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PAOK vs. AEK: Facts & Figures
Ahead of PAOK’s Stoiximan Super League Matchday 23 derby contest against AEK, paokfc.gr puts you in the picture about the background to the match, as well as a look back at our previous encounters against the Kitrinomavri.
- PAOK are undefeated in their last 6 home games against AEK in all competitions. The streak that the Double-headed Eagle managed to go on before this season’s clash in Nea Philadelphia was 13 games (7 wins – 6 draws) irrespective of venue.
- Last season PAOK won 2-0 in the regular season match, while the Play Offs clash at the Toumba between the two teams ended 1-1.
- PAOK’s last defeat by AEK was at home, on July 1, 2020 in the Play Offs, where the visitors prevailed 2-0 at the Toumba with goals from Chyhrynskyi and Livaja.
- This series started from the eventful match between AEK and PAOK at the Toumba, on March 11, 2018, when PAOK lost the game on paper 3-0 following the unsavory scenes which followed a decision by officials to mistakenly not count a goal for PAOK, which ultimately handed the league title to the Athens club.
- PAOK, with a total of 13 matches without defeat against AEK, created a new record and left the initial one from the period 1972 – 1975 in the past, when they had completed six matches in the league with three wins and three draws, while in between they had won 3-1 in a Greek Cup match.
- 32 – the number of wins PAOK has recorded in 70 matches against ΑΕΚ at home in the top flight since 1959-60, while there have been 24 draws and 14 wins for AEK.
- 10 – victories with a 2-1 scoreline have been recorded by PAOK against ΑΕΚ. Next it’s 1-0, a scoreline which had appeared nine times. Apart from those 21 wins with a difference of one goal (twice via 3-2 scorelines) there are also larger margins of success, with the 5-0 win in the 1982-83 season being the largest.
- 3 – number of players who are among the top scorers for PAOK with four goals in games against AEK in Thessaloniki. Christos Dimopoulos in the 1982-83 season, a player who enjoyed a great record against ΑΕΚ in both the league and the Greek Cup leads the way. Indeed, a hat-trick and another strike in the 1984-85 season make him the leading scorer in home matches against AEK, along with Stavros Sarafis and Neto Guerino. From their side, ΑΕΚ’s top scorers are Blanco and Nestoridis, both of whom hit the net four times in matches against PAOK in Thessaloniki.
- Vasilis Vasilakakos is the only player οwho has scored at the Toumba for both clubs. He did it three times in a PAOK shirt and once with ΑΕΚ.
