PAOK vs. AEK: Facts & Figures
Ahead of PAOK’s Stoiximan Super League local derby clash with AEK in the Play Offs, 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.
- This is the 74th meeting between the two teams in Greek top flight history with PAOK the home team. PAOK have won 33 times, 25 matches have ended in a draw and AEK have won 15 matches.
- After 6 consecutive games against AEK without defeat at home in all competitions, PAOK were beaten 1-0 in last year’s Play Offs. This was their first defeat since July 1, 2020, where again AEK had prevailed 2-0 in the Super League Play Offs.
- PAOK went a total of 13 home and away matches without defeat against AEK from July 15, 2020 until the defeat at Nea Filadelfia on October 30, 2022. With this streak, they created a record and left in the past that of the period 1972 – 1975, where they had completed 6 matches for the championship with 3 wins and 4 draws, while in between they also won 3-1 in a match for the Greek Cup.
- PAOK have recorded 10 wins with a score of 2-1 against AEK, while there are also 10 with a 1-0 result. In addition to these 23 wins by one goal (2 times 3-2) there are also bigger ones, with the 5-0 in the 1982-83 season being the largest.
- Christos Dimopoulos scored 3 goals in the match at Toumba Stadium in the 1982-83 season, and he had some excellent performances against AEK in the league and Greek Cup. In fact, this hat-trick and another goal in the 1984-85 season keep him in first place among scorers in home matches with AEK, together with Stavros Sarafi and Neto Guerino with four goals in total. From AEK’s side, Blanco and Nestoridis have sent the ball into PAOK’s net four times in matches held in Thessaloniki.
- Vassilis Vasilakos is the only footballer who has scored at the Toumba in the shirt of both teams. He has done it three times with the colors of PAOK and once with those of AEK.