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[[Image:PAOK_1972.jpg|thumb|300px|Considered by many the best football team Thessaloniki has ever produced. Top row: [[Giorgos Koudas]], [[Savvas Hadjiioannou]], [[Yiannis Gounaris]], [[Aristarchos Fountoukidis]], Papadopoulos, [[Kostas Iosifidis]], Bottom: [[Michalis Bellis]], [[Petros Vouzounerakis]], [[Christos Terzanidis]], [[Koulis Apostolidis]], [[Stavros Sarafis]]]]
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[[Image:PAOK_1972.jpg|thumb|300px|Considered by many the best football team Thessaloniki has ever produced. Top row: [[Giorgos Koudas]], [[Savvas Hadjiioannou]], [[Yiannis Gounaris]], [[Aristarchos Fountoukidis]], [[Pavlos Papadopoulos]], [[Kostas Iosifidis]], Bottom: [[Michalis Bellis]], [[Petros Vouzounerakis]], [[Christos Terzanidis]], [[Koulis Apostolidis]], [[Stavros Sarafis]]]]
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[[Image:Paokstadium.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Toumba]] - PAOK Stadium]]
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[[Image:Paok_2006_11.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Theodoros Zagorakis|Theo Zagorakis]] captained PAOK in [[2006]]]]
 
== History of PAOK ==
 
== History of PAOK ==
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PAOK was founded in April [[1926]] by noble Constantinopolitians who arrived as immigrants in [[Thessaloniki]], after the exchange of population between Greece and Turkey, according to the Lausanne treaty of [[1924]]. These people were: L. Nikolaidis, K. Komitsopoulos, D. Mitsionis, the Dimitriadis brothers, the MP Koultatsoglou, Kouemtzopoulos, Karamaounas and a few more. The constitution of PAOK, with index number 822, was legitimated by the [[City Court of Thessaloniki]] on [[April 28]], [[1926]].
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PAOK was founded in April [[1926]] by notable Constantinopolitans who arrived in [[Thessaloniki]], after the exchange of population between Greece and Turkey, according to the Lausanne treaty of [[1924]]. These people were: L. Nikolaidis, K. Komitsopoulos, D. Mitsionis, the Dimitriadis brothers, the MP Koultatsoglou, Kouemtzopoulos, Karamaounas and a few more. The constitution of PAOK, with index number 822, was legitimated by the [[City Court of Thessaloniki]] on [[April 28]], [[1926]].
  
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PAOK’s first emblem adopted in 1926 was a four-leaved clover and a horseshoe. The leaves were green with the letters PAOK marked on each of them, a symbol devised by Kostas Koemtzopoulos who took the idea from a packet of cigarettes he smoked.
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PAOK’s first emblem, adopted in [[1926]], was a four-leaved clover and a horse shoe. The leaves were green with the letters PAOK marked on each of them, a symbol devised by Kostas Koemtzopoulos who took the idea from a packet of cigarettes he smoked.
  
 
The decision to merge with the club AEK Thessaloniki can also be considered to be of historic importance. Until [[March 20|20th March]] [[1929]] the two clubs were rivals, competing against each other although both had been established by refugees from [[Constantinople]]. It was the Chairman of AEK, Dr. Karamaounas, who brokered the merger between Thessaloniki’s two refugee teams. The main figures behind the idea and its implementation were Fanourios Vyzantios and Pantelis Kalpaktsoglou who had defected from AEK Thessaloniki, which had been established in 1924-25 by the first wave of refugees who had come to [[Thessaloniki]] from [[Constantinople]] in [[1922]]. Certain members of AEK Thessaloniki headed south to the capital upon the merger to found the modern-day team [[AEK FC|AEK]].
 
The decision to merge with the club AEK Thessaloniki can also be considered to be of historic importance. Until [[March 20|20th March]] [[1929]] the two clubs were rivals, competing against each other although both had been established by refugees from [[Constantinople]]. It was the Chairman of AEK, Dr. Karamaounas, who brokered the merger between Thessaloniki’s two refugee teams. The main figures behind the idea and its implementation were Fanourios Vyzantios and Pantelis Kalpaktsoglou who had defected from AEK Thessaloniki, which had been established in 1924-25 by the first wave of refugees who had come to [[Thessaloniki]] from [[Constantinople]] in [[1922]]. Certain members of AEK Thessaloniki headed south to the capital upon the merger to found the modern-day team [[AEK FC|AEK]].
  
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Following the merger with AEK in 1929, PAOK changed its emblem. The new emblem became the [[Two-headed eagle|Two-headed Eagle]], which it remains to this day, and symbolizes the arrival of the club and the return to the roots and heritage of the refugees ([[Byzantium]] and [[Constantinople]]). The Eagle holds a sword and a crown with its two heads looking East and West. The difference between this emblem and that of AEK (which is also the symbol of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]]) is that PAOK’s emblem has its wings folded signifying mourning for expulsion from the homeland.
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Following the merger with AEK in [[1929]], PAOK changed its emblem. The new emblem became the [[Two-headed eagle|Two-headed Eagle]], which remains to this day, and symbolizes the arrival of the club and the return to the roots and heritage of the refugees ([[Byzantium]] and [[Constantinople]]). The Eagle holds a sword and a crown with its two heads looking East and West. The difference between this emblem and that of [[AEK FC|AEK Athens]] (which is also the symbol of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]]) is that the eagle on PAOK’s emblem has its wings folded signifying mourning for expulsion from the homeland.
  
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The first foreign coach in the history of the team, German Rudolph Ganser, who served with PAOK for the 1931-1932 season.
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The first section to be founded was [[Football (soccer)|soccer]]. Later on, in [[1928]], other sections were also founded such as [[basketball]], volleyball, athletics, swimming, water polo, boxing and cycling.  
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[[Image:Paokstadium.jpg|thumb|250px|left|[[Toumba]] - PAOK Stadium]]
 
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The first section to be founded was [[Football (soccer)|soccer]]. Later on, in [[1928]], other sections were also founded such as basketball, volleyball, athletics, swimming, water polo, boxing and cycling. The soccer team was put in the second division of the local championship of Thessaloniki. The following year, it was promoted to the first division, after beating [[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]] 1-0, which was the champion of Thessaloniki. From this point on, the football team was considered one of the most historical Greek teams with a great and fanatical crowd all over [[Greece]] and beyond. The first stadium was built in the area of the [[Aristotle University|University of Thessaloniki]].
 
  
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In [[1957]], the second stadium was built in the neighborhood of Constantinopolitian immigrants, called [[Toumba]] (Toumba, meaning tomb), which in recent years has become [[Toumba Stadium|the home stadium]].
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The soccer team was put in the second division of the local championship of Thessaloniki. The following year, it was promoted to the first division, after beating [[Iraklis FC|Iraklis]], who were the champions of Thessaloniki, 1-0. From this point on, the football team was established as one of the top Greek teams with a great and fanatical crowd all over [[Greece]] and beyond. The first stadium was built in the area of the [[Aristotle University|University of Thessaloniki]].
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The first foreign coach in the history of the team was German [[Rudolph Ganser]], who served with PAOK for the 1931-[[1932]] season.
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On [[February 20]], [[1938]] [[Nikos Sotiriadis]] became the first ever international player for the club in a [[1938]] World Cup qualifier against Palestine.
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In [[1957]], the second stadium was started in the neighborhood of Constantinopolitan immigrants, called [[Toumba Stadium|Toumba]] (Toumba, meaning tomb), which in recent years has become [[Toumba Stadium|the home stadium]]. The new stadium was completed in [[1959]] and inaugurated with a 1-0 friendly victory over [[AEK FC|AEK]] [[Athens]] on [[September 6]], [[1959]].
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The [[1970s]] saw PAOK develop into a contender. Englishman, [[Les Shannon]], coached a team made up of [[Giorgos Koudas]], [[Stavros Sarafis]], [[Dimitris Paridis]], [[Achilleas Aslanidis]], [[Neto Guerino]], [[Christos Terzanidis]] and others, nearly winning the championship in [[1973 Football Championship|1973]]. [[1976 Football Championship|Three years later]], PAOK handily won the title that eluded them in 1973. Meanwhile, PAOK also won the [[Greek Football Cup|Cup]]: in [[1972]] and [[1974]], the latter under Ulsterman [[Billy Bingham]].
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[[Giorgos Koudas]] retired in [[1984]]. The following season, PAOK won their second league title. [[Kostas Iosifidis]] has the distinction of having been a member of both [[1976]] and [[1985]] teams.
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==Recent Years==
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In recent years, PAOK, like most professional soccer teams in Greece, has been hit by financial problems, but managed to win the [[Greek Football Cup|Greek Cup]] in [[2001]] and [[2003]].
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In late [[2003]], [[Yiannis Goumenos]] arrived at PAOK, with a considerable background in insurance and stock-broking, with Giorgos Kalyvas and Vassilis Pagonis as his deputies, a new board and supposedly 1,7 million euros in emergency funds. He ushered in by former coach [[Angelos Anastasiadis]], currently in charge of the Cypriot national team.
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PAOK's acute financial straits, which have shown no sign of recovery, were dealt a further blow last month when a former coach at the club, Austrian [[Rolf Fringer]], filed a case with soccer's international governing body for back wages owed to him by the Thessaloniki team (he is reportedly owed 200,000 euros).
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On [[November 13]], [[2006]], PAOK owner [[Yiannis Goumenos]] resigned amid a financial crisis that could relegate the club to the second division of the Greek league.
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Negotiations by Argentina-based ship-owner Yiannis Kambanis and entrepreneur [[Ivan Savvidis]] to buy PAOK collapsed in June, bringing Greece's fourth largest soccer club to the verge of bankruptcy.
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The amateur division's boss, [[Thanassis Katsaris]], has already approached prominent [[Thessaloniki]]-based entrepreneurs in search of emergency funds and a takeover deal.
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As of [[August 10]], [[2012]] [[Ivan Savvidis]] acquired ownership of PAOK.
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On [[May 12]], [[2015]] Savvidis paid all of the club's debts to the Greek State, an amount that totalled at € 10,886,81.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150521133136/http://olapaok.gr/podosfairo/Dioikitika/________/sthn_eforia_o_savvidhs_mesa_sthn_epomenh_wra.3463743.html</ref>
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PAOK since then became a power again in Greek football, winning [[Greek Football Cup|Greek Cup]] for three consecutive years in [[2017]], [[2018]] and [[2019]] and the first League title in 34 years in [[2019]] and that without a loss. The 2018/2019-season was the best ever in the history of the club as PAOK won the “double” for the first time.
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In 2021 PAOK was the first Greek club to qualify for the Group Stage of the new Europa Conference League of UEFA. On [[December 9]], [[2021]] PAOK was qualified for the knock-out stage, as they ended second in their group. On [[February 24]], [[2022]] PAOK managed for the first time - after five failures - to advance to the next round after the European winterbreak. At the same time PAOK managed to win a penalty shootout for the first time after four failures. The tie against FC Midtjylland of Denmark ended 2-2 on aggregate and 5-3 after penalties.
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== Titles ==
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=== Greek League ===
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*[[1976 Football Championship|1976]]
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*[[1985 Football Championship|1985]]
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*[[2019]]
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=== Greek Cup ===
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*[[1972]]
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*[[1974]]
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*[[2001]]
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*[[2003]]
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*[[2017]]
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*[[2018]]
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*[[2019]]
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*[[2021]]
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==(Former) Players==
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Players are asigned to the era where they made their first appearances.  
  
