Christos Vasilopoulos

Christos Vasilopoulos (; born 12 November 1962) is a former Greek professional footballer who played as a defender.

Club career Vasilopoulos started his career at Panachaiki, where he distinguished himself in the domestic market. On 27 June 1986 he was transferred to AEK Athens for a fee of 8 million drachmas.

He managed to establish himself at the club mainly as a right back, while he was also used as a left back. Furthermore Dušan Bajević also used him as a sweeper to play one-on-one against an opposition attacker. He was a combative, fast and effective defender, who was turned to be a key player for AEK. With the "yellow-blacks", he won 3 championships, a Greek Super Cup in 1989 and the Greek League Cup in 1990, while he was also the captain of the team for the 1992–93 season. His career at AEK ended relatively ingloriously when on 7 March 1993, a harsh tackle by Stoica in the away match against AEL caused him a fractured shoulder blade. He never managed to return in action despite his repetitive attempts.

In the summer 1993 he left AEK and on 15 July he signed for Kalamata alosngside his teammates Pavlos Papaioannou and Lampros Georgiadis. He spent a year and a half with the club and then moved to Proodeftiki for another a year and a half, where he hung up his football boots in 1996.

Later career On 22 August 2016, Vasilopoulos returned to AEK Athens, assuming a position in the team's infrastructure departments.

Honours

AEK Athens Alpha Ethniki: 1988–89, 1991–92, 1992–93 Greek Super Cup: 1989 Greek League Cup: 1990