Kostas Polychroniou

Kostas Polychroniou

Personal information
Full name	Konstantinos Polychroniou
Date of birth	(1936-11-12)12 November 1936
Place of birth	Platanistos, Euboea, Greece
Date of death	1 June 2018(2018-06-01) (aged 81)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1954–1968	Olympiacos	305[1]	(13)
International career
1957–1967	Greece	27	(0)
1960	Greece Olympic	3	(0)
Managerial career
1979–1980	AEL
1981–1982	Rodos
1983–1984	Doxa Drama
1984	Apollon Smyrnis
1987	Levadiakos
1993–1994	Olympiacos
1994–1998	Greece
1999	Ionikos
2001	Paniliakos
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Konstantinos Polychroniou (Greek: Κώστας Πολυχρονίου; 12 November 1936 – 1 June 2018^[2]), better known as Kostas Polychroniou, was a Greek professional football player and manager.

Career

Born in Platanistos, Euboea, Polychroniou's family moved to Athens when he was six months old.^[3] Polychroniou is considered as one-club man spending his entire career playing for the Greek giants Olympiacos F.C.^[3][4] making 305 appearances in Alpha Ethniki and a total of 662 caps in all competitions (also including 239 friendly games). He also earned six greek championships (1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1965–66, 1966–67) and 8 Greek Cups (1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1967–68).

Kostas Polychroniou capped 27 times for Greece.^[5]

He managed AEL, Rodos, Doxa Drama, Apollon Smyrni, Levadiakos, Olympiacos, Greece,^[6] Ionikos, Paniliakos.^[7]

See also

• List of one-club men in association football

References

1. Κώστας Πολυχρονίου (in Greek). Olympiacos24.gr. Archived from the original on 20 November 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
2. "Greek Football Mourns Death of Kostas Polychroniou". Greekreporter.com. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
3. Kolokotsios, Lambros (3 January 2010). Αθλητικοί Φάκελοι (ΠΟΛΥΧΡΟΝΙΟΥ) [Sporting Capsules (Polychroniou)] (in Greek). Evrytania News. Archived from the original on 17 October 2011.
4. "Kostas Polychroniou - Phantis".
5. "Kostas Polihroniou, international footballer".
6. "Greece National Team Coaches". Archived from the original on 10 March 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
7. http://www.novasports.gr/soccer/anational/default.asp?action=match&mid=767&mm=1^{[permanent dead link‍]}