Olympiacos S.C.

Olympiacos S.C. is the men's volleyball team of the major Greek multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus. It was founded in 1926 and has won 2 CEV Cup Winners' Cup / CEV Cups, a record 27 Greek Championships, a record 17 Greek Cups, 2 Greek Super Cups, a record 4 Greek League Cups and a record 14 Doubles. Olympiacos is a traditional powerhouse of European volleyball, ranked among the top European volleyball clubs; from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s they played in no less than 11 European Final Fours and reached 6 European Finals, winning 2 CEV Cup Winners' Cup / CEV Cups (1996, 2005), being twice Runners-up of the CEV Champions League (1992, 2002) and twice Runners-up of the CEV Cup Winners' Cup / CEV Cup (1997, 1998) as well. Olympiacos is ranked 17th (as of January 2017) in the Men's European clubs ranking. Olympiacos is the most successful volleyball team in Greece, having won the most Greek Championships, Cups and domestic Doubles and being the only Greek team to have won European titles. They also hold the record for the most consecutive Greek Championships, as they are the only team to have won 8 consecutive League titles (1987–1994). They have also won 6 Greek Championships undefeated (1968, 1974, 1979, 1981, 1988, 1991). Furthermore, Olympiacos is the only Greek club to have played in the FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship and the CEV European Super Cup as well, having represented Greece successfully in all major European and Worldwide competitions.

Contents

• Domestic competitions
• European competitions
• Worldwide competitions
• Notable players
• Current squad
• References

In 1992 they reached the third place in the world in the FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship, after a 3–0 win against Il Messaggero Ravenna. Altogether, they have participated in 7 CEV Champions League Final Fours (1982, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002), reaching the final twice (1992, 2002), in 4 CEV Cup / CEV Cup Winners' Cup Final Fours (1996, 1997, 1998, 2005), winning 2 titles (1996, 2005) and reaching the final in two other cases (1997, 1998), as well as in 1 CEV European Super Cup Final Four (1996). Along with Pallavolo Modena, they hold the record for most consecutive European Final Four participations with 7, four in the CEV Champions League (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995) and three in the CEV Cup (1996, 1997, 1998).

Apart from Olympiacos' top Greek players who have traditionally been the backbone of Greece's national team, foreign world-class players that have played with the club over the years include: Ivan Miljković, Lorenzo Bernardi, Jeff Stork, Marcos Milinkovic, Bengt Gustafsson, Raimonds Vilde, Scott Fortune, Rodolfo Sánchez, Osvaldo Hernández, Dejan Brđović, Leszek Urbanowicz, Goran Vujević, Henk-Jan Held, Igor Runov, Tom Hoff, Vasa Mijić, Pablo Meana, Plamen Konstantinov, Janne Heikkinen, Simon Tischer, Boyan Yordanov, Wytze Kooistra, Mitar Đurić, Ernardo Gómez, Konstantin Čupković and Liberman Agámez.