# 2024–25 PAOK FC season

The 2024–25 PAOK FC season is the club's 99th season in existence and the club's 66th 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, the Champions League, and the Europa League. The season covers the period from 23 July 2024 to 30 June 2025.

## Coaching staff

| Position | Staff |
| Head Coach | Răzvan Lucescu |
| Assistant Coach | |
| 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 2 February 2025
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 | CZE | Jiří Pavlenka |
| 2 | MF | GUI | Mady Camara |
| 4 | MF | PER | Sergio Peña |
| 5 | DF | GRE | Giannis Michailidis |
| 6 | DF | CRO | Dejan Lovren |
| 7 | MF | GRE | Giannis Konstantelias |
| 8 | MF | FRA | Tiemoué Bakayoko |
| 9 | FW | RUS | Fyodor Chalov |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Taison (vice-captain) |
| 14 | MF | SRB | Andrija Živković (vice-captain) |
| 15 | DF | GAM | Omar Colley |
| 16 | DF | POL | Tomasz Kędziora |
| 18 | DF | MEX | Jonathan Gómez |
| 19 | DF | ESP | Jonny Otto |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | DF | POR | Vieirinha (captain) |
| 21 | DF | GHA | Baba Rahman |
| 22 | MF | AUT | Stefan Schwab (vice-captain) |
| 23 | DF | ESP | Joan Sastre |
| 25 | DF | GRE | Konstantinos Thymianis |
| 28 | DF | POL | Mateusz Wieteska |
| 42 | GK | CRO | Dominik Kotarski |
| 47 | FW | ENG | Shola Shoretire |
| 54 | GK | GRE | Konstantinos Balomenos |
| 70 | FW | TAN | Mbwana Samatta |
| 71 | FW | ESP | Brandon Thomas |
| 77 | MF | BUL | Kiril Despodov |
| 80 | MF | GRE | Dimitris Pelkas |
| 82 | MF | FRA | Soualiho Meïté |
| 99 | GK | GRE | Antonis Tsiftsis |

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
| | MF | Panagiotis Tzimas | PAS Giannina | Loan return | 1 July 2024 | |
| 24 | MF | Marios Tsaousis | PAS Giannina | Loan return | 1 July 2024 | |
| 88 | DF | Lefteris Lyratzis | Asteras Tripolis | Loan return | 1 July 2024 | |
| 50 | MF | Filipe Soares | Famalicão | Loan return | 1 July 2024 | |
| 25 | DF | Konstantinos Thymianis | Panserraikos | Free transfer | 17 June 2024 | |
| 2 | MF | Mady Camara | Roma | Free transfer | 20 June 2024 | |
| 99 | GK | Antonis Tsiftsis | Asteras Tripolis | €400,000 + 20% resale | 23 June 2024 | |
| 16 | DF | Tomasz Kędziora | Dynamo Kyiv | Free transfer | 13 July 2024 | |
| 34 | FW | Tarik Tissoudali | Gent | €2.2M | 28 July 2024 | |
| 47 | FW | Shola Shoretire | Manchester United | Free transfer | 30 July 2024 | |
| 9 | FW | Fyodor Chalov | CSKA Moscow | €3M | 1 August 2024 | |
| 18 | DF | Jonathan Gómez | Real Sociedad | €400,000 | 23 August 2024 | |
| 8 | MF | Tiémoué Bakayoko | Lorient | Transfer | 31 August 2024 | |
| 15 | DF | Omar Colley | Beşiktaş | Transfer | 31 August 2024 | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | € 6,200,000.00 | € 6,200,000.00 |

### Out

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| 18 | GK | Živko Živković | | End of contract | 30 June 2024 | |
| 88 | MF | Marcos Antônio | Lazio | End of loan | 30 June 2024 | |
| 16 | DF | Tomasz Kędziora | Dynamo Kyiv | End of loan | 30 June 2024 | |
| 8 | MF | Soualiho Meïté | Benfica | End of loan | 30 June 2024 | |
| 95 | FW | Stefanos Tzimas | Nürnberg | Loan | 27 June 2024 | |
| | MF | Panagiotis Tzimas | Asteras Tripolis | Free transfer | 29 June 2024 | |
| 50 | MF | Filipe Soares | Farense | Loan | 9 July 2024 | |
| 15 | DF | William Troost-Ekong | Al-Kholood | €1.2M | 23 August 2024 | |
| 6 | MF | Theocharis Tsingaras | Atromitos | Undisclosed fee + ?% resale | 26 August 2024 | |
| 64 | GK | Christos Talichmanidis | Makedonikos | Loan | 26 August 2024 | |
| 4 | DF | Konstantinos Koulierakis | Wolfsburg | €11.75M | 29 August 2024 | |
| | DF | Lefteris Lyratzis | NEC | Loan | 2 September 2024 | |
| 55 | DF | Rafa Soares | Famalicão | Transfer | 2 September 2024 | |
| 3 | DF | Ivan Näsberg | Viborg | Transfer | 2 September 2024 | |
| 31 | MF | André Ricardo | Chaves | Loan | 2 September 2024 | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | € 12,950,000.00 | € 12,950,000.00 |

