiotis 31 MF Aristides Soiledis 88 MF Georgios Katsikogiannis MF Ioannis Fetfatzidis

Foreign players

EU Nationals Didier Domi Enzo Maresca Olof Mellberg Matt Derbyshire Óscar Raúl Bravo Urko Rafael Pardo Michał Żewłakow Pavel Kováč Jaouad Zairi Luciano Galletti

Non-EU Nationals Dudu Diogo Leonardo Cristian Raúl Ledesma

Technical & Medical Staff

Position Name Head coach Božidar Bandović Assistant coach – Goalkeeping coach Alekos Rantos Physical fitness coach Moraci Sant'anna Fitness trainer José Antonio Pozanko Team attendant Petros Rigoutsos Chief scout Andreas Niniadis

Position Name Head of medical department Dr. Padelis Nikolaou Head doctor Dr. Ioannis Anagnostopoulos Doctor (cardiologist) Dr. Panos Stamatopoulous First team physiotherapist Rodrigo Savini First team physiologist Georgios Ziogas

Reserves team

As on: 21 August 2009, Source: Olympiacos F.C. U21 Team 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 Nikolaos Papadopoulos 2 DF Yannis Apostolopoulos 3 MF Giorgos Valerianos 4 DF Georgios Petropoulos 5 DF Kostas Rougalas 6 MF Panagiotis Stamogiannos 7 MF Andreas Vasilogiannis 8 MF Kostas Kotsaridis 9 FW Vassilis Skourtas 10 FW Giorgos Niklitsiotis 11 MF Yiannis Fetfatzidis

No. Position Player 12 DF Kostas Kritikos 13 DF Yiannis Potouridis 14 MF Fillipos Kurtanović 15 GK Ivan Babović 16 DF Evangelos Kabasis 17 MF Guillaume Bernard Panuel 18 MF Spyros Karatzanidis 19 MF Thomas Makaronas 20 FW Dimitrios Diamantakos 21 FW Konstantinos Lavdas 22 DF Stavros Soulis

Transfers

Summer transfers

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 4 DF Olof Mellberg (from Juventus, €2.5M) 9 FW Matt Derbyshire (from Blackburn Rovers, €3.35M) 11 MF Jaouad Zairi (from Asteras Tripolis, free) 15 DF Raúl Bravo (loan return) 28 MF Cristian Raúl Ledesma (loan return) 25 MF Enzo Maresca (from Sevilla, €1M) 78 GK Urko Rafael Pardo (on loan from Rapid Bucureşti) 88 MF Georgios Katsikogiannis (loan return)

• Total spending: €6.85 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 MF Fernando Belluschi (to Porto, €5M) MF Christos Patsatzoglou (to Omonia, free) MF Konstantinos Mendrinos (to PAS Giannina, free) MF Paraskevas Antzas (retired) MF Predrag Đorđević (retired) FW Darko Kovačević (retired) DF Konstantinos Lambropoulos (to Asteras Tripolis, free)

Total income: €5 million

Super League Greece

Classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Panathinaikos	29	21	4	4	53	17	+36	67	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Olympiacos	29	18	7	4	45	17	+28	61	Playoffs
3	PAOK	29	18	5	6	37	15	+22	59
4	AEK Athens	29	14	8	7	41	31	+10	50

Updated to games played on December 13, 2009
Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match. If still tied, teams will be alphabetically ordered as the Super League does not recognize goal difference..
(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	19	7	4	47	18	+29	64	9	4	2	26	10	+16	10	3	2	21	8	+13

Last updated: December 13, 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	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	W	L	L	W	D	L	W	W	W	D	W	L	D	W	D	W	W

Last updated: June 13, 2010.
Source: Super League Greece
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Lose; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

All times at EET

2009-08-30 21:15	Larissa	0–2	Olympiacos	Alkazar, Larissa Attendance: 5,018
		(Report)	Leonardo  22' Maresca  32'

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2009-09-12 19:00	Olympiacos	0–0	Kavala	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 16,056
		(Report)

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2009-09-20 21:15	PAOK	1–2	Olympiacos	Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki Attendance: 23,010
	Vieirinha  10'	(Report)	Diogo  40' Papadopoulos  90'

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2009-09-23 21:15	AEK Athens	1–2	Olympiacos	Olympic Stadium, Athens Attendance: 34,553
	Németh  65'	(Report)	Torosidis  43'  55'

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2009-09-26 16:45	Olympiacos	1–0	Panionios	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 22,163
	Zairi  18'	(Report)

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2009-10-03 19:00	Levadiakos	0–3	Olympiacos	Livadeia Stadium, Livadeia Attendance: 3,222
		(Report)	Oscar  5' Dudu  29' (pen.) Diogo  40'

