Dimitriadis’ and Vasilakou’s team made an impressive run in the Super League championship, essentially «locking up» the title early, lifting the trophy with two matches to spare, being seven points clear of Olympiacos, plus 25 from Panathinaikos and AEK. Players and team staff enjoyed it with all their hearts at the trophy award ceremony that took place on Sunday afternoon in Souroti, after the last match of the championship against Volos.

Since 2013-14 and with the … break due to covid (2020-21) 12 championships have been held. PAOK have won seven (2015, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026), Olympiacos four and Panathinaikos one.

This title is PAOK’s 21st in total (U-19, U-17, U-15), compared to Olympiacos’ 20, while if PAOK’s two U-19 Super League Cups are included, the trophy total is 23. There is perhaps another interesting statistic. Only PAOK Academy have won four consecutive championships, both in the U-19 and U-15 age categories.

Regarding the statistics of this year’s U-15 conquest (excluding those of today’s match), Priovolos has 23 goals and four assists, Kakalis 19 goals and 11 assists, Solomidis five goals and six assists, Athanasellis four goals and four assists, Perrostis four goals and two assists. Next up are Floros, Itskos, Efstathiadis, and Skaleris with three goals (Efstathiadis and Skaleris each have two assists), Fardellas and Papageorgiou each have two goals, while Deliopoulos (four assists), Papageorgiou (three assists), Drosos (one assist), Tsiligeridis (two assists), Vakoufaris, Papanikou have recorded one goal each. Among our players who have not scored goals but have provided assists, Papageorgopoulos stands out with 11, followed by Simos with three and Stathopoulos and Tsotas with two.

In terms of appearances, Itskos has 1,750 minutes (23 matches), Solomidis 1,717 minutes (23 appearances), Kakalis 1,602 minutes (23 matches), Papageorgopoulos 1,548 minutes (22 matches), Priovolos 1,388 minutes (20 appearances), Efstathiadis 1,320 minutes (19 matches), Floros 1,245 minutes (24 matches), and Deliopoulos 1,233 minutes (19 appearances).

The Under-15 profile

This year’s Under-15 is made up of youngsters born in 2011, while it should be noted that younger players, born in 2012, also received playing time: Giannis Nikolaidis, Marios Tsota, Nikolaos Vakoufaris, Charalambos Papanikou, and Michalis Konstantinidis, while goalkeeper Elias Iatridis was also born in 2012. Andreas Zonios, born in 2013, also received playing time.

Nine youngsters were added this season. Defenders Dimitrios Efstathiadis (Bempides), Theodoros Stathopoulos (PAS Arsaklis) and Konstantinos Skaleris (AS Antimachos), midfielders Stergios Nikolakoudis (Porto SKG), Christos Fardellas (Bempides), Vasilios Skaleris (AS Antimachos), Dimitris Floros (AO Anatoli, Ioannina) and forwards Theodoros Tsiligeridis (PAS Arsaklis) and Apostolos Athanasellis (Doxa Lesvos).

Goalkeepers: Asterios Nastos, Elias Iatridis, Ioannis Chrysoulakis

Defenders: Minos Deliopoulos, Dimitrios Papageorgopoulos, Eleftherios Aslamatzidis, Vasileios Simos, Dimitrios Efstathiadis, Dimitrios Geladaris, Konstantinos Skaleris, Georgios Itskos, Theodoros Stathopoulos

Midfielders: Fotis Solomidis, Stergios Nikolakoudis, Christos Fardellas, Markos Drosos, Vasileios Skaleris, Dimitrios Floros, Alexandros Papageorgiou, Emilios Perrostis

Forwards: Christos Kakalis, Theodoros Tsiligeridis, Grigorios Priovolos, Apostolos Athanasellis

Members of the team at the beginning of the season were Dimitrios Eleftheriadis, and Raphael Chikas, who subsequently left.

The technical team

Team Manager: Georgios Toursoundidis

Coach: Panagiotis Dimitriadis

Assistant coach: Dimitrios Vasilakos

Fitness coach: Konstantinos Georgiadis

Goalkeeper coach: Hippocrates Roumieliotis

Video analysis: Konstantinos Kavakis

Doctor: Iraklis Giannaros

Physiotherapist: Michael Kostidis

Minder: Stavros Sachinidis

The match against Volos

Our U-15 champions comfortably completed their obligations, defeating Volos 4-0 in the Matchday 26 contest, which took place on Sunday afternoon in Souroti.

It was the 25th win for Dimitriadis’ and Vasilakou’s charges, plus a draw in a dream season for this age group of the PAOK Academy.

The Kakalis opened the scoring in the 11th minute from an assist by Priovolos. Kakalis also provided an assist to Papageorgiou in the 32nd minute, for 2-0, which was how the teams went into the dressing rooms at half-time. PAOK scored two more goals, in the 71st minute by Fardellas and in the 73rd minute by Athanasellis.

PAOK’s lineup: Chrysoulakis (55′ Tsilikidis), Stathopoulos, Papageorgopoulos (55′ Skaleris Konstantinos), Itskos, Efstathiadis, Solomidis (55′ Aslamatzidis), Papageorgiou, Fardellas, Priovolos (65′ Tsiligeridis), Nikolakoudis, Kakalis (55′ Athanasellis).