## 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 | 17 August 2024 | | Matchday 1 | 25 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 50 | 24 | +26 | 056.00 |
| Greek Football Cup | 30 October 2024 | 9 January 2025 | Round of 16 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 050.00 |
| Champions League | 24 July 2024 | 13 August 2024 | Second qualifying round | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 050.00 |
| Europa League | 22 August 2024 | 20 February 2025 | Play-off round | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 14 | +5 | 041.67 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 45 | 23 | 7 | 15 | 89 | 49 | +40 | 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 | 1 July 2024 | Present | 45 | 23 | 7 | 15 | 89 | 49 | +40 | 051.11 |
Last updated: 2 March 2025

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 2 | AEK Athens (Q) | 25 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 44 | 16 | +28 | 52 | Qualification for the Championship Play-Offs |
| 3 | Panathinaikos (Q) | 25 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 30 | 21 | +9 | 49 | Qualification for the Championship Play-Offs |
| 4 | PAOK (Q) | 25 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 50 | 24 | +26 | 46 | Qualification for the Championship Play-Offs |
| 5 | Aris (Q) | 25 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 31 | 28 | +3 | 41 | Qualification for the Europe Play-Offs |
| 6 | OFI (Q) | 25 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 37 | 37 | 0 | 36 | Qualification for the Europe Play-Offs |

#### 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 | W | D | W | L | W | D | L | W | L | W | D | W | W | W | L | L | D | W | L | W | W | L | W | |
| Position | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |

#### Results summary

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

### UEFA Europa League
#### Play-off round
#### League phase

The match schedule was released on 31 August 2024, the day after the draw.

#### Europa League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 20 | Midtjylland | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 11 | Advance to knockout phase play-offs (unseeded) |
| 21 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 11 | Advance to knockout phase play-offs (unseeded) |
| 22 | PAOK | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 10 | +2 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase play-offs (unseeded) |
| 23 | Twente | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase play-offs (unseeded) |
| 24 | Fenerbahçe | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 11 | −2 | 10 | Advance to knockout phase play-offs (unseeded) |

## Statistics
### Squad statistics

The squad was informed and the official page of PAOK FC.
    As of 2 March 2025
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 | Champions League | Champions League | Europa League | Europa League | Total | Total |
| No. | No. | Name | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||||||
| 42 | 42 | Dominik Kotarski | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 40 | 0 |
| 99 | 99 | Antonis Tsiftsis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | Jiří Pavlenka | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Defenders |||||||||||||
| 16 | 16 | Tomasz Kędziora | 20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 37 | 0 |
| 21 | 21 | Baba Rahman | 17 (5) | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 (1) | 2 | 33 (6) | 8 |
| 23 | 23 | Joan Sastre | 11 (4) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 (2) | 0 | 19 (6) | 1 |
| 5 | 5 | Giannis Michailidis | 10 (1) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 21 (1) | 1 |
| 23 | 23 | Jonny | 16 (2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 29 (2) | 0 |
| 25 | 25 | Konstantinos Thymianis | 0 (3) | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 1 (5) | 0 |
| 15 | 15 | Omar Colley | 6 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (2) | 0 | 9 (4) | 0 |
| 18 | 18 | Jonathan Gómez | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 6 | 6 | Dejan Lovren | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 90 | 90 | Dimitrios Kottas | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 |
| 28 | 28 | Mateusz Wieteska | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Midfielders |||||||||||||
| 22 | 22 | Stefan Schwab | 15 (5) | 5 | 0 (4) | 0 | 3 (1) | 0 | 5 (6) | 1 | 23 (16) | 6 |
| 20 | 20 | Vieirinha | 2 (5) | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (8) | 0 |
| 7 | 7 | Giannis Konstantelias | 17 (6) | 4 | 2 (1) | 0 | 2 (2) | 0 | 9 (2) | 3 | 30 (11) | 7 |
| 27 | 27 | Magomed Ozdoyev | 16 (5) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 (1) | 1 | 32 (6) | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | Mady Camara | 13 (10) | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 (3) | 0 | 8 (3) | 0 | 26 (16) | 8 |
| 8 | 8 | Tiemoué Bakayoko | 3 (1) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) | 1 | 5 (3) | 1 |
| 4 | 4 | Sergio Peña | 2 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (2) | 0 |
| 80 | 80 | Dimitris Pelkas | 1 (5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 (5) | 1 |
| 82 | 82 | Soualiho Meïté | 1 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 (3) | 0 |
| Forwards |||||||||||||
| 14 | 14 | Andrija Živković | 14 (5) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 (2) | 1 | 8 (1) | 1 | 28 (8) | 8 |
| 71 | 71 | Brandon Thomas | 5 (3) | 0 | 1 (1) | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 (3) | 1 | 14 (7) | 2 |
| 77 | 77 | Kiril Despodov | 13 (10) | 3 | 0 (3) | 0 | 2 (2) | 0 | 5 (7) | 3 | 20 (22) | 6 |
| 70 | 70 | Mbwana Samatta | 4 (5) | 4 | 1 (3) | 0 | 0 (2) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 (10) | 5 |
| 11 | 11 | Taison | 14 (5) | 2 | 2 (1) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 (1) | 2 | 29 (7) | 7 |
| 47 | 47 | Shola Shoretire | 5 (10) | 2 | 2 (1) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 (6) | 0 | 7 (17) | 4 |
| 9 | 9 | Fyodor Chalov | 8 (11) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 4 (7) | 2 | 14 (19) | 5 |
| Players transferred out during the season |||||||||||||
| 15 | 15 | William Troost-Ekong | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | 6 | Theocharis Tsingaras | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | Konstantinos Koulierakis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| 55 | 55 | Rafa Soares | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 2 (1) | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | Ivan Näsberg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | 10 | Thomas Murg | 12 (2) | 1 | 1 (1) | 1 | 2 (2) | 1 | 1 (1) | 0 | 16 (6) | 3 |
| 34 | 34 | Tarik Tissoudali | 8 (8) | 2 | 1 (2) | 3 | 0 (3) | 0 | 2 (4) | 1 | 11 (17) | 6 |

### Goalscorers

As of 2 March 2025
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Player | Super League | Greek Cup | Champions League | Europa League | Total |
| 1 | 14 | FW | Živković | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | 21 | DF | Baba | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| | 2 | MF | Camara | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | 7 | MF | Konstantelias | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| | 11 | FW | Taison | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | 34 | FW | Tissoudali | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| | 77 | FW | Despodov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| | 22 | MF | Schwab | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 9 | 9 | FW | Chalov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| | 70 | FW | Samatta | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 11 | 47 | FW | Shoretire | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 12 | 4 | DF | Koulierakis | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| | 10 | MF | Murg | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 14 | 27 | MF | Ozdoyev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| | 71 | FW | Brandon | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | 15 | DF | Troost-Ekong | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| | 23 | DF | Sastre | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | 80 | MF | Pelkas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | 5 | DF | Michailidis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | | 50 | 11 | 9 | 19 | 89 |

### Clean sheets

As of 2 March 2025
| Player | League | Cup | CL | EL | Total | Games played | Percentage |
| Dominik Kotarski | 8 | | 1 | 5 | 14 | 40 | 35,00% |
| Antonis Tsiftsis | 1 | | | | 1 | 2 | 50,00% |
| Jiří Pavlenka | 1 | 1 | | | 2 | 3 | 66,67% |
| Total | 10 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 45 | 37,78% |

### Disciplinary record

As of 2 March 2025
| S | P | Name | Super League | Super League | Super League | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | Champions League | Champions League | Champions League | Europa League | Europa League | Europa League | Total | Total | Total |
| 22 | MF | Schwab | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Baba | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | Sastre | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | MF | Camara | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | Ozdoyev | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Michailidis | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | FW | Živković | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | Jonny | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | Gómez | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | Lovren | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | DF | Vieirinha | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | Konstantelias | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Bakayoko | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | Colley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | FW | Despodov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | Taison | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | Kędziora | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | GK | Kotarski | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | FW | Shoretire | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 | FW | Brandon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 80 | MF | Pelkas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | Wieteska | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | DF | Koulierakis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | Murg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | FW | Tissoudali | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |