On July 12, 1976, in the final at Glyfada’s indoor court, Olympiacos defeats AEK 81-69 and is the first team to win the Greek Basketball Federation’s newly instituted Cup. Kostas Mourouzis is the most ...

The daughter of Christos Christodoulou, a pro basketball player, and the niece of the Fanis Christodoulou, a basketball star in the late 1980s and 1990s, Stella was born with tried-and-tested athletic ...

Matthaiou was the 'patriarch' of Greek basketball. He left his indelible mark on the sport, while leading Olympiacos to its ...

Nikos Gioutsos arrived from a football-advanced Hungary to a relative backwater Greece in the early 1960s. His repatriation ...

Women’s water polo is Olympiacos’ top female sports division in terms of titles won, and by a huge margin. Since 2014, they ...

From the wholesale produce market to the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, ‘Fontakas’, as he was called, was a prolific ...

From the small team Aris Peteinos in Xanthi to the glory of Olympiacos, Roma, Bologna and the Greek national team, where ...

The race that had an entire country on the edge of their seats: Spyros Gianniotis wins a silver medal at the Rio Olympics—the ...

Nikos Gemelos was Karydis’ successor at Olympiacos. Born on May 19, 1968 in Piraeus’ Aghia Sofia district, he began his ...

Bukovi’s philosophy had a profound influence on Hungarian football and formed the basis of Hungary’s ‘Golden Team’–the ...

From Piraeus’ sand lots to glory in the stadiums, Achilleas Grammatikopoulos lived and became part of Olympiacos’ history.

Thanasis Bebis was the perfect playmaker. For decades, when people spoke of his greatness, they’d always start with the same ...