# For a 7th consecutive season, PAOK open the Super League at home. Last season, AEL Kalloni put an end to five back-to-back wins, earning a 1-1 draw at Toumba Stadium. PAOK are undefeated though in their home league openers with 5 victories, 1 draw and 12-3 goals.<\/p>\n
# PAOK suffered their last home loss in an opening league game 12 years ago. Olympiacos prevailed 2-0 in 2003-04, courtesy of goals by Georgiadis and Kafes. The last defeat regardless of venue was recorded at Xanthi (1-0) by local SKODA in 2007-08.<\/p>\n
# PAOK will open the league against SKODA Xanthi at home for a 3rd time, as they were paired by the draw every two years. The streak started in 2011-12 (PAOK \u2013 Xanthi 1-0) and continued in 2013-14 (PAOK \u2013 Xanthi 3-0).<\/p>\n
# PAOK have faced Xanthi in an opening league encounter at both grounds 4 times so far. In 1995-96 (Xanthi \u2013 PAOK 2-2) and 2007-08 (Xanthi \u2013 PAOK 1-0) they met at Thrace.<\/p>\n
# SKODA Xanthi have been playing in the top-flight league for 27 years consecutively. In their 26 visits to Toumba Stadium so far, they have suffered 19 defeats, while also recording 3 victories and 4 draws.<\/p>\n
# PAOK have defeated SKODA Xanthi at home with a 1-0 scoreline eight times, making it their favourite result against the Thrace outfit. They also won 2-1 four times, meaning that 12 of 19 PAOK victories were just by one goal. Xanthi prevailed in Toumba three times, with a 1-0 scoreline on each occasion. PAOK have also won 3-0, 4-1 and 2-0 (twice each result). Their largest victory over SKODA Xanthi was a 5-0 recorded on 12 December 1999.<\/p>\n
# Kostas Frantzeskos<\/strong> and Veridiano Marcelo<\/strong> have scored more goals than anyone (5 each) in the encounters between PAOK and Xanthi. Giorgos Georgiadis<\/strong>, Vladan<\/strong> Ivi\u0107<\/strong> and Petros<\/strong> Teggelidis<\/strong> have netted 4 times each. Dimitris Salpingidis<\/strong> (3 goals) and Stefanos Athanasiadis<\/strong> (2) could increase their tally, but not today as they are sidelined with injury. Dimitris Papadopoulos<\/strong> netted both goals in last season\u2019s 2-1 victory over SKODA Xanthi.<\/p>\n # Zisis Vryzas<\/strong> is the only player who has scored for both sides in their head-to-head encounters! On 28 January 1996, in a 3-3 draw in Toumba he scored for Xanthi and on 25 October 1998 he was on target for PAOK in their 1-0 victory at Xanthi. He has featured with the Xanthi shirt 7 times against PAOK. He would later face Xanthi 8 times as a player of PAOK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Super League encounter of PAOK against SKODA Xanthi about to start, paokfc.gr offer you interesting info on the head-to-head record of the two teams and the “Double-Headed Eagle’s” league openers. ","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":215028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1520,5],"tags":[1519,1543,1548,2250,2386,3887,4422,6002,6032,6033,6034,6035,6036],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n