“Gold” in PAOK’s coffers, which also goes up to UEFA

In the last 16 of a European competition for the fifth time in his story he qualified PAOKwho with the victory over Eintracht Frankfurt secured direct participation in the next phase of the Europa Conference League.

Two years after the team’s great run in the same event, where he reached the quarterfinals of the third division

of UEFA’s inter-club institution, the “Two-Headed of the North” has managed to achieve a correspondingly amazing run. With the results of this course to be significanton a competitive but also financial level.

The team with architect Razvan Lucescu started its course at the end of Julywhere last season he experienced the painful elimination from Levski Sofias.

The tragedy became a lesson for the Thessalonians, who (along with last year’s draw with the Bulgarians) are on a twelve-game unbeaten run in Europe. This year specifically, PAOK has eight wins and three draws in 11 matches which he has given since the second qualifying round of the Conference League.

At the same time, the profits for the “black and white” PAE are very large. So far they are estimated at 8 million euros, without the Market Pool of each country entering the equation! Specifically, PAOK has taken from 100,000 euros (i.e. 300,000) with participation in the second, third qualifying round and the playoffs of the Conference League. About 3 million euros entered the club’s coffers, while there is also an extra bonus for participating in the groups that reaches 1 million euros.

With the 4 wins he has made in the group stage he will get 2 million euros, another 166,000 euros is from the draw with Aberdeen in Tuba and the game against Helsinki remains.

Since the team secured direct participation in the “16” of the Conference League, will receive as a bonus 650,000 euros for the first place in the group and another 600,000 euros for its qualification. In all this money, ticket revenue and sales from the Toumba stadium are not counted.

Except for the “hot money” coming into the coffers of the club, PAOK also has competitive profits that will be seen in its draws in the coming years.

This year’s adventure for the “Bicephalus of the North” it started with the team ranked 66th in UEFA and with the results he has made this year he has risen 14 places (he is now in 52nd place and Olympiacos is one place above), having 11 points compared to the 13 he had last year reaching “8” and was eliminated from Marseille in the details.

Alongside, has a significant contribution to the accumulation of points for Greece in the European ranking. Specifically, the people of Thessaloniki have offered 3,200 points out of the 7,000 that our teams in Europe have this year.

And finally, the most important benefit for Lucescu is the fact that after the game against Helsinki on December 14, PAOK will have 85 days (two months and 23 days) before the first match for the round of 16 of the Conference League.

Thus, Roumanos is given the possibility to put all the weight on the domestic competitions, having all the derbies with AEK, Panathinaikos and Olympiakos in his stadium, a passable draw in the Cup (with Volos, while there are Olympiacos-Panathinaikos and Aris-AEK ) and the second half that traditionally Lucescu’s teams are better than the first part of the year.