# 2022–23 PAOK FC season

The 2022–23 PAOK FC season is the club's 97th season in existence and the club's 64th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. In addition to the domestic league, PAOK are participating in this season's editions of the Greek Cup and in the Europa Conference League. The season covers the period from 21 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.

## Coaching staff

| Position | Staff |
| Head Coach | Răzvan Lucescu |
| Assistant Coach | Cristiano Bacci |
| Goalkeeping Coach | Jose Moreira |
| Head Fitness Coach | Matteo Spatafora |
| Fitness coach | Paolo Castorina |
| Rehabilitation Coach | Georgios Tsonakas |
Last updated: 26 May 2021 Source:

## Players
### Current squad

    As of 29 January 2023
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 |
| 2 | DF | GRE | Giannis Kargas |
| 3 | DF | NOR | Ivan Näsberg |
| 4 | DF | ISL | Sverrir Ingi Ingason (vice-captain) |
| 5 | DF | GRE | Giannis Michailidis |
| 7 | MF | MAR | Omar El Kaddouri |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Douglas Augusto |
| 9 | FW | POR | Nélson Oliveira |
| 10 | MF | AUT | Thomas Murg |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Taison |
| 14 | MF | SRB | Andrija Živković |
| 16 | DF | POL | Tomasz Kędziora |
| 18 | GK | SRB | Živko Živković |
| 19 | DF | GRE | Lefteris Lyratzis |
| 20 | DF | POR | Vieirinha (captain) |
| 21 | MF | SUR | Diego Biseswar |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | MF | AUT | Stefan Schwab |
| 23 | DF | ESP | Joan Sastre |
| 24 | DF | GRE | Marios Tsaousis |
| 26 | MF | POR | Tiago Dantas (on loan from Benfica) |
| 27 | MF | SVN | Jasmin Kurtić (on loan from Parma) |
| 31 | MF | POR | André Ricardo |
| 42 | GK | CRO | Dominik Kotarski |
| 50 | MF | POR | Filipe Soares |
| 55 | DF | POR | Rafa Soares |
| 59 | DF | GRE | Konstantinos Koulierakis |
| 64 | GK | GRE | Christos Talichmanidis |
| 65 | MF | GRE | Giannis Konstantelias |
| 71 | FW | ESP | Brandon Thomas |
| 77 | FW | GER | Khaled Narey |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
| | MF | Nika Ninua | Lamia | Loan return | 1 July 2022 | |
| 65 | MF | Giannis Konstantelias | Eupen | Loan return | 1 July 2022 | |
| 97 | FW | Lazaros Lamprou | OFI | Loan return | 1 July 2022 | |
| | MF | Georgios Vrakas | Levadiakos | Loan return | 1 July 2022 | |
| | MF | Pavlos Logaras | Volos | Loan return | 1 July 2022 | |
| 30 | MF | Nicolás Quagliata | Wanderers | 1,8 mio | 3 June 2022 | |
| 23 | DF | Joan Sastre | Mallorca | 400K | 3 June 2022 | |
| 55 | MF | Rafa Soares | Vitória Guimarães | Free transfer | 7 June 2022 | |
| 2 | DF | Giannis Kargas | PAS Giannina | 200K | 25 June 2022 | |
| 26 | MF | Tiago Dantas | Benfica | Loan | 25 June 2022 | |
| 42 | GK | Dominik Kotarski | Ajax | 2,0 mio | 27 June 2022 | |
| 31 | MF | André Ricardo | Famalicão | Free transfer | 27 June 2022 | |
| 71 | FW | Brandon Thomas | Málaga | Free transfer | 14 July 2022 | |
| 77 | FW | Khaled Narey | Fortuna Düsseldorf | Free transfer | 17 July 2022 | |
| 44 | DF | Raul Morichelli | Roma | Free transfer + resale-clause | 27 July 2022 | |
| 3 | DF | Ivan Näsberg | Vålerenga | Free transfer | 2 August 2022 | |
| 11 | FW | Taison | Internacional | Free transfer | 14 January 2023 | |
| 16 | DF | Tomasz Kędziora | Dynamo Kyiv | Loan | 29 January 2023 | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | €4,400,000 | €4,400,000 |

