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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio Toumba - Salonika Thursday 22 October 2020 18.55CET (19.55 local time) PAOK FC Group E - Matchday 1 Omonoia FC Last updated 11/12/2020 14:54CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Match officials 13 Legend 14 1 PAOK FC - Omonoia FC Thursday 22 October 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Toumba, Salonika Previous meetings Head to Head European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Sarafis 67; Demetriou 29/09/1976 R1 PAOK FC - Omonoia FC Salonika agg: 3-1 33 (P) 15/09/1976 R1 Omonoia FC - PAOK FC 0-2 Nicosia Koudas 38, Sarafis 87 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA PAOK FC 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 1 Omonoia FC 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 3 PAOK FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country PAOK FC have not played against a club from their opponents' country Omonoia FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 29/09/2020 PO Omonoia FC - Olympiacos FC Nicosia agg: 0-2 Valbuena 69 (P), El- 23/09/2020 PO Olympiacos FC - Omonoia FC 2-0 Piraeus Arabi 90+2 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-2 Duro 11, 70; Blanco 28/08/2008 2QR Omonoia FC - AEK Athens FC Nicosia agg: 3-2 16, Pavlis 89 14/08/2008 2QR AEK Athens FC - Omonoia FC 0-1 Athens Cafú 40 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Dimopoulos 56, 05/10/1988 R1 Panathinaikos FC - Omonoia FC Athens agg: 3-0 Nielsen 59 06/09/1988 R1 Omonoia FC - Panathinaikos FC 0-1 Nicosia Mavridis 13 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Papazoglou 20; 10/10/1965 PR Olympiacos FC - Omonoia FC Athens agg: 2-1 Christoforou 17 26/09/1965 PR Omonoia FC - Olympiacos FC 0-1 Nicosia Botinos 5 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA PAOK FC 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 1 Omonoia FC 5 0 2 3 5 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 10 1 4 5 5 12 2 PAOK FC - Omonoia FC Thursday 22 October 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Toumba, Salonika Match background Defeated by Olympiacos in the UEFA Champions League play-offs, Omonoia kick off their debut appearance in the UEFA Europa League group stage with another match against Greek opponents as they take on competition ever- presents PAOK in Salonika. Previous meetings • The clubs have only been drawn together once before in UEFA competition, PAOK winning a European Cup first- round tie in 1976/77 3-1 on aggregate (2-0 a, 1-1 h). Those remain PAOK's only matches against Cypriot opposition. • Omonoia lost last month's tie against Olympiacos, drawing 0-0 at home after a 2-0 defeat in Piraeus, and their only win in ten matches against Greek sides came in Athens, 1-0 against AEK in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup second qualifying round with a 2-2 draw in the return sealing an aggregate victory. Omonoia's record in Greece is W1 D2 L2. Form guide PAOK • PAOK finished distant runners-up to Olympiacos in the 2019/20 Greek Superleague in defence of their title, but Abel Ferreira's side harboured high hopes of reaching the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time this season when they knocked out Beşiktaş (3-1 h) and Benfica (2-1 h) in their first two qualifying ties, only to lose 2-1 in both legs of their play-off against Krasnodar. • That means PAOK have extended their record of having participated in every season of the UEFA Europa League to a 12th successive year. Last season they lost on away goals to Slovan Bratislava in the play-offs (0-1 a, 3-2 h), but they are back in the group stage this term for the eighth time. Four of their previous seven participations have extended into the knockout phase but never beyond the round of 32. Their most recent group campaign, in 2018/19, was their poorest yet as they lost five of their six games and finished bottom of a group headed by eventual winners Chelsea. • The Salonika side lost all three home fixtures in that 2018/19 group stage and have won just one of their last 12 at the Stadio Toumba in the UEFA Europa League proper (D4 L7), failing to score in eight of them, including five of the last seven. Omonoia • Omonoia, who led their domestic league when the Cypriot season was halted in March, were awarded a place in this season's UEFA Champions League. Henning Berg's team needed extra time before winning at both Ararat-Armenia (1-0) in the first qualifying round and Legia Warszawa (2-0) in the second, and it took penalties to settle their third qualifying round tie at home to Crvena zvezda (4-2 after a 1-1 draw) before they lost that play-off tie to Olympiacos. • This is Omonoia's first European campaign for four years and their first in the group stage of any UEFA competition. In their most recent continental campaign they