PAOK Thessaloniki (soccer)

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PAOK Thessaloniki
PAOK club coat of arms
Basic data
Surname Panthessalonikeios Athlitikos
Omilos Konstantinoupoliton
Seat Thessaloniki , Greece
founding 1926
Colours black and white
president Ivan Savvidis
Board Georgios Savvidis
Website paokfc.gr
First soccer team
Head coach Abel Ferreira
Venue Toumba Stadium
Places 28,701
league Super League
2019/20 2nd place
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PAOK Thessaloniki ( Greek ΠΑΟΚ , also PAOK, acronym for Panthessalonikischer Sportklub der Konstantinopler , Greek Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντιλος Κωνσταντιλος Κωνσταντιλος Κωνσταντιλος Κωνσταντιλος Κωνσταντιλος ωνσταντιλος ωνστανταντινουπολιτilos from Thessaloniki is a football club from Thessaloniki , also known as PAOK, Thessaloniki , a football club of Thessaloniki, from Thessaloniki , a football club of Thessaloniki, Greece is a football club of Constantinople . The team was founded in 1926 by expelled Greeks from Constantinople . PAOK is one of the three teams that have never been relegated since the introduction of the unified Greek first division (Alpha Ethniki) in the 1959/60 season and have therefore always played in the Greek first division.

history

The founding years (1926–1958)

One of PAOK's first teams in 1926.

The beginnings (1926–1948)

PAOK Thessaloniki sees itself as the successor to the Hermes Club Pera (Greek: Ερμής ), founded in 1875 in the Istanbul district of Pera , which had to cease its activities as a result of the persecution of the Greeks and the related expulsions after the Greco-Turkish War . The expellees founded the PAOK association in Thessaloniki on April 20, 1926. The team's emblem is the double-headed eagle , the coat of arms of the Byzantine Empire . However, he put on the wings out of mourning over the loss of his homeland. The club color black stands for this mourning, the white for the hope for a better future. The club's first coat of arms was a four-leaf clover. On each individual shamrock there was a letter of the association, which was framed by a horseshoe. Only after the merger with AEK Thessaloniki in 1929 did the club get the Doppelkopf-Adler. The first president of the association was Triantafilos Triantafillidis . PAOK played its first unofficial game on May 4, 1926 at Thermaikos Stadium, beating Megas Alexandros Thessaloniki 2-1. The first official game took place on December 12, 1926. Nea Genea could be beaten 3-1. In the 1930/31 season PAOK debuted in the Pan-Hellenic Championship and played for the first time against Olympiacos . At the end of the season they were in 5th place. In 1937 the club won its first trophy. The club won the first Thessaloniki city championship and qualified as a result for the Greek championship, which ended with second place.

Konstantinos Andreadis was PAOK's first coach

The first coach Konstantinos "Kostas" Andreadis sat in the dugout for five years, for which he received no financial compensation.

The club's first captain was Michalis Ventourelis .

The first foreign player was a Frenchman named Raymond Etienne , who was also the first professional of the club and thus all of Greece. On September 5, 1928, he became the first footballer in Greece to sign a professional contract that earned him a salary of 4,000 drachmas. Etienne played his first game for PAOK on November 15, 1928 against Thermaikos, in which he contributed two goals to victory. In total, Etienne played for the club for six years and scored a record 38 goals in 44 games.

The club's first foreign coach was the Austrian Rudolf Gassner , who coached the team in the 1931/32 season.

On October 20, 1940, the club played its last competitive game for the Thessaloniki city championship against Makedonikos, which they won 2-1. Only a week later Greece joined on the side of the Allies in the Second World War one. The club's players have also been signed by the Greek armed forces . Two of the players at the time died in the war, goalkeeper Nikos Sotiriadis and defender Georgios Watikis. On November 17, 1940, Watikis was the first to fall at the age of 22. Sotiriadis fell at the front on January 28, 1941, at the age of 32.

The championship team of the Thessaloniki city championship of the 1936/37 season

The Thessaloniki City Championships (1948–1958)

After the Second World War , the first youth departments were created and the club was able to gain additional quality through transfers. This resulted in four Thessaloniki football championships in the 1950s. As football was still organized locally, the city championship of Thessaloniki counted as a great success.

By 1955, the club was able to qualify a total of three times for the final of the Greek Cup . In all three games, however, PAOK could not win the game. The first final for the Greek Cup was played by PAOK against AEK Athens in 1939 in the Nikos Goumas Stadium . It was lost 1: 2, but photos and reports of the time show that football was perceived as a game and less as a commercialized event. Players and officials embraced after the final and, in contrast to later times, were on friendly terms.

The era of Georgios Koudas (1958–1985)

Captain and legend of the club, Georgios Koudas

Georgios Pantelakis (1960-1971 & 1975-1984)

From 1960 to 1971 Georgios Pantelakis held the office of the so-called general secretary on the board, a function which today can be compared to that of a sports director . He was able to successfully prevent Olympiacos from signing Piraeus Koudas. His statement "I might end up in Gyaros (island of exile and prison during the years of the military junta ), but Koudas will not play at Olympiakos" went down in the club's history.

From 1975 to 1984 he was finally president of the club. He was voted out of office on August 1, 1984. Petros Kalafatis took over his presidency .

The successful seventies team

The Koudas era is characterized as the establishment and creation of prestige. Georgios Koudas signed a 5-year contract in 1958 at the age of 12. Finally, Koudas made his debut in the first team in 1963 at the age of just 17. Not only national titles and successful placements in the championship in the 1970s, but also participation in European competitions ensured that PAOK achieved national and international fame. The captain shaped the club and helped it achieve some successes. As a cup winner in 1972, PAOK was able to secure the Football Cup of Greater Greece the following year, which was played between the top teams and the cup winners from Greece and Cyprus. In the first and second leg you could win against Omonia Nicosia . The highlight of this era was in 1976 the first time he won the championship under Hungarian coach Gyula Lóránt .

Koudas as a pop culture phenomenon

Because of his leadership qualities as a captain, Koudas was also referred to as Alexander the Great (Μεγαλέξανδρο) by supporters of the club . Another common name was deer of the north (Greek: Ζαρκάδι του Βορρά).

On April 18, 1973, in a cup game against Panathinaikos, the "Koudas Photo" was created, which is often understood as symbolic of the captain's talent and style of play and is representative of the dominance of the team at the time. In the 34th minute of the game, the captain dribbled past Anthimons Kapsis in midfield, who clung to Koudas from behind to bring him down and prevent the counterattack. Koudas later said that the defender's fair play, who stopped him with his hands instead of a tackle, was an ode to fairness. He also praised the photographer Michaelis Papous and described the game as a game of surprises and a deserved victory. Defense attorney Anthimos Kapsis said he had respect for Koudas and did not want to hurt him. He then helped Koudas on his feet again to the applause of the audience. The photo was often featured on front pages and posters in its day. Another example of Koudas' presence in Greek pop culture at that time is the song by the composer and songwriter Manolis Rasoulis , who appeared in one of his stanzas in a song entitled "Πότε Βούδας, πότε Κούδας" (German: Pote Woudas, pote Koudas) says: "Sometimes Buddha, sometimes Koudas, sometimes Jesus and Judas" . The singer-songwriter lived near Toumba Stadium and attended the PAOK games.

Georgios Koudas ended his active career in 1984. He was with the club for over 25 years and shaped two generations of footballers.

Troubled Times and the Batatoudis Plan (1986-2003)

Inconsistent Times (1986-1996)

The time between the last championship in 1985 and Georgios Batatoudis' entry as President of PAOK in 1996 was inconsistent and changeable. It was possible to qualify for the European competition a few times, but there were often problems in the management level and violence from your own fans in the stadium. Thomas Voulinos took over the management of the club in April 1989 and succeeded Ioannis Dedeoglou in the presidency . He used the Dutchman Rob Jakobs as the new coach and strengthened the squad with Georgios Mitsibonas and the Egyptian Tolba Magdy , who was also the first African player in the history of the club. The riots around Thomas Voulinos spread to the field and the fans and successes stayed away. An example is the game against Paris Saint-Germain in 1992/93 , in which the violence of the fans caused the game to be abandoned.

The Batatoudi era (1996-2003)

In 1996 , the entrepreneur from Evros , Georgios Batatoudis, who was later lovingly called Batman by the fans , took over the club and tried to stabilize it, which he succeeded primarily through player transfers and team leadership. He signed players like Percy Olivares , Zisis Vryzas , Spiros Marangos and Konstantinos Frantzeskos . Batatoudis had his first successes soon afterwards. In the first round of the UEFA Cup in 1997/98 could Arsenal eliminated. Later on, coaches such as Arie Haan and Oleh Blochin had experience that the players made use of. In the transfer period of the summer of 1999, Batatoudis took Nikos Frousos and Ionikos Nikea without consulting the management team around coach Arie Haan . At the same time, the then owner of the club, Stylianos Venetidis , signed a contract with Xanthi FC for 230 million Greek drachmas, which he then sold to Olympiacos for a profit a few years later. With the commitments of Omari Tetradze , the Australian Ante Covic and Georgios Georgiadis from Newcastle United , in whose commitment Arie Haan played an important role, Batatoudis completed his plan of qualitative expansion and set the course for later national success.

In the 2000/01 season he won the Greek Cup . They beat arch rivals Olympiacos 4-2 in Athens and were able to achieve a significant success for the first time in more than 15 years. Despite winning the cup again in the 2002/03 season, the president was forced to sell the shares in the club, and handed them over to Ioannis Goumenos as president .

About Goumenos to the Zagorakis Years (2003–2012)

Theodoros Zagorakis as president of the club from 2007–2012
Zlatan Muslimovic as a PAOK player

The transition years (2003-2007)

Goumenos has already taken over a debt of 11 million euros, which he tripled to over 30 million euros in the years of his work. His financial means to maintain the club were insufficient. The search for a financially strong investor was unsuccessful. Only the return of the hopeful Theodoros Zagorakis as a player led the club to stable conditions after a long period of stagnation.

Stabilization under Zagorakis (2007-2012)

Pablo Contreras in the PAOK jersey

In 2007, Theodoros Zagorakis took over the presidency of the club as a “helper in need” and drafted a plan for debt reduction and further sporting development. In his first position, Zagorakis announced: "I want to serve the club from a different position than before, but continue to serve the club with the utmost dedication."

The aim was to get the club out of debt and establish it in the European places. He called this plan "The Three-Year Plan" and at the same time appealed to the fans of PAOK to support the club. In the first year of his presidency he signed Fernando Santos , whom he already knew from his time at league rivals AEK Athens . In the summer transfer period of 2008, Zagorakis prepared the planning of the squad in such a way that experienced professionals who could help the club in terms of sport were hired. With players like Pablo Garcia , Zlatan Muslimovic , Sérgio Conceição and Pablo Contreras , PAOK was able to achieve 2nd place in the Super League in the 2008/09 season . In the following season, other players such as Vitolo and Bruno Cirillo were signed to fill the squad more deeply. The financial situation slowly began to improve thanks to sponsorships, participation in European competitions and player sales.

Ivan Savvidi's era (since 2012)

The Russian-Greek entrepreneur Ivan Savvidis has been the owner of the club since 2012
Consolidation and upswing (2012 to 2016)

The Greek-Russian entrepreneur Ivan Savvidis took over the majority of the shares in the summer of 2012 after lengthy negotiations. He invested 10 million euros directly and also granted the association a loan of 2 million euros. Under his leadership, the game and stadium conditions were improved and structural changes were made. The club's emblem has been revised and adapted to the digital age. The team bus has also been modernized. In the Toumba Stadium , the VIP area was provided with boxes and both the entire dressing area and the aging interior of the stadium were modernized and upgraded. In 2015, Savvidis and the club benefited from a government law that waived the interest charges on old debts. Savvidis was able to repay the initial 11 million euros in liabilities directly and thus make the club debt-free. This gave the club more freedom for the squad planning of the team and in the 2015/16 season transfers amounting to around 7 million euros could be made.

The PAOK team bus with a new emblem from 2014
The fight for titles and championships (since 2017)

In the following two seasons, the quality and breadth of the squad was strengthened, so that with the victory in the Greek cup competition 2016/17, the first success under Savvidis could be achieved. After the departure of Vladimir Ivić , the sports director Ľuboš Micheľ signed the Serbian Aleksandar Stanojevic as a new coach in June 2017. After only 57 days, however, Stanojevic was on leave and replaced by the Romanian Răzvan Lucescu , who had already been traded as a possible candidate before Stanojevic was committed to the club. In March 2018, Savvidis caused a sensation when, in the 89th minute of the game against AEK Athens, he ran onto the pitch with a pistol on his belt after his team failed to score an offside goal, threatening the referee and causing the game to be abandoned. For this he was sentenced to a fine and a three-year stadium ban. PAOK was penalized with point deductions: three points in the current championship, two points in the coming 2018/19 season. At the end of the 2017/18 season, PAOK was in second place in the league and won the Greek Cup for the second time in a row. In the Olympic Stadium in Athens , the club won the final against AEK Athens 2-0 and was able to finish the season successfully despite the missed championship. The squad was further improved in the 2018/19 season. You could secure the services of the Swedish national player Pontus Wernbloom and made the most expensive purchase in the history of the club to date with the signing of the Icelandic Sverrir Ingi Ingason during the winter break . Furthermore, the experienced team around captain Vieirinha was strengthened by the loan of the Portuguese Sergio Oliveira and the integration of talents such as Chuba Akpom , Karol Swiderski and Leo Jaba with a view to the current championship.

Abel Fernando Moreira Ferreira
Abel Ferreira has been the club's coach since 2019

This resulted in the first championship in 34 years. One matchday before the end of regular time, PAOK secured the championship with a 5-0 win against Levadiakos . The subsequent championship celebration in the stadium was carried out with a pyro and light show, and a motorcade continued peacefully through the city. Since you had to start with 2 points deduction at the beginning of the season and became unbeaten champions, it will go down as the best team performance of a club in the history of the Super League to date . PAOK has the record from 1964, when Panathinaikos Athens undefeated champions was not only set, but surpassed, as they could show 26 wins and 4 draws in the overall result, with the previous record holder Panathinaikos, 24 wins and in the 1963/64 season 6 draws. The cup final was played again and for the third time in a row against AEK Athens. A goal from Chuba Akpom celebrated the third cup win in a row and thus secured the first double in the club's history. This makes the team for the 2018/19 season the most successful in club history.

On June 30, 2019 and two days after the departure of the master coach Razvan Lucescu, the Portuguese Abel Ferreira signed a three-year contract with the club.

Achievements / titles

  • Greek master (3 ×): 1976, 1985, 2019
  • Greek Cup Winner (7 ×): 1972, 1974, 2001, 2003, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • Thessaloniki City Championship (6 ×): 1937, 1948, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957
  • Greater Greece Cup (1 ×): 1973
  • Youth departments (11 x):
    • U-20 Greek champions (5 ×): 2003, 2007, 2014, 2018, 2019
    • U-17 Greek champions (3 ×): 2013, 2016, 2020
    • U-15 Greek champions (3 ×): 2015, 2017, 2019

European competitions

Exhibition Cities Cup (Coupe des Villes de foire)

In 1965/66 , 1967/68 and 1970/71 PAOK took part in the Coupe des villes de foire .

In all three participations, however, the club was eliminated in the first round: in 1965 they were defeated by the Wiener Sport-Club , in 1967 they were twice defeated by RFC Liège and in 1970 they had to admit defeat to Dynamo Bucharest .

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

The first participation as a representative of the Greek cup competition took place in the 1972/73 season . There they were eliminated against Rapid Vienna after two draws. The first leg took place in Vienna on September 13, 1972 and ended 0-0, the second leg ended 2-2 14 days later. On the basis of the away goals scored, Vienna advanced one round. The second participation in the 1973/74 season was more successful. Here PAOK had to play against Legia Warsaw and played a 1-1 draw away from home. The second leg in Thessaloniki was won 1-0 and reached the second round in the competition for the first time. There they met Olympique Lyon , against whom they made a 3: 3 away on October 24, 1973. In the second leg, PAOK won 4-0 at home, which meant they made it to the quarter-finals of the competition. On March 13, 1973 they lost to AC Milan 3-0 in the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium . The second leg ended 2-2 and PAOK was eliminated from the tournament.

In the following season 1974/75 PAOK played in the first round of the competition against FK Red Star Belgrade . The home game was won 1-0, but the second leg was lost 2-0 in stoppage time. In the 1977-78 season the fourth participation was made. In the first round of the 1977/78 season Zagłębie Sosnowiec was twice defeated 2-0. In the second round PAOK was eliminated after a 3-0 defeat in the first leg and a 2-1 win in the second leg against Danish club Vejle BK . In 1978/79 PAOK won the home game against Servette FC Geneva 2-0, but lost 4-0 in Switzerland and was eliminated. In the 1981/82 season the opponent was Eintracht Frankfurt , against whom they lost 2-0 in the Waldstadion . But PAOK was able to win the second leg 2-0, so it came to the decision on penalties, which the Greeks lost with a final result of 4: 5 on penalties.

Uefa cup

1975-1990

The first participation in the UEFA Cup took place in the 1975/76 season against FC Barcelona . Under the leadership of the Hungarian coaching legend Gyula Lorant and in front of a crowd of around 45,000 spectators in the Toumba Stadium , PAOK defeated Johan Cruyff 1-0 against Barcelona . However, the second leg was lost. In the 1982/83 season they were eliminated again in the first round against the French FC Sochaux-Montbeliard .

In the following year, PAOK was drawn against FC Bayern Munich and had to play against the then star team around Klaus Augenthaler , Sören Lerby and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge . In the first leg on October 19, 1983 a 0-0 could be won in Toumba Stadium. The second leg went down in the history books when they also reached 0-0 in the Munich Olympic Stadium on November 2, 1983 and only had to admit defeat 9-8 after a dramatic penalty shoot-out.

In the 1988/89 season they lost Diego Armando Maradona with his SSC Napoli in the first leg in Napoli just 1-0. The second leg took place on September 21, 1988 and ended in a 1-1 draw, which could be seen as a success.

1990-2000

In the 1990/91 season , PAOK met Sevilla FC , who ultimately prevailed 3: 4 on penalties against PAOK. In the 1991/92 season PAOK then played against the Belgian team KV Mechelen , which he beat in the first round and thus moved into the second round of the UEFA Cup. There they were eliminated against Tirol Innsbruck .

A black hour in club history followed in 1992/93 against Paris St. Germain , where the first leg against George Weah , David Ginola and Co had to be played by ten from the 63rd minute and lost 2-0. In the second leg, the game had to be abandoned due to serious riots. PAOK received a UEFA penalty and the club was banned from competing for two years. The game was rated 0: 3 for Paris. The next participation could only take place in the 1997/98 season .

There the club had to play against Sparta Trnava in the qualifying round . In the first leg, after a red card against Spyros Marangos, the team turned a 0: 3 deficit to a 5: 3. In the second leg, Theodoros Zagorakis scored the 0: 1 final result, which allowed PAOK to move back into the first round after a long absence.

There you met Arsenal London with coach Arsen Wenger . On September 16, 1997 PAOK won the first leg at Toumba Stadium 1-0 with a goal from Kostas Frantzeskos. In the second leg, PAOK drew 1-1 at Highbury on September 30, 1997 thanks to a goal by Zysis Vryzas in the last minutes of the game. So the club got one round. In the 2nd round of the UEFA Cup to arbitration under coach Angelos Anastasiadis against Atlético Madrid made after two high-scoring games.

In the 1998/99 season was after the first round against the Glasgow Rangers over . The 1999/2000 season saw the biggest win in the UEFA Cup and in the history of the club. They won 7-0 against Lokomotiv Tbilisi in the first round . then dropped out against Benfica Lisbon in the second round.

2000-2006

The following season you could advance to the third round of the competition by defeating Beitar Jerusalem and Udinese Calcio in the first two rounds. In the third round you have to admit defeat against PSV Eindhoven . From 2001 to 2003 you always reached the 3rd round of the competition.

In the summer of 2005 PAOK's “prodigal son”, Theodoros Zagorakis (captain of the Greek national team in the European championship title for the Greeks in the 2004 European Championship ), came back from Italy from Bologna FC to continue his career in Thessaloniki and to finish there. This experienced the last UEFA Cup season, as the competition was reformed to the Europa League in the following year. Zagorakis reached the group stage with his team in the 2005/06 season , but finished fourth in the group and said goodbye to the UEFA Cup competition, which has given him a lot of recognition and great moments in club history over the years.

UEFA Europa League

PAOK's first participation in the UEFA Europa League was in 2009/2010 , in which they had to admit defeat to SC Heerenveen in the play-off round .

PAOK in the Europa League against CSKA Moscow in the round of the best 32 teams

After failing to qualify for the Champions League in the 2010/11 season , they won the Europa League play-offs against Fenerbahçe Istanbul , and PAOK moved into the group stage of the UEFA Europa League. There, behind FC Villarreal and ahead of Dinamo Zagreb and Club Brugge, the second place in the table was achieved. Against CSKA Moscow it was over in the second round.

In 2011/12 the team started after fourth place in the championship and second place in the Super League play-offs in the Europa League qualifying round, where PAOK won against Vålerenga Oslo (qualifying round 3) and Karpaty Lemberg (play-offs) and the ensured renewed participation. The team finished the group stage as group winners. But then lost to Udinese Calcio .

In the 2012/13 season , PAOK did not take part in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League, as the team lost 2-1 and 0-3 at SK Rapid Wien in the play-off round . In the 2013/14 season they qualified directly for the group stage and did not have to go through the third qualifying round. PAOK again reached the round of the 32 best teams, where they had to admit defeat Benfica Lisbon .

In the following season they did not get beyond the group stage and were eliminated early. In 2015/16 they went through the second and third qualifying rounds before being drawn in the group for FK Qəbələ , Krasnodar and Borussia Dortmund . They did not reach the next round, but were able to achieve a respectable success against Dortmund by achieving a 0-1 away win at the Westfalenstadion .

In the 2016/17 season and after leaving the Champions League qualification, they reached the group stage of the Europa League after beating Dynamo Tbilisi . You could qualify for the next round in second behind Fiorentina . In the round of the best 16, however, PAOK lost to rivals FC Schalke 04 in the first leg and were eliminated 1-1 in the second leg in the Veltins Arena .

A year later, in 2017/18 , they met Olympik Donetsk in the first qualifying round , which they could defeat in two games. In the next qualifying round and after moving into the Europa League group stage, they met Östersund FK . The first leg was won 3-1 at home. A big disappointment ensues in the second leg in Sweden. The team was unexpectedly eliminated with a 2-0 win by the home team.

After the elimination in the play-offs of the Champions League 2018/19 against Benfica Lisbon, the club was drawn into Group L of the Europa League 2018/19, and thus got Chelsea , Bate Borisov and Vidi FC as opponents.

UEFA Champions League / European Cup

European Champions Cup

PAOK qualified for this competition for the first time after winning the championship in 1976. In the 1976/77 event , they met the Cypriot representative Omonia Nicosia . The away game was won 2-0. The first goal for the club in the competition was scored by Georgios Koudas in the 34th minute of the game. The second leg at Toumba Stadium under coach Branko Stanković ended 1-1. PAOK thus moved into the second round of the tournament. There they met the Soviet representative Dynamo Kiev , who defeated PAOK 4-0 in front of a home crowd. Kiev also won the game in Thessaloniki, so that PAOK was eliminated.

The second and last participation in this competition took place in the 1985/86 season . Here they met the Italian club Hellas Verona , which won the first game 3-1. PAOK also lost the second leg against the favored Italian representative and were eliminated.

UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

In the 2004/05 season you had to accept against Maccabi Tel Aviv to qualify for the Champions League, because of a formal error when substituting a player who was not eligible to play with a 3-0 valuation of the game for the opponent, and thus missed the qualification.

In 2010/11 , the team reached the qualification for the UEFA Champions League as a championship third (and play-off winner) , in which they narrowly failed to Ajax Amsterdam in the third qualifying round. You played in the two legs, so that only the away goals for Ajax Amsterdam decided the qualification.

PAOK's team against Spartak Moscow in the Otkrytije Arena in August 2018

PAOK became Greek runners-up in the 2012/13 season and qualified for the third round of the Champions League qualifying games for the 2013/14 season . There, PAOK met Ukrainian runners-up Metalist Kharkiv , against whom UEFA had launched an investigation into a 2008 manipulation scandal. Saloniki dropped out of the competition after a 2-0 and 1-1 draw. A few days later, however, UEFA excluded Metalist from all European competitions due to the manipulation, which allowed Saloniki to advance to the Champions League playoff round. They met FC Schalke 04 . PAOK was able to achieve a 1-1 draw in the first leg. The second leg, however, they lost 3-2 at home with a goal in stoppage time from Ádám Szalai .

In the 2016/17 season they qualified for the Champions League and played against Ajax Amsterdam as in the 2010/11 season. Again, they fail to prevail and Ajax was able to qualify for the group stage.

In the 2018/19 season you should meet FC Basel . The first leg was decided 2-1 in the Toumba Stadium and the result went to St. Jakob-Park in Basel. There they secured qualification for the third round with a 3-0 win. The qualification for the play-offs for participation in the Champions League should be fought out with Spartak Moscow . PAOK won the first leg 3-2, the second leg at the Otkrytije Arena in Moscow ended 0-0, which meant they qualified for the play-offs. In the play-offs and thus the final qualifying round, they were drawn against Benfica Lisbon. The first game took place at the Estádio da Luz . A draw in Lisbon was followed by a home defeat, so that the club again missed a place in the top European league, and ended up in the Europa League pot for the 2018/19 season.

In the 2019/20 season , the club is again defeated by Ajax Amsterdam in two games and cannot move into the group stage of the Champions League.

The squad for the 2020/21 season

(As of August 23, 2020)

goal Defense midfield attack
31 GreekGreek Alexandros Paschalakis July 28, 1989
880 SerbiaSerbia Zivko Zivkovic March 8, 1991
2 BasiliansBasilians Rodrigo Alves Soares December 26, 1992
03 BasiliansBasilians Leo Matos April 2, 1986
4th IcelandIceland Sverrir Ingi Ingason 5th August 1993
05 Cape VerdeCape Verde Fernando Varela November 26, 1987
6th AlbaniaAlbania Enea Mihaj July 5, 1998
15th SpaniardsSpaniards José Ángel Crespo February 9, 1987
230 GreekGreek Dimitris Giannoulis October 10, 1995
49 GreekGreek Ioannis Michailidis February 18, 2000
25th GreekGreek Marios Tsaousis May 11, 2000
07th MoroccanMoroccan Omar El Kaddouri August 21, 1990
22nd0 AustriaAustria Stefan Schwab September 27, 1990
10 GreekGreek Dimitris Pelkas (C) October 26, 1993
29 GreekGreek Georgios Vrakas April 28, 2001
21st DutchDutch Diego Biseswar March 8, 1988
24 NigeriaNigeria Anderson Esiti May 24, 1994
32 GeorgiaGeorgia Nika Ninua June 22, 1999
27 CroatiaCroatia Josip Misic June 28, 1994
33 BasiliansBasilians Douglas Augusto January 13, 1997
51 GreekGreek Charis Tsingaras August 20, 2000
26th GreekGreek Konstantinos Balogiannis February 8, 1999
09 PolandPoland Karol Świderski January 23, 1997
11 GreekGreek Christos Tzolis January 30, 2002
18th GreekGreek Dimitris Limnios May 27, 1998
47 English peopleEnglish people Chuba Akpom October 9, 1995
98 BrazilianBrazilian Léo Jabá August 2, 1998
70 GreekGreek Georgios Koutsias February 8, 2004

Venues

The Syntrivani Stadium (1929-1959)

PAOK at Syntrivani Stadium, the first home arena

The club's first venue was the Syntrivani Stadium (Γήπεδο Συντριβανίου), which it initially shared with AEK Thessaloniki. The station was at the current location of the theological faculty of Aristotle University . The foundation stone was laid on December 12, 1929, although the field was already inaugurated by the athletics department of AEK Thessaloniki in 1928. The first game in the completed stadium was played by PAOK against Iraklis Thessaloniki on June 5, 1932, PAOK won 3-2. On July 17, 1952, floodlights were used for the first time in a game against Panionios Athens . The last official game was played by PAOK on May 31, 1959 and then moved to the newly built Toumba Stadium . Until the 1960s, friendly matches and training sessions were held in the Syntrivani Stadium.

Toumba Stadium (1959 - today)

The main stand of the Toumba Stadium

PAOK has played its home games here since the stadium opened on September 6, 1959 with a friendly against AEK Athens .

The back straight of the Toumba Stadium

The stadium's capacity was 45,000 standing places until 1998. Then seats were installed, which reduced the capacity to 32,000 seats. The introduction of security zones in 2000 reduced the capacity to the current number of 28,701 places.

The stadium was renovated for the 2004 Summer Olympics and was intended as a training ground.

On December 19, 1976, a record of 45,252 viewers who saw the match PAOK against AEK Athens was achieved to this day.

Nea Toumba

At the time of the takeover, the owner of the club, Ivan Savvidis , thought of a modern arena that would be better adapted to the modern needs of football. The first plans were commissioned in 2016, and a so-called "task force" was set up to deal with the construction of the new arena. After no land could be found for the new building on the outskirts, it was decided instead to replace the old Toumba Stadium with a new building at the same location. The parliament as well as local politicians like the then mayor Giannis Boutaris and the prefecture expressed their interest and support. The surrounding area originally belonged to the Greek military, but was loaned to PAOK by then Defense Minister Panos Kammenos for 100 years for a symbolic amount of EUR 1. In the summer and autumn of 2019, further applications and planning discussions were held with the city ​​councils and the prefecture , as well as discussions with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the responsible minister, Elefterios Avgenakis, in order to begin with the demolition of the old Toumba stadium in 2020 if possible.

