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PAOK vs. Panathinaikos: Facts & Figures

Ahead of PAOK’s Super League Matchday 6 showdown with Panathinaikos, paokfc.gr puts you in the picture about the background to the match, as well as a look back at our previous encounters against the Athenian club.

02.10.2022

• PAOK welcome Panathinaikos for the 74th time in the league since 1959-60 when the top flight was first established. In these matches, the Double-headed Eagle has recorded 37 wins, Panathinaikos managed to come out victorious 20 times, while 16 of their matches have ended in draws.
• A total of 182 goals have been scored in those matches, with 104 by PAOK and 78 by the Greens. Ingason scored the 100th league goal at home against Panathinaikos on 21 December 2020, in PAOK’s 2–1 win.
• Only six of the 73 matches have been goalless. In all the rest of the games, one of the two teams has scored, with PAOK having kept a clean sheet 25 times and Panathinaikos 18 times.
• The most popular scoreline is a 2-1 home win for PAOK and a 1-0 win for Panathinaikos, both of which results have been recorded ten times each. Next in the ranking are 1-0 and 2-0 victories for PAOK, both of which results have occured eight times, and then 1-1 is next in popularity with seven appearances.
• Panathinaikos managed to win the first five games between the two sides since the establishment of the Greek top flight – then called A Ethniki, with two of them being at the Toumba, but PAOK then equalized, and now, with eight consecutive home matches without defeat by Panathinaikos, PAOK are chasing the chance to equal their best performance, which was nine matches without defeat at home to Panathinaikos in the 1970s. From June 6, 1971 when they prevailed 3-2 and started a streak of nine games in which they had seven wins and two draws until March 9, 1980 when they were finally defeated 2-0 by Panathinaikos.
• The biggest victory for PAOK over Panathinaikos came within the modern history of their meetings, since PAOK prevailed 4-0 on December 10, 2017 thanks to two goals from Pelkas and one each from Koulouris and Prijović.