# 2019–20 PAOK FC season

The 2019–20 season was PAOK Football Club's 94th in existence and the club's 61st consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. The team attempted to defend their Super League and Greek Football Cup titles won during the 2018–19 season, and also competed in the play-offs to qualify for the UEFA Europa League.

## Coaching staff

| Position | Staff |
| Head Coach | Abel Ferreira |
| Assistant Coach | Carlos Martinho |
| Assistant Coach | Vítor Castanheira |
| Assistant Coach | Alexandros Maniatoglou |
| Trainer | Joao Martins |
| Trainer | Anestis Aslanidis |
| Team Manager | Dimitrios Saraidaris |
| Goalkeeping coach | Giorgos Skiathitis |
| Head Gymnast Rehabilitation | Georgios Tsonakas |
| Rehabilitation Trainer | Vasilios Kanaras |
| Fitness Coach | ? |
| Data Analyst (Vis-Track) | Ioannis Tsaniklidis |
| Opponent Analysis | Ioannis Thomaidis |
| Opponent Analysis | Makis Kosmidis |
| Head of Medical Services | Efthymis Papasoulis |
| Club's Doctor | Kostas Tziantzis |
| Exercise Physiology | Giorgos Ziogas |
| Nutritionist | Ioanna Paspala |
| Physiotherapist | Petros Nikolakoudis |
| Physiotherapist | Nikolaos Tsirelas |
| Physiotherapist | Athanasios Kapoulas |
| Physiotherapist | Nikolaos Gagalis |
| Physiotherapist | Nikolaos Mouratidis |
| Academy's Technical Director | Daniel Bigas Alsina |
Last updated: 29 December 2019 Source: PAOK F.C.

### Other information

| Owner | Dimera Group Limited |
| Chairman | Ivan Savvidis |
| Vice-president & CEO | Chrisostomos Gagatsis |
| Technical Director | Mário Branco |
| Members | Giorgos Savvidis Maria Goncharova Artur Davidyan Dimokratis Papadopoulos Ilias Gerontidis |
| Consultant of Football | Giorgos Koudas |
| Ground (capacity and dimensions) | Toumba Stadium (29,000 / 106×71 metres) |
| Training Ground | PAOK Sport Center |
Source: PAOK F.C.

## Players
### Players in

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | EU | Moving from | Type | Transfer window | Ends | Transfer fee |
| 33 | MF | Douglas Augusto | 27 | Non-EU | Corinthians | Transfer | Summer | 2023 | €3.0M |
| 22 | FW | Lazaros Lamprou | 26 | EU | Fortuna Sittard | Loan Return | Summer | 2023 | Free |
| 24 | MF | Anderson Esiti | 30 | Non-EU | Gent | Transfer | Summer | 2023 | €3.5M |
| 99 | MF | Miroslav Stoch | 35 | EU | Slavia Praha | Transfer | Summer | 2023 | €1.5M |
Total spending: €8M

### Players out

| N | Pos. | Name | Age | EU | Moving to | Type | Transfer window | Transfer fee |
| 74 | FW | Amr Warda | 31 | Non-EU | AEL | Loan | Summer | Free |
| 30 | GK | Nikos Melissas | 31 | EU | Volos | Loan | Summer | Free |
| 11 | FW | Pedro Henrique Konzen | 34 | Non-EU | Kayserispor | Transfer | Summer | 650K |
| 1 | GK | Rodrigo Rey | 33 | EU | Pachuca | Loan | Summer | Free |
| 26 | MF | Ergys Kaçe | 31 | Non-EU | AEL | Loan | Summer | Free |
| 75 | MF | Thibault Moulin | 34 | EU | Xanthi | Loan | Summer | Free |
| 11 | FW | Nikos Karelis | 32 | EU | Genk | End of Loan | Summer | |
| 26 | MF | Sérgio Oliveira | 32 | EU | Porto | End of Loan | Summer | |
| 13 | DF | Stelios Malezas | 39 | EU | Xanthi | End of contract | Summer | |
| 27 | FW | Giannis Mystakidis | 29 | EU | Volos | Loan | Summer | Free |
| – | DF | Marios Tsaousis | 24 | EU | Volos | Loan | Summer | Free |
| – | DF | Apostolos Diamantis | 24 | EU | Volos | Loan | Summer | Free |
| 13 | GK | Panagiotis Glykos | 37 | EU | | End of contract | Summer | |
| – | DF | Lefteris Lyratzis | 24 | EU | Volos | Loan | Summer | Free |
| – | MF | Konstantinos Balogiannis | 25 | EU | Volos | Loan | Summer | Free |
| – | GK | Nikos Bourganis | 27 | EU | Karaiskakis | Loan | Summer | Free |
| – | MF | Anastasios Meletidis | 25 | EU | Karaiskakis | Loan | Summer | Free |
| – | MF | Zisis Chatzistravos | 24 | EU | Karaiskakis | Loan | Summer | Free |
| 20 | FW | Efthymis Koulouris | 28 | EU | Toulouse | Transfer | Summer | 3.5M + 15% resale fee |

## Pre-season and other friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Super League Greece | 25 August 2019 | 19 July 2020 | Matchday 1 | Runner up | 36 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 58 | 29 | +29 | 058.33 |
| Greek Cup | 7 January 2020 | 24 June 2020 | Round of 16 | Semi-finals | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 083.33 |
| UEFA Champion's League | 6 August 2019 | 13 August 2019 | Third qualifying round | Third qualifying round | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 000.00 |
| UEFA Europa League | 22 August 2019 | 29 August 2019 | Play-offs | Play-offs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | +0 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 46 | 27 | 11 | 8 | 78 | 42 | +36 | 058.70 |
Last updated: 19 July 2020 (2020-07-19). 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 % |
| Abel Ferreira | 01.07.2019 | 19.07.2020 | 46 | 27 | 11 | 8 | 76 | 40 | +36 | 058.70 |
Last updated: 19 July 2020

### Super League Greece

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Olympiacos | 26 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 53 | 9 | +44 | 66 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 2 | PAOK | 26 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 50 | 23 | +27 | 59 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 3 | AEK Athens | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 42 | 22 | +20 | 51 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 4 | Panathinaikos | 26 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 35 | 23 | +12 | 44 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
| 5 | OFI | 26 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 35 | 35 | 0 | 34 | Qualification for the Play-off round |
* ↑ Head-to-head points: OFI 4, Aris 1.

#### 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | W | D | D | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | L | D |
| Position | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |

#### Matches

* Man of the Match as has been voted by PAOK fans on official PAOK website and mobile app.

## Play-off round

The top six teams from Regular season will meet twice (10 matches per team) for places in 2020–21 UEFA Champions League and 2020–21 UEFA Europa League as well as deciding the league champion.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Olympiacos (C) | 36 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 74 | 16 | +58 | 91 | Qualification for the Champions League play-off round |
| 2 | PAOK | 36 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 58 | 29 | +29 | 73 | Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round |
| 3 | AEK Athens | 36 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 59 | 32 | +27 | 69 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Panathinaikos | 36 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 43 | 32 | +11 | 58 | |
| 5 | Aris | 36 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 48 | 51 | −3 | 42 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round |
| 6 | OFI | 36 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 43 | 56 | −13 | 36 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round |
* ↑ Panathinaikos were banned from UEFA club competitions for the first season they would qualify between the 2018–19 and 2020–21 seasons by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body on 24 April 2018 due to overdue payables, and since they did not qualify for either the 2018–19 or 2019–20 season, they were banned from the 2020–21 season.

### Results by round

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

### Greek Football Cup

PAOK entered the competition as the three-time defending champions, having won consecutive editions in 2016–17, 2017–18 and 2018–19.