Currently, a capacity of 41,926 spaces, a number that should symbolically encompass the year of foundation, better transport connections and more parking spaces are planned. Shops, restaurants, boxes and the club museum are also to be integrated into the new stadium. During the construction phase, which is scheduled for three years, the club will host its home games in the neighboring Kaftantzoglio Stadium .

The training center (since 2011)

The PAOK Sport Center is located in Nea Mesimvria in the municipality of Chalkidona . The project was started during the presidency of Theodoros Zagorakis , the first training was completed by the professional team after a completion time of four years on September 1, 2011. Until 2016, the site was gradually expanded.

The training center offers the opportunity to train on an area of ​​70,000 square meters on six areas illuminated with floodlight masts. The facility also includes rooms for physiotherapy , cryotherapy , strength training as well as offices for the trainer team and a bar.

Friendships and rivalries

Friendships

PAOK / Partizan Brothers fan friendship shirt

Partizan Belgrade

There is a close fan friendship with Partizan Belgrade , a motto / quote from the Partizan fans is: Partizan Beograd & PAOK Saloniki iste boje - ista vera (German: Partizan Belgrad & PAOK Saloniki same colors - same belief / same religion)

With the same belief, or the same religion, reference is made to the Christian Orthodox belief widespread among most Greeks and Serbs . PAOK fans, especially from the ultra group GATE 4, can often be seen in Belgrade , and conversely, Partizan fans, especially their Ultras , called Grobari (German: "The Grave Diggers "), are guests in Thessaloniki. These lively visits particularly apply to basketball games from PAOK Thessaloniki .

Juventus Turin

Another club with which they have close ties is Juventus Turin , with whom there has been an official cooperation in the field of youth academies since 2013. The derivation and justification lies simply in the club colors of the two clubs, which are black and white. In the 1980s, PAOK fans began to wear Juventus jerseys, so that it went so far that the Juventus fans picked it up and also expressed their support for PAOK.

CSKA Moscow

The youngest of the fan friendships is the friendship with the Russian club CSKA Moscow , which manifested itself in the 2010/11 season , where they played against each other in the Europa League play-off.

OFI Crete

The only professional Greek club with which PAOK fans are friendly is the OFI Crete club . Not only do they have common club colors, but they also agree on their antipathy towards the clubs from Attica . A well-known example of the friendship between the two groups of supporters is the late composer and songwriter Manolis Rasoulis , who was born in Crete and who explained in an interview for the club magazine PAOK Embisteftiko that he always came first with OFI and then PAOK. He was born near the OFI Stadium and he would live near the Tumba Stadium, which gives him the opportunity to watch the PAOK games in the stadium.

Apollon Pontou

The club of many Pontic Greeks , which is also based in Thessaloniki, plays in the Kalamaria district and regularly shows friendship with PAOK. On the one hand, both clubs have the same founding date and on the other hand they both have a similar founding history, which connects the two clubs. Apollon Pontou was founded in 1926 by refugees from the Pontos on the Black Sea and, as a result, has been renamed from Apollon Kalamarias to Apollon Pontou. Since then, the connection between the followers has grown closer. For the cup game in October 2017, Apollon initiated a joint fan curve based on this fraternity.

Rivalries

The city rivals

A traditional rivalry is the one against city rivals Aris Thessaloniki , which goes back decades and is deeply rooted among the fans of both clubs. There is also hostility towards the traditional club Iraklis Thessaloniki , which often leads to a high level of fanatical outbursts. Unlike the rivalry with Aris, these take place on a purely sporting level, and only reach the supporters of both clubs. The owner of PAOK, Ivan Savvidis, spoke out in favor of financial support for the traditional club when it was in a threatening financial situation in mid-2017.

The clubs from Attica

The rivalry with Olympiacos Piraeus is one with wider implications, as it is often politically motivated. The main criticism of the majority of PAOK fan groups is the centralized government, which is often supposed to give preferential treatment to the big clubs from Athens or Piraeus . The club was very often punished for the misconduct of the fans in the home games, mostly by deducting points or fines.

There is also an aversion to Panathinaikos Athens , even if this is not as pronounced as the one against the club from Piraeus. Nevertheless, in the play-offs of the Super League, qualification for the qualifying round of the Champions League in May 2017, with a heated atmosphere to throw a beer can, which Vladan Ivic, the PAOK coach, hit in the head. The game was then abandoned and the coach was taken to the hospital.

International rivalry

Huub Stevens competed as coach of PAOK against his former club Schalke 04 in the 2012 Champions League qualifying round.

FC Schalke 04

Another rivalry exists against FC Schalke 04 . The ultras of the German team cultivate a friendship with Vardar Skopje , who provoked the fans of PAOK politically, culturally and historically in the first meeting of the two clubs on August 21, 2013 at Schalke with the flag of the Star of Vergina , so that PAOK supporters threatened to storm the north curve.

As part of this Champions League qualifier, a hundred of the police had to remove the flag from the block on the north curve by cracking down on the Schalke supporters and some Ultras from Skopje in order to finally be able to remove the flag from the block . This mission led to months of controversy between the North Rhine-Westphalian police , the then Interior Minister Ralf Jäger , and Schalke 04.

The two clubs were drawn together again in the Europa League in 2016/17. The first leg took place on February 16, 2017, when the Gelsenkirchen team had to go to Thessaloniki. There Schalke Ultras caused serious riots before the game, so that the police had to use tear gas on a massive scale. At least one Schalke supporter had to be taken into custody.

At the return match on February 22nd, 2017, which was classified by the police of North Rhine-Westphalia in advance as a " high risk game ", the Gelsenkirchen Ultras and the supporters of Skopje were again provoked with the symbol of the star of Vergina . This symbol is used by the nationalists of North Macedonia as a symbol of their own expansionist wishes. Since both the police and the PAOK fans were better prepared this time, they let this repeated provocation ricochet off and remained calm.

Youth promotion

PAOK Academy program

Through the “PAOK Academy” program, which the club has been running for many years both nationally and internationally, the club cooperates with clubs that could be potential suppliers of talented and young footballers. The club's scouting department is looking for clubs with a good infrastructure in the field of youth work.

Federal Republic of Germany

A noteworthy international project is the cooperation with the Essen district league club FC Saloniki Essen e. V., which is based in the north of Essen, and was founded by Greek immigrants in the 1960s. Over the decades, such structures could be created that the youth departments could be expanded. The thoroughly professional design of the training and playgrounds in the local stadium of the Bäuminghausstrasse district sports facility and the conditions for children and young people were rated as good by PAOK in order to encourage cooperation.

The FC Pontus from Munich is also a project of the PAOK Academy, which trains children from the F-Youth to the D-Youth in football in the training center, and is supported by the program with financial means.

In Offenbach , the PAOK FC Academy Offenbach eV is located, organized by former footballers PAOK and licensed trainer. Part of the program is to promote youth work in the form of training camps, remedial training and many other offers.

Global presences

Other countries in which there are collaborations with clubs within the meaning of the PAOK Academy program are Sweden , Cyprus and the United States of America .

PAOK FC Youth an Development Sections

Nationally, the club runs the academy's program and officially awards this title to some clubs in the country. Among other things, the AED from Didymoticho is a member of the PAOK FC Youth and Development Sections . Further sections in Greece are in Komotini , Xanthi , Kavala , Drama , Kozani , Ptolemaida , Katerini , Heraklion , Rhodes and Lesbos .

