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Olympiakos Nicosia

Olympiakos Nicosia (Greek: Ολυμπιακός Λευκωσίας, Olympiakos Lefkosias) is a Cypriot football club based in Nicosia and competes in the Second Division. The club was founded in 1931, and is a founding member of the Cyprus Football Association. The club colors are black and green. Olympiakos' home ground is the Makario Stadium, which has a 16,000-seat capacity. The team's main nickname is "mavroprasini" (the green-blacks), and the club's other nickname is Taktakalas, derived from the area of Nicosia where the club hails from.

Olympiakos Nicosia
Full nameOlympiakos Nicosia Football Club
Nickname(s)Μαυροπράσινοι (The Green Blacks)
Taktakalas (area in old Nicosia where club is based)
Founded4 March 1931; 92 years ago (1931-03-04)
GroundMakario Stadium
Capacity16,000
ChairmanAndreas Hartziotis
ManagerPambos Christodoulou
LeagueSecond Division
2022–23First Division, 14th (relegated)
WebsiteClub website

Olympiakos Nicosia has won three Cypriot First Division Championships, one Cypriot Cup and one Cyprus Super Cup.

In the past the club also had track and field, basketball, volleyball, cycling, table tennis, weightlifting and futsal teams. It also in the past had an orchestra, choir and camping divisions; the latter explaining why the club's badge has a tent on it.

History

The Golden Decade

The 1962–1972 decade is known as the "Golden decade" of Olympiakos as the club was champion of the Cypriot First Division three times, another three times it was runner-up, while it became the only Cyprus football club that participated three times in the Greek National 1st Division Championship.

It all started in the 1961–62 season, when Olympiakos reached the cup final for the first time in the club's history. Despite this, the team did not manage to win the cup trophy, as it lost from Anorthosis Famagusta FC with a score of 5–2.

The foundations had been laid however, in the 1964–65 season, Giorgos Paletsios an old Olympiakos football player for 18 years, who had also served as team captain, agreed to manage the team, without being paid a salary for his services. Paletsios proceeded to restructure the team's squad promoting to the first team young and talented players including: Kettenis, Limbouris, Argyrou. Bolstered with young enthusiasm, the team finished in second place in the championship, while in the same year the top scorer of the championship was Olympiakos player Kostakis Pierides, scoring 21 goals.

In the 1965–66 season Olympiakos was once again runner-up, with 49 points, one point less than the then champion Omonoia. Top scorer of the championship was again an Olympiakos player, Panikos Efthymiades scoring 23 goals.

In the 1966–67 season Olympiakos dominated the Cypriot Championship, with Pambos Avraamidis as their manager, the team finished in first place and won the championship with 55 points as many as APOEL Nicosia, who in the last game of the season beat Aris Limassol with the huge score of 17–1. The title was judged on goal difference and despite APOEL's huge score in the last game of the season, Olympiakos still had a superior goal difference so that the club was crowned champion.

In 1967, the champion Olympiakos played against the Cup-winner Apollon Limassol, winning 1–0 therefore gaining the Pakkos Shield (as the Super Cup/Shield was then known.)

 
Manager Rod Bradley in 1971

In the 1968–69 season, Olympiakos won the championship for a second time, collecting 52 points the same number as AC Omonoia. Olympiakos was champion however because of the better goal difference. Top scorer of the championship was once again Panikos Efthymiades scoring 17 goals.

The third Olympiakos championship came in the 1970–71 season with Englishman Rod Bradley as the manager, the team finished in first place with 31 points compared to 27 of runner up Digenis Morfou. The title of top scorer was shared by 3 footballers who all scored 11 goals amongst them once again Panikos Efthymiades.

In the 1972–73 season Olympiakos finished runner-up, while in the 1974–75 season the team finished third.

In 1971 Olympiakos won the Paligenesias cup that was organised by the Cyprus Football Association(KOP), defeating Nea Salamis Famagusta FC. In this golden period, Olympiakos' managers were: Pambos Avraamidis, Giorgos Paletsios, Takis Papaxeniou, Eric Brookes and Rod Bradley.

Andreas Filotas, Varnavas Christofi, Nikos Theocharidis, Demos Flourentzou, Giorgos Hadjikonstantis, Dimitrakis Argyrou, Yiannis Xipolitas, Savvakis Constantinou, Michalakis Argyrou, Sotirakis Georgiou, Lakis Avraamidis, Markos Markou, Andreas Nicolaou (Lympoyris), Vasilis Fragkiskou (Katsis), Dimitriadis, Tasos Louka, Andreas Assiotis, Giorgos Kettenis, Panikos Efthymiades, Kostakis Pierides, Charalambos Partasidis, Giannos Pavlou, Takis Papettas, Kokos Michael, Nikos Mailos, Michalis Stavrou, Giorgos Aristeidou, Koullis Iliadis, Lakis Mitsidis, Panagiotis Prodromou, Giannis Serafeim were the footballers of the great successes of this period.

Greek Experience

Olympiakos became the first Cypriot football team that participated in the Pan-Hellenic Championship, in the 1967–68 season, something which recurred twice more, in 1969–70, and in 1971–72, rendering the club the only Cypriot team that participated three times in the Greek National 1st Division Championship. Olympiakos has also taken part in all three European competitions.

European Experience

In the European Champions Cup in 1967 the club faced FK Sarajevo Yugoslavia. In the first game the teams drew 2–2, while in second game Olympiakos lost with 3–1.

Also in the European Champions Cup, Olympiakos Nicosia played against Real Madrid in 1969, losing both matches with 8–0 and 6–1. Olympiakos later played in the same competition in 1971 and met Feyenoord of the Netherlands and lost 8–0 and 9–0.

In the Cup Winners' Cup, Olympiakos took part once in 1977 playing against Universitatea Craiova Romania while in 1973 Olympiakos played against the German team VfB Stuttgart for the UEFA Cup.

In all these European games Olympiakos was forced to play both games away from home as at the time the Cypriot football stadia did not meet the European regulations.

Cup glory

In 1977, Olympiakos Nicosia beat Alki Larnaca 2–0 to win the Cypriot Cup after two thunder bolts from English center half, captain and talisman Mreg Goffatt. In 1991, Olympiakos Nicosia lost the Cypriot Cup in the finals losing 1–0 to AC Omonia. That was their last appearance in the Cypriot Cup finals.

Glory days revisited

Olympiakos Nicosia also played in the UEFA Cup (after finishing runner up in the Cypriot championship) in the 2001–02 season against the Hungarian team Dunaferr FC (drawing 2–2 in Nicosia and scoring a 2–4 away win, the first for the club in Europe) and proceeded to the next round of the Uefa Cup to play against Club Brugge of Belgium and was eventually eliminated.

Recent decline

With Olympiakos TV rights hastily agreed at the lowest amount for any Cypriot first division club in 2007 for 9 seasons and these rights assigned to repay old debts until 2016 the club has little cash inflow apart from gate receipts and commercial sponsorships. After a disastrous 2007–2008 season, where economic problems hindered the building of a strong squad, Olympiakos Nicosia finished bottom of the Cypriot First Division (the first time the club finished bottom). The club was relegated for the third time in its history. In both the 1983–84 and 1997–98 seasons the club had spent just one season in the second tier of Cypriot football, only to win the Cypriot Second Division title each time and return to the Cypriot First Division.

