Alketas Panagoulias
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alketas Panagoulias | ||
| Date of birth | 30 May 1934 | ||
| Place of birth | Thessaloniki, Greece | ||
| Date of death | 18 June 2012 (aged 78) | ||
| Place of death | Virginia, United States | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1949–1962 | Aris | ||
| 1962–1967 | Greek American Atlas | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1967–1971 | Greek American Atlas | ||
| 1972–1973 | Greece (asst.) | ||
| 1973–1976 | Greece | ||
| 1977–1981 | Greece | ||
| 1981–1983 | Olympiacos | ||
| 1983–1985 | United States | ||
| 1984 | United States Olympic | ||
| 1983 | Team America | ||
| 1985–1987 | Olympiacos | ||
| 1987–1990 | Aris | ||
| 1991–1992 | Levadiakos | ||
| 1992–1994 | Greece | ||
| 1997 | Iraklis | ||
| 1998–1999 | Aris | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Alketas ("Alkis") Panagoulias (Greek: Αλκέτας Παναγούλιας) (30 May 1934 - 18 June 2012) was a Greek association football player and manager. He managed the national teams of both Greece and the United States. He also managed several clubs, including Aris, his birthplace team, and Olympiakos with he managed to win three Alpha Ethniki championships.
Alketas was born in Thessaloniki, Greece on 30 May 1934. Alketas started his football career as a player for Aris Thessaloniki F.C. in Thessaloniki, Greece.
After finishing his first degree, he moved to the United States, where he attended the University of New York City. There he coached the Greek American Atlas (former "New York Greek Americans") to three consecutive National Challenge Cup titles in 1967, 1968, and 1969.
He returned to Athens, Greece as the assistant coach of the Greece national football team, under the famous Northern Ireland coach Billy Bingham, in 1972. In the next year, he became Head Coach of the Greek National Football team. He coached the Greek team from 1973–1981, including the first appearance of Greece in the Euro of 1980, in Italy. That remained the only time Greece had qualified for the Euro tournament until 2004, when they won the championship. He coached the famous Olympiacos C.F.P. from 1981–1983, earning the championship title in 1982 and 1983.
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