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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2013/2014 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadion Gelsenkirchen - Gelsenkirchen Wednesday 21 August 2013 Schalke 20:45 CET (20:45 local time) PAOK Play-off, First leg Last updated 21/08/2013 15:06 CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 5 Match officials 7 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Team facts 12 Legend 14 1 FC Schalke 04 - PAOK FC Wednesday 21 August 2013 - 20.45CET, (20.45 local time) Match press kit Stadion Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen Previous meetings Head to Head No matches FC Schalke 04 - Record versus clubs from opponents' country 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 GS 2-0 Athens 04 Konstantinou 60 FC Schalke 04 - Panathinaikos Vlaović 75, Basinas 11/09/2001 GS 0-2 Gelsenkirchen FC 80 PAOK FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country 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 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Schalke 04 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 3 5 PAOK FC 3 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 3 4 2 FC Schalke 04 - PAOK FC Wednesday 21 August 2013 - 20.45CET, (20.45 local time) Match press kit Stadion Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen Match background FC Schalke 04 welcome a familiar face back to Gelsenkirchen when they host PAOK FC in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League play-off tie. • PAOK's new coach, Huub Stevens, will need no introduction given his two spells managing the Gelsenkirchen club, the first of which yielded the 1997 UEFA Cup as well as German Cup triumphs in 2001 and 2002. Stevens' second stint ended only last December and his local knowledge will be vital to the visitors, who have not played a game in Germany for 30 years. • PAOK are in the play-off following UEFA's decision to disqualify FC Metalist Kharkiv from its club competitions for 2013/14. Metalist had beaten PAOK 3-1 on aggregate in the third qualifying round. Match background • Fourth in Germany last season, Schalke are looking to secure their sixth participation in the UEFA Champions League group stage. This is only their second experience of the qualifying rounds, however, the first coming in 2008/09 when they lost 4-1 on aggregate to Club Atlético de Madrid. • The 2013 Greek Super League runners-up, PAOK are hoping it will be third time lucky after they lost third qualifying round matches to AFC Ajax in 2010/11 (4-4 agg; away goals) and Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC in 2004/05 (0-4 agg). • PAOK also suffered defeat in last season's UEFA Europa League play-off round, going down 4-2 on aggregate to SK Rapid Wien. • Schalke won just one of four home fixtures in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League and saw their campaign ended in the round of 16 by a 3-2 loss to Galatasaray AŞ in Gelsenkirchen. • It was against Greek opposition that Schalke, with Stevens at the helm, posted that solitary home victory in Europe last season, Christian Fuchs' goal securing a 1-0 success against Olympiacos FC. Two months earlier they had beaten Olympiacos 2-1 in Piraeus with Benedikt Höwedes and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scoring. • Schalke's only other meeting with a team from Greece came in the 2001/02 first group stage when they suffered 2-0 home and away losses to Panathinaikos FC. • This is only PAOK's third visit to Germany, the most recent coming in the 1983/84 UEFA Cup second round against FC Bayern München. After a 0-0 home draw, Pál Csernai's PAOK side earned a second stalemate in Munich but ended up losing the tie 9-8 on penalties. • PAOK suffered a similar fate against Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1981/82 European Cup Winners' Cup first round, losing 2-0 in Germany and going out on penalties after winning the return by the same score. Team ties • Stevens' first spell in charge of Schalke ran from 1996-2002. The month before he took over he was coach of the Roda JC side beaten 5-2 on aggregate by the Royal Blues in the UEFA Cup first round, the trophy he would end the season holding aloft after Schalke's final shoot-out win over FC