2008–09 Olympiacos F.C. season

Olympiacos
2008–09 season
Chairman Socratis Kokkalis
Manager Ernesto Valverde
Super League Greece 1st
UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
UEFA Cup Round of 32
Greek Cup Final
Top goalscorer League:
Luciano Galletti (14)
All:
Diogo Luis Santo (20)
Highest home attendance 30,185 vs Benfica
Lowest home attendance 20,392 vs Asteras Tripolis
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

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

Squad

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

No. Position Player
1 Greece GK Leonidas Panagopoulos
2 Greece DF Christos Patsatzoglou
3 France DF Didier Domi
4 Brazil DF Leonardo
5 Greece DF Georgios Galitsios
6 Greece MF Ieroklis Stoltidis (vice-captain)
7 Argentina MF Luciano Galletti
8 Spain FW Óscar
9 Serbia FW Darko Kovačević
10 Brazil FW Diogo Luís Santo
11 Serbia MF Predrag Đorđević (captain)
14 Poland DF Michał Żewłakow
15 Spain DF Raúl Bravo
18 Greece DF Paraskevas Antzas
19 Greece MF Konstantinos Mendrinos
No. Position Player
20 Brazil MF Dudu Cearense
21 Greece DF Avraam Papadopoulos
22 Greece FW Kostantinos Mitroglou
23 Argentina MF Sebastian Leto
25 Argentina MF Fernando Belluschi
27 Greece DF Konstantinos Lambropoulos Under 20s
30 Greece DF Anastasios Pantos
31 Greece MF Aristides Soiledis Under 20s
33 Greece MF Giannis Papadopoulos
35 Greece DF Vasilis Torosidis
36 Greece MF Giorgos Niklitsiotis
50 Slovakia GK Pavel Kovać
71 Greece GK Antonis Nikopolidis (vice-captain)
77 Slovenia MF Mirnes Šišić
92 Greece DF Kyriakos Papadopoulos

Summer Squad Changes for the 2008-09 Season

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

No. Position Player
5 Greece DF Georgios Galitsios loan return from AEL 1964
8 Spain FW Óscar González Marcos from Real Zaragoza
10 Brazil FW Diogo Luís Santo from Portuguesa
20 Brazil MF Dudu Cearense from CSKA Moscow
21 Greece DF Avraam Papadopoulos from Aris
23 Argentina MF Sebastian Leto loan from Liverpool
33 Greece MF Giannis Papadopoulos from Iraklis
50 Slovakia GK Pavel Kovać from Apollon Kalamarias

Total spending: Decrease €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. Position Player
74 Croatia GK Tomislav Butina Released and moved to Dinamo Zagreb
87 Greece GK Michalis Sifakis (Released)
23 Cyprus FW Michalis Konstantinou Released
10 Argentina FW Leonel Núñez moved to Independiente
32 Democratic Republic of the Congo FW Lomana LuaLua moved to Al-Arabi

Total income: Increase €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. Position Player
13 Hungary MF Zsolt Laczko to Leicester City
77 Brazil MF Leozinho to OFI Crete
28 Argentina MF Cristian Raúl Ledesma to San Lorenzo
24 Greece MF Georgios Katsikogiannis to Levadeiakos

Current national players

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

No. Position Player
2 Greece DF Christos Patsatzoglou 34 (1)
14 Poland DF Michał Żewłakow 84 (3)
21 Greece DF Avraam Papadopoulos 4 (0)
25 Argentina MF Fernando Belluschi 2 (0)
28 Argentina FW Cristian Raúl Ledesma 3 (0)
35 Greece DF Vasilis Torosidis 20 (1)
77 Slovenia MF Mirnes Šišić 9 (2)
7 Argentina MF Luciano Galletti 13 (3)

Competitions

Overall

Competition Started roundCurrent
position / round		 Final
position / round		 First match Last match
Super League Greece —1st 30 Aug 200826 Apr 2009
Champions League Third qualifying round— Third qualifying round 13 Aug 200830 Aug 2008
UEFA Cup First roundRound of 32 16 Sep 2008
Greek Cup Round 4Round 5 29 Oct 2008

Last updated: 17 December 2008
Source: Competitions

Super League Greece

Classification

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Olympiacos 30 22 5 3 50 14+36 71 2009–10 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
2 PAOK 30 18 9 3 39 16+23 63 Super League Greece 2008–09 Playoffs
3 Panathinaikos 30 17 10 3 51 18+33 61
4 AEK Athens 30 14 13 3 40 24+16 55
5 Larissa 30 12 13 5 36 26+10 49

Updated to games played on April 26, 2009.
Source: Super League Greece 2008-09
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Results summary

