2008–09 Olympiacos F.C. season

Olympiacos
2008–09 season
Chairman	Sokratis Kokkalis
Manager	Ernesto Valverde
Stadium	Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Super League Greece	Winners
Greek Cup	Winners
Champions League	Third qualifying round
UEFA Cup	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: ; Luciano Galletti (14); All: ; Diogo (20)
Highest home attendance	30,185 vs Benfica
Lowest home attendance	20,392 vs Asteras Tripolis
Average home league attendance	25,370
	← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 season was Olympiacos's 50th consecutive season in the Super League Greece and their 83rd year in existence. The club are competing in the UEFA Cup after an 11-year participation in the UEFA Champions League, as they were eliminated in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round by Anorthosis. In the beginning of the summertime, Olympiacos unveiled Spanish Ernesto Valverde as their new coach.^[1]

Players

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[2]^[3]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	GRE	Leonidas Panagopoulos
2	DF	GRE	Christos Patsatzoglou
3	DF	FRA	Didier Domi
4	DF	BRA	Leonardo
5	DF	GRE	Georgios Galitsios
6	MF	GRE	Ieroklis Stoltidis (vice-captain)
7	MF	ARG	Luciano Galletti
8	FW	ESP	Óscar
9	FW	SRB	Darko Kovačević
10	FW	BRA	Diogo
11	MF	SRB	Predrag Đorđević (captain)
14	DF	POL	Michał Żewłakow
15	DF	ESP	Raúl Bravo
18	DF	GRE	Paraskevas Antzas
19	MF	GRE	Konstantinos Mendrinos


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	MF	BRA	Dudu Cearense
21	DF	GRE	Avraam Papadopoulos
22	FW	GRE	Kostas Mitroglou
23	MF	ARG	Sebastián Leto
25	MF	ARG	Fernando Belluschi
30	DF	GRE	Anastasios Pantos
31	MF	GRE	Aristides Soiledis Under 20s
33	MF	GRE	Giannis Papadopoulos
35	DF	GRE	Vasilis Torosidis
36	MF	GRE	Giorgos Niklitsiotis
50	GK	SVK	Pavel Kovać
71	GK	GRE	Antonis Nikopolidis (vice-captain)
77	MF	SVN	Mirnes Šišić
92	DF	GRE	Kyriakos Papadopoulos

Summer squad changes

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
5	DF	GRE	Georgios Galitsios loan return from AEL 1964
8	FW	ESP	Óscar from Real Zaragoza
10	FW	BRA	Diogo from Portuguesa
20	MF	BRA	Dudu Cearense from CSKA Moscow
21	DF	GRE	Avraam Papadopoulos from Aris
23	MF	ARG	Sebastián Leto loan from Liverpool
33	MF	GRE	Giannis Papadopoulos from Iraklis
50	GK	SVK	Pavel Kovać from Apollon Kalamarias

Total spending: €23.8 million

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
74	GK	CRO	Tomislav Butina Released and moved to Dinamo Zagreb
87	GK	GRE	Michalis Sifakis (Released)
23	FW	CYP	Michalis Konstantinou Released
10	FW	ARG	Leonel Núñez moved to Independiente
32	FW	COD	Lomana LuaLua moved to Al-Arabi

Total income: €5.5 million

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
13	MF	HUN	Zsolt Laczko to Leicester City
77	MF	BRA	Leozinho to OFI
24	MF	GRE	Georgios Katsikogiannis to Levadiakos

Current national players

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
2	DF	GRE	Christos Patsatzoglou 34 (1)
14	DF	POL	Michał Żewłakow 84 (3)
21	DF	GRE	Avraam Papadopoulos 4 (0)
25	MF	ARG	Fernando Belluschi 2 (0)
28	FW	ARG	Cristian Ledesma 3 (0)
35	DF	GRE	Vasilis Torosidis 20 (1)
77	MF	SVN	Mirnes Šišić 9 (2)
7	MF	ARG	Luciano Galletti 13 (3)

Appearances (goals)

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Super League Greece	—	1st		30 Aug 2008	26 Apr 2009
Champions League	Third qualifying round	—	Third qualifying round	13 Aug 2008	30 Aug 2008
UEFA Cup	First round	Round of 32		16 Sep 2008
Greek Cup	Round 4	Round 5		29 Oct 2008

