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PAOK vs. Panetolikos: Facts & Figures
Ahead of PAOK’s Super League Matchday 1 contest against Panetolikos, 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 Agrinio club.
- The two teams have only met once for a season-opening match, in 2019-20 with PAOK winning 2-1, but in 2016-17 they also met after the first two matches of the season had been postponed. PAOK again won 2-1 in that Matchday 3 encounter.
- Last season, PAOK were defeated 1-0 by PAS Giannina at the Toumba in the season opener and it was their first defeat in a top flight premiere since 2007-08 when they were defeated 1-0 in Xanthi. In total, PAOK have played 40 of their league premiers as a home team and have recorded 27 wins, nine draws and four losses.
- Most of the club’s opening matches were against AEK, which they have faced seven times, followed by Xanthi with six and four with Kavala and Panachaiki.
- PAOK have recorded 15 successive wins over Panetolikos in all competitions. Among those matches are 12 league games with PAOK as the home side, and Panetolikos have managed to “break” PAOK’s home advantage twice, with one goalless draw and a 2-1 win on January 31 2015.
- There is not much variation in the scorelines in matches between the two teams at the Toumba. PAOK have won four times via a 2-1 scoreline, twice by a 1-0 result, and twice by 3-0, while their biggest win was a 5-0 success on January 31 2021.The two teams met for the second consecutive season in January and in 2022 PAOK won 2-0.
- Overall, the two teams have faced each other 27 times in the top flight, with PAOK registering 23 wins, while there have been two draws and two wins for Panetolikos.
- The only victory for the Agrinio club at the Toumba took place on January 31, 2015. Andre Alves had scored the two goals for the visitors (7′, 90′), while Mak had equalized in the 73rd minute for PAOK.
- After this victory at the Toumba, Panetolikos also earned a 0-0 draw in their very next visit, and since then they have suffered 14 consecutive defeats in the league and the Greek Cup against PAOK.
- The four positive results for Panetolikos were consecutive, since both in 2015 they scored a victory over PAOK and in the next game a draw, while the same happened with the home draw 1-1 on March 18, 2012 and the victory in the very next game between them on August 24, 2013 with 2-0.
- 2 – the number of goals scored in one match by Kostas Orfanos, and he was the only player to achieve that feat until 2014-15, when Andre Alves scored twice in the away win over Panetolikos in Agrinio.
- Stefanos Athanasiadis was the last player who scored twice in the same match, in the match between the two clubs in the 2015-16 season, when PAOK ran out 3-0 winners.
- Orfanos, however, remains the leading scorer in matches against the Agrinio club overall with four goals.