#### Semi-finals
### UEFA Champions League
#### Third qualifying round

Win  Draw  Loss

### UEFA Europa League
#### Qualifying rounds
## Statistics
### Squad statistics

    As of 19 July 2020
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 |||||||||||||
| 31 | 31 | Alexandros Paschalakis | 16 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
| 60 | 60 | Symeon Papadopoulos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | 88 | Živko Živković | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| Defenders |||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Rodrigo Soares | 7 (7) | 0 | 2 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 (9) | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | Léo Matos | 26 (4) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 31 (4) | 5 |
| 4 | 4 | Sverrir Ingi Ingason | 27 (1) | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 (1) | 4 |
| 5 | 5 | Fernando Varela | 27 (1) | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 36 (1) | 2 |
| 6 | 6 | Enea Mihaj | 3 (1) | 1 | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (2) | 1 |
| 15 | 15 | José Ángel Crespo | 15 (1) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 (1) | 2 |
| 20 | 20 | Vieirinha | 14 (6) | 5 | 2 (1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 (7) | 6 |
| 23 | 23 | Dimitris Giannoulis | 34 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 44 | 1 |
| 49 | 49 | Giannis Michailidis | 4 (3) | 1 | 0 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (5) | 1 |
| Midfielders |||||||||||||
| 7 | 7 | Omar El Kaddouri | 16 (7) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22 (7) | 1 |
| 8 | 8 | Maurício | 18 (9) | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 (9) | 0 |
| 10 | 10 | Dimitris Pelkas | 11 (9) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 (9) | 7 |
| 19 | 19 | Pontus Wernbloom | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | 21 | Diego Biseswar | 24 (7) | 2 | 4 (1) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 32 (8) | 5 |
| 24 | 24 | Anderson Esiti | 12 (9) | 0 | 2 (2) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 18 (11) | 0 |
| 27 | 27 | Josip Mišić | 25 (1) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 29 (3) | 6 |
| 33 | 33 | Douglas Augusto | 15 (3) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 (2) | 0 | 16 (6) | 2 |
| 51 | 51 | Theocharis Tsingaras | 0 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (2) | 0 |
| Forwards |||||||||||||
| 9 | 9 | Karol Świderski | 23 (11) | 11 | 2 (2) | 2 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 (2) | 1 | 25 (16) | 14 |
| 18 | 18 | Dimitris Limnios | 27 (8) | 4 | 4 (1) | 1 | 0 (2) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 32 (11) | 6 |
| 47 | 47 | Chuba Akpom | 14 (19) | 8 | 4 (2) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 22 (21) | 10 |
| 98 | 98 | Léo Jabá | 2 (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 (4) | 0 |
| 99 | 99 | Miroslav Stoch | 6 (5) | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 7 (8) | 0 |
| 22 | 22 | Lazaros Lamprou | 4 (6) | 2 | 1 (4) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 (10) | 3 |
| 68 | 68 | Christos Tzolis | 6 (3) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (3) | 1 |
| Players transferred out during the season |||||||||||||

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos. | Player | Super League | Greek Cup | Champions League | Europa League | Total |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | TOTAL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Most assists

| Rank | Player | Total |

### Clean sheets

| Player | League | Cup | CL | EL | Total | Games played | Percentage |
| Alexandros Paschalakis | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 26 | 34,62% |
| Živko Živković | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 20 | 55,00% |
| Total | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 46 | 43,48% |

### Disciplinary record

| S | P | Name | Super League | Super League | Super League | Cup | Cup | Cup | Champions League | Champions League | Champions League | Europa League | Europa League | Europa League | Total | Total | Total |
| 3 | DF | Léo Matos | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | AM | Omar El Kaddouri | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | AM | Dimitris Pelkas | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Diego Biseswar | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | Dimitris Limnios | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | GK | Alexandros Paschalakis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | José Ángel Crespo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | Dimitris Giannoulis | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| 33 | DF | Douglas Augusto | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | FW | Chuba Akpom | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | GK | Živko Živković | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Fernando Varela | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | Anderson Esiti | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | Josip Mišić | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 98 | FW | Léo Jabá | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | Miroslav Stoch | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | Sverrir Ingi Ingason | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | Karol Świderski | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Maurício | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | DF | Giannis Michailidis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | Vieirinha | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | FW | Lazaros Lamprou | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 68 | FW | Christos Tzolis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | Rodrigo Soares | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | Enea Mihaj | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |