







The Most Famous
Soccer Players from Greece
This page contains a list of the greatest Greeks Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 21,273 Soccer Players, 118 of which were born in Greece. This makes Greece the birth place of the 43rd most number of Soccer Players behind Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
Top 10 Greek Soccer Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Greeks Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Greeks Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Greeks Soccer Players.
- #1

Mimis Domazos
1942 - 2025
HPI 60.9020 langsGreek footballer
- #2

Theodoros Zagorakis
b. 1971
HPI 59.0340 langsGreek footballer, MEP
- #3

Angelos Charisteas
b. 1980
HPI 58.3648 langsGreek former professional footballer
- #4

Antonios Nikopolidis
b. 1971
HPI 57.9340 langsGreek footballer and manager
- #5

Giorgos Karagounis
b. 1977
HPI 57.2254 langsGreek footballer
- #6

Nikos Anastopoulos
b. 1958
HPI 56.7324 langsGreek footballer
- #7

Sokratis Papastathopoulos
b. 1988
HPI 56.1354 langsGreek association football player
- #8

Antonis Antoniadis
b. 1946
HPI 55.4416 langsGreek footballer
- #9

Alketas Panagoulias
1934 - 2012
HPI 55.4117 langsGreek footballer and manager
- #10

Theofanis Gekas
b. 1980
HPI 55.3746 langsGreek footballer
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Greeks Soccer Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
1990s(37)
1980s(31)
1970s(31)
1960s(8)
1930s(1)
Overlapping Lives
Which Soccer Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Soccer Players since 1700.







