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2009-10-17 19:00	Olympiacos	3–0	Asteras Tripoli	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 20,398
	Mellberg  35' Mitroglou  53' Zairi  67'	(Report)

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2009-10-24 19:00	Olympiacos	2–1	Ergotelis	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 21,254
	Mitroglou  38' Dudu  85'	(Report)	Shashiashvili  22'

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2009-10-31 19:00	Atromitos	0–1	Olympiacos	Peristeri Stadium, Athens Attendance: 5,551
		(Report)	Oscar  80'

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2009-11-07 19:00	Olympiacos	1–1	Iraklis	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 20,415
	Maresca  40'	(Report)	Vellios  90+2'

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2009-11-21 19:00	PAS Giannina	2–2	Olympiacos	Zosimades Stadium, Ioannina Attendance: 7,500
	Tzanis  83' Bakayoko  90'	(Report)	Żewłakow  23' Mitroglou  80'

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2009-11-29 19:30	Olympiacos	2–0	Panathinaikos	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 31,059
	Mitroglou  45+1'  54'	(Report)

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2009-12-05 19:00	Skoda Xanthi	0–1	Olympiacos	Skoda Xanthi Arena, Xanthi Attendance: 2,793
		(Report)	Leonardo  31'

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2009-12-13 16:45	Olympiacos	3–0	Panthrakikos	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 18,041
	Galletti  37' Dudu  45'  58'	(Report)

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2009-12-20	Aris	1–0	Olympiacos	Stadio Harilaou Kleanthis Vikelidis Attendance: 14,616
	Campora  70'	(report)

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2010-01-06	Olympiacos	1–2	AEK Athens	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 27,789
	Papadopoulos  27'	(report)	Scocco  33'  40'

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2010-01-10	Olympiacos	2–1	Larissa	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 19,327
	Maresca  37' Galletti  40'	(report)	Katsiaros

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2010-01-17	Kavala	0–0	Olympiacos	Municipal Kavala Stadium, Kavala Attendance: 7,047

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2010-01-24	Olympiacos	0–1	PAOK	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 26,139
			Edinho  20'

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2010-01-31	Panionios	0–1	Olympiacos	[[Panionios Stadium, Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece]] Attendance: 4,852
			Derbyshire  7'

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2010-02-07	Olympiacos	5–1	Levadiakos	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro
	Mellberg  19' Derbyshire  36'  53' Mitroglou  83'  90'		Taralidis  41'

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2010-02-14	Asteras	1–3	Olympiacos	Asteras Tripolis Stadium, Tripoli Attendance: 2,170
	Eder  33'		LuaLua  5'  40' Stoltidis  9'

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2010-02-20 19:00	Ergotelis	1–1	Olympiacos	Pankritio Stadium, Heralkion, Crete Attendance: 7,298
	Budimir  85'	(Report)	Torosidis  29'

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2010-02-28 16:45	Olympiacos	2–0	Atromitos	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 21,866
	Derbyshire  18' Mitroglou  90'	(Report)

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2010-03-07 19:00	Iraklis	1–0	Olympiacos	Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki Attendance: 5,470 Referee: Daloukas G.
	Mara  06'	(Report)

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2010-03-13 19:00	Olympiacos	2–2	PAS Giannina	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 15,969 Referee: Dakos M.
	Derbyshire  38' LuaLua  44'	(Report)	Bouhan  36' Kasnaferis  54'

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2010-03-21 19:00	Panathinaikos	0–1	Olympiacos	Olympic Stadium, Athens Attendance: 61,135 Referee: Daloukas G.
		(Report)	Derbyshire  68'

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2010-03-28 19:00	Olympiacos	0–0	Skoda Xanthi	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 18,010 Referee: Pamporidis V.
		(Report)

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2010-04-11 19:00	Panthrakikos	0–2	Olympiacos	Komotini Stadium, Komotini Attendance: 2,554 Referee: Charalambidis N.
		(Report)	Torosidis  11' Mitroglou  29'

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2010-04-18 19:00	Olympiacos	2–1	Aris	Karaiskakis Stadium, Faliro Attendance: 14,217 Referee: Dakos M.
	Żewłakow  33' Maresca  45'	(Report)	Calvo Antonio  42'

Play-off table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	PAOK	6	4	1	1	7	3	+4	16	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
2	AEK Athens	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	9	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Play-off round
3	Aris	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round	ARI 2–0 OLY OLY 0–0 ARI
4	Olympiacos	6	1	1	4	3	7	−4	8	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round