The club tried to re-organise itself and to return to the top flight as quickly as possible. In the 2008–09 season the club finished fourth and missed the promotion to the Cypriot First Division on the last day of the season by one point.

In the 2009–10 season, an old goalkeeper of Olympiakos Petros Savva, was appointed as the new chairman. Savva initially re-appointed Andros Kouloumbris, an old midfield player of Olympiakos, as manager. After the end of the first round, however, Kouloumbris was sacked due to the bad defensive record of the team, despite the team being in 3rd place.

The next coach for 7 games was Saša Jovanović who only managed two wins, with the team languishing in 5th place after some bad appearances, Saša Jovanović was removed to make way for old Olympiakos midfield player and ex-manager Nikodimos Papavasiliou.

With Papavasiliou at the helm the team improved and entered the play-offs for promotion to the Cypriot First Division after finishing third at the end of the regular season. The club finished third at the end of the play-offs and therefore gained promotion, despite helping the team with winning promotion Nikodimos Papavasiliou's contract was not renewed at the end of the season.

Return to the top flight

After 2 seasons Olympiakos returned to the top flight in the 2010–2011 season and Pambos Christodoulou an old Olympiakos midfield player and ex-manager of Doxa Katokopias was appointed as manager. Olympiakos showed good attacking football in the 2010–2011 season, easily avoiding relegation and having qualified for the Cup quarterfinals. The club played fluid attacking football having the third best attacking record after leaders APOEL and 3rd placed Anorthosis, playing with a 4–4–2 formation with pressing from within the opponent's half, but the Achilles heel of the team was the bad defensive record with goals conceded in most games and the third worst record in this area. Christodoulou decided to leave the club in 2011 to join AEL Limassol, one year before his contract expired. The club decided to pursue this breach in court (in an out of court settlement AEL Limassol paid an undisclosed sum of money to Olympiakos to avoid sanctions against them and Pambos) and Christodoulou angered both the club president and the supporters, as well as the Cypriot football fans in general, with his unprofessional conduct.

Striving for Stability

In the 2011–2012 season there were a few changes in Olympiakos, the new Greek manager was ex Xanthi FC Nikos Papadopoulos who mainly brought in defensive players playing in the Greek league to strengthen this area of weakness. Few additions were made to the attacking mechanism of the team and some early warnings in the pre season friendlies indicated that after the departure of the previous season's top scorer, the team would be less productive in scoring than last season, which was in fact the case. Papadopoulos was released by mutual consent at the end of February 2012 with the club in the cup quarterfinals but fourth from bottom in the league, although defensively the club was marginally better it lost its attacking flair and pressing style with majority ball possession and suffered from conceding goals right after scoring.

Nikodimos Papavasiliou was again appointed as manager for 2012, after lowering his wage by mutual consent with chairman Savva. It was announced that the budget would be reduced from the previous season and to achieve this only a few players from the previous season's squad remained. The team started the season with a 3-point deduction after failing to meet the UEFA Financial fair play criteria. Papavasiliou received an offer from Apollon Limassol after 2 games in charge of Olympiakos and was released from his contract by mutual consent.

Renos Demetriades an old Olympiakos Nicosia defensive player was appointed as the new coach. Olympiakos was close to mid-table with Demetriades and despite the loss of key players in the January transfer window was on track to keep its top level status, until an unexpected home loss which plunged the club in a battle for survival forced the club to replace Demetriades with Marios Constantinou.

Economic Decline

The club was relegated, for a fourth time in its history, on the last day of the 2012–2013 season, finishing third from bottom, while being level on points, but was demoted due to the inferior head-to-head record with Nea Salamis Famagusta FC.

The club started the new 2013–2014 season with a 6-point deduction after failing to meet the UEFA Financial fair play criteria. Chairman Petros Savva resigned and Manager Marios Constantinou left making way for old Olympiakos Nicosia defensive midfielder Costas Seraphim. Old chairman Demos Georgiades stepped in as acting chairman and the club used the Makario stadium as the home ground. Seraphim who was offering his services for free, totally reorganised the club for the new season. From the senior players only captain, defender Nikolas Nicolaou and midfielder, vice-captain Kyriacos Polycarpou remained. All the foreign players left. The young Olympiakos players such as forward Giannis Mavrou and goalkeeper Constantinos Panagi stepped up to fill in the places in the starting line up. Together with other local players all under 21 years old as well as 3 under 21 foreign players, the club was trying to reorganize and return to the top flight as soon as possible.

After 4 games with 3 wins the club managed to erase the 6-point deduction and register a positive point tally. Had the penalty not been imposed the club would have been top of the league. After the positive start to the season, the young players were unable to take the pressure of the rugged Cypriot Second Division and six consecutive defeats and a further 3-point deduction, meant the resignation of coach Costas Seraphim in December 2013, the replacement was Savvas Paraskeva, an ex Cypriot youth team national coach. The arrival of Paraskeva, did not arrest the club's decline and the club finished 6th. After a further change of rules, with 14 teams playing in the second division, the club was spared the humiliation of third tier football and played in the second division for the 2014–2015 season. With around 1.6 million Euro of total legacy debt (old players, banks, creditors and the state) however, the future of the club was looking all the more uncertain.

In the 2014–2015 season the club started with a 3-point deduction and was further hit with a 3-point deduction by December and spent a record third consecutive season in the second tier. The new Manager was ex Olympiakos attacking midfielder Goran Petkovski and the new chairman was Marios Mavrikios, an ex press spokesman of the club during the early 2000s. The club was again in survival mode, trying to survive the drop and pay down the old debts, with only 3 foreign players under 21, two senior Cypriot players and all the rest being Cypriot players under 21. The new club board, managed to reduce the debt to 26 old players to around 600,000 Euro and the club survived in the last game of the season by winning in an away game.

In the 2015–2016 season the club yet again started with a 3-point deduction however with the same Manager and chairman as the previous season, the club set as its goal to return to the Cypriot First Division. In order to achieve this, funds to pay down debts to old players and to lift the embargo of signing senior players was the first objective. Old captain, defensive midfielder and manager Costas Seraphim took over as chairman on 27 July, the embargo was lifted on 28 August by reducing debt to old players to 470,000 Euro and the chairman announced the release of manager Goran Petkovski on 29 August and on 1 September hired Chrysis Michael. The club had a good season and was second for most of the season, falling to third with one game remaining. However, they drew in the last game, thus missing the promotion due to an inferior head-to-head record with Anagennisi Dherynia, thus staying in the second tier for a record fourth season.

In the 2016–2017 season, the club set again as its goal to return to the Cypriot First Division. Chrysis Michael remained in his post. The new president was Dr Andreas Aristodemou. The debt to 22 old players was reduced to 420,000 Euro. Greek Giannis Georgaras was hired as Technical Director. On 24 July the contract with Chrysis Michael was terminated by mutual consent and ex-captain Nikolas Nicolaou took over as caretaker manager until 12 August 2016 when Savvas Paraskeva took over the helm. Nicolaou returned to his position of U21 manager. On 3 November 2016 the president resigned and Costas Seraphim retook the helm. He terminated the contract of manager Savvas Paraskeva by mutual consent as well as of the Technical Director and re hired Chrysis Michael as manager on 4 November 2016. In early January to mid March the club was in third place and gained promotion to the first division after four seasons.

