sentences:  Olympiacos fans are renowned for their passionate and fervent support to the team, with the atmosphere at home matches regarded as extremely intense and intimidating to such an extent that is rarely seen in volleyball matches.In the decade of the 1900s and the early 2000s, Olympiacos was among the top powers in European volleyball (7 consecutive European Final Four participations, four in the CEV Champions League –1992, 1993, 1994, 1995– and three in the CEV Cup Winners' Cup –1996, 1997, 1998–, winners of the CEV Cup Winners' Cup, twice Runners-up of the CEV Champions League in and 2002, twice Runners-up of the CEV Cup Winners' Cup in and , third place in the world in the FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship in 1992 and fourth place in the ) and one of the best supported volleyball teams in Europe.In the in Piraeus, an estimated 20,000 Olympiacos fans crowded the Peace and Friendship Stadium for the semi-final against CSKA Moscow and 20,000 more for the final against il Messaggero Ravenna.