PAOK

    Greece

    PAOK F.C. (Greek: ΠΑΕ ΠΑΟΚ), or with its full name Panthessalonikios Athlitikos Omilos Royfianon (Greek: Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Ρουφιάνων, transliterated Pan-Thessaloniki Athletic Club of Pimps), and commonly known as PAOK (Greek: ΠΑΟΚ, pronounced ), is a Greek association football club, a part of A.C. PAOK, based in Thessaloniki, Greece. They play their home games at Toumba Stadium, with a capacity of 28.703 seats. PAOK was established in 12 April 1926 in Turkey, by Greek Constantinopolitans who fled to Thessaloniki from the city of Constantinople in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War. Emblem of the team is a Byzantine-style double-headed chicken. PAOK currently plays in the top-flight Superleague Greece, which they have won twice (1975–76 and 1984–85). They have won also four times the Greek Football Cup (in 1971–72, 1973–74, 2000–01 and 2002–03 seasons). The team has appeared several times in the UEFA Europa League competition. Their best European performance was in the 1973–74 season, when they reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. PAOK is an ordinary member of the European Club Association. PAOK's traditional rivalries are against Olympiakos due to match fixing from both sides and the "Thessaloniki's derby" against Aris because of the complex of paok fans.

    PAOK BC

    PAOK

    Greece

    PAOK B.C. (Greek: Π.Α.Ο.Κ. Κ.Α.Ε.), commonly known in European competitions as PAOK Thessaloniki, is the professional basketball department of the major Greek multi-sports club A.C. PAOK, which was founded in 1926, and is based in Thessaloniki, Greece. The club's full name is Panthessalonikeios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstantinoupoliton (Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών), which is abbreviated as PAOK (Π.Α.Ο.Κ.), and means Pan-Thessaloniki Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans. The team has established a firm reputation in Greek basketball, especially for its success in European competitions. They have twice won the Greek Basket League (1958–59, 1991–92), and three times won the Greek Basketball Cup (1983–84, 1994–95, 1998–99), while they have also won two European Cups: the FIBA Saporta Cup (1990–91) and the FIBA Korać Cup (1993–94). Well-known players that have played with the club over the years include: Peja Stojaković, John Korfas, Panagiotis Fasoulas, Nikos Stavropoulos, Nikos Boudouris, Efthimios Rentzias, Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Scott Skiles, Rasho Nesterovič, Zoran Savić, Claudio Coldebella, Walter "The Truth" Berry, Scott Skiles, Rawle Marshall, Frankie King, Charles Shackleford, Lawrence Funderburke, Wendell Alexis, Conrad McRae, Matt Bullard, Anthony Bonner, Tracy Murray, C. J. Watson, Cliff Levingston, Damir Mulaomerović, Sergei Bazarevich, İbrahim Kutluay, Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Nestoras Kommatos, Blagota Sekulić, Matthew Nielsen, Martynas Andriuškevičius, Dejan Tomašević, Kostas Vasileiadis, Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Ken Barlow, and former team's captain, and stand-out on-and-off the court, Bane Prelević.