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{{short description|Greek-Romanian footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Kostas Choumis
| image = 
| fullname = Konstantinos Choumis
| birth_date = {{birth date|1913|11|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Piraeus]], [[Kingdom of Greece]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1981|7|20|1913|11|20}}
| death_place = [[Athens]], [[Greece]]
| height = 
| position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]
| youthyears1 = 1929–1933
| youthclubs1 = [[Ethnikos Piraeus F.C.|Ethnikos Piraeus]]
| years1 = 1933–1936
| years2 = 1936–1946
| years3 = 1946
| years4 = 1947
| years5 = 1947–1948
| clubs1 = [[Ethnikos Piraeus F.C.|Ethnikos Piraeus]]{{efn|name="ROM"|The statistics for the 1933–34 season are unavailable.<ref name="opadoi.gr">{{Cite web |url=http://www.opadoi.gr/forum/index.php?topic=12651.0%3Bwap2 |title=Evidence of Kostas Humis' appearances and goals for Ethnikos |access-date=8 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721082624/http://www.opadoi.gr/forum/index.php?topic=12651.0%3Bwap2 |archive-date=21 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
| clubs2 = [[Venus București]]
| clubs3 = [[FC Rapid București|Rapid București]]
| clubs4 = [[FC UTA Arad|IT Arad]]
| clubs5 = [[Gaz Metan Mediaș|Karres Mediaș]]
| caps1 = 24
| goals1 = 27
| caps2 = 74
| goals2 = 66
| caps3 = 2
| goals3 = 1
| caps4 = 1
| goals4 = 0
| caps5 = 25
| goals5 = 13
| totalcaps = 126
| totalgoals = 107
| nationalyears1 = 1934–1936
| nationalyears2 = 1941–1943
| nationalteam1 = [[Greece national football team|Greece]]
| nationalteam2 = [[Romania national football team|Romania]]
| nationalcaps1 = 9
| nationalgoals1 = 8
| nationalcaps2 = 2
| nationalgoals2 = 1
| manageryears1 = 
| managerclubs1 = [[Egaleo F.C.|Egaleo]]
| manageryears2 = 
| managerclubs2 = [[Ethnikos Piraeus F.C.|Ethnikos]]
| manageryears3 = 1966
| managerclubs3 = [[PAS Giannina F.C.|PAS Giannina]]
| manageryears4 = 1969
| managerclubs4 = Greece amateur
}}

'''Kostas Choumis''' ({{langx|el|Κώστας Χούμης}}, {{langx|ro|Constantin "Costică" Humis}}, born 20 November 1913 in [[Piraeus]], [[Greece]] – deceased 20 July 1981 in [[Athens]]) was a [[Greeks|Greek]]-[[Romanians|Romanian]] football player who played as a [[Striker (association football)|striker]]. He is often regarded in [[Greece]] and [[Romania]] as one of the greatest strikers from the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.prosport.ro/fotbal-intern/nationala/fotbalisti-care-au-evoluat-sub-tricolor-dar-s-au-nascut-in-afara-granitelor-romaniei-4047226 | title=Fotbaliști care au evoluat sub tricolor, dar s-au născut în afara granițelor României| publisher=Prosport.ro| language=Romanian |trans-title=Footballers who evolved under the tricolor, but were born outside the borders of Romania| date=13 March 2009 | access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://tikitaka.ro/humis-interviu/ | title=Humis – un super interviu cu atacantul Venusului în anul 1939| publisher=Tikitaka.ro| language=Romanian |trans-title=Humis – a great interview with the Venus striker in 1939| date= | access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref>

==Club career==
Choumis was born on 20 November 1913 in [[Piraeus]], Greece, starting to play junior level football in 1929 at local club, [[Ethnikos Piraeus F.C.|Ethnikos]].<ref name=fanatik>{{cite web|url=https://www.fanatik.ro/primul-strain-naturalizat-din-istoria-nationalei-romaniei-costica-humis-grecul-care-a-jucat-sub-tricolor-19321121|title=Primul străin naturalizat din istoria naţionalei României! Costică Humis, grecul care a jucat sub tricolor|publisher=Fanatik.ro|language=Romanian |trans-title=The first naturalized foreigner in the history of the Romanian national team! Costica Humis, the Greek who played under the tricolor |date=8 October 2020|access-date= 8 May 2021}}</ref><ref name=ripensia>{{cite web|url=https://www.ripensia-sport-magazin.ro/istoria-fotbalului/kostas-choumis-fotbalistul-grec-care-s-a-indragostit-de-romania-si-a-devenit-constantin-humis/|title=Kostas Choumis, fotbalistul grec care s-a îndrăgostit de România și a devenit Constantin Humis|publisher=Ripensia-sport-magazin.ro|language=Romanian |trans-title=Kostas Choumis, the Greek footballer who fell in love with Romania and became Constantin Humis|date=21 March 2017|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref> In 1933 he made his senior debut for Ethnikos.<ref name=fanatik/> He won the South Division championship with Ethnikos in the 1934–1935 season, scoring 15 goals in 10 matches.<ref name="opadoi.gr"/><ref name=ripensia/> The [[Super League Greece|National Championship]] was not held in the 1934–35 season, but in the [[1935–36 Panhellenic Championship|next year]] it was played, and Choumis, alongside three other players became the top scorer of the league, with 12 goals netted in 14 matches.<ref name="opadoi.gr"/><ref name=ripensia/>

In 1936, Choumis moved to Romanian club [[Venus București]], after scoring two goals against [[Romania national football team|Romania]] a year earlier.<ref name=fanatik/><ref name=ripensia/><ref name=labtof>{{cite web|url=http://www.labtof.ro/profil/constantin-humis-1232/|title=Kostas Choumis profile|publisher=Labtof|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref> He played his first match in [[Liga I|Divizia A]] against [[Vagonul Arad|AMEF Arad]].<ref>Mihai Ionescu, Mircea Tudoran ''Fotbal de la A la Z : Fotbalul mondial de-a lungul anilor'', Bucharest: Editura Sport-Turism, 1988</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.labtof.ro/romania/1936-1937/divizia-a/4/venus-bucuresti-186-vs-vagonul-arad-184-1235/|title=Venus București - Vagonul Arad 1-1|publisher=Labtof|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref> At the end of his [[1936–37 Divizia A|first season]], the team won the title with him contributing with 18 goals netted in the 20 games coach [[Ferenc Plattkó]] used him.<ref name=ripensia/><ref name=labtof/><ref name=RSC>{{cite web|url=https://www.romaniansoccer.ro/menu_items/champions.shtml|title=Romania National Champions |publisher=RomanianSoccer|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref> He won two more championships in the [[1938–39 Divizia A|1938–39]] and [[1939–40 Divizia A|1939–40]] seasons, being used by coach Béla Jánosy in 14 matches in which he scored nine goals in the first one and in eight games in which he scored five goals in the second.<ref name=ripensia/><ref name=labtof/><ref name=RSC/> He played in the last three matches of the [[1940 Cupa României final]], when, after two draws in two replays of the final (in the first replay, ended 4–4, Choumis scored two goals) [[FC Rapid București|Rapid București]] won the third replay and the final.<ref name=RSCR>{{cite web|url=https://www.romaniansoccer.ro/romanian_cup/1939_1940.shtml|title=Romanian Cup - Season 1939 - 1940|publisher=RomanianSoccer|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref> He remains in history as the first scorer for a Romanian team in the European competitions, netting the first goal of Venus București in the first round of the [[1937 Mitropa Cup]], against [[Ujpest FC|Ujpest]] from [[Hungary]].<ref name=ripensia/><ref name=tiki>{{cite web|url=https://tikitaka.ro/venus-bucuresti-mitropa-1937/|title=Venus București, prima campioană a României care a jucat în cupele europene|publisher=Tikitaka.ro|language=Romanian |trans-title=Venus București, the first Romanian champion to play in European cups |date=|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref> The match was lost by Venus, 4–6, with Choumis scoring also the last goal of the Romanian team.<ref name=tiki/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.romaniansoccer.ro/europeancups/1937/venus_ujpest_budapest_01.shtml|title=Venus - Ujpest, 1937 Mitropa Cup |publisher=RomanianSoccer|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref>

He stayed with Venus during [[World War II]] but left in 1946 to play for [[FC Rapid București|Rapid București]].<ref name=fanatik/><ref name=labtof/> Choumis played at Rapid only half of a season, afterwards moving at [[FC UTA Arad|IT Arad]], where he played just one game but won the championship.<ref name=labtof/><ref name=RSC/> In 1947 he went to play at [[Gaz Metan Mediaș|Karres Mediaș]], where he played a season along [[Ștefan Dobay]].<ref name=fanatik/><ref name=ripensia/><ref name=labtof/><ref name=fotbalisti>{{cite web|url=https://www.fotbalisti-romani.ro/humis-constantin-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%9ccostica%e2%80%9d-kostas/|title=Kostas Choumis|publisher=Fotbalisti Romani|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref> He has a total of 102 appearances with 80 goals scored in the Romanian top-league, Divizia A.<ref name=labtof/><ref name=fotbalisti/>

==International career==
Choumis played nine games and scored eight goals for [[Greece national football team|Greece]], making his debut on 23 December 1934 under coach [[Apostolos Nikolaidis (athlete)|Apostolos Nikolaidis]] in a 2–1 home win against [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]] at the [[1934–35 Balkan Cup]].<ref name=EU>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=8678|title=Kostas Choumis |publisher=European Football|access-date=8 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=5765|title=Greece 2-1 Yugoslavia |publisher=European Football|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref> A few days later, in the same competition, he scored his first goal in a 2–2 draw against [[Romania national football team|Romania]].<ref name=EU/><ref name=EU2>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=BlC-4|title=1934–35 Balkan Cup |publisher=European Football|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref>

In the [[1935 Balkan Cup]], he scored two doubles, the first in a loss to [[Bulgaria national football team|Bulgaria]] and the second in a draw against [[Romania national football team|Romania]].<ref name=EU/> In the [[1936 Balkan Cup|following edition]] of the Balkan Cup, he again scored a brace in a loss to Bulgaria, bringing his total tally in the Balkan Cup up to seven goals, which means he is among the [[Balkan Cup#All-time top goalscorers|all-time top goal scorers in the competition's history]].<ref name=EU/>

In his last match for Greece, he scored the only goal for his team in [[Cairo]], but the Greeks lost the game against [[Egypt national football team|Egypt]].<ref name=EU/>

In 1941, after five years of living in Romania, Choumis made his debut for [[Romania national football team|Romania's national team]] under coach [[Virgil Economu]] in a friendly that ended with a 3–2 victory against [[Slovakia national football team|Slovakia]] in which he scored once.<ref name=EU/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=6266|title=Romania 3-2 Slovakia |publisher=European Football|access-date=14 June 2025}}</ref> His second and last international match for ''The Tricolours'' came in June 1943, playing another friendly against Slovakia which ended with a 2–2 draw.<ref name=EU/>

===International Goals===
:''Greece score listed first, score column indicates score after each Choumis goal.''

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ List of international goals scored by Kostas Choumis for Greece<ref name=EU/>
|-
!scope=col|No.
!scope=col|Date
!scope=col|Venue
!scope=col|Opponent
!scope=col|Score
!scope=col|Result
!scope=col|Competition
|-
|1 || 27 December 1934 || [[Leoforos Alexandras Stadium]], [[Athens]], [[Greece]] || {{fb|Romania}} ||align="center"| '''2'''–2|| 2–2|| [[1934–35 Balkan Cup]]
|-
|2 || rowspan="2"| 16 June 1935 || rowspan="2"| [[Yunak Stadium]], [[Sofia]], [[Bulgaria]] || rowspan="2"| {{fb|Bulgaria}} ||align="center"| '''1'''–0|| rowspan="2"| 2–5|| rowspan="4"| [[1935 Balkan Cup]]
|-
|3 || align="center"| '''2'''–5
|-
|4 || rowspan="2"| 24 June 1935 || rowspan="2"| [[Levski Playing Field|Levski Stadium]], [[Sofia]], [[Bulgaria]] || rowspan="2"| {{fb|Romania}} ||align="center"| '''1'''–0|| rowspan="2"| 2–2
|-
|5 || align="center"| '''2'''–0
|-
|6 || rowspan="2"| 21 May 1936 || rowspan="2"| [[Stadionul Republicii|ONEF Stadium]], [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]] || rowspan="2"| {{fb|Bulgaria}} ||align="center"| '''2'''–3|| rowspan="2"| 4–5 || rowspan="2"| [[1936 Balkan Cup]]
|-
|7 ||align="center"| '''2'''–3
|-
|8 || 19 June 1936 || [[Mokhtar El Tetsh Stadium|Prince Farouk Stadium]], [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]] || {{fb|Egypt|1922}} ||align="center"| '''1'''–1|| 1–3 || [[Friendly match|Friendly]]
|}

:''Romania score listed first, score column indicates score after each Humis goal.''

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ List of international goals scored by Constantin Humis for Romania<ref name=EU/>
|-
!scope=col|No.
!scope=col|Date
!scope=col|Venue
!scope=col|Opponent
!scope=col|Score
!scope=col|Result
!scope=col|Competition
|-
|-
|1 || 12 October 1941 || [[Stadionul Republicii|ANEF Stadium]], [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]] || {{fb|Slovakia|1938}} ||align="center"| '''1'''–1|| 3–2|| [[Friendly match|Friendly]]
|}

==Managerial career==
In the middle of the 1950s, Choumis returned to Greece where he coached teams like [[Egaleo F.C.|Egaleo]], [[Ethnikos Piraeus F.C.|Ethnikos]] and [[PAS Giannina F.C.|PAS Giannina]].<ref name=fanatik/> In 1969 he coached for one month the national amateur team of Greece.<ref name=fanatik/>

==Death==
Choumis died on 20 July 1981 in [[Athens]], Greece at age 67.<ref name=fanatik/><ref name=ripensia/>

==Honours==
===Club===
'''Ethnikos Piraeus'''
*Greek South Division Championship: 1934–35<ref name="opadoi.gr"/>
'''Venus București'''
*[[Liga I|Divizia A]]: [[1936–37 Divizia A|1936–37]], [[1938–39 Divizia A|1938–39]], [[1939–40 Divizia A|1939–40]]<ref name=RSC/>
*[[Cupa României]] runner-up: [[1939–40 Cupa României|1939–40]]<ref name=RSCR/>
'''UTA Arad'''
*[[Liga I|Divizia A]]: [[1946–47 Divizia A|1946–47]]<ref name=RSC/>
===International===
'''Greece'''
*[[Balkan Cup]] runner-up : [[1934–35 Balkan Cup|1934–35]]<ref name=EU/><ref name=EU2/>
===Individual===
*[[Super League Greece|Panhellenic Championship]]: [[1935–36 Panhellenic Championship|1935–36]] (12 goals)<ref name="opadoi.gr"/>

==Notes==
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==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{NFT|22799}}
*{{WorldFootball|kostas-choumis}}

{{Super League Greece top scorers}}
{{PAS Giannina F.C. managers}}

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