Kostas Chatzimichail

Kostas Chatzimichail

Personal information
Full name	Konstantinos Chatzimichail
Date of birth	(1932-01-29)29 January 1932[1]
Date of death	10 May 2024(2024-05-10) (aged 92)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
–1956	AEK Athens
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1956–1959	AEK Athens	7	(2)
1959–1960	Egaleo
1960–1967	Prasina Poulia (player-coach)
Managerial career
1967–1971	AEK Athens Academy
1969–1973	AEK Athens (assistant)
1973	AEK Athens (caretaker)
1973–1975	AEK Athens Academy
1973–1974	AEK Athens (assistant)
1974	AEK Athens (caretaker)
1975–1976	Doxa Drama
1977	Niki Volos
1978–1979	Doxa Drama
1979–1980	Veria
	Greece military
	Kalamata
1981–1983	Doxa Drama
1983–1984	Kavala
1985	Pierikos
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kostas Chatzimichail (Greek: Κώστας Χατζημιχαήλ; 29 January 1932 – 10 May 2024) was a Greek footballer who played as a forward and a later manager.

Chatzimichail started playing football at the academies of AEK Athens. He was promoted to the men's team in 1956, where he played for three seasons before he was given as an exchange, as a part of the transfer of Manolis Kanellopoulos from Egaleo in 1959, after the suggestion of Tryfon Tzanetis. After a season at the club frpm Aigaleo, he was transferred to Prasina Poulia, where he played as a player-coach until 1967 and managed to win the promotion to the second division in 1961.^[1]

Chatzimichail returned to the AEK Αthens after he retired as a footballer, where he replaced Georgios Daispangos in the technical leadership of the team's infrastructure departments. For four years he was also the coach of the second team of the club, continuing the work of Daispangos and after the changes in 1969 by the then manager of the first team, Branko Stanković, he also took over as assistant of the Yugoslav coach. In the difficult last season of Stanković, after the defeat by Apollon Kalamarias in the Cup, he was anointed the first coach of AEK as an interim. He sat on the bench of AEK once, on 11 February 1973 in the 2–0 away defeat against Panserraikos. He remained with the team as an assistant to the next manager, Billy Bingham, while still leading the club's infrastructure departments until 1975, where he departed from the club.^[2][3]

He continued his career at Doxa Drama, which he took over in the summer of 1975 and left in November 1976. He returned to Doxa in 1978, where he promoted the club in the first division after 14 years of absence. He left at the beginning of the following season and worked in Veria for one season, the Greek military team, in Kalamata and Niki Volos, before returning to Doxa Drama with whom he made an admirable run until 1983. His move to Kavala in 1983 was also admirable, where he managed to keep the team in the division, despite the 10-point penalty in the start of the season. In fact, under his instructions, he achieved the best defense in the division and collected just two points less from the two teams that won the promotion to the first division. His last spell was at Pierikos in 1985.^[4]

Chatzimichail died on 10 May 2024, at the age of 92.^[5]

Egaleo

• Athens FCA Championship: 1959–60

Prasina Poulia

• Messinia FCA Championship: 1960–61

Doxa Drama

• Beta Ethniki: 1978–79