PAOK U17 and U16 squads won their games in the Super League and ESP Makedonia respectively. The former defeated Veria 3-0 and the latter comfortably saw off Apollon Kalamaria (3-0).

PAOK U17s took the lead in the 40th minute with Koutousis’ spot kick. Veria leveled in the 46th minute. The pupils of Alexis Tasoulis scored the winning goal in the 72nd minute with a fine finish by Kapretsos who collected Mattheou’s cross.

PAOK remain at the top of the standings with 28 points, while PAS Giannina (26) and SKODA Xanthi (21) have a game in hand.

PAOK U17: Siampanis, Charalampidis, Dodontsakis, Liaptsis, Aidonidis (68’ Makousis), Miskovic (46’ Chatzidimpas), Kyrillidis, Argyriou (56’ Kapretsos), Mattheou, Koutousis (77’ Kligopoulos), Konstantinou (85’ Nestoras).

PAOK U16s made light work of their encounter against Apollon Kalamaria. Draganis netted the opener in the 21st minute with a simple tap-in following a defense-splitting pass by Mylonas. Nine minutes later, Εfthymiou scored with a direct free-kick from almost 50 metres out (!). PAOK’s victory was sealed in the 67th minute by Chatzistravos who converted the penalty he was awarded.

PAOK U17:Mutsa, Papathanasiou, Tsela (50’ Pechlivanidis), Suleymanoglu (50’ Dimitrakopoulos), Dimitriou, Karaiskos, Yfantidis (60’ Filippidis), Efthymiou (55’ Alopoudis), Mylonas (55’ Tachmatzidis), Meletidis (50’ Chatzistravos), Draganis (55’ Kontothanasis).

• Both matches were attended by PAOK’s technical director Zisis Vryzas, club scout Giorgos Kostikos and Greece’s U17 coach Vasilis Georgopoulos.