Updated to match played 17 December 2008
Source: Competitions

Super League Greece

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	30	22	5	3	50	14	+36	71	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2	PAOK	30	18	9	3	39	16	+23	63	Qualification for the Play-offs
3	Panathinaikos	30	17	10	3	51	18	+33	61
4	AEK Athens	30	14	13	3	40	24	+16	55
5	AEL	30	12	13	5	36	26	+10	49

Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Play-offs (neutral ground).
(Note: Criterion 4 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).^[4]
(C) Champions

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	22	5	3	50	14	+36	71	13	1	1	33	8	+25	9	4	2	17	6	+11

Last updated: April 26, 2009.
Source: Super League Greece

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A
Result	W	W	W	D	W	W	L	W	D	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	D	W	W	W	L	W
Position	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Source: Olympiacos FC
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

All times at EET

30 August 2008 1	Olympiacos	3–1	Asteras Tripolis	Piraeus
19:00	Galletti 61', 63' (pen.) Kovačević 81'	Report	Cesarec 45+2' (pen.)	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 20,392 Referee: Michalis Germanakos

13 September 2008 2	Skoda Xanthi	0–1	Olympiacos	Xanthi
16:45		Report	Diogo 72'	Stadium: Skoda Xanthi Arena Attendance: 4,409 Referee: Ioannis Stavridis

21 September 2008 3	Olympiacos	4–1	Panserraikos	Piraeus
19:00	Kovačević 23' Galletti 27' Diogo 81' Óscar 88'	Report	Tadić 85' (pen.)	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 25,234 Referee: Stavros Tritsonis

27 September 2008 4	OFI	0–0	Olympiacos	Heraklion
19:00		Report		Stadium: Pankritio Stadium Attendance: 9,384 Referee: Ilias Mazarakos

5 October 2008 5	Olympiacos	2–0	AEK Athens	Piraeus
21:15	Kovačević 63' Diogo 66'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 30,074 Referee: Kyros Vassaras

19 October 2008 6	Olympiacos	2–0	Panthrakikos	Piraeus
19:00	Galletti 66', 73'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 23,693 Referee: Konstantinos Papastamatis

26 October 2008 7	Aris	1–0	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
19:00	Javito 18'	Report		Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium Attendance: 16,370 Referee: Vasileios Paboridis

2 November 2008 8	Olympiacos	2–0	Ergotelis	Piraeus
19:00	Kovačević 28' Dudu 34'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 26,058 Referee: Ioannis Stavridis

9 November 2008 9	Panathinaikos	0–0	Olympiacos	Athens
19:00		Report		Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 60,401 Referee: Georgios Daloukas

16 November 2008 10	Olympiacos	2–0	PAOK	Piraeus
19:00	Patsatzoglou 45' Diogo 86'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 29,482 Referee: Anastasios Kakos

22 November 2008 11	Iraklis	0–3	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
19:00		Report	Đorđević 34' Belluschi 39' Dudu 81'	Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 9,066 Referee: Kyros Vassaras

30 November 2008 12	Olympiacos	4–1	Panionios	Piraeus
19:00	Belluschi 31' Diogo 52' Mitroglou 78', 80'	Report	Goundoulakis 87'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 27,487 Referee: Dimitrios Kyrkos

7 December 2008 13	Olympiacos	1–0	Levadiakos	Piraeus
19:00	Belluschi 28'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 22,337 Referee: Georgios Giannopoulos

13 December 2008 14	AEL	1–1	Olympiacos	Larissa
16:45	Solano 74'	Report	Belluschi 52'	Stadium: Alcazar Stadium Attendance: 5,062 Referee: Anastasios Kakos

21 December 2008 15	Olympiacos	2–1	Thrasyvoulos	Piraeus
19:00	Leto 21' Galletti 90+3' (pen.)	Report	Chloros 29'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 20,033 Referee: Georgios Kastanidis

3 January 2009 16	Asteras Tripolis	0–1	Olympiacos	Tripoli
19:00		Report	Galletti 27' (pen.)	Stadium: Asteras Tripolis Stadium Attendance: 5,864 Referee: Vasileios Paboridis

10 January 2009 17	Olympiacos	2–1	Skoda Xanthi	Piraeus
19:00	Stathakis 16' (o.g.) Galletti 19'	Report	Zuela 27'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 25,484 Referee: Michalis Germanakos

17 January 2009 18	Panserraikos	0–1	Olympiacos	Serres
16:45		Report	Torosidis 26'	Stadium: Serres Municipal Stadium Attendance: 7,013 Referee: Georgios Daloukas

24 January 2009 19	Olympiacos	2–1	OFI	Piraeus
19:00	Diogo 7' Galletti 67'	Report	Simić 62'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 25,633 Referee: Konstantinos Papastamatis

1 February 2009 20	AEK Athens	0–1	Olympiacos	Athens
19:00		Report	Galletti 5'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 44,104 Referee: Dimitrios Kalopoulos

7 February 2009 21	Panthrakikos	0–2	Olympiacos	Komotini
16:45		Report	Belluschi 27' Galletti 45'	Stadium: Komotini Municipal Stadium Attendance: 4,700 Referee: Georgios Stathopoulos

14 February 2009 22	Olympiacos	2–1	Aris	Piraeus
19:00	Đorđević 23' Galletti 75'	Report	Torosidis 90' (o.g.)	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 25,867 Referee: Nathanail Charalabidis

22 February 2009 23	Ergotelis	1–0	Olympiacos	Heraklion
19:00	Koutsianikoulis 22'	Report		Stadium: Pankritio Stadium Attendance: 2,818 Referee: Michail Dakos

1 March 2009 24	Olympiacos	0–0	Panathinaikos	Piraeus
18:30		Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 28,775 Referee: Ilias Spathas

8 March 2009 25	PAOK	0–0	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
19:00		Report		Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 22,214 Referee: Anastasios Kakos

15 March 2009 26	Olympiacos	5–0	Iraklis	Piraeus
19:00	Torosidis 60' Óscar 64', 79' Derbyshire 82', 87'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 25,182 Referee: Georgios Daloukas

22 March 2009 27	Panionios	2–3	Olympiacos	Athens
20:00	Lourenço 45' Gonzaga 51'	Report	Derbyshire 22' Maniatis 61' (o.g.) Dudu 72'	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 2,905 Referee: Michael Koukoulakis

5 April 2009 28	Levadiakos	1–2	Olympiacos	Livadeia
19:00	Dimbala 17'	Report	Derbyshire 28' Galletti 75'	Stadium: Levadia Municipal Stadium Attendance: 3,317 Referee: Konstantinos Papastamatis

12 April 2009 29	Olympiacos	0–1	AEL	Piraeus
19:00		Report	Żurawski 54'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 24,280 Referee: Ilias Spathas

26 April 2009 30	Thrasyvoulos	0–2	Olympiacos	Fyli
19:00		Report	Derbyshire 65' Galletti 74' (pen.)	Stadium: Fyli Municipal Stadium Attendance: 926 Referee: Georgios Stathopoulos

Greek Cup

Fourth round

29 October 2008	Diagoras	2–3	Olympiacos	Rhodes
16:50	Triantafyllou 30', 66'	Report	Óscar 14' Diogo 67' Kovačević 84'	Stadium: Diagoras Stadium Referee: Spiros Stathopoulos

Fifth round

21 January 2009	OFI	0–2	Olympiacos	Heraklion
20:00		Report	Belluschi 69' Galetti 85' (pen.)	Stadium: Pankritio Stadium Attendance: 4,102 Referee: Anastasios Kakos

Quarter-finals

4 February 2009 First leg	PAOK	1–0	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
21:15	Sérgio Conceição 30'	Report		Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 21,043 Referee: Anastasios Kakos

4 March 2009 Second leg	Olympiacos	2–0 (a.e.t.) (2–1 agg.)	PAOK	Piraeus
21:15	Diogo 46' Derbyshire 109'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 23,983 Referee: Michael Koukoulakis

Semi-finals

18 March 2009 First leg	Asteras Tripolis	2–2	Olympiacos	Tripoli
21:15	Filomeno 29', 35'	Report	Diogo 43', 74'	Stadium: Asteras Tripolis Stadium Attendance: 3,875 Referee: Dimitrios Kalopoulos

9 April 2009 Second leg	Olympiacos	2–1 (4–3 agg.)	Asteras Tripolis	Piraeus
18:00	Leto 47' Diogo 62'	Report	Cesarec 39'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 18,989 Referee: Georgios Daloukas

Final

2 May 2009 Final	AEK Athens	4–4 (a.e.t.) (14–15 p)	Olympiacos	Athens
20:30	Blanco 4', 8' Scocco 90', 107'	Report	Derbyshire 47', 90+6' Dudu 72' Galletti 102'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 48,594 Referee: Anastasios Kakos
	Penalties
	Kafes Blanco Scocco Edinho Majstorović Nsaliwa Saja Pelletieri Georgeas Kafes Blanco Scocco Edinho Majstorović Nsaliwa Saja Pelletieri		Óscar Dudu Diogo Domi Đorđević Torosidis Belluschi Nikopolidis Antzas Óscar Dudu Diogo Domi Đorđević Torosidis Belluschi Nikopolidis

