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The Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium (Greek: Στάδιο Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης), commonly referred to as the Karaiskakis Stadium (Greek: Στάδιο Καραϊσκάκη, [ˈstaðio karaiˈskaki]), is a football stadium in Piraeus, Attica, Greece, and the home ground of the Piraeus football club Olympiacos.
The new monument at "Square of Thyra Victims 7" with the names of the fallen. The Karaiskakis Stadium disaster, also called the Gate 7 Tragedy, was an incident that occurred on 8 February 1981 [1] at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Piraeus, Greece, after the conclusion of a football match between Olympiacos and AEK Athens.
After the demolition of the Karaiskakis Stadium and the construction of New Karaiskakis Stadium the association has established its Gate 7. It has a total of 156 sub-links in various parts of the world, in Greece, Cyprus, America, Germany, London, California , Ireland , Bologna , Belgrade and two major Greek communities in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne.
Image Stadium Capacity City Club Opened UEFA 1: Olympic Stadium "Spyros Louis" 69,618 [1]: Athens: Panathinaikos: 1982 2: Karaiskakis Stadium: 33,334 [2]: Piraeus: Olympiacos, Greece national team
Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium: Piraeus: 34,000 1985 Peace and Friendship Stadium: 20,000 ... Stadio Diego Aramando Maradona: 60,240 November 7, 2009 Gran Teatro Geox:
The stadium was built in 1948 and its inauguration took place on October 17 that year with the presence of some 10,000 fans. In 2002, Olympiacos undertook a radical renovation to use it as the temporary headquarters of its team until the construction of the new "Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium" was completed, replacing the old one in Neo Faliro, Piraeus.
In 1964, the stadium was renovated and was given its current name after Georgios Karaiskakis, a military commander of the Greek War of Independence, with an athletics track around the pitch. [119] Olympiacos left the Karaiskakis Stadium temporarily to play home matches at the newly built Athens Olympic Stadium in 1984. After a five-year use ...
Georgios Karaiskakis (Greek: Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης), born Georgios Karaiskos (Greek: Γεώργιος Καραΐσκος; 1782 – 1827), was a Greek military commander and a leader of the Greek War of Independence.