- Theodoros Zagorakis
Theodoros Zagorakis (born October 27, 1971 in Kavala) is the President of PAOK FC, Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a retired Greek footballer and was the captain of PAOK FC and the Greece national football team that won the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship.
- Traianos Dellas
Traianos Dellas (born January 31, 1976 in Greece, is a Greek football player. At 196cm of height (6'5") ,he is a towering, strong defender who plays for the Greece national team and AEK Athens. Dellas had an exceptional tournament at Euro 2004, partnering Michalis Kapsis in the centre of what became an almost unpenetratable Greek defence, leading to his being voted onto the tournament All-star Squad. He scored the goal that put Greece in the final of the tournament, …
- Nikos Machlas
Nikolaos Machlas (born 16 June 1973 in Heraklion, Crete) is a Greek footballer who as of 2007 plays as a striker for Cypriot team APOEL FC. He began his career with OFI Crete, where he made his debut in February 1991 against Panionios. He stayed at the club for six seasons before moving to Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem in 1996. Machlas scored a disappointing 8 goals in 29 games in his first season in the Eredivisie, …
- Giorgos Karagounis
Giorgos Karagounis ; born March 6, 1977, in Pirgos, Greece) is a midfielder currently playing for Panathinaikos FC and Greece. He scored the first goal in Greece's surprising win over Portugal in the 2004 European Football Championship. A no-nonsense tackler with a deft touch are the characteristics that embody Greek international. The Panathinaikos midfielder is as tough as they come, but can stun his critics with the sweetest of passes or a stunning free kick.
- Takis Fyssas
Panagiotis "Takis" Fyssas (born 12 June 1973, in Athens) is a Greek international footballer, currently unattached having most recently played for Heart of Midlothian. Fyssas started his career in the Panionios youth academy, achieving his senior debut in the 1990-91 season. After eight seasons in Nea Smyrni, which included a Greek Cup triumph, he signed for Athens giants Panathinaikos in 1998.
- Ioannis Amanatidis
Ioannis Amanatidis (born 3 December 1981 in Kozani) is a Greek Football player. Amanatidis came as a 9 year old with his three siblings to Germany to Swabian Stuttgart where he joined SC Stuttgart. Two years later he went to VfB Stuttgart academy. In 2002 he started his Bundesliga career. He was transferred to Eintracht Frankfurt within the 2003/04 season because he could not get a regular spot at Stuttgart.
- Zisis Vryzas
Zisis Vryzas (born November 9, 1973 in Kavala) is a striker fot the Greek national team and PAOK FC. Vryzas got his start at Greek sides Skoda Xanthi and PAOK before moving onto AC Perugia in Italy. He joined Torino in January 2006, after a disappointing experience with Fiorentina, where he was even unused for the entire first half of the 2005/2006 season. Then, he joined Celta Vigo, from were he was released and he went back to Greece, and Skoda Xanthi.
- Georgios Samaras
Georgios Samaras (Greek: Γιώργος Σαμαράς ; born February 21, 1985 in Heraklion) is a Greek footballer who currently plays as a striker for Manchester City. Samaras moved to the Netherlands at the age of 16, signing for Heerenveen. He made his first team debut in the 2003-04 season, starting a total of ten matches. In the 2005-06 season he scored 6 goals in 13 starts for Heerenveen before joining Manchester City for a fee of £5,250,000 (rising to £6,000,000).
- Angelos Charisteas
Angelos Charisteas (born February 9, 1980 in Strimoniko,Serres) is a Greek football striker who currently plays for 1. FC Nürnberg. He is a member of the Greece national football team and played in the 2004 European Football Championship, in which Greece was triumphant. There, he scored 3 goals: one in the group stage against Spain, one against France in the quarterfinals and the winning goal against Portugal in the final. He was also named in the Euro 2004 All-star Team.
