2016–17 PAOK FC season

PAOK FC
2016–17 season
President	Ivan Savvidis
Manager	Vladimir Ivic
Stadium	Toumba Stadium
Super League	2nd; 4th after play-offs
Greek Cup	Winners
UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round
UEFA Europa League	Round of 32
Top goalscorer	League: Aleksandar Prijović (7); All: Aleksandar Prijović (10)
Highest home attendance	26,379 (vs Olympiacos)
Lowest home attendance	2,906 (vs PAS Giannina)
Average home league attendance	11,916
	← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 season was PAOK Football Club's 91st in existence and the club's 58th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. The team entered the Greek Football Cup and will also compete in UEFA Champions League starting from the third qualifying round.^[1]

Club

Board of directors

Position	Name
Owner	Ivan Savvidis
President	Ivan Savvidis
Vice–President & CEO	Chrisostomos Gagatsis
Director of Football	Ľuboš Micheľ
Member of the Board	Giorgos Savvidis
Member of the Board	Maria Goncharova
Member of the Board	Artur Davidyan
Member of the Board	Dimokratis Papadopoulos
Member of the Board	Ilias Gerontidis
Consultant of Football	Giorgos Koudas

^[2]

Coaching staff (Technical & Medical)

Position	Staff
Head Coach	Vladimir Ivic
Assistant manager	Miloš Veselinović
Assistant manager	Mirosław Sznaucner
Team Manager	Pantelis Konstantinidis
Goalkeeping coach	Christos Kelpekis
Head Gymnast Rehabilitation	Petar Milčanović
Gymnast Rehabilitation	Vasilios Kanaras
Data Analyst (Vis-Track)	Kyriakos Tsitsiridis
Opponent Analysis	Grigoris Kavalieratos
Head of Medical Services	Emmanouil Papakostas
Club's Doctor	Kostas Tziantzis
Exercise Physiology	Giorgos Ziogas
Nutritionist	Ioanna Paspala
Head Physiotherapist	Nenad Kovačević
Physiotherapist	Petros Nikolakoudis
Physiotherapist	Nikolaos Tsirelas
Physiotherapist	Athanasios Kapoulas
Physiotherapist	Nikolaos Gagalis
Physiotherapist	Nikolaos Mouratidis
Head of academy	Vangelis Pourliotopoulos

Last updated: 3 February 2017
Source: PAOK F.C.

Players

Squad information

N	Pos.	Name	Age	EU	Since	App	Goals	Ends	Transfer fee	Notes
3	RWB	Léo Matos	38	Non-EU	2016	47	7	2019
4	LWB	Marin Leovac (Vice-captain)	36	EU	2015	79	3	2019	€1.3M
5	CB	Dimitris Chatziisaias	32	EU	2016	9	1	2019	€0.55M
7	CM	Amr Warda	31	Non-EU	2017	14	1	2020	€0.35M
8	CM	Charis Charisis	29	EU	2015	41	2	2019	€0.48M
9	CF	Aleksandar Prijović	34	EU	2017	20	10	2021	€1.9M
10	FW	Djalma Campos	37	EU	2016	44	5	2019		Second nationality: Portugal
11	FW	Pedro Henrique Konzen	34	Non-EU	2017	21	4	2020	€1.65M
13	CB	Stelios Malezas (Vice-captain)	39	EU	2005/2015	220	4	2018	€0.10M
15	CB	José Ángel Crespo	37	EU	2016	48	1	2019
16	CM	Gojko Cimirot	32	EU	2015	74	1	2019	€1.3M
20	CF	Efthimis Koulouris	28	EU	2009	62	9	2018	PAOK U20
21	FW	Diego Biseswar	36	EU	2016	44	6	2019
23	GK	Željko Brkić	38	EU	2016	11	0	2019
26	DM	Ergys Kaçe	31	EU	2005	152	7	2020	PAOK U20
27	FW	Giannis Mystakidis	30	EU	2015	61	11	2020
28	CM	Yevhen Shakhov	34	Non-EU	2016	44	8	2019
33	CF	Stefanos Athanasiadis (Captain)	36	EU	2007	292	106	2018	PAOK U20
41	RWB	Panagiotis Deligiannidis	28	EU	2012	7	1	2020	PAOK U20
43	CB	Fernando Varela	37	EU	2016	39	1	2019	€1.4M	Second nationality: Portugal
44	CB	Achilleas Poungouras	29	EU	2012	10	0	2019	PAOK U20
70	RB	Stelios Kitsiou	31	EU	2007	146	5	2018	PAOK U20
71	GK	Panagiotis Glykos (Vice-captain)	38	EU	2007	165	0	2019
77	FW	Dimitris Pelkas	31	EU	2007	90	17	2018	PAOK U20
87	DM	José Cañas	37	EU	2016	42	1	2019
99	GK	Marios Siampanis	25	EU	2015	2	0	2019	PAOK U20

Last updated: 2 June 2017
Source: paokfc.gr, 2016/17 numbers, Players in / out, Wikipedia players' articles, and paokfc.gr (for appearances and goals)

