| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1968-10-10)10 October 1968 (age 56) | ||
| Place of birth | Alexandroupoli, Greece | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Aris Thessaloniki (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1983–1986 | Ethnikos Alexandroupolis | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1986–1987 | Apollon Kalamarias | 3 | (0) |
| 1987–1992 | Skoda Xanthi | 140 | (16) |
| 1992–1997 | Panathinaikos | 132 | (6) |
| 1997–1999 | Le Havre | 36 | (0) |
| 1999–2001 | Paniliakos | 58 | (1) |
| 2001–2003 | APOEL | 49 | (5) |
| Total | 418 | (28) | |
| International career | |||
| 1992–2001 | Greece | 50 | (4) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2004–2005 | Kappadokes Alexandroupolis | ||
| 2005–2006 | Skoda Xanthi (assistant) | ||
| 2006–2008 | APOEL | ||
| 2008–2010 | AEL | ||
| 2010–2011 | Iraklis | ||
| 2011–2012 | Skoda Xanthi | ||
| 2012–2013 | Skoda Xanthi | ||
| 2013 | Platanias | ||
| 2014 | Ergotelis | ||
| 2014–2016 | Panionios | ||
| 2016–2018 | Panathinaikos | ||
| 2018–2019 | AEK Athens | ||
| 2020 | APOEL | ||
| 2021 | Universitatea Craiova | ||
| 2022 | Al-Faisaly | ||
| 2023 | Al-Faisaly | ||
| 2023–2024 | Gol Gohar Sirjan | ||
| 2024– | Aris Thessaloniki | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Marinos Ouzounidis (Greek:Μαρίνος Ουζουνίδης, born 10 October 1968) is a Greek professionalfootballmanager and former player. He is the current manager ofAris Thessaloniki.
Ouzounidis started his professional career playing for the Greek clubSkoda Xanthi as a defender from 1987 until1992.
He then transferred toPanathinaikos where he developed his skills as alibero defender, becoming an essential member of the team that conquered1995 and1996Greek league championships. During this last period, the "Green Shamrocks" reached the semi-finals of theUEFA Champions League.
Good performances eventually resulted in a two-year term transfer toLe Havre AC in France. Ouzounidis returned to theGreek league in 1999, where he played withPaniliakos until2001.
Ouzounidis finally left forAPOEL in Cyprus and after winning thechampionship and theSuper Cup in 2002, he retired there after the 2002–03 season.
Ouzounidis' international career comprises forty-nine games with the"Ethniki".[1][2] He was the team captain duringVassilis Daniil management, working withNikos Dabizas, beforeTraianos Dellas' appearance.
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 | |
| 1996 | 7 | 1 | |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 | |
| 1998 | 3 | 1 | |
| 1999 | 16 | 0 | |
| 2000 | 10 | 2 | |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 50 | 4 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 September 1996 | Kalamata Metropolitan Stadium,Kalamata, Greece |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
| 2 | 14 October 1998 | Athens Olympic Sports Complex,Athens, Greece |  Georgia | 3–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying | |
| 3 | 23 February 2000 | Kalamata Metropolitan Stadium, Kalamata, Greece |  Austria | 3–1 | 4–1 | Friendly | |
| 4 | 16 August 2000 | Espenmoos,St. Gallen, Switzerland |  Switzerland | 1–1 | 2–2 | Friendly |
When he finished his career as a football player, Ouzounidis managed the team of Kappadokes Alexandoupolis (Greek Fourth Division) as head coach.Later, in the2005–06 season, he served as an assistant manager inXanthi. In May 2006 he became the manager atAPOEL. His first season was a very good one finishing first and winning theChampionship three games before the end of the season. His team also reached the semi-finals of theCypriot Cup. He resigned from APOEL during the second season, after four draws and three defeats in the first 15 games.
He accepted an offer fromAEL on 9 May 2008. In his first season atAEL he was very successful driving the team into the playoffs and securing a spot in the next Europa League. His record in the first year seemed to confirmAEL chairman Piladakis' idea of using young Greek coaches to lead the team to success. Unfortunately, his second year atAEL began badly as the team was knocked out in the first qualifying round of the Europa League, and on 22 February 2010, the young coach was sacked becauseLarissa had found themselves just above the relegation zone.[3] On 9 August, Ouzounidis signed a contract withIraklis.[4] On 31 January 2011, with the club being only three points above relegation he resigned from his position as manager.[5] In May 2011, Ouzounidis returned toSkoda Xanthi, where he stayed until September 2012, resigning his post after suffering a 3−0 home loss vs.PAOK.
In the summer of 2013, Ouzounidis took over management ofSuperleague sidePlatanias, but left the club toward the end of 2013. In January 2014, he was appointed manager of fellowCretantop tier clubErgotelis, replacingGiannis Petrakis in mid-season.[6] He led the club to a 7th-place finish, the best in club history, accumulating a record 44 points (tied with 6th place local rivalOFI). He left the club after the end of the2013−14 season.
In December 2014, Ouzounidis was appointed as manager ofPanionios, with which he had a high rate of success over two domestic campaigns, having recorded 28 wins and 20 draws in 70 games.[7] On 10 August 2016, his contract with the club was terminated unilaterally, mainly because of disloyalty issues raised by the board, due to Ouzounidis simultaneously being in talks withOlympiacos over a potential career move.[7]
On 1 December 2016, Ouzounidis agreed upon a one-and-a-half-year contract withPanathinaikos to take over the vacant managerial role at the club, right after the departure of former managerAndrea Stramaccioni.[8] His first game in charge was a 1–0 victory overPAOK atLeoforos Alexandras Stadium three days later.[9] He was credited with being eager to manage the team despite the chairmanGiannis Alafouzos halting the club's funding and imposing radical budget cuts as a means of reducing Panathinaikos' debt. On 7 May 2018, Ouzounidis announced that he would leave the club after the expiration of his contract, expressing his openness to returning to Panathinaikos in the future under different financial and administrative circumstances.[10]
On 25 May 2018, Ouzounidis was appointed as manager of2017–18 Greek Superleague championsAEK Athens, on a biennial contract, only hours after the departure ofManolo Jiménez from the club.[11] After the first half of the2018–19 Super League Greece season, AEK were performing very poorly in the league and expectations were very high after they won the league the season before. They also were the team with the worst performance stats in the2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage, being eliminated after losing all six group matches, scoring only two goals, conceding 13 goals, for and against the record of -11 and winning 0 points in their group. Ouzounidis was sacked after a home 1–1 derby draw with title favoritesPAOK in February 2019.
After over a year break from the game, in February 2020, he returned for a second stint in theCypriot First Division as manager of Apoel. Just like his first stint, he failed to help the team enter the group stages either of the champions league or the Europa League and combined with poor form in the domestic league, he was subsequently dismissed as manager on 28 October 2020.
On 23 July 2021, Ouzounidis was fired asUniversitatea Craiova head coach following a 0-1 loss againstAlbanian underdogsLaçi in the2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League second qualifying round.[12]
On 27 February 2022, Ouzounidis was appointed as manager of Saudi Arabian clubAl Faisaly.[13]
On 21 January 2023, Ouzounidis was once again appointed as the manager of Al-Faisaly.[14] He was sacked on 16 March 2023.[15]
On 14 June 2023, Ouzounidis signed a contract to manage the Iranian football clubGol Gohar Sirjan.[16]
| Team | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||||
 APOEL Nicosia | 1 July 2006 | 7 January 2008 | 57 | 37 | 10 | 10 | 064.91 | |||
 AEL | 1 July 2008 | 22 February 2010 | 64 | 19 | 21 | 24 | 029.69 | |||
| Iraklis Thessaloniki | 9 August 2010 | 31 January 2011 | 23 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 026.09 | |||
| Skoda Xanthi | 1 July 2011 | 22 September 2012 | 36 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 033.33 | |||
| Skoda Xanthi | 3 December 2012 | 21 April 2013 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 042.86 | |||
| Platanias | 28 May 2013 | 4 November 2013 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 008.33 | |||
| Ergotelis | 20 January 2014 | 14 May 2014 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 050.00 | |||
| Panionios Athens | 9 December 2014 | 8 August 2016 | 70 | 28 | 20 | 22 | 040.00 | |||
| Panathinaikos | 1 December 2016 | 7 May 2018 | 74 | 36 | 18 | 20 | 048.65 | |||
| AEK Athens | 25 May 2018 | 5 February 2019 | 34 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 052.94 | |||
| APOEL Nicosia | 12 February 2020 | 28 October 2020 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 035.29 | |||
 Universitatea Craiova | 7 February 2021 | 23 July 2021 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 046.15 | |||
 Al-Faisaly | 26 February 2022 | 30 June 2022 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 035.71 | |||
| Al-Faisaly | 21 January 2023 | 16 March 2023 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 012.50 | |||
 Gol Gohar Sirjan | 14 June 2023 | 30 June 2024 | 34 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 032.35 | |||
| Aris Thessaloniki | 12 December 2024 | Present | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 046.15 | |||
| Career totals | 512 | 211 | 139 | 162 | 041.21 | |||||
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Universitatea Craiova
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Iranian football club Gol Gohar reached an agreement with Greek coach Marinos Ouzounidis for the 2023/24 Iran Professional League (IPL) season.