Olympiakos Patras
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APS Olympiacos Patras (Greek: Α.Π.Σ. Ολυμπιακός Πατρών A.P.S Olympiakos Patron) is an athletic club in Patras
Patras
Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...

. The team plays with the EPS Achaias and the EPO number 1788.

Field

In 1926, refugees from Asia Minor
Asia Minor
Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...

 bought several fields and built a stadium for Olympiacos where it still has the name Prosfygika Stadium and is the third oldest field in Greece after Karaiskaki and Leoforos Alexandras (ypseli The team was founde in 1927, nearly two years after the construction, with the game with Olympiacos Petralona which won 4-1.

History

From the first year of the foundingm they play with Panachaiki
Panachaiki
Panachaiki, known officially as Panachaiki GE , the Pan-Achaean Athletic Union, is a Greek multisport club based in the city of Patras, Greece.- History :...

, Thyella, Patraikos and Apollon
Apollon Patras
A.S. Apollon Patras is a sporting club that includes basketball, football, volleyball and ping pong.-History:...

. Olympiacos founded from refugee players with members from Apollon Smyrna in which after the Greco-Turkish War in 1922 arrived and relocated to Patras and built the today's neighbourhood of Prosfygika
Prosfygika
Prosfygika or Prosfigika is a neighbourhood in the southern Greek city of Patras. It was founded in 1922 as refugees from Asia Minor arrived in the city during the Greco-Turkish War....

. Together who brought love to football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

. In 1925, the team was one of the oldest in Patras, with the color of red and white, the same as Olympiacos
Olympiacos
Olympiacos F.C. , also known simply as Olympiacos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name Olympiacos C.F.P. , Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus, is a Greek association football club, part of Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus....

 Piraeus.

In the beginning on July 1925, six players from Panachaiki and four from Legkos Asteras, all of them refugees as Mercury and the colour blue and white. The jersey colors changed later on. Their first game in history was with Lefko Astera, as Hermes which became the only to receive that name. As Olympiacos, their first game was with "Cavallo" who won 7-1. Their first game was Panachaiki-Olympiacos on November 9, 1925 who won 0-2 for the championship at the time. In 1933, the team played with Turkish
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

, they played with the teams that once had a Greek population, Adapazarı
Adapazari
Adapazarı is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of Sakarya Province. The province itself was originally named Adapazarı as well. Adapazarı is a part of the densely populated region of the country, known as the Marmara Region. As of 2010, the city has a population of 560,876 ...

, Bursa and Izmir
Izmir
Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...

. In 1960, the team entered the second division in the 1959-60 and again in the 1960-61 season.

Volleyball

Olympiacos also has a volleyball club dating back to 1927. In 2005, the team entered the A2 Division. Olympiacos also has a basketball team. In their first years, it also played water polo.

Achaia FCA

Year Ranking Games Points W T L F
1930-31
Patras FCA 1930-31
The 1924 Patras Championships as it was name was won by Panachaiki, the championships were later renamed itself the Achaia Championships.-Championship Standing:-Games:- Championships by division:...

12 10 4 0 2 11-1
1934-35
Patras FCA 1934-35
The Patras FCA 1934–35 as the championships that began on November 4, 1934 at Tassopoulos Field and did not presente Olympiakos with therefore awarded by Patras FCA. It had a small council of teams...

3rd 6
1935-36
Patras FCA 1935-36
The Patras FCA 1935–36 as the championships that began on November 17, 1934 at Tassopoulos Field. It had the organization of teams, Panachaiki - Apollon 1-1 with the umpire A. Vlachos, which passed 12 minutes from the end of the game and the fams began to protest in which some officers entered the...

2nd 6
1948-49
Patras FCA 1948-49
The Patras FCA 1948–49 occurred as a regional championship. Thyella, Achilleas and Asteras were tied at third with thirty points, one of the first with tied for the final standings in Achaia history.-Standings:...

6th 25
1949-50
Patras FCA 1949-50
The Patras FCA 1949–50 occurred as a regional championship in 1949 and 1950 seasons.-Standings:- Games:...

1st 25 20-14
1950-51
Patras FCA 1950-51
The Patras FCA 1950–51 occurred as a regional championship in 1950 and 1951 seasons.-Standings:- Games:...

3rd 20
1951-52
Patras FCA 1951-52
The Patras FCA 1950-51 occurred as a regional championship in 1950 and 1951 seasons.-Primary sector:-Primary regional division:...

2nd 22
1952-53
Patras FCA 1952-53
The Patras FCA 1949-50 occurred as a regional championship in 1949 and 1950 seasons. Thyella claimed their third title in Achaia's history and also participated in the Greek championships.-Standings:- Games:...

3rd 2-
1957-58
Patras FCA 1957-58
The Patras FCA 1957–58 occurred as a regional championship in 1957 and 1958 seasons. Panachaiki claimed their third title in Achaia's history and also participated in the Greek championships.-Standings:...

24
1959-60
Patras FCA 1959-60
The Patras FCA 1959–60 occurred as a regional championship in 1959 and 1960 seasons. Olympiakos claimed their second title in a row and also participated in the Greek championships.-Standings:...

1st 33

Football (soccer)

  • Second division participants: 1962, 1967
  • Achaia Championships: 1926, 1927, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1967
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