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The Peace and Friendship Stadium, commonly known by its acronym SEF (Greek:Στάδιο Ειρήνης και Φιλίας, transliterated as Stadio Eirinis kai Filias) is a sports arena inPiraeus, in the coastal zone of Athens, Greece. The arena is mostly known for being the home to Euroleague Basketball powerhouse Olympiacos Piraeus, and is the central venue of the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex. It opened in 1985 and its multi-purpose main arena has been used, apart from professional basketball, for volleyball, indoor athletics, gymnastics, indoor motocross, concerts, conventions, exhibitions, and other sports and entertainment events.
Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium (Greek: Γήπεδο Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης [ˈʝipeðo karaiˈskacis]) is a football stadium in the Neo Faliro area of Piraeus, in Athens,Greece. It is the home ground of the most popular Greek club Olympiacos F.C. and is named after Georgios Karaiskakis (Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης), hero of the Greek War of Independence, who was mortally wounded near the area.
It was used during the 1896 Summer Olympics as the Neo Phaliron Velodrome, whereFrenchman Paul Masson took the three track cycling gold medals.
It was renovated during the 1960sand was completely rebuilt in 2004 into a 32,115 capacity, all seater stadium, ready for the football competition of the 2004 Summer Olympics.
The stadium was totally demolished and built again from the beginning, facing a different direction. This complete reconstruction took a record time of only 14 months, finishing just in time for the Olympic Games. After the last deal ended in 1998, Olympiacos is using the stadium once again, on a 49-year lease from 2003 until 2052 and is traditionally identified as the club's true home.
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In 2002, the president and owner of Olympiacos Socratis Kokkalis, when announced the project to rebuild Karaiskakis, expressed his wish for the new stadium to be also used by Ethnikos F.C., if they wanted, as Karaiskakis is the historic home of both Olympiacos and Ethnikos. Therefore, in the contract signed by the Hellenic Olympic Committee, the owner of the stadium, and Olympiacos, a clause was included, stating that should Ethnikos wish to return to the stadium, they may do so without sharing any significant maintenance or other stadium-related costs, as those are covered by Olympiacos. As of the 2010/11 season though, Ethnikos has not yet opted to do so.