UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Itztadion Kiryat Eliezer - Haifa Thursday 7 November 2013 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Maccabi Haifa FC Group L - Matchday 4 PAOK FC Last updated 06/11/2013 00:51CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 12 Match officials 15 Legend 16 1 Maccabi Haifa FC - PAOK FC Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET, (22.05 local time) Match press kit Itztadion Kiryat Eliezer, Haifa Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Miguel Vítor 35, Ninis 24/10/2013 GS PAOK FC - Maccabi Haifa FC 3-2 Salonika 39, Salpingidis 67; Ndlovu 13, Golasa 21 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Maccabi Haifa FC 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 PAOK FC 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 Maccabi Haifa FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Badier 5(P); Maccabi Haifa FC - AEK Athens 1-4 12/12/2002 R3 Nicosia Katsouranis 56, Lakis FC agg: 1-8 80, 90, Nalitzis 90+3 Georgatos 13, AEK Athens FC - Maccabi Haifa Nikolaidis 23, M. 28/11/2002 R3 4-0 Athens FC Petkov 30, Zagorakis 35 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Alexandris 37, Olympiacos FC - Maccabi Haifa Niniadis 51, Antzas 13/11/2002 GS 3-3 Piraeus FC 79; Badier 9, Yakubu 10, Katan 41 Maccabi Haifa FC - Olympiacos 24/09/2002 GS 3-0 Nicosia Yakubu 27(P), 60, 86 FC PAOK FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Athanasiadis 48, 52, PAOK FC - Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv 4-1 09/08/2012 QR3 Salonika Robert 79, Pelkas FC agg: 6-1 90+1; Marinković 7 Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv FC - PAOK Georgiadis 62, 02/08/2012 QR3 0-2 Ramat Gan FC Athanasiadis 72 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 25/08/2004 QR3 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - PAOK FC Tel-Aviv L. Cohen 8 agg: 4-0 0-3 10/08/2004 QR3 PAOK FC - Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC Salonika Match forfeited f 2 Maccabi Haifa FC - PAOK FC Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET, (22.05 local time) Match press kit Itztadion Kiryat Eliezer, Haifa UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sivilia 45, 61, 3-3 Abukasis 54(P); 28/09/2000 R1 Beitar Jerusalem FC - PAOK FC Jerusalem agg: 4-6 Katsiabis 5, Nalitzis 43, Konstantinidis 90 Camps 44, Cohen 14/09/2000 R1 PAOK FC - Beitar Jerusalem FC 3-1 Salonika 48(og), Nalitzis 55; Hamar 39 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Maccabi Haifa FC 2 1 0 1 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 5 1 1 3 9 14 PAOK FC 4 3 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 7 4 1 2 15 11 3 Maccabi Haifa FC - PAOK FC Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET, (22.05 local time) Match press kit Itztadion Kiryat Eliezer, Haifa Match background Maccabi Haifa FC are bottom of UEFA Europa League Group L going into their matchday four encounter with section leaders PAOK FC, but all is not yet lost for the Israeli club. Previous meetings • PAOK won 3-2 when the sides met for the first time on matchday three. Maccabi Haifa raced into a 2-0 lead, but PAOK struck back to level by half-time, before Dimitris Salpingidis struck the winner on 67 minutes. • Maccabi Haifa's five matches against Greek clubs have ended W1 D1 L3 (W1 D0 L1 at home – though both games were played in Nicosia, Cyprus, because of security concerns – W0 D1 L2 in Greece). • PAOK's seven games against Israeli sides have ended W4 D1 L2 (W3 D0 L1 at home – W1 D1 L1 in Israel). Match background • This is Maccabi Haifa's third attempt at the group stage. They reached the round of 16 on their UEFA Cup group stage debut in 2006/07 but did not advance to the knockout stage in 2011/12. • Maccabi Haifa won all three of their home games in qualifying without conceding, but that unbeaten run ended with a 1-0 loss to AZ Alkmaar on matchday one. • PAOK replaced FC Metalist Kharkiv in the UEFA Champions League play-offs after the Ukrainian side, who had beaten PAOK 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 campaign; they failed to progress in 2005/06 but made it to the round of 32 in 2010/11 and 2011/12. • PAOK have drawn 1-1 in all three of their European away games this season. Team facts • PAOK had 24 shots on target over the first three