About Olympiacos Volos FC

Olympiacos Volos is a Greek football club from the port city of Volos in Thessaly, founded on 2 June 1937. In 1961 it merged with local side Ethnikos Volos and played for decades as Ethnikos Olympiacos Volos, although it was always known simply as Olympiacos Volos. Its traditional colours are red and white, and it plays its home matches in Volos.

The club first reached the top flight in 1966 and then spent several spells moving between the first and second divisions until the late 1980s. Financial collapse in the early 2000s sent it down to the fourth tier, but it climbed back up and in 2010–11, after more than twenty years away, it finished fifth in the Super League.

That fifth place took Olympiacos Volos into the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League, where it beat Rad and Differdange 03 in the qualifying rounds. Before the play-off round, however, UEFA expelled the club for its involvement in the Koriopolis match-fixing scandal and gave its place to Differdange. The Greek federation also relegated the club, and it has since played in the regional and lower national divisions.