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== Star Players==
 
 
=== 1930-1959 ===
 
=== 1930-1959 ===
 
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*Sotiriadis
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*Angelidis
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*Vatikis
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*Gioulios Arvanitis
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*Goulios
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*[[Kyriakos Bostantzoglou]]
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*Kontopoulos
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*[[Panagiotis Chourvouliadis]]
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*Panidis
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*[[Vasilis Emmanouilidis]]
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*Geroudis
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*[[Giannelos Margaritis|Giannelos]]
 
*Glaros
 
*Glaros
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*Golemis
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*[[Giorgos Hasiotis]]
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*[[Giorgos Havanidis]]
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*Arist. Ioannidis
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*[[Dimitris Kaloyiannis]]
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*Kostas Kaloyiannis
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*Michalis Karatzas
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*[[Lavrentios Katikaridis]]
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*Kavourmatzis
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*[[Yiannis Kazias]]
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*[[Antonis Kemanidis]]
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*[[Kostas Kiourtzis]]
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*Ap. Kontopoulos
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*[[Lambis Kouiroukidis]]
 
*Kritas
 
*Kritas
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*K. Konstantinidis
 
*Koukoulas
 
*Koukoulas
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*Litopoulos
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*Lykaris
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*[[Panos Markovits]]
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*Miggousis
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*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]
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*[[Thrasyvoulos Panidis]]
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*[[Lefteris Papadakis]]
 
*Papaiordanidis
 
*Papaiordanidis
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*K. Konstantinidis
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*Patakas
 
*Pazaroglou
 
*Pazaroglou
 
*Piblis
 
*Piblis
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*Kavourmatzis
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*[[Lakis Proyios]]
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*K. Kaloyiannis
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*Psomas
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*Angelidis
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*[[Achilleas Savvidis]]
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*[[Nikos Sotiriadis]]
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*Bostantzoglou
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*[[Leandros Symeonidis]]
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*Vafiadis
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*[[Notis Tsintoglou]]
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*Arist. Ioannidis
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*Tzinopoulos
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*Miggousis
 
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*[[Panos Markovits]]
 
 
*[[Christoforos Yientzis]]
 
*[[Christoforos Yientzis]]
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*[[Lefteris Papadakis]]
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*P. Vafiadis
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*[[Lambis Kouiroukidis]]
 
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*[[Giorgos Mouratidis]]
 
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*[[Leandros Symeonidis]]
 
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*D. Kaloyiannis
 
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*Kiourtzis
 
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*Litopoulos
 
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*Katikaridis
 
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*Chourvouliadis
 
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*[[Apostolos Vasiliadis]]
 
*[[Apostolos Vasiliadis]]
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*Giannelos
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*[[Giorgos Vatikis]]
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*Margaritis
 
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*[[Giorgos Havanidis]]
 
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*Proyios
 
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*[[Achilleas Savvidis]]
 
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*[[Yiannis Kazias]]
 
 
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*Mouselemidis
 
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*[[Nikos Mitrakas]]
 
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*[[Toulis Mouratidis]]
 
 
*[[Anestis Afendoulidis]]
 
*[[Anestis Afendoulidis]]
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*[[Yiannis Yiakoumis]]
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*[[Nikos Alavantas]]
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*[[Takis Raptopoulos]]
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*[[Angelos Anastasiadis]]
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*[[Koulis Apostolidis]]
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*[[Themis Apostolidis]]
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*[[Achilleas Aslanidis]]
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*[[Kostas Baniotis]]
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*[[Onoufrios Charalambidis]]
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*[[Yiannis Christodoulou]]
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*[[Yiannis Damanakis]]
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*[[René Deck]]
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*[[Mladen Furtula]]
 
*[[Aristarchos Fountoukidis]]
 
*[[Aristarchos Fountoukidis]]
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*[[Onoufrios Charalambidis]]
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*[[Yiannis Gounaris]]
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*[[Neto Guerino]]
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*[[Yiannis Hadjiantoniou]]
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*[[Savvas Hadjiioannou]]
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*[[Kostas Iosifidis]]
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*[[Themis Kapousouzis]]
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*[[Panagiotis Kermanidis]]
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*[[Giorgos Kontogiorgos]]
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*[[Giorgos Kostikos]]
 
*[[Giorgos Koudas]]
 
*[[Giorgos Koudas]]
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*[[Stavros Sarafis]]
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*[[Vasilis Lazos]]
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*[[Koulis Apostolidis]]
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*[[Giorgos Makris]]
 
*[[Yiannis Mantzourakis]]
 
*[[Yiannis Mantzourakis]]
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*[[Vasilis Lazos]]
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*[[Yiannis Michailidis]]
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*[[Nikos Mitrakas]]
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*[[Toulis Mouratidis]]
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*[[Takis Mouselemidis]]
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*[[Yiannis Nikolaidis]]
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*[[Kostas Orfanos]]
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*[[Giorgos Papachristoudis]]
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*[[Pavlos Papadopoulos]]
 
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*[[Christos Terzanidis]]
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*[[Giorgos Paraschos]]
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*[[Kostas Iosifidis]]
 
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*[[Yiannis Gounaris]]
 
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*[[Achilleas Aslanidis]]
 
 
*[[Dimitris Paridis]]
 
*[[Dimitris Paridis]]
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*[[Petros Vouzounerakis]]
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*[[Yiannis Pathiakakis]]
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*[[Filotas Pellios]]
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*[[Christos Pirtsos]]
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*[[Takis Raptopoulos]]
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*[[Stavros Sarafis]]
 
*[[Apostolos Savvoulidis]]
 
*[[Apostolos Savvoulidis]]
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*[[Christos Pirtsos]]
 
 
*[[Yiannis Stefas]]
 
*[[Yiannis Stefas]]
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*[[Savvas Hadjiioannou]]
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*[[Christos Terzanidis]]
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*Hadjiantoniou
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*[[Aimilios Theofanidis]]
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*Tsiligiridis
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*[[Takis Tsiligiridis]]
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*[[Giorgos Paraschos]]
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*[[Vasilis Voulgaris]]
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*[[Petros Vouzounerakis]]
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*[[Yiannis Yiakoumis]]
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*[[Nikos Alavantas]]
 
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*[[Neto Guerino]]
 
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*[[Angelos Anastasiadis]]
 
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*[[Panayiotis Kermanidis]]
 
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*[[Kostas Baniotis]]
 
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*[[Yiannis Damianakis]]
 
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*[[Bladen Fortula]]
 
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*Papachristoudis
 
 
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*[[Kostas Orfanos]]
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*[[Kyriakos Alexandridis]]
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*[[Giorgos Skartados]]
 
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*[[Giorgos Kostikos]]
 
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*[[Panayiotis Pantelis]]
 
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*[[Juri Paprica]]
 
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*[[Thomas Siggas]]
 
 
*[[Alexis Alexiou]]
 
*[[Alexis Alexiou]]
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*[[Magdi Tolba]]
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*[[Yiannis Alexoulis]]
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*[[Yiannis Psaras]]
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*[[Yiannis Anastasiadis]]
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*[[Nikos Argyriou]]
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*[[Les Bannon]]
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*[[Thanasis Basbanas]]
 
*[[Stefanos Borbokis]]
 
*[[Stefanos Borbokis]]
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*[[Makis Chavos]]
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*[[Vasilis Vasilakos]]
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*[[Pavlos Dermitzakis]]
 
*[[Christos Dimopoulos]]
 
*[[Christos Dimopoulos]]
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*[[Les Bannon]]
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*[[Milan Djurdjevic]]
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*[[Lakis Papaioannou]]
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*[[Kostas Economidis]]
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*[[Yiannis Anastasiadis]]
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*[[Luis Fernando]]
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*[[Giorgos Toursounidis]]
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*[[Kostas Frantzeskos]]
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*[[Sotiris Mavromatis]]
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*[[Tonci Gabric]]
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*[[Kostas Mallioufas]]
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*[[Vasilis Georgopoulos]]
 
*[[Yiannis Gitsioudis]]
 
*[[Yiannis Gitsioudis]]
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*[[Aris Karasavvidis]]
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*[[Ibrahim Hassan]]
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*[[Hossam Hassan]]
 
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*[[Kostas Frantzeskos]]
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*[[Michalis Iordanidis]]
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*[[Ivan Juricic]]
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*[[Pantelis Kafes]]
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*[[Dimitris Kapetanopoulos]]
 
*[[Nikos Karageorgiou]]
 
*[[Nikos Karageorgiou]]
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*[[Aris Karasavvidis]]
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*[[Panagiotis Katsouris]]
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*[[Giorgos Koulakiotis]]
 
*[[Kostas Lagonidis]]
 
*[[Kostas Lagonidis]]
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*[[Ibrahim Hassan]]
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*[[Nikos Liakos]]
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*[[Hossam Hassan]]
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*[[Kostas Mallioufas]]
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*[[Sotiris Mavromatis]]
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*[[Dimitris Mitoglou]]
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*[[Michalis Leontiadis]]
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*[[Milan Luhovy]]
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*[[Triantafyllos Machairidis]]
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*[[Antonis Mavreas]]
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*[[Nikos Michopoulos]]
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*[[Joe Nagbe]]
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*[[Vangelis Nastos]]
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*[[Percy Olivares]]
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*[[Kjetil Osvold]]
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*[[Nikos Panagiotidis]]
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*[[Panagiotis Pantelis]]
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*[[Lakis Papaioannou]]
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*[[Juri Paprica]]
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*[[Nikos Plitsis]]
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*[[Yiannis Psaras]]
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*[[Jozsef Salamon]]
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*[[Thomas Siggas]]
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*[[Giorgos Skartados]]
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*[[Mike Small]]
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*[[Babis Spanosotiropoulos]]
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*[[Lakis Stergioudas]]
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*[[Mirko Taccola]]
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*[[Apostolos Terzis]]
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*[[Magdi Tolba]]
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*[[Giorgos Toursounidis]]
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*[[Apostolos Tsourelas]]
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*[[Vasilis Vasilakos]]
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*[[Christos Vellis]]
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*[[Achilleas Zafiriou]]
 
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=== 2000 - 2019 ===
 
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*[[Kofi Abonsah]]
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*[[Chuba Akpom]]
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*[[Marcos Antonio]]
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*[[Alexandros Apostolopoulos]]
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*[[Nikos Arabatzis]]
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*[[Stefanos Athanasiadis]]
 
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]
 
*[[Elias Atmatzidis]]
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*[[Vangelis Pourliotopoulos]]
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*[[Marcio Azevedo]]
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*[[Kyriakos Tochouroglou]]
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*[[Baiano]]
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*[[Ibrahima Bakayoko]]
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*[[Sotiris Balafas]]
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*[[Cosmin Barcuan]]
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*[[Diego Biseswar]]
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*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]
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*[[Anis Boussaidi]]
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*[[Zeljko Brkic]]
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*[[Abdoul Camara]]
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*[[Djalma Campos]]
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*[[José Cañas]]
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*[[Kostas Chalkias]]
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*[[Kostas Charalambidis]]
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*[[Elias Charalambous]]
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*[[Dionysios Chasiotis]]
 +
*[[Lazaros Christodoulopoulos]] 
 +
*[[Gojko Cimirot]]
 +
*[[Bruno Cirillo]]
 +
*[[Sergio Conceicao]]
 +
*[[Pablo Contreras]]
 +
*[[José Ángel Crespo]]
 +
*[[Filippos Darlas]]
 +
*[[Douglas Augusto]]
 +
*[[Stelios Eliadis]]
 
*[[Panagiotis Engomitis]]
 
*[[Panagiotis Engomitis]]
−
*[[Kofi Abonsah]]
+
*[[Anderson Esiti]]
−
*[[Vasilis Borbokis]]
+
*[[Daniel Marcio Fernandes]]
 +
*[[Guy Armand Feutchine]]
 +
*[[Lucio Filomeno]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Fotakis]]
 +
*[[Nikos Froussos]]
 +
*[[Pablo Garcia]]
 
*[[Giorgos Ch. Georgiadis]]
 
*[[Giorgos Ch. Georgiadis]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Georgiadis (2000s)|Giorgos K. Georgiadis]]
 +
*[[Dimitris Giannoulis]]
 +
*[[Panagiotis Glykos]]
 +
*[[Antonio Gonzales]]
 +
*[[Mumin Hussein]]
 +
||
 +
*[[Sverrir Ingi Ingason]]
 +
*[[Christos Intzidis]]
 +
*[[Charles Itandje]]
 +
*[[Vladan Ivic]]
 +
*[[Léo Jabá]]
 +
*[[Ergys Kace]]
 +
*[[Omar El Kaddouri]]
 +
*[[Nikos Karelis]]
 +
*[[Giorgos Katsikas]]
 +
*[[Yevhen Khacheridi]]
 +
*[[Bongani Khumalo]]
 +
*[[Stelios Kitsiou]]
 +
*[[Dimitris Konstantinidis]]
 +
*[[Pantelis Konstantinidis]]
 +
*[[Pedro Henrique Konzen]]
 +
*[[Efthimis Koulouris]]
 +
*[[Vasilis Koutsianikoulis]]
 
*[[Giorgos Koutsis]]
 
*[[Giorgos Koutsis]]
−
*[[Armando Feuchini]]
+
*[[Vangelis Koutsopoulos]]
 +
*[[Dario Kresic]]
 +
*[[Dimitrios Kyriakidis]]
 +
*[[Liam Lawrence]]
 +
*[[Lazaros Lamprou]]
 +
*[[Costin Lazar]]
 +
*[[Marin Leovac]]
 +
*[[Dorian Lévêque]]
 +
*[[Dimitris Limnios]]
 +
*[[Lino]]
 +
*'''[[Lefteris Lyratzis]]'''
 +
*[[Róbert Mak]]
 +
*[[Christos Maladenis]]
 +
*[[Stelios Malezas]]
 
*[[Dimitris Markos]]
 
*[[Dimitris Markos]]
 +
*[[Léo Matos]]
 +
*[[Mauricio]]
 +
*[[Amir Azmi Megahed]]
 +
*[[Christos Melissis]]
 +
*[[Garry Mendes Rodrigues]]
 +
*[[Marcin Mieciel]]
 +
*[[Enea Mihaj]]
 +
*[[Bryce Moon]]
 +
*[[Zlatan Muslimovic]]
 +
*[[Dimitris Nalitzis]]
 +
*[[Sotiris Ninis]]
 +
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]
 
||
 
||
−
*[[Yiasemakis Yiasemi]]
+
*[[Sekou Oliseh]]
−
*[[Yiannis Okkas]]
+
*[[Dimitris Orfanos]]
 +
*[[Thanasis Papazoglou]]
 +
*[[Alexandros Paschalakis]]
 +
*[[Dimitris Pelkas]]
 +
*[[Dimitris Popovic]]
 +
*[[Vangelis Pourliotopoulos]]
 +
*[[Stelios Pozoglou]]
 +
*[[Aleksandar Priojovic]]
 +
*[[Miguel Rebosio]]
 +
*[[Rodrigo Alves]]
 +
*[[Rodrigo Rey]]
 +
*[[Glen Salmon]]
 +
*[[Dimitris Salpingidis]]
 +
*[[Mirko Savini]]
 +
*[[Gordon Schildenfeld]]
 +
*[[Yevhen Shakhov]]
 +
*[[Mahmud Shikabala]]
 +
*[[Olivier Sorlin]]
 +
*[[Sladjan Spasic]]
 +
*[[Kostas Stafylidis]]
 +
*[[Miroslav Stoch]]
 +
*[[Miroslaw Sznaucner]]
 +
*[[Karol Swiderski]]
 +
*[[Kyriakos Tochouroglou]]
 +
*[[Sandor Torghelle]]
 +
*[[Alin Tosca]]
 +
*[[Athanasios Tsigas]]
 +
*[[Stavros Tsoulakos]]
 +
*[[Ifeani Udeze]]
 +
*[[Lambros Vaggelis]]
 +
*[[Fernando Varela]]
 
*[[Stelios Venetidis]]
 
*[[Stelios Venetidis]]
−
*[[Pantelis Kaffes]]
+
*[[Ricardo Veron]]
−
*[[Pantelis Konstantinidis]]
+
*'''[[Vieirinha]]'''
−
*[[Vangelis Koutsopoulos]]
+
*[[Victor Vitolo]]
−
*[[Dionysios Hasiotis]]
+
*[[Leonidas Vokolos]]
−
*[[Nikos Froussos]]
 
 
*[[Stefanos Voskaridis]]
 
*[[Stefanos Voskaridis]]
 +
*'''[[Giorgos Vrakas]]'''
 +
*[[Zvonimir Vukic]]
 +
*[[Amr Warda]]
 +
*[[Pontus Wernbloom]]
 +
*[[Yiasemakis Yiasemi]]
 
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]
 
*[[Theodoros Zagorakis]]
 +
*[[Dimitris Zavantias]]
 +
*[[Carlos Zegarra]]
 +
*'''[[Zivko Zivkovic]]'''
 +
|}
 +
 +
=== 2020 - present ===
 +
{| width=90%
 +
|- valign=top
 