In the 2017–2018 season, the club's goal was to avoid relegation. FIFA had imposed an embargo on signing new players over 18, so the club had to compete in the first division with its existing squad until January. The debt to old players was nevertheless reduced to 350,000 euro and the total legacy debt had been reduced to 1.2 million euro. At the end of the first round the club was in 11th place just above the relegation spots, falling to 12th place after 21 games and in the battle to survive relegation. The club finished in 12th place, avoiding direct relegation at the end of the second round and earned the opportunity to avoid relegation in the third round. The debt to old players was reduced to 225,000 euro and the total legacy debt to below 1 million euro. With 7 games remaining and the club in the relegation spot, 9 points off safety, the contract with Chrysis Michael was terminated by mutual consent and Vesko Mihajlović was hired for the last 7 games of the season, with only one win and the club relegated for the fifth time, with 3 games remaining, Vesko Mihajlović resigned and captain Kyriacos Polykarpou took over as caretaker manager, until the end of the season.[1] The debt to old players was reduced to 125,000 euro and the total legacy debt to below 600,000 euro.

In the 2018–2019 season Costas Seraphim remained president and was backed by the old president of the glory days of the early 2000s, Christopher Tornaritis, as head of the football department. Their first move is to hire Costas Malekkos as manager, with a view of returning to the top flight immediately. After two successive defeats in the first two games of the new season, Malekkos was replaced by Fangio Buyse who brought consecutive wins and the club was in first place after 11 games. Four games before the end of the season the club dropped to third place outside the promotion spots and Buyse was replaced by Kyriacos Polycarpou, an old player of the club, as caretaker manager, who lifted the club to second place and promotion. The debt was stabilised.

Stability Regained

In the 2019–2020 season Seraphim and Tornaritis, with the club returning to the First Division, re- hired Pambos Christodoulou as manager. Pambos renewed the contracts of central defender Nani Soares from Guinea-Bissau, Cypriot defensive midfielder Andreas Pachipis, Portuguese winger Rogerio Silva, defensive midfielder Evgenios Antoniou, Venezuelan forward Jose Romo and Cypriot left back Constantinos Samaras. The latter three were subsequently loaned to other clubs. His first signings were Cypriot right back Paris Psaltis, Cameroonian defensive midfielder Eyong Enoh, central defender Sambinha from Guinea-Bissau, Cypriot defensive midfielder Giorgos Economides, goalkeepers Pavol Bajza from Slovakia and Mario Kirev from Bulgaria, Portuguese left back Kiko, Cameroonian winger Fabrice Kah, Cypriot defensive midfielder Vangelis Kyriacou, Cypriot Striker Panayiotis Zachariou, Venezuelan midfielder Rafael Acosta, Brazilian Forward Azulão and Ghanaian centre back Ousmane Sidibé. The season was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Cyprus and Olympiakos achieved the 9th place, securing participation regarding the next season's First Division.

During June 2020, the director of football hired Greek Giannis Petrakis as the new head coach for the new season. The contracts of Guinea-Bissauan central defenders Sambinha and Nani Soares were renewed, as well as Cameroonian winger Fabrice Kah. Cypriot right backs Paris Psaltis and Evangelos Kyriacou stayed at the club. With Cypriot Defender Constantinos Soteriou and star winger Panayiotis Zachariou also staying. The first signings were Cypriot winger Marios Pechlivanis who returned to the club, Greek goalkeeper Christos Karadais, Cameroonian winger Edgar Salli and goalkeeper Neofytos Michael who also returned to his boyhood club. Giannis Petrakis left the club in November, for Apollon Limassol after receiving an offer against the buyout clause in his contract. This angered the Olympiakos Nicosia supporters and Director of Football Tornaritis, who demanded a higher payout to release him. This was achieved via Giannis Petrakis returning pre-paid bonuses. Costas Seraphim the Technical Director took over as caretaker manager for 5 games. Initially after achieving two wins he was made permanent manager, but a draw and two losses forced him to return to his old post. Leonidas Vokolos took over debuting with a draw at home versus Ermis Aradippou . The new manager faces injuries and suspensions in his effort to retain the club in the top six. After being in charge for 8 games scoring only two draws, Leonidas Vokolos was replaced by Cedomir Janevski. Cedomir Janevski led the club to the top 6 championship group gaining 13 points in the playoffs. Moreover, he also led the club to the first cup final in 30 years where Olympiakos lost 2-1 to Anorthosis Famagusta during the extra-time period.

In the 2021-2022 season the director of football hired Giorgos Petrakis the son of Giannis Petrakis as manager. The new signings were Cypriot defender Stefanos Mouhtaris who returned to the club, French defensive midfielder Alois Confais, Cypriot Bulgarian right back Hristian Foti, Swiss goalkeeper Joel Mall, Cypriot second striker Andreas Michael and Liberian striker Peter Wilson.In addition, the club has signed the Spanish defender Eneko Boveda ,Senegalese centre back Modou Diagne and Ghanaian defensive midfielder Alhassan Wakaso. Petrakis parted ways with the club in December 2021 for personal reasons wanting to return to Greece. He left the club in 8th place. Striker Vasilis Mantzis also left a few days later, also returning to Greece. Lucas Alcaraz was named manager of the club on, 29 December 2021, bringing with him as assistant manager his compatriot Jesus Canadas Morcillo. The target is to maintain the historic club, in the top 6 of the league and match the cup final achieved last season, with the ultimate aim of European qualification. However, when he took the helm the club was in 8th place 4 points off target and the aims are not easy to achieve. After 8 games in charge and achieving only two draws Lucas Alcaraz parted ways with Olympiakos. The club lost the chance to be in the top 6 championship group and was knocked out of the cup. Kyriakos Polycrapou took over as caretaker manager and immediately improved the club achieving a win and a draw against PAEEK Kyrenias and Ethnikos Achna. He was replaced by Nedim Tutic -an old player of the club- and transformed the club in the attacking area which was lacking this season. Under his guidance the club achieved four wins and two draws from eight games. Tutic’s contract has been renewed for the new season and he has said that he intends to make 5-6 new transfers and that the club will be stronger next season.

Before the start of the 2022-2023 season the Director of Football decided to replace Tutic with Giannis Petrakis. Petrakis rebuilt the squad with 21 players departing and 17 new players arriving at the club. After bad results Petrakis was replaced in October 2022 with Makis Sergides who improved the club’s performance and reached the semi-finals of the cup. However the club remained in the relegation zone and the director of football replaced Sergides with Nedim Tutic. The results did not improve and the club was relegated finishing last. The Director of football and president resigned and only two young players remained at the club.

In the 2023-2024 season a new younger president Andreas Hartziotis took over and immediately re- hired Pambos Christodoulou as manager on a three year contract and announced that a swift return to the First Division in one season is the club’s target. The manager rebuilt the squad with Cypriot, Portuguese and Brazilian players.

Stadium

From 2021, the club had been playing their home matches at the new GSP Stadium until late 2022, when the club decided to move back to Makario Stadium due to financial difficulties.[2]

From the period of 2013–2021, the club has played again at the Makario Stadium, where they also played in 1998–1999 and 2008–2009.

Previously Olympiakos had played at the old GSP Stadium (1934–1998) and the new GSP Stadium (2000–2008) (2009–2013). Both stadiums were also shared with APOEL and Omonia but Olympiakos was the only club playing at the old GSP Stadium between 1978 and 1998 as APOEL and Omonia had both moved to Makario Stadium.

