Dutch Eagle

Chatzidiakos signed for us. He will wear jersey #4. He is the third player to play for my two favorite clubs (PAOK and AZ). Maurice van Ham and the great Maarten Martens being the other two.

Fixtures: Thursday July 23rd: Dynamo Kyiv - PAOK 20:00 EEST (in Lublin) Thursday July 30th: PAOK - Dynamo Kyiv 20:45 EEST

We start and finish the regular season against Levadiakos. First MD in the weekend of August 22/23. We probably will start on Sunday August 23rd unless we get double eliminated in Europe. Full schedule: Αναλυτικά το πρόγραμμα του ΠΑΟΚ στο φετινό πρωτάθλημα: 1η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-Λεβαδειακός 2η αγωνιστική Ατρόμητος-ΠΑΟΚ 3η αγωνιστική Παναθηναϊκός-ΠΑΟΚ 4η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-Άρης 5η αγωνιστική Παναιτωλικός-ΠΑΟΚ 6η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-Καλαμάτα 7η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-Ηρακλής 8η αγωνιστική ΟΦΗ-ΠΑΟΚ 9η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-Αστέρας 10η αγωνιστικήΟΣΦΠ-ΠΑΟΚ 11η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-Κηφισιά 12η αγωνιστική ΑΕΚ-ΠΑΟΚ 13η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-Βόλος 14η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-Παναθηναϊκός 15η αγωνιστική Αστέρας-ΠΑΟΚ 16η αγωνιστική Άρης-ΠΑΟΚ 17η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-ΟΣΦΠ 18η αγωνιστική Ηρακλής-ΠΑΟΚ 19η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-Παναιτωλικός 20η αγωνιστική Καλαμάτα-ΠΑΟΚ 21η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-ΑΕΚ 22η αγωνιστική Κηφισιά-ΠΑΟΚ 23η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-Ατρόμητος 24η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-Βόλος 25η αγωνιστική ΠΑΟΚ-ΟΦΗ 26η αγωνιστική Λεβαδειακός-ΠΑΟΚ I see 14 home matches. Probably MD 24 is in Volos as three homegames is not right.

Penalties will decide the winner of Cluj and Kyiv. Edit 1. Cluj already missed two penalties. Edit 2. Dynamo Kyiv advanced. 2-4 on penalties after the second leg ended also in a 0-0 draw. Kedziora did play 77 minutes.

Chalov will be out for 6 months. What to do now? Who will score now? The man is irreplaceble.......

Atlas needs to offer more. We bought him for that amount of money.

Lineup for the friendly against FC Twente: Παβλένκα, Τέιλορ, Μιχαηλίδης, Ελουστόντο, Κένι, Ζαφείρης, Καμαρά, Τάισον, Κωνσταντέλιας, Ζίβκοβιτς, Μύθου Bench: Τσιφτσής, Μοναστηρλής, Γκουγκεσασβίλι, Λύρατζης, Μπαταούλας, Κοσίδης, Κωττάς, Ντούνγκα, Γκόμεζ, Τσοπούρογλου, Θυμιάνης, Πέλκας, Μπέρδος, Μπάλντε, Χατσίδης, Γερεμέγεφ I have a feeling these are also the 11 starters for our first competetive match on July 23rd.

Just one match: the 17:00 kickoff. No fans allowed. Pity, wanted to go as I am back in the Netherlands after two weeks Mytilini. https://www.gazzetta.gr/football/superleague/2553048/paok-ena-filiko-me-tin-tbente-stis-1700-kai-kekleismenon-ton-thyron

I just now realised we played that Cluj team before a few years ago when they celebrated their 100th anniversary. We destroyed them 0-5.

Result of the first leg between Dynamo Kyiv and Universitatea Cluj: 0-0 Return next week in Cluj.

Robert Mak has retired. Great player. Not only for us and other teams but for the Slovakia national team too.

Seems that Giakoumakis is heading to Al Ain in the sandbox. Too bad. He is a good CF.

AEK Larnaca did very well in last years Conference League. They won 0-1 at Selhurst Park in the League Phase against (the (winners) Crystal Palace. And they drew 0-0 away and 1-1 at home (after 90 minutes) in the Round of 16 agianst Palace. They were only knocked out after Sarr (4 goals in the World Cup 2026!) scored in extra time. In the League Phase they conceeded only 1 goal in 6 matches. It is a new season but it appears to me that they are no so called "kolopetinitsa" and have a good team/manager/vision.

Sarris tore his ACL. Thymianis injured but it is probably a minor thing.

A 6-1, 6-2 loss for Sakkari and she is out too.

Giannis Gitersos of our B team is gone and probably will join Asteras Tripolis. The guy scored a lot of goals for the team. Why do we have this team, "buy" the Chalov's and Samatta's of this world for the A team and than let those lads go for free? Can someone elaborate?

Tsitsipas lost in 3 sets to Djokovic: 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. Sakkari surprised me again and defeated Kamilla Rachimova from Uzbekistan: 6-3, 0-6, 7-6. Next opponent Jasmine Paolini (Italy and seeded #13).

PAOK requested to add our U16 to the U19 Super League 2 and this was granted. Purpose is to challenge the lads more than playing lads of their own age.

Some moves in EL that influences the EL Q3 draw/seeding. Karviná (Czechia) is kicked out from European competitions. Viktoria Plzeň will now start from EL Q4, Hradec Králové will play Tromsø in EL Q2 and Jablonec will play Varaždin in Conference League Q2. https://disciplinary.uefa.com/02a7-2102 ... f32c-1000/

Αναλυτικά το πρόγραμμα: 1ος προκριματικός γύρος (11/08/2026): Ομάδες Super League 2 & Κυπελλούχος Κυπέλλου Ερασιτεχνών ομάδων 2ος προκριματικός γύρος (17-19/08/2026): Ομάδες Super League 2 ή, Κυπελλούχος Κυπέλλου Ερασιτεχνών Ομάδων και 9 ομάδες της Super League 1 League Phase 1η αγωνιστική (01-03/09/2026) 2η αγωνιστική (08-10/09/2026): Αγωνίζονται μόνο οι ομάδες που παίζουν Ευρώπη 3η αγωνιστική (15-17/09/2026): Αγωνίζονται όλοι εκτός των ομάδων που παίζουν Ευρώπη 4η αγωνιστική (27-29/10/2026) 5η αγωνιστική (02/12/2026): Θα διεξαχθούν όλοι οι αγώνες την ίδια ημέρα Play offs (22-23/12/2026) Προημιτελικοί (12-14/01/2027) Ημιτελικοί 1η αγωνιστική (02-04/02/2027) 2η αγωνιστική (09-11/02/2027) Τελικός: 22 Μαΐου 2027

And Ozdoyev wished PAOK well.

Sakkari won (to my surprise) 6-3, 6-3 and will face an Uzbek or Ukrainian opponent in R2.

2026 Stefanos Tsitsipas is unseeded and faced Hugo Gaston (France) in R1: 6-1, 6-4, 6-2. In R2 he will meet the winner of the tie between Wi Yu Bing (China) and Novak Djokovic (Serbia and seed #7) Maria Sakkari is unseeded too and meets Clara Tauson (Denmark and seed #24) in R1.

Konstantelias has retired as international player for Greece (for this moment). Are his kids the real reason?

No, @PaokCT. System is: winner advances to EL Q3 with the coefficient of the highest ranked team (our coefficient in this case). Loser advances to CoL Q3 with the coefficient of the lower ranked team. Here it gets more confusing: if we play Dynamo and lose we will take their coefficient of 17.500 and will be seeded as the split seeded/unseeded is 10.875/10.750 at this point. But this is subject to changes as not all seeded teams in Q1 advance as supposed to the seeding system. If we play Universitatea Cluj and lose we will be unseeded as they have a coefficient of 5.050