PAOK Thessaloniki (basketball)



Full name	PAOK Thessaloniki BC
Founded	1926
Club colors	Black-and-white
Venue	PAOK Sports Arena Antoni Tritsi 12 Thessaloniki
Places	8,500
Chief trainer	Greece Konstantinos Mexas
Assistant coach	Greece Stathis Nerantzakis
	Greece Charalambos Karaiskos
Team manager	Greece Michalis Giannakidis
technical director	Greece Nikos Stavropoulos
Homepage	www.paokbc.gr
league	Champions League
	Basket League
2019/20	14th place
Club successes	2 × Greek champions 3 × Greek cup winners 1 × European Cup Winners' Cup 1 × Korać Cup 2 x FIBA European Cup finalist

PAOK BC ( Greek ΠΑΟΚ Θεσσαλονίκη ΚΑΕ , ΠΑΟΚ completely Õ ανθεσσαλονίκειος .alpha. θλητικός Ο μιλος kappa ωνσταντινουπολιτών P anthessalonikeios A thlitikos O Milos K onstantinoupoliton ) is a Greek basketball team from the northern Greek city Thessaloniki . The club currently plays in the Greek A1 league , the country's highest league. The basketball department of PAOK Thessaloniki is one of the most traditional in Greece . In addition to five national titles, the club was also able to collect international awards in 1991 and 1994. The most famous former players include u. a. Branislav Prelevic , John Korfas , Efthimios Rentzias , Panagiotis Fasoulas and NBA star Peja Stojaković .

history

The beginnings (1926–1945)

The initial formation of PAOK BC from 1926

The entire PAOK (Panthessalonikischer Sportclub der Constantinopiten) was founded in 1926 in Thessaloniki mainly by expellees from Constantinople , today's Istanbul. In the same year, the basketball department was started by Alekos Alexiadis. The first documented game is said to be the defeat against the Armenian Club of Thessaloniki on October 19, 1926. This first documented game ended at 22:10 and took place as a preparatory game for the city championship, which was to start just a few days later. The first official game that has been passed down with certainty took place on October 24, 1926, in which PAOK beat city rivals Aris Thessaloniki 14:12.

The establishment (1945–1970)

PAOK BC vs. HANTH in the old HATNH stadium.

During the Second World War , PAOK basketball was forced to cease operations, like so many sports clubs in Greece, only to be reorganized by the founder immediately after the war. The post-war period was marked by successes that resulted in winning the first championship in 1959. In the first championship season there was a tie in the table between PAOK BC, Aris Thessaloniki and Sporting Athens at the end of the finals . In the last and decisive game PAOK BC won against Aris Thessaloniki under the player-coach Irakleos Klangas in the home stadium and thus decided the title race for themselves. Orestes Angelidis, another key player in the first title win, was to act as the club's coach after his playing career and in the 1970s, much like another of the club's legends, Georgios Ikonomou.

Winning the first championship gave the club the opportunity to play its first international games against CSA Steaua Bucureşti in the European national championship competition . However, the club suffered two defeats, losing 61:80 in the first game and 60:79 in the second. In the following year, the club proved that it was not by accident that they became champions. In 1960 they became runner-up. In the same year the team won a recognized basketball tournament in Liege. This event should lead to the fan base at the time giving the team a euphoric reception at the border with Yugoslavia.

In the following years the time was marked by inconsistency. In the seasons 1962–1963 and 1963–1964 they even played for the first and to date last time in the second Greek division, until they rose again for the 1964–1965 season.

In 1967 the women's basketball club's team was launched.

From the wild 1970s to the Vezirtzis era (1970–1991)

The next participation in an international competition came only in the 1970s in the Korac Cup , where they met KK Bosna in the 1974/75 season and played in the same competition against the French club Le Mans Moderne in the following season . In the 1970s, the club could not get into the top 3 of the league. Fourth place could be achieved as the highest place in the years 1973–1975.

Manthos Katsoulis

During this time, another great personality and later legend of the club should start his active career, Manthos Katsoulis joined the club at a young age. A 2.05 m tall center and exceptional scorer, who contributed his 28 points in the decisive game for relegation against Dimokritos in 1977 and thus secured the victory with 65:53. The star of Manthos Katsoulis should rise at the time, although it was not going so well for the club and there was a lack of consistency. From 1975 to 1988 and in a total of 14 seasons and 274 first division games, Katsoulis scored 5,227 points for PAOK, which has earned him first place in the club's eternal scorer table to this day (as of 2018). Manthos Katsoulis played college basketball with the McGill Redmen and Martlets of the Canadian McGill University in Montreal in the 1982/83 season , which has given him a season of absence from his home club. Later in his career, Katsoulis moved to city rival Aris Thessaloniki, which was accompanied by a lot of emotion from PAOK supporters. Katsoulis would then play for another three years, from 1990 to 1993, for Iraklis Thessaloniki and then move to Makedonikos for one season . This makes Katsoulis one of the few players in the history of the first division to have played in all four of the city's major clubs.

The Vezirtzis Plan

The lack of consistency was only to come in when Nikolaos Vezirtzis joined the club in the early 1980s and through his planning of the squad. For that time, a large sum was paid for the player Nikos "Magic" Stavropoulos , who was brought from Larissa. Also in the 1983/84 season, the first Americans were built into the squad. It was Billy Warner and the center Dick Mumma . Panagiotis "Spiderman" Fasoulas was already in the squad from the club's academy . In 1986, John "Ten Ten" Korfas were brought in from Malibu, California and Pepperdine College . Thus, year after year, investments were made in the structure of the team.