- Yourkas Seitaridis
Georgios "Giourkas" Seitaridis born June 4, 1981 in Piraeus), also known as Giourkas Seitaridis (Giourkas means "George" in the Greek Pontic dialect, pronounced "yurkas", is his grandfather's name, which he uses in both national team and Atlético Madrid shirts), is a member of the national football team of his country, Greece. Seitaridis was one of the few youngsters who shone at the 2004 European Championship.
- Pantelis Kafes
Pantelis Kafes (born on June 24 1978 in Veria, Greece) is a Greek football player who plays for AEK Athens FC. Being a talented defensive midfield player, Pantelis Kafes has won acclaim for his creative abilities and excellent passing skills. He is, however, a pretty inconsistent performer which keeps him from breaking into the National squad. He started playing professional football in January 1995 at the age of 17 for Pontioi Verias.
- Nikolaos Lymperopoulos
Nikolaos Lymperopoulos is a Greek football player born on the 4th of September, 1975 in Filiatra, near Kalamata. He is a striker that currently plays football for AEK Athens FC. Previously, he played for Erani Filiatron, PAE Kalamata and Panathinaikos. He is maybe the actual most loved football player from the Peloponnesus. He has played 45 matches for Greece. In those games he has scored 9 goals, his most memorable being the one against Kazakhstan, …
- Kostas Frantzeskos
Kostas Frantzeskos (born January 4, 1969) is a Greek footballer, best known for his deadly free-kick accuracy. He was regarded as one of the best free-kick specialists in Europe, and was dubbed "Mr.Free-kick" by fans in Greece.
- Stelios Giannakopoulos
Stylianos Giannakopoulos, popularly known as Stelios, is a Greek football player who currently plays for Bolton Wanderers as a midfielder. He initially started in his homeland of Greece, spending his first playing season with Ethnikos Asteras. Having been thrust immediately into first-team action, he found himself scoring six goals in his opening season, before moving to Paniliakos, where, in the three years he spent there, he scored 26 goals in 84 games.
- Lampros Choutos
Lampros "(sometimes spelled Labros)" Choutos (born December 7, 1979 in Athens) is a Greek football player. He plays as a striker, and has recently been released by Inter Milan. He is 177cm tall, and weighs about 75kg. Choutos started his career playing for A.S. Roma at the age of 16, but he has often been injured and so he has never shown all the potential talent that he had already shown in youth teams.
- Georgios Georgiadis
Georgios Georgiadis is a Greek football (soccer) player who plays for PAOK FC. Born in Kavala, Greece, on March 8, 1972, his family, soon after his birth, left for Stuttgart, Germany, where young Giorgos first learned to play football. He returned to Greece, as a teenager and signed up for amateur side Keravnos Krinides. Soon he was discovered by Alpha Ethniki club Doxa Drama who signed him at age 17.
- Vassilis Lakis
Vassilis Lakis (born September 9 1976 in Thessalonika) is a Greek footballer. He recently returned to long-time club AEK Athens after a stint with Crystal Palace in the Premiership. He is a pacy right winger who can also play up front, known for his fast-paced end-to-end style of play. He is renowned in his homecountry for his habit of missing easy chances but his speed, cutting passes, and incisive runs into the box more than makeup for this failing.
- Sotirios Kyrgiakos
Sotirios Kyrgiakos is a football (soccer) player. He signed his new player contract with the German football club Eintracht Frankfurt for the duration of two years in June 2006 for two years after leaving the Scottish football club Rangers in May 2006. He made his first football steps with a local team, Thyella Megalochoriou. It didn’t take long for him to be recognized. At the start of the 1996-97 season he became a member of the Panathinaikos soccer academy.
- Michalis Kapsis
Michalis Kapsis (born on October 18 1973) is a Greek football player who currently plays for APOEL FC and the Greek national football team at the position of central defender. He is son of Anthimos Kapsis, who played for Panathinaikos in the 1971 European Champion Clubs' Cup final, a 2-0 loss to AFC Ajax.
