Petros Leventakos (; 23 October 1945 – 29 June 2021) was a Greek

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as an

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Career

He started his career in

Panachaiki Panachaiki G.E. (Greek: Παναχαϊκή Γυμναστική Ένωση, ''Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi'', "Pan- Achaean Gymnastic Union") is a Greek multi-sport club based in the city of Patras, Greece. The history of Panachaiki began in 1891, ...

before being transferred to

Ethnikos Piraeus Ethnikos Piraeus (Greek: Εθνικός Πειραιώς) is a Greek multisport club based in Piraeus. It was founded in 1923. The full name of the club is Ethnikos Omilos Filathlon Pireos/Phalirou or Ethnikos OFPF (Greek: Εθνικός Όμι� ...

in the 1965–66 season. He played in

Piraeus Piraeus ( ; ; , Ancient: , Katharevousa: ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens city centre along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf in the Ath ...

until the early seventies, when he went back to Panachaiki and was a major contributor to the team's great success. Petros Leventakos made 101 appearances and scored 9 goals for Panachaiki and made 156 appearances and scored 25 goals for Ethnikos Piraeus in

Alpha Ethniki The Super League Greece 1 (), or Stoiximan Super League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Greece and the highest level of the Greek football league system. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and repla ...

. He also played for

PAS Giannina F.C. PAS Giannina Football Club (), or with its full name Panipirotikós Athlitikós Síllogos Giánnina (, ''Panepirotic Athletic Club Giannina'') is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Ioannina, the capital of Epirus region. P ...

, making a total of 271 appearances in the Greek top flight during his career.

References

1946 births 2021 deaths Footballers from Patras Greek men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Panachaiki F.C. players Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. players PAS Giannina F.C. players 20th-century Greek sportsmen {{Greece-footy-midfielder-stub