The club's dominating success can be further evidenced by the fact that all other Greek clubs have won a combined total of 39 League titles, while Olympiacos FC holds the record for the most consecutive Greek League titles won, with seven in a row in two occasions, breaking their own previous record of six consecutive wins in the 1950s, when Olympiacos FC was unequivocally nicknamed Thrylos.
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Olympiacos FC won the Balkans Cup in 1963, at a time when the competition was considered the second most important in the region after the European Cup, becoming the first ever Greek club to win an international competition.
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Olympiacos FC was founded on 10 March 1925, in the Athenian port city of Piraeus.
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The club's offensive line, made up of the five brothers, became legendary, rising to a mythical status and soon Olympiacos FC gained enormous popularity and became the most successful and well-supported club in Greece.
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Olympiacos FC put in a great performance during the competition and won the title very convincingly with 11 wins, 2 draws and only one game lost.
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However, new heroes emerged, such as Giannis Vazos, Christoforos Raggos, Theologos Symeonidis, Michalis Anamateros, Spyros Depountis, Aris Chrysafopoulos, Nikos Grigoratos, Panagis Korsianos as well as the iconic brothers Giannis and Vangelis Chelmis and the club won five Championships in nine seasons and by 1940, Olympiacos FC had already won six Championships in the eleven first seasons of the Panhellenic Championship.
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Giannis Vazos played for 18 years for Olympiacos FC, and managed to score 450 goals in 364 games for the club, being the club's second all-time scorer, winning the Greek Championship top scorer award four times .
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Olympiacos FC paid a heavy price during the destructive war, the Axis occupation and the ensuing Greek Civil War and the club's progress was put on temporary hold.
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From 1946 to 1959, Olympiacos FC won 9 out of the 11 Greek Championships, bringing home 15 Championship titles in a total of 23 completed seasons of the Greek League.
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The six-straight Greek Championships won by Olympiacos FC from 1954 to 1959 was an unmatched achievement in Greek football history, an all-time record which stood for 44 years, up until Olympiacos FC managed to win seven-straight Greek Championships from 1997 to 2003.
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The first leg was held at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus and Olympiacos FC took the lead with a goal by Kostas Papazoglou, which was the first goal ever scored by a Greek club in the European competitions.
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Olympiacos FC entered the 1960s by winning the 1960 and 1961 Greek Cups, thus completing five consecutive Greek Cup wins, which is an all-time record in Greek football history.
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In 1963, Olympiacos FC became the first ever Greek club to win a non-domestic competition, winning the Balkans Cup, which marked the first international success by any Greek football club.
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Bukovi's innovatory tactics and groundbreaking training methods transformed Olympiacos FC and created a powerful, attacking team with constant player movement and solid combination game that often played spectacular football.
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Olympiacos FC left Greece on 21 December 1967, along with Mihaly Lantos.
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Olympiacos FC reinstated all the prominent members of Olympiacos board that had been forced out by the military regime and opened-up the member election process, establishing a new, trustworthy board of directors.
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Under Goulandris' presidency, Olympiacos FC won the Greek Championship three times in a row, combining it with the Greek Cup in 1973 and 1975 to celebrate two Doubles in three years.
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Olympiacos FC took the lead through Milton Viera's strike in the 36th minute, with Celtic equalising late in the game.
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The match is widely known in Greece as the "Palotai massacre" with Olympiacos FC coming close to one of the biggest comebacks in European Cup history.
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Olympiacos FC experienced its darkest days from the late-1980s until the mid-'90s.
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Olympiacos FC purchased the highly rated prospects Predrag Ðordevic and Stelios Giannakopoulos from Paniliakos, outbidding both AEK Athens and Panathinaikos; signed Refik Sabanadzovic, Andreas Niniadis, Giorgos Anatolakis and Alekos Kaklamanos; and brought Olympiacos Academy product Dimitris Eleftheropoulos back from his loan spell at Proodeftiki.
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Bajevic's team, along with AEK and Panathinaikos, were closely separated in the table, but finally Olympiacos FC made an important away win against Panathinaikos and celebrated the second consecutive Championship, with three points difference from Panathinaikos.
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Olympiacos FC participated for the first time in the UEFA Champions League group stage and took third place in a tough group, leaving Porto in fourth place, while Real Madrid, the eventual champions, topped the group and qualified for the quarter-finals.