Players in

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee
43	DF	Fernando Varela	37	EU	Steaua București	Transfer	Summer	2019	1.40M€
10	FW	Djalma Campos	37	EU	Gençlerbirliği S.K.	Free	Summer	2019	Free
21	MF	Diego Biseswar	36	EU	Kayserispor	Free	Summer	2019	Free
87	MF	José Cañas	37	EU	Espanyol	Free	Summer	2019	Free
3	DF	Léo Matos	38	Non-EU	Dnipro	Free	Summer	2019	Free
28	MF	Yevhen Shakhov	34	Non-EU	Dnipro	Free	Summer	2019	Free
15	DF	José Ángel Crespo	37	EU	Aston Villa	Free	Summer	2019	Free
23	GK	Željko Brkić	38	EU	Udinese	Free	Summer	2019	Free
7	FW	Mame Baba Thiam	32	Non-EU	Juventus	Loan	Summer	2017	Free
14	FW	Facundo Pereyra	37	Non-EU	Racing Club	Loan return	Summer	2018	Free
20	FW	Efthimis Koulouris	28	EU	Anorthosis	Loan return	Summer	2018	Free
18	DF	Dimitris Giannoulis	28	EU	Anorthosis	Loan return	Summer	2020	Free
36	FW	Lazaros Lamprou	27	EU	Iraklis	Transfer	Winter	2020	0.30M€
9	FW	Aleksandar Prijović	34	EU	Legia Warsaw	Transfer	Winter	2021	1.90M€
7	MF	Amr Warda	31	EU	Panetolikos	Transfer	Winter	2020	0.35M€
26	MF	Ergys Kaçe	31	EU	Viktoria Plzeň	Loan return	Winter	2020	Free
11	FW	Pedro Henrique Konzen	34	Non-EU	Stade Rennais F.C.	Transfer	Winter	2021	1.65M€

Total spending: €5.60M

Players out

N	Pos.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
11	FW	Róbert Mak	33		FC Zenit	Transfer	Summer	3.5M€
25	GK	Robin Olsen	34		F.C. Copenhagen	Transfer	Summer	0.7M€
10	FW	Lucas Pérez¹	36		Arsenal	Transfer	Summer	6M€	goal.com
15	DF	Miguel Vítor	35		Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C.	Free	Summer	Free
7	MF	Eyal Golasa	33		Maccabi Tel Aviv	Free	Summer	Free
10	FW	Dimitar Berbatov	43			Free	Summer	Free
88	MF	Kyriakos Savvidis	29		Panionios	Free	Summer	Free
26	MF	Ergys Kaçe	31		FC Viktoria Plzeň	Loan	Summer	Free
52	MF	Erik Sabo	33		Beitar Jerusalem F.C.	Loan	Summer	Free
93	MF	Terry Antonis	31		Veria F.C.	Loan	Summer	Free
22	DF	Dimitris Konstantinidis	30		AC Omonia	Loan	Summer	Free
9	FW	Jairo	32	Non-EU	PAS Giannina	Loan	Summer	Free
19	FW	Vasilis Papadopoulos	29		Karmiotissa	Loan	Summer	Free
96	FW	Stelios Pozoglou	29		Karmiotissa	Loan	Summer	Free
37	DF	Kristi Qose	29		MFK Zemplín Michalovce	Loan	Summer	Free
66	FW	Kristian Kushta	27		MFK Zemplín Michalovce	Loan	Summer	Free
30	GK	Nikos Melissas	31		Sparta F.C.	Loan	Summer	Free
24	FW	Garry Rodrigues	34		Galatasaray	Transfer	Winter	3.5M€	KAP.gov.tr
18	DF	Dimitris Giannoulis	28		Anorthosis	Loan	Winter	Free
93	MF	Terry Antonis	31		Western Sydney Wanderers	Loan	Winter	Free
7	FW	Mame Baba Thiam	32	Non-EU	Juventus	End of Loan	Winter	Free
31	DF	Georgios Tzavellas	37		Alanyaspor	Contract termination	Winter	Free
2	DF	Giannis Skondras	34			Contract termination	Winter	Free
14	FW	Facundo Pereyra	37	Non-EU	Colón Santa Fe	Loan	Winter	Free
6	MF	Alexandros Tziolis	39			Contract termination	Winter	Free
19	FW	Vasilis Papadopoulos	29		Trikala F.C.	Loan	Winter	Free
23	MF	Anastasios Dimitriadis	27		MFK Zemplín Michalovce	Loan	Winter	Free
11	FW	Lazaros Lamprou	27		Panionios F.C.	Loan	Winter	Free
34	MF	Nikos Korovesis	33		PAS Giannina F.C.	Loan	Winter	Free
1	GK	Markos Vellidis	37			Contract termination	Winter	Free

¹PAOK will receive €6m from the transfer fee due to a sell-on clause included in the deal which took Perez from Thessaloniki to La Coruna

Total Income: €13.7M

Net income: €8.1M

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Home

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Away

Third

Source: OlimpoPress

Friendlies

All times at CET

6 July 2016 Friendly	Silvolde SC	0–14	PAOK	Oosterbeek, Netherlands
18:00		Report	2', 42' Koulouris 5', 31', 33' Pereyra 26'Korovesis 56', 63' Shakhov 59', 66', 89' Pelkas 75', 88' Athanasiadis

