PAOK, commonly known as PAOK Thessaloniki or simply PAOK, is a Greek professional football club based in Thessaloniki, Macedonia. PAOK are one of the top domestic clubs, the most widely supported in Northern Greece and the current Greek league champions.
Dimitris Salpingidis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was known to be "a very quick and useful tool on the counter attack."
The Greek Football Cup, commonly known as the Greek Cup or Betsson Greek Cup for sponsorship reasons is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation.
László Bölöni is a Romanian professional football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Ligue 1 club Metz.
Răzvan Lucescu is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, who is currently managing Greek Super League club PAOK.
Michalis Kapsis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He was an integral part of Greece's UEFA Euro 2004 winning squad.
Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. is a Greek football club based in Piraeus and its parent sports club is Ethnikos OFPF. The club was officially formed on 21 November 1923 as KeravnosPiraeus, but existed unofficially since 1922. One year later the club was renamed to Young Boys Titan, after some players' secession that formed Peiraikos Podosfairikos Omilos. The club was renamed to Ethnikos on 23 December 1924, after it merged with Peiraikos Podosfairikos Omilos.
PAEEK is a Cypriot sports club founded in Kyrenia in 1953 by graduates of Kyrenia Gymnasium and represented the first force to be reckoned from the small city. It now plays in exile in Nicosia since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in July 1974. This union has football division competing in the Cypriot First Division. PAEEK used to have also a basketball division, but due to economic difficulties had to suspend it for some years up to date.
Angelos Anastasiadis is a Greek football manager and former international footballer. He previously coached numerous clubs in Greece including PAOK, Panathinaikos, Platanias and PAS Giannina as well as the Greece and Cyprus national teams.
Makedonikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Neapoli and most of its fans come from this area, though the club is famous in all westside areas of Thessaloniki.
The 1984–85 Greek Football Cup was the 43rd edition of the Greek Football Cup.
Football clubs from Superleague Greece have participated in European football competitions since 1959, when Olympiacos took part in the European Cup. The most important successes of Greek teams in European competitions are the participation of Panathinaikos in the final of the European Cup in 1971 and of Olympiacos in the final of the Europa Conference League in 2024. AEK Athens are the only Greek team to have reached the semi-final of the UEFA Cup, in 1977. Greek clubs have reached the quarter-final of major European competitions on another 13 occasions.It is worth noting that Olympiacos U19 in 2024 was crowned European champion in the UEFA Youth League. Thus it became the first Greek team to win a European football title, at club level.
Ergys Kaçe is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Greek Super League 2 club Kalamata. He has been described by the media as "a classic agile defensive midfielder".
The Double-headed eagles derby is a football derby between AEK Athens and PAOK. Both teams have the same roots, being refugees from Constantinople, after the Greco-Turkish War, the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the population exchange. Both teams use the same emblem, to reminisce the Byzantine Empire, but in different colors. The first match between the two teams took place in Leoforos Alexandras Stadium in Athens during the final phase of the 1930–31 Panhellenic Championship. The rivalry used to remain on-pitch for several years. However, since the Greek Cup Final of 2017 there is an ongoing, intense and overall exaggeration of the rivalry, further boosted after the championship conquered by AEK in 2018, when PAOK were deducted 3 points by court decision for their armed owner's invasion on the pitch and AEK were given 3 points, which adjudged the title holder.
The 2013–14 season was PAOK Football Club's 88th in existence and the club's 55th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. The team will enter the Greek Football Cup in the Third Round and will also compete in UEFA Champions League starting from the Third qualifying round.
Kristi Qose is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder, currently for Slovak club FC Košice. Prior his arrival to FC Košice he played for Czech club Viktoria Plzeň and Slovak Zemplín Michalovce.
The 2016–17 Super League Greece was the 81st season of the highest tier in league of Greek football and the eleventh under its current title. The season started on 10 September 2016 and ended in June 2017. The league comprised fourteen teams from the 2015–16 season and two promoted from the 2015–16 Football League.
The 2004–05 season was PAOK Football Club's 79th in existence and the club's 46th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. The team will enter the Greek Football Cup in the first round and will also enter in Champions League starting from the third qualifying round.
The 2005 Greek Cup final was the 61st final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 21 May 2005 at Pampeloponnisiako Stadium. The contesting teams were Olympiacos and Aris. It was Olympiacos' thirty first Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 80 years of existence and Aris' seventh Greek Cup final in their 91-year history. It was the first time that the match was held outside Athens or Thessaloniki Prefecture. It is characteristic that Aris had already been relegated to the second division during his presence in the final, with the result that the competitive and psychologically superior Olympiacos reached the conquest of the cup and consequently the double, while Dušan Bajević reached the 4th cup win as a coach. The following season, Aris, as a cup finalist played in the UEFA Cup thus becoming the first and only second division team in Greece that ever competed in any European competition.
The 2019 Greek Cup final was the 75th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 11 May 2019 at Olympic Stadium, between PAOK and AEK Athens for a third time in row. It was PAOK's twentieth Greek Cup final and third consecutive, in their 93 years of existence and AEK Athens' twenty fourth Greek Cup final and fourth consecutive, of their 95-year history. For security issues, the match occurred behind closed doors with 1,500 invitations been distributed by both clubs and the HFF.