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Olympiacos FC kept the ticket to the semi-finals in his hands until the 85th minute, when Juventus, who hadn't produced any chances in the game, equalised the score after a crucial mistake by Dimitris Eleftheropoulos, who had been the team's hero in all the previous games.
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Olympiacos FC managed to win seven consecutive Greek Championships, breaking their own past record of six .
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Olympiacos FC needed to win the derby by two clear goals in order to overthrow their rivals in the championship race.
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In 2004, Olympiacos FC rehired Dusan Bajevic and signed the 1999 World Footballer of the Year and 2002 World Champion Brazilian superstar Rivaldo and the 2004 European champion Antonis Nikopolidis.
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The end of the season found Olympiacos FC winning the domestic double and having a decent Champions League display, gathering ten points in a tough group alongside Liverpool, Monaco and Deportivo de La Coruna and losing the qualification to the knockout phase in the last four minutes of the last game against the eventual European champions Liverpool at Anfield.
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Olympiacos FC managed to win both the Greek Championship and Cup, but Segura left the club at the end of the season.
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In European competitions, Olympiacos FC had a solid Champions League campaign, having been drawn in Group F against Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund and Marseille.
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Olympiacos FC continued in Europa League where he was drawn to play against Rubin Kazan.
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The 40th Greek championship title gave Olympiacos FC the fourth star on top of the club's emblem, which was a major goal for the club and especially for the fans.
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Domestically, Olympiacos FC won their history's 41st Greek Championship very convincingly, 17 points ahead of second-placed PAOK.
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Domestically, Olympiacos FC had perhaps their most successful season in years, as the team managed to secure their 43rd Greek Championship, and 6th consecutive, on the last day of February 2016, considered a national record for the earliest time, within a league campaign, when a title is clinched.
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Olympiacos FC has used several other colours during its history as an away or third kit, with the most notable of them being the monotint black or silver one.
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Since 1979, when football became professional in Greece, Olympiacos FC had a specific kit manufacturer and since 1982 a specific shirt sponsor as well.
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Olympiacos FC left the Karaiskakis Stadium temporarily to play home matches at the newly built Athens Olympic Stadium in 1984.
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In 2002, the Olympic Stadium was closed for renovation works due to the 2004 Summer Olympics and Olympiacos FC moved to the Georgios Kamaras Stadium in Rizoupoli, home of Apollon Smyrnis, for the following two seasons .
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Traditionally, Olympiacos FC used to represent the working class, but the club has always attracted fans from all the social classes and their fanbase is not associated with any specific social group anymore.
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Olympiacos FC is the most popular Greek club according to UEFA and numerous polls and researches.
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Outside of Athens, Olympiacos FC is the most popular club in Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Thessaly Additionally, they have the highest average all-time attendance in Greek football, having topped the attendance tables in most of the seasons in Super League Greece history.
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In 2006, Olympiacos FC was placed in the top ten of the clubs with the most paying members in the world, holding ninth place, just ahead of Real Madrid.
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Olympiacos FC fans are renowned for their passionate and fervent support to the team, with the atmosphere at home matches regarded as intimidating.
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Traditionally, Olympiacos FC' main rival is Panathinaikos and their so-called Derby of the eternal enemies is a classic local derby in Attica, the most famous fixture in Greek football and one of the most well known around the world.
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The rivalry encompasses social, cultural and regional differences; Olympiacos FC, coming from the famous port of Piraeus, used to be very popular in the working to middle classes, while Panathinaikos, of downtown Athens, was considered the representative of middle to higher social classes, although this differentiation has weakened nowadays and the two clubs have similar fanbases.
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Olympiacos FC has eliminated clubs like Milan, Arsenal, Ajax, Benfica, Porto, Borussia Dortmund, Lazio, Celtic, Werder Bremen, Anderlecht, Monaco, Deportivo La Coruna, Hertha BSC, Cagliari, PSV Eindhoven, GNK Dinamo Zagreb and Standard Liege among others.
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Olympiacos FC has won the Balkans Cup in 1963, at a time when the competition was considered the second most important in the region after the European Cup, becoming the first ever Greek club to win an international competition.
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From 2007 to 2016 Olympiacos FC participated seven times in the UEFA Champions League Group Stage, and gathered at least 9 points in every one of those seven groups, qualifying three times for the knockout stage of the competition .
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