Former players, coaches & legends

Professional player

The "one-club players"

Georgios Koudas is one of the greatest sports personalities of the 20th century in Greece. Koudas joined the club at the age of 12 and played non-stop for PAOK until 1984. He completed 504 first division appearances for the club and scored 133 goals. He won two trophies and a championship with PAOK during his time. Koudas is one of the three "one-club players" who has never changed clubs in his career. Georgios Koudas was the captain of the Greek national team in the 1980 European Championship in Italy .

Another "one-club player" is the top scorer Stavros Sarafis , who played for PAOK from 1968 to 1981 and still leads the club's internal goalscorer list for national competitions with 136 goals scored.

The third player is Konstantinos Iosifidis . He played for PAOK from 1971 to 1985 and won two championships and two cups with the club. Iosifidis played his first game on 19.09.1971 against AEK Athens. His first international match was the 0-0 draw against Brazil in the Maracana on April 28, 1974. Until 2019, Iosifidis is the only one who has participated in all three championships, initially as a player and in 2019 as an official.

Foreign legends

Pablo Garcia crowd favorite on PAOK
Pablo Garcia was active as a player and assistant coach in the club.

Neto Guerino , a Brazilian native of São Paulo , played for PAOK for 10 years from 1974 to 1984 and scored 66 goals in 231 games. He was a crowd-pleaser for his 11 goals in 30 games in the 1976 championship season.

The Bosnian Serb Rade Paprica was one of the key players in the 1985 championship season and is still a household name for every fan today.

Vieirinha from his early years at the club

One of the best-known idols of PAOK fans in recent years is the Uruguayan Pablo Garcia . This has gained sympathy through his nature and is considered a legend. He played for PAOK from 2008 to 2013, playing 109 games and scoring five goals during that time. After his active career, Pablo Garcia took over a coaching position in the club's youth areas. In the 2016/17 season with the U-17 and in the 2017/18 and 2018/19 season with the U-20 of the club, Garcia was able to win the Greek championship.

One player who became a crowd favorite during his time at PAOK is the Portuguese Vieirinha . The Portuguese came from FC Porto and played for PAOK from 2008 to 2011. He scored 17 goals in 83 games for the club from Thessaloniki, rather he left the club for Wolfsburg. In August 2017, the popular Portuguese and European champion from 2016 returned. PAOK agreed on a transfer with VFL Wolfsburg and a three-year contract was negotiated with the player, so that the player was given the opportunity to end his career with his club, as he himself always emphasized. As captain, Vieirinha and Stelios Malezas were allowed to lift the first championship trophy into the night sky of the Toumba Stadium after 34 years on the evening of April 21, 2019.

National player

Christos Terzanidis in a PAOK veterans game in Canada

From the successful days of the PAOK in the 1970s, another player from the team was able to achieve legendary status with the fans. It is Christos Terzanidis , who matured to Greece's national player from 1969 to 1977 at PAOK.

Ioannis Gounaris made 432 games for PAOK and scored eight goals. Just like Koudas, Iosifidis, Terzanidis and Damanakis, Gounaris also took part in the 1980 European Championship for the Greek national football team.

A high transfer fee was paid for Georgios Kostikos at that time to bring him to Thessaloniki. A total of 8,000,000 GDR were transferred to Pierikos Katerini in 1977 . But this high transfer fee paid off, because in nine years in which he has accrued for the club, he scored 79 goals in 233 competitive games. He won a championship with PAOK and played 35 national games for Greece. In the years after his active career, Kostikos switched to the coaching business, where he coached PAOK in the 2005/06 season. Kostikos has been a scout for PAOK since 2012 .

Georgios Skartados , who came from Rhodes and made his breakthrough in PAOK, played from 1982 to 1992 and made 265 games for the club, scoring 84 goals as a defender, largely thanks to his role as his team's penalty specialist.

Also Ioannis Damanakis could recommend for the national team of Greece by making 17 goals in 242 games over PAOK.

Stefanos Borbokis is another player who played at least 200 games for PAOK, scoring a total of 32 goals from 1986 to 1994.

Theodoros Zagorakis is the international face of the club. As the 2004 European champion with the Greek national team , he gained recognition and fame. He laced his shoes for the national team a total of 120 times. He played for PAOK from 1993 to 1998 and from 2005 to 2007 and made exactly 200 games. In June 2007, Theodoros Zagorakis took over the presidency of PAOK and led it through the years of the economic crisis until January 2012.

Stefanos Klaus Athanasiadis as a PAOK player

Zisis Vryzas is another European champion from 2004 who achieved high recognition in PAOK. Every PAOK fan associates him with the victory over Arsenal London in the UEFA Cup. Vryzas played at PAOK from 1996 to 2000 and the 2007-08 season. He played 121 games and scored 25 goals. As president, he had two terms. The first term took place under the new owner of the club, Ivan Savvidis , in the 2009/2010 season. The second term took place from 2011 to 2014. Dimitrios Salpingidis is one of the club's top scorers and played twice for his club. Once from 1999 to 2006 and then again from 2010 to 2015. During this time he won the Greek Cup in 2003 with PAOK. Salpingidis made 90 first division goals in 262 games in his two seasons for PAOK. Salpingidis is with his 82 games for the national team in the top 5 of the record player for the national selection.

Stefanos Klaus Athanasiadis went through all the youth departments of the club from 1996 to 2006 and quickly played his way into the hearts of the fans as a home grown man. From 2006 to 2017 he scored 63 goals in 174 games and thus also played in the country's national team.

Trainer

Laszlo Boloni as coach of PAOK

Renowned trainer personalities were among others: Heinz higher , Karl Durspekt , Jenő Csaknády , Branko Stanković , Billy Bingham , Walter Skocik , Pál Csernai , Ivica Horvat , Egon Piechaczek , Miroslav Blažević , László Bölöni , Fernando Santos , Angelos Anastasiadis , Gyula Lóránt , ljupko petrović , Arie Haan , Les Shannon , Rolf Fringer , Dušan Bajević , Mario Beretta , Georgios Donis , Pavlos Dermetzakis , Thijs Libregts , Rinus Israël , Igor Tudor , Huub Stevens , Oleh Blochin , Vladimir Ivić and Razvan Lucescu .

Anastasiadis 2014 in the PAOK training camp

The coach with the shortest term of office so far is Mario Beretta with only 38 days.

Angelos Anastasiadis

Angelos Anastasiadis is a coach who, like no other, has linked his name to the club's coaching position. In four different periods Anastasiadis was able to lead the club as the main sporting manager and as a coach. The first job took place in the second half of the 1997/1998 season and went from February 3, 1997 to May 17, 1998. After a short break, the second term took place from September 30, 1998 to February 7, 1999. Three years later recourse to the football instructor's services. The third term ran from August 25, 2002 to September 26, 2004. His fourth term took place under the owner Ivan Savvidis. Anastasiadis took office on June 11, 2014 and stayed until March 16, 2015. In the 2002/03 season, Anastasiadis was able to bring the Greek Cup to Thessaloniki.

Gyula Lorant as a national player of Hungary, who trained PAOK in his coaching career

Les Shannon

A successful coach in the club's history is the Englishman Les Shannon , who won the trophy twice and the Greater Greece Cup once between 1971 and 1974. This was a super cup competition between the champions of Greece and Cyprus that was only played six times. In Liverpool -born Les Shannon came from Blackpool and to this day the record for the longest tenure as a professional coach in the club's history. Shannon was in charge of the PAOK first team for 3 years and 8 months.

