Olympiacos F.C. in European football
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Olympiacos F.C. has a long presence in UEFA competitions.[1] They made their debut on 13 September 1959, in a game against Milan at the Karaiskakis Stadium for the 1959–60 European Cup, being the first Greek team to compete in a European competition. Olympiacos was also the first Greek club to advance to the next round of any European competition, eliminating Zagłębie Sosnowiec for the 1963–64 European Cup Winners' Cup. Their best European campaigns are their appearance in the final of the 2023-24 season (the current season) Olympiacos managed to reach the final of a European competition, namely the Europa Conference League final which will be held on May 29 against Fiorentina. As he said other good runs, such as the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, where they lost their semi-final place in the dying minutes to Juventus, and the 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals, losing to Atlético Madrid.[2][3][4]
Club | Olympiacos |
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First entry | 1959–60 European Cup |
Latest entry | 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League |
Olympiacos is the highest ranked Greek team in the UEFA rankings, occupying the 40th place in Europe at the end of the 2021–22 season.[5] They are also the Greek team with the most wins in all European competitions, leading also the table with the most home and away wins.[6][7] They celebrated their 200th match on 23 February 2010, against Bordeaux in the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League first knockout round. Olympiacos also holds the all-time record attendance for a Greek club of 75,263 in a 1982–83 European Cup match against Hamburger SV at the Athens Olympic Stadium.[8] Olympiacos has also 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,[9] becoming the first ever Greek club to win an international competition. In 2023–24 UEFA Youth League season, Olympiacos U-19 won the UEFA Youth League against AC Milan, and eliminating other famous clubs in the process, such as Inter Milan, Bayern Munich and Nantes. With this victory, Olympiacos became the first and only Greek sports club to date to win a UEFA competition.[10]
Olympiacos, throughout its European history, has eliminated (in either knockout matches or group stages) clubs like Milan, Arsenal, Ajax, Benfica, Porto, Borussia Dortmund, Lazio, Celtic, Werder Bremen, Anderlecht, Monaco, Deportivo La Coruña, Hertha BSC, Cagliari, PSV Eindhoven and Standard Liège among others. They have spent most of their European history in the UEFA Champions League, where they are widely known for being a very strong home side, having run some long-standing sequences, such as the 15 straight UEFA Champions League unbeaten home matches since their debut in the tournament under its new format, when Manchester United stopped their record in their fifth consecutive participation, and their 15 wins in 19 UEFA Champions League home matches between 2009–10 and 2014–15. They have a vast record of home wins over traditional European powerhouses and UEFA Champions League winners, such as Real Madrid, Milan, Liverpool, Manchester United, Ajax, Juventus, Borussia Dortmund, Benfica, Porto, Marseille, PSV Eindhoven, and Celtic among many other major European clubs.