List of PAOK FC records and statistics
PAOK Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ ΠΑΟΚ, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών, Panthessaloníkios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstantinopolitón, "Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans"),[1] commonly known as PAOK Thessaloniki or PAOK, is a professional football club based in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. Established on 20 April 1926 by Greek refugees who fled to Thessaloniki from Constantinople in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), they play their home games at Toumba Stadium, with a capacity of 29,000 seats.[2]
Honours
Domestic
- Super League
- Winners (3): 1975–76, 1984–85, 2018–19
- Greek Cup
- Double
- Winners (1): 2018–19
- Greater Greece Cup (defunct)
- Winners (1): 1973
Continental
- UEFA Champions League
- Last 16 (1): 1976–77
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:
- Quarter-finalists (1): 1973–74
- UEFA Europa League:
- UEFA Europa Conference League
Regional
- Macedonia FCA Championship:
- Winners (7): 1936–37, 1947–48, 1949–50, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1956–57
- Macedonia-Thrace FCA Championship:
- Winners (1): 1939–40
Player records
Appearances
- Most appearances in all competitions: Giorgos Koudas, 607.[4][5][6][7]
- Most league appearances: Giorgos Koudas, 504.
- Most Greek Cup appearances: Giorgos Koudas, 70.
- Most Greek Cup final appearances: Giorgos Koudas, 9.
- Most Continental appearances: Dimitris Salpingidis, 60.[8]
- Youngest debutant: Apostolos Tsourelas, 16 years, 6 months and 18 days.[9]
- Oldest first-team player: Vieirinha, 38 years, 1 month and 9 days (ongoing).
- Most consecutive league appearances: Nikos Michopoulos, 107.[10]
- Longest-serving player: Giorgos Koudas, 20 years, 2 months and 6 days.
Most league appearances:
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Goalscorers
- Most goals in all competitions: Stavros Sarafis, 169.[11]
- Most league goals: Stavros Sarafis, 136.[12]
- Most Greek Cup goals: Giorgos Koudas, 27.
- Most Continental goals: Stefanos Athanasiadis, 20.[13]
- First player to score for PAOK:
- Most goals in a season: Aleksandar Prijović, 27 (during the 2017–18 season).[14]
- Most goals in a debut season:
- Most league goals in a season: Aleksandar Prijović, 19 (during the 2017–18 Superleague Greece).
- Most continental goals in a season: Robert Mak, 9 (during the 2015–16 season).[15]
- Most hat-tricks / four-goal hauls in a season: Giorgos Kostikos, 1 hat-trick and 2 four-goal hauls (during the 1981–82 season).
- Most games scored in a single campaign:
- Most hat-tricks: Stavros Sarafis and Giorgos Kostikos, 4.
- Fastest hat-trick: Giorgos Kostikos, 15 minutes (Panachaiki – PAOK 0–3, 9 December 1984).[16]
- Most penalties scored: Giorgos Skartados, 27.
- Most games without scoring for an outfield player:
- Youngest goalscorer: Stefanos Tzimas, 17 years, 1 month and 27 days (PAOK – Ionikos 6–0, 5 March 2023).[17]
- Oldest goalscorer: Vieirinha, 37 years, 9 months and 2 days (Aberdeen – PAOK 2–3, 26 October 2023).
Top goalscorers
League top goalscorers:
Rank | Name | Goals |
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1 | Stavros Sarafis | 136 |
2 | Giorgos Koudas | 133 |
3 | Dimitris Salpingidis | 90 |
4 | Giorgos Skartados | 84 |
5 | Giorgos Kostikos | 79 |
6 | Stefanos Athanasiadis | 72 |
7 | Neto Guerino | 66 |
8 | Panagiotis Kermanidis | 60 |
9 | Achilleas Aslanidis | 55 |
10 | Koulis Apostolidis | 51 |
Goalkeepers
- Most minutes without conceding a goal: Alexandros Paschalakis, 971 (if stoppage time is included, 1008).[18]
- Most clean sheets:
- Most clean sheets in a season:
- Most penalties saved: Nikos Michopoulos, 7.
- Most penalties saved in a season:
Managerial records
- First manager: Kostas Andreadis (served for 5 years).
- Longest-serving manager by time: Răzvan Lucescu (ongoing).