Internazionale Milano. • Stevens returned to Schalke in September 2011 and led the club to a third-place Bundesliga finish in 2012 before his dismissal last December. The Dutchman has also coached Hertha BSC Berlin (2002-2003), 1. FC Köln (2004/05) and Hamburger SV (2007-2008) in Germany. • As a VfB Stuttgart player, Schalke sporting director Horst Heldt faced Panathinaikos in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League group stage, winning 2-0 at home and 3-1 away. • Kyriakos Papadopoulos played for Olympiacos from 2007 until 2010. Aged 15 years and 283 days, he became the youngest player to appear in the Greek league against Atromitos FC on 2 December 2007 but never played against PAOK, the club his family supports. • Fuchs scored in Austria's 2-1 friendly defeat in November 2010 by a Greece side including Kostas Katsouranis, Dimitris Salpingidis and Giorgos Georgiadis. • Katsouranis and Salpingidis played alongside Papadopoulos in the Greece team that lost 4-2 to Germany in the UEFA EURO 2012 quarter-finals. Salpingidis scored a late penalty for Greece, while Höwedes sat on the bench for Germany. • Chinedu Obasi was a second-half substitute for Nigeria in their 2-1 loss to Greece at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Salpingidis hit the opening goal while Tziolis and Katsouranis also played. • The only Schalke player to have faced PAOK in the past is goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand, who featured in Stuttgart's 2-1 win in Thessaloniki in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup group stage. • Alexandros Tziolis spent the second half of 2008/09 on loan at SV Werder Bremen and appeared in a 1-0 defeat at 3 FC Schalke 04 - PAOK FC Wednesday 21 August 2013 - 20.45CET, (20.45 local time) Match press kit Stadion Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen Schalke, Höwedes scoring. 4 FC Schalke 04 - PAOK FC Wednesday 21 August 2013 - 20.45CET, (20.45 local time) Match press kit Stadion Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen Squad list FC Schalke 04 Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Ralf Fährmann GER 27/09/1988 24 - - - - - - - - - 5 - 34 Timo Hildebrand GER 05/04/1979 34 - - - - - 2 - 13 - 62 - 36 Lars Unnerstall GER 20/07/1990 23 - - - - - - - 5 - 10 - Defenders 2 Tim Hoogland GER 11/06/1985 28 - - - - - - - - - 3 - 4 Benedikt Höwedes GER 29/02/1988 25 - - - - - 2 - 21 4 36 4 5 Felipe Santana BRA 17/03/1986 27 - - - - - 1 - 10 2 11 2 6 Sead Kolasinac GER 20/06/1993 20 - - - - - - - 3 - 3 - 14 Kyriakos Papadopoulos GRE 23/02/1992 21 - - - - - - - 11 - 26 2 21 Axel Borgmann GER 08/07/1994 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 22 Atsuto Uchida JPN 27/03/1988 25 - - - - - 2 - 16 - 24 - 23 Christian Fuchs AUT 07/04/1986 27 - - - - - 2 - 6 1 19 3 24 Kaan Ayhan GER 10/11/1994 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 26 Dennis Erdmann GER 22/11/1990 22 - - - - - - - - - - - 31 Philipp Max GER 30/09/1993 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 32 Joel Matip CMR 08/08/1991 22 - - - - - 1 - 17 1 30 2 Midfielders 7 Max Meyer GER 18/09/1995 17 - - - - - 1 - 1 - 1 - 8 Leon Goretzka GER 06/02/1995 18 - - - - - 1 - - - - - 10 Julian Draxler GER 20/09/1993 19 - - - - - 2 - 12 1 25 3 11 Christian Clemens GER 04/08/1991 22 - - - - - 2 - - - - - 12 Marco Höger GER 16/09/1989 23 - - - - - 1 - 6 - 18 - 13 Jermaine Jones USA 03/11/1981 31 - - - - - 2 - 20 2 34 3 27 Tranquillo Barnetta SUI 22/05/1985 28 - - - - - - - 7 - 39 1 33 Roman Neustädter GER 18/02/1988 25 - - - - - 1 - 8 1 8 1 Forwards 17 Jefferson Farfán PER 26/10/1984 28 - - - - - 2 - 51 9 71 10 19 Chinedu Obasi NGA 01/06/1986 27 - - - - - - - 2 - 9 - 20 Teemu Pukki FIN 29/03/1990 23 - - - - - 1 - 5 - 11 5 25 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar NED 12/08/1983 30 - - - - - 2 2 20 8 62 40 28 Ádám Szalai HUN 09/12/1987 25 - - - - - 2 1 - - - - 29 Donis Avdijaj GER 25/08/1996 16 - - - - - - - - - - - 39 Tim Bodenröder GER 15/01/1996 17 - - - - - - - - - - - Coach - Jens Keller GER 24/11/1970 42 - - - - - - - 2 - 5 - 5 FC Schalke 04 - PAOK FC Wednesday 21 August 2013 - 20.45CET, (20.45 local time) Match press kit Stadion Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen PAOK FC Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No.