2009–10 Olympiacos F.C. season

The 2009–10 season was Olympiacos' 51st consecutive season in the Super League Greece. Olympiacos finished 2nd in the regular season of the Greek Super League and ranked last at the play-off games, resulting in a 5th place at the League, the worst position of team's recent seasons. Olympiacos also participated in UEFA Champions League 2009–10, and managed to qualify to the knock-stage (round of 16). They lost twice from French side Bordeaux, 3–1 on aggregate.

Olympiacos

2009–10 season
Chairman	Sokratis Kokkalis
Manager	Temuri Ketsbaia (until 25 November 2009) Zico (until 1 March 2010) Božidar Bandović
Super League Greece	2nd in regular season (5th in play-offs)
Greek Cup	Fourth round
Champions League	Round of 16
Highest home attendance	31,059 vs Panathinaikos (29 November 2009)
Lowest home attendance	16,056 vs Kavala (12 September 2009)
Average home league attendance	21,341
Home colours Away colours Third colours

This season was the last season with Sokratis Kokkalis as chairman of the club. The 5th league position as well as the team's low level of spectacle created a disappointing atmosphere, resulting in Kokkalis's decision to leave the club after two decades of constant presence.

Events

• 27 May 2009: Former Georgian international player Temuri Ketsbaia is appointed coach, replacing Ernesto Valverde from Spain.[1]
• 19 June 2009: Antonios Nikopolidis, Dudu, and Luciano Galletti are appointed captains for the 2009–10 season.[2]
• 23 June 2009: Swedish international Olof Mellberg is signed from Serie A sides Juventus.[3] Matt Derbyshire is also signed from Premier League team Blackburn Rovers[4] after previously being on loan with Olympiacos.
• 15 September 2009: Manager Temuri Ketsbaia is sacked despite not conceding a single goal in his time at the club he was replaced with Božidar Bandović who hasn't impressed at Olympiacos.[5]

Teams and players 2009–10

First team

Roster update: 01 August 2009[6]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GRE Leonidas Panagopoulos 2 DF  GRE Kyriakos Papadopoulos 3 DF  FRA Didier Domi 4 DF  SWE Olof Mellberg 5 DF  GRE Georgios Galitsios 6 MF  GRE Ieroklis Stoltidis 7 MF  ARG Luciano Galletti 8 MF  ESP Óscar 9 FW  ENG Matt Derbyshire 10 FW  BRA Diogo 11 MF  MAR Jaouad Zairi 14 DF  POL Michał Żewłakow 15 DF  ESP Raúl Bravo 17 MF  GRE Andreas Vasilogiannis 18 MF  GRE Ioannis Fetfatzidis

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF  BRA Dudu (Vice-captain) 21 DF  GRE Avraam Papadopoulos 22 FW  GRE Kostas Mitroglou 23 FW  GRE Giorgos Niklitsiotis 24 DF  BRA Leonardo 25 MF  ITA Enzo Maresca 28 MF  ARG Cristian Raúl Ledesma 30 DF  GRE Anastasios Pantos 31 MF  GRE Aristides Soiledis 33 MF  GRE Ioannis Papadopoulos 35 DF  GRE Vasilis Torosidis 50 GK  SVK Pavel Kováč 71 GK  GRE Antonios Nikopolidis (Captain) 78 GK  BEL Urko Rafael Pardo 88 MF  GRE Georgios Katsikogiannis

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player

Players from the youth system

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GRE Leonidas Panagopoulos 2 DF  GRE Kyriakos Papadopoulos 17 MF  GRE Andreas Vasilogiannis 23 FW  GRE Giorgos Niklitsiotis 31 MF  GRE Aristides Soiledis 88 MF  GRE Georgios Katsikogiannis — MF  GRE Ioannis Fetfatzidis

Foreign players

EU Nationals Didier Domi Enzo Maresca Olof Mellberg Matt Derbyshire Óscar Raúl Bravo Urko Rafael Pardo Michał Żewłakow Pavel Kováč Jaouad Zairi Luciano Galletti

Non-EU Nationals Dudu Diogo Leonardo Cristian Raúl Ledesma

Technical & Medical Staff

Position Name Head coach Božidar Bandović Assistant coach Andreas Niniadis Goalkeeping coach Alekos Rantos Physical fitness coach Moraci Sant'anna Fitness trainer José Antonio Pozanko Team attendant Petros Rigoutsos Chief scout Andreas Niniadis

Position Name Head of medical department Dr. Padelis Nikolaou Head doctor Dr. Ioannis Anagnostopoulos Doctor (cardiologist) Dr. Panos Stamatopoulous First team physiotherapist Rodrigo Savini First team physiologist Georgios Ziogas

Reserves team

As on: 21 August 2009, Source: Olympiacos F.C. U21 Team Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GRE Nikolaos Papadopoulos 2 DF  GRE Yannis Apostolopoulos 3 MF  GRE Giorgos Valerianos 4 DF  GRE Georgios Petropoulos 5 DF  GRE Kostas Rougalas 6 MF  GRE Panagiotis Stamogiannos 7 MF  GRE Andreas Vasilogiannis 8 MF  GRE Kostas Kotsaridis 9 FW  ALB Vasil Shkurtaj 10 FW  GRE Giorgos Niklitsiotis 11 MF  GRE Yiannis Fetfatzidis

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 DF  GRE Kostas Kritikos 13 DF  GRE Yiannis Potouridis 14 MF  GRE Fillipos Kurtanović 15 GK  SRB Ivan Babović 16 DF  GRE Evangelos Kabasis 17 MF  FRA Guillaume Bernard Panuel 18 MF  GRE Spyros Karatzanidis 19 MF  GRE Thomas Makaronas 20 FW  GRE Dimitrios Diamantakos 21 FW  GRE Konstantinos Lavdas 22 DF  GRE Stavros Soulis

Summer transfers

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  SWE Olof Mellberg (from Juventus, €2.5M) 9 FW  ENG Matt Derbyshire (from Blackburn Rovers, €3.35M) 11 MF  MAR Jaouad Zairi (from Asteras Tripolis, free) 15 DF  ESP Raúl Bravo (loan return) 28 MF  ARG Cristian Raúl Ledesma (loan return) 25 MF  ITA Enzo Maresca (from Sevilla, €1M) 78 GK  ESP Urko Rafael Pardo (on loan from Rapid București) 88 MF  GRE Georgios Katsikogiannis (loan return) Total spending: €6.85 million

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ARG Fernando Belluschi (to Porto, €5M) — MF  GRE Christos Patsatzoglou (to Omonia, free) — MF  GRE Konstantinos Mendrinos (to PAS Giannina, free) — MF  GRE Paraskevas Antzas (retired) — MF  SRB Predrag Đorđević (retired) — FW  SRB Darko Kovačević (retired) — DF  GRE Konstantinos Lambropoulos (to Asteras Tripolis, free) Total income: €5 million

Competitions

Classification

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Panathinaikos (C)	30	22	4	4	54	17	+37	70	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Olympiacos	30	19	7	4	47	18	+29	64	Qualification for the UEFA play-offs
3	PAOK	30	19	5	6	41	16	+25	62
4	AEK Athens	30	15	8	7	43	31	+12	53
5	Aris	30	12	10	8	35	28	+7	46

Source: Super League Greece
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head points; 3rd head-to-head goal difference; 4th decision match
(C) Champion.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	19	7	4	47	18	+29	64	9	4	2	26	10	+16	10	3	2	21	8	+13

Last updated: December 13, 2009.
Source: Super League Greece

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	W	L	L	W	D	L	W	W	W	D	W	L	D	W	D	W	W
Position	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2

Source: Super League Greece
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

All times at EET

30 August 2009 2	Larissa	0–2	Olympiacos	Larissa
21:15		(Report)	Leonardo  22' Maresca  32'	Stadium: Alkazar Attendance: 5,018

12 September 2009 3	Olympiacos	0–0	Kavala	Piraeus
19:00		(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 16,056

20 September 2009 4	PAOK	1–2	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
21:15	Vieirinha  10'	(Report)	Diogo  40' Papadopoulos  90'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 23,010

23 September 2009 1	AEK Athens	1–2	Olympiacos	Athens
21:15	Németh  65'	(Report)	Torosidis  43'  55'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 34,553

26 September 2009 5	Olympiacos	1–0	Panionios	Piraeus
16:45	Zairi  18'	(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 22,163

3 October 2009 6	Levadiakos	0–3	Olympiacos	Livadeia
19:00		(Report)	Oscar  5' Dudu  29' (pen.) Diogo  40'	Stadium: Levadia Municipal Stadium Attendance: 3,222

17 October 2009 7	Olympiacos	3–0	Asteras Tripoli	Piraeus
19:00	Mellberg  35' Mitroglou  53' Zairi  67'	(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 20,398

24 October 2009 8	Olympiacos	2–1	Ergotelis	Piraeus
19:00	Mitroglou  38' Dudu  85'	(Report)	Shashiashvili  22'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 21,254

31 October 2009 9	Atromitos	0–1	Olympiacos	Athens
19:00		(Report)	Oscar  80'	Stadium: Peristeri Stadium Attendance: 5,551

7 November 2009 10	Olympiacos	1–1	Iraklis	Piraeus
19:00	Maresca  40'	(Report)	Vellios  90+2'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 20,415

21 November 2009 11	PAS Giannina	2–2	Olympiacos	Ioannina
19:00	Tzanis  83' Bakayoko  90'	(Report)	Żewłakow  23' Mitroglou  80'	Stadium: Zosimades Stadium Attendance: 7,500

29 November 2009 12	Olympiacos	2–0	Panathinaikos	Piraeus
19:30	Mitroglou  45+1'  54'	(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 31,059

5 December 2009 13	Skoda Xanthi	0–1	Olympiacos	Xanthi
19:00		(Report)	Leonardo  31'	Stadium: Skoda Xanthi Arena Attendance: 2,793

13 December 2009 14	Olympiacos	3–0	Panthrakikos	Piraeus
16:45	Galletti  37' Dudu  45'  58'	(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 18,041

20 December 2009 15	Aris	1–0	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
	Campora  70'	(report)		Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium Attendance: 14,616

6 January 2010 16	Olympiacos	1–2	AEK Athens	Piraeus
	Papadopoulos  27'	(report)	Scocco  33'  40'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 27,789

10 January 2010 17	Olympiacos	2–1	Larissa	Piraeus
	Maresca  37' Galletti  40'	(report)	Katsiaros	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 19,327

17 January 2010 18	Kavala	0–0	Olympiacos	Kavala
				Stadium: Anthi Karagianni Stadium Attendance: 7,047

24 January 2010 19	Olympiacos	0–1	PAOK	Piraeus
			Edinho  20'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 26,139

31 January 2010 20	Panionios	0–1	Olympiacos	Athens
			Derbyshire  7'	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 4,852

7 February 2010 21	Olympiacos	5–1	Levadiakos	Piraeus
	Mellberg  19' Derbyshire  36'  53' Mitroglou  83'  90'		Taralidis  41'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium

14 February 2010 22	Asteras Tripoli	1–3	Olympiacos	Tripoli
	Eder  33'		LuaLua  5'  40' Stoltidis  9'	Stadium: Asteras Tripolis Stadium Attendance: 2,170

20 February 2010 23	Ergotelis	1–1	Olympiacos	Heraklion
19:00	Budimir  85'	(Report)	Torosidis  29'	Stadium: Pankritio Stadium Attendance: 7,298

28 February 2010 24	Olympiacos	2–0	Atromitos	Piraeus
16:45	Derbyshire  18' Mitroglou  90'	(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 21,866

7 March 2010 25	Iraklis	1–0	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
19:00	Mara  06'	(Report)		Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 5,470 Referee: Daloukas G.

13 March 2010 26	Olympiacos	2–2	PAS Giannina	Piraeus
19:00	Derbyshire  38' LuaLua  44'	(Report)	Bouhan  36' Kasnaferis  54'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 15,969 Referee: Dakos M.

21 March 2010 27	Panathinaikos	0–1	Olympiacos	Athens
19:00		(Report)	Derbyshire  68'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 61,135 Referee: Daloukas G.

28 March 2010 28	Olympiacos	0–0	Skoda Xanthi	Piraeus
19:00		(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 18,010 Referee: Pamporidis V.

11 April 2010 29	Panthrakikos	0–2	Olympiacos	Komotini
19:00		(Report)	Torosidis  11' Mitroglou  29'	Stadium: Komotini Stadium Attendance: 2,554 Referee: Charalambidis N.

18 April 2010 30	Olympiacos	2–1	Aris	Piraeus
19:00	Żewłakow  33' Maresca  45'	(Report)	Calvo Antonio  42'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 14,217 Referee: Dakos M.

Play-offs

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
2	PAOK	6	4	1	1	7	3	+4	16	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	AEK Athens	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	9	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round[lower-alpha 1]
4	Aris	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8[lower-alpha 2]	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
5	Olympiacos	6	1	1	4	3	7	−4	8[lower-alpha 2]	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]

Source: Standings and Schedule
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.
Notes:

1. Since Aris lost the 2009–10 Greek Football Cup Final against Champions League-qualified Panathinaikos, all Europa League spots will be determined by the play-off group positions.
2. Head-to-head record: Aris–Olympiacos 2–0, Olympiacos–Aris 0–0.

28 April 2010 1	Aris	2–0	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
	Johnson  39'  90'	Report		Stadium: Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium Attendance: 6,639 Referee: Giorgos Daloukas

2 May 2010 2	Olympiacos	2–1	AEK Athens	Piraeus
19:00	Mellberg  10' Maresca  43'	Report	Djebbour  22' (pen.)	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 18,697 Referee: Stavros Tsirtsonis

9 May 2010 3	PAOK	1–0	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
19:00	Muslimović  11'	Report		Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 24,109 Referee: Anastasios Kakos

12 May 2010 4	Olympiacos	0–1	PAOK	Piraeus
16:45		Report	Ivić  33'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 15,829 Referee: Giorgos Daloukas

16 May 2010 5	Olympiacos	0–0	Aris	Piraeus
19:00		Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 7,088 Referee: Michalis Dakos

19 May 2010 6	AEK Athens	2–1	Olympiacos	Athens
21:15	Manolas  6' Blanco  54'	Report	Y. Papadopoulos  10'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 14,738 Referee: Tasos Kakos

Fourth round

All times at EET

27 October 2009	Panserraikos	3–1	Olympiacos	Serres
17:00	Leozinho  16' Athanasiadis  52' Rimoldi  84'		Mitroglou  66'	Stadium: Serres Municipal Stadium

Third qualifying round

All times at EET

29 July 2009 First leg	Slovan Bratislava	0–2	Olympiacos	Bratislava, Slovakia
21:00		(Report)	Papadopoulos  2' Leonardo  22'	Stadium: Tehelné pole Attendance: 21,250[7] Referee: Claudio Circhetta (Switzerland)

5 August 2009 Second leg	Olympiacos	2–0 (4–0 agg.)	Slovan Bratislava	Piraeus, Greece
21:45	Maresca  35' Diogo  56'	(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 26,137[8] Referee: Konrad Plautz (Austria)

Play-off round

All times at EET

18 August 2009 First leg	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–2	Olympiacos	Tiraspol, Moldova
21:45		(Report)	Dudu  46' Mitroglou  81'	Stadium: Sheriff Stadium Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Martin Atkinson (England

26 August 2009 Second leg	Olympiacos	1–0 (3–0 agg.)	Sheriff Tiraspol	Piraeus, Greece
21:45	Mitroglou  82'	(Report)		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 27,633 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

Group stage

All times at EET

16 September 2009 1	Olympiacos	1–0	AZ	Piraeus, Greece
21:45	Torosidis  79'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 29,018 Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

29 September 2009 2	Arsenal	2–0	Olympiacos	London, England
21:45	Van Persie  78' Arshavin  86'	Report		Stadium: Emirates Stadium Attendance: 59,884 Referee: Stéphane Lannoy (France)

20 October 2009 3	Olympiacos	2–1	Standard Liège	Piraeus, Greece
21:45	Mitroglou  43' Stoltidis  90+3'	Report	de Camargo  37'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 29,889 Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

4 November 2009 4	Standard Liège	2–0	Olympiacos	Liège, Belgium
21:45	Mbokani  31' Jovanović  88'	Report		Stadium: Stade Maurice Dufrasne Attendance: 24,787 Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)

24 November 2009 5	AZ	0–0	Olympiacos	Alkmaar, Netherlands
21:45		Report		Stadium: DSB Stadion Attendance: 16,213 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

9 December 2009 6	Olympiacos	1–0	Arsenal	Piraeus, Greece
21:45	Leonardo  47'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 30,277 Referee: Lucílio Batista (Portugal)

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Arsenal	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	13	Advance to knockout phase
2	Olympiacos	6	3	1	2	4	5	−1	10
3	Standard Liège	6	1	2	3	7	9	−2	5	Transfer to Europa League
4	AZ	6	0	4	2	4	8	−4	4

Source: RSSSF

First knockout round

All times at EET

23 February 2010 First leg	Olympiacos	0–1	Bordeaux	Piraeus, Greece
21:45		Report	Ciani  45+2'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 29,773 Referee: Howard Webb (England)

17 March 2010 Secondleg	Bordeaux	2–1 (3–1 agg.)	Olympiacos	Bordeaux, France
21:45	Gourcuff  5' Chamakh  88'	Report	Mitroglou  65'	Stadium: Stade Chaban-Delmas Attendance: 31,004 Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)

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Team kit

Home

Away

Third

Fourth

References

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2. "Press release". Olympiacos F.C. official website. 19 June 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
3. "Press release". Olympiacos F.C. official website. 23 June 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
4. "Press release". Olympiacos F.C. official website. 23 June 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2010-04-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. "Current Roster". Archived from the original on 20 February 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
7. "Olympiakos too strong for Slovan Bratislava". Soccerway. 2009-07-30. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
8. Ολυμπιακός-Σλόβαν Μπρατισλάβας 2–0 (in Greek). Olympiacos official website. 2009-08-05. Archived from the original on 2015-08-10. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
9. https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2009/12/20/greece/super-league/aris-thessaloniki-fc/olympiakos-cfp/796989/

External links

• Olympiacos F.C. official website
• Olympiacos F.C. on ESPN
• UEFA Champions League