||
 
||
−
*[[Dimitris Zavantias]]
+
*'''[[Abdul Rahman Baba]]'''
−
*[[Sladzan Spasic]]  
+
*'''[[André Ricardo]]'''
−
*[[Christos Maladenis]]
+
*[[Vladimir Bradonjic]]
−
*[[Dimitris Salpingidis]]  
+
*[[Antonio Colak]]
−
*[[Mahmud Shikabala]]
+
*[[Tiago Dantas]]
−
*[[Stelios Eliadis]]
+
*'''[[Kiril Despodov]]'''
−
*[[Ifeani Udeze]]
+
*[[Shinji Kagawa]]
−
*[[Lazaros Christodoulopoulos]]          
+
*[[Yiannis Kargas]]
 +
*'''[[Tomasz Kedziora]]'''
 +
*'''[[Yiannis Konstantelias]]'''
 +
*'''[[Dominik Kotarski]]'''
 +
*'''[[Konstantinos Koulierakis]]'''
 +
*[[Giorgos Koutsias]]
 +
||
 +
*[[Jasmin Kurtic]]
 +
*[[Michael Krmencik]]
 +
*'''[[Marcos Antônio]]'''
 +
*'''[[Soualiho Meïté]]'''
 +
*'''[[Yiannis Michailidis (footballer, born 2000)|Yiannis Michailidis]]'''
 +
*'''[[Thomas Murg]]'''
 +
*[[Khaled Narey]]
 +
*'''[[Ivan Näsberg]]'''
 +
*[[Adrian Nielsen Pereira]]
 +
*'''[[Nika Ninua]]'''
 +
*[[Nelson Oliveira]]
 +
*'''[[Magomed Ozdoyev]]'''
 +
*[[Nicolás Quagliata]]
 +
*'''[[Mbwana Samatta]]'''
 +
*'''[[Joan Sastre]]'''
 
||
 
||
−
*[[Daniel Marcio Fernandez]]
+
*'''[[Stefan Schwab]]'''
−
*[[Dimitrios Kuriakidis]]
+
*[[Sidcley]]
−
*[[Cosmin Barcuan]]
+
*'''[[Rafa Soares]]'''
−
*[[Miguel Rebosio]]
+
*'''[[Felipe Soares]]'''
−
*[[Stilianos Malezas]]
+
*'''[[Taison]]'''
−
*[[Ilias Haralambous]]
+
*[[Lucas Taylor]]
−
*[[Christos Melissis]]
+
*'''[[Brandon Thomas]]'''
−
*[[Amir Azmi Megahed]]
+
*'''[[William Troost-Ekong]]'''
−
*[[Panetlis Konstantinidis]]
+
*[[Charis Tsingaras]]
−
*[[Carlos Zegarra]]
+
*[[Christos Tzolis]]
−
*[[Antonio Gonzales]]
+
*[[Moussa Wagué]]
−
*[[Lambros Vaggelis]]
+
*'''[[Andrija Zivkovic]]'''
−
*[[Sotiris Balafas]]
+
|}
−
*[[Hussein Moumin]]
+
 
−
*[[Athanasios Tsigas]]
+
Players in '''bold''' are currently active for PAOK
−
*[[Sandor Torghelle]]
 
−
*[[Kostas Haralambidis]]
 
−
*[[Marcin Miecel]]
 
−
*[[Stavros Tsoulakos]]
 
−
|
 
−
}
 
  
 
==Coaches==
 
==Coaches==
−
*[[Zarko Mihajlovic]]
+
*[[Konstantinos Andreadis]] ([[1926]] - [[1931]])
−
*[[Jeno Csaknady]]
+
*[[Rudolf Ganser]] ([[1931]] - [[1932]])
−
*[[Les Shannon]]
+
*[[Aristotelis Armaris]] ([[1932]] - [[1933]], [[1946]] - [[1947]])
−
*[[Egon Pichacek]]
+
*[[Charilaos Papadopoulos]] ([[1945]] - [[1946]])
−
*[[Gyula Lorant]]
+
*[[Nikos Pangalos]] ([[1949]] - [[1950]], [[1952]] - [[1953]], [[1954]] - [[1955]], [[1966]] - [[1967]])
−
*[[Heinz Heer]]
+
*[[Zarko Mihajlovic]] ([[1959]] - [[1961]])
−
*[[Walter Skotschik]]
+
*[[Karl Durspekt]] ([[1961]] - [[1963]])
−
*[[Nikos Alefantos]]
+
*[[Gyorgy Babolchay]] ([[1963]] - [[1965]])
−
*[[Thijs Librechts]]
+
*[[Mile Kos]] ([[1965]] - [[1966]])
−
*[[Michalis Bellis]]
+
*[[Dimitris Kaloyiannis]] ([[1967]] - [[1968]], [[1977]] - [[1978]])
−
*[[Angelos Anastasiadis]]
+
*[[Ivor Powell]] ([[1968]])
−
*[[Oleg Blokhin]]
+
*[[Jeno Csaknady]] ([[1969]] - [[1970]])
−
*[[Nikos Karageorgiou]]
+
*[[Les Shannon]] ([[1971]] - [[1974]])
−
*[[Giorgos Kostikos]]
+
*[[Lakis Proyios]] ([[1974]])
−
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]]
+
*[[Gyula Lorant]] ([[1975]] - [[1976]], [[1980]] - [[1981]])
 +
*[[Branko Stankovic]] ([[1976]] - [[1977]])
 +
*[[Billy Bingham]] ([[1977]])
 +
*[[Egon Piechaczek]] ([[1979]] - [[1980]])
 +
*[[Pal Czernay]] ([[1983]] - [[1984]])
 +
*[[Aristarchos Fountoukidis]] ([[1981]])
 +
*[[Heinz Hoeher]] ([[1981]] - [[1983]])
 +
*[[Walter Skocik]] ([[1984]] - [[1986]])
 +
*[[Rinus Israel]] ([[1988]] - [[1989]])
 +
*[[Nikos Alefantos]] ([[1989]])
 +
*[[Stavros Sarafis]] ([[1989]], [[1994]], [[1995]], [[2006]])
 +
*[[Michalis Bellis]] ([[1986]], [[1987]] - [[1988]], [[1996]])
 +
*[[Thijs Libregts]] ([[1986]] - [[1987]])
 +
*[[Rob Jacobs]] ([[1989]] - [[1990]])
 +
*[[Christos Terzanidis]] ([[1990]] - [[1991]])
 +
*[[Miroslav Blazevic]] ([[1991]] - [[1992]])
 +
*[[Yiannis Gounaris]] ([[1992]])
 +
*[[Oleg Blokhin]] ([[1993]] - [[1994]], [[1998]])
 +
*[[Arie Haan]] ([[1994]] - [[1995]], [[1999]]
 +
*[[Dragan Kokotovic]] ([[1995]] - [[1996]])
 +
*[[Gunder Bengtsson]] ([[1996]])
 +
*[[Christos Archontidis]] ([[1996]] - [[1997]])
 +
*[[Dusan Bajevic]] ([[2000]] - [[2002]])
 +
*[[Angelos Anastasiadis]] ([[1997]] - [[1998]], [[1998]] - [[1999]], [[2002]] - [[2004]])
 +
*[[Rolf Fringer]] ([[2004]] - [[2005]])
 +
*[[Nikos Karageorgiou]] ([[2005]])
 +
*[[Giorgos Kostikos]] ([[2005]] - [[2006]])
 +
*[[Ilie Dumitrescu]] ([[2006]])
 +
*[[Moca Vukotic]] ([[2006]] - [[2007]])
 +
*[[Giorgos Paraschos]] ([[2007]])
 +
*[[Fernando Santos]] ([[2007]] - [[2010]])
 +
*[[Mario Beretta]] ([[2010]])
 +
*[[Pavlos Dermitzakis]] ([[2010]])
 +
*[[Makis Chavos]] ([[2010]] - [[2011]])
 +
*[[Laszlo Bölöni]] ([[2011]] - [[2012]])
 +
*[[Giorgos Donis]] ([[2012]] - [[2013]])
 +
*[[Giorgos Ch. Georgiadis]] (caretaker till end of the season)
 +
*[[Huub Stevens]] ([[2013]])
 +
*[[Giorgos Ch. Georgiadis]] (caretaker till end of the season)
 +
*[[Angelos Anastasiadis]] ([[2014]])
 +
*[[Giorgos Ch. Georgiadis]] (caretaker till end of the season)
 +
*[[Igor Tudor]] ([[2015]])
 +
*[[Vladan Ivic]] ([[2015]] - [[2016]])
 +
*[[Aleksandar Stanojevic]] ([[2017]])
 +
*[[Râzvan Lucescu]] ([[August 11]], [[2017]] - [[June 28]], [[2019]])
 +
*[[Abel Ferreira]] ([[June 30]], [[2019]] - [[October 31]], [[2020]])
 +
*[[Pablo Garcia]] ([[October 31]], [[2020]] - [[May 26]], [[2021]])
 +
*[[Râzvan Lucescu]] ([[May 26]], [[2021]] -
 +
 
