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Olympiacos SFP

OLYMPIACOS S.F.P. was founded on March 10, 1925. The Club’s aim, as stated in the statutes, is the systematic cultivation and development of its athletes’ possibilities for participation in athletic competitions, the spreading of the athletic ideal and the promotion of sportsmanship and fanship among the youth according to egalitarian principles and stressing a healthy, ethical and social basis for this.

It is the largest multisport clubs in Greece and one of the biggest worldwide. Olympiacos S.F.P.is successfully active in football, basketball, volleyball, water polo, handball, track and field, swimming, sailing, rowing, canoeing and kayaking, ping pong, fencing, boxing, tae kwon do, kick boxing, capoeira with the divisions of beach volley and tennis. Olympiacos is the most popular Greek club with around four million fans inside Greece and millions of others in the Greek communities all over the world. Since April 2003, Olympiacos has more than 130,000 registered members and 70,000 registered fans on an annual basis.

Olympiacos is more than a Club. Always loyal to its founding values and Olympic ideals without forgetting its roots and obligations, it undertook in its founding principles, the day it was established on March 10th 1925, highly contributes to the promotion of the spiritual role of Greece and the establishment of the ideas and values of Olympism, Culture, Education and Sports, on an international level. In this respect, Olympiacos is the sponsor of the International Olympic Academy, the spiritual pillar of the International Olympic Committee and to the same direction, it sponsors the Hellenic Olympic Academy and contributes to the Panhellenic Educational Programme “FAIR PLAY”, offering to the educational programme of Olympic Education and Olympic values. Owing to the positive values sport embodies, Olympiacos is a club capable of combining emulation and moral, promoting the values of sports by constantly nurturing and educating athletes as persons, ensuring fair sporting contests, and reinforcing solidarity and respect. Olympiacos’ code of ethics is binding on all its members and embraces a range of ethical practices pertaining to the history, conduct and culture of the organization, as a whole, instilling values of integrity, equity and transparency. Olympiacos was born by the people and will always refer to the people, regardless of nationality, gender or age.
Olympiacos has a great experience in running communication and marketing strategies as much as organizing events during its participation in national and European championships.
The club is also experienced in running European Erasmus+ and Horizon projects related to the social inclusion of vulnerable social groups. Specifically, it has participated in fourteen different European initiatives that prove the social profile of the club. The club has also undertaken the leading role in four projects which means that the club staff has a good experience in managing, evaluating, monitoring and running communication and dissemination policies.