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Watch Olympiacos CFP vs Arsenal LIVE!
On Wednesday 9th December Arsenal travel to Athens, Greece for the final group H match in the group stages of the UEFA Champions League.
The match kicks off at 9:45pm SA time and is being shown live on Supersport 6 with the match build up starting at 9:15pm.
Olympiacos F.C. also known as Olympiacos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name Olympiacos C.F.P. (Olympiacos Syndesmos Filathlon Pireos), Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus, is a Greek association football club, part of Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus, Athens.
Olympiacos is considered one of the big three football clubs in Greece and it is one of four teams that have never been relegated from the first division. Olympiacos is the most successful club in Greek football history, having won thirty-seven League titles, twenty-four Greek Cups and three Greek Super Cups, more titles than any other Greek team; in European competitions, they have reached the quarter-finals twice, in the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League and the 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup. Olympiacos is also one of the founding members of the European Club Association.
The club's stadium is the newly rebuilt Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus. Olympiacos is the most popular Greek club with around two and a half million fans in Greece and was placed ninth on the list with the most paid up members in the world in 2006, having 83,000 registered members as of April 2006. They share a great and long-standing rivalry with Panathinaikos, with whom they contest in the Derby of the eternal enemies.
In Johannesburg, The Arsenal SA club will be meeting at our new venue ‘Blandford Manor’ to watch of the game.
Blandford Manor
106 Hyperion Drive
Northriding
Randburg
Sat-Nav co-ordinates are as follows: 26°02'36.30"S 27°57'51.00"E
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On this day in 2002
2002 - Arsenal equalled a 65-year-old league record with a 2-1 win at home to Manchester City, having scored in 44 consecutive league matches.
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