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

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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 Victoria Premier League ...

in the

National Premier Leagues Victoria The National Premier Leagues Victoria (NPL Victoria or NPL VIC) 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 league syst ...

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 ...

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 () is a Greek professional football club based in Aigaleo, a suburban town in the Athens urban area, Greece. Founded in 1946, it uses all documents of previous club (Ierapolis F.C., founded in 1931). The team currently comp ...

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

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with

Niki Volos F.C. Niki Volos Football Club () is a Greek professional Association football, football club based in the city of Volos, in the region of Magnesia Prefecture, Magnesia, Greece. The club currently competes in the Super League Greece 2, Super League 2 ...

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Kallithea F.C. Athens Kallithea Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Kallithea, a city and a suburb in Athens. The club currently competes in the Super League 2, the second tier of the Greek football league system. The club has fini ...

and

Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. () or simply Ethnikos is a Greece, Greek association football, football club based in Piraeus and its parent sports club is Ethnikos Piraeus, Ethnikos OFPF. The club was officially formed on 21 November 1923 as ''Keravnos'' ...

After several more years in lower divisions he returned to Australia in 2012 and trialled with Melbourne Heart Football Club before eventually joining

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club

Oakleigh Cannons FC Oakleigh Cannons Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in the south-east Melbourne suburb Oakleigh, Victoria, Oakleigh. As of 2025, the club competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria (NPL Victoria). History South Oakleigh Soc ...

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 Victoria Premier League ...

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 Sportspeople 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 21st-century Australian sportsmen