Championship placements under Vezirtzis
year	placement	Games	Victories	Defeats	Points	Points collected
1980/81	6th	26th	14th	12	1866	1907
1981/82	3	26th	20th	6th	2026	1740
1982/83	2	26th	23	3	2315	1815
1983/84	3	26th	21st	5	2132	1719
1984/85	2	26th	22nd	4th	2254	1816
1985/86	5	26th	19th	7th	2180	1972
1986/87	2	18th	14th	4th	1580	1323
1987/88	2	18th	14th	4th	1399	1252
1988/89	2	18th	15th	3	1801	1463
1989/90	1	22nd	20th	2	2199	1711
1990/91	2	22nd	20th	2	2125	1627

Branislav "Bane" Prelevic

Through further transfers such as that of the later club legend Branislav "Bane" Prelevic from KK Roter Stern Belgrade in the 1988/89 season, the last piece of the puzzle for the golden era of the 1990s should be laid. The other years were marked by the final series against city rivals Aris Thessaloniki , in which they won a few national runners-up until 1991. Bane Prelevic would become the icon of the club's fans. He was to play for the club from 1988 to 1996 and in the 1999/2000 season. In the 2001/02 season he was assistant coach and helped the club in a difficult time from 2002 to 2005 as head coach. From 2011 to 2019 Prelevic was President and thus 1st Chairman of the Management Board. This makes Branislav Prelevic the first to serve the club from all four positions.

The golden decade (1991–1999)

In the elite of Europe

The 1990s were to be the most successful in club history. In 1991 they won the European Cup Winners' Cup against CAI Saragossa in an exciting final. In the following season 1991/92 you should reach the final of the same competition again, where you could not defend the title against Real Madrid . In the same season and with the Serbian coaching legend Dusan Ivkovic , the title was won in the final series against Olympiacos Piraeus and celebrated the first national championship title since 1959.

In the following season 1992/93 with one of the best "starting five" in the club's history, consisting of Panagiotis Fasoulas , Branislav Prelevic , Ken Barlow, John Korfas and the then reigning NBA champion of the Chicago Bulls Clifford "Good News" Levingston , this was achieved FIBA Final Four in Piraeus, where they finished third. After reaching third place in Europe, the era of Nikolaos Vezirtzis should come to an end and the club shares in Apostolos Ikonomidis should pass.

In the 1993/94 season, the team reached the final of the Korac Cup against Stafanel Trieste under his presidential leadership and was the first Greek team to win a second European title. In the 1994/95 season, the team around Sakis Laios and captain Branislav Prelevic won the Greek Cup.

Big names

In this golden decade, the Academy of Basketball Department produced one of the greatest talents in Europe, or took it over and developed it further. After only two seasons, Peja Stojaković moved from KK Roter Stern Belgrade to PAOK, where he joined the professional team at the age of 16 and won the Korac Cup, the Greek Cup, from 1994 to 1998, and became the MVP of the Greek League in 1998 advanced to the Euroleague top scorer. He was "drafted" by the Sacramento Kings after 1998 , later on in his career three times to the NBA All-Star team and in 2011 even NBA champion with the Dallas Mavericks . In the 1994/95 season, Matt Bullard joined the team from the Houston Rockets . This was the second time that a reigning NBA champion could be signed after Levingston, who was brought back from Chicago as champion. Matt "Air" Bullard, as he was affectionately called in Rocket's time, helped the club win the Greek Cup in the same season and should then return to the NBA the following season.

Another great player joined the PAOK team from the NBA at the time. Scott Skiles came to Thessaloniki from the Philadelphia 76ers in 1996 , at a time when the club had problems and differences with player contracts and coach Michel Gomez , which also carried over to Scott Skiles , who as a result was in the middle of the season for the dissolution of his Contract asked. Instead of dismissing Skiles from the contract, he was appointed coach by then President Lakis Alexopoulos and coach Gomez was dismissed. Skiles led the club to a win record in the 1996–97 season, despite the lack of three high-profile players throughout the season. The club finished third in the league and qualified for the EuroLeague the following season. Scott Skiles began his coaching career in PAOK and continued it in the NBA, where he coached teams like the Phoenix Suns , the Chicago Bulls and the Milwaukee Bucks .

The last great successes

Again in a European final PAOK lost in the 1995/96 season in Vitoria against the domestic team Taugres Vitoria for the FIBA Saporta Cup . In the 1997/98 season they were runner-up in the final series for the Greek championship and lost in games to Panathinaikos Athens.

In the 1998/99 season they won the Greek Cup again and under the coach Konstantinos Flevarakis ended the most successful decade in the club's history.

The time of stagnation (1999-2009)

Club logo from 1999–2009

In the final series 1999/2000 they became runner-up and lost to Panathinaikos Athens. This meant the end of a successful decade and the beginning of a turbulent time.

With the change of club owner and the financial opening due to a high budget, purchases from high-class players such as Panagiotis Liadelis , Georgios Sigalas , Angelos Koronios and Frédéric Weis , the club does not manage to achieve the successes that it had promised and thus comes into one financial hardship. The club's management team changes very often during this difficult decade. In January 2004, the presidency passed to Takis Paneloudis, whose attempts to stabilize the club failed because of the high level of debt. A provisional management is established and Evangelos Galatsopoulos takes over the interim presidency, who can actually set the course for structures in the 2008/09 season by handing over the presidency to Miltiadis Kanotas in the summer of 2009, who is the first to install a technical director, Stavropoulos, who as a legend of the club is well received by fans and the community.

The academy as a lifeline

In the years that followed, veteran players and officials tried to keep the club from disappearing into insignificance and built in young talent from their own academy. Players like Konstantinos Vasiliadis , Dimitrios Verginis , Loukas Mavrokefalidis and Panagiotis Vasilopoulos have ensured a well-attended arena and a consistency that keeps the club from going out over the years.

Reconstruction (since 2009)

Consolidation and constancy (2009 - 2017)

Since the 2009/10 season, the most important management positions have been occupied by the club's legends, such as Nikos Stavropoulos 'sports director and Tellis Zournatzidis' team manager. Branislav Prelevic took over the presidency in 2011. This management team leads the club out of debt from year to year and manages the balancing act between the European competitions and the consolidation of the club. For three seasons in a row, from the 2012/13 season to the 2014/15 season, Prime Insurance, a large Greek insurance company headquartered in Athens , has been able to attract a solvent main sponsor. Marketing was also able to set up the “300 of the PAOK” program , a collection of several smaller sponsors who were able to contribute a large part to the financial recovery of the club. In the coaching position, Anastasios Markopoulos, who was elected coach of the year in the Greek league in the 2013/14 season, relied on constancy, and built young local talents such as B. Leonidas Kaselakis and Nikolaos Pappas in the squad, which is supported by talented players from the college teams of the United States of America such. B. DJ Cooper and Jake Odum were flanked. The team established itself in the ULEB EuroCup from 2010 to 2016 and ultimately from the 2016/17 season in the FIBA Champions League and permanently achieved positions 3–5 in the national championship.

The new game idea and the first successes (since 2017)

Anastasios Markopoulos was due to leave the club on May 26, 2017 after eight years. The successor to the outgoing and long-time coach Markopoulos was the first measure of the new club philosophy Ilias Papatheodorou , who had become Kazakh champion and cup winner in the past season with BK Astana . In July 2017 and after the club signed Papatheodorous, he was able to win the European championship in Crete with the Greek U-20 basketball team in the role of national coach. Ilias Papatheodorou won the European Championship title in 2015 as a U-18 coach with the same generation. An essential part of this generation and both title wins is Antonis Koniaris , who is under contract with PAOK BC .

For the 2017/18 season, the U-20 European champions team Theodoros Karras was also able to sign for four years, as well as the MVP of the tournament in Crete, Vassilios Charalambopoulos from Athens. By switching from Markopoulos to Papatheodorou, the sporting management hoped for precisely this focus on young and aspiring players and thus a faster and more effective offensive using a modern basketball. The focus on youth work was already evident when we won the Greek U-17 championship on July 2, 2017. Papatheodorou brought Ousman Kroubally from Astana with him to his first head coaching season and added two offensive all-rounders to the team, Lucky Jones and later Phil Goss. The start of the 2017/18 season can be described as bumpy in both the Champions League and the national championship. An injury misery and the resulting limited training schedule as well as the resulting unrest in the environment led to a negative series that only began to subside in the second half of the preliminary round. In February 2018 you can qualify for the round of the best 16 teams in the Champions League by finishing third in the group. In the national league, the semi-finals can be reached via AEK Athens, where you are defeated by Panathinaikos Athens and can beat Prometheus Patras 3-0 in the series for 3rd place. For the fact that the entire coaching team and most of the team was reorganized at the beginning of the season, the third place was considered a success by both the club's management and the supporters.

For the 2018/19 season, the coach was able to retain the core of the team consisting of Koniaris, Margaritis, Chrysikopoulos, Tsochlas and Phil Goss, which means that he has focused on continuity and stability, which he has strengthened selectively with players from the American market. In addition, an old acquaintance should join the team in William Hatcher , who had already played for the club in 2012/13 and 2015/16. All of these decisions should facilitate the integration of the new players and keep an initial search phase, as in the previous season, as short as possible in order to be directly present in all three competitions. The fruits of this continuity should be reaped in February 2019: PAOK can qualify for the final of the national cup and only narrowly lose to Panathinaikos. You also qualify again for the round of the top 16 of the FIBA Champions League.

In the 2019/2020 season, Kostas Mexas will take over the team as head coach.

PAOK WBC (women's basketball)

The PAOK WBC women's basketball team has existed since 1967 and took part in the first three seasons of the first Greek women's basketball league, which was founded at the time. A reorganization of the department did not take place until the 2002-03 season after a long period of shutdown. It was possible to constantly qualify for the respective higher division every year, so that one could participate in the 2nd Greek women's basketball league in the 2007-08 season . After three seasons in the 2nd division, the company was able to celebrate promotion to the first Greek women's basketball league in 2010 . In the 2012-2013 season they reached the final of the Greek Cup, which they just lost with 50:52 against Proteas Woulas. In the same season they reached fourth place in the championship. Vassilios Maslarinos has been the coach since June 2014.

Successes :

2 x Greek U-16 women's basketball champions: 2009-10, 2010-11

1 x Greek U-18 women's basketball champion: 2012–2013

Well-known former players of the PAOK WBC are :

Greece Nausika Stavridou (2010-11, 2012, 2015-2016)

Greece Aspasia Kalambakou (2014-2016)

Greece Afentoula Magaliou (2016-2018)

The women's team is officially called PAOK KYANA WBC based on the main sponsor.

Venues

Branislav "Bane" Prelevic (7) with PAOK BC in Alexandrio as a guest at Aris Thessaloniki

HANTH Stadium (1928–1966)

In the founding years and in the first decades of the club's history, the open stadium of city rivals HANTH ( ΧΑΝΘ ) was also used. Here the club won its first championship and played its first international games.

Alexandrio Melathron (1966-2000)

By the year 2000, PAOK and city rival Aris Thessaloniki moved into the Alexandrio Melathron, where the basketball court and the interior of the sports arena were named Nick Galis Hall on May 7, 2013 . In the 1980s in particular, legendary final series for the Greek championship between the two teams were fought out in the hall. In the final series for the Greek championship of the seasons 1987/88, 1988/89, 1989/90 and 1990/91, the city rival in Alexandrio Melathron was always able to prevail.

PAOK Sports Arena (since 2000)

PAOK Sports Arena, exterior view (2017)

The arena

Arena scoreboard (2017)

The club plays its home games in the PAOK Sports Arena in the eastern suburb of Thessaloniki in Pylea . The 8,142-seat arena was built in 2000 and is owned by the club. The arena is the largest Greek basketball hall outside of the greater Athens area. The foundation stone was laid on March 18, 1990 in the presence of the then President Vezirtzis and the Dedeoglou brothers. The first home game in the then new home arena took place on May 17, 2000 in the ESAKE play-offs against Panathinaikos Athens . The arena offers 502 parking spaces and special parking spaces for buses. The PAOK Sports Arena not only houses the office space of the basketball department and the PAOK BC Store (fan shop), but the PAOK basketball club museum is also located on the ground floor level of the arena. Exhibits from the history of the basketball club such as various trophies, photographs, banners and basketball shoes of the past greats of the club are on display. The arena is shared with the volleyball department , which also maintains its office space in the arena.

The first Dedeoglou tournament (2004)

In 2004, the first Ioannis Dedeoglou Tournament was held in the PAOK Sports Arena to honor the Dedeoglou brothers and sisters who bequeathed the property to the club, after which the venue could only be built . Participants were the host PAOK BC and the teams from Hemofarm Vršac , Panathinaikos Athens and Ülker Istanbul . The first games were won by Athens on September 24, 2004 against Hemofarm Vrsac 83:79 and PAOK against Ülker Istanbul with 77:57. The next day, Hemofarm Vrsac Ülker defeated Istanbul in the game for third place with 84:74, PAOK defeated Panathinaikos Athens 79:76 and thus secured the first tournament victory.

PAOK Sports Arena, interior view (2017)

The second Dedeoglou tournament (2005)

The second Ioannis Dedeoglou Tournament took place in September 2005 and welcomed AEK Athens BC , KK Red Star Belgrade , FC Barcelona and the hosts PAOK BC, who met AEK Athens BC on the first day and made it into the final with 77:72. In the other game, Barcelona beat Belgrade 77:67 and faced the hosts the following day. In an exciting game, Barcelona defeated the hosts PAOK after extra time 102: 101 and won the second and, for the time being, last tournament in honor of the Dedeoglou brothers.

Modernizations

Restorations and modernization measures were carried out in summer 2016. Financed for the most part by the owner of the football department Ivan Savvidis , the black and white seat shells were replaced and installed in such a way that the lettering and the year the club was founded stand out in white on the back straight. Among the PAOK fans, but in the meantime also by the Greek sports press, the arena is also referred to and dubbed as a small box.

Achievements and titles

Greek basketball champion

In 1959 and 1992 PAOK BC could claim the championship for themselves.

The first championship title (1959)

In particular, winning the first championship on August 9, 1959 finally put PAOK on the map and established the club in the domestic league. At that time there was a final among the top seven teams in the country. That year, from August 7th to August 9th, the clubs Ethnikos Athens, AEK Athens BC and Sporting Athens were to take part in the finals from Athens, Olympiacos BC from Piraeus were there, and PAOK BC, Aris Thessaloniki and Iraklis from Thessaloniki Thessaloniki attend. In the decisive game they beat Aris Thessaloniki 66:58.

The Coronation in Piraeus (1992)

In 1992 under the captain Panagiotis "Spiderman" Fasoulas and the coach Dusan Ivkovic you could prevail in the decisive game 97:82 against Olympiacos from Piraeus. In the final series it was 4: 1 for PAOK BC so that they could win the second championship on February 22, 1992 in Piraeus in the Stadium of Peace and Friendship . The main players in the final victory at that time were Fasoulas with 24 points, Prelevic with 20 points and Barlow with 17 points.

Greek cup winner

The Final of the Shaved Heads (1984)

In 1984, under the Greek basketball legend Faidon Matheou, PAOK beat city rivals Aris Thessaloniki 74:70. That went down in history as the final of the shaved skull, as this was suggested by the coach Mattheou himself as a motivation to the PAOK players to force the cohesion. In the game, Nikos Stavropoulos should score 26 points and become the top scorer of the game.

The passage to the court of the PAOK Sports Arena with the picture of the 1995 cup

The Tiger in Lamia (1995)

In 1995, he won the Cup in Lamia against Chipita Panionios Nea Smyrni under the long-time captain and MVP of the final game at that time, captain Branislav "Bane" Prelevic. The Tiger, as the fans liked to call their captain, contributed 27 points to the final score of 72:53 and lifted the trophy in front of the fans of the club in the hall of Lamia. The semifinals were played against city rivals Aris Thessaloniki, in which the captain already contributed 29 points to the final score of 80:63. Under the coach at the time Sakis Laios and players like Zoran Savic , Nasos Galakteros , Matt Bullard and John Korfas , the second trophy was brought home.

Walter Berry's Final Four (1999)

The cup year began on September 6, 1998 against arch rivals Olympiacos with an away win of 52:61. In the second round you met KAOD in Drama, who beat him with 53:87. The first home game and thus the third round of the cup competition took place on September 12, 1998 against Sporting Athens. In Alexandrio they beat the Athenians with 81:52 and thus made it into the final four of the competition.

