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| Full name | Olympiakos Nicosia Football Club | ||
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| Nicknames | Μαυροπράσινοι (The Black-Greens) Taktakalas (area in old Nicosia where club is based) | ||
| Founded | 1 June 1931; 94 years ago (1931-06-01) | ||
| Ground | GSP Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 23,000 | ||
| Chairman | Costas Seraphim | ||
| Manager | Georgios Kostis | ||
| League | First Division | ||
| 2024–25 | Second Division, 3rd of 16 (promoted) | ||
| Website | www | ||
Olympiakos Nicosia (Greek:Ολυμπιακός Λευκωσίας,Olympiakos Lefkosias) is aCypriot football club based inNicosia and competes in theFirst Division. The club was founded in 1931, and is a founding member of theCyprus Football Association. The club colors are black and green. Olympiakos' home ground is thenew GSP Stadium, which has a 23,000-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 has won threeCypriot First Division Championships, oneCypriot Cup and oneCyprus 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.
The 1962–1972 decade is known as the "Golden decade" of Olympiakos as the club was champion of theCypriot 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 fromAnorthosis 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 playerKostakis 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 asAPOEL 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 despiteAPOEL'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.)
In the 1968–69 season, Olympiakos won the championship for a second time, collecting 52 points the same number asAC Omonoia. Olympiakos was champion however because of the better goal difference. Top scorer of the championship was once againPanikos 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 againPanikos 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 theCyprus Football Association(KOP), defeatingNea 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.
Olympiakos became the first Cypriot football team that participated in the Pan-HellenicChampionship, in the 1967–68 season, something which recurred twice more, in1969–70, and in 1971–72, rendering the club the only Cypriot team that participated three times in theGreek National 1st Division Championship. Olympiakos has also taken part in all three European competitions.
In theEuropean Champions Cup in1967 the club facedFK SarajevoYugoslavia. In the first game the teams drew 2–2, while in second game Olympiakos lost with 3–1.
Also in theEuropean Champions Cup, Olympiakos Nicosia played againstReal Madrid in1969, losing both matches with 8–0 and 6–1.Olympiakos later played in the same competition in1971 and metFeyenoord of theNetherlands and lost 8–0 and 9–0.
In theCup Winners' Cup, Olympiakos took part once in1977 playing againstUniversitatea CraiovaRomania while in1973 Olympiakos played against the German teamVfB Stuttgart for theUEFA 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.
In 1977, Olympiakos Nicosia beatAlki Larnaca 2–0 to win theCypriot Cup after two thunder bolts from local center half, captain and talisman George Aristidou. In 1991, Olympiakos Nicosia lost the Cypriot Cup in the finals losing 1–0 toAC Omonia. That was their last appearance in the Cypriot Cup finals.
Olympiakos Nicosia also played in theUEFA Cup (after finishing runner up in the Cypriot championship) in the 2001–02 season against theHungarian teamDunaferr 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 againstClub Brugge ofBelgium and was eventually eliminated.
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 had 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 theCypriot 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 theCypriot 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 the2008–09 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 the2009–10 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 wasSaša 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-managerNikodimos Papavasiliou.
With Papavasiliou at the helm the team improved and entered the play-offs for promotion to theCypriot 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 promotionNikodimos Papavasiliou's contract was not renewed at the end of the season.
After 2 seasons Olympiakos returned to the top flight in the 2010–2011 season andPambos Christodoulou an old Olympiakos midfield player and ex-manager ofDoxa 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.
In the 2011–2012 season there were a few changes in Olympiakos, the new Greek manager was ex Xanthi FCNikos 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 a3-point deduction after failing to meet the UEFA Financial fair play criteria. Papavasiliou received an offer fromApollon 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 withMarios Constantinou.
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 withNea Salamis Famagusta FC.
The club started the new 2013–2014 season with a6-point deduction after failing to meet the UEFA Financial fair play criteria. Chairman Petros Savva resigned and ManagerMarios 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, defenderNikolas 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 further3-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 a3-point deduction and was further hit with a3-point deduction by December and spent a record third consecutive season in the second tier. The new Manager was ex Olympiakos attacking midfielderGoran 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 a3-point deduction however with the same Manager and chairman as the previous season, the club set as its goal to return to theCypriot 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 managerGoran Petkovski on 29 August and on 1 September hiredChrysis 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 withAnagennisi 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 theCypriot 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. GreekGiannis Georgaras was hired as Technical Director. On 24 July the contract withChrysis Michael was terminated by mutual consent and ex-captainNikolas 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 hiredChrysis 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 ofthe 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 withChrysis Michael was terminated by mutual consent andVesko 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 hireCostas 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 byFangio 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.
