# 2007–08 PAOK FC season

The 2007–08 season was PAOK Football Club's 82nd in existence and the club's 49th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. The team entered the Greek Football Cup in the fourth round.

## Players
### Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | POR | Daniel Fernandes |
| 31 | GK | GRE | Kostas Paliouras |
| 33 | GK | GRE | Kyriakos Tohouroglou |
| 40 | GK | GRE | Dimitris Kyriakidis |
| 71 | GK | GRE | Panagiotis Glykos |
| 2 | DF | GRE | Nikos Arabatzis |
| 4 | DF | CYP | Elias Charalambous |
| 13 | DF | GRE | Stelios Malezas |
| 21 | DF | BRA | Baiano |
| 24 | DF | NGA | Ifeanyi Udeze |
| 25 | DF | BRA | Allan |
| 27 | DF | POL | Mirosław Sznaucner |
| 30 | DF | CRO | Goran Gavrančić |
| 34 | DF | GRE | Vangelis Georgiou |
| 44 | DF | NED | Ruud Knol |
| 45 | DF | GRE | Christos Melissis |
| 95 | DF | GRE | Panagiotis Kourdakis |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | MF | GRE | Pantelis Konstantinidis |
| 18 | MF | GRE | Lambros Vangelis |
| 19 | MF | ESP | Toni González |
| 21 | MF | GRE | Stavros Tsoukalas |
| 22 | MF | ARG | Ricardo Verón |
| 23 | MF | GRE | Vassilis Lakis |
| 25 | MF | GRE | Sotiris Balafas |
| 26 | MF | GRE | Stelios Delibasis |
| 43 | MF | GRE | Georgios Georgiadis |
| 46 | MF | GRE | Chousein Moumin |
| 88 | MF | GRE | Stelios Iliadis |
| 7 | FW | POR | Sérgio Conceição |
| 9 | FW | ROU | Viorel Frunză |
| 10 | FW | GRE | Lazaros Christodoulopoulos |
| 11 | FW | GRE | Zisis Vryzas |
| 14 | FW | SRB | Ivica Iliev |
| 16 | FW | GRE | Dimitrios Orfanos |
| 28 | FW | GRE | Stefanos Athanasiadis |
| 29 | FW | RSA | Glen Salmon |

## Transfers
### Players transferred in

| Pos. | Name | Club | Fee |
| MF | Ricardo Verón | Siena | 200K |
| DF | Goran Gavrančić | Dynamo Kyiv | 150K (Loan) |
| MF | Baiano | Anápolis Futebol Clube | 100K |
| FW | Viorel Frunză | CFR Cluj | 75K (Loan) |
| MF | Vassilis Lakis | AEK Athens F.C. | Free |
| DF | Mirosław Sznaucner | Iraklis | Free |
| DF | Ruud Knol | Vitesse | Free |
| GK | Panagiotis Glykos | Olympiacos Volou | Free |
| DF | Ifeanyi Udeze | Bendel Insurance | Free |
| FW | Ivica Iliev | Messina | Free |
| FW | Dimitrios Orfanos | Ap. Kalamarias | Free |
| FW | Glen Salmon | NAC Breda | Free |
| MF | Sérgio Conceição | Al-Qadisiyah FC | Free |
| FW | Zisis Vryzas | Xanthi F.C. | Free |
| DF | Vangelis Georgiou | PAOK U20 | |
| GK | Kostas Paliouras | PAOK U20 | |
| MF | Giannis Pechlivanis | PAOK U20 | |
| DF | Panagiotis Kourdakis | PAOK U20 | |

### Players transferred out

| Date | Pos. | Name | Club | Fee |
| 28 May 2007 | DF | Theodoros Zagorakis | | End of career$^1$ |
| 1 Jun 2007 | DF | Cosmin Bărcăuan | Shakhtar | End of loan |
| | FW | Marcin Mięciel | Bochum | 250K |
| | DF | Giannis Voskopoulos | Panserraikos F.C. | Free |
| | FW | Sándor Torghelle | Carl Zeiss Jena | Free |
| | DF | Dimitrios Papastergiou | Thermaikos F.C. | Free |
| | MF | Nenad Stojaković | Shirin Faraz F.C. | Free |
| | FW | Yiasoumis Yiasoumi | Aris Limassol FC | Free |
| | DF | Índio | SE Gama | Free |
| 1 Jan 2008 | MF | Chousein Moumin | Panserraikos F.C. | Loan |
| 6 Jan 2008 | MF | Zisis Vryzas | | End of career$^2$ |
$^1$ On 18 June 2007 become president. $^2$ On 6 January 2008, Vryzas played his last game. On 8 January 2008, Vryzas was officially appointed as the Technical Director of PAOK FC. He joined the club's board along with former teammate and current chairman of the club, Theodoros Zagorakis.

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Super League Greece | 30 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 29 | 35 | −6 | 033.33 |
| Greek Cup | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Total | 31 | 10 | 5 | 16 | 31 | 39 | −8 | 032.26 |
Last updated: 5 February 2017 (2017-02-05). Source: Competitions

### Managerial statistics

| Head Coach | From | To | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Head Coach | From | To | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Georgios Paraschos | Start Season | 02.09.2007 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 000.00 |
| Fernando Santos | 03.09.2007 | End season | 30 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 31 | 38 | −7 | 033.33 |

## Super League Greece
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 7 | Asteras Tripolis | 30 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 28 | 24 | +4 | 44 |
| 8 | Skoda Xanthi | 30 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 33 | 39 | −6 | 36 |
| 9 | PAOK | 30 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 29 | 35 | −6 | 35 |
| 10 | Iraklis | 30 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 28 | 33 | −5 | 35 |
| 11 | Levadiakos | 30 | 10 | 3 | 17 | 31 | 51 | −20 | 33 |
* 1 2 Head-to-head record: PAOK–Iraklis 3–0, Iraklis–PAOK 1–0.

### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 5 February 2017 (2017-02-05). Source: Competitive matches

### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | W | L | D | L | W | L | W | W | L | W | D | W | L | W | L | L | L | L | W | W | D | L | D | L | D | W | L | L | L |
| Position | 12 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |

### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss

## Statistics
### Squad statistics

    As of Full season 2007-2008
Appearances denote players in the starting lineup, with the numbers in parentheses denoting appearances as substitute.
| No. | No. | Name | Super League | Super League | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | Total | Total |
| No. | No. | Name | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Daniel Fernandes | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| 44 | 44 | Dimitris Kyriakidis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Defenders |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Pantelis Konstantinidis | 24 (6) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 25 (6) | 4 |
| 4 | 4 | Elias Charalambous | 20 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 (1) | 0 |
| 5 | 5 | Christos Melissis | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 2 |
| 13 | 13 | Stelios Malezas | 11 (2) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 (2) | 1 |
| 21 | 21 | Agenaldo Baiano | 20 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 (1) | 0 |
| 27 | 27 | Mirosław Sznaucner | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| 30 | 30 | Goran Gavrančić | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 34 | 34 | Vangelis Georgiou | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 44 | 44 | Ruud Knol | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| Midfielders |||||||||
| 6 | 6 | Sotiris Balafas | 24 (2) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 25 (2) | 3 |
| 7 | 7 | Sérgio Conceição | 7 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (3) | 0 |
| 8 | 8 | Stelios Iliadis | 16 (4) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17 (4) | 0 |
| 18 | 18 | Lambros Vangelis | 16 (3) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 (3) | 2 |
| 19 | 19 | Toni González | 16 (7) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 17 (7) | 2 |
| 22 | 22 | Ricardo Verón | 11 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 (1) | 0 |
| 23 | 23 | Vassilis Lakis | 22 (7) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 23 (7) | 3 |
| 43 | 43 | Georgios Georgiadis | 25 (8) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 26 (8) | 2 |
| 46 | 46 | Chousein Moumin | 6 (2) | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 7 (3) | 0 |
| 88 | 88 | Giannis Pechlivanis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Forwards |||||||||
| 9 | 9 | Viorel Frunză | 4 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (3) | 0 |
| 10 | 10 | Christodoulopoulos | 25 (7) | 3 | 1 (1) | 1 | 26 (8) | 4 |
| 14 | 14 | Ivica Iliev | 18 (11) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 19 (11) | 1 |
| 16 | 16 | Dimitrios Orfanos | 5 (4) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 (4) | 0 |
| 28 | 28 | Stefanos Athanasiadis | 4 (3) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 (3) | 2 |
| 29 | 29 | Glen Salmon | 24 (2) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 25 (2) | 5 |
| | | Zisis Vryzas | 13 (10) | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 14 (11) | 0 |

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos. | Player | Super League | Cup | Total |
| 1 | 9 | FW | Glen Salmon | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 3 | DF | Konstantinidis | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | 10 | FW | Christodoulopoulos | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | 6 | MF | Sotiris Balafas | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | 23 | MF | Vassilis Lakis | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | 28 | FW | Athanasiadis | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | 43 | MF | Georgios Georgiadis | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 19 | MF | Toni González | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | 18 | MF | Lambros Vangelis | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | 5 | DF | Christos Melissis | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | 14 | FW | Ivica Iliev | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 13 | DF | Stelios Malezas | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | TOTALS | TOTALS | TOTALS | 29 | 2 | 31 |

### Disciplinary record

| No. | Pos | Name | Super League | Super League | Super League | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | Total | Total | Total |
| 6 | MF | Sotiris Balafas | 8 | 1 | | | | | 8 | 1 | |
| 29 | FW | Glen Salmon | 7 | | | | | | 7 | | |
| 43 | MF | Georgios Georgiadis | 6 | | | | | | 6 | | |
| 10 | FW | Christodoulopoulos | 5 | | | 1 | | | 6 | | |
| 44 | DF | Ruud Knol | 4 | 1 | | | | | 4 | 1 | |
| 22 | MF | Ricardo Verón | 5 | | | | | | 5 | | |
| 3 | DF | Konstantinidis | 4 | | | | | | 4 | | |
| 27 | DF | Mirosław Sznaucner | 4 | | | | | | 4 | | |
| 1 | GK | Daniel Fernandes | 3 | | | | | | 3 | | |
| 5 | DF | Christos Melissis | 3 | | | | | | 3 | | |
| 4 | DF | Elias Charalambous | 3 | | | | | | 3 | | |
| 19 | MF | Toni González | 3 | | | | | | 3 | | |
| 18 | MF | Lambros Vangelis | 3 | | | | | | 3 | | |
| 14 | FW | Ivica Iliev | 3 | | | | | | 3 | | |
| 21 | DF | Baiano | 3 | | | | | | 3 | | |
| 8 | MF | Stelios Iliadis | 2 | | | | | | 2 | | |
| 23 | MF | Vassilis Lakis | 2 | | | | | | 2 | | |
| 7 | DF | Sérgio Conceição | 1 | | | | | | 1 | | |
| 13 | DF | Stelios Malezas | 1 | | | | | | 1 | | |
| 34 | DF | Vangelis Georgiou | 1 | | | | | | 1 | | |
| 16 | FW | Dimitrios Orfanos | 1 | | | | | | 1 | | |
| | FW | Zisis Vryzas | 1 | | | | | | 1 | | |
| | | TOTAL | 73 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 2 | 0 |
Ordered by , and
= Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card. 0 shown as blank