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PAOK vs. OFI: Facts & Figures
Ahead of PAOK’s Matchday 18 Super League contest against OFI 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 Cretans from Heraklion.
- PAOK have built an excellent tradition against OFI, since in the last 8 matches between them at home, they have 8 wins and the last time the Cretan club left Thessaloniki with a positive result was on October 16 2011 in a goalless draw.
- In total overall, PAOK are undefeated in their last 13 games against OFI, irrespective of venue and competition, with the last time they were defeated being on February 4, 2015 in Crete with a score of 3-1. OFI’s last away win against PAOK was on January 24, 1993, when they won 2-1 thanks to goals from Machlas (64′) and Georgamlis (83′), while Kostas Lagonidis (25′) scored for PAOK. This is also the only victory for the Cretan team in a match at the Toumba against PAOK.
- A total of 45 matches have been played between the two teams at PAOK’s home ground, and PAOK have recorded 37 wins, the Cretan team 1 win, and seven of them have ended in draws. In the Greek Cup, PAOK have welcomed OFI three times, recording 2 wins and one draw.
- In the eight consecutive home wins PAOK have recorded against OFI in recent years, they have scored at least three goals in all matches. The biggest victory was that of 2015 via a 5-0 scoreline (4′ Athanasiadis, 61′ Salpingidis, 73′ Nacho, 80′ Housen, 86′ Maduro), with which he equaled the relative record set with by the 5-0 result in 1978, in which Sarafis, Orfanos (2), Iosifidis, and Pathiakakis had scored.
- On September 22, 1968, OFI, then newly formed, played its first match at the top flight level against PAOK at the Toumba. The Double-headed Eagle led 3-0 at halftime with two goals from Giorgos Koudas (33′, 37′) and one by Aslanidis (45′), and in the second half his performance dropped off. Karakyriakos (59′) reduced the deficit to 3-1 and Lazos (88′) then added a fourth to make it 4-1.
- Omar El Kaddouri scored PAOK’s 100th goal against OFI in the 2020-21 match between the two teams at the Toumba. Out of a total of 105 goals, only one has come from an own goal and it was by Kostas Pavlopoulos. Koudas, Kostikos, Salpingidis, and Akpom are the four PAOK players who have found the net five times in a home match against OFI, while Orfanos and Athanasiadis have three each.
