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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2016/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio Toumba - Salonika Thursday 16 February 2017 21.05CET (22.05 local time) PAOK FC Round of 32, First leg FC Schalke 04 Last updated 17/04/2017 11:57CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 17 Legend 18 1 PAOK FC - FC Schalke 04 Thursday 16 February 2017 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Match press kit Stadio Toumba, Salonika Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Athanasiadis 53, 2-3 Katsouranis 79; 27/08/2013 PO PAOK FC - FC Schalke 04 Salonika agg: 3-4 Szalai 43, 90, Draxler 67 21/08/2013 PO FC Schalke 04 - PAOK FC 1-1 Gelsenkirchen Farfán 32; Stoch 73 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 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 3 4 FC Schalke 04 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 3 PAOK FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 10/12/2015 GS Borussia Dortmund - PAOK FC 0-1 Dortmund Mak 33 01/10/2015 GS PAOK FC - Borussia Dortmund 1-1 Salonika Mak 34; Castro 72 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Karipidis 48; Ljuboja 24/11/2005 GS PAOK FC - VfB Stuttgart 1-2 Salonika 85, 90+1 (P) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 02/11/1983 R2 FC Bayern München - PAOK FC agg: 0-0 (aet, 9- Munich 8pens) 19/10/1983 R2 PAOK FC - FC Bayern München 0-0 Salonika UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 30/09/1981 R1 PAOK FC - Eintracht Frankfurt agg: 2-2 (aet, 4- Salonika Kostikos 40, 60 5pens) Frankfurt am 16/09/1981 R1 Eintracht Frankfurt - PAOK FC 2-0 Pezzey 12, Körbel 77 Main FC Schalke 04 - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Di Santo 29, Choupo- Asteras Tripolis FC - FC Schalke 10/12/2015 GS 0-4 Tripoli Arkadia Moting 37, 78, Meyer 04 86 2 PAOK FC - FC Schalke 04 Thursday 16 February 2017 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Match press kit Stadio Toumba, Salonika UEFA Europa League FC Schalke 04 - Asteras Tripolis Di Santo 28, 37, 44 01/10/2015 GS 4-0 Gelsenkirchen FC (P), Huntelaar 84 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/11/2012 GS FC Schalke 04 - Olympiacos FC 1-0 Gelsenkirchen Fuchs 77 Abdoun 58; Höwedes 18/09/2012 GS Olympiacos FC - FC Schalke 04 1-2 Piraeus 41, Huntelaar 59 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Panathinaikos FC - FC Schalke Olisadebe 31, 24/10/2001 GS1 2-0 Athens 04 Konstantinou 60 FC Schalke 04 - Panathinaikos Vlaović 75, Basinas 11/09/2001 GS1 0-2 Gelsenkirchen FC 80 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA PAOK FC 5 1 2 2 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 9 2 4 3 8 9 FC Schalke 04 4 2 1 1 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 8 5 1 2 15 8 3 PAOK FC - FC Schalke 04 Thursday 16 February 2017 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Match press kit Stadio Toumba, Salonika Match background PAOK will look to get their own back in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 as they welcome Schalke, the German side having come out on top in their only previous continental tie. Previous meetings • Huub Stevens' Schalke eliminated Jens Keller's PAOK in the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League play-offs, winning 3-2 in Greece after a 1-1 first-leg draw, despite being reduced to ten men through Jermaine Jones's 64th-minute red card. • The teams for that second leg in Salonika on 27 August 2013 were: PAOK: Jacobo, Skondras, Tziolis, Lucas (Georgiadis 80), Stoch, Salpingidis (Oliseh 74), Miguel Vítor, Kaçe, Katsouranis, Athanasiadis* (Necid 74), Kitsiou*. Schalke: Hildebrand, Höwedes*, Felipe Santana, Draxler, Clemens (Meyer* 61, Neustädter 70), Höger, Jones, Farfán (Matip 83), Uchida*, Fuchs, Szalai. *Registered to play for their club in this season's group stage • PAOK's record in nine games against German sides is W2 D4 L3 (W1 D2 L2 in Salonika). • Schalke's eight matches against Greek teams have ended W5 D1 L2 (W3 D0 L1 in Greece). They are unbeaten in the last six of those encounters. Form guide • PAOK were victorious in their last two group stage fixtures – including an impressive 3-2 success at Fiorentina – but have won just two of their five European home matches this season (W2 D1 L2). • Schalke won their first five group games and had already confirmed their round of 32 place when they lost their last fixture, 2-0 at Salzburg. • PAOK last reached the round of 32 in 