Article by Romeo Ene – published on Sunday, May 18, 2025, 15:10 / Updated Sunday, May 18, 2025 15:10
PAOK Thessaloniki, the band coached by Răzvan Lucescu (56 years), will eventually evolve in the Europa League preliminaries. With the place of conference already insured, the Greek band has “promoted” due to the Olympiakos rival.
The champion managed the event, won the Greece Cup on Saturday after defeating the Crete, score 2-0, so the Europa League place returned to Răzvan Lucescu's band.
In the internal competition the team coached by Jose Luis Mendilibar was unstoppable. He finished the 16 -point championship over Panathinikos, 2nd place.
PAOK and Răzvan Lucescu will evolve again in the Europa League
So as happened in the previous season, PAOK will play in the Europa League. However, the Greeks have no pleasant memories in the context in which they were beaten 3 times by FCSB.
The first time in the fall, in the main group, and later twice in the play-off for finals. It remains to be seen if the two teams will meet this season. It would mean that Elias Charalambous's band would be eliminated from the preliminaries of the Champions League.
The band from Piraeus prevailed with 2-0 in the final of the Greek Cup, thanks to the goals scored by El Kaabi ('9) and Yaremchuk ('90 +3).
As the Cup was conquered by the Greek champion, who will evolve in the Champions League, the place of Greece by Europa League is redistributed to the team that climbed the 3rd, PAOK.
Basically, Răzvan Lucescu's team will be a series head in the preliminary round 3 in the Europa League and will find out on July 21. The matches will take place on August 7 and 14.
Olympiacos (Champions League), Panathinaikos (Preliminarii Champions League), PAOK Thessaloniki (Europa League preliminaries), AEK Athens and Aris Saloniki (both in the preliminaries of Conference League) are the teams that will represent Greece in this European season.
CFR Cluj is currently the only representative of Romania in the Europa League. Dan Petrescu's formation won the Betano Romanian Cup on Wednesday, 3-2 in front of Hermannstadt.