- Theofanis Gekas
Theofanis Gekas is a footballer who currently plays for German side Bayer 04 Leverkusen. He has been very successful in the last few years, being top goalscorer of the Greek League (17 goals) in 2005 and runner-up in 2006 (15 goals), and top scorer of the German Bundesliga in 2007 (20 goals). He has also won 14 caps of the Greek National Team. Gekas has been described as a prolific forward with a vision for goal.
- Christos Patsatzoglou
Christos Patsatzoglou is a Greek international football player. He is currently playing for Olympiacos in Greece as a midfielder or right wing-back. He is a product of Skoda Xanthi's youth system and played for their first team for 4 years, from 1996-1997 to 1999-2000. The versatile player, able to play as a right-back and wing-back, as a central defender and a sweeper and as a midfielder, …
- Antonios Nikopolidis
Antonios Nikopolidis (given name also rendered as Andonis; Greek: Αντώνιος Νικοπολίδης, born 14 October 1971 in Arta) is a Greek football player, a goalkeeper for Olympiacos and the Greek national football team. He's mostly known for being the goalkeeper of the Euro 2004 winners. One of the best goalkeepers Greece has ever produced.
- Yannis Goumas
Yiannis Goumas was born on 24 May 1975 in the village of Ambelonas, near Larisa. He is one of the many players to emerge from Panathinaikos FC's youth academy and has been in their first team since 1994. He was recently handed the captain's armband for his club and is known for his tough tackling, excellent aerial ability and his habit of scoring goals off of set pieces.
- Mimis Papaioannou
Dimitris "Mimis" Papaioannou, was one of the star football players of AEK Athens FC. He was born in 1942 and began his career at Nea Genea in the town of Nea Nikomedia near Veria, Macedonia (Greece). He joined AEK in time for the 1963 season for the paltry sum of 140,000 drachmas. Papaioannou proved an instant success helping AEK win their first post-World War II title, scoring twice in the final playoff game of the season against Panathinaikos FC.
- Demis Nikolaidis
Themistoklis "Demis" Nikolaidis is the current president and managing director of AEK Athens FC,he is considered one of the finest footballers Greece has ever produced. In his early childhood and teenage years he lived in the city of Alexandroupoli, in the north-east part of Greece. In a sterling career with Ethnikos Alexandroupolis, Apollon Smyrnis, AEK Athens FC and Atlético Madrid, Nikolaidis earned his reputation as a "born goalscorer", …
- Nikos Anastopoulos
Nikos Anastopoulos is a former Greek football player, one of the most prolific strikers in the Greek league during the late 1970s and the 1980s. With 29 goals he is the all time highest scorer for the Greek national football team. Since retiring as a player he has become a football manager. Anastopoulos was born on January 22, 1958. He started his career at Dafni before transferring to Panionios with whom he debuted in the Alpha Ethniki in the 1978 season.
- Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos
Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos (born August 7, 1976 in Piraeus) is a Greek goalkeeper who is currently playing for A.C. Siena. In the past he played for the Greek National team.
- Kostas Negrepontis
Kostas Negrepontis was a star Greek football forward of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Constantinople in 1897, he started his football career in Turkey, playing for the Pera-based Pera Club. He also played in France for a time before eventually settling in Greece to play for AEK Athens FC in 1926, where he became a crowd favourite. He was capped twice by Greece. After retiring from football, Negrepontis coached a number of clubs, including AEK Athens FC, Olympiacos, …
- Panagiotis Lagos
Panagiotis Lagos born July 18 1985 in Thessaloniki is a Greek football player currently playing for Greek club AEK Athens FC. Lagos transferred from Iraklis.He has 86 1st National Division Caps and 11 Super League Goals.He is a hot prospect in Greek football ,and becoming one of the best left backs in Greece.
- Angelos Messaris
Angelos Messaris (1910-1978) is a former Greek footballer. He is widely regarded as the best Greek player of the pre-war era. This is probably also due to the myth that followed for decades his sudden and mysterious early leaving from football. Angelos Messaris made his last appearance in the football field on the 23rd of April 1931 at the age of only 21. This was at the match with AEK in which Panathinaikos was losing with 2-0.
