2008–09 Olympiacos F.C. season

Olympiacos 2008–09 Ernesto Valverde Sokratis Kokkalis Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus Super League Greece Winners Greek Cup Winners Champions League Third qualifying round UEFA Cup Round of 32 Luciano Galletti (14) Diogo (20) 30,185 vs Benfica 20,392 vs Asteras Tripolis 25,370 _olympiacosfc0607h _olympiacosfc0809h _olympiacosfc0607h _white stripes _whitetop FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 _thinredborder _olympiacosfc0809a _thinredborder _red stripes _top_on_white FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FF0000 _thinredborder _olympiacosfc0809t _thinredborder _red stripes _top_on_black 121525 000000 121525 000000 FF0000 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.http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=702323.html Olympiacos turn to Valverde UEFA.com 2008-05-28 2008-05-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20080529124054/http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind%3D2/newsid%3D702323.html 29 May 2008 dead Players First-team squad Squad at end of seasonhttps://www.worldfootball.net/teams/te1418/olympiacos-fc/squad/ Olympiakos Piraeus - Squad 2008/2009 worldfootball.netApril 2025 1 Greece Leonidas Panagopoulos GK 2 Greece Christos Patsatzoglou DF 3 France Didier Domi DF 4 Brazil Leonardo DF 5 Greece Georgios Galitsios DF 6 Greece Ieroklis Stoltidis (vice-captain) MF 7 Argentina Luciano Galletti MF 8 Spain Óscar FW 9 Serbia Darko Kovačević FW 10 Brazil Diogo FW 11 Serbia Predrag Đorđević (captain) MF 14 Poland Michał Żewłakow DF 15 Spain Raúl Bravo DF 18 Greece Paraskevas Antzas DF 19 Greece Konstantinos Mendrinos MF 20 Brazil Dudu Cearense MF 21 Greece Avraam Papadopoulos DF 22 Greece Kostas Mitroglou FW 23 Argentina Sebastián Leto MF 25 Argentina Fernando Belluschi MF 30 Greece Anastasios Pantos DF 31 Greece Aristides Soiledis MF Under 20s 33 Greece Giannis Papadopoulos MF 35 Greece Vasilis Torosidis DF 36 Greece Giorgos Niklitsiotis MF 50 Slovakia Pavel Kovać GK 71 Greece Antonis Nikopolidis (vice-captain) GK 77 Slovenia Mirnes Šišić MF 92 Greece Kyriakos Papadopoulos DF Summer squad changes In: 5 Greece Georgios Galitsios DF loan return from AEL 8 Spain Óscar FW from Real Zaragoza 10 Brazil Diogo FW from Portuguesa 20 Brazil Dudu Cearense MF from CSKA Moscow 21 Greece Avraam Papadopoulos DF from Aris 23 Argentina Sebastián Leto MF loan from Liverpool 33 Greece Giannis Papadopoulos MF from Iraklis 50 Slovakia Pavel Kovać GK from Apollon Kalamarias Total spending: €23.8 million Out: 74 Croatia Tomislav Butina GK Released and moved to Dinamo Zagreb 87 Greece Michalis Sifakis GK Released 23 Cyprus Michalis Konstantinou FW Released 10 Argentina Leonel Núñez FW moved to Independiente 32 Democratic Republic of the Congo Lomana LuaLua FW moved to Al-Arabi Total income: €5.5 million Out on loan 13 Hungary Zsolt Laczko MF to Leicester City 77 Brazil Leozinho MF to OFI 24 Greece Georgios Katsikogiannis MF to Levadiakos Current national players 2 Greece Christos Patsatzoglou DF 34 (1) 14 Poland Michał Żewłakow DF 84 (3) 21 Greece Avraam Papadopoulos DF 4 (0) 25 Argentina Fernando Belluschi MF 2 (0) 28 Argentina Cristian Ledesma FW 3 (0) 35 Greece Vasilis Torosidis DF 20 (1) 77 Slovenia Mirnes Šišić MF 9 (2) 7 Argentina Luciano Galletti MF 13 (3) Appearances (goals) Competitions Overall y y y Super League Greece 1st 30 Aug 2008 26 Apr 2009 y Champions League Third qualifying round Third qualifying round 13 Aug 2008 30 Aug 2008 y y UEFA Cup First round Round of 32 16 Sep 2008 y Greek Cup Round 4 Round 5 29 Oct 2008 17 December 2008 Super League Greece 2008–09 Super League Greece League table Regular season OLY Results summary 13 1 1 33 8 9 4 2 17 6 April 26, 2009 Super League Greece June 2009 Results by round table b Round 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 Home Away green2 Win yellow2 Draw red2 Loss 1st 2nd 3rd red1 complete Olympiacos FC June 2009 Matches All times at EET 1 30 August 2008 19:00 Olympiacos 3–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-asteras-tripolis/ Asteras Tripolis Galletti 61 63 pen. Kovačević 81 Cesarec 45+2 pen. Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 20,392 Michalis Germanakos W 2 13 September 2008 16:45 Skoda Xanthi 0–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-skoda-xanthi-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Diogo 72 Skoda Xanthi Arena Xanthi 4,409 Ioannis Stavridis W 3 21 September 2008 19:00 Olympiacos 4–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-panserraikos/ Panserraikos Kovačević 23 Galletti 27 Diogo 81 Óscar 88 Tadić 85 pen. Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 25,234 Stavros Tritsonis W 4 27 September 2008 19:00 OFI 0–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-ofi-heraklion-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Pankritio Stadium Heraklion 9,384 Ilias Mazarakos D 5 5 October 2008 21:15 Olympiacos 2–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-aek-athen/ AEK Athens Kovačević 63 Diogo 66 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 30,074 Kyros Vassaras W 6 19 October 2008 19:00 Olympiacos 2–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-panthrakikos/ Panthrakikos Galletti 66 73 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 23,693 Konstantinos Papastamatis W 7 26 October 2008 19:00 Aris 1–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-aris-saloniki-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Javito 18 Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium Thessaloniki 16,370 Vasileios Paboridis L 8 2 November 2008 19:00 Olympiacos 2–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-ergotelis/ Ergotelis Kovačević 28 Dudu 34 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 26,058 Ioannis Stavridis W 9 9 November 2008 19:00 Panathinaikos 0–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-panathinaikos-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Olympic Stadium Athens 60,401 Georgios Daloukas D 10 16 November 2008 19:00 Olympiacos 2–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-paok-saloniki/ PAOK Patsatzoglou 45 Diogo 86 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 29,482 Anastasios Kakos W 11 22 November 2008 19:00 Iraklis 0–3 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-iraklis-saloniki-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Đorđević 34 Belluschi 39 Dudu 81 Kaftanzoglio Stadium Thessaloniki 9,066 Kyros Vassaras W 12 30 November 2008 19:00 Olympiacos 4–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-panionios-athen/ Panionios Belluschi 31 Diogo 52 Mitroglou 78 80 Goundoulakis 87 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 27,487 Dimitrios Kyrkos W 13 7 December 2008 19:00 Olympiacos 1–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-levadiakos/ Levadiakos Belluschi 28 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 22,337 Georgios Giannopoulos W 14 13 December 2008 16:45 AEL 1–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-ae-larisa-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Solano 74 Belluschi 52 Alcazar Stadium Larissa 5,062 Anastasios Kakos D 15 21 December 2008 19:00 Olympiacos 2–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-thrasyvoulos-fylis/ Thrasyvoulos Leto 21 Galletti 90+3 pen. Chloros 29 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 20,033 Georgios Kastanidis W 16 3 January 2009 19:00 Asteras Tripolis 0–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-asteras-tripolis-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Galletti 27 pen. Asteras Tripolis Stadium Tripoli 5,864 Vasileios Paboridis W 17 10 January 2009 19:00 Olympiacos 2–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-skoda-xanthi/ Skoda Xanthi Stathakis 16 o.g. Galletti 19 Zuela 27 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 25,484 Michalis Germanakos W 18 17 January 2009 16:45 Panserraikos 0–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-panserraikos-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Torosidis 26 Serres Municipal Stadium Serres 7,013 Georgios Daloukas W 19 24 January 2009 19:00 Olympiacos 2–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-ofi-heraklion/ OFI Diogo 7 Galletti 67 Simić 62 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 25,633 Konstantinos Papastamatis W 20 1 February 2009 19:00 AEK Athens 0–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-aek-athen-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Galletti 5 Olympic Stadium Athens 44,104 Dimitrios Kalopoulos W 21 7 February 2009 16:45 Panthrakikos 0–2 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-panthrakikos-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Belluschi 27 Galletti 45 Komotini Municipal Stadium Komotini 4,700 Georgios Stathopoulos W 22 14 February 2009 19:00 Olympiacos 2–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-aris-saloniki/ Aris Đorđević 23 Galletti 75 Torosidis 90 o.g. Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 25,867 Nathanail Charalabidis W 23 22 February 2009 19:00 Ergotelis 1–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-ergotelis-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Koutsianikoulis 22 Pankritio Stadium Heraklion 2,818 Michail Dakos L 24 1 March 2009 18:30 Olympiacos 0–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-panathinaikos/ Panathinaikos Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 28,775 Ilias Spathas D 25 8 March 2009 19:00 PAOK 0–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-paok-saloniki-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Toumba Stadium Thessaloniki 22,214 Anastasios Kakos D 26 15 March 2009 19:00 Olympiacos 5–0 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-iraklis-saloniki/ Iraklis Torosidis 60 Óscar 64 79 Derbyshire 82 87 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 25,182 Georgios Daloukas W 27 22 March 2009 20:00 Panionios 2–3 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-panionios-athen-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Lourenço 45 Gonzaga 51 Derbyshire 22 Maniatis 61 o.g. Dudu 72 Nea Smyrni Stadium Athens 2,905 Michael Koukoulakis W 28 5 April 2009 19:00 Levadiakos 1–2 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-levadiakos-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Dimbala 17 Derbyshire 28 Galletti 75 Levadia Municipal Stadium Livadeia 3,317 Konstantinos Papastamatis W 29 12 April 2009 19:00 Olympiacos 0–1 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-olympiakos-piraeus-ae-larisa/ AEL Żurawski 54 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 24,280 Ilias Spathas L 30 26 April 2009 19:00 Thrasyvoulos 0–2 https://gre.worldfootball.net/report/superleague-2008-2009-thrasyvoulos-fylis-olympiakos-piraeus/ Olympiacos Derbyshire 65 Galletti 74 pen. Fyli Municipal Stadium Fyli 926 Georgios Stathopoulos W Greek Cup 2008–09 Greek Football Cup Fourth round 29 October 2008 16:50 Diagoras 2–3 https://www.epo.gr/media/files/ARXEIO_KYPELLO/4_fasi_2008-2009.pdf Olympiacos Triantafyllou 30 66 Óscar 14 Diogo 67 Kovačević 84 Diagoras Stadium Rhodes Spiros Stathopoulos W Fifth round 21 January 2009 20:00 OFI 0–2 https://www.epo.gr/media/files/ARXEIO_KYPELLO/5_fasi_2008-2009.pdf Olympiacos Belluschi 69 Galetti 85 pen. Pankritio Stadium Heraklion 4,102 Anastasios Kakos W Quarter-finals First leg 4 February 2009 21:15 PAOK 1–0 https://www.epo.gr/media/files/ARXEIO_KYPELLO/6_fasi_2008-2009.pdf Olympiacos Sérgio Conceição 30 Toumba Stadium Thessaloniki 21,043 Anastasios Kakos L Second leg 4 March 2009 21:15 Olympiacos 2–0 yes 2–1 https://www.epo.gr/media/files/ARXEIO_KYPELLO/6_fasi_2008-2009.pdf PAOK Diogo 46 Derbyshire 109 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 23,983 Michael Koukoulakis W Semi-finals First leg 18 March 2009 21:15 Asteras Tripolis 2–2 https://www.epo.gr/media/files/ARXEIO_KYPELLO/7_fasi_2008-2009.pdf Olympiacos Filomeno 29 35 Diogo 43 74 