UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2016/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 3-0) Arena AufSchalke - Gelsenkirchen Wednesday 22 February 2017 FC Schalke 04 18.00CET (18.00 local time) PAOK FC Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 17/04/2017 11:58CET 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 FC Schalke 04 - PAOK FC Wednesday 22 February 2017 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Burgstaller 27, Meyer 16/02/2017 R32 PAOK FC - FC Schalke 04 0-3 Salonika 81, Huntelaar 89 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 FC Schalke 04 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 7 3 PAOK FC 2 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 3 7 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 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 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 2 FC Schalke 04 - PAOK FC Wednesday 22 February 2017 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen 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 4 2 1 1 5 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 9 6 1 2 18 8 PAOK FC 6 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 10 2 4 4 8 12 3 FC Schalke 04 - PAOK FC Wednesday 22 February 2017 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Match background The odds are stacked firmly against PAOK following their comprehensive 3-0 first-leg defeat, although they can still target a noteworthy victory when this round of 32 tie concludes in Gelsenkirchen on Wednesday. • Guido Burgstaller's first-half opener, followed by late strikes for Max Meyer and substitute Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, equalled PAOK's heaviest home European defeat and left Schalke well placed to knock their Greek rivals out of a European competition for a second time in four seasons. Previous meetings • Huub Stevens's 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 by Jermaine Jones's 64th-minute red card. • The teams for the Gelsenkirchen first leg on 21 August 2013 were: Schalke: Hildebrand, Höwedes*, Meyer* (Clemens 69), Draxler, Höger (Goretzka* 77), Jones, Farfán (Pukki 87), Uchida*, Fuchs, Szalai, Matip. PAOK: Jacobo, Tziolis, Lucas (Oliseh 90+1), Stoch, Salpingidis (Athanasiadis* 62), Miguel Vítor, Lino, Lawrence (Kaçe 62), Lazăr, Katsouranis, Kitsiou*. *Registered to play for their club in this season's group stage • Schalke's nine matches against Greek sides have ended W6 D1 L2 (W2 D1 L1 in Germany). They are unbeaten in the last seven of those encounters. • PAOK's record in ten games against German opponents is W2 D4 L4 (W1 D2 L1 in Germany). Form guide • PAOK were victorious in their last two group stage fixtures – including an impressive 3-2 success at Fiorentina and have won three of their five European away games this season (W3 D1 L1). • 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 lifting a major UEFA trophy was when they made the last eight of the 1973/74 European Cup Winners' Cup. In total, they have played eight springtime UEFA matches without registering a victory (D3 L5). • UEFA Cup winners in 1997, Schalke crashed 3-0 on aggregate to Shakhtar Donetsk at this stage of last season's competition. Links and trivia • The journey from Gelsenkirchen to Salonika is around 1,700km. • Klaas-Jan Huntelaar's 89th-minute strike at PAOK was his 50th in UEFA club competition. • The Dutchman's goal was also his 34th in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League combined, putting him just six short of all-time record scorer Henrik Larsson. • Schalke's 3-0 success at Stadio Toumba on 16 February was the 200th UEFA Europa League match played by a German club. • Schalke's Yevhen Konoplyanka and PAOK's Léo Matos appeared in 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. • 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 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. 4 FC Schalke 04 - PAOK FC Wednesday 22 February 2017 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen • 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. Penalty shoot-outs • Schalke's record in four UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W2 D2: W 4-1 A v FC Internazionale Milano (1996/97 UEFA Cup final) L 5-4 A v SK Slavia Praha (1998/99 UEFA Cup first round) L 3-1 A v Brøndby IF (2003/04 UEFA Cup second round) W 4-1 A v FC Porto (2007/08 UEFA Champions League round of 16) • PAOK have lost all three of their previous UEFA penalty-shoot-outs, including two defeats to Bundesliga teams: L 4-3 H v Sevilla (1990/91 UEFA Cup first round) L 9-8 A v Bayern (1983/84 UEFA Cup second round) L 5-4 H v Eintracht (1980/81 European Cup Winners' Cup first round) 5 FC Schalke 04 - PAOK FC Wednesday 22 February 2017 - 18.00CET (18.00 local time) Match press kit Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Team facts FC Schalke 04 Formed: 1904 Nickname: S04, Die Königsblauen (The Royal Blues), Die Knappen (The Miners) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup: 1997 • UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2003, 2004 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 7 (1958) German Cup: 5 (2011) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2015/16: round of 32 2014/15: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2013/14: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2012/13: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2011/12: quarter-finals 2010/11: UEFA Champions League semi-finals 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2008/09: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2007/08: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2006/07: first round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-1: Schalke v HJK Helsinki 25/08/11, UEFA Europa League play-off second leg 5-0: Schalke v Vardar 17/07/04, UEFA Intertoto Cup third round first leg • Biggest away win 0-5: AEK Larnaca v Schalke 20/10/11, UEFA Europa League group stage • Heaviest home defeat 1-6: Schalke v Real Madrid 26/02/14, UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg 0-5: Schalke v Chelsea 25/11/14, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: Manchester City v Schalke 15/04/70, European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final second leg 4-0: Atlético Madrid v Schalke 27/08/08, UEFA Champions League third qualifying round second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home