Supporters

Olympiakos supporters since 2004 are organised under the Panhellenic Fans Association "Taktakalas 1931" which takes its name from the area of old Nicosia where the clubhouse and the original training ground and now football academy "Promahonas"(near the old Venetian Walls of Nicosia) are located. 1931 refers to the date of foundation of the football club.

Traditionally Olympiakos was supported by residents of the inner old part of Nicosia within the Venetian Walls, the attendance at home games peaked in the late 1960s and early 1970s when fans from all over Cyprus would attend Olympiakos home games at the old GSP stadium filling it to its 12,000 capacity, especially when the club participated three times in the Greek First Division. After 1977 when the club won its last major title, the fanbase started to shrink. From a position where it could rival the other two Nicosia clubs, the fanbase dwindled for two reasons. Firstly outward migration from the Nicosia city centre to the suburbs after 1974 meant that the neighbourhoods of traditional Olympiakos supporters were becoming less populated, despite this trend the club made a conscious decision to leave the new clubhouse on the "green line" dividing Nicosia. Also the Turkish invasion spelt economic problems for the club and the fact that it was located in an inner city area next to the green line only made things harder. Up until the late 1990s many traditional Olympiakos supporters out of frustration for the lack of titles either stopped going to games and others switched allegiances to other Nicosia clubs that were richer and could still afford to win titles such as APOEL. It could be said that the club did not transition well from the era of amateur to semi-professional football in Cyprus beginning in the early 1980s mainly for the reasons mentioned above. Also the younger generation of Cypriots did not grow up with Olympiakos as a major power in the Cyprus league and despite their parents supporting Olympiakos they would often choose to support another side that won titles in the 1980 to 2000 years.

In general Olympiakos supporters tend to be of an older age and very rarely engage in trouble with other fans unless severely provoked. They also tend to be right wing politically, although not officially affiliated to any political party, and speak fondly of the time when Olympiakos played with other Greek teams in the Greek First Division.

In the early 2000s, with the shift from semi-professional to professional status in Cyprus football and with a wealthy President at the helm, a brief revival of the club fortunes with an UEFA cup participation, as the club finished second, after 25 years, increased the fans at the New GSP to around 5000 in the two home European games. Olympiakos fans although now less than those of the other Nicosia, Limassol teams and Anorthosis are nevertheless fiercely loyal to their team. Even when the club fell to the Second Division between 2008 and 2010 due to economic problems, 300 supporters would follow the club to even the most remote village of Cyprus, with home attendance varying between 500 and 750. At home games now in the First Division around 1000 to 2000 Olympiakos supporters will cheer the team on and are quite demanding for their team due to its past glories, one could say as demanding as other teams that have recently won silverware.

Current squad

As of 21 September 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
4 DF   CYP Soteris Kaiafas
5 DF   AUS Jordan Perez
6 DF   GNB Simão Júnior
7 FW   POR Edu
8 MF   SEN Stéphane Badji
9 MF   CYP Angelos Zefkis
10 MF   CYP Filippos Eftychidis
11 FW   COL Camilo Triana
13 GK   POR Miguel Santos
14 MF   CYP Andreas Asimenos
16 MF   CYP Kostas Charalampous
17 DF   CYP Martinos Christofi
19 FW   CYP Nestoras Mytidis
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 MF   BRA Patrick Valverde
21 MF   CYP Giorgos Pavlides
23 MF   CYP Giorgos Economides
24 MF   CYP Marinos Demetriou
25 DF   POR Rodrigo Domingues
26 DF   POR Fred
27 MF   POR Lourenço
28 DF   CYP Thomas Ioannou
29 GK   CYP Constantinos Petrou
60 DF   CYP Andreas Frangeskou
77 FW   GHA Eric Appiah
87 MF   POR Renato Santos
90 MF   POR Rafael Moreira
99 GK   CYP Giorgos Christoforou

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

Coaching staff

 
Coaching Staff
Head Coach   Pambos Christodoulou
Assistant Coach   Kyriacos Polykarpou
Goalkeeping Coach   Andreas Mavris
Fitness Coach   Andreas Themistocleous /Pantelis Vassiliou
Analyst   Marios Christofi
Team Manager   Grigoris Nishiotis

Former players

For a full list of players with Wikipedia articles

Managerial history

Honours

Football

Volleyball

History in European competition

Overall

Competition Pld W D L GF GA GD
European Cup 6 0 1 5 4 36 -32
European Cup Winners' Cup 2 0 0 2 1 8 -7
UEFA Cup 6 1 2 3 9 26 -17
UEFA Intertoto Cup 4 0 0 4 1 23 −22
Total 18 1 3 14 15 93 –78

Matches

Season Competition Round1 Club 1st leg 2nd leg Agg.
1967–68 European Cup 1R   Sarajevo 2–2 (H) 1–3 (A) 3–5
1969–70 European Cup 1R   Real Madrid 0–8 (H)[a] 1–6 (A) 1–14
1971–72 European Cup 1R   Feyenoord 0–8 (A) 0–9 (H)[b] 0–17
1973–74 UEFA Cup 1R   Stuttgart 0–4 (H) 0–9 (A) 0–13
1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R   Universitatea Craiova 1–6 (H) 0–2 (A) 1–8
2001–02 UEFA Cup QR   Dunaferr 2–2 (H) 4–2 (A) 6–4
1R   Club Brugge 2–2 (H) 1–7 (A) 3–9
2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1R   Dubnica 0–3 (A) 1–4 (H) 1–7
2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1R   Gloria Bistrița 0–5 (H) 0–11 (A) 0–16
  1. ^ "Home" leg played at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
  2. ^ "Home" leg played at De Kuip

References

  1. ^ "ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΑΚΟΣ ΠΡΟΠΟΝΗΤΗΣ Ο ΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΣ ΠΟΛΥΚΑΡΠΟΥ". Olympiakos Nicosia. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Περιμένει το... ΠΡΑΣΙΝΟ ΦΩΣ από ΚΟΑ για επιστροφή στο Μακάρειο". themasports.tothemaonline.com (in Greek). 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

