{"id":846877,"date":"2025-01-30T18:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20250130-facts-figures-gia-to-paok-real-sociedad\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T19:16:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:16:25","slug":"20250130-facts-figures-gia-to-paok-real-sociedad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20250130-facts-figures-gia-to-paok-real-sociedad\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Sociedad vs. PAOK: Facts &#038; Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>PAOK<\/strong> will face a fifth team from <strong>Spain<\/strong> in their obligations in <strong>European<\/strong> competitions for Matchday 8 of the <strong>Europa League<\/strong>. All of them are for the <strong>UEFA Cup<\/strong> and its successor, the <strong>Europa League<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The first contest against <strong>Spanish<\/strong> teams was with <strong>Barcelona<\/strong>, which had a certain <strong>Johan Cruyff <\/strong>in their ranks. On <strong>September 16, 1975, PAOK<\/strong> prevailed 1-0 in <strong>Thessaloniki<\/strong> (72\u2019<strong> Koudas<\/strong>). In the return match, the <strong>Double-headed Eagle<\/strong> were defeated 6-1.<\/li>\n<li>In the next two meetings with <strong>Spanish<\/strong> opposition, they faced <strong>Sevilla<\/strong>, in 1982-83 and 1990-91, and were eliminated. In their first meeting, <strong>PAOK<\/strong> won at the <strong>Toumba<\/strong> with a 2-0 result and lost in <strong>Spain<\/strong> 4-0.<\/li>\n<li>In 1990-91, no goals were scored in 210 minutes of matches and qualification was decided on penalties, where the <strong>Spaniards<\/strong> prevailed 4-3 on spot-kicks at the <strong>Toumba<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This was followed by the matches with <strong>Atletico Madrid<\/strong> in 1997-98, where <strong>PAOK<\/strong> were defeated 5-2 in <strong>Spain<\/strong> and in the return match there was an impressive 4-4 draw.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>2010-11<\/strong> season was the club&#8217;s first experience in the group stage, where the matches with <strong>Villarreal<\/strong> ended with a victory for each team, 1-0 in <strong>Spain<\/strong> for <strong>Villarreal<\/strong> and 1-0 at the <strong>Toumba<\/strong> for <strong>PAOK<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The last time <strong>PAOK<\/strong> faced a <strong>Spanish<\/strong> team was in <strong>2020-21,<\/strong> where they were in the same group as <strong>Granada<\/strong> and the matches ended with two goalless draws.<\/li>\n<li>In total, <strong>PAOK<\/strong> has 3 wins, 5 draws and 4 losses in 12 matches against <strong>Spanish<\/strong> teams. Four of the draws were 0-0 and one was 4-4.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Real<\/strong> <strong>Sociedad<\/strong> have faced a team from our country in the past, <strong>Olympiacos<\/strong> in the group stage of the <strong>2003-04 Champions League<\/strong>, where they won 1-0 in <strong>Spain<\/strong> and in <strong>Athens<\/strong> the match ended in a 2-2 draw.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of PAOK\u2019s UEFA Europa League match with Real Sociedad, paokfc.gr puts you in the picture about the background to the match, some interesting statistics about the match in Spain.\r\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":846871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1520,5,8627],"tags":[1543,1548,6435,5338,5358,6033,8613,8614,17596,17597,17627],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Real Sociedad vs. PAOK: Facts &amp; Figures - 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