Michalis Kapsis

Aris Nikea

Kapsis started his football career in 1990 at Aris Nikea, where he turned in a number of impressive performances in 21 games.

AO Neapoli

In the summer of 1991, he joined AO Neapoli having an impressive performances for the club playing in 24 games.

Anagennisi Arta

In the following season, Kapsis signed for the third division side, Anagennisi Arta. There, he played for one season having played 18 matches, scoring once.

Ethnikos Piraeus

In 1993 he was transferred to Ethnikos Piraeus, where he established himself at the club as a center-back. In his first season, Kapsis helped the team to win the second division championship in 1994 and to get promoted to the first division. He was a key player for the club in the following years, playing to both first and second division winning another second division championship in 1998.

AEK Athens

On 29 January 1999, Kapsis was transferred to AEK Athens for a fee of 80 million drachmas. He quickly became a regular and he was paired in defence alongside players such as Nikos Kostenoglou, Carlos Gamarra, Mauricio Wright, Vangelis Moras and Traianos Dellas, with whom they also formed the national team's defensive duo. In 2001, where he was fined for his involvement in a training ground incident with Ilias Atmatsidis, as AEK surrendered the championship to Olympiacos in the final matchdays of the season. In 2002, he played in AEK's six draws in the UEFA Champions League group stage.…

Kapsis with his great performances at a club level, earned a call-up in 2003, to play for Greece in the critical UEFA EURO 2004 qualifying matches against Spain and Ukraine. In those matches he marked Raúl González and Andriy Shevchenko superbly, where Greece won in both games. Afterwards, he was naturally included in the squad of UEFA Euro 2004 that ended up winning the tournament and in particular Kapsis achieved a great performance. Kapsis was included in the Greek squad for the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup in Germany. Otto Rehhagel also included him in the squad for the qualifying rounds to the UEFA Euro 2008 in Switzerland and Austria. Kapsis made 34 appearances in total and even scored once against Georgia for the FIFA World Cup qualification 2006 on 26 March 2005 in Georgia, where Greece won by 1–3.

His father, Anthimos, was also a footballer, who played as a defender for Panathinaikos, where he was a key player in their course to the 1971 European Cup final. In 2002 when Kapsis debuted in the Champions League, became the first player in Greek football that was featured alongside his father, in a Champions League match. The two were followed some years later by Georgios Samaras, son of Ioannis.

Ethnikos Piraeus

Beta Ethniki: 1993–94, 1997–98 AEK Athens

Greek Cup: 1999–2000, 2001–02 Olympiacos

Alpha Ethniki: 2005–06 Greek Cup: 2005–06 APOEL

Cypriot First Division: 2006–07 Cypriot Cup: 2007–08 Greece

UEFA European Championship: 2004