Lambros Honos (Greek: Lampros Chonos, Λάμπρος Χώνος) (born 16 February 1983) is a

Greek Australian Greek Australians ( el, Ελληνοαυστραλοί, ) are Australians of Greek ancestry. Greek Australians are one of the largest groups within the global Greek diaspora. As per the 2021 census, 424,750 people stated that they had Greek an ...

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playing for

Bentleigh Greens Bentleigh Greens Soccer Club is an Australian semi professional soccer club based in Cheltenham, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The club was formed in 1986, by the Greek Cypriot community and currently competes in the National Premier League ...

in the

National Premier Leagues Victoria The National Premier Leagues Victoria, commonly known as NPL Victoria, is a semi-professional soccer league in Victoria, Australia. The league is a part of the National Premier Leagues, and is the highest level within the Victorian soccer l ...

Club career

Honos began his career as a junior at

Port Melbourne SC Port Melbourne SC is an Australian soccer club based in Port Melbourne, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The club was formed in 1968 by local Greek Australians, and was promoted over the years to the Victorian Premier League in 1994. It spent t ...

before heading to Greece to start his senior career. After several years in the lower divisions, he then joined

Egaleo F.C. Egaleo Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Αιγάλεω 1931) is a Greek professional football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens, Greece. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931). The team current ...

ahead of the 2005-06 Alpha Ethniki season where he made 5 appearances in the Greek top-flight. Following this, Honos spent the next three seasons in the

Football League (Greece) The Football League ( el, Φούτμπολ Λιγκ) was the second highest professional football league in Greece since its inception in 1962 as ''Beta Ethniki'' and until 2019. It then served as a third tier after the creation of the Super Le ...

with

Niki Volos F.C. Niki Volou Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Νίκη Βόλου) is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Volos, in the region of Magnesia, Greece. The club currently competes in the Super League 2, the second tier of Greek footbal ...

, Ilisiakos F.C.,

Kallithea F.C. Athens Kallithea Football Club (, ''ΠΑΕ Άθενς Καλλιθέα'') is a Greek professional football club based in Kallithea, Athens, Greece, which competes in the Super League 2, the second tier of the Greek football league system. The cl ...

and

Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. Ethnikos Piraeus 1923 Football Club ( el, Εθνικός Πειραιώς 1923) is a Greek football club based in Piraeus and its parent sports club is Ethnikos OFPF. The club was officially formed in 1923 as ''Keravnos'' ( en, Lightning), but ...

After several more years in lower divisions he returned to Australia in 2012 and trialled with

Melbourne Heart Football Club Melbourne City Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the south–eastern Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne East, that plays in the A-League, the top level of Australian soccer, under licence from Australian Profession ...

before eventually joining

NPL Victoria The National Premier Leagues Victoria, commonly known as NPL Victoria, is a semi-professional soccer league in Victoria, Australia. The league is a part of the National Premier Leagues, and is the highest level within the Victorian soccer lea ...

club

Oakleigh Cannons FC Oakleigh Cannons Football Club is a soccer club based in the south-east Melbourne suburb of Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia. The club, established by members of Oakleigh's Greek Australian community, currently competes in the NPL Victoria. The ...

during the mid-season transfer window. In 2013 Honos switched to Port Melbourne and polled the second-most votes in the Gold Medal award behind Marijan Cvitkovic. In the final game of the 2014 season, Honos set up a Conor Reddan goal in the final minute to save Port Melbourne from relegation. After returning to Oakleigh for the 2015 season, Honos re-joined Port Melbourne for 2016. In June 2016, Honos made a mid-season switch to

Bentleigh Greens SC Bentleigh Greens Soccer Club is an Australian semi professional soccer club based in Cheltenham, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The club was formed in 1986, by the Greek Cypriot community and currently competes in the National Premier Leagues ...

Personal life

His older brother John Honos is a goalkeeper and they have previously been teammates at Oakleigh Cannons.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Honos, Lambros 1983 births Living people Soccer players from Melbourne Australian people of Greek descent Australian expatriate men's soccer players Super League Greece players National Premier Leagues players Port Melbourne SC players Men's association football midfielders Australian men's soccer players Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Australian expatriate sportspeople in Greece Egaleo F.C. players Niki Volos F.C. players Kalamata F.C. players Ilisiakos F.C. players Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. players Athens Kallithea F.C. players Oakleigh Cannons FC players Bentleigh Greens SC players Northcote City FC players P.A.S. Korinthos players