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OLYMPIACOS PIRAEUS: DID YOU KNOW?

Olympiacos is at its 14th Final Four. Its last 10 appearances have come over the last 16 years - 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024 and now 2025. Olympiacos has the chance to win its fourth EuroLeague championship. It is the first time that the Reds have reached the Final Four in four consecutive seasons. 


Olympiacos is one of four teams that have won back-to-back EuroLeague crowns in the Final Four era. Olympiacos won back-to-back EuroLeague titles in 2012 and 2013. KK Split (1989, 1990, 1991), Maccabi Tel Aviv (2004, 2005) and Anadolu Efes Istanbul (2022, 2023) are also on this exclusive list, which Panathinaikos can join in 2025. 


Olympiacos is 9-4 in EuroLeague Semifinals. Only Maccabi (10-2) has a better semifinals record, with one of those wins coming in the 2001 SuproLeague Final Four.


Kostas Papanikolaou won back-to-back EuroLeague championships with Olympiacos in 2012 and 2013. He is at his eighth Final Four – he’s been to seven with the Reds and one with FC Barcelona (2014). 


Papanikolaou and Nikola Milutinov played in the 2017 EuroLeague Championship Game. Four more players from that game are at the 2024 Final Four: Kostas Sloukas, Melih Mahmutoglu, Khem Birch and Ioannis Papapetrou. Vassilis Spanoulis is also there, but as a head coach. 


Papanikolaou is the only Rising Star Trophy winner at this Final Four. Papanikolaou was chosen as the 2012-13 EuroLeague Rising Star 


Luca Vildoza has a rare chance to win consecutive EuroLeague championships with different teams. He won the EuroLeague with Panathinaikos last season. Dejan Bodiroga (Panathinaikos 2002, Barcelona 2003), Sarunas Jasikevicius (Barcelona 2003, Maccabi Tel Aviv 2004) and Ramunas Siskauskas (Panathinaikos Athens 2007, CSKA Moscow 2008) are the only players to date to do so.


Vildoza has joined a group of players who reached the Final Four with both Olympiacos and Panathinaikos. The other members of this exclusive club are Dimitrios Papanikolaou, Andreas Glyniadakis, Ian Vougioukas, Vassilis Spanoulis, Lazaros Papadopoulos, Stratos Perperoglou, Zarko Paspalj, Alexander Volkov, Johnny Rogers, Giorgi Shermadini, Ioannis Papapetrou and Kostas Sloukas.


Thomas Walkup is the only EuroLeague Best Defender Trophy winner present at the 2025 Final Four. 


Coach Georgios Bartzokas is at his sixth Final Four. He won the EuroLeague with Olympiacos Piraeus in 2013, took Lokomotiv Kuban to the 2016 Final Four, and has returned with the Reds in each of the last four seasons. 


Bartzokas is one of two Greek coaches to win the EuroLeague. He led Olympiacos to the 2013 crown. Dimitris Itoudis (CSKA 2015, 2018) is the other. 


Bartzokas is a three-time Aleksander Gomelskiy EuroLeague Coach of the Year award winner. He was chosen as the Coach of the Year in 2013, 2022, 2023, and is the only coach to win the award in consecutive seasons. Zeljko Obradovic also won the award three times: in 2007, 2011 and 2017. 


Sasha Vezenkov is one of the three EuroLeague MVPs present at the 2025 Final Four. Vezenkov was the 2022-23 EuroLeague MVP. Mike James won it in the 2023-24 campaign and Kendrick Nunn is this season’s regular season MVP. 


Vezenkov is the first-ever EuroLeague Playoffs MVP, which came this season. It is a new trophy in the competition’s awards structure.


Vezenkov leads the 2024-25 EuroLeague in PIR (24.3 ppg.). He also ranks third in scoring (20.0 ppg.) and second in rebounds (6.7 rpg.)


Moustapha Fall is first in two-point shooting percentage. He hit 84-of-112 two-pointers (75.0% 2FG). He ranks second all-time (73.0% 2FG), only behind Donta Hall (74.1%). 


Papanikolaou is the all-time runaway leader in games started. He has started in 338 EuroLeague games. Nick Calathes of AS Monaco ranks second with 318 EuroLeague starts, followed by Paulius Jankunas (283). 


Papanikolaou ranks eighth all-time in steals with 326. Calathes leads the charts with 459 steals. 


Alec Peters won the EuroLeague with CSKA Moscow in 2019. Peters, Vildoza., Papanikolaou and Nigel Williams-Goss (Real Madrid 2023) are the four Olympiacos players who have lifted the EuroLeague trophy. 


Peters is third all-time in three-point shooting accuracy. He made 279-of-599 three-pointers (46.6%). Peters only trails Harold Mrazek (47.7% 3FG) and Jon Diebler (47.1%). 


Peters ranks third in three-point shooting this season. Peters made 52.6% of his three-point shots, 40 of 76. Niels Giffey of Bayern ranks first at 57.9%. 
  
 
 

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