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Round 1

  1. Which club did Olympiacos beat 6-2 on aggregate in the semi-finals on the way to the 2024 Conference League title?
  2. Before moving to Germany, Kostas Fortounis broke into the Greek top flight with which club?
  3. Olympiacos supporters call the club 'Thrylos'. What does the nickname mean?
  4. Which coach, appointed only in February 2024, led Olympiacos to the Conference League title that season?
  5. Tottenham led 2-0 at the Karaiskakis in Olympiacos's opening game of the 2019-20 Champions League group stage before the hosts drew 2-2. Who scored the equaliser from the penalty spot?
  6. From which German club did Olympiacos sign Kostas Fortounis in 2014?
  7. Vasilis Torosidis scored the winner in Greece's first ever World Cup victory, at South Africa 2010. Who were the opponents?
  8. Olympiacos beat Manchester United 2-0 at the Karaiskakis Stadium in the first leg of the 2013-14 Champions League round of 16. Who opened the scoring before half-time?
  9. Where was the 2024 UEFA Conference League final, won by Olympiacos, played?
  10. Which coach was in charge of Olympiacos for their 2013-14 Champions League campaign?
Answers — round 1
  1. Aston Villa — A 4-2 win at Villa Park and a 2-0 second leg at home made it 6-2 on aggregate against Aston Villa.
  2. Asteras Tripolis — Fortounis scored his first Super League goal for Asteras Tripolis in 2010-11, the season before he left for Kaiserslautern.
  3. The Legend — Thrylos translates as 'The Legend', the club's best-known nickname alongside Erythrolefkoi, the Red-Whites.
  4. José Luis Mendilibar — José Luis Mendilibar took charge on 11 February 2024, months after winning the Europa League with Sevilla, and lifted the Conference League in May.
  5. Mathieu Valbuena — Mathieu Valbuena converted the penalty on 54 minutes after Daniel Podence had pulled one back just before half-time.
  6. 1. FC Kaiserslautern — He spent three seasons with the Red Devils of the Fritz-Walter-Stadion, who were in the 2. Bundesliga by the time he left for Piraeus.
  7. Nigeria — Torosidis struck on 71 minutes as Greece beat 10-man Nigeria 2-1 on 17 June 2010 for their first win at a World Cup.
  8. Alejandro Domínguez — Alejandro Domínguez turned in Giannis Maniatis's effort on 38 minutes to start the 2-0 win on 25 February 2014.
  9. Agia Sophia Stadium, Athens — The final was staged at the Agia Sophia Stadium, AEK Athens's ground, so Olympiacos won Greece's first European trophy in their own city but not at their own stadium.
  10. Míchel — Míchel, the former Real Madrid and Spain midfielder, was Olympiacos head coach in 2013-14 and took them to the round of 16.

Round 2

  1. In Olympiacos's 2-0 win over Manchester United in the 2013-14 round of 16, the second goal was scored by a forward spending the season on loan from Arsenal. Who was he?
  2. Who scored the goal that won Olympiacos the 2024 Conference League final against Fiorentina?
  3. Vasilis Torosidis left Olympiacos in January 2013 to join which Italian club?
  4. Before taking the Olympiacos job in 2018, Pedro Martins had most recently managed which Portuguese club?
  5. Olympiacos knocked Arsenal out of the 2019-20 Europa League on away goals, winning 2-1 at the Emirates with a goal in the 119th minute. Who scored it?
  6. Olympiacos won 3-2 away to Arsenal in the Champions League group stage in September 2015. Which Arsenal goalkeeper, picked ahead of Petr Čech, dropped a corner over his own line?
  7. Olympiacos carried a 2-0 lead to Old Trafford in the 2013-14 round of 16 second leg but lost 3-0. Whose hat-trick knocked them out?
  8. What is the Olympiacos v Panathinaikos fixture commonly called in English?
  9. Yaya Touré's first spell at Olympiacos began in 2005, when he arrived from which Ukrainian club?
  10. Predrag Djordjevic and Stelios Giannakopoulos arrived at Olympiacos together in 1996 from the same Greek club. Which one?
Answers — round 2
  1. Joel Campbell — Costa Rica forward Joel Campbell, on loan at Olympiacos from Arsenal, made it 2-0 on 54 minutes.
  2. Ayoub El Kaabi — Ayoub El Kaabi headed in Santiago Hezze's cross in the 116th minute to settle the final 1-0 in Athens.
  3. Roma — The Greek right-back headed for a club in the Italian capital, and only left three and a half seasons later when Bologna signed him in 2016.
  4. Vitória de Guimarães — He spent a season and a half in the Minho, taking that side to the 2017 Taça de Portugal final before walking away in February 2018; at Olympiacos he went on to win three straight Greek titles.
  5. Youssef El Arabi — Youssef El Arabi struck in the 119th minute on 27 February 2020 to send Olympiacos through 2-2 on away goals.
  6. David Ospina — Arsène Wenger selected David Ospina instead of Petr Čech, and Ospina's errors — including a corner spilled over his line — helped Olympiacos win 3-2 at the Emirates.
  7. Robin van Persie — Robin van Persie scored all three — a penalty, a close-range finish and a free-kick — as Manchester United went through 3-2 on aggregate on 19 March 2014.
  8. Derby of the Eternal Enemies — Olympiacos v Panathinaikos is known as the Derby of the Eternal Enemies, a rivalry rooted in working-class Piraeus, where Olympiacos were founded in 1925, against the old Athenian society of Panathinaikos in the city centre.
  9. Metalurh Donetsk — Touré signed from Metalurh Donetsk in 2005, won the Greek league and cup double, then left for Monaco in the summer of 2006.
  10. Paniliakos — Dusan Bajevic signed both Djordjevic and Giannakopoulos from Paniliakos in 1996, and both went on to win every title of the seven-year run.

Round 3

  1. Olympiacos led 1-0 at Anfield in December 2004 through a curling free-kick, before Liverpool won 3-1 with a late Steven Gerrard strike. Who scored that free-kick?
  2. Olympiacos' seven-in-a-row ended when they were beaten to the 2003-04 title. Which club took it?
  3. Predrag Djordjevic played 13 seasons at Olympiacos between 1996 and 2009. How many Greek championships did he collect?
  4. Olympiacos signed the Brazilian playmaker Giovanni in the summer of 1999. Which club did they buy him from?
  5. Olympiacos demolished and rebuilt Karaiskakis Stadium in just 14 months, moving into the new ground in which year?
  6. Stelios Giannakopoulos won the Greek championship in all seven of his seasons at Olympiacos, from 1996-97 to 2002-03, then left in May 2003 for which Premier League club?
  7. Olympiacos signed a Brazilian Ballon d'Or winner in July 2004. Which club did they buy him from?
  8. In February 1981, 21 fans were crushed to death leaving Karaiskakis Stadium after a 6-0 Olympiacos win. Which gate gave the tragedy its name?
  9. Before taking charge at Olympiacos in 1996, Dusan Bajevic had already won four Greek championships as manager of which club?
  10. Olympiacos won the 2024 UEFA Europa Conference League final 1-0 against Fiorentina with a header in the 116th minute. Who scored it?
Answers — round 3
  1. Rivaldo — Rivaldo bent the free-kick into the Kop end to put Olympiacos ahead on 8 December 2004, before Sinama Pongolle, Mellor and Gerrard turned the group tie around and sent Liverpool on their way to Istanbul.
  2. Panathinaikos — Panathinaikos won the 2003-04 championship, ending Olympiacos' seven consecutive titles from 1996-97 to 2002-03.
  3. Twelve — Twelve, from thirteen attempts. Olympiacos won the title every season Djordjevic was there apart from 2003-04, when their Athens rivals pipped them by two points.
  4. Barcelona — Giovanni joined Olympiacos from Barcelona in 1999, three years after the Catalans had signed him from Santos.
  5. 2004 — The rebuilt Karaiskakis Stadium opened in 2004, in time to stage football at the Athens Olympics; Olympiacos' first competitive match there was a 2-1 win over Kallithea on 19 September 2004.
  6. Bolton Wanderers — Sam Allardyce signed him on 28 May 2003, a year before he won Euro 2004 with Greece, and he stayed at the Reebok until he was released in 2008.
  7. Cruzeiro — He joined Olympiacos on 22 July 2004 from Cruzeiro, where he had spent only around two months after leaving AC Milan.
  8. Gate 7 — The crush on 8 February 1981 happened at Gate 7, where a half-closed exit door trapped fans rushing out to celebrate. Olympiacos' main supporters' association still carries the name Gate 7 in memory of the 21 who died.
  9. AEK Athens — Bajevic won four league titles at AEK Athens between 1989 and 1994 before crossing to Olympiacos, where he won three more in a row and later added the 2004-05 championship.
  10. Ayoub El Kaabi — Ayoub El Kaabi headed in Santiago Hezze's cross in the 116th minute at the Agia Sophia Stadium in Athens, making Olympiacos the first Greek club to win a European trophy.

Round 4

  1. Olympiacos reached the Champions League quarter-finals in 1998-99, losing 2-1 away and drawing 1-1 at home to go out 3-2 on aggregate. Which club knocked them out?
  2. Giovanni spent six seasons at Olympiacos, from 1999 until 2005. How many Greek league titles did he win there?
Answers — round 4
  1. Juventus — Juventus won the Turin leg 2-1 through Inzaghi and Conte, and a 1-1 draw in Athens was enough to see them through 3-2. They went out themselves in the semi-final, beaten 4-3 on aggregate by Manchester United.
  2. Five — Giovanni won five championships with Olympiacos — 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2002-03 and 2004-05 — missing out only in 2003-04, the season he finished as the league's top scorer with 21 goals.

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