PAOK in Europe 2026-2027 (News, Draws, Rankings)

[Blackhawk]

The game was played in Lublin, Poland. Looks like it's still wide open as to who we play. I prefer Universitatea.

[Dutch Eagle]

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. 

[Blackhawk]

BTW, Kedziora played the whole game, but not as CB. He played in the RB position.

[Dutch Eagle]

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. 

[pash]

Probably a good sign for us that they couldn't actually beat a team like Cluj.

[Dutch Eagle]

Fixtures:

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

Thursday July 30th: PAOK - Dynamo Kyiv 20:45 EEST

[Dutch Eagle]

Matches will be broadcasted by OPEN. Don't know if it is available outside Greece. 

[pash]

Here is the list for these next games:

 

Λίστα Α

Άλι , Μπάμπα , Μπάλντε , Μπαλωμένος, Τάισον , Καμαρά , Ελουστόντο , Γκόμεζ , Γκουγκεσασβίλι , Χατζηδιάκος , Γερεμέγεφ , Κένι , Κωνσταντέλιας , Λύρατζης , Μιχαηλίδης , Μοναστηρλής , Παβλένκα , Πέλκας , Σανταμαρία , Τέιλορ , Θυμιάνης , Τσιφτσής , Τσοπούρογλου, Ζαφείρης , Ζίβκοβιτς

Λίστα Β

Αρετής, Αβράμπος, Μπαταούλας , Μπελερής, Μπέρδος , Χαλδέζος, Χατσίδης , Ντούνγκα, Καλπάκης, Κοσίδης, Κωττάς , Κούπενος, Λαζαρίδης, Μανασίδης, Ματέρα, Μύθου , Νικολαΐδης, Νικολακούλης, Γρηγόρης-Αλέξανδρος Παπαδόπουλος, Μιχαήλ Παπαδόπουλος, Τσιντσόλης, Βυρσοκινός

 

Mythou and Chatsidis not on list A. For shame.

[Dutch Eagle]

It is not a shame. It is smart. We have more options/players we can field. 

List make me smile. Just say the names of the first two players of the A list.....

[PaokCT]

These are our possible opponents if we advance past Kyiv : 

winner of Maccabi vs FC Sherrif

winner of Anderlecht vs Hammarby

winner of Pafos vs Hajduk

Jagiollena

loser of Sturm Graz vs Heart of Midlothian

loser of Gornik vs Fenerbache

winner of Hradec vs Tromso 

Really just have to hope we don’t get paired with Anderlecht. I don’t think Fener would drop down but they’d be a problem too

[pash]

Lots of match-ups there that could be fun...

[Dutch Eagle]

The unseeded in our group for the EL-draw this afternoon:

Winners of Pairing 3 Hammarby IF (SWE) - RSC Anderlecht (BEL)

Winners of Pairing 4 HNK Hajduk Split (CRO) - Pafos FC (CYP)

Jagiellonia Białystok (POL)

Winners of Pairing 5 Tromsø IL (NOR) - FC Hradec Králové (CZE)

[Dutch Eagle]

If we are demoted to the Conference League we are seeded and face one of:

Losers of pairing HNK Hajduk Split (CRO) - Pafos FC (CYP)
Losers of pairing  FC St. Gallen 1879 (SUI) - SL Benfica (POR)
Losers of pairing Qarabağ FK (AZE) - PFC CSKA Sofia (BUL)
Winners of pairing NK Aluminij (SVN) - FC Dinamo City (ALB)

 

[Dutch Eagle]

For the Europa League it is first a home leg against Hammarby or Anderlecht. 

[Dutch Eagle]

If we lose in EL Q2 and demote to the Conference League we will face the loser of Qarabag vs CSKA Sofia in CoL Q3. First leg at home.

[pash]

All doable but gonna be tough, esp Andserlecht...

[PaokCT]

1 hour ago, pash said:

All doable but gonna be tough, esp Andserlecht...

There goes our Europa campaign

[Dutch Eagle]

I think that Hammarby is tougher at this moment as it is summer and they are second in the Allsvenskan. Anderlecht has no big names going through their roster. Therefore I think we will meet the Swedes as I have a feeling that we will beat Dynamo Kyiv. The ultimate banana skin.

[Blackhawk]

At a minimum we need to eliminate Kiev. That way even if we lose to Anderlecht or Hammarby we are guaranteed Conference League League phase.

[Dutch Eagle]

I am afraid not, fearless leader. We need to survive three rounds. After EL Q3 there is the play-off in EL or CoL.

Having said that we better play Anderlecht as we take their coefficient if we fall to CoL and as that is 30.750 we would still be seeded. If we face Hammarby and drop to CoL we will have their coefficient of 6.000 and will be unseeded with possible opponents as Atalanta, Braga, Freiburg, Monaco, Copenhagen, Brighton to name a few. A nightmare draw awaits in that case.

[Blackhawk]

Oops, somehow I forgot about the play-off round. In any case I'd rather lose to Anderlecht than Hammarby.