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Olympiacos S.F.P. Football Club , also known simply as Olympiacos, Olympiakos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name as Olympiacos C.F.P. , is a Greek professional football club, part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus, Athens. Olympiacos is the most successful Greek multi-sport club in European and International competitions and one of the most decorated multi-sport clubs in Europe. Their name was inspired from the Ancient Olympic Games and along with the club's emblem, the laurel-crowned Olympics athlete, encompass and symbolise the morality, the honour, the vying, the splendor, the sportsmanship and the fair play value of the Olympic ideal of Ancient Greece.Founded on 10 March 1925, Olympiacos is the most successful club in Greek football history, having won 44 Greek League titles, 27 Greek Cups,– totalling 17 doubles – and 3 Greek Super Cups, for a total of 74 national titles. Olympiacos' dominating success can be further evidenced by the fact that all other Greek clubs have won a combined total of 38 League titles. Olympiacos is 9th in the world in total titles won by a football club.Olympiacos also holds the record for the most consecutive Greek League titles, as they are the only team to have won seven consecutive League titles , having broken their own previous record of six consecutive from the club's trophy-laden era of the 50s , when Olympiacos gained unequivocally the nickname of Thrylos .In 2014–15 season, Olympiacos won their fifth consecutive Greek Championship and reached a historic milestone, as they became the only football club in the world to have won a series of five or more consecutive championships for five times in their history, a world record that was praised by FIFA in its congratulatory letter to the club. Olympiacos holds even more records in Greek football history; they are the only club to have won five consecutive Greek Cups from 1957 to 1961 and the only club to have won six Greek League titles undefeated . They are also one of only three clubs to have never been relegated from the top flight of Greek football. As a result of the team's 40th League title in the 2012–13 season, Olympiacos earned the fourth star above their crest, each star representing 10 League titles of the record 44 they have currently amassed.In European competitions, Olympiacos are the highest ranked Greek team in the UEFA rankings, occupying the 21st place in Europe with 70.940 points, sitting one place above Tottenham Hotspur and one below Manchester United. They have reached the quarter-finals of the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League —losing the semi-final spot in the last minutes of their second match against Juventus— and the quarter-finals of the 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup. They have also won the Balkans Cup in 1963, becoming the first ever Greek club to win an international, non-domestic competition. Olympiacos is one of the founding members of the European Club Association in 2008.The club's home ground is the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus. Olympiacos is the most popular Greek club with around four million fans inside Greece and millions of others in the Greek communities all over the world. Olympiacos was placed ninth on the 2006 list of clubs with the largest number of paying members, with 83,000 registered members as of April 2006. In 2014, that figure increased and the team boasts 98,000 registered members. They share a great and long-standing rivalry with Panathinaikos, with whom they contest the derby of the eternal enemies.
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