Ethnikos Pylaias Katergiannakis started his career in the young team for Ethnikos Pylaias a team in his town in Tracia. In the season 1992–93 Ethnikos Pylaias, with Katergiannakis as goalkeeper achieved a great season, gained the
Greek Fourth Division. After that Katergiannakis received an offer from
Aris Thessaloniki F.C. the mean club in
Thessaloniki quite hard to refuse.
Aris In the summer 1994, Katergiannakis signed for
Aris and in the season 1997–1998 Katergiannakis, achieved a great season becoming the first goalkeeper and helping the team a soon the promotion to the
First Division. The next season made his great contribution to promote Aris for the
UEFA Cup and saved a penalty to Greek top scorer
Demis Nikolaidis. The match of 27 January 2002 between
Olympiacos and
Aris Thessaloniki F.C., Katergiannakis saved so many opportunity from
Stelios Giannakopoulos,
Alexandros Alexandris,
Predrag Đorđević,
Christian Karembeu. The club of
Thessaloniki won 1–0 in
Athens and this was the only match lost at home for
Olympiacos that in that season won the league and after this match few teams try to make a new contract for Katergiannakis.
Olympiacos In the summer 2002 Katergiannakis signed a two-year contract with Olympiacos to become second goalkeeper behind
Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos. He won the league with Olympiacos in the 2002–03 season, after a big competition with the other goalkeeper Eleftheropoulos that he become injured during the match with the rival
Panathinaikos. Katergiannakis became the first goalkeeper helping his new club to win the 7th consecutive league title and the qualification for the
UEFA Champions League and reached the final of
Greek Cups against the rivals,
AEK Athens. The next season the coach
Oleh Protasov declared that Katergiannakis and Eleftheropoulos were both titular goalkeepers of the first team of Olympiacos. The coach
Otto Rehhagel, called him up to the
national team.
Cagliari Calcio After he won
Euro 2004 with
Greece, Olympiacos decided to acquire the goalkeeper,
Antonis Nikopolidis. For the two goalkeepers, there was less space and Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos signed for the Italian club
Messina and Katergiannakis signed for another Italian club
Cagliari in
Serie A. Famous to be the first team of the main cities to win the league in
Serie A. Katergiannakis in Cagliari, found players like
David Suazo and the Italian star
Gianfranco Zola ready to help
Cagliari Calcio to achieve a season.
Iraklis In the summer 2005, Katergiannakis signed a two-year contract with
Iraklis. Katergiannakis here met
Georgios Georgiadis, teammate in the
Greece national football team in the
Euro 2004 triumph. That year Iraklis finished in 4th place in the
Greek First Division, qualifying for the
UEFA Europa League.
Kavala In the summer 2008, Katergiannakis signed for
Kavala in
Greek Second Division and he helped the team to gain the third place behind
Antromitos and
PAS Giannina and promote the team to the Greek league after a after ten-year absence. He was the goalkeeper to concede the least goals in the 2008–09 season. In the summer 2009, he also found in Kavala another player (
Vasilios Lakis) with whom he won
Euro 2004 with the
Greece national football team, acquired by club to reinforce the team for the
2009–10 season. on 17 February 2010, Katergiannakis reached the semifinals of the
Greek Cup with Kavala, where he faced
Aris, with whom he made his debut as a professional player. He reached the sixth place in the championship with Kavala. In the summer of 2011, both Katergiannakis and Kavala decided to end the contract. ==International career==