External links

  • (in Greek) Official website
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For other clubs of the same name see Olympiakos Olympiakos Nicosia Greek Olympiakos Leykwsias Olympiakos Lefkosias is a Cypriot football club based in Nicosia and competes in the Second Division The club was founded in 1931 and is a founding member of the Cyprus Football Association The club colors are black and green Olympiakos home ground is the Makario Stadium which has a 16 000 seat capacity The team s main nickname is mavroprasini the green blacks and the club s other nickname is Taktakalas derived from the area of Nicosia where the club hails from Olympiakos NicosiaFull nameOlympiakos Nicosia Football ClubNickname s Mayroprasinoi The Green Blacks Taktakalas area in old Nicosia where club is based Founded4 March 1931 92 years ago 1931 03 04 GroundMakario StadiumCapacity16 000ChairmanAndreas HartziotisManagerPambos ChristodoulouLeagueSecond Division2022 23First Division 14th relegated WebsiteClub websiteHome coloursAway coloursOlympiakos Nicosia has won three Cypriot First Division Championships one Cypriot Cup and one Cyprus Super Cup In the past the club also had track and field basketball volleyball cycling table tennis weightlifting and futsal teams It also in the past had an orchestra choir and camping divisions the latter explaining why the club s badge has a tent on it Contents 1 History 1 1 The Golden Decade 1 2 Greek Experience 1 3 European Experience 1 4 Cup glory 1 5 Glory days revisited 1 6 Recent decline 1 7 Return to the top flight 1 8 Striving for Stability 1 9 Economic Decline 1 10 Stability Regained 2 Stadium 3 Supporters 4 Current squad 4 1 Out on loan 5 Coaching staff 6 Former players 7 Managerial history 8 Honours 8 1 Football 8 2 Volleyball 9 History in European competition 9 1 Overall 9 2 Matches 10 References 11 External linksHistoryThe Golden Decade The 1962 1972 decade is known as the Golden decade of Olympiakos as the club was champion of the Cypriot First Division three times another three times it was runner up while it became the only Cyprus football club that participated three times in the Greek National 1st Division Championship It all started in the 1961 62 season when Olympiakos reached the cup final for the first time in the club s history Despite this the team did not manage to win the cup trophy as it lost from Anorthosis Famagusta FC with a score of 5 2 The foundations had been laid however in the 1964 65 season Giorgos Paletsios an old Olympiakos football player for 18 years who had also served as team captain agreed to manage the team without being paid a salary for his services Paletsios proceeded to restructure the team s squad promoting to the first team young and talented players including Kettenis Limbouris Argyrou Bolstered with young enthusiasm the team finished in second place in the championship while in the same year the top scorer of the championship was Olympiakos player Kostakis Pierides scoring 21 goals In the 1965 66 season Olympiakos was once again runner up with 49 points one point less than the then champion Omonoia Top scorer of the championship was again an Olympiakos player Panikos Efthymiades scoring 23 goals In the 1966 67 season Olympiakos dominated the Cypriot Championship with Pambos Avraamidis as their manager the team finished in first place and won the championship with 55 points as many as APOEL Nicosia who in the last game of the season beat Aris Limassol with the huge score of 17 1 The title was judged on goal difference and despite APOEL s huge score in the last game of the season Olympiakos still had a superior goal difference so that the club was crowned champion In 1967 the champion Olympiakos played against the Cup winner Apollon Limassol winning 1 0 therefore gaining the Pakkos Shield as the Super Cup Shield was then known nbsp Manager Rod Bradley in 1971In the 1968 69 season Olympiakos won the championship for a second time collecting 52 points the same number as AC Omonoia Olympiakos was champion however because of the better goal difference Top scorer of the championship was once again Panikos Efthymiades scoring 17 goals The third Olympiakos championship came in the 1970 71 season with Englishman Rod Bradley as the manager the team finished in first place with 31 points compared to 27 of runner up Digenis Morfou The title of top scorer was shared by 3 footballers who all scored 11 goals amongst them once again Panikos Efthymiades In the 1972 73 season Olympiakos finished runner up while in the 1974 75 season the team finished third In 1971 Olympiakos won the Paligenesias cup that was organised by the Cyprus Football Association KOP defeating Nea Salamis Famagusta FC In this golden period Olympiakos managers were Pambos Avraamidis Giorgos Paletsios Takis Papaxeniou Eric Brookes and Rod Bradley Andreas Filotas Varnavas Christofi Nikos Theocharidis Demos Flourentzou Giorgos Hadjikonstantis Dimitrakis Argyrou Yiannis Xipolitas Savvakis Constantinou Michalakis Argyrou Sotirakis Georgiou Lakis Avraamidis Markos Markou Andreas Nicolaou Lympoyris Vasilis Fragkiskou Katsis Dimitriadis Tasos Louka Andreas Assiotis Giorgos Kettenis Panikos Efthymiades Kostakis Pierides Charalambos Partasidis Giannos Pavlou Takis Papettas Kokos Michael Nikos Mailos Michalis Stavrou Giorgos Aristeidou Koullis Iliadis Lakis Mitsidis Panagiotis Prodromou Giannis Serafeim were the footballers of the great successes of this period Greek Experience Olympiakos became the first Cypriot football team that participated in the Pan Hellenic Championship in the 1967 68 season something which recurred twice more in 1969 70 and in 1971 72 rendering the club the only Cypriot team that participated three times in the Greek National 1st Division Championship Olympiakos has also taken part in all three European competitions European Experience In the European Champions Cup in 1967 the club faced FK Sarajevo Yugoslavia In the first game the teams drew 2 2 while in second game Olympiakos lost with 3 1 Also in the European Champions Cup Olympiakos Nicosia played against Real Madrid in 1969 losing both matches with 8 0 and 6 1 Olympiakos later played in the same competition in 1971 and met Feyenoord of the Netherlands and lost 8 0 and 9 0 In the Cup Winners Cup Olympiakos took part once in 1977 playing against Universitatea Craiova Romania while in 1973 Olympiakos played against the German team VfB Stuttgart for the UEFA Cup In all these European games Olympiakos was forced to play both games away from home as at the time the Cypriot football stadia did not meet the European regulations Cup glory In 1977 Olympiakos Nicosia beat Alki Larnaca 2 0 to win the Cypriot Cup after two thunder bolts from English center half captain and talisman Mreg Goffatt In 1991 Olympiakos Nicosia lost the Cypriot Cup in the finals losing 1 0 to AC Omonia That was their last appearance in the Cypriot Cup finals Glory days revisited Olympiakos Nicosia also played in the UEFA Cup after finishing runner up in the Cypriot championship in the 2001 02 season against the Hungarian team Dunaferr FC drawing 2 2 in Nicosia and scoring a 2 4 away win the first for the club in Europe and proceeded to the next round of the Uefa Cup to play against Club Brugge of Belgium and was eventually eliminated Recent decline With Olympiakos TV rights hastily agreed at the lowest amount for any Cypriot first division club in 2007 for 9 seasons and these rights assigned to repay old debts until 2016 the club has little cash inflow apart from gate receipts and commercial sponsorships After a disastrous 2007 2008 season where economic problems hindered the building of a strong squad Olympiakos Nicosia finished bottom of the Cypriot First Division the first time the club finished bottom The club was relegated for the third time in its history In both the 1983 84 and 1997 98 seasons the club had spent just one season in the second tier of Cypriot football only to win the Cypriot Second Division title each time and return to the Cypriot First Division The club tried to re organise itself and to return to the top flight as quickly as possible In the 2008 09 season the club finished fourth and missed the promotion to the Cypriot First Division on the last day of the season by one point In the 2009 10 season an old goalkeeper of Olympiakos Petros Savva was appointed as the new chairman Savva