Olympiacos Piraeus (basketball)

Olympiacos Piraeus (basketball)
Nickname	Thrylos (legend), Erythrolefki (red and white)
Founded	1931
Hall	Stadium of Peace and Friendship (14,490 seats)
Homepage	olympiacosbc.gr
president	Panagiotis Angelopoulos
Team manager	Nikos Lepeniotis
Trainer	Kęstutis Kemzūra
league	Euroleague 2018/19 : 9th place
	A2 Ethniki 2019/20: 6th place
Colours	Red and white
home Away
successes
12 × Greek champions 9 × Greek cup winners 1 × European Champion Clubs' Cup 2 × ULEB Euroleague 1 × Intercontinental Cup

Olympiakos Piraeus BC completely Olympiakos Syndesmos Filathlon Peiraios ( Greek Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς , German Olympic Sports Association of Friends of Piraeus), short Olympiakos is the outsourced basketball section of the Greek sports club Olympiakos SFP . The club is one of eleven teams that have an A license from the ULEB Euroleague . In addition to several championships and cup titles, Olympiacos also won several European titles.

history

Olympiacos was founded on March 10, 1925. The members of the clubs "Piraeus Sports and Football Club" and "Football Fan Club of Piraeus" spoke out at a historic meeting in 1925 in favor of the dissolution of both clubs and the establishment of a new club. The founding members Notis Kamperos and Michalis Manouskos were the namesake. Notis Kamperos suggested the name Olympiakos, Michalis Manouskos, the first President of Olympiacos Piraeus, completed it: Olympiakos Syndesmos Filathlon Peiraios, OSFP

In 1931, the basketball division of Olympiacos was established. The club's nickname is the legend ( Greek Θρύλος Thrylos ). The basketball department is one of the top teams in Greek and European basketball. Olympiacos is a multiple Greek champion and cup winner , and has also won several European titles.

Current situation

After Olympiakos did not face arch rivals Panathinaikos in the first round of the playoffs in the 2018/19 season , the club was punished with relegation. From the 2019/20 season, the Olympiakos club will take part in the international EuroLeague competition with its first team and play in the A2 Ethniki with a second selection, in which mainly younger players are used .

Stadion

SEF interior view in October 2009

The basketball department of Olympiacos Piraeus plays all home games in the Stadium of Peace and Friendship ( Greek Στάδιο Ειρήνης και Φιλίας Stádio Irínis kai Filías , SEF for short).

The modern arena holds 14,940 spectators in basketball events and is located in Neo Faliro, a district of Piraeus .

title

• Greek Masters (12 ×): 1949, 1960, 1976, 1978, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2012, 2015, 2016
• Greek cup winners (9 ×): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1994, 1997, 2002, 2010, 2011
• European Champion Clubs' Cup (1 ×): 1997
• ULEB Euroleague (2 ×): 2012, 2013
• Triple (1 ×): 1997
• Intercontinental Cup (1 ×): 2013

Current squad

(As of July 18, 2019)

No.	Surname	nationality	position	Size (cm]	vintage	since
01	Taylor Rochestie	United States	Guard	188	1985	2019
07th	Vasilis Spanoulis	Greece	Guard	192	1982	2010
11	Nikola Milutinov	Serbia	center	213	1994	2015
	Vasilis Charalampopoulos	Greece	Forward	204	1997	2019
14th	Aleksandar Vezenkov	Cyprus / Bulgaria / Greece	Forward	206	1995	2018
15th	Giorgos Printezis	Greece	Forward	206	1985	2011
16	Kostas Papanikolaou	Greece	Forward	206	1990	2016
03	Brandon Paul	United States	Guard	193	1991	2019
00	Kevin Punter	United States	Guard	190	1993	2019
21st	Augustine Rubit	United States	Forward	201	1989	2019
06th	Antonis Koniaris	Greece	Guard	191	1997	2019
02	Wade Baldwin	United States	Guard	193	1996	2019
10	Will Cherry	United States	Guard	185	1991	2019
	Ethan Happ	United States	center	208	1996	2019
33	Willie Reed	United States	center	211	1990	2019

Legend: Player on loan

Cadre depth

Item	starter	Bank	Bank	reserve
C.	Milutinov	Reed
PF	Printezis	Rubite	Vezenkov
SF	Papanikolaou	Paul
SG	Spanoulis	Punter
PG	Rochestie	Cherry	Koniaris	Baldwin

Significant or famous former players

→ see also: Former Olympiakos players .

