International Career
Gekas helped his country's team to reach UEFA Euro 2008 and also became the Top scorer 2010 World Cup Qualifiers UEFA section with ten goals. At the 2010 World Cup he helped the team to reach the first victory at a World Cup. Gekas is also fifth in the top scorer ranking of the Greek national team. On 9 September 2010, Theofanis Gekas officially announced his decision to retire from the national team of Greece, due to "special circumstances inside the team", as he mentioned. This was the third player retirement after the departure of coach Otto Rehhagel, following Sotiris Kyrgiakos and Ioannis Amanatidis. However, one year later, Gekas admitted that it was a mistake to leave the national team, thus making himself once again available to coach Fernando Santos.
| Greece national team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 2005 | 6 | 0 |
| 2006 | 5 | 0 |
| 2007 | 11 | 6 |
| 2008 | 13 | 6 |
| 2009 | 10 | 8 |
| 2010 | 7 | 0 |
| 2011 | 3 | 1 |
| 2012 | 11 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 67 | 24 |
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