Olympiacos H.C.

Greek handball club

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Olympiacos Handball Club (currently known for sponsorship reasons as Olympiacos S.F.P. / Omilos Xini) is the men's handball team of the major Greek multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus. It was founded initially in 1931 and reorganized in 2017. The department has won 3 Greek Handball Championships, 3 Greek Cups and 2 Doubles.

Piraeus

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Location of Olympiacos H.C.

History

In 2017–18 season, which was the first after its reorganization, Olympiacos won the domestic double. They won the Greek Handball Championship by beating AEK Athens with 3–2 wins in the finals in a dramatic fashion, as they overturned an initial 0–2 win by AEK and took three straight wins to secure the League title.^[1] They also won the Greek Cup, beating PAOK in the semi-final and ASE Douka in the final to complete the domestic Double.^[2] On 10 September 2022, Olympiacos lifted the Greek Super Cup after winning AESH Pylaia in the final.^[3]^[4]

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Kits

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Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2023–24 season^[5]

Olympiacos H.C.

Goalkeepers

01 Konstantinos Kotanidis
12 Panagiotis Papantonopoulos

Left Wingers

08 Georgios Papavasilis
10 Grigorios Tzimpoulas

Right Wingers

09 Ivan Vida
013 Dimitrios Tziras

Line Players

07 Panagiotis Karampourniotis
45 Miha Kavčič
66 Stefanos Michailidis

Left Backs

6 Olivier Nyokas (2022–2023)
19 Ivan Slišković
32 Nikolaos Passias
77 Savvas Savvas

Central Backs

11 Petros Vamvakaris
17 Petros Kandylas
23 Charalampos Dompris
24 Christos Tsigaridas

Right Backs

33 Ángel Montoro
44 Savo Slavuljica

Technical staff

Head coach: Nikos Grammatikos
Assistant coach: Panagiotis Messinis
Physiotherapist: Dionysios Tyrogalas
Club doctor: Georgios Karachalios

Transfers

Transfers for the 2023–24 season

Joining

Savvas Savvas (LB) from ASV Hamm-Westfalen
Panagiotis Papantonopoulos (GK) from CB Ademar León
Grigorios Tzimpoulas (LW) from AC Diomidis Argous
Christos Tsigaridas (CB) from AC Diomidis Argous
Dimitrios Tziras (RW) from A.C. Doukas
Miha Kavčič (LP) from HSC Kreuzlingen

Leaving

Vyron Papadopoulos (LW) to AEK Athens
Garyfalos Bagios (RW) to AC Diomidis Argous
Taxiarchis Papadimitriou (GK)
Thomas Bauer (GK) to JAGS Vöslau
Florent Bourget (CB) to HC Visé BM
Vladyslav Ostroushko (LB) to KS Azoty-Puławy
Olivier Nyokas (LB)

Previous squads

2022–2023 Team
Shirt No	Nationality	Player	Birth Date	Position
1	Greece	Konstantinos Kotanidis	(1992-02-07) 7 February 1992 (age 32)	Goalkeeper
3	Greece	Michail Rousos	(2004-04-23) 23 April 2004 (age 20)	Right Winger
4	Greece	Triantafyllos Prokopiou	(2005-06-24) 24 June 2005 (age 18)	Line Player
6	France Democratic Republic of the Congo	Olivier Nyokas	(1986-06-28) 28 June 1986 (age 37)	Left Back
7	Greece	Panagiotis Karampourniotis	(1998-02-20) 20 February 1998 (age 26)	Line Player
8	Greece	Georgios Papavasilis	(2000-07-31) 31 July 2000 (age 23)	Left Winger
10	Greece	Konstantinos Koutoulogenis	(2004-11-01) 1 November 2004 (age 19)	Line Player
16	Greece	Taxiarchis Papadimitriou	(1998-06-04) 4 June 1998 (age 25)	Goalkeeper
17	Greece	Petros Kandylas	(1991-02-28) 28 February 1991 (age 33)	Central Back
20	Greece	Garyfalos Bagios	(1994-04-26) 26 April 1994 (age 30)	Right Winger
22	Greece	Vyron Papadopoulos	(1986-02-22) 22 February 1986 (age 38)	Left Winger
23	Greece	Charalampos Dompris	(1994-07-23) 23 July 1994 (age 29)	Central Back
25	Netherlands	Florent Bourget	(1998-06-12) 12 June 1998 (age 25)	Central Back
30	Austria	Robert Weber	(1985-11-25) 25 November 1985 (age 38)	Right Winger
32	Greece	Nikolaos Passias	(1995-02-17) 17 February 1995 (age 29)	Left Back
33	Spain	Ángel Montoro	(1989-04-10) 10 April 1989 (age 35)	Right Back
39	Greece	Vasilis Liolios	(1999-05-13) 13 May 1999 (age 24)	Central Back
44	Serbia	Savo Slavuljica	(1998-08-13) 13 August 1998 (age 25)	Right Back
55	Ukraine	Vladyslav Ostroushko	(1986-03-05) 5 March 1986 (age 38)	Left Back
59	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Elmir Gradjan	(1993-12-28) 28 December 1993 (age 30)	Line Player
66	Greece	Stefanos Michailidis	(1994-05-15) 15 May 1994 (age 29)	Line Player
99	Austria	Thomas Bauer	(1986-01-24) 24 January 1986 (age 38)	Goalkeeper

2018–2019 Team
Shirt No	Nationality	Player	Birth Date	Position
4	Greece	Nikolaos Kritikos	(1996-09-24) 24 September 1996 (age 27)	Left Back
6	Greece	Dimitrios Tziras	(1991-04-05) 5 April 1991 (age 33)	Right Winger
7	Greece	Panagiotis Karampourniotis	(1998-02-20) 20 February 1998 (age 26)	Line Player
8	Brazil	Patrick Lemos	(1996-05-23) 23 May 1996 (age 27)	Central Back
11	Spain	Luis Felipe Jiménez Reina	(1989-06-12) 12 June 1989 (age 34)	Right Back
12	Poland	Marko Terlecki	(2000-05-08) 8 May 2000 (age 24)	Goalkeeper
14	Greece	Panagiotis Stoumpis	(1991-06-15) 15 June 1991 (age 32)	Left Winger
15	Greece	Stylianos Asvestas	(1999-03-21) 21 March 1999 (age 25)	Right Back
16	Greece	Argyris Papadopoulos-Vellis	(1998-02-10) 10 February 1998 (age 26)	Goalkeeper
17	Greece	Petros Kandylas	(1991-02-28) 28 February 1991 (age 33)	Central Back
18	Greece	Grigorios Sanikis	(1980-01-29) 29 January 1980 (age 44)	Left Back
23	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Petar Bubalo	(1992-08-01) 1 August 1992 (age 31)	Right Back
24	Greece	Antonios Kontis	(1991-10-07) 7 October 1991 (age 32)	Left Winger
27	Greece	Nikolaos Liapis	(1999-08-24) 24 August 1999 (age 24)	Line Player
31	Greece	Konstantinos Tsilimparis	(1979-07-31) 31 July 1979 (age 44)	Goalkeeper
32	Serbia	Igor Arsić	(1989-10-19) 19 October 1989 (age 34)	Goalkeeper
33	Greece	Andreas Arapakopoulos	(1994-11-15) 15 November 1994 (age 29)	Line Player
50	Greece	Theodoros Delichristos	(2000-06-17) 17 June 2000 (age 23)	Central Back
77	Greece	Angelos Tsilis	(1992-11-06) 6 November 1992 (age 31)	Left Winger

Honours

Domestic competitions

Greek League
- Winners (3): 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22
Greek Cup
- Winners (3): 2017–18, 2018–19, 2022–23
Greek Super Cup
- Winners (2): 2022, 2023
Double
- Winners (2): 2017–18, 2018–19

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2017–18	EHF Cup	R1	Talent Plzeň	21–21	29–17	39–50
2018–19	EHF Cup	R2	Sport36-Komló	27–22	34–29	56–56
2018–19	EHF Cup	R3	RK Nexe	22–25	30–25	47–55
2019–20	EHF Cup	R1	RK Borac m:tel	30–21	25–30	60–46
		R2	SCM Politehnica Timișoara	29–26	31–29	58–57
		R3	MT Melsungen	19–20	32–28	47–52
2022–23	EHF European Cup	R2	RK Sloboda Tuzla	34–24	27–19	61–43
2022–23	EHF European Cup	R3	Wacker Thun	22–24	19–24	41–48

EHF ranking

As of 06/12/2023^[6]

Rank	Team	Points
64	MŠK Považská Bystrica	82
65	Spor Toto SK	81
66	Olympiacos H.C.	79
67	BM Cuenca	79
68	SSV Brixen Handball	79
69	Alpla HC Hard	79
70	ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar	78

Former club members

Notable former players

Alexandros Alvanos (2017–2018)
Charalampos Mallios (2019–2020)
Vyron Papadopoulos (2021–2023)
Grigorios Sanikis (2017–2020)
Savvas Savvas (2023–)
Konstantinos Tsilimparis (2017–2020)
Thomas Bauer (2021-2023)
Robert Weber (2022–2023)
Artur Karvatski (2019–2020)
Goran Bogunović (2019–2020)
Ivan Slišković (2023–)
Ivan Vida (2023–)
Božidar Leković (2014–2015)
Bogdan Petričević (2017–2018)
Florent Bourget (2023)
Ángel Montoro (2021–)
Vladyslav Ostroushko (2021–2023)

References

^ Olympiacos win Greek men's handball championship. xinhuanet.com. 7 June 2018
^ https://www.handball-planet.com/olympiakos-win-greek-handball-cup/
^ "Ο Ολυμπιακός νικητής του Σούπερ Καπ 2022!". handball.org.gr (in Greek). Online. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
^ ""Πάτησε" την Πυλαία και σήκωσε την κούπα του Super Cup o Ολυμπιακός!". sport-fm.gr (in Greek). Online. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
^ https://ehfec.eurohandball.com/men/2023-24/clubs/details/QxIjJUr5-reBO0Une6diEQ/olympiacos-sfp/
^ "Eurotopteam, classement européen des clubs de Handball".

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olympiacos HC.

Olympiacos CFP official website (in English)
Olympiacos CFP official website – Men's Handball – News, History, Roster (in Greek)
Olympiacos H.C. at EHF (in English)
Olympiacos H.C. on Facebook

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