Source: http://www.superleaguegreece.net/standings/#playoff

Greek Cup

Fourth round

All times at EET

2009-10-27 17:00	Panserraikos	3–1	Olympiacos	Serres Stadium, Serres
	Leozinho  16' Athanasiadis  52' Rimoldi  84'		Mitroglou  66'

UEFA Champions League

Third qualifying round

All times at EET

2009-07-29 21:00	Slovan Bratislava	0–2	Olympiacos	Tehelné pole, Bratislava Attendance: 21,250[7] Referee: Claudio Circhetta (Switzerland)
		(Report)	Papadopoulos  2' Leonardo  22'

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2009-08-05 21:45	Olympiacos	2–0	Slovan Bratislava	Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens Attendance: 26,137[8] Referee: Konrad Plautz (Austria)
	Maresca  35' Diogo  56'	(Report)

Olympiacos won 4–0 on aggregate.

Play-off round

All times at EET

2009-08-18 21:45	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–2	Olympiacos	Sheriff Stadium, Tiraspol Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Martin Atkinson (England)
		(Report)	Dudu  46' Mitroglou  81'

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2009-08-26 21:45	Olympiacos	1–0	Sheriff Tiraspol	Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens Attendance: 27,633 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)
	Mitroglou  82'	(Report)

Olympiacos won 3–0 on aggregate.

Group stage

All times at EET

2009-09-16 21:45	Olympiacos	1–0	AZ	Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens Attendance: 29,018 Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)
	Torosidis  79'	Report

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2009-09-29 21:45	Arsenal	2–0	Olympiacos	Emirates Stadium, London Attendance: 59,884 Referee: Stéphane Lannoy (France)
	v. Persie  78' Arshavin  86'	Report

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2009-10-20 21:45	Olympiacos	2–1	Standard Liège	Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens Attendance: 29,889 Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)
	Mitroglou  43' Stoltidis  90+3'	Report	de Camargo  37'

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2009-11-04 21:45	Standard Liège	2–0	Olympiacos	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 24,787 Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)
	Mbokani  31' Jovanović  88'	Report

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2009-11-24 21:45	AZ	0–0	Olympiacos	DSB Stadion, Alkmaar Attendance: 16,213 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)
		Report

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2009-12-09 21:45	Olympiacos	1–0	Arsenal	Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens Attendance: 30,277 Referee: Lucílio Batista (Portugal)
	Leonardo  47'	Report

Standings

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Arsenal	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	13
Olympiacos	6	3	1	2	4	5	−1	10
Standard Liège	6	1	2	3	7	9	−2	5
AZ	6	0	4	2	4	8	−4	4

First knockout round

All times at EET

2010-02-23 21:45	Olympiacos	0–1	Bordeaux	Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens Attendance: 29,773 Referee: Howard Webb (England)
		Report	Ciani  45+2'

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2010-03-17 21:45	Bordeaux	2–1	Olympiacos	Stade Chaban-Delmas, Bordeaux Attendance: 31,004 Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)
	Gourcuff  5' Chamakh  88'	Report	Mitroglou  65'

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References

1. ^ "Press release". Olympiacos F.C. official website. 27 May 2009. http://www.olympiacos.org/index.html?lang=en#/Article/25949/. Retrieved 5 July 2009. 
2. ^ "Press release". Olympiacos F.C. official website. 19 June 2009. http://www.olympiacos.org/index.html?lang=en#/Article/25991/. Retrieved 5 July 2009. 
3. ^ "Press release". Olympiacos F.C. official website. 23 June 2009. http://www.olympiacos.org/index.html?lang=en#/Article/26001/. Retrieved 5 July 2009. 
4. ^ "Press release". Olympiacos F.C. official website. 23 June 2009. http://www.olympiacos.org/index.html?lang=en#/Article/26003/. Retrieved 5 July 2009. 
5. ^ http://www.olympiakos.gr/index.html?lang=en#/MatchReport/2661/
6. ^ "Current Roster". http://olympiakos.gr/index.html?lang=en#/Football/Players/. Retrieved March 2009. 
7. ^ "Olympiakos too strong for Slovan Bratislava". Soccerway. 2009-07-30. http://www.soccerway.com/news/2009/July/30/olympiakos-too-strong-for-slovan-bratislava/. Retrieved 2009-10-28. 
8. ^ "Ολυμπιακός-Σλόβαν Μπρατισλάβας 2–0" (in Greek). Olympiacos official website. 2009-08-05. http://www.olympiacos.org/#/Article/26177/. Retrieved 2009-10-28. 
9. ^ http://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2009/12/20/greece/super-league/aris-thessaloniki-fc/olympiakos-cfp/796989/

External links

• Olympiacos F.C. official website
• Olympiacos F.C. on ESPN
• UEFA Champions League