initially re appointed Andros Kouloumbris an old midfield player of Olympiakos as manager After the end of the first round however Kouloumbris was sacked due to the bad defensive record of the team despite the team being in 3rd place The next coach for 7 games was Sasa Jovanovic who only managed two wins with the team languishing in 5th place after some bad appearances Sasa Jovanovic was removed to make way for old Olympiakos midfield player and ex manager Nikodimos Papavasiliou With Papavasiliou at the helm the team improved and entered the play offs for promotion to the Cypriot First Division after finishing third at the end of the regular season The club finished third at the end of the play offs and therefore gained promotion despite helping the team with winning promotion Nikodimos Papavasiliou s contract was not renewed at the end of the season Return to the top flight After 2 seasons Olympiakos returned to the top flight in the 2010 2011 season and Pambos Christodoulou an old Olympiakos midfield player and ex manager of Doxa Katokopias was appointed as manager Olympiakos showed good attacking football in the 2010 2011 season easily avoiding relegation and having qualified for the Cup quarterfinals The club played fluid attacking football having the third best attacking record after leaders APOEL and 3rd placed Anorthosis playing with a 4 4 2 formation with pressing from within the opponent s half but the Achilles heel of the team was the bad defensive record with goals conceded in most games and the third worst record in this area Christodoulou decided to leave the club in 2011 to join AEL Limassol one year before his contract expired The club decided to pursue this breach in court in an out of court settlement AEL Limassol paid an undisclosed sum of money to Olympiakos to avoid sanctions against them and Pambos and Christodoulou angered both the club president and the supporters as well as the Cypriot football fans in general with his unprofessional conduct Striving for Stability In the 2011 2012 season there were a few changes in Olympiakos the new Greek manager was ex Xanthi FC Nikos Papadopoulos who mainly brought in defensive players playing in the Greek league to strengthen this area of weakness Few additions were made to the attacking mechanism of the team and some early warnings in the pre season friendlies indicated that after the departure of the previous season s top scorer the team would be less productive in scoring than last season which was in fact the case Papadopoulos was released by mutual consent at the end of February 2012 with the club in the cup quarterfinals but fourth from bottom in the league although defensively the club was marginally better it lost its attacking flair and pressing style with majority ball possession and suffered from conceding goals right after scoring Nikodimos Papavasiliou was again appointed as manager for 2012 after lowering his wage by mutual consent with chairman Savva It was announced that the budget would be reduced from the previous season and to achieve this only a few players from the previous season s squad remained The team started the season with a 3 point deduction after failing to meet the UEFA Financial fair play criteria Papavasiliou received an offer from Apollon Limassol after 2 games in charge of Olympiakos and was released from his contract by mutual consent Renos Demetriades an old Olympiakos Nicosia defensive player was appointed as the new coach Olympiakos was close to mid table with Demetriades and despite the loss of key players in the January transfer window was on track to keep its top level status until an unexpected home loss which plunged the club in a battle for survival forced the club to replace Demetriades with Marios Constantinou Economic Decline The club was relegated for a fourth time in its history on the last day of the 2012 2013 season finishing third from bottom while being level on points but was demoted due to the inferior head to head record with Nea Salamis Famagusta FC The club started the new 2013 2014 season with a 6 point deduction after failing to meet the UEFA Financial fair play criteria Chairman Petros Savva resigned and Manager Marios Constantinou left making way for old Olympiakos Nicosia defensive midfielder Costas Seraphim Old chairman Demos Georgiades stepped in as acting chairman and the club used the Makario stadium as the home ground Seraphim who was offering his services for free totally reorganised the club for the new season From the senior players only captain defender Nikolas Nicolaou and midfielder vice captain Kyriacos Polycarpou remained All the foreign players left The young Olympiakos players such as forward Giannis Mavrou and goalkeeper Constantinos Panagi stepped up to fill in the places in the starting line up Together with other local players all under 21 years old as well as 3 under 21 foreign players the club was trying to reorganize and return to the top flight as soon as possible After 4 games with 3 wins the club managed to erase the 6 point deduction and register a positive point tally Had the penalty not been imposed the club would have been top of the league After the positive start to the season the young players were unable to take the pressure of the rugged Cypriot Second Division and six consecutive defeats and a further 3 point deduction meant the resignation of coach Costas Seraphim in December 2013 the replacement was Savvas Paraskeva an ex Cypriot youth team national coach The arrival of Paraskeva did not arrest the club s decline and the club finished 6th After a further change of rules with 14 teams playing in the second division the club was spared the humiliation of third tier football and played in the second division for the 2014 2015 season With around 1 6 million Euro of total legacy debt old players banks creditors and the state however the future of the club was looking all the more uncertain In the 2014 2015 season the club started with a 3 point deduction and was further hit with a 3 point deduction by December and spent a record third consecutive season in the second tier The new Manager was ex Olympiakos attacking midfielder Goran Petkovski and the new chairman was Marios Mavrikios an ex press spokesman of the club during the early 2000s The club was again in survival mode trying to survive the drop and pay down the old debts with only 3 foreign players under 21 two senior Cypriot players and all the rest being Cypriot players under 21 The new club board managed to reduce the debt to 26 old players to around 600 000 Euro and the club survived in the last game of the season by winning in an away game In the 2015 2016 season the club yet again started with a 3 point deduction however with the same Manager and chairman as the previous season the club set as its goal to return to the Cypriot First Division In order to achieve this funds to pay down debts to old players and to lift the embargo of signing senior players was the first objective Old captain defensive midfielder and manager Costas Seraphim took over as chairman on 27 July the embargo was lifted on 28 August by reducing debt to old players to 470 000 Euro and the chairman announced the release of manager Goran Petkovski on 29 August and on 1 September hired Chrysis Michael The club had a good season and was second for most of the season falling to third with one game remaining However they drew in the last game thus missing the promotion due to an inferior head to head record with Anagennisi Dherynia thus staying in the second tier for a record fourth season In the 2016 2017 season the club set again as its goal to return to the Cypriot First Division Chrysis Michael remained in his post The new president was Dr Andreas Aristodemou The debt to 22 old players was reduced to 420 000 Euro Greek Giannis Georgaras was hired as Technical Director On 24 July the contract with Chrysis Michael was terminated by mutual consent and ex captain Nikolas Nicolaou took over as caretaker manager until 12 August 2016 when Savvas Paraskeva took over the helm Nicolaou returned to his position of U21 manager On 3 November 2016 the president resigned and Costas Seraphim retook the helm He terminated the contract of manager Savvas Paraskeva by mutual consent as well as of the Technical Director and re hired Chrysis Michael as manager on 4 November 2016 In early January to mid