OverallHomeAway
PldWDLGFGAGDPtsWDLGFGAGDWDLGFGAGD
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

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Result W W W D W W L W D W W W W D W W W W W W                    

Last updated: December 22, 2008.
Source: Olympiacos FC
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

UEFA Cup group stage

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Ukraine Metalist Kharkiv 431030+310
Turkey Galatasaray 430141+39
Greece Olympiacos 420293+66
Germany Hertha BSC 402216−52
Portugal Benfica 401329−71

Matches

Super League Greece

All times at EET

2008-08-30
19:00
Olympiacos 3 – 1 Asteras Tripolis
Galletti  61'  63' (pen.)
Kovačević  81' 		(Report) Cesarec  45+2' (pen.)
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 20,392

2008-09-13
16:45
Skoda Xanthi 0 – 1 Olympiacos
(Report) Diogo  72'
Skoda Xanthi Arena, Xanthi
Attendance: 4,409

2008-09-21
19:00
Olympiacos 4 – 1 Panserraikos
Kovačević  23'
Galletti  27'
Diogo  81'
Óscar  88' 		(Report) Tadiz  85' (pen.)
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 25,234

2008-09-27
19:00
OFI 0 – 0 Olympiacos
(Report)
Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion
Attendance: 9,384

2008-10-05
21:15
Olympiacos 2 – 0 AEK Athens
Kovačević  63'
Diogo  66' 		(Report)
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 30,074

2008-10-19
19:00
Olympiacos 2 – 0 Panthrakikos
Galletti  66'  73' (Report)

2008-10-26
19:00
Aris 1 – 0 Olympiacos
Javito  18' (Report)

2008-11-02
19:00
Olympiacos 2 – 0 Ergotelis
Kovačević  28'
Dudu  34' 		(Report)
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 26,058

2008-11-09
19:00
Panathinaikos 0 – 0 Olympiacos
(Report)
Olympic Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 60,401

2008-11-16
19:00
Olympiacos 2 – 0 PAOK
Patsatzoglou  45'
Diogo  86' 		(Report)
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 29,458

2008-11-22
19:00
Iraklis 0 – 3 Olympiacos
(Report) Đorđević  34'
Belluschi  39'
Dudu  81'

2008-11-30
19:00
Olympiacos 4 – 1 Panionios
Belluschi  31'
Diogo  52'
Mitroglou  78' 80' 		(Report) Goundoulakis  87'
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 27,487

2008-12-07
19:00
Olympiacos 1 – 0 Levadiakos
Belluschi  28' (Report)
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 22,337

2008-12-13
16:45
Larissa 1 – 1 Olympiacos
Solano  74' (Report) Belluschi  52'
Alkazar, Larissa
Attendance: 5,062

2008-12-21
19:00
Olympiacos 2 – 1 Thrasyvoulos
Leto  21'
Galletti  90+3' (pen.) 		(Report) Chloros  29'
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 20,033

UEFA Champions League

All times at CET

Third qualifying round

2008-08-27
20:00
Olympiacos Greece 1 – 0 Cyprus Anorthosis
Belluschi  54' (Report)
Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 27,904
Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)

UEFA Cup

All times at CET

First round

2008-09-16
20:00
Nordsjælland Denmark 0 – 2 Greece Olympiacos
(Report) Mitroglou  74'
Leto  90+3'
Farum Park, Farum
Attendance: 5,184
Referee: Stefan Messner (Austria)

2008-10-02
20:45
Olympiacos Greece 5 – 0 Denmark Nordsjælland
Torosidis  11'
Diogo  30' 43'
Kovačević  72' 80' 		(Report)
Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 24,515
Referee: Igor Egorov (Russia)

Group stage

2008-11-27
20:45
Olympiacos Greece 5 – 1 Portugal Benfica
Galletti  1'
Patsatzoglou  17'
Diogo  24' 53'
Belluschi  44' 		(Report) David Luiz  33'
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 30,185
Referee: Stéphane Lannoy (France)

2008-12-03
20:45
Metalist Kharkiv Ukraine 1 – 0 Greece Olympiacos
Edmar  88' (Report)
Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: William Collum (Scotland)

2008-12-18
20:45
Olympiacos Greece 4 – 0 Germany Hertha Berlin
Dudu  55'
Galletti  68' (pen.)
Torosidis  87'
Diogo  88' 		(Report)
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Attendance: 30,063
Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)

Round of 32

Greek Cup

Fourth round

2008-10-29
Diagoras 2 – 3 Olympiacos
Triantafyllou  30' 66' (Report) Óscar  14'
Diogo  67'
Kovačević  84'
Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes

Fifth Round

Team kit

Home
Away
Third
Friendlies

References

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

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