PAOK FC

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PAOK FC (Greek: ΠΑΕ ΠΑΟΚ, ['pa.ok]) is a professional football club based in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. The club is commonly known internationally as PAOK Thessaloniki or PAOK Salonica, while in Greece it is referred to simply as PAOK. PAOK are one of the top domestic clubs and the most successful and widely supported in Northern Greece. Established on 20 April 1926 by Greek refugees who fled to Thessaloniki from Constantinople in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), they play their home games at Toumba Stadium, a 29,000 seating capacity football ground. Their name, along with the club's emblem, the Byzantine-style double-headed eagle with retracted wings, honours the memory of the people and places (mostly from the city of Constantinople) that once belonged to the Eastern Roman Empire. PAOK currently plays in the top-flight Super League, which they have won four times (in 1976, 1985, 2019 and 2024). They are eight-time winners of the Greek Cup (in 1972, 1974, 2001, 2003...

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