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Athens Kallithea vs. PAOK: Facts & Figures
Ahead of PAOK’s Matchday 25, 2024-25 Stoiximan Super League showdown with Athens Kallithea in the Greek capital, paokfc.gr puts you in the picture about the background to the match, as well as a look back at our previous league encounters against the Athens club.
- This is the fifth meeting between the two teams in the Greek top flight with Athens Kallithea as the home team, with PAOK having two wins and their other two games having ended in draws.
- The first meeting in their history for the old Alpha Ethniki/Super League was held at the Toumba, with Athens Kallithea managing to get their only victory in the nine games between them in both venues.
- On September 14, 2002, with a 3-2 win in Thessaloniki – for the 3rd matchday of that season – they chalked up their first victory in their history in the league and that too away from home. At that time, Fanis Gkekas (2) and Giannis Tatsis had scored, while for PAOK, Giorgos Georgiadis had scored both goals.
- In the eight matches that followed between them at both venues, PAOK prevailed in five and there were also three draws, one of them in the corresponding match in this year’s championship at the Toumba with a 2-2 scoreline.
- In total, PAOK have scored 16 goals against Athens Kallithea, with Dimitris Salpingidis scoring three and Giorgos Georgiadis scoring two in the first match between the two teams.
- The most frequent score in the matches between them is 2-1, with three PAOK victories having taken place with this scoreline, while there are two draws with 1-1 and one with 2-2. PAOK have prevailed by 1-0, by 3-1 and Athens Kallithea’s victory was the 3-2 win.
- The two teams tend to score against each other, having both scored in eight out of nine, while only in PAOK’s 1-0 victory in Kallithea on March 14, 2004 was there a goal from only one side.
- The first match in their history was on February 28, 1971 for the Greek Cup, where PAOK prevailed 2-0 thanks to goals from Aslanidis and Paridis.
- They last met in the Greek Cup in the 2012-13 season, where Athens Kallithea prevailed 2-0 in Athens and in the return match PAOK won 6-0 to qualify for the last eight of the competition. This was also the last time they met before this year’s championship matches. That match had taken place on January 24, 2013.