9 July 2016 Friendly	Club Brugge	0–2	PAOK	Garderen, Netherlands
18:00		Report	70' Koulouris 80' Pelkas

13 July 2016 Friendly	Steaua București	4–3	PAOK	Arnhem, netherlands
17:00	23' Enache 37' Stanciu 38', 45' Tudorie	Report	3' Koulouris 28' (o.g.) Cojocaru 32' Rodrigues

16 July 2016 Friendly	Twente	0–2	PAOK
15:00		Report	77' Shakhov 81' Djalma

21 July 2016 Friendly	PAOK	1–1	Apollon Limassol	Salonika, Greece
19:30	90' Tziolis	Report	85' Piech	Stadium: Toumba Stadium

9 August 2016 Friendly	PAOK	3–0	Veria	Salonika, Greece
20:00	29', 35' Pereyra 63' Biseswar	Report		Stadium: Toumba Stadium

10 August 2016 Friendly	Atromitos	0–1	PAOK	Athens, Greece
20:15		Report	87' Athanasiadis	Stadium: Peristeri Stadium

20 August 2016 Friendly	Xanthi	0–0	PAOK	Xanthi, Greece
19:00		Report		Stadium: Xanthi FC Arena

Competitions

Overview

Competition	Record
Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Super League Greece	30	20	4	6	52	19	+33	066.67
Greek Cup	10	7	1	2	23	6	+17	070.00
UEFA play-offs	6	3	0	3	7	5	+2	050.00
UEFA Europa League	10	5	2	3	13	10	+3	050.00
UEFA Champions League	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	000.00
Total	58	35	8	15	97	43	+54	060.34

Last updated: 2 June 2017 (2017-06-02).
Source: Competitions

Super League Greece

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olympiacos (C)	30	21	4	5	57	16	+41	67	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
2	PAOK^[a]	30	20	4	6	52	19	+33	61	Qualification for the Play-offs
3	Panathinaikos	30	16	9	5	45	19	+26	57
4	AEK Athens	30	14	11	5	54	23	+31	53
5	Panionios	30	15	7	8	35	23	+12	52

Source: Superleague Greece, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Goals against; 6) Play-offs (neutral ground); 7) Draw.
(Note: Criteria 6 is only used if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ PAOK were deducted three points as they did not show up to the second semi-final match against Olympiacos in last year's Greek Cup.^[3]

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	20	4	6	52	19	+33	64	12	1	2	33	9	+24	8	3	4	19	10	+9

Last updated: 30 April 2017 (2017-04-30).
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	W	D	D	W	L	W	L	L	L	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	D	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	W
Position	9	6	6	7	5	7	4	6	9	11	9	8	6	8	9	6	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2

Source: League matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Win Draw Loss

11 September 2016 3	PAOK	2–1	Panetolikos	Thessaloniki
18:15 EET	Biseswar 1' Rodrigues 27' José Cañas 90+2'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	80' Fabián Muñoz 90+1' Warda	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 11,515 Referee: Evangelos Kiotzenis

19 September 2016 4	Asteras Tripoli	1–2	PAOK	Tripoli
19:30 EET	Bertos 9' 45' Ioannidis 62'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	9' Tzavellas 22', 24' Koulouris 29' Crespo 62' Varela 73' Rodrigues	Stadium: Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium Attendance: 1,960 Referee: Alexandros Aretopoulos

25 September 2016 5	PAOK	0–0	Xanthi	Thessaloniki
16:00 EET	Djalma Campos 35'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	31' 69' Đorđe Lazić 39' Camara 55' Pablo de Lucas 87' Dani Nieto 90+5' Okan Hatziterzoglu	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 13,132 Referee: Aristidis Vatsios

2 October 2016 6	Veria	0–0	PAOK	Veria
16:00 EET	Pedro Arce 52'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	47' Athanasiadis 78' Gojko Cimirot	Stadium: Veria Stadium Attendance: 3,583 Referee: Aggelos Evangelou

16 October 2016 7	PAOK	1–0	Iraklis	Thessaloniki
20:30 EET	Rodrigues 3' Yevhen Shakhov 18' Djalma Campos 44' Stelios Malezas 44'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	22' 27' Saramantas 44' Intzoglou 44' Huanderson 81' Kyriakidis	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 14,240 Referee: Georgios Kizas

23 October 2016 8	Olympiacos	2–1	PAOK	Piraeus
20:30 EET	Varela 25' (o.g.) Viana 42' Figueiras 45' Milivojević 45' 90+6' Botía 88'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	6' Varela 32' José Cañas 45' Rodrigues	Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 24,727 Referee: Alexandros Aretopoulos

30 October 2016 9	PAOK	1–0	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
19.30 EET	Djalma Campos 17' Matos 90+4'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	28' Kolovetsios	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 18,741 Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos

6 November 2016 10	Panionios	1–0	PAOK	Nea Smyrni, Athens
17:15 EET	Ansarifard 14' 41' Masouras 54' Ben 69' Vlachos 90+1' Risvanis 90+2'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	31' Matos 52' Crespo 61' Malezas	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Attendance: 2,428 Referee: Georgios Kizas