### Out

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| 47 | FW | Chuba Akpom | Middlesbrough | End of loan | 30 June 2022 | |
| 16 | DF | Sidcley | Dynamo Kyiv | End of loan | 30 June 2022 | |
| 28 | FW | Alexandru Mitriță | New York City | End of loan | 30 June 2022 | |
| 31 | GK | Alexandros Paschalakis | Free agent | End of contract | 30 June 2022 | |
| 15 | DF | José Ángel Crespo | APOEL | End of contract | 30 June 2022 | |
| 5 | DF | Fernando Varela | Casa Pia | End of contract | 30 June 2022 | |
| 29 | FW | Antonio Čolak | Rangers | 2,4 mio | 7 July 2022 | |
| | FW | Georgios Vrakas | Levadiakos | Loan | 14 July 2022 | |
| 68 | MF | Panagiotis Tzimas | PAS Giannina | Loan | 20 July 2022 | |
| 6 | DF | Enea Mihaj | Famalicão | 200K + 50% resale-clause | 7 July 2022 | |
| 13 | DF | Lucas Taylor | Shakhtar Donetsk | Loan | 23 August 2022 | |
| 97 | FW | Lazaros Lamprou | Excelsior | Free transfer | 31 August 2022 | |
| 51 | MF | Theocharis Tsingaras | Toulouse | Loan | 1 September 2022 | |
| 70 | FW | Georgios Koutsias | Volos | Loan | 15 September 2022 | |
| 70 | FW | Georgios Koutsias | Chicago Fire | 2,5 mio $ + 15% resale-clause | 28 February 2023 | |
| 30 | MF | Nicolás Quagliata | Cuiabá | Loan | 10 March 2023 | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | €4,900,000 | €4,900,000 |
Transferfee for Koutsias is about 2,3 in €.

## Pre-season and other friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Super League Greece | 20 August 2022 | 14 May 2023 | Matchday 1 | 36 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 57 | 32 | +25 | 052.78 |
| Greek Football Cup | 14 December 2022 | 24 May 2023 | Round of 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 057.14 |
| UEFA Europa Conference League | 21 July 2022 | 28 July 2022 | Second qualifying round | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 45 | 23 | 13 | 9 | 71 | 40 | +31 | 051.11 |
Source: Soccerway

### 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 % |
| Răzvan Lucescu | 18 June 2022 | Present | 45 | 23 | 13 | 9 | 71 | 40 | +31 | 051.11 |
Last updated: 24 May 2023

### Super League Greece
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 2 | AEK Athens | 26 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 51 | 14 | +37 | 59 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 3 | Olympiacos | 26 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 53 | 14 | +39 | 56 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 4 | PAOK | 26 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 43 | 15 | +28 | 54 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 5 | Aris | 26 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 38 | 24 | +14 | 40 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 6 | Volos | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 31 | 38 | −7 | 39 | Qualification for the Play-off round |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

#### 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 |
| Ground | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | D | W | D | L | D | W | D | L | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | W | W | D | D | W | D | W | W |
| Position | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |

## Play-off round

The top six teams from Regular season will meet twice (10 matches per team) for places in 2023–24 UEFA Champions League, 2023–24 UEFA Europa League and 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League as well as deciding the league champion.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | AEK Athens (C) | 36 | 26 | 5 | 5 | 69 | 17 | +52 | 83 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 2 | Panathinaikos | 36 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 47 | 16 | +31 | 78 | Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Olympiacos | 36 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 70 | 24 | +46 | 73 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
| 4 | PAOK | 36 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 57 | 32 | +25 | 67 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round |
| 5 | Aris | 36 | 15 | 6 | 15 | 55 | 41 | +14 | 51 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round |
| 6 | Volos | 36 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 35 | 66 | −31 | 40 | |

### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | W | L | L | W | L | L | W | D | W | L |
| Position | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |

### UEFA Europa Conference League
#### Second qualifying round
## Statistics
### Squad statistics

The squad was informed and the official page of PAOK FC.
    As of 24 May 2023
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 | Europa Conference League | Europa Conference League | Total | Total |
| No. | No. | Name | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||||
| 18 | 18 | Živko Živković | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 42 | 42 | Dominik Kotarski | 34 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 0 |
| Defenders |||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Giannis Kargas | 7 (1) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 (1) | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | Sverrir Ingason | 30 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 3 |
| 3 | 3 | Ivan Näsberg | 8 (4) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 (4) | 1 |
| 19 | 19 | Lefteris Lyratzis | 12 (2) | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 (3) | 0 |
| 23 | 23 | Joan Sastre | 17 (7) | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 24 (7) | 1 |
| 24 | 24 | Marios Tsaousis | 6 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 (3) | 0 |
| 55 | 55 | Rafa Soares | 26 | 0 | 4 (1) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 32 (1) | 0 |
| 59 | 59 | Konstantinos Koulierakis | 24 (1) | 2 | 5 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 (2) | 2 |
| 75 | 75 | Ermis Selimaj | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 |
| 16 | 16 | Tomasz Kędziora | 7 (1) | 1 | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 (2) | 1 |
| Midfielders |||||||||||
| 7 | 7 | Omar El Kaddouri | 9 (14) | 0 | 0 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 (16) | 0 |
| 10 | 10 | Thomas Murg | 1 (3) | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (4) | 0 |
| 22 | 22 | Stefan Schwab | 14 (17) | 3 | 3 (4) | 1 | 1 (1) | 0 | 18 (22) | 4 |
| 27 | 27 | Jasmin Kurtić | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 11 (1) | 3 |
| 8 | 8 | Douglas Augusto | 29 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 4 |
| 20 | 20 | Vieirinha | 7 (8) | 0 | 3 (3) | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 10 (12) | 0 |
| 21 | 21 | Diego Biseswar | 4 (21) | 0 | 2 (5) | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 6 (27) | 0 |
| 50 | 50 | Filipe Soares | 5 (15) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 8 (16) | 1 |
| 26 | 26 | Tiago Dantas | 24 (8) | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 31 (8) | 5 |
| 65 | 65 | Giannis Konstantelias | 26 (4) | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 (1) | 0 | 32 (5) | 3 |
| 31 | 31 | André Ricardo | 0 (3) | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (4) | 0 |
| Forwards |||||||||||
| 18 | 18 | Nélson Oliveira | 24 (8) | 7 | 2 (2) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 26 (10) | 9 |
| 14 | 14 | Andrija Živković | 28 (5) | 7 | 4 (2) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 34 (7) | 7 |
| 71 | 71 | Brandon Thomas | 11 (18) | 7 | 5 (2) | 5 | 0 (1) | 0 | 16 (21) | 12 |
| 77 | 77 | Khaled Narey | 26 (2) | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 (1) | 0 | 33 (3) | 8 |
| 45 | 45 | Vasilios Gordeziani | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 |
| 95 | 95 | Stefanos Tzimas | 0 (4) | 1 | 0 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (7) | 1 |
| 11 | 11 | Taison | 5 (9) | 1 | 2 (3) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 (12) | 2 |
| Players transferred out during the season |||||||||||
| 70 | 70 | Georgios Koutsias | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 |
| 30 | 30 | Nicolás Quagliata | 0 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 (3) | 0 |

### Goalscorers

As of 24 May 2023
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Player | Super League | Greek Cup | Europa Conference League | Total |
| 1 | 71 | FW | Brandon | 7 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| 2 | 9 | FW | Oliveira | 7 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 3 | 77 | FW | Narey | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | 14 | FW | A. Živković | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 | 26 | MF | Dantas | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| | 8 | MF | Douglas Augusto | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 7 | 22 | MF | Schwab | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | 27 | MF | Kurtić | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| | 65 | MF | Konstantelias | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| | 4 | DF | Ingason | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | 59 | DF | Koulierakis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| | 11 | FW | Taison | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | 50 | MF | F. Soares | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | 3 | DF | Näsberg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | 16 | DF | Kędziora | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | 95 | FW | Tzimas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | 23 | DF | Joan Sastre | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | | 57 | 13 | 1 | 71 |

### Clean sheets

As of 24 May 2023
| Player | League | Cup | ECL | Total | Games played | Percentage |
| Dominik Kotarski | 16 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 41 | 43,90% |
| Živko Živković | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 50,00% |
| Total | 17 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 45 | 44,44% |

### Disciplinary record

As of 24 May 2023
| S | P | Name | Super League | Super League | Super League | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | Europa Conference League | Europa Conference League | Europa Conference League | Total | Total | Total |
| 14 | FW | A. Živković | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| 27 | MF | Kurtić | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Douglas Augusto | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | Sastre | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | Kargas | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | MF | Vieirinha | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | Ingason | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | MF | F. Soares | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | Tsaousis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | El Kaddouri | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | DF | Lyratzis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 | FW | Brandon | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | Oliveira | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | GK | Kotarski | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | Dantas | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | Schwab | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 59 | DF | Koulierakis | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Biseswar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | DF | R. Soares | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 65 | MF | Konstantelias | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | FW | Narey | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | Taison | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | Näsberg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | GK | Ž. Živković | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |