Olympiacos Piraeus
Olympiacos Piraeus has been one of the most successful clubs of the 21st century, with nine Final Four appearances, six trips to the championship game and a pair of EuroLeague crowns. Olympiacos had back-to-back runner-up EuroLeague finishes in 1994 and 1995, but in 1997 it beat FC Barcelona 73-58 in Rome to secure its first EuroLeague title. After a few quiet years, the Reds finally got back to the EuroLeague Final Four in 2009, but lost in the semifinals to archrival Panathinaikos. In 2010, Olympiacos made the EuroLeague Championship Game in Paris, only for Barcelona to walk away with the crown. The 2012 EuroLeague Championship Game saw Olympiacos rally from a 19-point deficit to edge CSKA Moscow, 61-62, on a famous last-second shot by Georgios Printezis in Istanbul. One year later, Vassilis Spanoulis earned EuroLeague MVP and Final Four MVP honors in London as the Reds overcame CSKA and Real Madrid to defend their title. Olympiacos reached the title-deciding game in both 2015 and 2017, but it lost to Real Madrid and Fenerbahce Istanbul, respectively. Georgios Bartzokas returned to Olympiacos in 2020 and has guided the Greek club to three straight Final Four appearances for the first time ever (2022, 2023, 2024), with the Reds making the championship game once in that run (2023). With 2022-23 EuroLeague MVP Sasha Vezenkov having returned to SEF and Evan Fournier also joining, Olympiacos is well positioned to make it to a fourth successive Final Four.
Olympiacos Piraeus has been one of the most successful clubs of the 21st century, with nine Final Four appearances, six trips to the championship game and a pair of EuroLeague crowns. Olympiacos had back-to-back runner-up EuroLeague finishes in 1994 and 1995, but in 1997 it beat FC Barcelona 73-58 in Rome to secure its first EuroLeague title. After a few quiet years, the Reds finally got back to the EuroLeague Final Four in 2009, but lost in the semifinals to archrival Panathinaikos. In 2010, Olympiacos made the EuroLeague Championship Game in Paris, only for Barcelona to walk away with the crown. The 2012 EuroLeague Championship Game saw Olympiacos rally from a 19-point deficit to edge CSKA Moscow, 61-62, on a famous
last-second shot by Georgios Printezis in Istanbul. One year later, Vassilis Spanoulis earned EuroLeague MVP and Final Four MVP honors in London as the Reds overcame CSKA and Real Madrid to defend their title. Olympiacos reached the title-deciding game in both 2015 and 2017, but it lost to Real Madrid and Fenerbahce Istanbul, respectively. Georgios Bartzokas returned to Olympiacos in 2020 and has guided the Greek club to three straight Final Four appearances for the first time ever (2022, 2023, 2024), with the Reds making the championship game once in that run (2023). With 2022-23 EuroLeague MVP Sasha Vezenkov having returned to SEF and Evan Fournier also joining, Olympiacos is well positioned to make it to a fourth successive Final Four.
