| Club: | Pafos |
| Season: | 2019–20 |
| Owner: | Pavel Gognidze |
| Manager: | Željko Kopić Jeremy Steele Cameron Toshack |
| League Result: | 7th |
| League Topscorer: | Onni Valakari (5) |
| Season Topscorer: | Onni Valakari (5) |
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| Prevseason: | 2018–2019 |
| Nextseason: | 2020–2021 |
The 2019–20 season was Pafos's 6th year in existence, and third season in the Cypriot First Division.
On 1 July, Pafos announced the signings of Artur Rudko from Dynamo Kyiv, Mickaël Panos from Saint-Étienne and Giorgos Valerianos from Aris Thessaloniki.[1] [2] [3]
On 3 July, Brazilian defender, Jander, was sold to Red Star Belgrade for a club-record fee.[4]
On 6 July, Pafos signed Nigerian International midfielder Sunny, who'd last played for Real Salt Lake,[5] with Alex Konstantinou joining from Olympiakos Nicosia on 10 July,[6] and Panagiotis Zachariou leaving the club by mutual agreement to join Olympiakos Nicosia on 11 July 2019.[7]
On 16 July, Pafos sold Belgium midfielder to KAS Eupen for an undisclosed fee, and new club-record fee.[8]
On 31 July, Angolan forward, Vá joined Pafos from Petro de Luanda.[9]
In August, Pafos signed Nahir Besara from Al-Fayha,[10] Paulus Arajuuri from Brøndby,[11] and the season-long loan signing of Reinis Reinholds from Pisa.[12]
On 1 September Cy Goddard joined on a season-long loan deal from Benevento,[13] with Kevin Lafrance joining the next day from APOEL on a similar deal.[14]
On 5 September Gerasimos Fylaktou returned to Pafos from Ermis Aradippou, having previously played for the club on loan during the 2017–18 season.[15]
On 6 September, Pafos signed former Crystal Palace winger Bakary Sako and former Huddersfield Town midfielder Danny Williams on free-transfers, with Jerson Cabral joining the following day on a free-transfer having last played for Levski Sofia.[16] [17] [18]
On 6 November, Željko Kopić left his role as head coach of Pafos, with sporting director Jeremy Steele being placed in temporary charge.[19] On 13 December, Cameron Toshack was announced as Pafos' new permanent head coach.[20]
In January, Lulinha left Pafos after his contract was terminated by mutual agreement,[21] whilst Deniss Rakels and Zdeněk Folprecht returned to the club following loan stints away during the first half of the season.[22]
On 24 January, Brayan Angulo signed permanently for Pafos from Independiente Medellín having previously played for the club during the 2018–19 season.[23]
On 30 January, Pafos signed Onni Valakari from Tromsø for an undisclosed fee.[24]
On 15 May, the Cyta Championship was abandoned due to COVID-19 pandemic.[25]
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | From | Fee | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2019 | GK |  | Artur Rudko | Dynamo Kyiv | Undisclosed | ||
| 1 July 2019 | DF |  | Mickaël Panos | Saint-Étienne | Undisclosed | ||
| 1 July 2019 | DF |  | Giorgos Valerianos | Aris Thessaloniki | Undisclosed | ||
| 6 July 2019 | MF | Sunny | Unattached | Free | |||
| 10 July 2019 | FW |  | Alex Konstantinou | Olympiakos Nicosia | Undisclosed | ||
| 31 July 2019 | FW | Vá | Petro de Luanda | Undisclosed | |||
| 20 August 2019 | MF |  | Nahir Besara | Al-Fayha | Undisclosed | ||
| 20 August 2019 | DF |  | Paulus Arajuuri | Brøndby | Undisclosed | ||
| 5 September 2019 | MF | | Gerasimos Fylaktou | Ermis Aradippou | Undisclosed | ||
| 6 September 2019 | MF |  | Bakary Sako | Unattached | Free | ||
| 6 September 2019 | MF |  | Danny Williams | Unattached | Free | ||
| 7 September 2019 | MF |  | Jerson Cabral | Unattached | Free | ||
| 24 January 2020 | MF |  | Brayan Angulo | Independiente Medellín | Undisclosed | ||
| 30 January 2020 | MF | | Onni Valakari | Tromsø | Undisclosed |
| Start date | Position | Nationality | Name | From | End date | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2019 | GK | Reinis Reinholds | Pisa | End of Season | |||
