P.A.O.K. V.C.

PAOK Volleyball Club or PAOK Volley, is a Greek volleyball club based in Thessaloniki 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 have won 9 domestic titles in total with 3 Championships (2015, 2016, 2017), 5 Cups (2015, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023) and 1 Super Cup (2023).

PAOK made their first appearance in the top national division in the 1970–71 season. The team won its first trophies claiming the Double in 2015 and debuted in the CEV Champions League the following season. In 2015–16 season, PAOK became the first team in Greek Volleyball history that won the Greek Championship title despite finishing 4th in the regular season.

Current squad

Season 2025–26

Board of directors

Technical staff

Honours

Domestic

• Greek Championship
• Winners (3): 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
• Greek Cup
• Winners (5): 2014–15, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23
• Greek Super Cup
• Winners (1): 2023
• Double
• Winners (1): 2014−15

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
• Total wins system

Notable players

• Chrysanthos Kyriazis
• Vassilis Mitroudis
• Ioannis Pantakidis
• Menelaos Kokkinakis
• Dimitris Orologas
• Theodoros Bozidis
• Theoklitos Karipidis
• Giannis Kalmazidis
• Nikos Karagiannis
• Andreas Andreadis
• Georgios Stefanou
• Thanasis Psaras
• Ilias Lappas
• Giannis Melkas
• Gerasimos Kanellos
• Vasileios Kournetas
• Sotiris Amarianakis
• Giannis Charitonidis
• Konstantinos Prousalis
• Nikolaos Smaragdis
• Dimitrios Gkaras
• Sotirios Sotiriou
• Georgios Petreas
• Thanos Terzis
• Apostolos Armenakis
• Ioannis Takouridis
• Alexandros Raptis
• Panagiotis Pelekoudas
• Rafail Koumentakis
• Mitar Tzourits
• Dima Filippov
• Andrej Kravárik
• Nikolay Uchikov
• Plamen Konstantinov
• Nikolay Jeliazkov
• Ivaylo Gavrilov
• Vladimir Grbić (FIVB Hall of Fame)
• SaÅ¡a Starović
• Aleksandar Okolić
• Đula MeÅ¡ter
• Marko Bojić
• Jernej Potocnik
• Artur Udrys
• Dmitry Ilinikh
• Olli-Pekka Ojansivu
• Matti Hietanen
• Ralph Bergmann
• Matthias Valkiers
• Bram Van Den Dries
• Ronald Zoodsma
• Niels Klapwijk
• Alexander Shafranovich
• Yoichi Kato
• David Lee
• Kevin Hansen
• Michael Lambert
• Paul Lotman
• Evan Patak
• James Polster
• Riley Salmon
• Clayton Stanley
• Michael Diehl
• Kyle Robinson
• Jayson Jablonsky
• Garrett Muagututia
• Steven Marshall
• Brett Walsh
• Dante Amaral
• Ernardo Gómez
• Javier Jiménez
• Rolando Cepeda
• Freddy Brooks

Notable coaches

• Sotiris Ieroklis
• Ilias Ieroklis
• Stelios Kazazis
• Alekos Leonis
• Giannis Melkas
• Kostas Charitonidis
• Giannis Kalmazidis
• Jorge Elgueta
• Danielle Ricci
• Yuriy Filippov
• JoÅ¡ko Milenkoski

See also

• PAOK Women's Volleyball Club

Sponsorships

• Official Sponsor: OPAP, Sportingbet
• Official Sport Clothing Manufacturer: Legea
• Official Broadcaster: Nova Sports

References

External links

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

Press

• PAOK24