matchdays – more than any other club in this season's group stage. • PAOK set a new competition landmark when Salpingidis struck their added-time equaliser at Alkmaar on matchday two; the 1-1 draw was their seventh successive away fixture in the UEFA Europa League without defeat, surpassing the previous record shared with Club Atlético de Madrid, FC Porto and Fenerbahçe SK. • Salpingidis has made 64 UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League appearances; he is now level with Mladen Petrić in sixth place in the all-time appearances table. Three more in the group stage would leave the 32-year-old level with Walid Badier in fourth place in the all-time standings. • Three of Maccabi Haifa's current players have represented Greek clubs: Edin Cocalić (Panionios GSS), Rayo (Asteras Tripolis FC) and Shimon Abuhazira (Larissa FC). Coach information • Israel's most capped player, with 94 international appearances, former defender Arik Benado has been coach of Maccabi Haifa since November 2012, having won seven of his nine domestic titles with the club – the other two coming during a spell at Beitar Jerusalem FC. After retiring at the end of 2010/11, Benado returned to the club that his father Shlomo had also played for as a youth coach before being given the first-team job. • 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, whom he later coached. Schalke fans named him as their coach of the century in 1999, and he also held the reins at 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 his hands on the trophy before. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk's Juande Ramos (Sevilla FC, 2006 & 2007), AZ Alkmaar's Dick Advocaat (FC Zenit, 2008) and Tottenham Hotspur FC manager André Villas-Boas (FC Porto, 2011) are the others. 4 Maccabi Haifa FC - PAOK FC Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET, (22.05 local time) Match press kit Itztadion Kiryat Eliezer, Haifa Team facts Maccabi Haifa FC Formed: 1913 Nickname: Ha-Yerukim (The Greens) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • none Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 12 (2011) State Cup: 5 (1998) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2011/12: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2010/11: third qualifying round 2009/10: UEFA Champions League group stage 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2007/08: UEFA Intertoto Cup second round 2006/07: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2005/06: UEFA Champions League second qualifying round 2004/05: first round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2003/04: second round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0: Maccabi Haifa v Glentoran FC 15/07/09, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 0-8: Xäzär Länkäran FK v Maccabi Haifa 25/07/13, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Maccabi Haifa v Valencia CF 11/12/03, UEFA Cup second round second leg (match played in Rotterdam) 0-4: Maccabi Haifa v FC Lokomotiv Nizhni Novgorod 19/07/97, UEFA Intertoto Cup group stage • Heaviest away defeat 4-0 on four occasions, most recently v RCD Espanyol 15/03/07, UEFA Cup round of 16 second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 5-0: Maccabi Haifa v FC Steaua Bucureşti 20/10/11, group stage • Biggest away win 0-3: Cwmbran Town FC v Maccabi Haifa 14/08/03, qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Maccabi Haifa v Valencia CF (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: RCD Espanyol v Maccabi Haifa 15/03/07, round of 16 second leg 4-0: AEK Athens FC v Maccabi Haifa 28/11/02, third round first leg PAOK FC Formed: 1926 Nickname: Dikefalos tou Vora (Two-Headed Eagle of the North) 5 Maccabi Haifa FC - PAOK FC Thursday 7 November 2013 - 21.05CET, (22.05 local time) Match press kit Itztadion Kiryat Eliezer, Haifa UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 2 (1985) Greek Cup: 4 (2003) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2012/13: play-offs 2011/12: round of 32 2010/11: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2009/10: play-offs 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2005/06: group stage 2004/05: first round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2003/04: second round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-1: PAOK v 1.