Wellington Olympic AFC

Wellington Olympic Roll of Honour

Centurions		200 Appearances

1979	Harry Kotsapas	1984	Harry Kotsapas
1980	George Bertos Snr	1986	Nick Halikias
1980	Nick Halikias	1989	Spiro Androutsos
1983	Basil Bouzoukis	1989	Alkes Ioannou
1984	Alkes Ioannou	1994	Chris Christie
1984	Spiro Androutsos	1999	Imre Foldi
1984	Andy West	2000	Paul Kotrotsos
1988	Tony Palamidas	2002	Basil Mitrakas
1988	George Kotrotsos	2010	Jared Curtis
1989	Chris Christie	2013	Barry Lewis
1990	Carl Adams	2014	Maki Halikias
1991	Costa Leonidas	2015	Jimmy Haidakis
1991	Mick Peel	2017	Chas Lawrence
1994	Imre Foldi
1994	Andre Racz	300 Appearances
1995	Paul Kotrotsos
1996	Basil Mitrakas	1988	Harry Kotsapas
1996	Craig Candy	1990	Nick Halikias
1997	Ian Minshull
1998	Gary Minshull	50 Goals
2001	Simon George
2002	Iain Cave	1977	Harry Kotsapas
2003	Jared Curtis	1985	Spiro Androutsos
2007	Barry Lewis	1991	Nick Halikias
2009	Maki Halikias	1991	Alkes Ioannou
2009	Jimmy Haidakis	1993	Chris Christie
2012	Chas Lawrence	1993	Imre Foldi
2013	Jamie O'Connor	1994	Andre Racz
2013	Anthony Neonakis	2006	Geoff Brown
2019	Aleem Sheik	2010	Mickey Malivuk
2020	Alex Palezevic	2012	Jimmy Haidakis
2022	Gianni Bouzoukis	2021	Gianni Bouzoukis
2022	Scott Basalaj	2023	Jack-Henry Sinclair
2023	Ben Mata
		100 Goals

		1983	Harry Kotsapas
		2001	Chris Christie

			LEAGUE	CHATHAM CUP	PLAY-OFFS	TOTAL
1	Harry KOTSAPAS	1973-1993 & 1995	344	33	3	380
2	Nick HALIKIAS	1974-1993	327	28	4	359
3	Alkes IOANNOU	1975,1977,1979,1982-1992	238	22	4	264
4	Chris CHRISTIE YIAVASIS	1979, 1983-1989,1991-1994, 1997-2002	226	27	4	257
5	Jimmy HAIDAKIS	2003-2016, 2018, 2020	192	42		234
6	Spiros ANDROUTSOS	1977-1990, 1992, 1995	210	21	2	233
7=	Paul KOTROTSOS	1989,1991-2003	193	26	2	221
7=	Jared CURTIS	1996-2011	188	33		221
7=	Chas LAWRENCE	2007-2017, 2019	184	37		221
10	Maki HALIKIAS	2001-2015, 2018	182	38		220
11	Imre FOLDI	1990-1997, 1999	191	24	2	217
12	Barry LEWIS	2003-2014	171	40		211
13	Basil MITRAKAS	1988-2000, 2002	177	22	2	201
14	George KOTROTSOS	1980-1993,1998	166	19	3	188
15	George BERTOS Snr	1980-1993, 1998	166	19	3	188
16	Tony PALAMIDAS	1983-1989, 1992-1993	146	15	2	163
17	Simon GEORGE	1993-1995, 1997-1999, 2001, 2007-2008, 2011-2013	134	26		160
18	Ian MINSHULL	1993-1999, 2008	135	19		154
19	Alex PALEZEVIC	2015-2022	135	18		153
20	Basil BOUZOUKIS	1978-1983, 1985, 1989, 1991	141	10		151
21	Gary MINSHULL	1994-1999	123	19		142
22	Jamie O'CONNOR	2007-2014	117	24		141
23	Mick PEEL	1986-1989, 1991, 1993-1994	116	16	4	136
24	Costa LEONIDAS	1974, 1986-1988, 1990-1992	117	13	3	133
25	Craig CANDY	1993-1998	114	14		128
26=	Aleem SHEIK	2012-2015, 2019-2021	105	17		122
26=	Scott BASALAJ	2016-	104	15	3	122
28	Andy WEST	1980-1986	110	10		120
29	Gianni BOUZOUKIS	2016-	100	17	2	119
30	Carl ADAMS	1986-1991	102	12	2	116
31	Ben Mata	2019-	92	17	4	113
32	Anthony NEONAKIS	2004-2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2013	87	22		106
33=	Iain CAVE	1996-2002	92	12		104
33=	Andre RACZ	1991-1995	89	13	2	104

Did you know.....