28 November 2016 12	PAOK	3–4	Atromitos	Thessaloniki
19:30 EET	Rodrigues 3' Tzavellas 11' Matos 21' Koulouris 26' Mystakidis 69' Cañas 73'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	31' Kivrakidis 56' Le Tallec 74' Umbides 86' Papadopoulos 90+3' Tonso	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 5,581 Referee: Charalampos Kalogeropoulos

4 December 2016 13	Panathinaikos	1–0	PAOK	Athens
19:30 EET	Coulibaly 32' Lod 69' Leto 76' Moledo 79'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	22' Leovac	Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium Attendance: 5,221 Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou

11 December 2016 14	PAOK	3–0	Platanias	Thessaloniki
17:15 EET	Matos 25' 61', 81' Banana 87' (o.g.)	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	1' Kargas	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 10,527 Referee: Christos Gkranas

17 December 2016 15	Kerkyra	0–5	PAOK	Kerkyra
19:30 EET	Andreopoulos 36'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	1' (o.g.) Andreopoulos 22' Biseswar 32', Athanasiadis 32', 58' Campos 61' (o.g.) Ioannou 83' Kitsiou	Stadium: Kerkyra Stadium Attendance: 1,331 Referee: Dimitrios Karantonis

3 January 2017 1	Levadiakos	0–1	PAOK	Livadeia
19:15 EET	Mangas 72' Tripotseris 79'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	47' Mystakidis 52' Crespo 64' Biseswar 84' Pelkas	Stadium: Levadia Municipal StadiumLivadeia Attendance: 1,074 Referee: Athanasios Tzilos

8 January 2017 2	PAOK	0–1	PAS Giannina	Thessaloniki
15:00 EET		Club report Superleague report UEFA report	16' Tzimopoulos 20' Acosta 90' Paschalakis	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 2,906 Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou

19 January 2017 16	PAOK	3–0	Levadiakos	Thessaloniki
17:30 EET	Matos 20' Athanasiadis 32' Cimirot 52' Pereyra 60' Pereyra 76'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	31' 42' Mendy 35' Milhazes 37' Moulopoulos 40' Ouon	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 4,179 Referee: Nikolaos Poulimas

23 January 2017 17	PAS Giannina	0–1	PAOK	Ioannina
19:30 EET	Lila 30' Conde 79' Acosta 83'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	14' Shakhov 31' Leovac 45' Malezas 68' Mystakidis 79' Varela 87' Charisis	Stadium: Zosimades Stadium Attendance: 3,117 Referee: Christos Gkranas

29 January 2017 18	Panetolikos	0–1	PAOK	Agrinio
17:15 EET	Chantakias 52' Muñoz 58' Rocha 80'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	32' Athanasiadis 48' Shakhov 62' Mystakidis 72' Pelkas 88' Mystakidis 90+2' Leovac	Stadium: Panetolikos Stadium Attendance: 2,339 Referee: Xaralampos Kalogeropoulos

1 February 2017 11	AEL	0–2	PAOK	Larissa
19:30 EET	Farkaš 70'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	7' Mystakidis 51' Leovac 61' Matos	Stadium: AEL FC Arena Attendance: 2,559 Referee: Stavros Mantalos

5 February 2017 19	PAOK	3–2	Asteras Tripoli	Thessaloniki
17:15 EET	Shakhov 28' Matos 42' Glykos 49' Prijović 70' Henrique 84' 84'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	2' Hamdani 14' Mazza 18' Manias 55' Giannoulis 59' Donnarumma 79' Manias 88'Iglesias 90'Tsilianidis	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 15,209 Referee: Dimitris Thanos

12 February 2017 20	Xanthi	0–0	PAOK	Xanthi
17:15 EET	Deligiannidis 54' Cimirot 63' Biseswar 87'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	55' Soltani 59' Baxevanidis 72' Fliskas 84' Mejía	Stadium: Xanthi FC Arena Attendance: 1,959 Referee: Giorgos Kyzas

19 February 2017 21	PAOK	4–0	Veria	Thessaloniki
15:00 EET	Henrique 17' Prijović 42' (pen.), 50' Pelkas 72' Shakhov 82'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	32' Tomás 41' Vasilantonopoulos 65' Sissoko	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 4,979 Referee: Georgios Blanas

26 February 2017 22	Iraklis	1–1	PAOK	Thessaloniki
17:15 EET	Bastakos 78' Tzanetopoulos 40' Donis 90+5'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	17' Prijović 48' Pelkas 75' Cimirot	Stadium: Kaftanzoglio Stadium Attendance: 3,382 Referee: Christos Granas

5 March 2017 23	PAOK	2–0	Olympiacos	Thessaloniki
19:30 EET	Matos 28' Varela 41' Shakhov 53' Prijović 60' Campos 66' Mystakidis 72' Leovac 77'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	20' Figueiras 36' Elyounoussi	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 26,379 Referee: Georgios Kyzas

12 March 2017 24	AEK Athens	3–0	PAOK	Athens
19:30 EET	Araujo 1' (85) 28' Simões 74' Aravidis 90+1'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	6' Crespo 41' 52' Malezas	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 11,879 Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou

19 March 2017 25	PAOK	1–0	Panionios	Thessaloniki
15:00 EET	Crespo 28' Shakhov 44' Athanasiadis 49' Pelkas 90+4' 90+4'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	61' 77' Oikonomou 68' Vlachos 90+3' Mahmutović	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 13,094 Referee: Dimitris Styliaras

2 April 2017 26	PAOK	2–0	AEL	Thessaloniki
17:15 EET	Mystakidis 24' Cañas 37' Athanasiadis 51' Leovac 59' Kitsiou 87'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	28' Avraam	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 12,847 Referee: Evaggelos Kiotzenis

5 April 2017 27	Atromitos	0–2	PAOK	Peristeri, Athens
17:15 EET	Le Tallec 88'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	2' Biseswar 38' Koulouris 68' Kaçe	Stadium: Peristeri Stadium Attendance: 726 Referee: Georgios Kyzas

9 April 2017 28	PAOK	3–0	Panathinaikos	Thessaloniki
19:00 EET	Shakhov 2' 30' Henrique 18' 69' Leovac 27' 53' Warda 42'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	27' Klonaridis 35' Molins 40' Boumal 70' M'Poku	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 17,209 Referee: Dimitris Styliaras

23 April 2017 29	Platanias	1–3	PAOK	Chania, Crete
19:00 EET	Mendrinos 78'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	4' Warda 8' Campos 36' Kitsiou 63' 71' Shakhov 90+1' Varela	Stadium: Perivolia Municipal Stadium Attendance: 1,989 Referee: Aristidis Vatsios

30 April 2017 30	PAOK	5–1	Kerkyra	Thessaloniki
19:00 EET	Kaçe 30' Koulouris 32' Biseswar 45+1' (pen.) Warda 62' Prijović 84'	Club report Superleague report UEFA report	31' Pamlidis 90+2' Spinoulas	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 8,206 Referee: Stefanos Koubarakis

Source: paokfc.gr superleaguegreece.net uefa.com

Super League Greece play-offs

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
2	AEK Athens	6	4	0	2	5	3	+2	12	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Panathinaikos^[a]	6	3	1	2	6	7	−1	8	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round^[b]
4	PAOK^[c]	6	3	0	3	7	5	+2	5
5	Panionios	6	1	1	4	3	6	−3	4	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round

Source: Superleague Greece: Standings, Schedule, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Goals against; 6) Regular season position.^[6]
Notes:

^ Panathinaikos were deducted 3 points due to fan behavior against PAOK.^[4]
^ PAOK qualified for the Europa League third qualifying round by winning the Greek Cup.
^ PAOK were deducted 6 points due to fan behavior against AEK Athens in Greek Cup final.^[5]

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6
Ground	H	A	H	A	A	H
Result	L	W	W	W	L	L
Position	4	2	2	2	2	4

Source: League matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Win Draw Loss

14 May 2017 1	PAOK	0–1	AEK Athens	Thessaloniki
20:30 EET	Matos 42' Campos 52' Henrique 77' Pelkas 87'	Report	10' 88' Dídac 37' Christodoulopoulos 43' Mantalos 52' Ajdarević 75' Simões 90+1' Bakasetas	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 15,413 Referee: Xaralabos Kalogeropoulos

17 May 2017 2	Panathinaikos	0–3^*	PAOK	Athens
20:30 EET		Report		Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium Attendance: 4,111 Referee: Giorgos Kominis

21 May 2017 3	PAOK	1–0	Panionios	Thessaloniki
18:15 EET	Pelkas 18' Prijović 75'	Report	35' Siopis 55' Ben 61' 68' Masoud	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Referee: Aristidis Vatsios

24 May 2017 4	Panionios	0–1	PAOK	Nea Smyrni, Athens
18:15 EET	Guihoata 35' Oikonomou 58' Tapoko 78'	Report	8' Poungouras 14' (o.g.) Risvanis	Stadium: Nea Smyrni Stadium Referee: Alexandros Aretopoulos

28 May 2017 5	AEK Athens	1–0	PAOK	Athens
20:30 EET	Mantalos 20' Christodoulopoulos 25' Bakasetas 42' Johansson 80'	Report	20' Campos 35' Henrique 45+1' Prijović 45+1' Charisis 64' Matos 90+2' 90+6' Malezas 90+5' Crespo	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Referee: Dimitris Thanos

31 May 2017 6	PAOK	2–3	Panathinaikos	Thessaloniki
20:30 EET	Biseswar 20' Kitsiou 59' Henrique 68' 74' Shakhov 70' Cañas 80'	Report	18' 90+3' Molins 28' Klonaridis 63' Vlachodimos 67' Villafáñez 72' Kourbelis 79' Lod 82' Marinakis	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Referee: Charalambos Kalogeropoulos

^* Match abandoned in the 54th minute with the score at 1–0. It was later rewarded as a 0–3 win for PAOK.

