Kostas Chatzimichail (; 29 January 1932 â 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. In the summer of 1959 he was given as an exchange, as a part of the transfer of Manolis Kanellopoulos from Egaleo, after the suggestion of Tryfon Tzanetis. At the club from Aigaleo, he won the Athens FCA Championship. The following season he moved to Prasina Poulia, where he served as a player-manager until 1967. There, he managed to win the Messinia FCA Championship and the promotion to the second division in 1961.
Chatzimichail returned to the AEK ÃÂthens after he retired as a footballer, where he replaced Georgios Daispangos in the technical leadership of the team's academies. For four years he was also the manager of the reserve team, continuing the work of Daispangos. In 1969 after the structural changes brought by the then manager of the men's team, Branko StankoviÃÂ, he also took over as assistant of the Yugoslav manager. In the difficult last season of StankoviÃÂ, after the defeat by Apollon Kalamarias in the Cup, he was anointed the interim manager of the men's team. He sat on the bench of AEK once, on 11 February 1973 in the 2âÂÂ0 away defeat against Panserraikos. He remained within the club as an assistant of the next manager, Billy Bingham, while still leading the club's academies until 1975, where he departed from the club.
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.
Chatzimichail died on 10 May 2024, at the age of 92.
Egaleo
Prasina Poulia
Doxa Drama