March the club was in third place and gained promotion to the first division after four seasons In the 2017 2018 season the club s goal was to avoid relegation FIFA had imposed an embargo on signing new players over 18 so the club had to compete in the first division with its existing squad until January The debt to old players was nevertheless reduced to 350 000 euro and the total legacy debt had been reduced to 1 2 million euro At the end of the first round the club was in 11th place just above the relegation spots falling to 12th place after 21 games and in the battle to survive relegation The club finished in 12th place avoiding direct relegation at the end of the second round and earned the opportunity to avoid relegation in the third round The debt to old players was reduced to 225 000 euro and the total legacy debt to below 1 million euro With 7 games remaining and the club in the relegation spot 9 points off safety the contract with Chrysis Michael was terminated by mutual consent and Vesko Mihajlovic was hired for the last 7 games of the season with only one win and the club relegated for the fifth time with 3 games remaining Vesko Mihajlovic resigned and captain Kyriacos Polykarpou took over as caretaker manager until the end of the season 1 The debt to old players was reduced to 125 000 euro and the total legacy debt to below 600 000 euro In the 2018 2019 season Costas Seraphim remained president and was backed by the old president of the glory days of the early 2000s Christopher Tornaritis as head of the football department Their first move is to hire Costas Malekkos as manager with a view of returning to the top flight immediately After two successive defeats in the first two games of the new season Malekkos was replaced by Fangio Buyse who brought consecutive wins and the club was in first place after 11 games Four games before the end of the season the club dropped to third place outside the promotion spots and Buyse was replaced by Kyriacos Polycarpou an old player of the club as caretaker manager who lifted the club to second place and promotion The debt was stabilised Stability Regained In the 2019 2020 season Seraphim and Tornaritis with the club returning to the First Division re hired Pambos Christodoulou as manager Pambos renewed the contracts of central defender Nani Soares from Guinea Bissau Cypriot defensive midfielder Andreas Pachipis Portuguese winger Rogerio Silva defensive midfielder Evgenios Antoniou Venezuelan forward Jose Romo and Cypriot left back Constantinos Samaras The latter three were subsequently loaned to other clubs His first signings were Cypriot right back Paris Psaltis Cameroonian defensive midfielder Eyong Enoh central defender Sambinha from Guinea Bissau Cypriot defensive midfielder Giorgos Economides goalkeepers Pavol Bajza from Slovakia and Mario Kirev from Bulgaria Portuguese left back Kiko Cameroonian winger Fabrice Kah Cypriot defensive midfielder Vangelis Kyriacou Cypriot Striker Panayiotis Zachariou Venezuelan midfielder Rafael Acosta Brazilian Forward Azulao and Ghanaian centre back Ousmane Sidibe The season was abandoned due to the COVID 19 pandemic in Cyprus and Olympiakos achieved the 9th place securing participation regarding the next season s First Division During June 2020 the director of football hired Greek Giannis Petrakis as the new head coach for the new season The contracts of Guinea Bissauan central defenders Sambinha and Nani Soares were renewed as well as Cameroonian winger Fabrice Kah Cypriot right backs Paris Psaltis and Evangelos Kyriacou stayed at the club With Cypriot Defender Constantinos Soteriou and star winger Panayiotis Zachariou also staying The first signings were Cypriot winger Marios Pechlivanis who returned to the club Greek goalkeeper Christos Karadais Cameroonian winger Edgar Salli and goalkeeper Neofytos Michael who also returned to his boyhood club Giannis Petrakis left the club in November for Apollon Limassol after receiving an offer against the buyout clause in his contract This angered the Olympiakos Nicosia supporters and Director of Football Tornaritis who demanded a higher payout to release him This was achieved via Giannis Petrakis returning pre paid bonuses Costas Seraphim the Technical Director took over as caretaker manager for 5 games Initially after achieving two wins he was made permanent manager but a draw and two losses forced him to return to his old post Leonidas Vokolos took over debuting with a draw at home versus Ermis Aradippou The new manager faces injuries and suspensions in his effort to retain the club in the top six After being in charge for 8 games scoring only two draws Leonidas Vokolos was replaced by Cedomir Janevski Cedomir Janevski led the club to the top 6 championship group gaining 13 points in the playoffs Moreover he also led the club to the first cup final in 30 years where Olympiakos lost 2 1 to Anorthosis Famagusta during the extra time period In the 2021 2022 season the director of football hired Giorgos Petrakis the son of Giannis Petrakis as manager The new signings were Cypriot defender Stefanos Mouhtaris who returned to the club French defensive midfielder Alois Confais Cypriot Bulgarian right back Hristian Foti Swiss goalkeeper Joel Mall Cypriot second striker Andreas Michael and Liberian striker Peter Wilson In addition the club has signed the Spanish defender Eneko Boveda Senegalese centre back Modou Diagne and Ghanaian defensive midfielder Alhassan Wakaso Petrakis parted ways with the club in December 2021 for personal reasons wanting to return to Greece He left the club in 8th place Striker Vasilis Mantzis also left a few days later also returning to Greece Lucas Alcaraz was named manager of the club on 29 December 2021 bringing with him as assistant manager his compatriot Jesus Canadas Morcillo The target is to maintain the historic club in the top 6 of the league and match the cup final achieved last season with the ultimate aim of European qualification However when he took the helm the club was in 8th place 4 points off target and the aims are not easy to achieve After 8 games in charge and achieving only two draws Lucas Alcaraz parted ways with Olympiakos The club lost the chance to be in the top 6 championship group and was knocked out of the cup Kyriakos Polycrapou took over as caretaker manager and immediately improved the club achieving a win and a draw against PAEEK Kyrenias and Ethnikos Achna He was replaced by Nedim Tutic an old player of the club and transformed the club in the attacking area which was lacking this season Under his guidance the club achieved four wins and two draws from eight games Tutic s contract has been renewed for the new season and he has said that he intends to make 5 6 new transfers and that the club will be stronger next season Before the start of the 2022 2023 season the Director of Football decided to replace Tutic with Giannis Petrakis Petrakis rebuilt the squad with 21 players departing and 17 new players arriving at the club After bad results Petrakis was replaced in October 2022 with Makis Sergides who improved the club s performance and reached the semi finals of the cup However the club remained in the relegation zone and the director of football replaced Sergides with Nedim Tutic The results did not improve and the club was relegated finishing last The Director of football and president resigned and only two young players remained at the club In the 2023 2024 season a new younger president Andreas Hartziotis took over and immediately re hired Pambos Christodoulou as manager on a three year contract and announced that a swift return to the First Division in one season is the club s target The manager rebuilt the squad with Cypriot Portuguese and Brazilian players StadiumMain article Makario Stadium From 2021 the club had been playing their home matches at the new GSP Stadium until late 2022 when the club decided to move back to Makario Stadium due to financial difficulties 2 From the period of 2013 2021 the club has played again at the Makario Stadium where they also played in 1998 1999 and 2008 2009 Previously Olympiakos had played at the old GSP Stadium 1934 1998 and the new GSP Stadium 2000 2008 2009 2013 Both stadiums were also shared with APOEL and Omonia but Olympiakos was the only club playing at the old GSP Stadium between 1978 and 1998 as APOEL and Omonia had both moved to Makario