Dimitrios Limnios

Dimitris Limnios
Limnios with PAOK in 2017
Personal information
Full name Dimitrios Limnios
Date of birth (1998-05-27) 27 May 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth Volos, Greece
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 Panathinaikos
Number 18
Youth career
2002–2012 Niki Volos
2012–2014 Atromitos
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2017 Atromitos 34 (1)
2017–2020 PAOK 76 (5)
2020–2023 1. FC Köln 14 (0)
2021–2022 → Twente (loan) 33 (8)
2024– Panathinaikos 13 (0)
International career‡
2014 Greece U16 1 (0)
2014–2015 Greece U17 16 (3)
2015–2017 Greece U19 15 (3)
2017–2019 Greece U21 12 (3)
2018– Greece 25 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 December 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 June 2024

Dimitris Limnios (Greek: Δημήτρης Λημνιός; born 27 May 1998) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a winger for Super League club Panathinaikos and the Greece national team.[1]

Club career

Early career

Born in Volos, Limnios started his football career at home-town club Niki Volos, before joining the youth academy of Atromitos in 2012.[2]

Atromitos

In 2014, Limnios was called up to the Atromitos first team. At the age of 16, on 16 October 2014, he made his Super League Greece debut against Ergotelis at Peristeri Stadium, replacing Andreas Tatos in the 84th minute.[3] He became the third-youngest player to ever appear in the Greek top-tier (after Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Kostas Antoniou); he later made his European debut against AIK in the Europa League second qualifying round.[citation needed]

On 4 December 2016, Limnios scored his first goal for Atromitos in a 2–1 away league win over AEL.[4]

PAOK

On 6 April 2017, Atromitos announced that they had reached an agreement for the permanent transfer of Limnios to fellow Greek club PAOK, starting from the 2017–18 season, for a reported fee of €900,000 and a 15% sell-on clause on future sales.[5][6]

On 20 August 2017, Limnios made his debut for PAOK, starting in a goalless away draw against Levadiakos.[7] On 29 November, he scored his first goal in a 5–0 away Greek Cup win against Aiginiakos.[citation needed] On 8 August 2018, he scored a goal in a 3–2 home win over Spartak Moscow in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round.[8] On 29 October, he scored just 30 seconds after replacing Diego Biseswar in the second-half of a 2–0 home win over Panathinaikos.[9]

On 29 August 2019, he scored a goal in a 3–2 win over Slovan Bratislava in the second leg of the UEFA Europa League play-offs; however, Slovan progressed on away goals due to the final 3–3 score on aggregate.[10]

1. FC Köln

On 7 September 2020, 1. FC Köln reached an agreement with PAOK to sign Limnios on a four-year contract, for a reported fee of €3.3 million.[11] The Greek Super League side also obtained a 15% sell-on clause of any future transfer.[11] Köln officially announced the arrival of Limnios two weeks later.[12]

In August 2021, Limnios was sent out on a season-long loan to Dutch club Twente.[13] On 23 September 2021, he scored his first goal for the club in a 3-1 home league win over AZ Alkmaar.[14] He scored eight goals and two assists in 33 appearances for Twente.[15]

On 25 February 2023, he returned to action with Köln's reserve team, eight and a half months after suffering an ACL injury.[15]

Panathinaikos

On 29 December 2023, Limnios joined Greek Super League club Panathinaikos on a permanent deal, signing a contract until June 2027.[16][17]

On 21 February 2024, Limnios scored a goal in the 120+9 minute to force the Greek Cup semifinal against PAOK to go to penalties, where Panathinaikos ended up winning and advancing to the final.

International career

Limnios has represented his country at various age groups. He was capped for Greece at Under-19 level. It was while on international duty, scoring a hat-trick against Moldova U19, that he was spotted by U.C. Sampdoria. He visited the Serie A club for a week's training in 2014.

He was a member of Greece U17 national team in the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship. In the competition, he played nine games and scored two goals including qualification round.[18] Since March 2016, he has been member of Greece national under-19 football team and played in 2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification.[19] On 16 March 2018, he called up to the Greece national team by Michael Skibbe for the friendly match against Switzerland on 23 March 2018.

On 15 November 2019, Limnios scored the only goal of the game after 35 minutes of the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifier against Armenia.[20] On 9 June 2022, Limnios at the last minute of a 2022–23 UEFA Nations League game against Cyprus suffered a cruciate ligament rupture, and according to doctors' estimations will be out for at least six to seven months.[21]

Personal life

Limnios' father, Stelios, played for Niki Volos. His mother is named Aide-Silva Barreto and is from Bahia, Brazil.[22]

Career statistics

Club

As of 28 February 2024. (UTC).
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Atromitos 2014–15 Super League Greece 1 0 1 0 – 2 0
2015–16 8 0 5 0 1[b] 0 14 0
2016–17 25 1 7 0 — 32 1
Total 34 1 13 0 1 0 48 1
PAOK 2017–18 Super League Greece 21 0 9 1 1[b] 0 31 1
2018–19 20 1 7 1 10[c] 1 37 3
2019–20 35 4 5 1 3[d] 1 43 6
2020–21 0 0 0 0 1[e] 0 1 0
Total 76 5 21 3 15 2 112 10
1. FC Köln 2020–21 Bundesliga 12 0 1 0 — 13 0
2022–23 2 0 0 0 — 2 0
FC Twente (loan) 2021–22 Eredivisie 33 8 3 0 — 36 8
1. FC Köln II 2022–23 Regionalliga West 6 0 — — 6 0
Panathinaikos 2023–24 Super League Greece 7 0 1 1 — 8 1
Career total 174 14 39 4 16 2 225 20
  1. ^ Includes Greek Football Cup, DFB-Pokal, KNVB Cup
  2. ^ a b Appearance in UEFA Europa League
  3. ^ Six appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, four appearances in UEFA Europa League
  4. ^ Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, one appearance and one goal in UEFA Europa League
  5. ^ Appearance in UEFA Champions League

International

Scores and results list Greece's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Limnios goal.[23]
List of international goals scored by Dimitris Limnios
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 15 November 2019 Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia  Armenia 1–0 1–0 UEFA Euro 2020 qualification
2 6 September 2020 Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina, Kosovo  Kosovo 1–0 2–1 2020–21 UEFA Nations League C
3 9 June 2022 Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos, Greece  Cyprus 3–0 3–0 2022–23 UEFA Nations League C

Honours

PAOK

Panathinaikos

Individual

References

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  2. ^ "Dimitris Limnios: 1998 - Grecia - Generazione di Talenti" [Dimitris Limnios: 1998 - Greece - Generazione di Talenti] (in Italian). Generazione di Talenti. 26 December 2015. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Atromitos vs. Ergotelis - 25 October 2014 - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Larissa vs. Atromitos - 4 December 2016 - Soccerway".
  5. ^ "Παίκτης του ΠΑΟΚ ο Λημνιός!". www.sport-fm.gr. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Ο ΠΑΟΚ που πήρε αυτό που ήθελε και ο Λημνιός". www.contra.gr. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Levadiakos vs. PAOK - 20 August 2017 - Soccerway".
  8. ^ "Μεγάλη Ανατροπή για τον ΠΑΟΚ 3-2 επί της Σπάρτακ στη Τούμπα". www.voria.gr. 8 August 2018. Archived from the original on 12 September 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  9. ^ "ΠΑΟΚ – Παναθηναϊκός 2-0: Ο επίδοξος πρωταθλητής "φρέναρε" το "τριφύλλι"". www.onsports.gr. 30 October 2018.
  10. ^ Wood, Graham (29 August 2019). "PAOK dumped out of Europe". Agonasport. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  11. ^ a b "Limnios reist wegen Corona-Infektion verspätet nach Köln" (in German). www.kicker.de. 7 September 2020.
  12. ^ "DIMITRIS LIMNIOS UNTERSCHREIBT BEIM FC" (Press release) (in German). 1. FC Köln. 21 September 2020.
  13. ^ "Bundesliga | 1. FC Köln verleiht Dimitris Limnios an den FC Twente". Bundesliga (in German). 6 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  14. ^ "FC Twente vs AZ Alkmaar 3-1" (Press release). uk.sports.yahoo.com. 23 September 2021.
  15. ^ a b "Ο Δημήτρης Λημνιός επέστρεψε στη δράση 8,5 μήνες μετά τη ρήξη χιαστού". www.sport24.gr (in Greek). 25 February 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  16. ^ "Στον Παναθηναϊκό ο Δημήτρης Λημνιός". ΠΑΕ ΠΑΝΑΘΗΝΑΪΚΟΣ (in Greek). 29 December 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  17. ^ Zimmermann, Simon (29 December 2023). "Offiziell: Erster Winter-Abgang beim 1. FC Köln". 90min.de (in German). Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  18. ^ "Under-17 - Dimitris Limnios – UEFA.com". UEFA.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  19. ^ "Under-19 - Dimitris Limnios – UEFA.com". UEFA.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  20. ^ "Armenia vs Greece 0-1". UEFA.com. 15 November 2019.
  21. ^ "Ελλάδα - Κύπρος: Σοκ στο 90' με τον τραυματισμό του Λημνιού, οι διεθνείς κοιτούσαν την οθόνη". www.sport24.gr. 9 June 2022.
  22. ^ paok24.gr Ο... Βραζιλιάνος από τον Βόλο
  23. ^ "Dimitrios Limnios". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  24. ^ "Seven clubs provide players for Eredivisie team of the month (May)". eredivisie.eu. 20 May 2022.