Kostas Polychroniou

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.

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
1992–1994	Greece U21
1993–1994	Olympiacos
1994–1998	Greece
1999	Ionikos
2001	Paniliakos
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

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