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PAOK vs. Larissa: Facts & Figures
Ahead of PAOK’s Super League Interwetten 2020-21 Matchday 1 contest against Larissa, 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.
- PAOK remain undefeated in their season opening matches for 12 consecutive years. The tally so far is nine wins and three draws. PAOK’s last defeat in an opening day match was in 2007-08 by Xanthi, who defeated PAOK 1-0 in Xanthi. There were two consecutive draws in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons with AEL Kalloni (1-1) and Xanthi (0-0) which broke PAOK’s winning streak of five consecutive victories. The last draw was in 2017-18 away against Levadiakos (0-0). Last year PAOK began with a 2-1 victory against Panetolikos.
- AEK is the team which PAOK has faced the most times in season premieres, with seven matches between them having taken place. Five of those games ended in draws, while each side counts one victory each. Larissa is among the 32 different clubs which PAOK has faced in season openers.
- This is the 12th league premiere for the Double-headed Eagle at the Toumba in the last 13 years, with the only away game coming in the 2017-18 season when PAOK traveled to Levadiakos in a match that ended in a goalless draw.
- PAOK has faced Larissa three times so far in a league premiere match, all of which were home matches for PAOK and games which PAOK won – all by a difference of one goal. The 1982-83 season was the first time they met in a season opener, with PAOK prevailing 3-2 (28′ Dimopoulos, 77′ Koudas, 88′ Alavantas – 42′ Andreadis, 57′ Valaoras). In 1988-89 there was a 2-1 victory (14′ Alexandridis, 57′ Skartados – 8 ‘Kanieba), while in 1990-91 PAOK prevailed with another 2-1 scoreline (53′ 56′ Skartados – 79′ Agorogiannis).
- Thirty-one matches have been played between PAOK and Larissa in the league at the Toumba, and the Double-headed Eagle boasts a record of 23 wins, six draws, and just two defeats.
- The first match between the two teams took place on January 6, 1974 in the top flight, with PAOK prevailing 3-1 at the Toumba thanks to goals from Apostolidis (4′), Kermanidis (41′) and Aslanidis (76′). Giannis Matzourakis, who had left PAOK two years previously, scored for Larissa.
- PAOK has a current record of 9 consecutive victories in home matches against Larissa. In fact, in the last eight of those nine wins, the visitors have not managed to score a single goal. The last time they did score was in PAOK’s 2-1 win against them on December 9, 2018. Before that, the results were as follows: 3-0 in 2017-18, 2-0 in 2016-17, and then five 1-0 wins, the same result as PAOK’s last win over Larissa at the Toumba in the 2019-20 season. This series began after Larissa’s second away victory at the Toumba on February 24, 2007 bu a 3-1 scoreline. In fact, on that day, all of the goals were scored by the visiting players since PAOK went in front thanks to an own goal by Kozley (2′), with strikes coming from Fotakis (50′), Ferster (54′), and Kozley again this time for the right team (68′) in response.
- In terms of results, 1-0 is the most popular scoreline in the matches between the two clubs when PAOK is the home team, since it has occurred six times. Then it’s 2-1, 4-0, and 3-0, all of which have happened three times, while PAOK have recorded 2-0 wins on two occasions. Then there are five other scorelines each of which have appeared once.
- Three of the six draws between the two teams were by 1-1 scorelines, while there have also been two 2-2 draws. Only once has there been a 0-0 draw and that came on March 8, 1987.
