The story of the most accomplished greek club ever: OLYMPIAKOS
Olympiacos was founded in 1925 and since then he has been one of the most feared greek clubs with exemplary performances both in football and basketball.
The accomplishes of olympiacos fc track back to 1931 when they won their first greek super ligue, only 6 years after their creation. Since then olympiacos has lifted the greek super ligue 47 more times, with the last one being only a few years back in 2022. Although all those trophys are enough to seal a place in the hall of fame of greece, olympiacos fc did not stop there, he also went on to win 28 greek cups with the last one being in 2020 with a comfortable 0-1 win against AEK fc in the final.
Despite his success in greece, olympiacos was not fortunate enough to carry that same success on to the european competitions with his greatest placement up to date being a quarterfinal in the champions league. These past few years olympiacos has had a rough patch in both greece and europe with a lot of coaches coming in and out of the club without making any impact.
Thankfully this bad period of time for the olympiakos fans might be coming to an end with jose luis medilibar, the former coach of sevilla, taking a place on the bench of olympiacos.
Since the signing of coach medilibar, olympiacos has made an insane comeback on the greek super ligue with him only being a few points of the top, not to mention olympiacos’ insane european run with him knocking out teams such as Aston villa and fenerbahce in the uefa conference ligue to make it to the final of the competition, where he will face fiorentina in his home city Athens. The appearance of olympiacos in the uecl final will be the first time we see a greek team compete in a european competition final after 53 years.
In spite of the incredible performance of the senior team of olympiakos in europe, the amazing performace of the olympiacos u-19 squad should be taken into appreciation, with the youth team of olympiacos winning the first european trophy for a greek team with a 3-0 win over the milan youth team on the final of the UYL competition.
As I mentioned prior olympiakos is not only a successful football club but he has dominated in many other sports such as basketball, volleyball and others and with a recent championship of the olympiacos water polo team, olympiacos was crowned the most decorated club across all the sports worldwide with a staggering 310 trophies.
Also one deciding factor on all those championships has been the support that olympiacos has been getting from his fans, which have been voted one of the most passionate fan groups of all time .
To sum up, olympiacos will go down as one of the most accomplished and decorated clubs to ever exist as the club seems to be moving forward every year without looking back at any upsets it finds on its way.
Michael Geroditis, A1
