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Olympiacos S.C. 
Full name Olympiacos SC Nickname Red-Whites Founded 1930 Ground Melina Merkouri (Rendis), Piraeus, Greece
(Capacity: 3,000)Chairman 
Leonidas TheodorakakisLeague A1 2010-11 season 1st Uniforms Current 
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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.
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Honours
(Total titles: 42)
Men
- Domestic
- Greek Championship: 25
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- 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
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- 1981, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2009, 2011
- Greek Super Cup: 2
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- 2000, 2010,2011
- European
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- 1996, 2005
- Other
- Double: 10
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- 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
Roster 2011-2012
No. Nat. Position Player 1 
Opposite Andres Ronaldo Jimenez 3 Spiker Rolando Jurquin 4 
Spiker Marek Novotny 5 Opposite Sotirios Sotiriou 7 Setter Dima Filippov 8 Setter Giannis Livathinos 10 Middle Blocker Andreas Andreadis 11 Libero Pavlos Kouzounis 13 Middle Blocker Gerasimos Kanellos 14 Middle Blocker Giannis Markou 15 Spiker Kostas Ioannou 17 Setter Menelaos Kokkinakis 
Spiker Paulo Anchieta Veloso Pinto Nat. Position Name Head Coach Giannis Kalmazidis Assistant Coach Kyriakos Kamberidis Trainer Walter Rigo Physiotherapist Nikos Papageorgiou Physiotherapists Giorgos Papageorgiou Statistician Paraskevas Nikolareas Statistician Leonidas Gaitanakis Property Attendant Spiros Bletsas Team Manager Vasilis External links
- Official Website of Olympiacos Piraeus (Greek) (English)
- Olympiacos Volleyball Unofficial Site (Greek)
- Ελληνική Ομοσπονδία Πετοσφαίρισης (Greek)
Apollon Kalamarias · Aris · Ethnikos Alexandroupolis · Finikas Syros · Iraklis · Kifisia · Lamia · Olympiacos · Pamvohaikos · Panathinaikos · P.A.O.K. · EA PatrasFinal Four Play-off 6 Trentino BetClic • ASSECO Resovia Rzeszów • 
Hypo Tirol Innsbruck • 
ACH Volley Bled • Dynamo Moscow • OlympiacosEliminated in Play-off 12 
Knack Randstad Roeselare • CSKA Sofia • 
VfB Friedrichshafen • Lube Banca Marche Macerata • Panathinaikos • Zenit KazanMoved to CEV Cup Eliminated in Group stage Jihostroj České Budějovice • 
Unicaja Almeria • 
Budvanska Rivijera Budva • Radnički Kragujevac • Jastrzębski Węgiel • 
İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi • Paris VolleyCategories:- Olympiacos
- Greek volleyball clubs
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