Olympiacos Water Polo Club

Further information: Olympiacos CFP

Olympiacos Water Polo Club is the water polo team of the Greek sports club Olympiacos. It was founded in 1925 and was among the founding members of the Hellenic Federation of Swimming Fans. Today the Federation has been renamed to Hellenic Federation of Swimming.

Olympiacos is amongst the most successful Greek and European teams as they have won numerous titles in Greek and European competitions. In the Greek League Olympiacos along with their eternal enemy of Piraeus, Ethnikos, share the majority of the titles of Champion but Olympiacos is the only Greek team to have won the Euroleague and the European Super Cup, in 2002 when they won Honvéd in Budapest and Vasas respectively. They have also participated in 3 more finals, one in the Euroleague and two in the Cup Winners' Cup. Olympiacos finished fourth in the Euroleague Final Four 2007, while in the Greek championship 2007 finals, Olympiacos defeated Ethnikos with 3-1 total wins and won the championship for 20th time, while they won all their 22 matches in the regular season.

It is the only club in Water Polo history that has won a national championship, a national cup, the Euroleague and a European Super Cup within a single year (in 2002).

The club has also a successful women's team which belongs to the top Greek teams having won 3 championships. They have also participated in a Champions Cup and twice in a Len Trophy final four. Their latest success was the participation in the 2006-07 Women's LEN Trophy Final Four, where they finished 4th.

Current squad

Νο	Player	Date of Birth	Height
1	Nikos Deligiannis	03.09.1976	1.91
9	Christos Floros	31.01.1982	1.88
13	Dionysis Stathopoulos	01.01.1978	1.83
4	Nikitas Kochilas	01.03.1983	1.82
12	Tasos Schizas	18.02.1977	1.92
18	Andria Comantina	23.05.1977	1.96
10	Slobodan Nikić	25.01.1983	1.95
-	Giorgos Katsoulakis	25.04.1984	1.91
2	Sakis Platanitis	28.02.1974	1.86
-	Giannis Kochilas	01.03.1983	1.85
3	Gerasimos Salpadimas	20.01.1979	1.82
5	Thodoros Chatzitheodorou*	01.10.1976	1.92
6	Argyris Theodoropoulos	13.01.1981	1.88
7	Giorgos Doskas	01.01.1984	1.81
14	Vaggelis Delakas	08.02.1985	1.90
20	Petros-Stefanos Santa	21.05.1976	1.86
-	Antonis Vlontakis	10.10.1975	1.88
-	Antonio Petkovic	11.01.1986	1.80
Coach: Vaggelis Pateros

• *captain

International record

Men

Season	Achievement	Notes
Euroleague
2000-01	2nd / Final Four	defeated by VK Jug Dubrovnik
2001-02	Winner / Final Four	won Budapest Honvéd FC
2006-07	4th / Final Four	defeated 9-10 by Pro Recco in semi-final and 13-15 by Partizan in final
Cup Winners' Cup
1997-98	Final	defeated by Ferencvárosi TC
1998-99	Final	defeated by Mladost HL Zagreb, lost 4-13 in Zagreb, won 10-6 in Athens
European Super Cup
2001-02	Winner	won Vasas SC

Women

Season	Achievement	Notes
LEN Trophy
2006-07	4th / Final Four	defeated by ASD Roma 4-7 and ZWV Nereus Zaandam 6-7, a tie against OSC Budapest 7-7
2007-08	2nd / Final Four	won OSC Budapest 12-13 in semi-final, but defeated by ASD Roma 10-9 in final

Honours

(Total titles: 47)

Men

Domestic

• Greek Championship: 26

1927,1933, 1934, 1936, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1969, 1971, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

• Greek Cup: 14

1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

• Greek Super Cup: 2

1997, 1998

European

• LEN Euroleague: 1

2002

• LEN Super Cup: 1

2002

Other

• Double: 9

1992, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009

Women

Domestic

• Greek Championship: 4

1995, 1998, 2009, 2011

External links

• Olympiacos Water Polo Club Official Website
• LEN
• Eleftherotypia (Greek)