Derby of Thessaloniki

Derby of Thessaloniki
Other names	Derby of Northern Greece; Derby of Macedonia
Location	Thessaloniki, Greece
Teams	Aris F.C., P.A.O.K. FC
First meeting	PAOK 2–1 Aris, ; 12 June 1927
Latest meeting	PAOK 0–1 Aris, ; 29 September 2024
Next meeting	17 January 2025
Statistics
Most wins	PAOK (58)
Largest victory	PAOK 5–0 Aris, ; 16 February 1975

The Derby of Thessaloniki (Greek: Ντέρμπι Θεσσαλονίκης) is a football local rivalry between Aris and PAOK, both of which are based in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. Aris play their home games at the Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium in Charilaou district of eastern Thessaloniki, while PAOK are based at the Toumba Stadium in the neighbouring Toumba district. The two stadiums are 1.54 km apart.

History

Social rivalry

The rivalry between these two Thessalonian clubs can be traced back to the interwar period. Upper class local Greeks supported Aris and Greek refugees supported PAOK. These refugees were mostly working class migrants from Asia Minor and Constantinople. They settled in the region of Macedonia after the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923. The antagonism between those social groups has been expressed in many ways and one of them was football.

Football rivalry

Aris were founded in 1914 and PAOK in 1926. On 12 June 1927, the first derby of Thessaloniki took place, ending with a 2–1 PAOK victory.^[1] Up to 1959, the two teams were fighting for the Macedonia Football Clubs Association (EPSM) local championship title and they also met some times in the final stage of the Panhellenic Championship. In 1959, the Alpha Ethniki - the precursor of the current Super League - was set up as a national round-robin tournament. Aris vs PAOK rivalry has continued to grow more and more heated over the years as the two clubs battle for supremacy in Northern Greece.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Competition	Aris	PAOK
Greek League Champions	3 (1928, 1932, 1946)	4 (1976, 1985, 2019, 2024)
Greek Cup Winners	1 (1970)	8 (1972, 1974, 2001, 2003, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
Total	4	12

Other rivalries

Aris and PAOK are traditional rivals in other sports as well, especially basketball, where in the 1980s they were competing for the Championship.

Statistics

Head-to-head

	Aris wins	Draws	PAOK wins
Alpha Ethniki (1959 — present) ¹
At Aris home	23	26	17
At PAOK home	13	19	34
Total	36	45	51
Greek Cup
At Aris home	6	3	2
At PAOK home	1	5	5
Neutral field	1	0	0
Total	8	8	7
Total
	44	53	58

Alpha Ethniki goals	Aris	PAOK
At Aris home	72	57
At PAOK home	49	95
Total	121	152

¹ Including play-off games

Record Alpha Ethniki win
- Aris
  - Home: Aris – PAOK 5–1, Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium (27 February 1966)
    (Alexiadis 24', Psifidis 43', Chatzikostas 65' pen., Siropoulos 69', 75' – Koudas 60' pen.)
  - Away: PAOK – Aris 1–4, Toumba Stadium (30 August 1998)
    (Kafes 63' – Charisteas 15', 54', Koulakiotis 68' o.g., Panopoulos 73')
- PAOK
  - Home: PAOK – Aris 5–0, Toumba Stadium (16 February 1975)
    (Paridis 23', Koudas 28', 51', Tsilingiridis 66', Sarafis 87')
  - Away: Aris – PAOK 0–4, Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium (7 December 1994)
    (Toursounidis 22', 57', Lagonidis 61', Bociek 90'+2')
Bigger grade difference
- Aris
  - Point system 3–2–1: +8 (75 vs 67), 1967–68
  - Point system 2–1–0: +6 (47 vs 41), 1979–80 and (33 vs 27), 1985-86
  - Point system 3–1–0: +15 (50 vs 35), 2007–08
- PAOK
  - Point system 3–2–1: +23 (92 vs 69), 1972–73
  - Point system 2–1–0: +16 (46 vs 30), 1984-85
  - Point system 3–1–0: +47 (69 vs 22), 2013–14
Attendance records in Alpha Ethniki
- Aris home:
  - 27,000 Aris – PAOK 1–0, Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium (25 March 1979)
  - 26,000 Aris – PAOK 0–1, Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium (16 November 1980)
  - 24,589 Aris – PAOK 2–0, Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium (7 October 1979)
- PAOK home:
  - 44,486 PAOK – Aris 1–0, Toumba Stadium (28 January 1973)
  - 42,795 PAOK – Aris 2–0, Toumba Stadium (3 February 1980)
  - 42,296 PAOK – Aris 2–2, Toumba Stadium (22 February 1976)

Match list

Super League Greece (1959 — present)

	Aris – PAOK^[6]					PAOK – Aris^[7]
Season	R.	Date	Venue	Atten.	Score	R.	Date	Venue	Atten.	Score
1959–60	2	01–11–1959	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	8,973	0–1	17	28–02–1960	Toumba Stadium	9,983	0–0
1959–60	p-o	31–07–1960	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	N/A	0–0¹
1960–61	20	05–03–1961	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	N/A	1–1	5	16–10–1960	Toumba Stadium	N/A	3–0
1961–62	23	28–03–1962	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	N/A	1–1	8	19–11–1961	Toumba Stadium	8,850	2–1
1962–63	12	16–12–1962	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	9,223	0–3	27	12–05–1963	Toumba Stadium	N/A	3–0
1963–64	19	02–02–1964	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	9,560	0–0	4	06–10–1963	Toumba Stadium	17,912	0–1
1964–65	25	09–05–1965	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	8,791	0–0	10	13–12–1964	Toumba Stadium	21,655	0–2
1965–66	14	27–02–1966	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	12,496	5–1	29	12–06–1966	Toumba Stadium	11,804	1–1
1966–67	28	04–06–1967	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	12,421	1–0	13	22–01–1967	Toumba Stadium	20,177	0–0
1967–68	20	18–02–1968	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	16,146	2–2	3	22–10–1967	Toumba Stadium	28,748	2–3
1968–69	8	17–11–1968	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	20,123	2–0	25	23–03–1969	Toumba Stadium	29,442	0–0
1969–70	6	02–11–1969	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	15,348	0–0	23	08–03–1970	Toumba Stadium	28,516	0–0
1970–71	4	04–11–1970	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	16,475	1–0	21	21–02–1971	Toumba Stadium	29,890	2–2
1971–72	33	04–06–1972	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	13,420	3–3	16	16–01–1972	Toumba Stadium	37,869	0–0
1972–73	34	03–06–1973	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	22,648	1–2	17	28–01–1973	Toumba Stadium	44,486	1–0
1973–74	29	05–05–1974	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	22,100	1–0	12	23–12–1973	Toumba Stadium	41,428	0–1
1974–75	2	06–10–1974	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	18,246	2–1	19	16–02–1975	Toumba Stadium	36,025	5–0
1975–76	2	19–10–1975	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	21,069	0–0	17	22–02–1976	Toumba Stadium	42,296	2–2
1976–77	6	14–11–1976	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	21,500	1–2	23	13–03–1977	Toumba Stadium	41,950	2–0
1977–78	11	27–11–1977	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	13,229	0–0	28	02–04–1978	Toumba Stadium	23,693	2–1
1978–79	25	25–03–1979	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	27,000	1–0	8	12–11–1978	Toumba Stadium	36,567	1–0
1979–80	2	07–10–1979	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	24,589	2–0	19	03–02–1980	Toumba Stadium	42,795	2–0
1980–81	10	16–11–1980	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	26,000	0–1	27	12–04–1981	Toumba Stadium	28,157	1–1
1981–82	12	20–12–1981	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	23,482	2–1	29	25–04–1982	Toumba Stadium	26,499	1–0
1982–83	21	06–03–1983	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	18,699	0–0	4	31–10–1982	Toumba Stadium	21,026	0–2
1983–84	5	02–10–1983	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	24,099	0–0	20	12–02–1984	Toumba Stadium	12,453	0–1
1984–85	17	03–02–1985	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	20,280	3–0	2	30–09–1984	Toumba Stadium	30,890	2–0
1985–86	8	03–11–1985	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	16,444	3–1	23	09–03–1986	Toumba Stadium	24,179	1–0
1986–87	4	20–09–1986	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	20,968	0–1	19	22–02–1987	Toumba Stadium	26,282	2–0
1987–88	27	17–04–1988	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	16,752	1–2	12	27–12–1987	Toumba Stadium	25,246	3–1
1988–89	9	20–11–1988	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	12,947	0–0	24	19–03–1989	Toumba Stadium	14,663	1–1
1989–90	25	18–03–1990	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	9,273	1–0	8	08–11–1989	Toumba Stadium	15,259	2–0
1990–91	14	06–01–1991	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	13,827	0–1	31	12–05–1991	Toumba Stadium	10,505	2–1
