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Olympiacos have confirmed the returns of Kostas Fortounis and Leon Bailey for Sunday's Super League meeting with Kalamata. Lorenzo Pirola and Manolis Saliakas are also included despite recent fitness concerns, providing Imanol Alguacil with welcome defensive options. The announcement strengthens the Greek champions' squad, but the challenge now is deciding how aggressively to rotate during a demanding sequence of domestic and European fixtures. Olympiacos' preparations for Su

Europa League League Phase Matchday 3 - Olympiacos vs Sparta Praha: Giorgos Matthaios/EUROKINISSI Three consecutive Europa League victories have transformed Olympiacos' European outlook. Football Meets Data now gives Imanol Alguacil's team a 68.7% probability of finishing in the competition's top eight, up from approximately 54% after Matchday 2. The new projection suggests that direct qualification for the Round of 16 has become a realistic objective rather than an optimisti

Olympiacos women's football continued its extraordinary start to the season with a 12–0 victory over Elpides Irodotou in Crete. Tasos Fleggas' team has now won all three of its opening matches, scoring 26 goals without conceding. The numbers demonstrate overwhelming early superiority, but the real significance lies in what this start could mean for the club's long-term ambitions in women's football. Olympiacos women's football is making an emphatic statement in the opening we

Olympiacos has confirmed its traveling squad for Thursday's Europa League meeting with Marseille. Leon Bailey's absence removes an important direct attacking option, but Kostas Fortounis' return gives Imanol Alguacil another creative solution as the Greek club prepares for a demanding European away fixture. Olympiacos will travel to Marseille without Leon Bailey. The uncertainty surrounding the Jamaican international's fitness has now been resolved, at least for Thursday's Eu

Panagiotis Retsos scored the winner as Olympiacos defeated Panathinaikos 1–0 at Karaiskakis, surviving more than 25 minutes with ten men following Manolis Saliakas' dismissal. The victory ends Panathinaikos' perfect league start, reduces the gap at the top to two points and provides Imanol Alguacil with his most significant domestic result since taking charge. There are victories that improve a team's position in the table. Then there are victories that can change the way a t

Olympiacos' U19 side suffered a 2–0 home defeat to Panathinaikos at Renti, despite goalkeeper Branis saving a first-half penalty. The result highlighted difficulties in chance creation and defensive organization, while providing another early examination of a squad adapting to changes in personnel and coaching. Olympiacos' U19 team entered Sunday's derby hoping to secure an important result against its traditional rival. Instead, the afternoon exposed several challenges facin

Football stadium projects spend years living in a dangerous place between imagination and reality. There are renderings. Announcements. Architectural plans. Capacity numbers. Promises. What ultimately separates a stadium somebody wants to build from a stadium that can actually be built is usually considerably less glamorous: legislation. Olympiacos crossed an important part of that divide on Tuesday. Vangelis Marinakis and representatives of Olympiacos presented the club's pr

Transfer windows are measured in players. Clubs experience them in logistics. Remo Freuler's latest comments from Switzerland provide an unusual glimpse into that distinction. The 34-year-old midfielder has spent barely six weeks as an Olympiacos player, but when Swiss reporters asked him about his new life in Greece, one aspect of the experience stood out. Organization. Freuler described Olympiacos' handling of his arrival as “fantastic”, explaining that the club assisted wi

There is an alternative version of Jota Silva's career in which he never arrives in Piraeus. It came remarkably close to becoming reality. Sporting wanted him. Jota wanted Sporting. He wanted to work with Rui Borges again. Then the transfer disappeared at effectively the final moment. Football careers sometimes turn on enormous decisions. Others turn on paperwork and a clock. Jota's did. Now, several months into life at Olympiacos, the Portuguese winger can look back at that

Armando González could have arrived in Greece and attempted to discover everything himself. Instead, he called somebody who had already lived it. Orbelín Pineda revealed during his latest media availability with Mexico that the Olympiacos striker contacted him for advice about Greece following his move from Chivas. Pineda knows the environment particularly well. He played for AEK. He experienced Greek derbies. He experienced the Super League. He understands the difference bet

David Fuster is back in Athens. That sentence alone carries enough nostalgia for an entire generation of Olympiacos supporters. If the discussions taking place on Tuesday end as expected, the interesting part will not be that Fuster has returned. It will be what Olympiacos ask him to do next. The former midfielder is in Greece for final discussions about joining the club's organizational structure, ten years after his playing career in Piraeus ended. Multiple Greek reports sa

Konstantinos Tzolakis of Greece reacts during the UEFA Nations League 2026/27 group phase match between Germany and Greece at WWK Arena on September 27, 2026 in Augsburg, Germany. (Photo by Alex Grimm/Getty Images) The photograph that will survive Sunday night in Augsburg will probably involve Dimitris Kourbelis. That is how football remembers historic victories. The scorer. The celebration. The pile of bodies. But Greece's first-ever victory over Germany required something e

Three minutes. That was how long Olympiacos Women needed to score their first league goal of the new season. By the fifth minute there were two. By the 15th there were four. By halftime there were seven and when the first match of Olympiacos’ second season as a women’s football club finally ended in Glyfada on Sunday afternoon, the scoreboard read: PAS Athinon 1966 0–12 Olympiacos. There will be more difficult afternoons. Much more difficult ones but this is precisely the typ

International breaks are usually described in terms of who leaves. For Olympiacos, this one may ultimately be defined by who is still at Rentis. Imanol Alguacil is working with a depleted squad while his internationals are scattered across national teams, but that has created something valuable: time. Time for Leon Bailey. Time for Gustavo Sá and time for Marius Mouandilmadji. The latest reporting from Rentis provides a clearer picture of all three situations — and, particula

Ninety-six shots. Seventeen big chances. 8.96 expected goals. Four actual league goals. Yesterday, the numbers explained why Imanol Alguacil has turned this international break into an attacking intervention. Today, we have been given one of his proposed solutions. Send the midfielders forward. According to reporting from Rentis, Imanol is demanding significantly greater attacking involvement from Olympiacos’ central midfielders. Remo Freuler and Gustavo Puerta are specifical

Levadiakos vs Olympiacos, Greek Superleague Matchday 5: Giorgos Matthaios/EUROKINISSI The transfer window is closed. Olympiacos' squad, apparently, may not be. The arrival of Imanol Alguacil created an unusual situation in Piraeus. The club constructed most of its 2026-27 roster for another coach, changed managers after the season had already begun and then asked the replacement to discover what he actually inherited while simultaneously playing competitive matches. Now he fi

For years, the argument around television money in Greek football has usually started with the same question. How should the money be divided? Evangelos Marinakis wants the Super League to answer a different question first. How much money should there be? That distinction sits at the center of a potentially important development from Tuesday's meeting of Super League owners, where all 14 clubs unanimously approved the Olympiacos owner's proposal to commission an independent s

David Rodríguez has put pen to paper with Olympiacos and takes immediate control of the club's U19 side, completing a coaching structure that is becoming one of the more interesting developments inside Rentis. Imanol Alguacil controls the first team. Álvaro Rubio leads Olympiacos B. David Rodríguez now runs the U19s. Three Spanish coaches. Three consecutive stages of the development pathway and now, importantly, no hypothetical vacancy remaining between them. Yesterday's idea

Levadiakos vs Olympiacos, Greek Superleague Matchday 5: Giorgos Matthaios/EUROKINISSI Manolis Saliakas' header in Livadia felt important when it crossed the line. A few hours later, it looked even bigger. Olympiacos had spent 91 minutes failing to break Levadiakos down before Saliakas appeared at the back post and converted Remo Freuler's cross. Three points. A difficult afternoon survived and as Sunday evening unfolded elsewhere in Greece, three points Olympiacos increasingl

Before Greek football's modern transfer market existed, before international scouting networks and before South American players became commonplace in the Super League, there was Milton Viera. Olympiacos announced on Monday evening that the former Uruguay international has died at the age of 80. For supporters who watched Olympiacos during the 1970s, Viera requires little introduction. For everybody who came later, his career provides a window into one of the most fascinating