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P.A.O.K. Volleyball Club or PAOK Volley, is a Greek
volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
club based in
Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...
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 has won 3 National
Championships In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion. Championship systems Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship. Title match system In this system ...
(2015, 2016, 2017) and 4 Domestic Cups (2015, 2018, 2019, 2022). The team had its first participation in the
CEV Champions League The CEV Champions League is the top official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe. The competition is organised every year by the European Volleyball Confederation. Formula (2018–19 to present) Qualification A tota ...
during the 2015–16 season.


Current squad

Season 2022–23


Board of directors


Technical staff


Honours


Domestic competitions

* Greek Championship ** Winners (3): 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17 *
Greek Cup The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation. The Greek Cup is the second most i ...
**Winners (4): 2014–15, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22 * Double ** Winners (1): 2014−15


Notable players

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David Lee
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Vladimir Grbić
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Ernardo Gómez
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Plamen Konstantinov Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov ( bg, Пламен Георгиев Константинов) (born 14 June 1973) is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, a member of Bulgaria men's national volleyball team, head coach of Lokomotiv Novosibirsk and ...
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Saša Starović Saša Starović ( sr-cyrl, Саша Старовић; born 19 October 1988) is a Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team and French club Tourcoing Lille Métropole, a participant of the Olympic Games ( B ...
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Paul Lotman
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Nikolay Uchikov Nikolay Uchikov ( bg, Николай Учиков) (born ) is a Bulgarian male volleyball player. With his club Trentino Diatec he competed at the 2012 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship. He is part of the Bulgaria men's national volley ...
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Konstantinos Prousalis
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Evan Patak Evan Hoburg Patak (born June 23, 1984) is an American volleyball player who is a member of the United States men's national volleyball team. Playing career Youth and collegiate Patak grew up in Pleasanton, California and attended Foothil ...
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Olli-Pekka Ojansivu
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Marko Bojić Marko Bojić (born ) is a Montenegrin volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It h ...
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Garrett Muagututia Garrett Muagututia (born February 26, 1988) is an American professional volleyball player. He played and studied for 4 years at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the US national team. Muagututia participated at the ...
* Chrysanthos Kyriazis * Vassilis Mitroudis * Ioannis Pantakidis *
Menelaos Kokkinakis Menelaos Kokkinakis ( el, Μενέλαος Κοκκινάκης) (born ) is a Greek male volleyball player. He is part of the Greece men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for PAOK. Honours * Greek Championship (3) ** 2011, 20 ...
* Dimitris Orologas * Theodoros Bozidis *
Theoklitos Karipidis Theoklitos Karipidis (born ) is a Greek male former volleyball player. He was part of the Greece men's national volleyball team. He competed at the 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship 2009 Men's European Volleyball Championship was held ...
* Giannis Kalmazidis * Nikos Karagiannis * Andreas Andreadis * Georgios Stefanou *
Thanasis Psaras Thanasis (Θανάσης) is a Greek given name, short for Athanasios (Αθανάσιος), which can mean "eternal life" or "immortal". Notable people with the name Thanasis or Thanassis include: * Thanasis Antetokounmpo (born 1992), Greek bask ...
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Ilias Lappas Ilias Lappas (born ) is a former Greek male volleyball player. He was part of the Greece men's national volleyball team. He competed with the national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. On club level, he plays for AONS Milon. Se ...
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Giannis Melkas Yannis, Yiannis, or Giannis (Γιάννης) is a common Greek given name, a variant of '' John'' (Hebrew) meaning "God is gracious." In formal Greek (e.g. all government documents and birth certificates) the name exists only as Ioannis (Ιωάνν ...
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Gerasimos Kanellos Gerasimos "Makis" Kanellos (born ) is a Greek male volleyball player. He is part of the Greece men's national volleyball team. He currently plays for AEK A.E.K ( el, AEK , formally Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλε ...
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Vasileios Kournetas Vasileios "Vasilis" Kournetas ( el, Βασίλης Κουρνέτας; born ) is a retired Greek volleyball player. A long-standing member of Greece men's national volleyball team, he played in more than 270 games with the Greek team and he compe ...
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Sotiris Amarianakis Sotiris Amarianakis (born ) is a former Greek male volleyball player. He was part of the Greece men's national volleyball team that won the bronze medal at the 1987 European Championship in Belgium. He played for Greek powerhouse Olympiacos f ...
* Giannis Charitonidis * Konstantinos Prousalis * Nikolaos Smaragdis *
Dimitrios Gkaras Dimitris Gkaras ( el, Δημήτρης Γκαράς; born ) is a Greek male volleyball player. He is part of the Greece men's national volleyball team. On club level he last played for Olympiacos. Sporting achievements Clubs * National champions ...