1991–92	18	02–02–1992	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	14,139	1–1	1	01–09–1991	Toumba Stadium	23,025	1–1
1992–93	15	23–12–1992	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	4,145	1–2	32	15–05–1993	Toumba Stadium	1,554	2–0
1993–94	16	18–12–1993	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	11,547	1–0	33	17–04–1994	Toumba Stadium	6,061	1–2
1994–95	9	07–12–1994	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	3,587	0–4	26	02–04–1995	Toumba Stadium	19,374	2–0
1995–96	22	25-02-1996	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	6,978	0–0	5	01–10–1995	Toumba Stadium	15,995	1–0
1996–97	8	18–11–1996	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	11,462	0–0	25	16–03–1997	Toumba Stadium	28,038	2–1
1998–99	19	15–02–1999	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	17,146	2–0	2	29–08–1998	Toumba Stadium	22,798	1–4
1999–00	9	28–11–1999	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	15,393	0–0	26	02–04–2000	Toumba Stadium	14,603	3–2
2000–01	4	01–11–2000	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	12,890	4–0	19	17–02–2001	Toumba Stadium	11,969	2–0
2001–02	14	02–02–2002	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	12,455	2–3	1	23–09–2001	Toumba Stadium	23,756	1–1
2002–03	11	15–12–2002	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	9,897	2–0	26	13–04–2003	Trikala Municipal Stadium	3,339	2–0
2003–04	30	22–05–2004	Makedonikos Stadium	1,074	1–1	15	21–12–2003	Toumba Stadium	13,950	3–0
2004–05	20	27–02–2005	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	10,202	1–3	5	24–10–2004	Toumba Stadium	10,975	2–2
2006–07	7	21–10–2006	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	13,280	0–0	22	17–02–2007	Toumba Stadium	10,393	1–0
2007–08	5	21–10–2007	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	11,565	3–1	20	10–02–2008	Toumba Stadium	22,000	3–0
2008–09	19	25–01–2009	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	14,065	0–0	4	28–09–2008	Toumba Stadium	26,019	1–0
2009–10	26	14–03–2010	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	17,353	2–0	11	22–11–2009	Toumba Stadium	23,034	4–1
2009–10	p-o	19–05–2010	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	6,962	3–2	p-o	02–05–2010	Toumba Stadium	23,412	2–0
2010–11	20	30–01–2011	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	13,234	0–0	5	03–10–2010	Toumba Stadium	20,084	0–1
2011–12	7	23–10–2011	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	12,320	1–1	22	19–02–2012	Toumba Stadium	16,041	0–0
2012–13	20	03–02–2013	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	12,673	2–2	5	30–09–2012	Toumba Stadium	20,440	4–1
2013–14	29	16–03–2014	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	10,154	1–1	12	24–11–2013	Toumba Stadium	19,440	3–1
2018–19	7	21–10–2018	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	16,434	1–2	22	24–02–2019	Toumba Stadium	22,544	1–1
2019–20	17	04–01–2020	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	16,249	4–2	4	22–09–2019	Toumba Stadium	23,926	2–2
2019–20	p-o	28–06–2020	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	Cl.doors	0–2	p-o	19–07–2020	Toumba Stadium	Cl.doors	0–0
2020–21	12	13–12–2020	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	Cl.doors	1–0	25	07–03–2021	Toumba Stadium	Cl.doors	2–2
2020–21	p-o	21–04–2021	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	Cl.doors	0–1	p-o	09–05–2021	Toumba Stadium	Cl.doors	2–0
2021–22	24	20–02–2022	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	9,191	0–0	11	28–11–2021	Toumba Stadium	12,605	0–1
2021–22	p-o	17–04–2022	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	7,902	1–0	p-o	11–05–2022	Toumba Stadium	6,932	0–1
2022–23	3	04–09–2022	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	12,565	0–0	16	04–01–2023	Toumba Stadium	20,756	1–0
2022–23	p-o	19–03–2023	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	11,165	1–2	p-o	30–04–2023	Toumba Stadium	8,905	3–2
2023–24	17	07–01–2024	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	Cl.doors	2–1	4	17–09–2023	Toumba Stadium	17,731	0–0
2023–24	p-o	19–05–2024	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	18,644	1–2	p-o	10–03–2024	Toumba Stadium	Cl.doors	0–1
2024–25	19	17-01-2024	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium			6	29–09–2024	Toumba Stadium	19,282	0–1