Gyula Lorant

Gyula Lóránt , who played for Hungary in the 1954 World Cup final and whose credo “ No player should be smarter than me ” became famous, died of a heart attack in the dugout during a home game of his team against Olympiacos (1-0 ) on May 31, 1981. Lorant had two terms on the coaching chair at PAOK, the greatest achievement of which was winning the Greek championship in 1976. The first term of office was the 1975/76 season. His second term was the 1980/81 season.

Fernando Santos

Santos coached the club for three years

Fernando Santos came to PAOK for the 2007/08 season. Theodoros Zagorakis, who had known Santos and his work as a coach since their time together at AEK Athens, convinced him with his project to further develop the club. Santos introduced his game philosophy and was successful. During his three years at PAOK, he was named Super League Coach of the Year twice. After the transfer offensive in the summer of 2008, Santos was runner-up with PAOK and thus achieved the best placement since 1985. In his last season, Santos was third with PAOK and was again elected Coach of the Year. After his third season, Santo signed a contract with the Greek Football Association to coach the national team until 2012.

Razvan Lucescu

Lucescu is the most successful coach in club history

The Romanian Razvan Lucescu , son of the soccer coach Mircea Lucescu , was able to lead the club to cup victory and runner-up in 2018, as well as to the championship in 2019 after 34 years. Thanks to the additional victory in the 2019 cup final and the resulting double, Lucescu is considered the most successful coach in the club's history. In June 2019, he left the club in the direction of Saudi Arabia to Al-Hilal.The move cost the Saudi club a transfer fee of two million euros. This makes Lucescu the first coach in the club's history to bring the club a transfer.

Blocked shirt numbers

Two shirt numbers are no longer given to players: Firstly, the “12”, which, as in many European clubs, represents the fans as “12. Mann ”stands and on the other hand the“ 17 ”in memory of the player Panagiotis Katsouris, who died in a traffic accident in 1998 . In honor of the player, a youth tournament that bears his name has been held annually since 2009.

number Honor
12 The fans
17th Panagiotis Katsouris

Following

A Gate 4 choreography in the Toumba Stadium

The best-known and oldest fan groups are in Toumba Stadium in Gate 4 . Accordingly, "Gate 4" is a collective term for the fanatical among the fans in the stadium. The organized fans of the “Northeners”, “Macedones” or the “Ultra Fans PAOK” are among the wildest and most dynamic groups among the supporters of the traditional club.

Europe

Traditionally, most of the fan clubs in Germany are outside of Greece. The association has several organizations, mainly founded by migrants from northern Greece, which are based in Berlin , Düsseldorf , Stuttgart , Hanover , Reutlingen , Troisdorf, Ulm , Nuremberg , Munich , Duisburg , Lüdenscheid , Solingen and other cities. The fan club "Alcoholics Supporters" from Constanta in Romania visit the games of the club. In Russia , fans in Rostov-on-Don are organized in a fan club.

There are PAOK fan clubs in Europe in Sweden , England , Italy , Belgium , Cyprus and Switzerland, among others .

North America

Gate 4 in the home game for the Greek Cup against rival Olympiakos in 2009

Everywhere in states where it historically migrants are from Greece, the situation is similar. The United States has one of the largest fan clubs outside of Europe. Almost every year the president of the club visits the supporters in New York City . In the United States, supporters are also organized in fan clubs in Boston and Los Angeles . In Canada there is a fan club in Toronto .

Asia & Australia

As there are a large number of Greek immigrants in Australia , there are also fan clubs in Melbourne , Adelaide and Brisbane . There has been a fan club in Vietnam since 2019.

Africa

On the African continent there is a fan club in Zambia .

Famous and well-known followers

Euclid Tsakalotos is an avowed supporter of the club

Many well-known public figures in Greece are affiliated with the club. A famous public figure is Euclid Tsakalotos , finance minister in the second cabinet of the Tsipras government . Akis Tsochatzopoulos as well as Evangelos Venizelos from the social democratic party PASOK and former ministers of various governments are avowed supporters, especially since both were running for politically active times in the constituencies of Thessaloniki. Popi Tsapanidou and Sissi Christidou , both at home in Greek tabloid and information journalism and known domestically, are fans of the club. Pyrros Dimas , the most successful weightlifter in Greece and multiple Olympic athlete, has known himself to the club many times . Stratos Dionisiou , a legend of the Greek musical style Laiko and Rembetiko, was an avowed supporter. The poet and playwright Dimitris Lyakos is an ardent supporter of PAOK.

Konstandinos Gatsioudis , the country's most successful javelin thrower, is a PAOK fan. The singer Alkinous Ioannidis is also a supporter and fan of the club. Georgios Aftias , presenter of political morning magazines on Greek private television, is also an avowed PAOK supporter. Iordanis Hasapopoulos is also a supporter of the club . The moderator and journalist describes himself as a PAOK fan.

Another well-known supporter of the club is singer Nikos Vertis . Vertis is often spotted at Toumba Stadium.

The club's anthem

The text was created by Mimis Traiforos (Greek: Μίμης Τραϊφόρος), a popular writer and poet.

Σαν του ΠΑΟΚ την ομάδα
δεν υπάρχει στην Ελλάδα
ομαδάρα δοξασμένη
και με όαφνες στολισμέεσ
στολισμέεδη στολισμεσ που κινε τατανατιντκά έτατς που κισματς σαμαυ κτα έαλτς σαμας κινα ετατς σαμας εκτάετατας που κισμτς σαμας εκινεστατας σαμας επτά
ετας ετας στας ετας ετας.

ΠΑΟΚ ΠΑΟΚ τρέμουν τ 'όνομά σου
και στο πέρασμά σου τρέμει όλη η γη.
ΠΑΟΚ ΠΑΟΚ άλλη τέτοια ομάδα
σ 'όλη την Ελλάδα δε θα ξαναβγεί.

Ατσαλώνουν την ψυχή μας
οι χιλιάδες οπαδοί μας
γιατί τέτοια ενδεκάδα
δεν υπλάρχει στην Ελλάδα.
Πρώτοι θα ανακηρυχθούμε
και στο μάτι θα τους μπούμε.

ΠΑΟΚ ΠΑΟΚ τρέμουν τ 'όνομά σου
και στο πέρασμά σου τρέμει όλη η γη.
ΠΑΟΚ ΠΑΟΚ άλλη τέτοια ομάδα
σ 'όλη την Ελλάδα δε θα ξαναβγεί.

.Eta δόξα του Βορρά μας Είσαι
το καμάρι κι .eta χαρά μας
κι όλοι οι αντίπαλοί μας
τρέμουνε την δύναμή μας
και γι 'αυτό θ' Τούμπα ακούνε
και θα κάνουν όλοι τούμπα.

ΠΑΟΚ ΠΑΟΚ τρέμουν τ 'όνομά σου
και στο πέρασμά σου τρέμει όλη η γη.
ΠΑΟΚ ΠΑΟΚ άλλη τέτοια ομάδα
σ 'όλη την Ελλάδα δε θα ξαναβγεί.

The victims of Tempi / Thessaly

On the night of October 4, 1999, a tragic traffic accident occurred at Tempi in Thessaly . A fan bus with PAOK supporters had an accident after a collision with a heavy truck that killed several fans. Since then, an annual ceremony in honor of the victims has been held on behalf of the club.

PAOK in the media

Print media

The club's stadium magazine is Toumba Magazine . The major Greek print media, which are mainly based in Athens, paid less attention to PAOK than to the capital city clubs for many years, unless PAOK achieved success in derbies or international games. The in-house daily sports newspaper from the city, which is also available nationally, is "Metro Sport" . This has replaced the decades-long newspaper "Ta Spor tou Vorra" (de.:Der Sport im Norden), which was discontinued for financial reasons. The club newspaper that mainly publishes reports, features and background information about the club on a daily basis is the newspaper "Forza" . Known as a magazine for fans of PAOK, the newspaper mainly informs the PAOK fans, but also carries reports on some other clubs in the north.

Mass medium television

Since the owner of the club, Ivan Savvidis, bought the rights to the station epsilon tv and renamed it Open TV and renamed it, a more frequent national presence of the club in the media has been ensured. The station exclusively shows some of the club's international games. Another broadcaster that has a positive influence on the national media presence of the club is the third state broadcaster ERT 3, which is based in Thessaloniki and presents information and analyzes about the club.

Social media

In 2018, the traditional Spanish football newspaper Marca carried out a study in which the aim was to memorize the most popular football clubs in the countries based on their websites and the number of users and followers of the profiles on social media. Based on this, PAOK was the most popular club in Greece, ahead of large clubs with international appeal such as FC Barcelona , Real Madrid and Manchester United .

Statistics & records

Sverrir Ingi Ingason is the most expensive purchase in the club's history

During the winter break of the 2018/19 season, Sverrir Ingi Ingason was committed from FK Rostov for EUR 4.00 million . Before that, Aleksander Prijovic , whom Legia Warsaw signed for EUR 2.9 million at the time, was the most expensive purchase. In the summer transfer period of the 2019/20 season, the players Anderson Esiti and Douglas Augusto were signed, who have occupied the next two places since then.

Record additions
1. IcelandIceland Sverrir Ingi Ingason Season 2018/19 EUR 4.00 million
2. NigeriaNigeria Anderson Esiti Season 2019/20 EUR 3.5 million
3. BrazilianBrazilian Douglas Augusto Season 2019/20 EUR 3.0 million

During the winter break of the 2018/19 season, the transfer from Aleksander Prijovic to Ittihad FC was approved at the player's request . To date, this represents the largest replacement in the club's history with EUR 10.00 million.

Aleksander Prijovic provided the highest transfer fee ever in the club's history.
Record departures
1. SerbSerb Aleksandar Prijović Season 2018/19 EUR 10.00 million
2. DutchDutch Garry Rodrigues Season 2016/17 EUR 5.3 million
3. PortuguesePortuguese Vieirinha 2011/12 season EUR 4.0 million

The striker Stavros Sarafis, who played for PAOK during the successful 1970s, tops the club's all-time goalscorer list with 136 goals. The two "one-club players" Koudas and Iosifidis lead the stakes statistics for the club. The Brazilian Neto Guerino is the only foreigner in both top 10 lists.

Top 10 top scorer list
space Surname Gates
1. GreekGreek Stavros Sarafis 136
2. GreekGreek Georgios Koudas 133
3. GreekGreek Dimitrios Salpingidis 90
4th GreekGreek Georgios Skartados 84
5. GreekGreek Georgios Kostikos 79
6th GreekGreek Stefanos Athanasiadis 71
7th BrazilianBrazilian Neto Guerino 66
8th. GreekGreek Panagiotis Kermanidis 60
9. GreekGreek Achilleas Aslanidis 55
10. GreekGreek Koulis Apostolidis 51
Top 10 premier league stakes
space Surname Games
1. GreekGreek Georgios Koudas 504
2. GreekGreek Konstantinos Iosifidis 397
3. GreekGreek Ioannis Gounaris 377
4th GreekGreek Stavros Sarafis 358
5. GreekGreek Aristarchus Fountoukidis 336
6th GreekGreek Koulis Apostolidis 280
7th GreekGreek Georgios Skartados 265
8th. GreekGreek Dimitrios Salpingidis 262
9. GreekGreek Georgios Toursounidis 261
10. GreekGreek Giannis Giakoumis 250










Team captains of the club since 1952
Surname Years Surname Years
GreekGreek Lefteris papadakis 1952-1957 GreekGreek Georgios Georgiadis 2007-2008
GreekGreek Lampis Kouiroukidis 1957-1960 GreekGreek Pantelis Constantinidis 2008-2009
GreekGreek Georgios Hasiotis 1960-1964 PortuguesePortuguese Sergio Conceicao 2009-2010
GreekGreek Leandros Symeonidis 1964-1969 GreekGreek Konstantinos Chalkias 2010–2012
GreekGreek Georgios Koudas 1964-1984 UruguayUruguay Pablo Garcia 2012-2013
GreekGreek Kostas Iosifidis 1984-1985 GreekGreek Dimitrios Salpingidis 2013-2014
GreekGreek Nikos Alavantas 1985-1989 GreekGreek Stefanos Athanassiadis 2014-2017
GreekGreek Georgios Skartados 1989-1992 GreekGreek Stelios Malezas 2017-2018
GreekGreek Alexis Alexiou 1992-1996 PortuguesePortuguese Vieirinha 2018-2020
GreekGreek Theodoros Zagorakis 1996-1998

2005-2007

GreekGreek Dimitris Pelkas 2020 -
GreekGreek Georgios Toursounidis 1998-1999
GreekGreek Konstantinos Frantzeskos 1999-2000
GreekGreek Tasos Katsambis 2000-2002
GreekGreek Pantelis cafes 2002-2003
GreekGreek Loukas Karadimos 2003-2005


The chairmen & presidents of the club

The officials Petros Kalafatis, Theodoros Zagorakis and Zisis Vryzas are the three responsible persons, who each had two terms as presidents. Nikolaos Vezyrtzis was also a successful president of PAOK's basketball division in the 1980s, prior to his presidency in football. Ioannis Dedeoglou, together with his brother, is one of the founders of the land on which the PAOK Sports Arena for the basketball and volleyball department of the club could be built. Georgios Pantelakis was already active in various positions from 1960-1971 and 1975-1984 for the club. In doing so, he was already doing similar tasks to the president and was also in charge of the club's fortunes as sports director.

Lubos Michel
PAOK's CEO & President since 1979
1979-1984 GreekGreek Georgios Pantelakis 2014-2016 Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus Iakovos Angelidis
1984-1986 GreekGreek Petros Kalafatis (1) 2016-2017 SloveniaSlovenia Lubos Michel
1986-1988 GreekGreek Charis Savvidis 2017 – today GreekGreek RussiaRussia Ivan Savvidis
1988-1989 GreekGreek Ioannis Dedeoglou
1989-1996 GreekGreek Thomas Voulinos
1996 GreekGreek Georgios Kalyvas
1996-2001 GreekGreek Georgios Batatoudis
2001-2003 GreekGreek Petros Kalafatis (2)
2003-2006 GreekGreek Ioannis Goumenos
2006-2007 GreekGreek Nikolaos Vezyrtzis
2007-2009 GreekGreek Theodoros Zagorakis (1)
2009-2010 GreekGreek Zisis Vryzas (1)
2010-2011 GreekGreek Theodoros Zagorakis (2)
2011-2014 GreekGreek Zisis Vryzas (2)

Super League top scorer of the club

player season
SerbSerb Aleksandar Prijovic 2017/18
GreekGreek Dimitrios Salpingidis 2005/06
GreekGreek Dimitrios Nalitzis 1999/00

Other departments of the club

In addition to football, a large number of other sports are played in the club.

basketball

volleyball

Other
There are other departments in the following sports: ice hockey , handball , water polo , swimming , wrestling , athletics , weightlifting , boxing , wrestling and taekwondo .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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