Teams Olympiacos, PAOK Most wins Olympiacos (67) | Next meeting TBA | |
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Locale Piraeus – Thessaloniki, Greece Latest meeting PAOK 2–0 Olympiacos, 5 March 2017 Largest victory Olympiacos 6–0 PAOK, 3 June 1962 | ||
The football rivalry between Olympiacos and PAOK is considered the fiercest intercity rivalry in Greece and a large number of games between the two football teams have been stigmatized by nasty incidents.
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Cultural rivalry
The rivalry between the two Greek clubs can be traced to a rivalry between the cities Piraeus and Thessaloniki. Olympiacos from the port city of Piraeus (on the outskirts of Athens), and PAOK from Thessaloniki the capital of Macedonia are two of the most popular clubs in the two Greek cities respectively; thus, their rivalry reflects more than any other the intercity rivalry.
Thessalonians and Macedonians in general feel that Athens and Piraeus has consistently been favored by the Greek State over their city and state and the fans of Thessalonian and Macedonian teams consider their Athenian and Piraeus rivals, the so-called Π.Ο.Κ., the main reason that their teams have been marginalized. As far as the Olympiacos and PAOK rivalry is concerned, the situation became worse in the 1960s, when the all-time best player of PAOK, Giorgos Koudas, decided to move to Olympiacos. PAOK fans rose in outrage and protested against the Piraeus port power, which once again seemed to harm their club, and the transfer was prevented.
Football rivalry
Olympiacos and PAOK are traditional rivals in other sports as well, mainly in basketball, and secondly in volleyball and water polo. As for their football history, after the "Koudas incident", PAOK fans became so hostile against the team from Piraeus that games at PAOK became the most difficult away games for Olympiacos to win and the Reds had a 21-year period without a single win at Toumba Stadium (including three matches which had been played in neutral grounds) and only two wins in 33 matches in the period 1966–1998. On the other hand, at Olympiacos the last longer period without a win for PAOK, is a 14 years period(1989-2003).
Another aspect of this rivalry except the "Koudas incident". The period after 1997 was a resurgence of this rivalry because of bad arbitrations in games among Olympiacos and PAOK. PAOK claimed many times that refereeing helped Olympiacos. The consequence of this was PAOK fans to protest violent against referees and Olympiacos, proceeding vandalism. Perhaps the most characteristic match was in 2000 at Toumba with referee Giorgos Kasnaferis. PAOK from 39' played with 10 players after 2 yellow cards showned to Georgiadis for diving. PAOK claimed that were both penalties and also complained for two more penalties and some offsides.
Records
(Psichos 40', 47', Sideris 76', 80', 81', 84' pen.)
(Botinos 20', Gioutsos 47', Aganian 59', Sideris 74')
(Bannon 5', Mavrommatis 14', Siggas 18', Baniotis 41', Borbokis 75', 89' – Tsalouchidis 50')
(Terzanidis 24', Koudas 56', 62', Guerino 77')
(Persidis 16', Kritikopoulos 70', 90'+1', Losanta 73')
(Mouratis 27', Darivas 65', Drossos 75', 81')
(Zouboulis 20' – Alexandris 52', Đorđević 75' pen.)
(Karageorgiou 6' pen., Borbokis 43', Hassan 52')
(Galakos 14' – Orfanos 12', Vassilakos 25')
and Olympiacos – PAOK 1–2, Georgios Kamaras Stadium, 12 March 2003
(Choutos 76' – Georgiadis 30', Okkas 32')
Super League Greece (1959–60 - present)
1 Match suspended at 27th minute (score: 1–0). Olympiacos were awarded a 2–0 win.
2 Match suspended at 83rd minute (score: 1–2). Remained as final result.
Greek Cup
1 Match suspended at 90th minute (score: 1–2). Olympiacos were awarded a 3–0 win.
2 PAOK didn't show up in the match, so Olympiacos were awarded a 3-0 win and advanced to the Final.
• Series won: Olympiacos 14, PAOK 7.
Penalties and red cards
Including all the Alpha Ethniki and Greek Cup games since 1959–60.
Head-to-head ranking in Super League Greece
• Total: Olympiacos 51 times higher, PAOK 6 times higher.