In the final four they beat the basketball club of the AEK Athens with 71:54 in Piraeus and crowned the most successful decade in the club's history under the then captain of the team Georgios Balogiannis by winning the Greek Cup. MVP of the final at that time was Walter Berry, a streetball legend of the famous New Yorker “The Cage”, who had come to Greece via Italy and Spain after his college days in St. John's and some clubs like the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets in the NBA . He became a crowd favorite in PAOK for his unorthodox way of playing basketball. In the final, “The Truth”, as it was affectionately known, crowned his time on PAOK with 19 points and 4 rebounds. The roster featured players like Claudio Coldebella , Frankie King and Giannis Giannoulis . In the semifinals they beat Aris Thessaloniki 83:50, as in 1995. Already in this game Walter Berry contributed 21 points and 8 rebounds to the result.

FIBA EuroLeague / FIBA Supro League participation (1960–2001)

In the top European league, that of the national championship competition, which has changed both the umbrella organization and the name over the decades and can be equated with today's ULEB EuroLeague , the club can look back on seven participations. In 1960, 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 they played in the top division of the European competition, and thus occupies 5th place in the all-time national participation table (as of 2020).

In the last time the club participated in the ULEB EuroLeague in the 2000/01 season, teams like the Frankfurt Skyliners , KK Buducnost and London Towers should be defeated in the group stage , but in February 2001 they should be against KK Union Olimpija Ljubljana in three games and eliminated in games with an overall result of 2: 1.

The Piraeus Final Four (1993)

The greatest success came in the 1992/93 season. As the highlight of the club's 3rd place of the Final Four can be described in Piraeus in 1993, where the club under the leadership of Dusan Ivkovic, after missing the final feeder against Benetton Treviso , Real Madrid beat in the small final with 76:70 and secured third place in the national championship competition. Even after almost 25 years, after the Final Four in Piraeus, it can be read that Dusan Ivkovic attributes the defeat to Benetton Treviso in the semi-finals to the injured and unavailable Christos Tsekos . The beefy center was supposed to hold up the center of the opposing team, who was a similar type of player, and limit its effect under the board.

The cup collection of all the great successes in the club museum

European Cup Winners' Cup / FIBA European Cup

The first European title (1991)

The way to the first European title went through the Sunderland Saints , against whom you could prevail in the first round of the Top 16 in two games and thus get into the group games. In group B they qualified for the semi-finals, met MBK Dynamo Moscow and beat them to move into the final. On March 26, 1991, the team wrote club history and won the Cup Winners' Cup in the final of the Patinoire des Vernets in Geneva against the Spanish team from Saragossa 76:72. The coach of this first international success was the Serb Dragan Sakota .

The final of the Palais des Sports de Beaulieu (1992)

A year later PAOK BC could not defend the title and lost the final of the FIBA European Cup 1992 in Nantes on March 18, 1992 in the Palais des Sports de Beaulieu in an exciting game against Real Madrid , which only ended in overtime with 63:65 a bad pass by Fassoulas and the decisive basket was decided by Ricky Darnell Brown .

The final of the Saporta Cup in the Pabellón Araba (1996)

In 1996, they lost the home ground of the enemy, in the Pabellón Araba , against Vitoria Taugres the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup with 81:88. Not only that this final should be a home game for the opponent Taugres, Lawrence Funderburge could not play. Funderburge was a dynamic and very athletic forward who had to be missed in the final due to his commitment and strength in a duel. The players of the team at that time were z. B. Dean Garrett , Peja Stojaković, Efthimios Rentzias and Branislav Prelevic. That should be the last European final of the club until today (as of 2020).

FIBA Korac Cup

In 1994 under another coaching legend, Anastasios "Soulis" Markopoulos, they won the Korac Cup in two games against Stefanel Trieste and thus secured their second European title after the 1991 European Cup Winners' Cup.

Korac Cup won (1994)

In the 1993/94 season you were automatically qualified for the round of 32 teams through the national placement of the preseason. In the round of 32 teams to qualify for the group stage you could prevail against Stroitel Samara twice. In the group phase you were drawn in group C with KK Zagreb , Caja San Fernando and Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano , who you could leave behind and meet Scavolini Pessaro in the quarter-finals as group winners with home rights . Against Pessaro you could get two victories to meet Panionios Athens in the semifinals. The semifinals were therefore a purely Italian-Greek affair, because in the other semifinals the team from Milano, which could be left behind in the group stage, met the later final opponent from Trieste. Against Panionios they could also prevail in both games and move into the final against Trieste with two wins.

In the first game they beat the Italians at home with 75:66. In the second leg they beat the Trieste team with players like Dejan Bodiroga , Ferdinando Gentile and Gregor Fučka 100: 91.

The starting five of the club at the time were Zoran Savic , Walter Berry, Branislav Prelevic, Nasos Galakteros and John Korfas.

Markopoulos said after the second game:

"We played so well that even the Italian fans applauded us."

FIBA Basketball Champions League (since 2016)

In the first season of the FIBA Basketball Champions League of the 2016/17 season, the club reached the round of the top 16 teams and, after an impressive home win against the eventual title holder Iberostar Tenerife, was eliminated due to the away defeat and the poorer basket ratio. In the same season they reached 5th place in the national league and thus repeatedly qualified for the 2017/18 season of the Champions League.

In the 2017/18 Champions League season, PAOK BC was drawn to Group B, in which the club met Gaziantep , Elan Chalon , Iberostar Tenerife, Neptunas Klaipeda , BK Ventspils , MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg and SikeliArchivi Capo d'Orlando . Third in the group behind Tenerife and Ludwigsburg, PAOK BC qualified for the round of the top 16 for the second year in a row.

In the 2018/19 Champions League season, PAOK BC was drawn to Group B, in which the club played against Umana Reyer Venezia , Telekom Baskets Bonn , Unet Holon , BK Opava, Nanterre 92, Friborg Olympic and for the third time in a row in the preliminary round Iberostar meets Tenerife. In the home game on October 16, 2018 against Telekom Baskets from Bonn, the club reached a milestone in its European history. It was the 400th international game in its history. You can qualify for the top 16 for the third time and will be drawn to the defending champion AEK Athens BC . In two games you are defeated and cannot move into the round of the top 8.

In the 2019/20 season, PAOK BC will be drawn into Group D to Casademont Zaragoza , JDA Dijon , Telekom Baskets Bonn, Besiktas Istanbul , Falco Szombathely, Neptunas Klaipeda and Happy Casa Brindisi, but will not be able to make it to the top for the first time 16 qualify.

Title / Achievements

Greek champion (2): 1959, 1992
Greek runner-up (8): 1960, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000
Greek Cup Winner (3): 1984, 1995, 1999
Greek cup finalist (5): 1982, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2019
Greek U-17 champions (6): 1978, 1985, 1988, 1991, 2013, 2017
Greek U-18 champions (4): 1981, 1990, 1994, 2002
FIBA EuroLeague Final Four (1): 1993 (3rd place)
FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup : 1991
Finalist FIBA European Cup (2): 1992, 1996
FIBA Korać Cup : 1994

The 90th anniversary of PAOK BC

The illustrated book "The Protagonists - 90 Years of Basketball"

On September 9, 2016, the 90 years of the club was celebrated in a dignified setting. The then reigning European champion of the ULEB Euroleague 2015/16 PBK CSKA Moscow was invited to a game against the selection of PAOK BC

The team appeared in a retro outfit specially made for the game, which was based on the basketball team's first club outfit from the 1920s. Former players like Georgios Ikonomou, Manthos Katsoulis, Ken Barlow, Christos Tsekos, Clifford Levingston , Claudio Coldebella , Efthimios Rentzias , Giannis Gianoulis and coaches like Dragan Sakota and Dusan Ivkovic from the successful past attended the celebrations. The friendly match naturally took place in the PAOK Sports Arena, which PBK ZSKA Moscow won.

The friendship shirt "PAOK / Partizan Brothers" for the 2017 games

Just in time for the club's anniversary and under the direction of the sports director Nikos Stavropoulos, a book of pictures on the history of the club was published. The work was completed in two years of preparation and with the help of many former players. The illustrated book was awarded the Sports Marketing Award 2017 by Boussias Communications and Marketing Week magazine in July 2017. The book illustrates the main actors throughout the club's history, with old archive photos painstakingly restored to fit into the edition. The historical 544-page book of pictures was published in three language versions. The work was published in Greek, English and Russian and thus serves an international audience. The premiere and first presentation of the book was held in December 2016 and at the Makedonia Palace in Thessaloniki. Invited guests were Makis Voitsidis, George Lysaridis, Voula Patoulidou , Vassilis Skountis, Frangoulis Frangos and the entire management team of the basketball club.

Friendship with KK Partizan Belgrade

For many years there has been an intensive fan friendship with KK Partizan Belgrade , which is based on the colors of the clubs, which is black and white in both cases, as well as on the common religion of Christian Orthodoxy . The friendship between fans became particularly clear in the games of the Basketball Champions League in 2017. There they both competed in the round of the best 32 teams, which PAOK won in the end. The fans wore friendship scarves and T-shirts in both games and accompanied both teams with chants.

Current squad

(As of August 22, 2020)

No.	Surname	nationality	position	Size (cm]	vintage	since
-	Malcolm Griffin	United States	Guard	193	1991	2020
-	Nontas Papantoniou	Greece	Guard	190	1990	2020
11	Evangelos Margaritis (C)	Greece	Forward	203	1982	2012
-	Beau Beech	United States	Forward	201	1994	2020
-	Dimitrios Kaklamanakis	Greece	center	206	1994	2020
14th	Georgios Tanoulis	Greece	center	209	2002	2019
-	Elston Turner Jr.	United States	Forward	196	1990	2020
-	Elijah Mitrou-Long	Canada Greece	Guard	185	1996	2020
-	Anagnostis Papasavoglou	Greece	Guard	195	2002	2020
-	Alan Herndon	United States	Forward	206	1994	2020
-	Georgios Kamperidis	Greece	Forward	201	1999	2020
20th	Konstantinos Iatridis	Greece	center	206	2001	2019
21st	Ioannis Konsoulas	Greece	Forward	202	2002	2020
-	Jermaine Love	United States	Guard	191	1989	2020
-	Antonis Karagiannidis	Greece	Forward	204	2002	2020

Cadre depth

Item	starter	Bank	Bank	reserve
C.	Dimitrios Kaklamanakis	Georgios Tanoulis	Konstantinos Iatridis
PF	Evangelos Margaritis	Beau Beech	Antonis Karagiannidis	Ioannis Konsoulas
SF	Elston Turner Jr.	Alan Herndon	Georgios Kamperidis
SG	Malcolm Griffin	Nontas Papantoniou	Anagnostis Papasavoglou
PG	Elijah Mitrou-Long	Jermaine Love

Significant or famous former players

→ See also: Former players of PAOK BC .

Germany Stephan Baeck
Italy Claudio Coldebella
Turkey İbrahim Kutluay
Montenegro Vlado Šćepanović
Serbia Dejan Tomašević
Montenegro Predrag Drobnjak
Slovenia Radoslav Nesterovič
Serbia Zoran Savic
Serbia Milenko Tepic
Serbia Branko Milisaljevic
United States Kenny Gregory
United States William Avery
United States Marc Antonio Carter
United States CJ Watson
United States Rashad Wright
United States Wendell Alexis
United States Rawle Marshall
United States Scott Skiles
United States Marcus Goree
United States Jake Odum
United States Bobby Brown
United States Darius Washington
United States Walter Berry

United States Ken Barlow
United States Matt Bullard
United States Clifford Levingston
United States Michael Jones
United States Lucky Jones
United States Lemon Lampley
United States Delaney Rudd
United States Thadeus McFadden
United States Conrad McRae
United States Darnell Jackson
United States Mark Payne
United States DJ Cooper
United States Lucky Jones
United States Alton Ford
United States Phil Goss
United States Dean Garrett
United States Lawrence Funderburke
United States Tracey Murray
United States Joseph Blair
United States Rafael Addison
United States Jerrod Mustaf
United States Charles Shackleford
United States Antonny Bonner

Eternal scorer table of PAOK BC

The eternal TOP 5 first division scorer table (as of 2020)
space	Surname	Playing times in years	Number of seasons	Games	Points	Points on average
1.	Greece Manthos Katsoulis	1975-1988	14th	274	5,227	19.1
2.	Serbia Greece Branislav Prelevic	1988-1996, 1999-2000	9	226	4,365	19.3
3.	Greece Panagiotis Fassoulas	1981-1993	12	269	3,614	13.4
4th	United States Greece John Korfas	1987-1995	9	247	3,611	14.6
5.	Greece Konstantinos Politis	1973–1985	13	289	3,225	11.1

Eminent or well-known former coaches

Greece Anastasios Markopoulos

Markopoulos worked as a coach at PAOK BC in 1993/94, 2005/06 and 2009-2017 and was therefore the record coach - both in terms of coaching times and games. He also holds the record of most ESAKE games in the Greek A1 basketball league as a coach with over 700 games. Under Markopoulos, the club won the Korac Cup and thus its second European title.

Greece Konstantinos Flevarakis

Kostas Flevarakis emerged from the club's coaching forge. From 1988 to 1995 he went through all youth departments and was assistant coach of the licensed players department from 1995 to 1998, before he was allowed to lead the club as head coach in the 1998/99 season. In this first term, this led the club to the Greek Cup. In the following season Flevarakis should be assistant coach again, before he was then appointed again in the 2000/01 season as head coach. Flevarakis had his third term as head coach at the club in the 2007/08 season. In the 2019/20 season, Flevarakis should have his final term as head coach for the time being, after he inherited Papatheodorou.

Greece Evangelos Alexandris

Evangelos Alexandris was active both as a player and in the position of coach in the club. As a player, he won the Greek Cup with PAOK BC. He has coached the club for four different seasons. The first coaching season was 1995/96, the second season under Alexandris was 2001/02. His last stay did not last for the whole season and so he left the club in the middle of the 2007 season.

Greece Dimitrios Itoudis

Itoudis began his successful career as head coach at PAOK BC Itoudis was initially employed as an assistant coach at the club in 1995 before he took over the post of head coach in 1996. That’s PAOK BC. his first job as head coach. Dimitrios Itoudis was the coach of CSKA Moscow in the friendly match for the 90th anniversary celebration in the dugout.

Serbia Dušan Ivković

Dusan Ivkovic became Greek champion with PAOK BC in 1992

Dusan Ivkovic led PAOK BC to the Greek championship in 1992. Furthermore, Dusan Ivkovic can refer to the final of the cup winners' cup of the same year as well as to the third place of the national championship competition of the FIBA in the Final Four of Piraeus in 1993. Accordingly, he can be described as the most successful coach in club history. Dusan Ivkovic coached PAOK BC from 1991 to 1994. Ivkovic was the invited guest of honor for the club's 90th anniversary in 2016.

Serbia Dragan Sakota

The Serb Dragan Sakota led the club to the UEFA Cup Winners FIBA in 1991.Dragan Sakota had two terms at the club. In the 1990/91 season and in the 1994/95 season he was the head coach of PAOK BC . At the same time, PAOK BC was his first coaching station outside of the former Yugoslavia . The Belgrade- born coach now has Serbian and Greek citizenship.

United States Scott Skiles

The American Scott Skiles was active both as a player and in the position of coach for the club. In the 1996/97 season he took over the coaching post as a player. Skiles then continued his coaching career in the NBA .

Greece Konstantinos Politis

Konstantinos Politis was active both as a player and in the position of coach in the club. With the club he reached the Greek Cup final in 1989 and 1990, but both times had to admit defeat to city and arch rivals Aris Thessaloniki . In 1991 he managed to lead PAOK to the final for the third time in a row, but he had to admit defeat again, this time against Panionios Athens .

United States Johnny Neumann

In the summer of 1987 Johnny Neumann took over the coaching position at PAOK BC and led the club into the final series of the Greek championship. Neumann could not bring the second season as head coach to an end. In a game against Red Star Belgrade Neumann was violent against a referee and was banned by FIBA for two years. The American died in 2019 at the age of 68.

Greece Iliad Papatheodorou

For two seasons, the then young coach was able to lead the club to the cup final with his game idea in 2019 after 20 years.

Israel Zvi Sherf

From 1997 to 1999 the Israeli Zvi Sherf was the club's head coach.

Web links

Commons : PAOK Thessaloniki (basketball) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Hristos Pavlidis: H μπασκετικη ιστορια του παοκ . Ed .: Alexis Kristallidis. No. 9 . Athinaiko Praktorio, Thessaloniki December 1999, p. 68-85 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^{o The} information source is the club's website. Retrieved May 21, 2017 (Greek, unknown language, English).
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↑ Δημήτρης Κανδηλάπτης: Ο ΠΑΟΚ και το NBA Draft. June 22, 2017. Retrieved June 22, 2017 (Greek).
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[:0-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^{o The} information source is the club's website. Retrieved May 21, 2017 (Greek, unknown language, English).

[:4-4] Plato Foropoulos: PAOK Embisteftiko - Apo to Giorgio Ikonomidi sto Dimitri Iliopoulo . Ed .: Dikefalos EPE. No. 9 . Scripta EPE, Thessaloniki December 1999, p. 83-85 .

[5] Δημήτρης Κανδηλάπτης: Ο ΠΑΟΚ και το NBA Draft. June 22, 2017. Retrieved June 22, 2017 (Greek).

[6] Predrag Stojakovic ends his career. December 19, 2011, accessed May 26, 2017 .

[7] The club's website: History. Retrieved November 19, 2017 .

[8] Marketing. September 2, 2017, Retrieved September 2, 2017 (Greek).

[9] Soulis Markopoulos leaves PAOK BC after eight years. May 26, 2017, accessed May 26, 2017 .

[10] Έκπληξη με το "διαζύγιο" ΠΑΟΚ - Μαρκόπουλου. May 26, 2017, accessed on May 26, 2017 (gr).

[11] Παπαθεοδώρου στη θέση του Μαρκόπουλου. May 27, 2017, accessed on May 27, 2017 (gr).

[12] Ήρθε και παρουσιάζεται! Retrieved June 4, 2017 (Greek).

[13] ΝΙΚΟΣ ΓΙΑΝΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ: Το αύριο του ελληνικού μπάσκετ είναι εδώ: Αλλο ένα χρυσό μετάλλιο! July 23, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2017 (Greek).

[14] Γιάννης Μάλαμας: Επίσημο: Kαρράς τετραετίας! August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2017 (Greek).

[15] Γιάννης Μάλαμας: Ο MVP του Eurobasket στον ΠΑΟΚ. August 16, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017 (Greek).

[16] Προμηθέας-ΠΑΟΚ: 79-91 και 3η θέση. In: PAOK BC. June 9, 2018, accessed June 11, 2018 (Greek).

[17] By Eurohoops team: William Hatcher signed a two-year deal with PAOK. August 6, 2018, accessed on August 12, 2018 .

[18] George Georgakopoulos: Greens work hard to defeat PAOK and win the Cup. February 17, 2019, accessed on February 23, 2019 .

[19] Nick Galis, a Hero of Greek Basketball, Is Honored by Aris. May 13, 2013, accessed May 28, 2017 .

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[22] Το παλατάκι, ο Βεζυρτζής και τα αδέρφια Δεδέογλου! March 18, 2017, accessed on May 26, 2017 (gr).

[23] Ιωάννης Δεδέογλου: Κούπα η Μπάρτσα. September 25, 2005, accessed on May 26, 2017 (gr).

[24] Νέα καθίσματα στο PAOK Sports Arena, με έξοδα του Ιβάν Σαββίδη. July 18, 2016, accessed on May 26, 2017 (gr).

[25] Δημήτρης Κανδηλάπτης: Το τελευταίο πρωτάθλημα. April 22, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2017 (Greek).

[26] G. Ntendopoulou, G. Walawani: Triponto - To Enstikto tou Tigri, Maestros Prelevic . Ed .: Fillipos Sirigos. No. 330 . Ektipotiki EPE, Athens March 7, 1995, p. 4-6 .

[27] Christos Pavlidis: PAOK Embisteftiko - Anaskopisi 1999 . Ed .: Dikefalos EPE No. 4 . Athens June 30, 1999, p. 72-77 .

[28] I. Drimonas, W. Poulakos: Triponto-Mavros Sifounas . Ed .: Fillipos Sirigou. No. 534 . Adelfi Tsakiri AE, Athens February 2, 1999, p. 4-11 .

[29] Kiriakos Kiriakos: PAOK Embisteftiko - Basket . No. 21 . Dikefalos EPE, Thessaloniki June 2001, p. 24-25 .

[:3-30] Ο μεγαλοφυής Ντούσαν Ίβκοβιτς. September 21, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017 (Greek).

[31] The source of information is the website of the Basketball Champions League Association. Accessed May 21, 2017 .

[32] Website of the FIBA ChampionsLeague: Standings / Groups. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .

[33] Δημήτρης Κανδηλάπτης: Αυτοί είναι οι αντίπαλοι του ΠΑΟΚ! February 7, 2018, accessed February 11, 2018 (Greek).

[34] Γιάννης Μάλαμας: Πρωταθλητής Ελλάδας ο ΠΑΟΚ! July 2, 2017, Retrieved August 12, 2017 (Greek).

[35] 90 χρόνια ΠΑΟΚ: Ο φιλικός αγώνας μπάσκετ ΠΑΟΚ - ΤΣΣΚΑ Μόσχας. September 7, 2016, accessed on May 26, 2017 (gr).

[36] Basketball club's website: Basketball Champions League marks new chapter in PAOK's 90-year history. September 21, 2016, accessed September 14, 2017 .

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[39] team. September 3, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .

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