# 2005–06 PAOK FC season

The 2005–06 season was PAOK Football Club's 80th in existence and the club's 47th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. The team will enter the Greek Football Cup in the Fourth round and will also enter in 2005–06 UEFA Cup starting from the 1st Round.

## Players
### Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | POR | Daniel Fernandes |
| 33 | GK | GRE | Kyriakos Tohouroglou |
| 40 | GK | GRE | Dimitris Kyriakidis |
| 2 | DF | TUR | Fatih Akyel |
| 3 | DF | GRE | Vangelis Koutsopoulos |
| 4 | DF | GRE | Christos Karipidis |
| 6 | DF | GRE | Paraskevas Andralas |
| 13 | DF | GRE | Stelios Malezas |
| 19 | DF | GRE | Petros Konteon |
| 23 | DF | GRE | Dionysis Chasiotis |
| 24 | DF | NGA | Ifeanyi Udeze |
| 37 | DF | GRE | Nikos Arabatzis |
| 44 | DF | CYP | Elias Charalambous |
| 45 | DF | GRE | Christos Melissis |
| 5 | MF | GRE | Christos Maladenis |
| 7 | MF | GRE | Theodoros Zagorakis |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | MF | GRE | Dimitrios Zografakis |
| 10 | MF | EGY | Shikabala |
| 18 | MF | GRE | Lambros Vangelis |
| 22 | MF | CMR | Guy Feutchine |
| 25 | MF | GRE | Sotiris Balafas |
| 27 | MF | GRE | Chousein Moumin |
| 28 | MF | GRE | Stelios Iliadis |
| 30 | MF | CYP | Panayiotis Engomitis |
| 31 | MF | GRE | Pantelis Konstantinidis |
| 77 | MF | EGY | Amir Azmy |
| 9 | FW | GRE | Dimitris Salpingidis |
| 11 | FW | CYP | Yiasoumis Yiasoumi |
| 20 | FW | POL | Marcin Mieciel |
| 29 | FW | GRE | Lazaros Christodoulopoulos |

## Transfers
### Players transferred in

| Transfer window | Pos. | Name | Club | Fee |
| Summer | DF | Petros Konteon | Niki Volou | End of loan |
| Summer | DF | Stelios Malezas | Irodotos | End of loan |
| Summer | MF | Stelios Iliadis | Apollon Kalamarias | 250k |
| Summer | FW | Vladimir Karalic | Borac Banja Luka | 150k |
| Summer | MF | Sotiris Balafas | Anagennisi Arta | 80K |
| Summer | DF | Elias Charalambous | Omonia | Free |
| Summer | DF | P. Konstantinidis | Panathinaikos | Free |
| Summer | MF | Theodoros Zagorakis | Bologna | Free |
| Summer | MF | Chousein Moumin | Panthrakikos | 50k |
| Summer | DF | Fatih Akyel | Bochum | Free |
| Summer | FW | L. Christodoulopoulos | PAOK U20 | |
| Winter | DF | Nikos Arabatzis | Panserraikos | 150k |
| Winter | DF | Christos Melissis | Panserraikos | 100k |

### Players transferred out

| Transfer window | Pos. | Name | Club | Fee |
| Summer | MF | Giorgos Theodoridis | Panathinaikos | Free |
| Summer | MF | Liasos Louka | AEL | Free |
| Summer | MF | Loukas Karadimos | Atromitos | Free |
| Summer | FW | Nikos Skarmoutsos | Atromitos | Free |
| Summer | MF | Dimitrios Zavadias | Veria | Free |
| Summer | MF | Sladan Spasic | AEL | Free |
| Summer | DF | Giorgos Zisopoulos | Levadiakos | Free |
| Summer | GK | Ilias Atmatsidis | Retired | |
| Winter | MF | Dimitrios Zografakis | Xanthi | Free |
| Winter | MF | Petros Konteon | Panserraikos | Free |
| Winter | DF | Paraskevas Andralas | Levadiakos | Free |
| Winter | FW | Vladimir Karalic | FK Sarajevo | Free |
| Winter | DF | Fatih Akyel | Trabzonspor | Free |
| Winter | DF | V. Koutsopoulos | Panionios | Free |

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Alpha Ethniki | 30 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 44 | 31 | +13 | 043.33 |
| Greek Cup | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +0 | 000.00 |
| UEFA Cup | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 016.67 |
| Total | 37 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 54 | 40 | +14 | 037.84 |
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 % |
| Nikos Karageorgiou | Start Season | 16.09.2005 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 000.00 |
| Georgios Kostikos (Interim) | 17.09.2005 | 20.02.2006 | 24 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 36 | 25 | +11 | 037.50 |
| Ilie Dumitrescu | 21.02.2006 | End season | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 11 | +4 | 050.00 |

## Alpha Ethniki
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 4 | Iraklis | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 39 | 31 | +8 | 51 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 5 | Skoda Xanthi | 30 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 31 | 25 | +6 | 47 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 6 | PAOK | 30 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 44 | 31 | +13 | 46 | Ineligible for 2006–07 European competitions |
| 7 | Atromitos | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 36 | 37 | −1 | 42 | Qualification for UEFA Cup first round |
| 8 | AEL | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 31 | 37 | −6 | 39 | Qualification for Intertoto Cup third round |
* ↑ PAOK were not licensed to play in the UEFA Cup therefore was replaced by the 7th placed team in the league table, Atromitos.

### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 14 May 2006 (2006-05-14). 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 | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H |
| Result | L | D | D | W | D | W | W | L | W | D | W | L | D | W | D | W | L | W | L | L | L | D | L | W | W | W | W | W | L | L |
| Position | 15 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 |

#### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss

## UEFA Cup
### First round

PAOK advances to the UEFA Cup group stage.

### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | RAP | SHK | STU | PAOK | REN |
| 1 | Rapid București | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | — | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | 0–1 | — | — | 1–0 | — |
| 3 | VfB Stuttgart | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | 2–1 | 0–2 | — | — | — |
| 4 | PAOK | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 3 | | — | — | 1–2 | — | 5–1 |
| 5 | Rennes | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | −9 | 0 | | — | 0–1 | 0–2 | — | — |

## Statistics
### Squad statistics

    As of Full season 2005–2006
Appearances denote players in the starting lineup, with the numbers in parentheses denoting appearances as substitute.
| No. | No. | Name | Alpha Ethniki | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | Greek Cup | UEFA Cup | UEFA Cup | Total | Total |
| No. | No. | Name | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Daniel Fernandes | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 33 | 0 |
| 33 | 33 | Kyriakos Tohouroglou | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Defenders |||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Fatih Akyel | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | Vangelis Koutsopoulos | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | 4 | Christos Karipidis | 25 (2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 31 (2) | 1 |
| 6 | 6 | Paraskevas Andralas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 |
| 15 | 15 | Stelios Malezas | 2 (2) | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (3) | 0 |
| 23 | 23 | Dionysis Chasiotis | 21 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (1) | 0 | 25 (2) | 0 |
| 24 | 24 | Ifeanyi Udeze | 26 (1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 31 (1) | 1 |
| 31 | 31 | Pantelis Konstantinidis | 25 (2) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 30 (2) | 4 |
| 37 | 37 | Nikos Arabatzis | 9 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 (2) | 0 |
| 44 | 44 | Elias Charalambous | 22 (3) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 27 (3) | 1 |
| 77 | 77 | Amir Azmy | 8 (3) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 (1) | 0 | 12 (4) | 0 |
| Midfielders |||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Christos Maladenis | 21 (5) | 2 | 1 (1) | 0 | 3 (2) | 0 | 25 (8) | 2 |
| 7 | 7 | Theodoros Zagorakis | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| 8 | 8 | Dimitrios Zografakis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 2 (1) | 0 |
| 10 | 10 | Shikabala | 23 (7) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 (3) | 0 | 28 (10) | 4 |
| 18 | 18 | Lambros Vangelis | 14 (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (1) | 0 | 16 (5) | 0 |
| 22 | 22 | Guy Feutchine | 18 (1) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 (1) | 0 | 23 (2) | 2 |
| 25 | 25 | Sotiris Balafas | 17 (5) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 (1) | 0 | 22 (6) | 0 |
| 27 | 27 | Chousein Moumin | 3 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (3) | 0 |
| 28 | 28 | Stelios Iliadis | 21 (9) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 (1) | 0 | 26 (10) | 0 |
| 30 | 30 | Panayiotis Engomitis | 10 (8) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 (1) | 0 | 14 (9) | 0 |
| Forwards |||||||||||
| 9 | 9 | Dimitris Salpingidis | 30 (1) | 17 | 1 (1) | 0 | 6 (1) | 3 | 37 (3) | 20 |
| 11 | 11 | Yiasoumis Yiasoumi | 14 (7) | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 (1) | 2 | 17 (8) | 7 |
| 20 | 20 | Marcin Mieciel | 25 (6) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 30 (6) | 5 |
| 29 | 29 | L. Christodoulopoulos | 24 (14) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 (2) | 1 | 29 (16) | 4 |

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos. | Player | Alpha Ethniki | Greek Cup | UEFA Cup | Total |
| 1 | 9 | FW | Dimitris Salpingidis | 17 | 0 | 3 | 20 |
| 2 | 11 | FW | Yiasoumis Yiasoumi | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 20 | FW | Marcin Mieciel | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | 10 | MF | Shikabala | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | 29 | FW | Christodoulopoulos | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | 31 | DF | P. Konstantinidis | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | 22 | MF | Guy Feutchine | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 5 | MF | Christos Maladenis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | 24 | DF | Ifeanyi Udeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 44 | DF | Elias Charalambous | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 4 | DF | Christos Karipidis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | Own goals | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| TOTALS | TOTALS | TOTALS | TOTALS | 44 | 1 | 9 | 54 |
Source: Match reports in competitive matches, uefa.com, worldfootball.net