Evangelos Koronios, most commonly known as Angelos Koronios (alternate spelling: Aggelos, Greek: Ευάγγελος "Άγγελος" Κορωνιός; born 16 March 1969), is a Greek former professional basketball player and coach.

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Angelos Koronios
Άγγελος Κορωνιός

Personal information
Born	(1969-03-16) 16 March 1969 (age 55) Athens, Greece
Nationality	Greek
Listed height	6 ft 1.25 in (1.86 m)
Listed weight	180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
NBA draft	1991: undrafted
Playing career	1986–2005
Position	Point guard / shooting guard
Number	5, 8, 10, 14
Coaching career	2005–present
Career history
As player:
1986–1998	Peristeri
1998–2000	AEK Athens
2000–2001	PAOK
2001–2003	Maroussi
2003–2004	Panionios
2004–2005	Olympiacos
As coach:
2005–2006	Alimos
2006–2007	Sporting
2007, 2011	AEK Athens
2012–2013	Kavala
2014–2015	AEK Athens (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
As a player: FIBA Saporta Cup champion (2000) Greek Cup winner (2000) 5× Greek League All-Star: (1994 I, 1996 I, 1996 II, 1997, 1999) Greek All-Star Game 3 Point Shootout champion (2004) Greek Basket League Hall of Fame (2022) Greek League career stats leaders Greek League all-time leader in three-pointers made As a head coach: Greek 2nd Division champion (2007)
Medals Men's Basketball Representing  Greece Mediterranean Games 1991 Athens Under-26

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Born in Athens, Greece, Koronios started playing club basketball with the youth clubs of Peristeri Athens, in 1982. He began his pro career with the senior men's team of Peristeri, in 1986. In 1998, he moved to the Greek club AEK Athens, where he played for two seasons. Then, he continued his career with the Greek clubs PAOK Thessaliniki (2000–01), Maroussi Athens, for two seasons (2001–03), Panionios Athens (2003–04), and finally, with Olympiacos Piraeus (2004–05).

At the time of his retirement, Koronios was the unofficial all-time stats leader of the Greek Basket League, since the 1986–87 season in points scored, with 7,080, in assists, with 1,264, in steals, with 583, in free throws made, with 2,020, and in three pointers made, with 828.^[1] In total, Koronios appeared in 448 games in the top-tier level league of Greek basketball.^[1] Some of his Greek League career records were eventually broken by Nikos Boudouris, Dimitris Diamantidis,^[2] and Vassilis Spanoulis.

Koronios was a member of the senior Greek national basketball team. With Greece's senior national team, he played at the 1992 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, at the 1997 FIBA EuroBasket, at the 1998 FIBA World Championship, and at the 1999 FIBA EuroBasket. He also won a silver medal at the 1991 Mediterranean Games.

In the 2005–06 season, Koronios started his coaching career, working as the head coach at Alimos. He spent the next season (2006–07) coaching Sporting, and with them, he won the Greek 2nd Division championship.

In the summer of 2007, he was appointed as the new head coach of AEK Athens, but he decided to resign, "for personal reasons", on 25 October. He was later appointed as the new head coach of AEK, following the departure of Minas Gekos from that position, in January 2011. After that, he was the head coach of Kavala, before returning to AEK Athens, as an assistant coach.