# In 29 consecutive seasons at top-flight, Xanthi have lost 19 times to PAOK in their 27 visits to Toumba. They also recorded 3 victories and 5 draws.

# Both games last season ended in draw. It was the third season that both league games between PAOK and Xanthi ended undecided, after 1995-96 and 2003-04.

# PAOK’s favourite scoreline at home vs Xanthi is 1-0, recorded 8 times in the past. Four times did the “Double-Headed Eagle” win 2-1; meaning that 12 of PAOK’s 19 home victories over Xanthi came with just one goal difference. All three away victories of Xanthi in Toumba had the same scoreline: 1-0. PAOK’s largest victory over the Thrace outfit was a 5-0 recorded on 12 December 1999.

# Kostas Frantzeskos and Veridiano Marcelo have scored more goals than anyone (5 each) in the encounters between PAOK and Xanthi. Giorgos Georgiadis, Vladan Ivić and Petros Teggelidis have netted 4 times each and Dimitris Salpingidis (3 goals). Stefanos Athanasiadis (also 3) could increase his tally today. Dimitris Papadopoulos scored a brace in PAOK’s 2-1 victory over Xanthi in 2014-15, while the two sides couldn’t break the deadlock in 2015-16 (0-0).

# Zisis Vryzas is the only player who has scored for both sides in their head-to-head encounters! On 28 January 1996, in a 3-3 draw in Toumba he scored for Xanthi and on 25 October 1998 he was on target for PAOK in their 1-0 victory at Xanthi. He has featured with the Xanthi shirt 7 times (and scored once) against PAOK. He would later face Xanthi 8 times as a player of PAOK