UEFA Champions League

All times at CET

Third qualifying round

13 August 2008 First leg	Anorthosis	3–0	Olympiacos	Larnaca, Cyprus
20:00	Torosidis 4' (o.g.) Sosin 17' Laban 85'	(Report)		Stadium: Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium Attendance: 10,500 Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)

27 August 2008 Second leg	Olympiacos	1–0 (1–3 agg.)	Anorthosis	Piraeus, Greece
20:00	Belluschi 54'	(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 27,904 Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)

UEFA Cup

All times at CET

First round

16 September 2008 First leg	Nordsjælland	0–2	Olympiacos	Farum, Denmark
20:00		(Report)	Mitroglou 74' Leto 90+3'	Stadium: Farum Park Attendance: 5,184 Referee: Stefan Messner (Austria)

2 October 2008 Second leg	Olympiacos	5–0 (7–0 agg.)	Nordsjælland	Piraeus, Greece
20:45	Torosidis 11' Diogo 30', 43' Kovačević 72', 80'	(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 24,515 Referee: Igor Egorov (Russia)

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MET	GAL	OLY	HER	BEN
1	Metalist Kharkiv	4	3	1	0	3	0	+3	10	Advance to knockout stage	—	—	1–0	0–0	—
2	Galatasaray	4	3	0	1	4	1	+3	9		0–1	—	1–0	—	—
3	Olympiacos	4	2	0	2	9	3	+6	6		—	—	—	4–0	5–1
4	Hertha BSC	4	0	2	2	1	6	−5	2		—	0–1	—	—	1–1
5	Benfica	4	0	1	3	2	9	−7	1		0–1	0–2	—	—	—

Source: RSSSF

23 October 2008 1	Galatasaray	1–0	Olympiacos	Istanbul, Turkey
20:15	Kewell 25'	(Report)		Stadium: Ali Sami Yen Stadium Attendance: 23,500 Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)

27 November 2008 2	Olympiacos	5–1	Benfica	Piraeus, Greece
20:45	Galletti 1' Patsatzoglou 17' Diogo 24', 53' Belluschi 44'	(Report)	David Luiz 33'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 30,185 Referee: Stéphane Lannoy (France)

3 December 2008 3	Metalist Kharkiv	1–0	Olympiacos	Kharkiv, Ukraine
20:45	Edmar 88'	(Report)		Stadium: Metalist Stadium Attendance: 25,000 Referee: William Collum (Scotland)

18 December 2008 4	Olympiacos	4–0	Hertha BSC	Piraeus, Greece
20:45	Dudu 55' Galletti 68' (pen.) Torosidis 87' Diogo 88'	(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 30,063 Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)

Round of 32

18 February 2009 First leg	Olympiacos	1–3	Saint-Étienne	Piraeus, Greece
18:30	Đorđević 63'	Report	Ilan 12' Dernis 43' Gomis 90'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Lucílio Batista (Portugal)

26 February 2009 Second leg	Saint-Étienne	2–1 (5–2 agg.)	Olympiacos	Saint-Étienne, France
20:55	Payet 45' Ilan 58'	Report	Óscar 75'	Stadium: Stade Geoffroy-Guichard Attendance: 30,511 Referee: Paul Allaerts (Belgium)

Team kit

Home

Away

Third

Friendlies

Individual Awards

Name	Pos.	Award
Luciano Galleti	Winger	Super League Greece Player of the Season Super League Greece Best Foreign Player Super League Greece Golden Boot
Antonios Nikopolidis	Goalkeeper	Super League Greece Goalkeeper of the Season

References

^ "Olympiacos turn to Valverde". UEFA.com. 2008-05-28. Archived from the original on 29 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
^ "Olympiakos Piraeus - Squad 2008/2009". worldfootball.net.
^ "Olympiacos 2008/2009". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
^ "Playoff regulation (pdf, greek)" (PDF).

External links

Official Website of Olympiacos Piraeus (in Greek and English)

[1] "Olympiacos turn to Valverde". UEFA.com. 2008-05-28. Archived from the original on 29 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-29.

[2] "Olympiakos Piraeus - Squad 2008/2009". worldfootball.net.

[3] "Olympiacos 2008/2009". Footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 29 January 2024.

[4] "Playoff regulation (pdf, greek)" (PDF).

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