 +
==Trivia==
 +
 
 +
[[Giorgos Koudas]] is the player with most appearances for PAOK in all competitions: 602
 +
 
 +
[[Stavros Sarafis]] is the player with the most goals for PAOK in all competitions: 170
 +
 
 +
[[Dimitris Salpingidis]] is the player with most appearances for PAOK in European competitions: 60
 +
 
 +
[[Stefanos Athanasiadis]] is the player with the most goals for PAOK in European competitions: 20
 +
 
 +
 
 +
PAOK has two retired numbers that won't be worn again:
 +
 
 +
*12 in honour of the fans, who are the 12th player
 +
 
 +
*17 in honour of [[Panagiotis Katsouris]], a 21 year old player of PAOK who died in a carcrash in 1998
 +
 
 +
==Family ties==
 +
 
 +
[[Kostas Orfanos|Kostas]] and [[Dimitris Orfanos]] - father and son;
 +
 
 +
[[Hossam Hassan|Hossam]] and [[Ibrahim Hassan]] - twinbrothers.
  
 
==Other Resources==
 
==Other Resources==
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External Links
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===External Links===
 
*[http://www.greekworks.com/content/index.php/weblog/extended/thessalonikis_hidden_passion_paokomania/ Thessaloniki’s Hidden Passion: PAOKomania]
 
*[http://www.greekworks.com/content/index.php/weblog/extended/thessalonikis_hidden_passion_paokomania/ Thessaloniki’s Hidden Passion: PAOKomania]
 
[[Category: Football Clubs]]
 
[[Category: Football Clubs]]
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===Fan Forums===
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*Phantis Sports Club: [http://clubs.phantis.com/sports/index.php?showforum=7 PAOK forum]

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PAOK - team crest
Teams Colors: Black White
Sponsors: Stoiximan
Founded: April 20,1926
Address: Mikras Asias 1, 54351 Thessaloniki, Greece
Telephone: +30 2310 950950
Fax: +30 2310 951000
Email: pae@paok-hellas.gr
Web Site: www.paokfc.gr
Stadium: Toumba
Capacity: 28,701
Considered by many the best football team Thessaloniki has ever produced. Top row: Giorgos Koudas, Savvas Hadjiioannou, Yiannis Gounaris, Aristarchos Fountoukidis, Pavlos Papadopoulos, Kostas Iosifidis, Bottom: Michalis Bellis, Petros Vouzounerakis, Christos Terzanidis, Koulis Apostolidis, Stavros Sarafis
Toumba - PAOK Stadium
Theo Zagorakis captained PAOK in 2006

History of PAOK

PAOK was founded in April 1926 by notable Constantinopolitans who arrived in Thessaloniki, after the exchange of population between Greece and Turkey, according to the Lausanne treaty of 1924. These people were: L. Nikolaidis, K. Komitsopoulos, D. Mitsionis, the Dimitriadis brothers, the MP Koultatsoglou, Kouemtzopoulos, Karamaounas and a few more. The constitution of PAOK, with index number 822, was legitimated by the City Court of Thessaloniki on April 28, 1926.

PAOK’s first emblem, adopted in 1926, was a four-leaved clover and a horse shoe. The leaves were green with the letters PAOK marked on each of them, a symbol devised by Kostas Koemtzopoulos who took the idea from a packet of cigarettes he smoked.

The decision to merge with the club AEK Thessaloniki can also be considered to be of historic importance. Until 20th March 1929 the two clubs were rivals, competing against each other although both had been established by refugees from Constantinople. It was the Chairman of AEK, Dr. Karamaounas, who brokered the merger between Thessaloniki’s two refugee teams. The main figures behind the idea and its implementation were Fanourios Vyzantios and Pantelis Kalpaktsoglou who had defected from AEK Thessaloniki, which had been established in 1924-25 by the first wave of refugees who had come to Thessaloniki from Constantinople in 1922. Certain members of AEK Thessaloniki headed south to the capital upon the merger to found the modern-day team AEK.

Following the merger with AEK in 1929, PAOK changed its emblem. The new emblem became the Two-headed Eagle, which remains to this day, and symbolizes the arrival of the club and the return to the roots and heritage of the refugees (Byzantium and Constantinople). The Eagle holds a sword and a crown with its two heads looking East and West. The difference between this emblem and that of AEK Athens (which is also the symbol of the Eastern Orthodox Church) is that the eagle on PAOK’s emblem has its wings folded signifying mourning for expulsion from the homeland.

The first section to be founded was soccer. Later on, in 1928, other sections were also founded such as basketball, volleyball, athletics, swimming, water polo, boxing and cycling.

The soccer team was put in the second division of the local championship of Thessaloniki. The following year, it was promoted to the first division, after beating Iraklis, who were the champions of Thessaloniki, 1-0. From this point on, the football team was established as one of the top Greek teams with a great and fanatical crowd all over Greece and beyond. The first stadium was built in the area of the University of Thessaloniki.

The first foreign coach in the history of the team was German Rudolph Ganser, who served with PAOK for the 1931-1932 season.

On February 20, 1938 Nikos Sotiriadis became the first ever international player for the club in a 1938 World Cup qualifier against Palestine.

In 1957, the second stadium was started in the neighborhood of Constantinopolitan immigrants, called Toumba (Toumba, meaning tomb), which in recent years has become the home stadium. The new stadium was completed in 1959 and inaugurated with a 1-0 friendly victory over AEK Athens on September 6, 1959.

The 1970s saw PAOK develop into a contender. Englishman, Les Shannon, coached a team made up of Giorgos Koudas, Stavros Sarafis, Dimitris Paridis, Achilleas Aslanidis, Neto Guerino, Christos Terzanidis and others, nearly winning the championship in 1973. Three years later, PAOK handily won the title that eluded them in 1973. Meanwhile, PAOK also won the Cup: in 1972 and 1974, the latter under Ulsterman Billy Bingham.

Giorgos Koudas retired in 1984. The following season, PAOK won their second league title. Kostas Iosifidis has the distinction of having been a member of both 1976 and 1985 teams.

Recent Years

In recent years, PAOK, like most professional soccer teams in Greece, has been hit by financial problems, but managed to win the Greek Cup in 2001 and 2003.

In late 2003, Yiannis Goumenos arrived at PAOK, with a considerable background in insurance and stock-broking, with Giorgos Kalyvas and Vassilis Pagonis as his deputies, a new board and supposedly 1,7 million euros in emergency funds. He ushered in by former coach Angelos Anastasiadis, currently in charge of the Cypriot national team.

PAOK's acute financial straits, which have shown no sign of recovery, were dealt a further blow last month when a former coach at the club, Austrian Rolf Fringer, filed a case with soccer's international governing body for back wages owed to him by the Thessaloniki team (he is reportedly owed 200,000 euros).

On November 13, 2006, PAOK owner Yiannis Goumenos resigned amid a financial crisis that could relegate the club to the second division of the Greek league.

Negotiations by Argentina-based ship-owner Yiannis Kambanis and entrepreneur Ivan Savvidis to buy PAOK collapsed in June, bringing Greece's fourth largest soccer club to the verge of bankruptcy.

The amateur division's boss, Thanassis Katsaris, has already approached prominent Thessaloniki-based entrepreneurs in search of emergency funds and a takeover deal.

As of August 10, 2012 Ivan Savvidis acquired ownership of PAOK.

On May 12, 2015 Savvidis paid all of the club's debts to the Greek State, an amount that totalled at € 10,886,81.[1]

PAOK since then became a power again in Greek football, winning Greek Cup for three consecutive years in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and the first League title in 34 years in 2019 and that without a loss. The 2018/2019-season was the best ever in the history of the club as PAOK won the “double” for the first time.

In 2021 PAOK was the first Greek club to qualify for the Group Stage of the new Europa Conference League of UEFA. On December 9, 2021 PAOK was qualified for the knock-out stage, as they ended second in their group. On February 24, 2022 PAOK managed for the first time - after five failures - to advance to the next round after the European winterbreak. At the same time PAOK managed to win a penalty shootout for the first time after four failures. The tie against FC Midtjylland of Denmark ended 2-2 on aggregate and 5-3 after penalties.

Titles

Greek League

Greek Cup

(Former) Players

Players are asigned to the era where they made their first appearances.

1930-1959

1960-1979

1980 - 1999

2000 - 2019

2020 - present

Players in bold are currently active for PAOK

Coaches

Trivia

Giorgos Koudas is the player with most appearances for PAOK in all competitions: 602

Stavros Sarafis is the player with the most goals for PAOK in all competitions: 170

Dimitris Salpingidis is the player with most appearances for PAOK in European competitions: 60

Stefanos Athanasiadis is the player with the most goals for PAOK in European competitions: 20


PAOK has two retired numbers that won't be worn again:

  • 12 in honour of the fans, who are the 12th player

Family ties

Kostas and Dimitris Orfanos - father and son;

Hossam and Ibrahim Hassan - twinbrothers.

Other Resources

External Links

Fan Forums

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150521133136/http://olapaok.gr/podosfairo/Dioikitika/________/sthn_eforia_o_savvidhs_mesa_sthn_epomenh_wra.3463743.html
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