Kosta Grozos
{{short description|Australian soccer player}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Kosta Grozos
| fullname = Kostandinos Grozos
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2000|8|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Kingsgrove, Australia
| height =
| position = Central midfielder
| currentclub = Newcastle Jets
| clubnumber = 17
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 = Sutherland Sharks
| youthyears2 = 2015–2016
| youthclubs2 = Western Sydney Wanderers
| years1 = 2016–2021
| caps1 = 47
| goals1 = 19
| clubs1 = Western Sydney Wanderers NPL
| years2 = 2018–2021
| caps2 = 7
| goals2 = 0
| clubs2 = Western Sydney Wanderers
| years3 = 2021–
| caps3 = 78
| goals3 = 4
| clubs3 = Newcastle Jets
| nationalyears1 = 2017–2018
| nationalteam1 = Australia U20
| nationalcaps1 = 2
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| club-update = 4 January 2025
| nationalteam-update = 6 October 2018
}}
Kosta Grozos (born 10 August 2000) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a central midfielder or sweeper for Newcastle Jets, where he is also the current team captain.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wswanderersfc.com.au/player/kosta-grozos|title = Kostandinos Grozos|date = 31 July 2017}}
Career
=Western Sydney Wanderers=
In 2017, Grozos was awarded the Wanderer's NPL Player of the Year having scored 11 goals in 13 games for the Youth team in their NPL NSW 2 campaign.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wswanderersfc.com.au/news/players-shine-wanderers-academy-presentation-night|title = Players shine at Wanderers Academy Presentation night|date = 10 October 2017}}
Grozos was part of the 2017-18 Y-League championship winning Western Sydney Wanderers Youth team. He played the full game as they beat Melbourne City Youth 3–1 in the 2018 Y-League Grand Final on 3 February 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2018/02/03/australia/national-youth-league/melbourne-heart-fc-under-21/western-sydney-wanderers-fc-under-21/2726700/|title=Melbourne City U21 vs. Western Sydney W. U21 - 3 February 2018 - Soccerway}}
On 7 August 2018, Grozos made his professional debut in a Round of 32 FFA Cup clash with Hellenic Athletic, starting the game before being withdrawn for Nick Fitzgerald in the 26th minute due to an injury, the Wanderers going on to win the match 4–3.{{Cite web|url=https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2018/08/07/australia/ffa-cup/hellenic/west-sydney-fc/2814930/|title = Hellenic Athletic vs. Western Sydney Wanderers - 7 August 2018 - Soccerway}} He made his second appearance for Western Sydney in their 3-0 FFA Cup semi-final loss to Sydney FC on 8 October 2018, with Grozos playing the full game.{{Cite web|url=https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2018/10/06/australia/ffa-cup/west-sydney-fc/sydney-fc/2924084/|title=Western Sydney Wanderers vs. Sydney - 6 October 2018 - Soccerway}} Two days later, he was awarded with a two-year professional contract with the Wanderers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.a-league.com.au/news/young-gun-grozos-eyes-western-sydney-wanderers-breakthrough|title = Young gun Grozos eyes Western Sydney Wanderers breakthrough|date = 8 November 2018}} At the conclusion of the 2020-21 season he left the Wanderers to join the Newcastle Jets. He made 8 A-League appearances and 3 FFA Cup appearances for the first team.
=Newcastle Jets=
His first season at the Jets was one where he rotated between starting and playing as a substitute. In 2022-23 he started more regularly and scored his first A-League goal, in Round 16 on 12 December 2023 against the Melbourne Victory. His performances earned him a contract extension for the 2023-24 season, and in that season he played every match of the A-League regular season. He signed an additional two year contract extension in June 2024 and following the 2024-25 pre-season he was named as the Jets captain.https://newcastlejetsfc.com.au/news/kosta-grozos-announced-as-newcastle-jets-a-league-mens-captain/ After playing the first 7 games of the season he missed a game due to injury, then returned for a match against Sydney FC. In this game he started in the defensive line, away from his position in the central midfield, playing as a regulation central defender when his team formation had 4 defenders, or as a central sweeper with 5 defenders.
International career
He is a youth international for the Australia U-20s.
Personal life
Career statistics
=Club=
{{updated|27 April 2024}}.{{Soccerway|492054}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition | ||||||||
| rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|National cup !colspan="2"|Continental !colspan="2"|Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| rowspan="5"|Western Sydney Wanderers
|rowspan="4"|A-League |0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2018–19
|0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2019–20
|7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 8 | 0 | ||
| 2020–21
|1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | colspan="2"|— | 1 | 0 | |||
| colspan="2" | Total
!8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 11 | 0 | ||
| rowspan="4"|Newcastle Jets
|rowspan="3"|A-League Men |20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 21 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23
|23 | 2 | 2 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 25 | 2 | ||
| 2023–24
|27 | 1 | 2 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 29 | 1 | ||
| colspan="2"|Total
!70 | 3 | 5 | 0 | colspan="2"|— | 75 | 3 | ||
| colspan="3"|Career total
!334 | 11 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 380 | 13 |
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Honours
=Club=
References
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External links
- {{Soccerway|kosta-grozos/492054}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}
{{Newcastle Jets FC squad}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grozos, Kosta}}
Category:Australian men's soccer players
Category:Australia men's youth international soccer players
Category:Australian people of Greek descent
Category:Sportspeople of Greek descent
Category:National Premier Leagues players
Category:Men's association football midfielders
Category:Western Sydney Wanderers FC players
Category:Newcastle Jets FC players
Category:Soccer players from Sydney
Category:21st-century Australian sportsmen
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