Asteras Tripolis Stadium Tripoli 3,875 Dimitrios Kalopoulos D Second leg 9 April 2009 18:00 Olympiacos 2–1 4–3 https://www.epo.gr/media/files/ARXEIO_KYPELLO/7_fasi_2008-2009.pdf Asteras Tripolis Leto 47 Diogo 62 Cesarec 39 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 18,989 Georgios Daloukas W Final Final 2 May 2009 20:30 AEK Athens 4–4 yes https://www.epo.gr/media/files/ARXEIO_KYPELLO/telikos_2008-2009.pdf Olympiacos Blanco 4 8 Scocco 90 107 Derbyshire 47 90+6 Dudu 72 Galletti 102 Olympic Stadium Athens 48,594 Anastasios Kakos Kafes Blanco Scocco Edinho Majstorović Nsaliwa Saja Pelletieri Georgeas Kafes Blanco Scocco Edinho Majstorović Nsaliwa Saja Pelletieri 14–15 Óscar Dudu Diogo Domi Đorđević Torosidis Belluschi Nikopolidis Antzas Óscar Dudu Diogo Domi Đorđević Torosidis Belluschi Nikopolidis W UEFA Champions League 2008–09 UEFA Champions League All times at CET Third qualifying round First leg 13 August 2008 20:00 Anorthosis CYP 3–0 (Report) GRE Olympiacos Torosidis 4 o.g. Sosin 17 Laban 85 Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium Larnaca, Cyprus 10,500 Olegário Benquerença (Portugal) L Second leg 27 August 2008 20:00 Olympiacos GRE 1–0 1–3 (Report) CYP Anorthosis Belluschi 54 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus, Greece 27,904 Herbert Fandel (Germany) W UEFA Cup 2008–09 UEFA Cup All times at CET First round First leg 16 September 2008 20:00 Nordsjælland DEN 0–2 (Report) GRE Olympiacos Mitroglou 74 Leto 90+3 Farum Park Farum, Denmark 5,184 Stefan Messner (Austria) W Second leg 2 October 2008 20:45 Olympiacos GRE 5–0 7–0 (Report) DEN Nordsjælland Torosidis 11 Diogo 30 43 Kovačević 72 80 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus, Greece 24,515 Igor Egorov (Russia) W Group stage Group B OLY 1 23 October 2008 20:15 Galatasaray TUR 1–0 (Report) GRE Olympiacos Kewell 25 Ali Sami Yen Stadium Istanbul, Turkey 23,500 Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain) L 2 27 November 2008 20:45 Olympiacos GRE 5–1 (Report) POR Benfica Galletti 1 Patsatzoglou 17 Diogo 24 53 Belluschi 44 David Luiz 33 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus, Greece 30,185 Stéphane Lannoy (France) W 3 3 December 2008 20:45 Metalist Kharkiv UKR 1–0 (Report)March 2025 medicmedic GRE Olympiacos Edmar 88 Metalist Stadium Kharkiv, Ukraine 25,000 William Collum (Scotland) L 4 18 December 2008 20:45 Olympiacos GRE 4–0 (Report) GER Hertha BSC Dudu 55 Galletti 68 pen. Torosidis 87 Diogo 88 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus, Greece 30,063 Martin Hansson (Sweden) W Round of 32 First leg 18 February 2009 18:30 Olympiacos GRE 1–3 Report FRA Saint-Étienne Đorđević 63 Ilan 12 Dernis 43 Gomis 90 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus, Greece 33,000 Lucílio Batista (Portugal) L Second leg 26 February 2009 20:55 Saint-Étienne FRA 2–1 5–2 ReportMarch 2025 medicmedic GRE Olympiacos Payet 45 Ilan 58 Óscar 75 Stade Geoffroy-Guichard Saint-Étienne, France 30,511 Paul Allaerts (Belgium) L Team kit _olympiacosfc0607h _olympiacosfc0809h _olympiacosfc0607h _white stripes _whitetop FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 Home _thinredborder _olympiacosfc0809a _thinredborder _red stripes _top_on_white FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FF0000 Away _thinredborder _olympiacosfc0809t _thinredborder _red stripes _top_on_black 121525 000000 121525 000000 FF0000 Third _thinblackborder _olympiacosfc0809f _thinblackborder _red stripes _whitetop FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 000000 FF0000 Friendlies Individual Awards NamePos.AwardARG Luciano GalletiWingerSuper League Greece Player of the Season Super League Greece Best Foreign Player Super League Greece Golden Boot GRE Antonios NikopolidisGoalkeeperSuper League Greece Goalkeeper of the Season References External links Official Website of Olympiacos Piraeus el en 2008–09 Category:Greek football clubs 2008–09 season Category:2008–09 UEFA Champions League participants seasons 2008–09