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| Full name | Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινουπολιτών Panthessaloníkios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstantinoupolitón (Panthessalonikian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans) | ||
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| Short name | PAOK | ||
| Founded | 20 April 1926 | ||
| Ground | Toumba Stadium[1] | ||
| Capacity | 28,703 (all-seater) | ||
| Owner | Dimera Group Limited Ltd[2] | ||
| President | Ivan Savvidis | ||
| Head coach | Răzvan Lucescu | ||
| League | Super League Greece | ||
| 2022–23 | Super League Greece, 4th of 14 | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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PAOK FC (Greek: ΠΑΕ ΠΑΟΚ, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινουπολιτών, Panthessaloníkios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstantinoupolitón, "Pan-Thessalonikian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans"),[3] commonly known as PAOK Thessaloniki or simply PAOK, is a Greek professional football club based in Thessaloniki, Macedonia. PAOK are one of the top domestic clubs, the most widely supported in Northern Greece.
Established on 20 April 1926 by Greek refugees who fled to Thessaloniki from Constantinople in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), they play their home games at Toumba Stadium, a 29,000 seating capacity football ground. Their name, along with the club's emblem, the Byzantine-style double-headed eagle with retracted wings, honours the memory of the people and places (mostly from the city of Constantinople) that once belonged to the Eastern Roman Empire.[4][5] PAOK currently plays in the top-flight Super League, which they have won three times (in 1976, 1985 and 2019). They are eight-time winners of the Greek Cup (in 1972, 1974, 2001, 2003, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021). The club is one of the three which have never been relegated from the top national division and the only team in Greece that have won the Double (in 2019) going unbeaten (26–4–0 record) in a national round-robin league tournament (league format since 1959).[6]
The team has appeared several times in the UEFA Europa League, but has yet to reach the group stage of the UEFA Champions League. PAOK have reached the quarter-finals of a European competition three times; once in the 1973–74 European Cup Winners' Cup and twice in the UEFA Europa Conference League, in the 2021–22 and 2023–24 seasons. PAOK is the only Greek team that has more wins than losses in their European record (90 wins, 65 draws and 79 defeats, as of April 2024) and the 0–7 away UEFA Cup win over Locomotive Tbilisi on 16 September 1999 is the largest ever achieved by a Greek football club in all European competitions.
- ^ "Home Ground". paokfc.gr.
- ^ "The President". paokfc.gr.
- ^ Vassiliki Papantonopoulou (31 October 2014). "Myths, heroes and legends: PAOK in focus". uefa.com. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ^ "History". paokfc.gr. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
- ^ Georgios Moralis. "PAOK FC". footballhistory.org. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ Athan Stylos (30 May 2019). "A look at PAOK's 2018/19 squad". agonasport.com. Archived from the original on 22 October 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.