Greek Football Cup

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	PAOK	3	2	1	0	9	0	+9	7	Round of 16
2	Trikala	3	2	1	0	6	0	+6	7	Round of 16
3	AEL	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
4	Panelefsiniakos	3	0	0	3	1	14	−13	0

Source: epo.gr

26 October 2016 1	PAOK	2–0	AEL	Thessaloniki
17:15 EET	Mystakidis 28' Pereyra 41'	Report	30' Nico Varela 36' Anastasopoulos	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: TBD Referee: Ananias Fotiadis

1 December 2016 2	Trikala	0–0	PAOK	Trikala
17:15 EET	Climaco 57'	Report	84' Crespo	Stadium: Trikala Municipal Stadium Attendance: TBD Referee: Alexandros Katsikogiannis

14 December 2016 3	Panelefsiniakos	0–7	PAOK	Elefsina
19:30 EET		Report	48' Athanasiadis 51' Pereyra 58' Shakhov 70' Mystakidis 75' Koulouris 77' (90) Pelkas	Stadium: Municipal Stadium of Eleusina Referee: Andreas Gamaris

Round of 16

11 January 2017 1st leg	Panetolikos	0–2	PAOK	Agrinio
17:15 EET		Report	38' Leovac 42' Malezas 63' Glykos 77' Kitsiou 84' (pen.) Athanasiadis 87' Mystakidis	Stadium: Panetolikos Stadium Attendance: TBD Referee: Ioannis Neofitiadis

26 January 2017 2nd leg	PAOK	4–1 (6–1 agg.)	Panetolikos	Thessaloniki
19:30 EET	Shakhov 28' 53' Deligiannidis 42' Biseswar 43' Prijović 78' (pen.)	Report	37' Tsokanis 90+3' Paulo	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Referee: Evangelos Kiotzenis

Quarter-finals

9 February 2017 1st leg	Xanthi	1–2	PAOK	Xanthi
19:30 EET	Lazić 16' 52' Karasalidis 84'	Report	20' Mystakidis 43' 70' Pedro Henrique 55' Leovac 64' Prijović	Stadium: Xanthi FC Arena Referee: Dimitrios Karantonis

2 March 2017 2nd leg	PAOK	0–1 (2–2 agg.)	Xanthi	Thessaloniki
17:15 EET	Varela 42' Crespo 82' Biseswar 90+1'	Report	11' Mejía 28' 90+2' Soltani 64' Younés 74' Karasalidis	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Referee: Georgios Foukakis

PAOK won on away goals.

Semi-finals

12 April 2017 1st leg	Panathinaikos	2–0	PAOK	Athens
19:00 EET	Moledo 21' Coulibaly 31' Leto 80' 83'	Report	17' Leovac 36' Warda 57' Henrique 71' Matos	Stadium: Leoforos Alexandras Stadium Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos

27 April 2017 2nd leg	PAOK	4–0 (4–2 agg.)	Panathinaikos	Thessaloniki
19:00 EET	Pelkas 14' Matos 37' 48' Biseswar 51' Shakhov 73' Cañas 82' Prijović 83'	Report	39' 72' Hult 88' Villafáñez	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Referee: Georgios kyzas

Final

6 May 2017 Final	PAOK	2–1	AEK Athens	Volos
20:30 EET	Crespo 14' Biseswar 24' Matos 70' Henrique 81' 88' Glykos 90+4'	Report	16' Rodríguez 27' Christodoulopoulos 80' Simões	Stadium: Panthessaliko Stadium Attendance: 19,236 Referee: Giorgos Kominis Man of the Match: Diego Biseswar

UEFA Champions League

Third qualifying round

26 July 2016 ^[7] 1st leg	Ajax	1–1	PAOK	Amsterdam, Netherlands
20:45 CET	58' Dolberg	Report	27' Djalma	Stadium: Amsterdam Arena Attendance: 47,744 Referee: Javier Estrada Fernández

3 August 2016 ^[8] 2nd leg	PAOK	1–2 (2–3 agg.)	Ajax	Thessaloniki, Greece
20:30 CET	4' Athanasiadis	Report	45+1' (pen.), 88' Klaassen	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 24,930 Referee: Anthony Taylor

UEFA Europa League

Play-off Round

All times at CET

18 August 2016 1st leg	Dinamo Tbilisi	0–3	PAOK	Tbilisi, Georgia
18:00 CET		Report	20' Léo Matos 71' Crespo 83' Pereyra	Stadium: Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Attendance: 12,006 Referee: Liran Liany

25 August 2016 2nd leg	PAOK	2–0 (5–0 agg.)	Dinamo Tbilisi	Thessaloniki, Greece
20:00 CET	5' Rodrigues 45' Tzavellas	Report		Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 14,821 Referee: Harald Lechner

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	FIO	PAOK	QRB	LIB
1	Fiorentina	6	4	1	1	15	6	+9	13	Advance to knockout phase	—	2–3	5–1	3–0
2	PAOK	6	3	1	2	7	6	+1	10	Advance to knockout phase	0–0	—	0–1	2–0
3	Qarabağ	6	2	1	3	7	12	−5	7		1–2	2–0	—	2–2
4	Slovan Liberec	6	1	1	4	7	12	−5	4		1–3	1–2	3–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

15 September 2016 1	PAOK	0–0	Fiorentina	Thessaloniki, Greece
21:05 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report		Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 20,904 Referee: Slavko Vinčić

29 September 2016 2	Slovan Liberec	1–2	PAOK	Liberec, Czech Republic
19:00	Komlichenko 1'	Report	athanasiadis 9', 81'	Stadium: Stadion u Nisy Attendance: 8,880 Referee: Tamás Bognar

20 October 2016 3	Qarabağ	2–0	PAOK	Baku, Azerbaijan
20:00	Quintana 56' Amirguliev 87'	Report		Stadium: Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium Attendance: 26,784 Referee: Alon Yefet