- Shortest-serving manager: Mario Beretta, from June 14 to July 22, 2010 (38 days).
- Longest-serving manager by matches: Răzvan Lucescu, 219 (ongoing).
- Most wins: Răzvan Lucescu, 121 (ongoing).[19]
- Highest winning percentage: Răzvan Lucescu, 74.2%.
- Most trophies: Răzvan Lucescu, 3 (1 Championship, 2 Cups).[20]
Club records
Matches
Firsts
- First match: (friendly) PAOK – Megas Alexandros Thessaloniki 2–1, 4 May 1926.
- First official match: (EPSM) PAOK – Nea Genea Kalamaria 3–1, 12 December 1926.[22]
- First Panhellenic Championship (1928–1959) match: Olympiacos – PAOK 3–1, 1 February 1931.
- First league match: PAOK – Megas Alexandros Katerini 3–2, 25 October 1959.[23]
- First Greek Cup match: PAOK – Meliteas 3–0, 27 September 1931.[24]
- First European match:
- (Inter-Cities Fairs Cup) PAOK – Wiener SC 2–1, 15 September 1965.[25]
- (UEFA Cup Winners' Cup) Rapid Wien – PAOK 0–0, 13 September 1972.[26]
Wins
- Record Panhellenic Championship (1928–1959) win: PAOK – Panetolikos 7–1, 18 May 1955.[27]
- Record league win:
- (Home) PAOK – Kastoria 7–1, 22 December 1974[28] and PAOK – Kalamata 7–1, 28 January 2001.[29]
- (Away) A.E. Kifisia – PAOK 0–6, 21 December 2023.
- Record Greek Cup win:
- (Home) PAOK – Atlantis Thessaloniki 11–0, 18 October 1959.[30]
- (Away) Lamia – PAOK 1–9, 20 February 1985.[31]
- Record European win:
- (Away) Locomotive Tbilisi – PAOK 0–7, UEFA Cup, 16 September 1999. (Domestic record)
- (Home) PAOK – Lokomotiva Zagreb 6–0, UEFA Europa League, 23 July 2015.[26]
- Most league wins in a season:
- 27 wins from 34 games (during the 1972–73 Alpha Ethniki).
- 26 wins from 30 games (during the 2018–19 Super League Greece).
- Fewest league wins in a season: 7 wins from 30 games (during the 1960–61 Alpha Ethniki).
- Most consecutive wins: 15 (during the 2017–18 PAOK FC season).[32]
- Most consecutive league wins: 10 (during the 2017–18 Superleague Greece).
- Most consecutive league wins from start of season: 8 (during the 2018–19 Superleague Greece).
- Most consecutive continental wins: 6 (during the 2023–24 PAOK FC season).
Defeats
- Record Panhellenic Championship (1928–1959) defeat: Panathinaikos – PAOK 7–1, 28 June 1931.[33]
- Record league defeat: Olympiacos – PAOK 6–0, 3 June 1962.[34]
- Record Greek Cup defeat: 4–0 on 5 occasions, vs Olympiacos (1951 and 1975), vs AEK (1965 and 2002) and vs PAS Giannina (2010)
- Record European defeat:
- (Inter-Cities Fairs Cup) Wiener – PAOK 6–0, 28 September 1965.[35]
- (UEFA Cup) Barcelona – PAOK 6–1, 1 October 1975.[26]
- Record European defeat at Toumba: (UEFA Champions League) PAOK – Benfica 1–4, 29 August 2018.
- Most league defeats in a season: 15 in 30 matches (during the 2007–08 Superleague Greece).
- Fewest league defeats in a season: Unbeaten in 30 matches (during the 2018–19 Superleague Greece). (Domestic record, shared with Panathinaikos)
- Most consecutive undefeated league games: 51 (11 March 2018 – 4 January 2020).
- Most consecutive defeats:
Goals
- Highest goals scored per game average in a season: 2.37 (during the 2000–01 season).
- Most goals scored in a season: 126 in 53 games (during the 2000–01 season).
- Most league goals scored in a season: 75 in 34 games (during the 1972–73 Alpha Ethniki).
- Fewest league goals scored in a season: 22 in 30 games (during the 1963–64 Alpha Ethniki).
