# PAOK have won 26 of their 58 home games against AEK Athens in the Greek league. Their duels started in 1959-60 and ended in 2012-13, after AEK were relegated in the amateur tier. Until then, they were the only club –along with PAOK, Olympiacos and Panathinaikos- never to be relegated from the top flight.

# PAOK have recorded 9 victories over AEK Athens with a 2-1 scoreline. In all they have 19 victories by one goal (9 times 2-1, 8 times 1-0 and twice 3-2). Their largest victory to date over the Athenian outfit is the 5-0 of 1982-83 season.

# In PAOK’s 5-0 win in 1982-83, Christos Dimopoulos scored a hat-trick. He also netted a goal against them in 1984-85 and, with a tally of 4, he leads the scoring chart against AEK Athens at home, along with Stavros Sarafis and Neto Guerino. AEK Athens’s Ismael Blanco and Kostas Nestoridis have scored four times each against PAOK in away encounters.

# Vladan Ivić faced AEK twice as coach, in last season’s play-off encounters of the Super League. The “Double-Headed Eagle” won 2-1 in Thessaloniki and edged out a goalless draw in the Olympic Stadium of Athens.

# PAOK are on an undefeated streak of 8 games against AEK Athens, including the Super League play-offs. They also have kept a clean sheet in four of these matches. They last lost to AEK on 21 March 2010 with Blanco scoring the solitary goal of the encounter.

# The two sides have faced each other four times in the month of October. PAOK prevailed in the two games held in Thessaloniki: 1-0 in 2012-13 (Athanasiadis 51’) and 4-0 in 1979-80 (Guerino 9’, 37’, Οrfanos 68’, Vasilakos 73’). In two October encounters in Athens, PAOK won in 1968-69 (1-0) and lost in 1967-68 (2-0).