¹ PAOK in 7th place and Aris in 8th place, due to better goal average in regular season.

•There were no games in 1997–98, 2005–06, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18 seasons due to the relegation of Aris to lower divisions.

Greek Cup

^[8]

Season	Round	Leg	Venue	Date	Match	Score	Atten.	Winner
1939–40	Quarter final		Sintrivani Stadium	24 March 1940	PAOK – Aris	1–1 (aet)	N/A	Aris
1939–40	Quarter final	Replay	Iraklis Stadium	7 April 1940	Aris – PAOK	1–0	N/A	Aris
1947–48	2nd Round		Sintrivani Stadium	11 January 1948	PAOK – Aris	2–5	N/A	Aris
1949–50	Quarter final		Sintrivani Stadium	19 March 1950	PAOK – Aris	3–3 (aet)	N/A	Aris
1949–50	Quarter final	Replay ¹	Sintrivani Stadium	26 April 1950	Aris – PAOK	3–1	N/A	Aris
1950–51	Quarter final		Sintrivani Stadium	11 February 1951	PAOK – Aris	4–2 (aet)	N/A	PAOK
1951–52	Round of 16		Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	27 January 1952	Aris – PAOK	1–0	N/A	Aris
1957–58	Round of 16		Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	6 April 1958	Aris – PAOK	2–0	N/A	Aris
1961–62	Round of 16		Toumba Stadium	22 April 1962	PAOK – Aris	1–1 (aet)	N/A	Aris
1961–62	Round of 16	Replay	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	9 May 1962	Aris – PAOK	1–1 (aet; draw)	2,062	Aris
1969–70	Final		Kaftanzoglio Stadium	28 June 1970	Aris – PAOK	1–0	46,695	Aris
1971–72	Quarter final		Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	7 June 1972	Aris – PAOK	1–2 ²	13,919	PAOK
1977–78	Semifinal		Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	17 May 1978	Aris – PAOK	0–1 (aet)	22,900	PAOK
1979–80	Quarter final	1st Leg	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	5 March 1980	Aris – PAOK	1–0	24,763	PAOK
1979–80	Quarter final	2nd Leg	Kaftanzoglio Stadium	30 April 1980	PAOK – Aris	2–0 (aet)	34,641	PAOK
1984–85	Round of 32	1st Leg	Toumba Stadium	26 December 1984	PAOK – Aris	2–0	23,827	PAOK
1984–85	Round of 32	2nd Leg	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	16 January 1985	Aris – PAOK	3–1 (away)	14,639	PAOK
2000–01	Round of 16	1st Leg	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	17 January 2001	Aris – PAOK	1–1	9,325	PAOK
2000–01	Round of 16	2nd Leg	Toumba Stadium	31 January 2001	PAOK – Aris	2–0	18,564	PAOK
2002–03	Final		Toumba Stadium	17 May 2003	PAOK – Aris	1–0	18,703	PAOK
2008–09	Round of 16		Toumba Stadium	14 January 2009	PAOK – Aris	0–0	14,870	PAOK
2008–09	Round of 16	Replay	Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium	28 January 2009	Aris – PAOK	0–0 (aet; 8–9 p)	12,444	PAOK
2018–19	Group stage³		Toumba Stadium	26 September 2018	PAOK – Aris	1–1	N/A	PAOK

¹ The original match was played on 26 March 1950 at Sintrivani Stadium. It was interrupted in the 85th minute, while Aris were leading by 1–0.

² Match suspended at 89th minute because Aris players started a fight with the referee.

³ Final group standings: PAOK 7 (q), Ergotelis 4 (q), Aris 4, Aittitos Spata 1.
• Series won: Aris 7, PAOK 9.

Top scorers

Including all the Alpha Ethniki and Greek Cup games since 1959–60.

Aris	Total	PAOK	Total
Alekos Alexiadis	7	Ioannis Giakoumis	5
Kostas Papaioannou	6	Giorgos Koudas	5
Vangelis Siropoulos	4	Giorgos Skartados	5
Vasilis Dimitriadis	4	Apostolos Vasiliadis	4
Angelos Charisteas	4	Stavros Sarafis	4
		Giorgos Kostikos	4

Three goals for Aris: Petkakis, Pallas, Kouis, Zelilidis Cámpora and Aganzo.
Three goals for PAOK: Fountoukidis, Apostolidis, Paridis, Orfanos, Borbokis, Lagonidis, Zouboulis, Yiasoumi and Athanasiadis.
Giorgos Koutsis has scored once for Aris against PAOK and once for PAOK against Aris.

Head-to-head ranking in Super League Greece

P.	60	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
1																	1									1																																		1					1
2														2					2		2																														2			2			2		2		2	2	2
3										3					3	3		3		3		3	3						3		3					3									3							3			3							3	3
4				4				4	4		4		4		4					4		4		4	4							4	4		4			4	4	4		4	4	4				4	4	4	4							4						4
5							5	5		5	5		5					5			5		5	5	5			5						5	5						5					5							5			5				5	5			5	5
6			6		6		6									6			6																					6				6			6	6		6		6
7	7					7											7									7	7			7	7					7	7				7	7
8	8				8	8																								8			8
9									9			9		9															9			9		9									9						9				9
10		10										10															10
11																												11
12		12
13			13																																										13									13
14				14																																	14									14
15
16																																						16
17
18																																																							18
Beta Ethniki
1																																							1
2																																																											2
3																																															3											3
Gamma Ethniki
1																																																									1
2																																																								2

• Total: PΑΟΚ 47 times higher, Aris 18 times higher.

European records

Aris

Competition	App	Pld	W	D	L	Goals
UEFA Cup / Europa League	13	53	21	15	17	69–75
UEFA Conference League	3	10	6	1	3	15–11
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1	2	0	1	1	2–6
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	5	12	3	2	7	12–28
Total	22	77	30	19	28	98–120

PAOK

Competition	App	Pld	W	D	L	Goals
European Cup / Champions League	10	32	8	10	14	45–57
UEFA Cup / Europa League	29	156	60	45	51	220–179
UEFA Conference League	3	34	18	7	9	55–34
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	6	18	8	5	5	24–23
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	3	6	2	0	4	5–17
Total	51	246	96	67	83	349–310