Ilias Kantzouris

Kantzouris began his coaching career in 2000, as an assistant coach, with the Greek club Apollon Patras. He then worked as an assistant coach with the Greek clubs Near East, Aris Thessaloniki, and Sporting Athens. Following that, he worked as an assistant coach with the Greek clubs AEK Athens and Panellinios.

He was an assistant coach with the Lithuanian League club, Žalgiris Kaunas, in the 2011–12 season for a few months, being fired by controversial owner Vladimir Romanov for poor preparation of the team during the pre-season. He was then an assistant coach with the Russian VTB United League club, UNICS Kazan, in the 2013–14 season. After that, he worked as an assistant for the German League club, Brose Bamberg, from 2014 to 2018.

Kantzouris then became the interim head coach of Brose Bamberg, after head coach Andrea Trinchieri was fired by the team, in February 2018.^[1] He worked as Brose's interim head coach, until the club hired Luca Banchi, as its new permanent head coach.^[2]

On January 28, 2020, Kantzouris signed with Greek Basket League club Iraklis (his first official head coaching job), replacing Ioannis Kastritis.

On July 3, 2022, after two successful seasons with Kolossos Rodou, Kantzouris was named head coach of AEK Athens.^[3] On May 11, 2023, he parted ways with the club. On May 22, 2023, he signed with Limoges CSP.

On January 10, 2024, he signed with Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Basketball Premier League.^[4]

Kantzouris worked as an assistant coach of the senior Greece national basketball team, in 2013.^[5]

• Ilias Kantzouris at euroleague.net
• Ilias Kantzouris at eurobasket.com
• Ilias Kantzouris Archived 2018-02-21 at the Wayback Machine at brosebamberg.com (in German)
• Ilias Kantzouris Archived 2018-02-27 at the Wayback Machine at unics.ru