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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Astana Arena - Astana Thursday 28 November 2013 16.00CET (21.00 local time) FC Shakhter Karagandy Group L - Matchday 5 PAOK FC Last updated 25/11/2013 16:54CET Match background 2 Legend 3 1 FC Shakhter Karagandy - PAOK FC Thursday 28 November 2013 - 16.00CET, (21.00 local time) Match press kit Astana Arena, Astana Match background FC Shakhter Karagandy's maiden UEFA Europa League group stage campaign is destined for an early conclusion unless they can match or better the margin of PAOK FC's victory in the sides' first Group L encounter. • PAOK and AZ Alkmaar are six points clear of Maccabi Haifa FC and Shakhter in the section; Maccabi Haifa cannot catch PAOK because of their head-to-head record, and Shakhter cannot catch AZ for the same reason. Previous meetings • Zvonimir Vukić struck in added time to secure a 2-1 win for PAOK when the sides met for the first time on matchday one. It was PAOK's first meeting with a club from Kazakhstan and Shakhter's first encounter with Greek opponents. • The only previous men's club competition encounter between Greek and Kazakh clubs came in the 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup third round when FC Tobol Kostanay won 1-0 home and away against OFI Crete FC. Match background • Shakhter are unbeaten in eight European home games (W5 D3) but have yet to secure a first group stage victory. • Shakhter came within 90 minutes of reaching the UEFA Champions League group stage only to let slip a 2-0 first-leg advantage in the play-offs at Celtic FC. They nonetheless received the substantial consolation prize of a first UEFA Europa League group stage campaign. • PAOK extended their UEFA Europa League record of successive away games (excluding qualifying) without defeat to eight (W3 D5) with their 0-0 draw at Maccabi Haifa FC. Their last non-qualifying UEFA Europa League defeat on the road was 1-0 at Villarreal FC on 21 October 2010. • PAOK replaced FC Metalist Kharkiv in the UEFA Champions League play-offs after the Ukrainian side, who had beaten the Greek side in the third qualifying round, were excluded from Europe. They lost 4-3 on aggregate to FC Schalke 04 but moved into the UEFA Europa League for what is their fourth group stage campaign; they failed to progress in 2005/06 but made it to the round of 32 in 2010/11 and 2011/12. Team facts • PAOK defender Nikos Spyropoulos's next European appearance will be his 50th in UEFA club competition, but the 30-year-old has yet to feature in Group L. • PAOK coach Huub Stevens celebrates his 60th birthday on 29 November, the day after the Shakhter game. • Shakhter are the first Kazakh side to reach a UEFA club competition group stage, and the most easterly club to have reached this level. The distance between Karaganda and Salonika is just under 4,000km, though PAOK will only need to travel 3,850km since their opponents play their European home games in Astana. • The distance between Shakhter's home town and that of the most westerly group stage contenders, Estoril Praia, is 6,358km – just over one sixth of the circumference of the Earth. • PAOK midfielder Kostas Katsouranis scored his first international goal for Greece in a 3-1 FIFA World Cup qualifying victory against Kazakhstan on 17 November 2004. • PAOK attacker Dimitris Salpingidis has made 65 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League appearances so far; if he plays against Shakhter, he will join Enzo Scifo in fifth place in the competition's all time appearance rankings. One more appearance after that would put him level with Walid Badier in fourth place. • Shakhter surrendered their Kazakh title to FC Aktobe ahead of matchday four, but took consolation on 10 November when they beat FC Taraz 1-0 in Astana to win their first Kazakhstan Cup. Sergei Khiznichenko scored the only goal. Coach information • A Kazakh title winner in his first two seasons with Shakhter, 2011 and 2012, Russian-born Viktor Kumykov had his career as a goalkeeper cut short by injury when he was 24. He turned to coaching and led home-town club PFC Spartak Nalchik in Russia before embarking on a series of roles in Kazakhstan and then Uzbekistan. Visiting museums is one of his favourite pastimes. • PAOK coach since June 2013, Huub Stevens won the UEFA Cup as a player with PSV Eindhoven in 1977/78 and as FC Schalke 04 coach in 1996/97. A defender, he spent his best years as a player with PSV, who he later coached. Schalke fans named him as their coach of the century in 1999, and he also coached 1. FC Koln, Hamburger SV and FC Salzburg before embarking on a second, less successful stint with Schalke in 2011. • Stevens is one of four coaches in the group stage to have had their hands on the trophy before along with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk's Juande Ramos (Sevilla FC, 2006 and 2007), AZ Alkmaar boss Dick Advocaat (FC Zenit, 2008) and Tottenham Hotspur FC manager André Villas-Boas (FC Porto, 2011). 2 FC Shakhter Karagandy - PAOK FC Thursday 28 November 2013 - 16.00CET, (21.00 local time) Match press kit Astana Arena, Astana Legend Competitions Club competitions National team competitions UCL: UEFA Champions League EURO: UEFA European Football Championship ECCC: European Champion Clubs' Cup WC: FIFA World Cup UEL: UEFA Europa League CONFCUP: FIFA Confederations Cup UCUP: UEFA Cup FRIE: Friendly internationals UCWC: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup U21FRIE: Under-21 friendly internationals SCUP: UEFA Super Cup U21: UEFA European Under-21 Championship UIC: UEFA Intertoto Cup U17: UEFA Under-17 Championship ICF: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup U16: UEFA European Under-16 Championship U19: UEFA Under-19 Championship U18: UEFA European Under-18 Championship WWC: FIFA Women's World Cup WEURO: UEFA European Women's Championship Competition stages Other abbreviations F: Final GS: Group stage (aet): After extra time pens: Penalties GS1: First group stage GS2: Second group stage No.: Number og: Own goal 3QR: Third qualifying round R1: First round ag: Match decided on away P: Penalty R2: Second round R3: Third round goals agg: Aggregate R4: Fourth round PR: Preliminary round Pld: Matches played AP: Appearances SF: Semi-finals QF: Quarter-finals Pos.: Position Comp.: Competition R16: round of 16 QR: Qualifying round Pts: Points D: Drawn R32: Round of 32 1QR: First qualifying round R: Sent off (straight red card) DoB: Date of birth 1st: first leg 2QR: Second qualifying Res.: Result ET: Extra Time round sg: Match decided by silver GA: Goals against 2nd: second leg FT: Final tournament goal t: Match decided by toss of a PO: Play-off ELITE: Elite round coin Rep: Replay 3rdPO: Third-place play-off GF: Goals for W: Won PO - FT: Play-off for Final GS-FT: Group stage – final gg: Match decided by golden Y: Booked Tournament tournament goal L: Lost Y/R: Sent off (two yellow Nat.: Nationality cards) N/A: Not applicable Statistics -: Denotes player substituted +: Denotes player introduced *: Denotes player sent off +/-: Denotes player introduced and substituted Squad list D: Disciplinary *: Misses next match if booked S: Suspended QUAL: All UEFA qualifiers UEL: Current season total UEFA Europa League appearances from the group stage onwards prior to the current matchday UEL: Total appearances in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final only UEFA: All-time total appearances in UEFA club competition including qualifying Disclaimer: Although UEFA has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time of publication, no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness. Therefore, UEFA assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. More information can be found in the competition regulations available on UEFA.com. 3.

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