- Stratos Apostolakis
Stratos Apostolakis (born May 17, 1964), nicknamed "The Turbo", was a Greek footballer. The former right-back was no stranger to controversy as a player, his switch from Olympiakos Piraeus to Panathinaikos Athens in 1990 led to the cancellation of the Greek Super Cup as the authorities feared riots. As a footballer though he played his best years for PAO being one of the key players behind PAO's European runs in 1992 and 1996.
- Ieroklis Stoltidis
Ieroklis Stoltidis, also known as "Iero", is a Greek footballer, who typically plays as a defensive midfielder. Stoltidis possesses a rare combination of exceptional physical strength as well as outstanding endurance. Stoltidis started his footballing career with the club Iraklis before moving to Olympiakos in the year 2003. Ieroklis Stoltidis was signed to replace Zé Elias at Olympiacos CFP and adds an extra dimension with his heading ability from set-pieces.
- Efstathios Tavlaridis
Efstathios Tavlaridis, sometimes known as Stathis Tavlaridis, is a Greek footballer. He currently plays for AS Saint-Étienne in the centre of defence. He started his career at Iraklis FC and in 2001 was transferred to Arsenal for a fee of $3,000,000 at the age of 21. He never fully broke into the first team, unable to displace Sol Campbell and Kolo Touré, and spent a period on loan to Portsmouth.
- Georgios Anatolakis
Georgios Anatolakis is a Greek football central defender, currently a free agent after being released from Olympiacos. Born on March 16, 1974, he is well known in Greece for his strength, passion and persistence. A strong aerial challenger, he also advances on set pieces to find himself scoring on several occasions.He most notably scored the winning goal for Olympiacos' first match in the renovated Georgios Karaiskakis.
- Angelos Basinas
Angelos Basinas (born 3 January 1976) is a footballer. He is a defensive midfielder who plays for the Greek national football team and RCD Mallorca whom he joined in January 2006. He currently has 78 caps and 5 goals for his national team.The influential Basinas has nearly always put his stamp on Panathinakos, Mallorca & Greece games, whether with his sublime passing, combative style, hard running or deadly long shot.
- Antonis Antoniadis
Born in 1945, Antonis Antoniadis is one of the great goal scorers of the Greek football era after the "war" years, scoring about 148 goals in 22 years of career. He started his career playing for Xanthi and then moved on to Panathinaikos. Antoniadis scored his first official goal with Panathinaikos on the 27th of October 1968 in the game against Apollon Athens which ended in a victory for Panathinaikos with 1-0.
- Nikos Dabizas
Nikos Dabizas (born 3 August1973 in Ptolemaida, Greece) is a former Newcastle United, Leicester City and Olympiakos Greek footballer, who now plays for Larisa FC in Greece. He was also in Greece's 2004 European Football Championship winning squad.
- Vassilios Tsiartas
Vassilios Tsiartas is a former Greek football player, revered by many as one of the most naturally talented Greek footballers of his generation. Tsiartas was born on November 12th, 1972 in Alexandria, Greece and currently resides in Athens. As a player he was famed for his lackadaisical playing style; his ability, however, was never in question and he was in many ways the epitome of a player who wears the "number 10 shirt".
- Dionisis Chiotis
Dionisis Chiotis is a goalkeeper who has played for the football club AEK Athens for more than 10 years. He joined in 1994 when he was 18. He has been a regular first-team player since 2001, but has now taken a back seat to newly acquired Italian keeper Stefano Sorrentino. On May 222007 Chiotis was released by AEK.
- Grigorios Georgatos
Grigoris Georgatos, also know as "Trelos Karaflos", is a former Greek footballer, who typically plays as a defensive or attacking winger for the Greek Championship club Olympiacos. Georgatos also has 35 caps and 3 goals for the Greek national team. His abilities were first noted in the 1991/92 season when he made his debut in the Alpha Ethniki for Panachaiki GC. After four and a half seasons and 22 goals in 126 league appearances, …