Sam Mitrakas and Kailan Gould reached the 50 game mark against Auckland City on 11 March and Wellington Phoenix Reserves on 7^th April respectively. They are the 83^rd and 84^th players to do so.

Of Sam’s 50 appearances, a record 31 have been off the bench beating Johnny Gerondis (29), Nathanael Hailemariam (27), Jimmy Haidakis (25) and Spiros Androutsos (25).

Conversely, in the National League Final in December 2022, Justin Gulley became the first outfielder since Geoff Brown in 2006 to have 50 starts in his 50 first appearances (goalkeepers James McPeake and Scott Basalaj have also achieved this feat in this timeframe).

Kailan scored in his 50^th match – the 15^th player to do so since Wally Allen in 1972 - and the first whose goal was the match winner deep in injury time.

Our matches against Auckland City (National League Final and Oceania Champions League Play-Offs) were the first time we have played the same opponent in three consecutive matches.
As at 24th June 2003, Ben "Pen" Mata has now scored 22 goals from 25 attempts from the spot in his overall total of 35 goals scored.
Tam Dimairo became the 85th player to play 50 matches but only the 7th outfielder to reach that milestone without a goal (Ryan Edwards in 2012 is the only other player to match this).

Updates will be added over the season

		league	chatham cup	play offs	total	matches	goals per match
1	Harry KOTSAPAS	121	8	1	130	380	0.34
2	Chris CHRISTIE YIAVASIS	93	7	3	103	256	0.40
3	Gianni BOUZOUKIS	77	15	1	93	119	0.78
4	Spiros ANDROUTSOS	75	15	0	90	233	0.39
5	Imre FOLDI	80	8	0	88	216	0.41
6	Jimmy HAIDAKIS	60	25	0	85	234	0.36
7	Micky MALIVUK	54	13	0	67	80	0.84
8	Jack-Henry SINCLAIR	59	1	0	60	86	0.70
9	Andre RACZ	49	9	1	59	103	0.57
10	Geoff BROWN	42	15	0	57	54	1.06
11	Alkes IOANNOU	48	5	1	54	264	0.20
12	Nick HALIKIAS	44	9	0	53	359	0.15
13	Maki HALIKIAS	35	12	0	47	221	0.21
14=	Craig CANDY	37	7	0	44	127	0.35
14=	Ben Mata	33	9	2	44	113	0.39
16	Kailan GOULD	33	10	0	43	69	0.62
17	Jamie O’CONNOR	31	10	0	41	141	0.29
18	Costa LEONIDAS	36	2	1	39	133	0.29
19	George BERTOS Snr	34	3	0	37	178	0.21
20	Jared CURTIS	25	11	0	36	221	0.16

	OFC 1 11/03/2023	OFC 2 18/03/2023	TOTAL MATCHES	GOALS
APAAPA-PRESTON, Joshua	Bench	-	dnp
BASALAJ, Scott	1	1	2
DAVENPORT-PETERSEN, Tor	1	1	2
DIMAIRO, Tamupiwa	1	1	2
ETTEMA, Theo	Subbed On	Bench	1
FEUTZ, Ryan	Subbed On	Subbed On	2
GAUL, Connor	Bench	Bench	dnp
GULLEY, Justin	1	1	2
HAILEMARIAM, Nathaneal	Bench	Bench	dnp
HOY, Gavin	1	1	2
KOTROTSOS, Christopher (RGK)	Bench	Bench	dnp
LUKE-MINY, Merlin	Bench	Subbed On	1
MATA, Ben	1	1	2	1P
MITRAKAS, Samuel	Subbed On	Bench	1
PALEZEVIC, Alex	Bench	Bench	dnp
ROGERSON, Josh	1	1	2
SINCLAIR, Jack-Henry	1	1	2
STEVENS, Joel	1	1	2	1
TAYE, Birhanu	Bench	-	dnp
TIEKU, Derek	Subbed On	Bench	1
van RIJSSEL, Oliver	1	1	2
VINCENT, William	Bench	-	dnp
WATSON, Hamish	1	1	2	2

More stats:

Olympic Streaks:

10 consecutive Central League wins dating back to Round 14 last season at Park Island in July. This ties with the run from June 2021 to April 2022 and is one behind the 11 wins from June 2010 to April 2011.
21 matches unbeaten (16 wins and 5 draws) away from home in the Central League. The last defeat was at Dave Farrington Park in October 2020.
20 matches unbeaten (19 wins and 1 draw) against Petone in all competitions. The last defeat was at Petone Memorial Park in 2011 in the Central League. The only draw during this run was in 2014 with 14 straight wins since then.
In the match against Whanganui Athletic on 15 April 2023, all 11 starters had at least one goal (fifth time that this has happened - all in six months - helped by Scott Basalaj's penalty against Wainuiomata in 2021) but amazingly only three (Gavin Hoy, Tor Davenport-Petersen and Jack-Henry Sinclair) had more that one goal.
The game played against Miramar on 10^th June was the 67^th we have played against them.
Gianni Bouzoukis scored our first ever hattrick against Miramar in that last match with Hamish Watson scoring our second ever hattrick 45 minutes later.
Most goals scored against Miramar: 7 (previous record was 4)
Highest winning margin against Miramar: 7 (previous record was 3)
The last time Miramar lost by 7 goals at home was in 1981 (0-7) against Wellington Diamonds United at the Basin Reserve.
Following R10 v Miramar, Olympic (Central League) has scored 57 goals this year, as follows:

Central League: 44

Chatham Cup: 9

OFC Playoffs: 4

Following R11 v Waterside Karori - this was Olympic's first ever home draw against that team in 18 matches (Olympic did score a draw against Waterside before its merger with Karori).
The streak of 8 consecutive home game wins against Waterside Karori dating back to 2003 ended.
Updates will be added over the season...

RANK	GOALS	PLAYER	MATCHES	TEAM
1	26	Bevan Smith	13	Masters 2 – TFTs
2	23	Jett Dunn*	18	Wgtn 1 (22) & Cap 1 (1)
3	22	Oli Davies*	19	Cap Prem (21) & CL (1)
4	17	Ben Mata*	20	Central League (10) & CC (6)
5=	14	Hamish Watson	17	Cap Prem (1) & CL (13)
5=	14	Jack-Henry Sinclair	19	Central League
5=	14	Kailan Gould*	21	Cap Prem (1); CL (10) & CC (2)
8=	11	Gianni Bouzoukis*	11	Cap Prem (1); CL (5) & CC (5)
8=	11	Merlin Luke-Miny*	19	Cap Prem (5); CL (4) & CC (2)
10	9	Jimmy Haidakis	11	Capital 1

*Across all competitions played for

Stats as at 3 September 2023

Hailing from Gisborne, young Oli Davies has fast proven his scoring prowess. Playing for Olympic's Capital Premier team, Oli has helped catapult the team to the top of the league with only Island Bay on their heels to contend for the Capital Premier title and the Venus Shield.

He debuted for Olympic's 1st team in R2 of the Chatham Cup challenge against Wainui, coming off the bench

Oli joined Olympic from Havelock North, having played for them in the Central League last season.

The stats keep coming....

The R12 match against Whanganui Athletic on 1 July was Jacob Daly’s first clean sheet in his second start playing for the 1^st team.

This match was our third clean sheet for the season, all of which have finished 7-0. An incredible coincidence as this is our most common scoreline this season after 16 matches played (includes Chatham Cup and OFC Playoffs).

We have conceded only one goal in the last 9 hours played at Wembley Park dating back to 1996 (the only goal conceded was in a 10-1 Cup win in 2006). Over the same time period, we have scored 28 goals.

Not having scored in his first 49 matches, Theo Ettema now has three in his last 13 including a match winner against North Wellington and an opening goal against Whanganui Athletic.

Ben Mata has scored in three consecutive matches for the first time (versus North Wellington, Waterside Karori and now Whanganui Athletic).

Following our R13 match against the Wellington Phoenix on 14 July 2023:

Scott Basalaj has now celebrated his 100th Central/National League appearance for the Club (91 Central League, 9 National League), with another 14 appearances in Chatham Cup games and 3 in the play offs, making a total of 117 for the Club as at 14 July.

Ben Mata has scored in his fifth consecutive game - only 7 players have a longer streak.

It took Olympic 162 minutes to score our first ever home goal against the Wellington Phoenix before the floodgates opened.

Olympic has scored in 35 consecutive games since its 0-3 loss to the Wellington Phoenix on 16 July 2022. During this run Olympic has scored 139 goals (3.97 goals per game average). This ties with the record set between 24 April 1976 and 27 August 1977 when Harry Kotsapas and George Bertos Snr were knocking in the goals, although only 98 goals were scored during that period.

1^st	Geoff Brown	47 Matches
2^nd	Mickey Malivuk	56 Matches
3^rd	Harry Kotsapas	67 Matches
4^th	Gianni Bouzoukis	71 Matches
5^th	Jack-Henry Sinclair	72 Matches
6^th	Andre Racz	85 Matches
7^th	Imre Foldi	86 Matches
8^th	Spiros Androutsos	123 Matches
9^th=	Chris Christie Yiavasis	147 Matches
9^th=	Jimmy Haidakis	147 Matches
11^th	Alkes Ioannou	235 Matches
12^th	Nick Halikias	314 Matches