Greece national football team

**Greece national football team** is the national football team of Greece. They became European champions in only their second participation in the tournament in 2004. Their best result in the World Cup was in the 2014 FIFA World Cup where they made it to the Round of 16.

## Most appearances

_As of 29 March 2016_

|width=50px|#|style="width:150px;"|Name|style="width:100px;"|Career|width=50px|Caps|width=50px|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Giorgos Karagounis|1999–2014|139|10|||||
|2|align=left|Theodoros Zagorakis|1994–2007|120|3|||||
|3|align=left|Kostas Katsouranis|2003–2015|116|10|||||
|4|align=left|Angelos Basinas|1999–2009|100|7|||||
|5|align=left|Stratos Apostolakis|1986–1998|96|5|||||
|6|align=left|Antonios Nikopolidis|1999–2008|90|0|||||
|7|align=left|Angelos Charisteas|2001–2011|88|25|||||
|8|align=left|**Dimitris Salpingidis**|2005–|82|13|||||
|rowspan="2"|9|align=left|**Giorgos Samaras**|2006–|81|9||||
|align=left|**Vasilis Torosidis**|2007–|81|7||||||

## Top scorers

_As of 29 March 2016_

|width=50px|#|style="width:150px;"|Name|style="width:100px;"|Career|width=50px|Goals|width=50px|Caps|style="width:110px;"|Average|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|Nikos Anastopoulos|1977–1988|29|74|0.392||||||
|2|align=left|Angelos Charisteas|2001–2011|25|88|0.284||||||
|3|align=left|Theofanis Gekas|2005–2014|24|78|0.308||||||
|4|align=left|Dimitris Saravakos|1982–1994|22|78|0.282||||||
|5|align=left|Mimis Papaioannou|1963–1980|21|61|0.328||||||
|6|align=left|Nikos Machlas|1993–2002|18|61|0.295||||||
|7|align=left|Demis Nikolaidis|1995–2004|17|54|0.315||||||
|8|align=left|Panagiotis Tsalouchidis|1987–1995|16|76|0.211||||||
|9|align=left|Giorgos Sideris|1958–1970|14|28|0.500||||||
|rowspan="2"|10|align=left|Nikos Liberopoulos|1996–2012|13|76|0.171|||||
|align=left|**Dimitris Salpingidis**|2005–|13|82|0.159|||||||

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Greece
- **nickname**: _Ethniki_ (National)
_Galanolefki_ (Sky blue-white)
_Piratiko_ (Pirate Ship)
- **association**:
(_Ελληνική Ποδοσφαιρική Ομοσπονδία – ΕΠΟ_)
- **confederation**: UEFA
- **home stadium**: Olympic Stadium (Athens), Olympic Stadium "Spyros Louis"
- **coach**: Angelos Anastasiadis
- **captain**: Tasos Mpakasetas
- **most caps**: Giorgos Karagounis (139)
- **top scorer**: Nikos Anastopoulos (29)
- **fifa trigramme**: GRE
- **fifa max**: 8
- **fifa max date**: April 2008, October 2011
- **fifa min**: 66
- **fifa min date**: September 1998
- **elo max**: 7
- **elo max date**: August 2004
- **elo min**: 78
- **elo min date**: May 1963, November 1963
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- **first game**: 1–4
(Athens, Greece; 7 April 1929)
- **largest win**: 8–0
(Athens, Greece; 25 November 1949)
- **largest loss**: 11–1
(Budapest, Hungary; 25 March 1938)
- **world cup apps**: 3
- **world cup first**: 1994
- **world cup best**: Round of 16, 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2014
- **regional name**: UEFA European Championship, European Championship
- **regional cup apps**: 4
- **regional cup first**: UEFA Euro 1980, 1980
- **regional cup best**: **Champions**, UEFA Euro 2004, 2004
- **confederations cup apps**: 1
- **confederations cup first**: 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2005
- **confederations cup best**: Group stage, 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2005
- **2ndregional name**: Summer Olympics, Olympic Games
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 3
- **2ndregional cup first**: Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics, 1920
- **2ndregional cup best**: Group Stage, Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004