Olympiacos Handball Club (currently known for sponsorship reasons as Olympiacos S.F.P. / Omilos Xini) is the men's

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team of the major

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Olympiacos CFP Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós (, Olympic Association of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number of different competitive departments which participate in Association ...

, based in

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. It was founded initially in 1931 and reorganized in 2017. The department has won 5 Greek Handball Championships, 3 Greek Cups and 2 Doubles.

History

In 2017–18 season, which was the first after its reorganization, Olympiacos won the domestic double. They won the Greek Handball Championship by beating

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with 3–2 wins in the finals in a dramatic fashion, as they overturned an initial 0–2 win by AEK and took three straight wins to secure the League title. They also won the

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, beating

PAOK PAOK (, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών, ''Panthessalonikeios Athlitikós Ómilos Constantinopoliton'', ''Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans''), commonly ...

in the semi-final and ASE Douka in the final to complete the domestic Double. On 10 September 2022, Olympiacos lifted the Greek Super Cup after winning AESH Pylaia in the final.

Crest, colours, supporters

Kits

Team

Current squad

:''Squad for the 2023–24 season''

Technical staff

* Head coach:

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* Assistant coach:

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* Physiotherapist: Dionysios Tyrogalas * Club doctor: Georgios Karachalios

Transfers

:''Transfers for the 2023–24 season'' ;Joining * Savvas Savvas (LB) from ASV Hamm-Westfalen * Panagiotis Papantonopoulos (GK) from

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* Grigorios Tzimpoulas (LW) from AC Diomidis Argous *

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(CB) from AC Diomidis Argous * Dimitrios Tziras (RW) from A.C. Doukas * Miha Kavčič (LP) from HSC Kreuzlingen ;Leaving * Vyron Papadopoulos (LW) to

* Garyfalos Bagios (RW) to AC Diomidis Argous * Taxiarchis Papadimitriou (GK) * Thomas Bauer (GK) to JAGS Vöslau * Florent Bourget (CB) to HC Visé BM * Vladyslav Ostroushko (LB) to

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* Olivier Nyokas (LB)

Previous squads

Honours

European Competitions

EHF European Cup The EHF European Cup is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF). It is the third-tier competition of European club handball, after the EHF Champions League and the EHF European League. Founde ...

** ''Runners-up (1): 2023–24''

Domestic Competitions

Greek Championship The Super League Greece 1 (), or Stoiximan Super League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Greece and the highest level of the Greek football league system. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and repl ...

: Winners (5): 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2023–24, 2024–25 *

Winners (3): 2017–18, 2018–19, 2022–23 *

Greek Super Cup The Greek Super Cup (), formerly known as the Friendship and Solidarity Cup () is a Greek association football one-match competition, which is contested annually either between the champions of the previous Super League Greece season and the hold ...

Winners (3) (record): 2022, 2023, 2024

Individual club awards

* Double ** Winners (2): 2017–18, 2018–19

European record

EHF ranking

Former club members

Notable former players

* Alexandros Alvanos (2017–2018) * Charalampos Mallios (2019–2020) * Vyron Papadopoulos (2021–2023) * Grigorios Sanikis (2017–2020) * Savvas Savvas (2023–) * Konstantinos Tsilimparis (2017–2020) * Thomas Bauer (2021-2023) * Robert Weber (2022–2023) * Artur Karvatski (2019–2020) * Goran Bogunović (2019–2020) * Ivan Slišković (2023–) *

Ivan Vida Ivan Vida (born 14 March 1995) is a Croatian handball player for RK Nexe Našice and the Croatian national team. He represented Croatia at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship The 2019 IHF World Men's Handball Championship was the 26th ...

(2023–) * Božidar Leković (2014–2015) * Bogdan Petričević (2017–2018) * Florent Bourget (2023) * Ángel Montoro (2021–) * Vladyslav Ostroushko (2021–2023)

References

External links

Olympiacos CFP official website

Olympiacos CFP official website – Men's Handball – News, History, Roster

Olympiacos H.C.
at EHF * {{Handball in Greece

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