UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2016/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Amsterdam ArenA - Amsterdam Thursday 24 November 2016 19.00CET (19.00 local time) AFC Ajax Group G - Matchday 5 Panathinaikos FC Last updated 28/02/2017 12:07CET 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 AFC Ajax - Panathinaikos FC Thursday 24 November 2016 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Berg 5; Traoré 33, 15/09/2016 GS Panathinaikos FC - AFC Ajax 1-2 Athens Riedewald 67 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-3 Litmanen 4, 77, 17/04/1996 SF Panathinaikos FC - AFC Ajax Athens agg: 1-3 Wooter 86 03/04/1996 SF AFC Ajax - Panathinaikos FC 0-1 Amsterdam Warzycha 87 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/06/1971 F AFC Ajax - Panathinaikos FC 2-0 London Van Dijk 5, Haan 87 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AFC Ajax 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 0 1 7 2 Panathinaikos FC 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 1 0 3 2 7 AFC Ajax - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-2 Athanasiadis 4; 03/08/2016 QR3 PAOK FC - AFC Ajax Salonika agg: 2-3 Klaassen 45+1 (P), 88 Dolberg 58; Djalma 26/07/2016 QR3 AFC Ajax - PAOK FC 1-1 Amsterdam Campos 27 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Vieirinha 16, Salpingidis 56, Ivić 3-3 04/08/2010 QR3 PAOK FC - AFC Ajax Salonika 90+1; Suárez 48, S. agg: 4-4 ag De Jong 50, Lindgren 55 28/07/2010 QR3 AFC Ajax - PAOK FC 1-1 Amsterdam Suárez 13; Ivić 73 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Witschge 36, Gorrè 04/11/1998 GS AFC Ajax - Olympiacos FC 2-0 Amsterdam 88 21/10/1998 GS Olympiacos FC - AFC Ajax 1-0 Athens Alexandris 38 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/12/1994 GS AFC Ajax - AEK Athens FC 2-0 Amsterdam Oulida 8, 78 2 AFC Ajax - Panathinaikos FC Thursday 24 November 2016 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam UEFA Champions League Savevski 30; 28/09/1994 GS AEK Athens FC - AFC Ajax 1-2 Athens Litmanen 33, Kluivert 65 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Kapouranis 58; 05/11/1986 R2 Olympiacos FC - AFC Ajax Athens agg: 1-5 Wouters 90 Bosman 6, Rijkaard 22/10/1986 R2 AFC Ajax - Olympiacos FC 4-0 Amsterdam 43, Van Basten 52, Mühren 83 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Anastopoulos 94 ET, 28/09/1983 R1 Olympiacos FC - AFC Ajax Athens agg 2-0 (aet) 118 ET 14/09/1983 R1 AFC Ajax - Olympiacos FC 0-0 Amsterdam Panathinaikos FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ajagun 11, Petrić 43; Panathinaikos FC - PSV 06/11/2014 GS 2-3 Athens Depay 27, L. de Jong Eindhoven 65, Wijnaldum 78 PSV Eindhoven - Panathinaikos 23/10/2014 GS 1-1 Eindhoven Depay 44; Karelis 87 FC UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Papadopoulos 30, Panathinaikos FC - PSV Münch 45 (P), 57, 07/12/2004 GS 4-1 Athens Eindhoven Sânmărtean 81; Beasley 37 PSV Eindhoven - Panathinaikos Vennegoor of 29/09/2004 GS 1-0 Eindhoven FC Hesselink 80 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-1 Mavridis 41, Rocha 03/10/1984 R1 Panathinaikos FC - Feyenoord Athens agg: 2-1 43; Rep 69 19/09/1984 R1 Feyenoord - Panathinaikos FC 0-0 Rotterdam Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AFC Ajax 7 3 3 1 8 4 2 2 1 1 0 0 16 8 5 3 25 13 Panathinaikos FC 5 2 0 3 4 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 10 3 2 5 11 14 3 AFC Ajax - Panathinaikos FC Thursday 24 November 2016 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Match background Ajax are safely through to the UEFA Europa League round of 32 once again, and can condemn Panathinaikos to an early exit as the sides meet again in Group G. • Ajax are through and will clinch first place with a win, or a draw would suffice if Standard Liège do not win at Celta; Panathinaikos must win and hope the other game is drawn. • Celta and Standard drew on matchday one so a victory for either side would take them through. Previous meetings • Ajax's 2-1 success in Athens on matchday one was the teams' fourth meeting, the Amsterdammers registering three wins to the Greens' one. • Ajax won the first of their four European Cups by defeating Panathinaikos 2-0 in the 1971 final at Wembley. • A quarter of a century later, in the 1995/96 UEFA Champions League semi-finals, Ajax once again came out on top, triumphing 3-0 in Athens after a 1-0 home reverse. The line-ups for the first leg in Amsterdam were: Ajax: Van der Sar, Reiziger, Blind, F de Boer, Bogarde, Litmanen (Musampa 76), Finidi George, Davids, Kanu, Kluivert, R de Boer. Panathinaikos: Wandzik, Apostolakis, Ouzounidis, G Georgiadis, Kalitzakis, Kolitsidakis, Borrelli (Markos 83), Kapouranis, Warzycha (Nioplias 90), Marangos (G Savas Georgiadis 62), Donis. • Ajax have won half of their 16 games against Greek sides, drawing five and losing the other three (W3 D3 L1 at home). • Panathinaikos's record in ten matches against Dutch opposition is W3 D2 L5 (W1 L2 L1 in the Netherlands). Form guide • Ajax are unbeaten at home in eight European games (W3 D5), and are yet to lose in Group G. • Panathinaikos's 3-0 home loss to Standard was the Greek club's 11th successive UEFA Europa League fixture (excluding qualifying) without a win – one short of the competition record, unenviably shared by Partizan and Slovan Bratislava. It was also their heaviest home defeat in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League, and one of their worst five home results in any UEFA competition. • After three successful attempts to get through their UEFA Cup group, Ajax failed to qualify for the first time in the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League group stage. • Having progressed from their first three UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns, Panathinaikos have missed the cut in their last two attempts. Links and trivia • The journey from Athens to Amsterdam is almost 2,200km. • Panathinaikos's Swedish forward Marcus Berg played in the Netherlands for Groningen (2007–09) and PSV (2010– 11). • Panathinaikos have received more yellow (19) and red cards (3) than any other side in this season's group phase. The coaches • Italian technician Andrea Stramaccioni led Panathinaikos to a third-place finish in Greece in 2015/16, his first season with the club. A qualified lawyer whose playing career was ended by injury, he specialised as a youth coach before coaching Internazionale Milano and Udinese in Serie A. • A Dutch title winner as a midfielder with Feyenoord, Peter Bosz returned from Israel to take charge of Ajax in May 2016. Bosz has managed Heracles and Vitesse in the Netherlands, briefly coaching Maccabi Tel-Aviv in 2016. 4 AFC Ajax - Panathinaikos FC Thursday 24 November 2016 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam Team facts AFC Ajax Formed: 1900 Nickname: Godenzonen (Sons of the Gods) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Cup (4): (1969), 1971, 1972, 1973, 1995, (1996) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1987, (1988) • UEFA Cup (1): 1992 • UEFA Super Cup (2): 1973, (1987), 1995 • European/South American Cup (2): 1972, 1995 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 33 (2014) Dutch Cup: 18 (2010) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2015/16: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2014/15: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2013/14: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2012/13: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2011/12: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2010/11: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2009/10: round of 32 2008/09: round of 16 2007/08: first round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2006/07: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 14-0: Ajax v FA Red Boys Differdange 03/10/84, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 1-8: HJK Helsinki v Ajax 19/09/79, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Ajax v Real Madrid CF 23/11/10, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: FC Bayern München v Ajax 22/10/80, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round first leg 4-0 on four occasions, most recently v FC Barcelona 18/09/13, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 14-0: Ajax v FA Red Boys Differdange (see above) • Biggest away win 0-6: KAA Gent v Ajax 12/09/00, first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Ajax v FC Salzburg 21/02/14, round of 32 first leg 0-3 (aet): Ajax v FK Austria Wien 27/09/1989, first round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-1: Budapest Honvéd FC v Ajax 22/11/78, third round first leg 5 AFC Ajax - Panathinaikos FC Thursday 24 November 2016 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Match press kit Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam 3-0 on three occasions, most recently v FC Spartak Moskva 17/03/11, round of 16 second leg Panathinaikos FC Formed: 1908 Nickname: Prasini (The