Orestis Kiomourtzoglou ( el, Ορέστης Κιομουρτζόγλου; born 7 May 1998) is a German professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club Greuther Fürth. A

SpVgg Unterhaching Spielvereinigung Unterhaching () is a German sports club in Unterhaching, a semi-rural municipality on the southern outskirts of the Bavarian capital Munich. The club is widely known for playing in the first-division association football league ...

youth product, he made his senior debut in 2015 and remained with the club until 2019 when he moved to Dutch club Heracles Almelo. In 2022, he signed with Scottish side Heart of Midlothian.

Club career

Born in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

, of Greek descent, he began his career in 2005 as a seven-year-old in the youth department of

. After playing in the various youth teams of Unterhaching, he made his senior debut on 17 July 2015, the first matchday of the 2015–16 season, in a game against FC Ingolstadt II in the

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, as an 84th-minute substitute for Maximilian Bauer. Two minutes after coming on, he scored his first senior goal to make the score 2–2. On 28 July 2017, the second matchday of the 2017–18 season, he made his professional debut, after Unterhaching had achieved promotion to the

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. He did this in a 3–2 win over

Karlsruher SC Karlsruher SC is a German association football club, based in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg that currently plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football. Domestically, the club was crowned German champion in 1909, and won the DF ...

. In the second match against Karlsruher SC during the season, a 3–1 loss on 20 January 2018, Kiomourtzoglou scored his first professional goal. After playing fourteen years for Unterhaching, and making 94 first-team appearances for the team, Kiomourtzoglou signed with Dutch

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club Heracles Almelo in June 2019. Since his first league appearance for Heracles in a 1–1 draw against

Fortuna Sittard Fortuna Sittard (; li, Fortuna Zitterd ) is a football club in Sittard, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Fortuna Sittard Stadion and features in the Eredivisie. The club was established through a merger ...

on 11 August 2019, he has been a regular starter. On 28 August 2022, Kiomourtzoglou signed a three-year contract with Heart of Midlothian in Scotland.

International career

Internationally, he has represented Germany at U21 level.

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Career stats & Profile
- Voetbal International {{DEFAULTSORT:Kiomourtzoglou, Orestis 1998 births Living people German people of Greek descent German men's footballers Footballers from Munich Germany men's under-21 international footballers Men's association football midfielders 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Regionalliga players Eredivisie players Scottish Premier League players SpVgg Unterhaching players Heracles Almelo players Heart of Midlothian F.C. players SpVgg Greuther Fürth players German expatriate men's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands German expatriate sportspeople in Scotland Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland