P.A.O.K. Volleyball Club or PAOK Volley, is a Greek volleyball club based in Thessaloniki and part of the major multi-sport club PAOK. The department was founded in 1933 and refounded in 1948 after the Axis occupation. Their home ground is PAOK Sports Arena. PAOK have won 9 domestic titles in total with 3 Championships (2015, 2016, 2017), 5 Cups (2015, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023) and 1 Super Cup (2023).
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Founded | 1926 (Volleyball Club: 1933) | ||
Ground | PAOK Sports Arena (Capacity: 8,142) | ||
Chairman | Antonis Tsalopoulos | ||
Manager | Joško Milenkoski | ||
Captain | Ioannis Takouridis | ||
League | A1 Volleyleague | ||
2022–23 | 2nd | ||
Website | Club home page | ||
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Championships | |||
3 Greek Championships 5 Greek Cups 1 Greek Super Cup |
PAOK made their first appearance in the top national division in the 1970–71 season. The team won its first trophies claiming the Double in 2015 and debuted in the CEV Champions League the following season.[1] At the end of 2015–16 season, PAOK was the first team in Greek Volleyball history that won the Greek Championship title despite finishing 4th in the regular season.
Current squad
editSeason 2023–24[2]
Board of directors
editTechnical staff
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Head coach | |
Assistant coach | |
Team manager | |
Τrainer | |
Head physiotherapist | |
Statistician | |
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Pathologist | |
Orthopedic doctor | |
Scoutman | |
Carer |
Honours
editDomestic
editGreek Cup
- Winners (5): 2014–15, 2017–18, 2018–19 , 2021–22, 2022–23
- Greek Super Cup
- Winners (1): 2023
- Double
- Winners (1): 2014−15
Historical performance in Volleyleague and Greek Cup
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- The 2019–20 Cup was abandoned due to COVID-19 while PAOK was in the semi-finals. The 2020–21 Cup was not held for the same reasons.
Positions in Volleyleague
editPosition | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
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Times | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 2 |
Greek Cup Finals
editYear | Winner | Finalist | Score |
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1983 | Olympiacos | PAOK | 3–1 |
2015 | PAOK | Olympiacos | 3–1 |
2018 | PAOK | Iraklis | 3–0 |
2019 | PAOK | Iraklis | 3–1 |
2022 | PAOK | Foinikas Syros | 3–0 |
2023 | PAOK | Olympiacos | 3–1 |
Total | 5
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European record
edit- Total points system
- Total wins system
Notable players
editChrysanthos Kyriazis
Vassilis Mitroudis
Ioannis Pantakidis
Menelaos Kokkinakis
Dimitris Orologas
Theodoros Bozidis
Theoklitos Karipidis
Giannis Kalmazidis
Nikos Karagiannis
Andreas Andreadis
Georgios Stefanou
Thanasis Psaras
Ilias Lappas
Giannis Melkas
Gerasimos Kanellos
Vasileios Kournetas
Sotiris Amarianakis
Giannis Charitonidis
Konstantinos Prousalis
Nikolaos Smaragdis
Dimitrios Gkaras
Sotirios Sotiriou
Georgios Petreas
Thanos Terzis
Apostolos Armenakis
Ioannis Takouridis
Alexandros Raptis
Panagiotis Pelekoudas
Rafail Koumentakis
Mitar Tzourits
Dima Filippov
Andrej Kravárik
Nikolay Uchikov
Plamen Konstantinov
Nikolay Jeliazkov
Ivaylo Gavrilov
Vladimir Grbić (FIVB Hall of Fame)
Saša Starović
Aleksandar Okolić
Đula Mešter
Marko Bojić
Jernej Potocnik
Artur Udrys
Dmitry Ilinikh
Olli-Pekka Ojansivu
Matti Hietanen
Ralph Bergmann
Matthias Valkiers
Bram Van Den Dries
Ronald Zoodsma
Niels Klapwijk
Alexander Shafranovich
Yoichi Kato
David Lee
Kevin Hansen
Michael Lambert
Paul Lotman
Evan Patak
James Polster
Riley Salmon
Clayton Stanley
Michael Diehl
Kyle Robinson
Jayson Jablonsky
Garrett Muagututia
Steven Marshall
Brett Walsh
Dante Amaral
Ernardo Gómez
Javier Jiménez
Rolando Cepeda
Freddy Brooks
Notable coaches
editSee also
editSponsorships
edit- Official Sponsor: OPAP, Sportingbet
- Official Sport Clothing Manufacturer: Legea
- Official Broadcaster: Nova Sports
References
editExternal links
edit- https://www.paokvolley.gr/ (Official site in Greek)
- http://www.volleyball.gr/
- http://www.volleyleague.gr/
- Press
- PAOK24 (in Greek)