2013/14, losing home and away to Benfica without scoring. The nearest PAOK have come to winning a major UEFA competition was when they reached the last eight of the 1973/74 European Cup Winners' Cup. In total, they have played eight springtime UEFA games without registering a victory (D3 L5). • UEFA Cup winners in 1997, Schalke lost 3-0 on aggregate to Shakhtar Donetsk at this stage of last season's competition. • Suspended: none. Misses next match if booked: José Ángel Crespo, Léo Matos, Marin Leovac, Fernando Varela, Dimitrios Pelkas (PAOK); Baba Rahman (Schalke). Links and trivia • The journey from Gelsenkirchen to Salonika is around 1,700km. • Schalke's Yevhen Konoplyanka and PAOK's Léo Matos reached the UEFA Europa League final together with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in 2014/15. • International team-mates: Yevhen Konoplyanka (Schalke) & Yevhen Shakhov (PAOK) – Ukraine Sead Kolašinac (Schalke) & Gojko Cimirot (PAOK) – Bosnia and Herzegovina. • PAOK vice-captain Stelios Malezas played in Germany with Fortuna Düsseldorf (2012/13, 2013/14), while team- mate Giannis Mystakidis was a trainee at Hoffenheim and Freiburg before returning to Greece in 2014. • Klaas-Jan Huntelaar's next goal will be his 50th in UEFA club competition. • Schalke (1997) are one of seven former UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League winners in the round of 32 along with Tottenham Hotspur (1972, 1984), Borussia Mönchengladbach (1975 & 1979), Anderlecht (1983), Ajax (1992), Zenit (2008) and Shakhtar (2009). • The clubs have two former coaches in common: Gyula Lóránt and Huub Stevens. The coaches • Vladimir Ivić took charge at PAOK in March 2016 following a spell as the club's youth coach. An attacking midfielder, he won three Serbian titles with Partizan and played for AEK Athens and Aris Thessaloniki before a four-season stint at PAOK. • Schalke coach Markus Weinzierl progressed to last season's UEFA Europa League round of 32 with Augsburg, whom he had led since 2012. His playing career peaked when he spent a season with the first-team squad at Bayern München in 1998/99, though he never played a senior match. 4 PAOK FC - FC Schalke 04 Thursday 16 February 2017 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Match press kit Stadio Toumba, Salonika UEFA makes new donation of €100,000 to ICRC UEFA will mark a decade of helping Afghan landmine victims on Wednesday, when Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos presents a cheque for €100,000 to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). "I would like to pay tribute to the ICRC, who have been working relentlessly to help landmine victims, many of whom are children. Their programme in Afghanistan, which has been in place for several years, shows that football can offer real hope in challenging times," said UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin. "I am glad that UEFA can help this cause, and that the sport we love can have a positive impact on the rehabilitation process of so many people in this troubled region," he added. The donation supports the ICRC's physical rehabilitation programme for landmine victims and other people with disabilities in Afghanistan – providing artificial limbs, physiotherapy, vocational training and access to the rehabilitation centre's football team. About a third of patients are children. Sergio Ramos will present the donation before his side's UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg match against Napoli at the Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid on 15 February. "The people benefiting from the ICRC programme in Afghanistan are an inspiration to us, as they set an example of how to approach life in a positive manner despite the problems that they face," the Real Madrid captain said. Sergio Ramos was chosen to hand over the cheque after receiving the most votes in UEFA.com's Team of the Year, which was published in January, and added that it is "a privilege" to be "a source of motivation" to so many people. "They don't stop dreaming, and they fight to make their dreams come true. As key figures in this sport, it's a true privilege for us footballers to be a source of motivation in their day-to-day lives, and to help them out," he said. Over the course of a partnership lasting almost 20 years, UEFA has donated in excess of €3.5m to the ICRC to help disadvantaged people around the globe. Meanwhile, over 7 million votes were cast in selecting the UEFA.com users' Team of the Year 2016.