In the 2019–2020 season Seraphim and Tornaritis, with the club returning to the First Division, re- hiredPambos Christodoulou as manager. Pambos renewed the contracts of central defenderNani Soares from Guinea-Bissau, Cypriot defensive midfielder Andreas Pachipis, Portuguese wingerRogerio Silva, defensive midfielder Evgenios Antoniou, Venezuelan forwardJose Romo and Cypriot left backConstantinos Samaras. The latter three were subsequently loaned to other clubs. His first signings were Cypriot right backParis Psaltis, Cameroonian defensive midfielderEyong Enoh, central defenderSambinha from Guinea-Bissau, Cypriot defensive midfielderGiorgos Economides, goalkeepersPavol Bajza from Slovakia andMario Kirev from Bulgaria, Portuguese left backKiko, Cameroonian wingerFabrice Kah, Cypriot right backVangelis Kyriacou, Cypriot wingerPanayiotis Zachariou, Venezuelan midfielderRafael Acosta, Brazilian ForwardAzulão and Ghanaian centre backOusmane 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 GreekGiannis Petrakis as the new head coach for the new season. The contracts of Guinea-Bissauan central defendersSambinha andNani Soares were renewed, as well as Cameroonian wingerFabrice Kah. Cypriot right backsParis Psaltis andVangelis Kyriacou stayed at the club. With Cypriot DefenderConstantinos Soteriou and star wingerPanayiotis Zachariou also staying. The first signings were Cypriot wingerMarios Pechlivanis who returned to the club, Greek goalkeeperChristos Karadais, Cameroonian wingerEdgar Salli and goalkeeperNeofytos Michael who also returned to his boyhood club.Giannis Petrakis left the club in November, forApollon 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 viaGiannis 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 versusErmis Aradippou . The new manager faced 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 byCedomir 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 toAnorthosis Famagusta during the extra-time period.
In the 2021–2022 season the director of football hiredGiorgos Petrakis the son of Giannis Petrakis as manager. The new signings were Cypriot defenderStefanos Mouhtaris who returned to the club, French defensive midfielderAlois Confais, Cypriot Bulgarian right backHristian Foti, Swiss goalkeeperJoel Mall, Cypriot second striker Andreas Michael and Liberian strikerPeter Wilson. In addition, the club has signed the Spanish defenderEneko Boveda, Senegalese centre backModou Diagne and Ghanaian defensive midfielderAlhassan 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. StrikerVasilis 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 was 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 were 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- who transformed the club in the attacking area which was lacking that season. Under his guidance the club achieved four wins and two draws from eight games. Tutic's contract was renewed for the new season and he said that he intended to make 5-6 new transfers and that the club would be stronger next season.
Before the start of the 2022–2023 season the Director of Football decided to replace Tutic withGiannis 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- hiredPambos 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 and Portuguese players. In January 2024 the president stepped down and Michalis Louca took over with old goalkeeper and president Petros Savva taking over as Director of Football. One game before the end of the season, the club was in fourth place, one below the promotion spot and three points behind the third placed club. The club failed to gain promotion and stayed in this division for next season, despite finishing level on points with the third club, missing out on the promotion on head to head games.
In the 2024–2025 season, Petros Petrou the Director of football and vice President Costakis Seraphim, decided to rebuild the squad from nearly scratch, keeping only two Cypriot players: midfielder Filippos Eftychidis and central defender Andreas Frangeskou. The other player staying on, was under 19 years old central defender Angelos Gavriel.On 27 May 2024 old club captainNikolas Nicolaou was announced by the club as the new manager, signing a one-year contract with an option to extend for another year. Kyriacos Polycrapou, the old team mate, and vice captain of the manager, also stayed on as assistant manager, making the two old teammates and skippers the two men to bring back the glory days to their club. The club’s target was to return to the top flight. The budget however, is less than half of the previous season and the emphasis is on signing Cypriot players and a few Portuguese foreigners, as a special collaboration with an agent was achieved. The debt to old players was €47,000 and the total legacy debt €600,000. At the end of November 2024, with the club in sixth place, the manager was replaced withGeorgios Kostis an old player of the club. On 19th February 2025 Costas Seraphim took over as club president. The club was promoted to the first division finishing in second place.
From 2021, the club had been playing their home matches at thenew GSP Stadium until late 2022, when the club decided to move back toMakario Stadium due to financial difficulties.[2] The club returned to the new GSP Stadium for the 2025 season.
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 theold GSP Stadium (1934–1998) and the new GSP Stadium (2000–2008) (2009–2013). Both stadiums were also shared withAPOEL andOmonia 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.
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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.
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| Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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| 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 |
| Season | Competition | Round1 | Club | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Agg. |
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| 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 |
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