Stadium SupportersThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed October 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Olympiakos supporters since 2004 are organised under the Panhellenic Fans Association Taktakalas 1931 which takes its name from the area of old Nicosia where the clubhouse and the original training ground and now football academy Promahonas near the old Venetian Walls of Nicosia are located 1931 refers to the date of foundation of the football club Traditionally Olympiakos was supported by residents of the inner old part of Nicosia within the Venetian Walls the attendance at home games peaked in the late 1960s and early 1970s when fans from all over Cyprus would attend Olympiakos home games at the old GSP stadium filling it to its 12 000 capacity especially when the club participated three times in the Greek First Division After 1977 when the club won its last major title the fanbase started to shrink From a position where it could rival the other two Nicosia clubs the fanbase dwindled for two reasons Firstly outward migration from the Nicosia city centre to the suburbs after 1974 meant that the neighbourhoods of traditional Olympiakos supporters were becoming less populated despite this trend the club made a conscious decision to leave the new clubhouse on the green line dividing Nicosia Also the Turkish invasion spelt economic problems for the club and the fact that it was located in an inner city area next to the green line only made things harder Up until the late 1990s many traditional Olympiakos supporters out of frustration for the lack of titles either stopped going to games and others switched allegiances to other Nicosia clubs that were richer and could still afford to win titles such as APOEL It could be said that the club did not transition well from the era of amateur to semi professional football in Cyprus beginning in the early 1980s mainly for the reasons mentioned above Also the younger generation of Cypriots did not grow up with Olympiakos as a major power in the Cyprus league and despite their parents supporting Olympiakos they would often choose to support another side that won titles in the 1980 to 2000 years In general Olympiakos supporters tend to be of an older age and very rarely engage in trouble with other fans unless severely provoked They also tend to be right wing politically although not officially affiliated to any political party and speak fondly of the time when Olympiakos played with other Greek teams in the Greek First Division In the early 2000s with the shift from semi professional to professional status in Cyprus football and with a wealthy President at the helm a brief revival of the club fortunes with an UEFA cup participation as the club finished second after 25 years increased the fans at the New GSP to around 5000 in the two home European games Olympiakos fans although now less than those of the other Nicosia Limassol teams and Anorthosis are nevertheless fiercely loyal to their team Even when the club fell to the Second Division between 2008 and 2010 due to economic problems 300 supporters would follow the club to even the most remote village of Cyprus with home attendance varying between 500 and 750 At home games now in the First Division around 1000 to 2000 Olympiakos supporters will cheer the team on and are quite demanding for their team due to its past glories one could say as demanding as other teams that have recently won silverware Current squadAs of 21 September 2023Note Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules Players may hold more than one non FIFA nationality No Pos Nation Player4 DF nbsp CYP Soteris Kaiafas5 DF nbsp AUS Jordan Perez6 DF nbsp GNB Simao Junior7 FW nbsp POR Edu8 MF nbsp SEN Stephane Badji9 MF nbsp CYP Angelos Zefkis10 MF nbsp CYP Filippos Eftychidis11 FW nbsp COL Camilo Triana13 GK nbsp POR Miguel Santos14 MF nbsp CYP Andreas Asimenos16 MF nbsp CYP Kostas Charalampous17 DF nbsp CYP Martinos Christofi19 FW nbsp CYP Nestoras Mytidis No Pos Nation Player20 MF nbsp BRA Patrick Valverde21 MF nbsp CYP Giorgos Pavlides23 MF nbsp CYP Giorgos Economides24 MF nbsp CYP Marinos Demetriou25 DF nbsp POR Rodrigo Domingues26 DF nbsp POR Fred27 MF nbsp POR Lourenco28 DF nbsp CYP Thomas Ioannou29 GK nbsp CYP Constantinos Petrou60 DF nbsp CYP Andreas Frangeskou77 FW nbsp GHA Eric Appiah87 MF nbsp POR Renato Santos90 MF nbsp POR Rafael Moreira99 GK nbsp CYP Giorgos ChristoforouOut on loan Note Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules Players may hold more than one non FIFA nationality No Pos Nation PlayerCoaching staff Coaching StaffHead Coach nbsp Pambos ChristodoulouAssistant Coach nbsp Kyriacos PolykarpouGoalkeeping Coach nbsp Andreas MavrisFitness Coach nbsp Andreas Themistocleous Pantelis VassiliouAnalyst nbsp Marios ChristofiTeam Manager nbsp Grigoris NishiotisFormer players For a full list of players with Wikipedia articles See also Category Olympiakos Nicosia players Managerial history See also Category Olympiakos Nicosia managers nbsp Eli Fuchs 1968 69 nbsp Constantin Cernăianu 1983 85 nbsp David Kipiani 1992 93 nbsp Ronnie Whelan 2000 02 nbsp nbsp Svetozar Sapuric July 2002 June 2003 nbsp Mpampis Tennes 2003 nbsp Giorgos Foiros 2003 04 nbsp nbsp Nikolay Kostov 2004 05 2006 07 nbsp nbsp Rainer Rauffmann May 2005 Nov 2005 nbsp Diethelm Ferner 2005 06 nbsp nbsp Juan Ramon Rocha 2007 08 nbsp Jorge Barrios 2008 nbsp Nikodimos Papavasiliou 2008 09 Nov 2009 June 2010 Feb 2012 Sep 2012 nbsp nbsp Sasa Jovanovic 2010 nbsp Pambos Christodoulou July 2010 March 2011 nbsp Nikos Papadopoulos Aug 2011 Feb 2012 nbsp Renos Demetriades Sep 2012 Feb 2013 nbsp Marios Constantinou Feb 2013 June 2013 nbsp Costas Seraphim June 2013 December 2013 nbsp Savvas Paraskeva December 2013 April 2014 nbsp nbsp Goran Petkovski July 2014 August 2015 nbsp Chrysis Michael September 2015 July 2016 nbsp Savvas Paraskeva August 2016 November 2016 nbsp Chrysis Michael November 2016 March 2018 nbsp Vesko Mihajlovic March 2018 April 2018 nbsp Costas Malekkos June 2018 September 2018 nbsp Fangio Buyse September 2018 April 2019 nbsp Pambos Christodoulou June 2019 May 2020 nbsp Giannis Petrakis June 2020 November 2020 nbsp Costas Seraphim November 2020 December 2020 nbsp Leonidas Vokolos January 2021 January 2021 nbsp Cedomir Janevski February 2021 May 2021 nbsp Giorgos Petrakis June 2021 December 2021 nbsp Lucas Alcaraz December 2021 February 2022 nbsp Nedim Tutic March 2022 August 2022 nbsp Giannis Petrakis August 2022 October 2022 nbsp Makis Sergidis October 2022 April 2023 nbsp Nedim Tutic April 2023 May 2023 nbsp Pambos Christodoulou July 2023 Honours Football Cypriot Championship 3 1966 67 1968 69 1970 71 Cypriot Cup 1 1976 77 Cypriot Super Cup 1 1967 Cypriot Second Division Champions 2 1983 84 1997 98Volleyball Cypriot Championships 2 1974 1976History in European competition Overall Competition Pld W D L GF GA GDEuropean Cup 6 0 1 5 4 36 32European Cup Winners Cup 2 0 0 2 1 8 7UEFA Cup 6 1 2 3 9 26 17UEFA Intertoto Cup 4 0 0 4 1 23 22Total 18 1 3 14 15 93 78Matches Season Competition Round1 Club 1st leg 2nd leg Agg 1967 68 European Cup 1R nbsp Sarajevo 2 2 H 1 3 A 3 51969 70 European Cup 1R nbsp Real Madrid 0 8 H a 1 6 A 1 141971 72 European Cup 1R nbsp Feyenoord 0 8 A 0 9 H b 0 171973 74 UEFA Cup 1R nbsp Stuttgart 0 4 H 0 9 A 0 131977 78 European Cup Winners Cup 1R nbsp Universitatea Craiova 1 6 H 0 2 A 1 82001 02 UEFA Cup QR nbsp Dunaferr 2 2 H 4 2 A 6 41R nbsp Club Brugge 2 2 H 1 7 A 3 92003 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1R nbsp Dubnica 0 3 A 1 4 H 1 72005 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1R nbsp Gloria Bistrița 0 5 H 0 11 A 0 16 Home leg played at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium Home leg played at De Kuip References YPHRESIAKOS PROPONHTHS O KYRIAKOS POLYKARPOY Olympiakos Nicosia 2 May 2018 Retrieved 2 May 2018 Perimenei to PRASINO FWS apo KOA gia epistrofh sto Makareio themasports tothemaonline com in Greek 19 December 2022 Retrieved 19 December 2022 External links in Greek Official website in Greek Official fans website archived 24 May 2011 nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olympiakos Nicosia Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Olympiakos Nicosia amp oldid 1177823369, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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