Olympiakos Volos (soccer)

Olympiacos Volos
	Olympiacos Volos
Basic data
Surname	Athletikos Sillogos Kassandras Olympiakos Volou 1937
Seat	Volos , Greece
founding	1937
Colours	Red White
president	Panagiotis Mpotsivalis
Website	olympiakosvolou.com
First soccer team
Venue	National Stadium Volos
Places	9,000
league	Gamma Ethniki
2015/16	18th place ( Football League )
home	Away

Olympiakos Volos ( Greek Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Κασσάνδρας Ολυμπιακός Βόλου 1937 ) is a football club from Volos , Greece .

history

The Olympiakos Volos Association was founded in Volos in 1937 . Volos rose for the first time in 1966 in the first Greek football league, the Alpha Ethniki . There was an up and down.

In 2008, the teams of ASK Olympiakos Volos and Ethnikos Olympiakos Volos merged.

In the 2009/10 season, the club secured the championship of Beta Ethniki and played in the Super League in the following season . Surprisingly, Olympiakos Volos qualified for the national play-offs of the Super League in the 2010/11 season and then made it into the qualification for the UEFA Europa League . Among other things, the team from Volos held their own against traditional Greek clubs by winning 4-0 away against AEK Athens and three times against Panathinaikos Athens . On June 8, 2011, a new coach was presented with the Spaniard Javi García .

However, the club was at the same time the focus of a football scandal, which was about match fixing and illegal betting. Club president Achilleas Beos was arrested on June 27, 2011. After a meeting of the disciplinary committee that lasted several hours, Volos was sentenced to relegation to the second division together with league rival AO Kavala . On August 10, the Greek Federation announced that the penalties for both clubs had been converted into point deductions of eight (for Volos) and ten points (for Kavala) for the 2011/12 season. Volos also lost the right to start the UEFA Europa League and was suspended from all UEFA competitions for three years. On August 23, the committee responsible changed the sentence again, so that Volos and Kavala had to be relegated to the 4th Greek league. Club President Beos was banned for life and fined 90,000 euros.