PAOK’s encounter against Dinamo Minsk will be engraved in the Thessaloniki club’s history. A series of individual and collective marks were set on that evening and paokfc.gr presents them one by one:

# PAOK leveled their largest home victory in European competition, On 1 November 2001 they had prevailed 6-1 over Czech club 1.FK Příbram for the UEFA Cup 3rd round.

# PAOK leveled their “productivity” record over a half-time. They had also scored four goals in the first 45 minutes of the the away encounter against Lokomotivi Tbilisi (final score: 0-7).

# By leading 4-0 in the 28th minute of their encounter against Dinamo Minsk, PAOK recorded the quickest four-goal lead achieved by a Greek side in European competition, beating the 35-minute mark set by OFI Crete FC against FK Napredak Kruševac.

# Stefanos Athanasiadis became the first PAOK player to score a hat-trick in European competitions. “Klaus” has already 4 goals in three encounters in the current edition of the UEFA Europa League.

# PAOK skipper’s hat-trick is the third fastest in the history of the UEFA Europa League (17 minutes). Steven Gerrard is second in the same list with 15 minutes from first to third goal (vs SSC Napoli in 2010). strong>Claudiu Keșerü needed just 12 minutes to complete his hat-trick against Aalborg BK last Thursday, the same day as “Klaus”.

# Athanasiadis’ three goals see him climb to first place of PAOK all-time scorers’ list in European competition, level with Dimitris Salpingidis, with 14 goals each.

# Against the Belorussian outfit, Dimitris Salpingidis reached the 70-match mark and climbed to third place of the list for more appearances in the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, leaving Walter Zenga behind him. Salpingidis is also the top Greek scorer in European competitions.

# Dimitris Papadopoulos accompanied his PAOK debut with a goal, his 13th in European competition.

# Răzvan Raț returned to European cups and reached the 100-match milestone against Dinamo Minsk.

# Young midfielder Fanis Tzandaris played his first European encounter and celebrated it with a goal, at the end of an impressive display throughout the evening.