3 November 2016 4	PAOK	0–1	Qarabağ	Thessaloniki, Greece
21:05		Report	Míchel 68'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 11,476 Referee: John Beaton

24 November 2016 5	Fiorentina	2–3	PAOK	Florence, Italy
19:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Bernardeschi 33' Babacar 50'	Report	Shakhov 5' Campos 27' Rodrigues 90+3'	Stadium: Stadio Artemio Franchi Attendance: 12,793 Referee: Stephan Klossner

8 December 2016 6	PAOK	2–0	Slovan Liberec	Thessaloniki, Greece
18:00	Rodrigues 29' Pelkas 67'	Report		Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 11,463 Referee: Andre Marriner

Knockout round

Round of 32

16 February 2017 1st leg	PAOK	0–3	Schalke 04	Thessaloniki, Greece
21:05 CEST (UTC+02:00)		Report	Burgstaller 27' Meyer 81' Huntelaar 89'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 25,593 Referee: Javier Estrada Fernández

22 February 2017 2nd leg	Schalke 04	1–1 (4–1 agg.)	PAOK	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
19:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Schöpf 23'	Report	Nastasić 25' (o.g.)	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 50,619 Referee: Luca Banti

Statistics

Squad statistics

As of 2 June 2017

Appearances denote players in the starting lineup, with the numbers in parentheses denoting appearances as substitute.

No.		Name	Super League		Greek Cup		Europa League		Champions League		UEFA play-offs		Total
No.		Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
23		Željko Brkić	5 (1)	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	11 (1)	0
71		Panagiotis Glykos	26	0	6	0	9	0	2	0	4	0	47	0
99		Marios Siampanis	2 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2 (2)	0
Defenders
3		Léo Matos	27 (1)	5	5 (1)	1	9	1	2	0	4	0	47 (2)	7
4		Marin Leovac	25 (4)	2	7 (1)	0	9	0	2	0	6	0	49 (5)	2
5		Dimitris Chatziisaias	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13		Stelios Malezas	22 (6)	0	8 (1)	0	3 (1)	0	0	0	5 (2)	0	38 (10)	0
15		José Ángel Crespo	25 (1)	0	7	0	9 (2)	1	2	0	5	0	48 (3)	1
41		Panagiotis Deligiannidis	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
43		Fernando Varela	23 (1)	1	7	0	8 (1)	0	0	0	1	0	39 (2)	1
44		Achilleas Poungouras	2 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	7 (2)	0
70		Stelios Kitsiou	11 (6)	1	9 (3)	1	2 (1)	0	0	0	5 (3)	0	27 (13)	2
Midfielders
7		Amr Warda	8 (1)	2	2	0	2 (1)	0	0	0	2	0	14 (2)	2
8		Charis Charisis	9 (5)	0	4 (1)	0	1	0	2	0	2 (1)	0	18 (7)	0
16		Gojko Cimirot	25 (1)	0	6 (2)	0	10	0	2	0	6	0	49 (3)	0
21		Diego Biseswar	24 (5)	4	7 (2)	2	6 (4)	0	1 (1)	0	6 (1)	1	44 (13)	7
26		Ergys Kaçe	6 (3)	1	2 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	9 (5)	1
28		Yevhen Shakhov	21 (4)	4	9	3	10 (3)	1	2	0	2	0	44 (7)	8
77		Dimitris Pelkas	11 (6)	3	7 (3)	3	4 (2)	1	0	0	4 (2)	0	26 (13)	7
87		José Cañas	22 (2)	1	7 (2)	0	8 (1)	0	0	0	5 (1)	0	42 (6)	1
Forwards
9		Aleksandar Prijović	9 (5)	6	5 (3)	3	0	0	0	0	6 (1)	1	20 (9)	10
10		Djalma Campos	24 (3)	3	4	0	9 (1)	1	2	1	5 (1)	0	44 (5)	5
11		Pedro Henrique	10 (2)	3	4 (2)	1	2 (2)	0	0	0	5 (2)	0	21 (8)	4
20		Efthimis Koulouris	16 (5)	5	7 (1)	1	4 (2)	0	2 (2)	0	3 (3)	0	32 (13)	6
27		Giannis Mystakidis	17 (10)	3	7	3	5 (2)	0	2 (2)	0	0	0	31 (14)	6
33		Stefanos Athanasiadis	21 (6)	0	3 (2)	2	6	2	2	1	1	0	33 (8)	5
Players transferred out during the season
1	GK	Markos Vellidis	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
18	DF	Dimitris Giannoulis¹	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
31	DF	Georgios Tzavellas	5	0	0	0	5	1	2	0	0	0	12	1
6	MF	Alexandros Tziolis	0	0	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	0	0	1 (1)	0
34	MF	Nikos Korovesis¹	0	0	2 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2 (2)	0
7	MF	Mame Baba Thiam	1 (1)	0	2 (1)	0	5 (4)	0	0	0	0	0	8 (6)	0
14	MF	Facundo Pereyra¹	8 (5)	2	4	2	4 (3)	1	0	0	0	0	16 (8)	5
24	MF	Garry Rodrigues	12 (1)	3	0	0	8	3	2	0	0	0	22 (1)	6

¹ Players out on loan

Goalscorers

Match played 2 June 2017.