lost on away goals to Beitar Jerusalem in the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round (0-1 a, 3-2 h). • The defeat at Olympiacos was only the second in Omonoia's last seven European away fixtures (W3 D2). They have not scored more than two goals away from home in Europe since a 4-1 win at HB Tórshavn in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round – a run of 19 matches. Links and trivia • Omonoia's Charis Mavrias is a Greek international who started out in his homeland with Panathinaikos, where he became the youngest Greek player to appear in the UEFA Champions League. He is an international team-mate of PAOK quartet Christos Tzolis, Dimitris Giannoulis, Alexandros Paschalakis and Giannis Michailidis. • Giannoulis played for Cypriot club Anorthosis on loan from PAOK in the second half of 2016/17. • Omonoia's Cypriot international forward Fotis Papoulis was born in Athens and played in Greece for six clubs before moving to Cyprus in 2012 when he joined Apollon Limassol. • Both clubs are captained by Spaniards – PAOK by José Ángel Crespo, Omonoia by Jordi Gómez. • Anderson Esiti (PAOK) and Shehu Abdullahi (Omonoia) are fellow Nigerian internationals. • PAOK's eighth appearance in the UEFA Europa League proper is a Greek record, one more than Olympiacos. • Omonoia are one of five UEFA Europa League group stage debutants this season alongside Leicester City (Group G), Sivasspor (I), Royal Antwerp (J) and Granada, who join them in Group E. 3 PAOK FC - Omonoia FC Thursday 22 October 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Toumba, Salonika Team facts PAOK FC Formed: 1926 Nickname: Dikefalos tou Vora (Two-Headed Eagle of the North) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 3 (2019) Greek Cup: 7 (2019) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2019/20: play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2018/19: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2017/18: play-offs 2016/17: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2015/16: group stage 2014/15: group stage 2013/14: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2012/13: play-offs 2011/12: round of 32 2010/11: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0: PAOK v Lokomotiva Zagreb 23/07/15, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-7: Lokomotivi Tbilisi v PAOK 16/09/99, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-4: PAOK v Benfica 29/08/18, UEFA Champions League play-off second leg 0-3 four times, most recently v Schalke 16/02/17, UEFA Europa League round of 32 first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Barcelona v PAOK 01/10/75, UEFA Cup first round second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 6-0: PAOK v Lokomotiva Zagreb (see above) • Biggest away win 0-7: Lokomotivi Tbilisi v PAOK (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3 three times, most recently v Schalke (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: Barcelona v PAOK (see above) AC Omonoia Formed: 1948 Nickname: The Greens, The Clover UEFA club competition honours • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 20 (2010) Cypriot Cup: 14 (2012) 4 PAOK FC - Omonoia FC Thursday 22 October 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Toumba, Salonika Ten-year record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2019/20: did not take part in UEFA competition 2018/19: did not take part in UEFA competition 2017/18: did not take part in UEFA competition 2016/17: second qualifying round 2015/16: third qualifying round 2014/15: play-offs 2013/14: second qualifying round 2012/13: third qualifying round 2011/12: play-offs 2010/11: play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-1: Omonoia v Differdange 03/10/79, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round second leg 5-0: Omonoia v Rabat Ajax 02/10/85, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-5: Rabat Ajax v Omonoia 18/09/85, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Omonoia v Bayern München 26/10/72, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 10-0: Ajax v Omonoia 24/10/79, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round first leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League Biggest home win 5-1: Omonoia v Linfield 22/07/98, first qualifying round first leg 4-0 twice, most recently v HB Tórshavn 16/07/09, second qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 1-5: Belshina Bobruisk v Omonoia 12/08/99, qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 2-5: Omonoia v Juventus 16/09/99, first round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0 twice, most recently v Juventus 30/09/99, first round second leg 5 PAOK FC - Omonoia FC Thursday 22 October 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Stadio Toumba, Salonika Squad list PAOK FC Current season All-time UCL UEL League UEL UEFA No.