Kostas Tsanas

Kostas Tsanas

Personal information
Full name	Konstantinos Tsanas
Date of birth	(1967-08-22) 22 August 1967 (age 57)
Place of birth	Kyriaki, Boeotia, Greece
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Hellenic Football Federation (Technical Director)
Youth career
–1985	Levadiakos
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1995	Levadiakos	257	(52)
1995–1996	Kalamata	18	(1)
1996–1999	Athinaikos	43	(2)
1999–2000	Ethnikos Piraeus	14	(0)
Managerial career
2001–2005	Athinaikos U19
2005–2006	Athinaikos
2006–2007	Ilisiakos (Assistant)
2007	Ilisiakos
2008-2009	AEK Athens (Scout)
2009–2010	Greece U19 (Assistant)
2010–2011	Greece U21 (Assistant)
2011–2012	Greece U19
2012–2015	Greece U21
2012–2013	Greece U20
2014	Greece U19
2014	Greece (Caretaker)
2015	Greece (Caretaker)
2015–2018	Greece (Assistant)
2019–2021	AEK Athens (Academies Director)
2021–	Greek FA (Technical Director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kostas Tsanas (Greek: Κώστας Τσάνας; born 22 August 1967) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the current technical director of the Hellenic Football Federation.

He began his career playing for Levadiakos (1985–1995) and was later transferred to Kalamata FC. He then played for Athinaikos (1996–1999) and finished off that portion of his career with Ethnikos Piraeus FC. In the 1992–93 season, he was the top Greek Second Division scorer with 14 goals. In total he played 257 games in A Division and 75 in Second Division, scoring 30 and 25 goals respectively.

In 2001, he began his coaching career in the academies of Athinaikos. His first head coaching experience was in 2005 with Athinaikos and in 2006 took charge of Ilisiakos. In 2008-2009 he worked as a scouter for AEK FC.

He went on to join the National team staff as an assistant coach for the U19 and U21. In October 2011 he took charge of the Greece national under-19 football team and led them to the finals of the 2012 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship.

In August 2012 he was named the head coach of the Greece national under-21 football team.^[1] .^{[2] [3]}

He has been a caretaker coach of the Greece national football team on two occasions. From 2019 to 2021 he was an academy director in AEK Athens football club.^[4] In August 2021, Tsanas was appointed as a technical director from the Hellenic Football Federation.^[5]

Greece U19

• UEFA European Under-19 Championship runner-up:2012^[6]

• Kostas Tsanas – UEFA coaching record (archived)