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PAOK vs. Olympiacos: Facts & Figures
Ahead of PAOK’s first leg match of their Greek Cup semi-final tie against Olympiacos, 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 Erythrolefki.
- 8 – the number of times the two teams have met in the Greek Cup. PAOK has progressed on five occasions, while the «Erythrolefki» have gone through three times. Two of the clashes were in the semi-final stage, in the 2013-14 and 2015-16 seasons.
- The first of the two-legged ties was in the 1989-90 season in the Round of 16, when Olympiacos progressed on penalties (5-3) after both matches ended in 1-0 wins for the home team.
- 8 matches with PAOK as the home team have ended in six wins for the Dikefalos tou Vorra, one draw and one loss
- 14 – number of seasons up until now that PAOK and Olympiacos have met in the cup in matches before the final. Also, from the 1931-32 season, which was the competition’s inaugural year, up until the 1974-75 campaign, the two teams were never paid together in the draw and their meetings between those years were only in the final.
- The first time the two clubs contested a semi-final was in the 1974-75 season, but it was a single knockout match played at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, when the Piraeus club won 4-0 to claim a place in the final. That occasion, as well as the two matches in the 2013-14 season were the only times that the club had met previously in the semi-final stage. There were another two matches at the Round of 16 stage (1975-76 και 1978-79), when PAOK lost both times on penalties with Olympiacos as the home side.
- 4 – the number of qualifications PAOK has achieved in the seven ties which the two teams have contested over two legs. In the 1989-90 season Olympiacos progressed from the Round of 16 tie on penalties, and in the 1990-91 season PAOK went through from their Round of 32 tie. Olympiacos then qualified in the 1996-97 season when the teams met again in the Round of 16. In the 2002-03 campaign, PAOK progressed from the quarter-finals to the semi-finals. The last time the Piraeus club went through from a tie against PAOK was in the 2008-09 season, again at the quarter-final stage. After that PAOK progressed from the quarter-finals in 2010-11 and the semi-finals in 2013-14.
- The last time the two teams met in the Greek Cup was in the 2015-16 season in the semi-finals, and after the unsavory events of what went on in the first leg at the Toumba, PAOK decided not to play the return leg in Piraeus in protest and lost the match 3-0 on paper.