* Sotirios Sotiriou *
Georgios Petreas Georgios Petreas ( gr, Γιώργος Πετρέας; born 19 November 1986, in Kalamata, Greece) is a Greek male volleyball player. He is the captain of the Greece men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for Panathinaikos. Sport ...
* Thanos Terzis * Apostolos Armenakis *
Ioannis Takouridis Ioannis Takouridis ( el, Γιάννης Τακουρίδης; born 24 May 1988) is a Greek professional volleyball player, member of the Greece men's national volleyball team The Greece men's national volleyball team is the national ...
* Panagiotis Pelekoudas * Rafail Koumentakis *
Mitar Tzourits Mitar Djuric ( el, Δημήτρης Τζούριτς, sr-Cyrl, Митар Дурић; born ) or Dimitris Tzourits is a Serbian-Greek male volleyball player. He competed at the 2011 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship with Trentino Voll ...
* Dima Filippov *
Andrej Kravárik Andrej Kravárik (born 28 July 1971) is a Slovak-Greek former volleyball player and current coach. He spent the biggest part of his playing career at Iraklis Thessaloniki, where he enjoyed great success. He was also coach of the Slovakia men's na ...
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Nikolay Uchikov Nikolay Uchikov ( bg, Николай Учиков) (born ) is a Bulgarian male volleyball player. With his club Trentino Diatec he competed at the 2012 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship. He is part of the Bulgaria men's national volley ...
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Plamen Konstantinov Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov ( bg, Пламен Георгиев Константинов) (born 14 June 1973) is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, a member of Bulgaria men's national volleyball team, head coach of Lokomotiv Novosibirsk and ...
* Nikolay Jeliazkov *
Ivaylo Gavrilov Ivailo Gavrilov ( bg, Ивайло Гаврилов) (born ) is a former Bulgarian male volleyball player. He was part of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He played for Olympiacos and Moka Rica Forlì Ital ...
* Vladimir Grbić ( FIVB Hall of Fame) *
Saša Starović Saša Starović ( sr-cyrl, Саша Старовић; born 19 October 1988) is a Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team and French club Tourcoing Lille Métropole, a participant of the Olympic Games ( B ...
* Aleksandar Okolić * Đula Mešter *
Marko Bojić Marko Bojić (born ) is a Montenegrin volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It h ...
* Jernej Potocnik * Artur Udrys *
Dmitry Ilinikh Dmitriy Ilinikh (russian: Дмитрий Сергеевич Ильиних born 31 January 1987) is a Russian volleyball player, who competes for Belogorie Belogorod and the national team. in 2011 he was included in the application for the Worl ...
* Olli-Pekka Ojansivu * Matti Hietanen * Ralph Bergmann * Matthias Valkiers *
Ronald Zoodsma Ronald Zoodsma (born 5 September 1966 in Sneek, Friesland) is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. Under the guidance of head coach Arie Seling ...
* Niels Klapwijk *
Alexander Shafranovich Alexander Shafranovich ( he, אלכס שפרנוביץ'; born ) is an Israeli volleyball player who currently plays for Hapoel Mate-Asher Ako. He was member of the Israel men's national volleyball team for 20 years. He was one of the key players ...
* Yoichi Kato * David Lee * Kevin Hansen * Michael Lambert * Paul Lotman *
Evan Patak Evan Hoburg Patak (born June 23, 1984) is an American volleyball player who is a member of the United States men's national volleyball team. Playing career Youth and collegiate Patak grew up in Pleasanton, California and attended Foothil ...
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James Polster James Andrew "Jim" Polster (born February 8, 1979, in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a volleyball player from the United States, who plays as an outside hitter for the Men's National Team. He competed at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Champio ...
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Riley Salmon Riley Salmon (born July 2, 1976, in Amarillo, Texas) is a volleyball player from the United States. He graduated from Clear Creek High School in League City, Texas, and played two years of varsity volleyball at Pierce College from 1994-96 befor ...
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Clayton Stanley Clayton Iona "Clay" Stanley (born January 20, 1978) is an American volleyball player, a member of United States men's national volleyball team, a participant of the Olympic Games (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012), Olympic Champion 20 ...
* Michael Diehl * Kyle Robinson * Jayson Jablonsky *
Garrett Muagututia Garrett Muagututia (born February 26, 1988) is an American professional volleyball player. He played and studied for 4 years at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the US national team. Muagututia participated at the ...
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Steven Marshall Steven Spence Marshall (born 21 January 1968) is an Australian politician who served as the 46th premier of South Australia between 2018 and 2022. He has been a member of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the ...
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Brett Walsh Brett James Walsh (born February 19, 1994) is a Canadian male volleyball player. He was a member of the Canada men's national volleyball team at the 2016 FIVB Volleyball World League. He played U Sports volleyball for the Alberta Golden Bears whe ...
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Dante Amaral Dante Guimarães Santos do Amaral (born 30 September 1980) is a former Brazilian professional volleyball player, who is best known as Dante. Measuring and , he played in the position of outside hitter. He was born in Itumbiara. Biography Ea ...
* Ernardo Gómez * Javier Jiménez * Rolando Cepeda *
Freddy Brooks Freddy Brooks (born 10 August 1969) is a Cuban former volleyball player. He competed with the Cuba men's national volleyball team, Cuban men's national volleyball team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. Brooks won a silv ...


Notable coaches

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Sotiris Ieroklis Sotirios ( el, Σωτήριος) or Sotiris () is a male given name of Greek origin, meaning "salvation" (, ). Sotiria () is the female version of the name. It may refer to: People Politicians and statespersons *Sotirios Hatzigakis (born 1944), G ...
* Ilias Ieroklis * Stelios Kazazis *
Alekos Leonis Alekos ( el, Αλέκος) is a masculine given name, a diminutive of Alexander, which may refer to: *Alekos Alavanos (born 1950), Greek politician, member of the Hellenic Parliament *Alekos Alekou (born 1983), Cypriot football striker who played ...
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Giannis Melkas Yannis, Yiannis, or Giannis (Γιάννης) is a common Greek given name, a variant of '' John'' (Hebrew) meaning "God is gracious." In formal Greek (e.g. all government documents and birth certificates) the name exists only as Ioannis (Ιωάνν ...
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Kostas Charitonidis Kostas or Costas ( el, Κώστας) is a Greek given name and surname. As a given name it is the hypocorism for Konstantinos (Constantine). Given name * Costas Andreou, Greek musician * Kostas Antetokounmpo (born 1997), a Greek basketball player ...
* Giannis Kalmazidis * Jorge Elgueta * Danielle Ricci * Yuriy Filippov


Historical performance in Volleyleague and Greek Cup

* 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


Greek Cup Finals


European record

* Total points system


See also

* PAOK Women's Volleyball Club


Sponsorships

*Official Sponsor:
OPAP OPAP – Greek Organisation of Football Prognostics S.A. ( el, ΟΠΑΠ – Οργανισμός Προγνωστικών Αγώνων Ποδοσφαίρου Α.Ε.) is a Greek company organizing and conducting games of chance. It is headquarter ...
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*Official Sport Clothing Manufacturer:
Legea Legea (stylised as LEGEA) is an Italian sportswear company, founded in 1993 by brothers Giovanni, Emilia and Luigi Acanfora. It is one of the most popular brands among Italian amateur football teams, then expanding to professional clubs. Legea i ...
*Official Broadcaster:
Nova Sports Nova Sports is a Greek sports pay television network owned by Nova, a subsidiary of Greek telecommunications company of the same name. It was launched in 1994 as ''SuperSport'' and at the time was the first premium sports service in Greece. It ...


References


External links

*https://www.paokvolley.gr/ (Official site in Greek) *http://www.volleyball.gr/ *http://www.volleyleague.gr/ ;Press
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