Facts & Figures: PAOK vs. Larissa
Ahead of PAOK’s Super League Matchday 11 clash against Larissa at the Toumba, 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 Thessaly club.
#30 matches have taken place with PAOK being the home side in the championship. The Dikefalos tou Vorra has recorded 22 wins, while there have been six draws, and Larissa have won twice.
#The first match between the two teams in the top flight took place on January 6, 1974, with PAOK winning 3-1 at the Toumba thanks to the goals from Apostolidis (4′), Kermanidis (41′) and Aslanidis (76 ‘). Giannis Matzourakis had scored for Larissa, who had left PAOK two years earlier.
#8 is the number of consecutive wins for PAOK over Larissa. In fact, in the previous seven games, the visitors had not managed to score a single goal. The last time they did score was in a 2-1 win for PAOK on December 9, 2018. Before that, PAOK won 3-0 in 2017-18, 2-0 in 2016-17, while all previous five matches ended in a 1-0 win for PAOK. This series began after after Larissa’s second ever win at the Toumba on February 24, 2007, which was by a 3-1 scoreline. In that match, PAOK had actually lead through Kozley’s (2′) early own goal. After that, goals from Fotakis (50′), Ferster (54′), and Kozley (68′) completed a brilliant comeback.
#1-0 is the most popular scoreline in games between these two sides, with the result appearing on five occasions. After that, it’s 2-1, 4-0, and 3-0, all of which have occurred three times. There have been two 2-0 scorelines and five other scorelines that have each appeared once.
#3 of the six draws recorded were 1-1 scorelines, while two matches ended in 2-2 draws, and only once has there been no goals scored in a match that ended 0-0 on March 8, 1987.
#Stefanos Athanasiadis, who celebrated his first ever goal in the Super League against Larissa on April 20, 2008 in a 4–3 victory (Athanasiadis scored twice in that game), is the PAOK player who has scored the most goals against the Thessaly club with 4.










