2005–06 Olympiacos F.C. season

The 2005–06 season was Olympiacos's 47th consecutive season in the Alpha Ethniki and their 80th year in existence. The club were played their 9th consecutive season in the UEFA Champions League. In the beginning of the summertime Olympiacos named Norwegian Trond Sollied coach.

Olympiacos

2005–06 season
Chairman	Sokratis Kokkalis
Manager	Trond Sollied
Stadium	Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Alpha Ethniki	1st
Greek Cup	Winners
Champions League	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Predrag Đorđević (15) All: Predrag Đorđević (18)
Highest home attendance	33,500 vs Olympique Lyonnais (1 November 2005)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Players

First-team squad

Squad at end of season

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	MF	GRE	Pantelis Kafes
2	DF	GRE	Christos Patsatzoglou
3	DF	GRE	Stelios Venetidis
4	DF	GRE	Efthimios Kouloucheris
5	DF	GRE	Michalis Kapsis
6	MF	GRE	Ieroklis Stoltidis
7	FW	MEX	Nery Castillo
8	MF	SRB	Miloš Marić
9	FW	CYP	Ioannis Okkas
10	MF	BRA	Rivaldo
11	MF	SRB	Predrag Đorđević
12	DF	ARG	Gabriel Schurrer
14	DF	GRE	Dimitris Mavrogennidis
15	MF	CIV	Yaya Touré
17	MF	GRE	Giannis Taralidis
19	DF	GRE	Athanasios Kostoulas

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	FW	ESP	Dani García
21	DF	GRE	Grigorios Georgatos
22	DF	TUR	Erol Bulut
23	FW	CYP	Michalis Konstantinou
25	DF	GRE	Spyros Vallas
27	MF	ARM	Zhora Hovhannisyan
28	MF	GRE	Konstantinos Mendrinos
30	DF	GRE	Anastasios Pantos
32	DF	GRE	Georgios Anatolakis
33	GK	BEL	Erwin Lemmens
34	GK	GRE	Kleopas Giannou
36	MF	GRE	Giannoulis Fakinos
40	FW	NGA	Haruna Babangida
71	GK	GRE	Antonios Nikopolidis
77	MF	GRE	Tasos Kyriakos
87	GK	GRE	Leonidas Panagopoulos

Club

The Management

Position	Staff
Manager	Trond Sollied
Assistant manager	Čedomir Janevski
Assistant manager	Chris Van Puyvelde
Assistant manager	Herman Vermeulen
Club doctor	Dimosthenis Anastasakis
Chief scout	Vassilis Karapialis

Last updated: May 7, 2006
Source: Olympiacos FC

Other information

Chairman	Socratis Kokkalis
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Karaiskákis Stadium (33,334 / 120x80 m)

Source: Olympiacos FC article about Socratis Kokkalis and Olympiacos FC article about Karaiskákis Stadium

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Alpha Ethniki	—	—	Winner	28 Aug 2005	14 May 2006
UEFA Champions League	Group Stage	—	Group Stage	13 Sep 2005	6 Dec 2005
Greek Cup	4th Round	—	Winner	9 Nov 2005	10 May 2006

Updated to match played May 14, 2006
Source: Competitions

Alpha Ethniki

Main article: 2005–06 Alpha Ethniki

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	30	23	1	6	63	23	+40	70	Qualification for Champions League group stage
2	AEK Athens	30	21	4	5	42	20	+22	67	Qualification for Champions League third qualifying round
3	Panathinaikos	30	21	4	5	55	23	+32	67	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
4	Iraklis	30	15	6	9	39	31	+8	51
5	Skoda Xanthi	30	13	8	9	31	25	+6	47

Source: Galanis Sports Data
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Goals against; 7) Play-offs (neutral ground); 8) Draw.
(Note: Criterion 7 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).
(C) Champions
Notes:

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	23	1	6	63	23	+40	70	13	1	1	39	8	+31	10	0	5	24	15	+9

Last updated: 14 May 2006.
Source: Competitive matches

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	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W	W	W	W	W	L	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	L	W	L	L	D
Position	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

All times at EET

Panathinaikos v Olympiacos

28 August 2005 1	Panathinaikos	0–2	Olympiacos	Athens
21:00		Report	Stoltidis 35' Đorđević 86'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 59,096 Referee: Athanassios Briakos

Olympiacos v Panionios

10 September 2005 2	Olympiacos	5–0	Panionios	Piraeus
21:00	Kafes 25' Stoltidis 47' Kostoulas 55' Taralidis 59' Babangida 67'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 0 (closed doors) Referee: Christos Basilou

Kallithea v Olympiacos

17 September 2005 3	Kallithea	0–3	Olympiacos	Athens
19:15		Report	Telkiyski 71' (o.g.) Đorđević 77' Castillo 90+2'	Stadium: Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium Attendance: 2,812 Referee: Romanos Kontogiannidis

Olympiacos v Akratitos

24 September 2005 4	Olympiacos	2–0	Akratitos	Piraeus
17:00	Đorđević 24' Konstantinou 28'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 0 (closed doors) Referee: Ilias Mazarakos

AEK Athens v Olympiacos

2 October 2005 5	AEK Athens	1–3	Olympiacos	Athens
20:00	Alexopoulos 41'	Report	Đorđević 54' (pen.) Konstantinou 87' Okkas 88'	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 46,394 Referee: Iraklis Tsikinis

Olympiacos v PAOK

16 October 2005 6	Olympiacos	1–2	PAOK	Piraeus
19:00	Touré 59'	Report	Konstantinidis 66', 71'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 0 (closed doors) Referee: Basiliou Spyridon

OFI v Olympiacos

23 October 2005 7	OFI	1–0	Olympiacos	Heraklion
19:00	Machlas 67'	Report		Stadium: Pankritio Stadium Attendance: 11,848 Referee: Athanassios Briakos

Apollon Kalamarias v Olympiacos

29 October 2005 8	Apollon Kalamarias	1–2	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
17:45	El-Omari 60'	Report	Okkas 45' Konstantinou 71'	Stadium: Kalamaria Stadium Attendance: 1,866 Referee: Iraklis Tsikinis

Olympiacos v Skoda Xanthi

6 November 2005 9	Olympiacos	2–0	Skoda Xanthi	Piraeus
20:00	Torosidis 2' (o.g.) Đorđević 54' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 29,646 Referee: Christoforos Zografos

Atromitos v Olympiacos

19 November 2005 10	Atromitos	0–1	Olympiacos	Athens
19:00		Report	Stoltidis 58'	Stadium: Peristeri Stadium Attendance: 3,869 Referee: Athanassios Briakos

Olympiacos v Iraklis

28 November 2005 11	Olympiacos	2–1	Iraklis	Piraeus
21:00	Đorđević 11' (pen.) Okkas 78'	Report	Herrera 22'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 21,388 Referee: Konstantinos Finokaliotis

Egaleo v Olympiacos

3 December 2005 12	Egaleo	1–3	Olympiacos	Athens
19:00	Ma. Marić 56'	Report	Touré 14', 51' Đorđević 85' (pen.)	Stadium: Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium Attendance: 2,520 Referee: Vasileios Terovitsas

Olympiacos v AEL

12 December 2005 13	Olympiacos	4–0	AEL	Piraeus
21:00	Dabizas 20' (o.g.) Okkas 39' Đorđević 70' Babangida 80'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 27,301 Referee: Dimitrios Detsis

Olympiacos v Levadiakos

17 December 2005 14	Olympiacos	1–0	Levadiakos	Piraeus
16:30	Đorđević 9' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 25,525 Referee: Michalis Germanakos

Ionikos v Olympiacos

8 January 2006 15	Ionikos	0–1	Olympiacos	Piraeus
19:45		Report	Stoltidis 88'	Stadium: Neapoli Stadium Attendance: 3,343 Referee: Antonios Kouklakis

Olympiacos v Panathinaikos

15 January 2006 16	Olympiacos	3–2	Panathinaikos	Piraeus
19:00	Rivaldo 37', 58' Konstantinou 73'	Report	González 20' (pen.) Gekas 74'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 31,480 Referee: Dimitrios Kalopoulos

Panionios v Olympiacos

30 January 2006 17	Panionios	2–3	Olympiacos	Athens
21:00	Zografakis 10' Luciano 18'	Report	Konstantinou 25', 82' Đorđević 39'	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 4,404 Referee: Charalampos Karatzas

Olympiacos v Kallithea

6 February 2006 18	Olympiacos	2–1	Kallithea	Piraeus
21:00	Rivaldo 9' Georgatos 89'	Report	Koutsospyros 30'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 16,955 Referee: Basiliou Spyridon

Akratitos v Olympiacos

13 February 2006 19	Akratitos	0–1	Olympiacos	Athens
21:00		Report	Rivaldo 68'	Stadium: Yiannis Pathiakakis Stadium Attendance: 1,638 Referee: Apostolos Nikolaidis

Olympiacos v AEK Athens

19 February 2006 20	Olympiacos	3–0	AEK Athens	Piraeus
20:00	Okkas 88' Rivaldo 66', 90+3'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 31,127 Referee: Iraklis Tsikinis

PAOK v Olympiacos

26 February 2006 21	PAOK	1–2	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
17:15	Shikabala 5'	Report	Okkas 31' Konstantinou 77'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 7,050 Referee: Athanassios Briakos

Olympiacos v OFI

5 March 2006 22	Olympiacos	4–0	OFI	Piraeus
20:00	Konstantinou 15' Đorđević 22' (pen.) Rivaldo 38' Dani 74'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 25,489 Referee: Vasileios Terovitsas

Olympiacos v Apollon Kalamarias

12 March 2006 23	Olympiacos	2–1	Apollon Kalamarias	Piraeus
20:00	Dani 17' Đorđević 58' (pen.)	Report	Cleyton 79' (pen.)	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 28,560 Referee: Konstantinos Finokaliotis

Skoda Xanthi v Olympiacos

18 March 2006 24	Skoda Xanthi	1–0	Olympiacos	Xanthi
17:00	Kazakis 56'	Report		Stadium: Skoda Xanthi Arena Attendance: 5,361 Referee: Ioannis Flambouris

Olympiacos v Atromitos

27 March 2006 25	Olympiacos	3–0	Atromitos	Piraeus
21:00	Konstantinou 18' Bulut 70' Đorđević 75'	Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 22,200 Referee: Dimitrios Dabosis

Iraklis v Olympiacos

3 April 2006 26	Iraklis	2–0	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
21:00	Herrera 22' Epalle 52'	Report		Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 6,816 Referee: Vasileios Terovitsas

Olympiacos v Egaleo

8 April 2006 27	Olympiacos	5–1	Egaleo	Piraeus
19:00	Kafes 6' Stoltidis 49' Đorđević 53' Okkas 59' Castillo 90+1'	Report	Papoutsis 51'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 28,228 Referee: Charalampos Karatzas

AEL v Olympiacos

16 April 2006 28	AEL	2–1	Olympiacos	Larissa
21:15	Digozis 7' (pen.) Aloneftis 57'	Report	Đorđević 54'	Stadium: Alcazar Stadium Attendance: 7,787 Referee: Ilias Mazarakos

Levadiakos v Olympiacos

30 April 2006 29	Levadiakos	3–2	Olympiacos	Livadeia
18:00	Dimitropoulos 6' Bushi 9' Rusev 17'	Report	Mi. Marić 48' Konstantinou 60'	Stadium: Levadia Municipal Stadium Attendance: 2,365 Referee: Christoforos Zografos

Olympiacos v Ionikos

14 May 2006 30	Olympiacos	0–0	Ionikos	Piraeus
17:45		Report		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 31,178 Referee: Lazaros Polatian

Greek Cup

Main article: 2005–06 Greek Football Cup

Fourth round

Paniliakos v Olympiacos

10 November 2005	Paniliakos	0–4	Olympiacos	Pyrgos
		Report	Okkas 17' Dani 19', 44' Đorđević 86'	Stadium: Pyrgos Stadium Referee: Dimitris Detsis

Fifth round

Thrasyvoulos v Olympiacos

20 December 2005	Thrasyvoulos	0–2	Olympiacos	Fyli
		Report	Dani 14' Papathanisou 90+2' (o.g.)	Stadium: Fyli Municipal Stadium Referee: Dimitris Kalopoulos

Quarter-finals

Olympiacos v Skoda Xanthi

2 February 2006 First leg	Olympiacos	1–1	Skoda Xanthi	Piraeus
	Rivaldo 20'	Report	Lambriakos 86'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Referee: Iraklis Tsikinis

Skoda Xanthi v Olympiacos

9 February 2006 Second leg	Skoda Xanthi	0–1 (1–2 agg.)	Olympiacos	Xanthi
		Report	Rivaldo 75'	Stadium: Skoda Xanthi Arena Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis

Semi-finals

Olympiacos v AEL

22 March 2006 First leg	Olympiacos	3–1	AEL	Piraeus
	Konstantinou 31', 80' Stoltidis 42'	Report	Aloneftis 72'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Referee: Christoforos Zografos

AEL v Olympiacos

12 April 2006 Second leg	AEL	0–1 (1–4 agg.)	Olympiacos	Larissa
		Report	Castillo 90+4'	Stadium: Alkazar Stadium Referee: Kyros Vassaras

Final

Olympiacos v AEK Athens

10 May 2006 Final	Olympiacos	3–0	AEK Athens	Heraklion
20:30	Konstantinou 61' Ivić 70' (o.g.) Castillo 90'	Report		Stadium: Pankritio Stadium Attendance: 22,079 Referee: Vasilis Terovitsas

UEFA Champions League

Main article: 2005–06 UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Main article: 2005–06 UEFA Champions League group stage § Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lyon	6	5	1	0	13	4	+9	16	Advance to knockout stage
2	Real Madrid	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10
3	Rosenborg	6	1	1	4	6	11	−5	4	Transfer to UEFA Cup
4	Olympiacos	6	1	1	4	7	13	−6	4

Source: RSSSF

All times at CET

Olympiacos v Rosenborg

13 September 2005 1	Olympiacos	1–3	Rosenborg	Piraeus, Greece
20:45	Lago 19' (o.g.)	Report	Skjelbred 42' Mavrogenidis 48' (o.g.) Storflor 90+4'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 28,000 Referee: Stefano Farina (Italy)

Real Madrid v Olympiacos

28 September 2005 2	Real Madrid	2–1	Olympiacos	Madrid, Spain
20:45	Raúl 9' Soldado 86'	Report	Kafes 48'	Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Stadium Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

Lyon v Olympiacos

19 October 2005 3	Lyon	2–1	Olympiacos	Lyon, France
20:45	Juninho 4' Govou 89'	Report	Kafes 84'	Stadium: Stade de Gerland Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Graham Poll (England)

Olympiacos v Lyon

1 November 2005 4	Olympiacos	1–4	Lyon	Piraeus, Greece
20:45	Babangida 3'	Report	Juninho 41' Carew 44', 57' Diarra 55'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 33,500 Referee: Peter Fröjdfeldt (Sweden)

Rosenborg v Olympiacos

23 November 2005 5	Rosenborg	1–1	Olympiacos	Trondheim, Norway
20:45	Helstad 88'	Report	Rivaldo 25'	Stadium: Lerkendal Stadion Attendance: 21,270 Referee: Paul Allaerts (Belgium)

Olympiacos v Real Madrid

6 December 2005 6	Olympiacos	2–1	Real Madrid	Piraeus, Greece
20:45	Bulut 50' Rivaldo 87'	Report	Ramos 7'	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

Team kit

Supplier: Puma
Sponsor(s): Siemens

Home

Away

Third

Source: Olympiacos FC

Individual Awards

Name	Pos.	Award
Rivaldo	Attacking Midfielder	Super League Greece Best Foreign Player
Ieroklis Stoltidis	Central Midfielder	Super League Greece Greek Player of the Season
Antonios Nikopolidis	Goalkeeper	Super League Greece Goalkeeper of the Season

External links

• Official Website of Olympiacos Piraeus (in Greek and English)