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Olympiacos vs. PAOK: Facts & Figures
Ahead of PAOK’s 2024-25 Stoiximan Super League Play Offs Matchday 5 derby showdown with Olympiacos at the “Georgios Karaiskakis”, 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.
- In their last 10 visits to the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, PAOK have recorded 3 wins and 1 draw, while they have lost 6 times.
- In Play Offs matches in Piraeus, the Double-headed Eagle have 2 wins and 1 draw from a total of 6 matches, while the Piraeus club have prevailed in the remaining 3.
- In their three games this year home and away, Olympiacos prevailed both at the «Karaiskakis» and at the Toumba in the regular season, but in the first round of the Play Offs, PAOK won 2-1. Only in 5 of the last 10 games between the two clubs have ended with the home team winning.
- From 1959-60 when the Greek top flight was established to date, the two teams have met 72 times with Olympiacos as the home team, and the Erythrolefki have recorded 50 wins, PAOK have chalked up 13 wins, and 9 matches have ended in draws.
- On July 12, 2020, PAOK prevailed 1-0 thanks to Mihaj’s goal and deprived Olympiacos of an unbeaten league championship, since no other team in the Super League had managed to beat them until then.
- PAOK, in their first visit in the history of the top flight to Olympiacos, came away with the victory, thanks to the goals of Symeonidis (38′), Havanidis (42′), while the home team had taken the lead with Polychroniou (31′) on target. In fact, PAOK were not defeated in their first three matches against Olympiacos, since in their second visit to the Karaiskakis they drew 1-1 (49′ Yfantis – 89′ Vassiliadis).
- PAOK’s biggest victory at Olympiacos was on January 4, 1976 via a 4-0 result, where goals from Terzanidis (24′), Koudas (56′, 63′) and Guerino (78′) marked the triumph in a year where the club were also crowned champions.
- On February 23, 2003, Pantelis Kafes found the net three times in PAOK’s 4-3 defeat in Rizoupoli and he is the only PAOK player to have scored a hat- trick in an away game against Olympiacos.
- Olympiacos had 17 unbeaten matches in the championship at their renovated Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium (15 wins, two draws) until PAOK’s second visit there on October 16, 2005. With two goals by Pantelis Konstantinidis, PAOK responded perfectly to Yaya Toure’s free-kick, took the victory and at the same time broke the home side’s undeafeated streak.
- Giorgos Koudas is the player who has scored three goals in away matches with Olympiacos and has four more in matches where PAOK was the home team. Overall, in both grounds, he is at the top, together with Afentoulidis, Skartados, while Sarafis has six goals.