- Most league goals conceded in a season: 49 in 30 games (during the 1965–66 Alpha Ethniki).
- Fewest league goals conceded in a season: 14 in 30 games (during the 2018–19 Superleague Greece).
- Fewest league goals conceded at home in a season: 3 in 17 games (during the 1994–95 Alpha Ethniki). (Domestic record)
- Most consecutive league games scoring: 69 (PAOK lost two home games 0–3 by court decision during this period that are not taken into account). (Domestic record)
- Most consecutive league games scoring away: 35. (Domestic record)
Points
- Most points in a season:
- Point system (3–2–1): 92 (in 34 matches in 1972–73 Alpha Ethniki).
- Point system (2–1–0): 49 (in 30 matches in 1975–76 Alpha Ethniki) and 52 (in 34 matches in 1976–77 Alpha Ethniki).
- Point system (3–1–0): 82 (in 30 matches in 2018–19 Superleague Greece).
- Fewest points in a season:
- Point system (3–2–1): 57 (in 30 matches in 1963–64 Alpha Ethniki).
- Point system (2–1–0): 27 (in 30 matches in 1985–86 Alpha Ethniki).
- Point system (3–1–0): 35 (in 30 matches in 2007–08 Superleague Greece).
- Most points in a European competition group stage: 16 (2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League). (Domestic record)
- Most points in the UEFA Europa League group stage: 12 (2011–12 and 2013–14). (Domestic record, shared with Panathinaikos)
- Fewest points in the UEFA Europa League group stage: 3 (2018–19).
Attendances
- Highest league home attendance: 45,252 (0–0 against AEK, 19 December 1976).
- Highest Greek Cup home attendance: 44,045 (2–1 against AEK, 9 February 1977).
- Highest European home attendance: 45,200 (1–0 against Barcelona, UEFA Cup, 16 September 1975).[37][38]
- Lowest league home attendance: 381 (1–0 against Athinaikos, 30 May 1993).[39]
- Lowest Greek Cup home attendance:
- Lowest European home attendance: 1,012 (5–1 against Rennes, UEFA Cup, 14 December 2005).[40]
Domestic records
Outline | Record |
---|---|
Double winners, going unbeaten in a national round-robin league tournament (league format since 1959). | 2018–19 PAOK FC season |
Champions, starting the season with a points deduction. | 2018–19 Superleague Greece (PAOK started the season on –2 points) |
Worst league title defence. | 10th place (1985–86) |
Most consecutive league games scoring. | 69 (PAOK lost two games 0–3 by court decision during this period that are not taken into account) |
Most consecutive league games scoring away. | 35 |
Fewest league goals conceded at home in a season. | 3 in 17 games (1994–95) |
Most seasons with a points deduction. | 9 (1963–64, 1986–87, 1990–91, 1995–96, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19) |
Most consecutive seasons with a points deduction. | 4 (2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19) |
Winners of 3 consecutive Greek Cup finals against the same opponent. | 2017, 2018 and 2019 Greek Cup finals (vs AEK) |
Winners of 2 consecutive Greek Cup finals that were held at the opponent's home ground. | 2018 and 2019 Greek Cup finals (held at Athens Olympic Stadium, AEK's home ground at the time) |
Greek Cup runners-up. | 15 times |
Biggest European win by a Greek football club. | Locomotive Tbilisi 0–7 PAOK (16/9/1999, UEFA Cup) |
Most points in a European competition group stage. | 16 (W5–D1–L0), 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League |
Consecutive continental away wins. | 4 (2023–24 season) |
Won all away matches in the group stage of a European competition. | 3 (2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League) |
Most UEFA Europa League appearances. | 28 |
Most consecutive UEFA Europa League appearances. | 12 |
Most UEFA Europa Conference League matches. | 34 |
European record
Competition | App | Pld | W | D | L | Goals |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
European Cup / Champions League | 9 | 28 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 36–49 |
UEFA Cup / Europa League | 28 | 148 | 56 | 44 | 48 | 204–171 |
UEFA Europa Conference League | 3 | 34 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 55–34 |
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 6 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 24–23 |
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5–17 |
Total | 49 | 234 | 90 | 65 | 79 | 324–294 |
Last updated: 18 April 2024
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