Rank	No.	Pos.	Player	League	Cup	Champ. League	Europa League	UEFA play-offs	Total
1	9	FW	Aleksandar Prijović	6	3	0	0	1	10
2	28	MF	Yevhen Shakhov	4	3	0	1	0	8
3	3	RB	Léo Matos	5	1	0	1	0	7
4	21	FW	Diego Biseswar	4	2	0	0	1	7
5	77	FW	Dimitris Pelkas	3	3	0	1	0	7
6	20	MF	Efthimis Koulouris	5	1	0	0	0	6
7	27	FW	Giannis Mystakidis	3	3	0	0	0	6
8		FW	Garry Rodrigues¹	3	0	0	3	0	6
9	11	FW	Pedro Henrique	3	1	0	0	1	5
10	10	FW	Djalma Campos	3	0	1	1	0	5
11		FW	Facundo Pereyra¹	2	2	0	1	0	5
12	33	FW	S. Athanasiadis	0	2	1	2	0	5
13	7	MF	Amr Warda	2	0	0	0	0	2
14	4	LB	Marin Leovac	2	0	0	0	0	2
15	70	DF	Stelios Kitsiou	1	1	0	0	0	2
16	26	MF	Ergys Kaçe	1	0	0	0	0	1
17	87	MF	José Cañas	1	0	0	0	0	1
18	43	DF	Fernando Varela	1	0	0	0	0	1
19	41	DF	P. Deligiannidis	0	1	0	0	0	1
20	15	DF	José Ángel Crespo	0	0	0	1	0	1
21		DF	Georgios Tzavellas¹	0	0	0	1	0	1
Own goals				3	0	0	1	1	5
TOTALS				52	23	2	13	7	97

¹Players left the club in (Winter) transfer windows.

Disciplinary record

N	P	Nat.	Name											Notes
N	P	Nat.	Name	Super League			Greek Cup		Champions League	Europa League	Total			Notes
4	DF		Marin Leovac	7			3		1	4	15
15	DF		José Ángel Crespo	5			2		1	2	10
3	DF		Léo Matos	5			3			4	12
28	MF		Yevhen Shakhov	7			1			1	9
43	DF		Fernando Varela (footballer)	4			1			3	8
33	FW		Stefanos Athanasiadis	4		1			1	2	7		1
27	MF		Giannis Mystakidis	6			1				7
77	FW		Dimitris Pelkas	2		1				2	4		1
13	DF		Stelios Malezas	3	1		1				4	1
	FW		Garry Rodrigues	2						2	4			Out in Winter TW
10	FW		Djalma Campos	4							4
16	MF		Gojko Cimirot	4							4
87	MF		José Cañas	2		1	1			1	4		1
	DF		Georgios Tzavellas	2						1	3			Out in Winter TW
71	GK		Panagiotis Glykos	1			2		1		4
21	FW		Diego Biseswar	2			2				4
11	FW		Pedro Henrique Konzen	2			1	1		1	4	1
8	MF		Charis Charisis	1							1
70	DF		Stelios Kitsiou	2							2
	FW		Facundo Pereyra							1	1			Out in Winter TW
41	DF		Panagiotis Deligiannidis	1							1
26	MF		Ergys Kaçe	1							1
7	MF		Amr Warda	1			1				2

Last updated: 15 May 2017
Source: superleaguegreece.net, uefa.com, paokfc.gr
Ordered by , and
= Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.

References

^ Ajax to meet PAOK Saloniki in Champions League qualifier dutchnews.nl
^ "Διοίκηση - PAOKFC".
^ "Απόφαση Πειθαρχικής Επιτροπής 28 Απριλίου 2016" [Commission Decisions Appeals April 28, 2016]. Hellenic Football Federation (in Greek). 28 April 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
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^ http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2017/draws/round=2000781/index.html ^{[dead link‍]}
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External links

PAOK FC official website

[table_note_PAOK0.80675727725344-4] PAOK were deducted three points as they did not show up to the second semi-final match against Olympiacos in last year's Greek Cup.^[3]

[table_note_PAO0.088869255077499-6] Panathinaikos were deducted 3 points due to fan behavior against PAOK.^[4]

[table_note_res_EL3Q0.088869255077499-7] PAOK qualified for the Europa League third qualifying round by winning the Greek Cup.

[table_note_PAOK0.088869255077499-9] PAOK were deducted 6 points due to fan behavior against AEK Athens in Greek Cup final.^[5]

[1] Ajax to meet PAOK Saloniki in Champions League qualifier dutchnews.nl

[2] "Διοίκηση - PAOKFC".

[3] "Απόφαση Πειθαρχικής Επιτροπής 28 Απριλίου 2016" [Commission Decisions Appeals April 28, 2016]. Hellenic Football Federation (in Greek). 28 April 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.

[5] "Announcement". Super League Greece. 29 May 2017. Archived from the original on 15 April 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2017.

[8] "Αφαίρεση έξι βαθμών στον ΠΑΟΚ". contra.gr. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2017.

[10] "Super League play off 2016–2017 - Season rules" (PDF). Superleague Greece. Retrieved 28 May 2017.

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