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  Thodoris Papaloukas

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  Vasilis Spanoulis

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  Giannis Bourousis

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  Kostas Papanikolaou

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  Panagiotis Vasilopoulos

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  Georgios Printezis

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  Vangelis Mantzaris

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  Sofoklis Schortsanitis

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  Patrick Beverley

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  Fabricio Oberto

Angelos Koronios Lazaros Papadopoulos Theodoros Papaloukas Dimitris Papanikolaou Kostas Papanikolaou Sofoklis Schortsanitis Giorgos Sigalas Konstantinos Sloukas Ioannis Bourousis Nikolaos Chatzis Panagiotis Fasoulas

Artūras Karnišovas Linas Kleiza Arvydas Macijauskas / Radoslav Nesterovič Žarko Paspalj Dino Rađa / Dragan Tarlać Miloš Teodosić / Milan Tomić Alexander Volkov Nikola Vujčić

Walter Berry Josh Childress Alphonso Ford Eddie Johnson Jannero Pargo David Rivers Roy Tarpley Kevin Punter Nigel Williams-Goss

Patrick Femerling Misan Nikagbatse Christian Welp

statistics

The highest victories in the A1 Ethniki

Results from 1992 onwards are taken into account

encounter	Result	difference	season
Olympiakos - GS Lavrio	108-39	+69	2015/16
Olympiakos - AO Pangrati	123-58	+65	1994/95
Olympiakos - AO Ampelokipoi	129-69	+60	1994/95
Olympiakos - EK Kavalas	115-61	+54	2015/16
Olympiakos - Near East	105-54	+51	2001/02
Olympiakos - EK Kavalas	113-62	+51	2012/13

Most successful thrower

Points earned for Olympiakos in A1 Ethniki .

Nat.	Surname	position	Period	Points
	Giorgos Printezis	Power forward	2002–2009, 2011–	3,230
	Milan Tomić	Point guard	1991-2004	2911
	Dragan Tarlać	center	1992-2000	2503

(As of June 28, 2019)

The European titles

First European title win (Rome, April 24, 1997)

round	opponent	home	Away
Group stage 1	ALBA Berlin	64-67	61-62
	Fortitudo Bologna	96-80	72-81
	Spirou Charleroi	87-60	79-72
	Cibona Zagreb	62-61	61-63
	Estudiantes	110-78	78-87
Group stage 2	CSKA Moscow	82-51	79-70
	Olimpia Milano	87-84	71-73
	Maccabi Tel Aviv	69-60	78-82
Round of 16	Partizan	60-61	81-71
			74-69v
Quarter finals	Panathinaikos	65-57v	69-49
Semifinals	Olimpija Ljubljana	74-65
final	Barcelona	73-58

The 2nd title in the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12

round	opponent	home	Away
Group stage (group A)	Scrap Bizkaia	88-81	61-76
	Fenerbahçe Ülker	81-74	70-86
	Caja Laboral	84-82	79-81
	Bennet Cantù	86-61	63-64
	SLUC Nancy	91-78	79-74
Top 16 (Group E)	CSKA Moscow	78-86	64-96
	Galatasaray	88-81	77-78
	Anadolu Efes	83-65	67-65
Quarter finals	Montepaschi Siena	75-55	82-75
		76-69	80-81
Semifinals	FC Barcelona shelf	68-64
final	CSKA Moscow	62-61

"Repeat" - the 3rd title in the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13

round	opponent	home	Away
Group stage (group C)	Caja Laboral	85-81	89-72
	Anadolu Efes	75-53	72-98
	Žalgiris Kaunas	61-79	77-63
	KK Cedevita	79-77	84-62
	Armani Milano	82-81	84-71
Top 16 (Group F)	Caja Laboral	82-74	74-82
	Beşiktaş JK	77-64	79-60
	FC Barcelona shelf	77-90	68-76
	Montepaschi Siena	72-74	68-67
	Maccabi Tel Aviv	67-73	78-77
	Fenerbahçe Ülker	82-71	78-73
	BK Khimki	79-70	87-82
Quarter finals	Anadolu Efes	67-62	72-83
		71-53	73-74
		82-72
Semifinals	CSKA Moscow	69-52
final	real Madrid	100-88

Table positions

Placements in the A1 Ethniki / Basket League (1964–2019)

P.	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th
1													1		1															1	1	1	1	1															1			1	1
2									2	2		2		2		2	2	2					2						2							2		2	2				2	2	2	2	2	2		2	2			2	2
3																																			3		3
4th					4th			4th																																4th
5						5	5													5
6th											6th								6th						6th
7th																					7th	7th		7th		7th	7th
8th																												8th													8th	8th
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10	10
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12
13
14th																																																								14th

Web links

• Homepage (Greek, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of Olympiacos' highest victories
2. ↑ Printezi's record
3. ↑ Printezis makes history

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