| 1 September 2019 | MF |  | Cy Goddard | Benevento | End of Season | ||
| 4 September 2019 | DF | Joaquín Varela | Fénix | End of Season |
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | To | Fee | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2019 | DF |  | Jander | Red Star Belgrade | Undisclosed | ||
| 16 July 2019 | MF |  | Jens Cools | KAS Eupen | Undisclosed |
| Start date | Position | Nationality | Name | To | End date | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2019 | FW | Deniss Rakels | Riga | 31 December 2019 | |||
| 8 September 2019 | MF |  | Zdeněk Folprecht | Fastav Zlín | 31 December 2019 | ||
| 6 March 2020 | MF | | Brayan Angulo | Riga | End of Season |
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | Joined | Date | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 July 2019 | FW | | Panagiotis Zachariou | Olympiakos Nicosia | 11 July 2019 | ||
| 10 January 2020 | MF | | Lulinha | Júbilo Iwata | 10 January 2020 | ||
| 27 January 2020 | FW |  | Federico Rasic | ||||
| 19 May 2020 | MF | | Danny Williams | Retired | [26] | ||
| 30 June 2020 | DF | | Andreas Panayiotou | Apollon Limassol | |||
| 30 June 2020 | DF | | Andreas Tsokkas | Akritas Chlorakas | 7 July 2020 | ||
| 30 June 2020 | DF |  | Matija Širok | Gorica | 25 September 2020 | ||
| 30 June 2020 | MF | | Zdeněk Folprecht | Příbram | 22 September 2020 | ||
| 30 June 2020 | MF | | Bakary Sako | Saint-Étienne | 30 December 2021 | [27] | |
| 30 June 2020 | MF | Sunny | |||||
| 30 June 2020 | FW | | Alex Konstantinou | Karmiotissa | 6 July 2020 | ||
| 30 June 2020 | FW |  | Adam Nemec | Dinamo București | 29 August 2020 |
| No. | Name | Nationality | Position | Date of birth (Age) | Signed from | Signed in | Contract ends | Apps. | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goalkeepers | ||||||||||
| 1 | Artur Rudko | | GK | 2020 5, df=yes | Dynamo Kyiv | 2019 | 23 | 0 | ||
| 12 | Evgenios Petrou | | GK | 2020 5, df=yes | Ethnikos Assia | 2018 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 52 | Reinis Reinholds | GK | 2020 5, df=yes | loan from Pisa | 2019 | 2020 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 88 | Andreas Theokli | | GK | 2020 5, df=yes | Academy | 2019 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Defenders | ||||||||||
| 3 | Joaquín Varela | DF | 2020 5, df=yes | loan from Fénix | 2019 | 2020 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 5 | Kyriakos Antoniou | | DF | 2020 5, df=yes | Academy | 2018 | 17 | 1 | ||
| 8 | Matija Širok | | DF | 2020 5, df=yes | Domžale | 2018 | 56 | 1 | ||
| 13 | Kevin Lafrance | DF | 2020 5, df=yes | loan from APOEL | 2019 | 2020 | 17 | 1 | ||
| 15 | Giorgos Valerianos | | DF | 2020 5, df=yes | Aris Thessaloniki | 2019 | 15 | 0 | ||
| 18 | Mickaël Panos | | DF | 2020 5, df=yes | Saint-Étienne | 2019 | 23 | 0 | ||
| 20 | Andreas Tsokkas | | DF | 2020 5, df=yes | Academy | 2019 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 22 | Andreas Panayiotou | | DF | 2020 5, df=yes | Omonia | 2018 | 42 | 2 | ||
| 23 | | DF | 2020 5, df=yes | Brøndby | 2019 | 20 | 2 | |||
| 66 | Pavel Lelyukhin |  | DF | 2020 5, df=yes | Dynamo Moscow | 2018 | 24 | 0 | ||
| Midfielders | ||||||||||
| 6 | Sunny | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | Real Salt Lake | 2019 | 5 | 0 | |||
| 7 | Danny Williams | | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | Huddersfield Town | 2019 | 11 | 0 | ||
| 14 | Gerasimos Fylaktou | | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | Ermis Aradippou | 2019 | ||||
| 16 | Abdisalam Ibrahim |  | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | Vålerenga | 2019 | 11 | 0 | ||
| 17 | Nahir Besara | | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | Al-Fayha | 2019 | 24 | 1 | ||
| 21 | Cy Goddard | | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | loan from Benevento | 2019 | 2020 | 8 | 0 | |
| 24 | Onni Valakari | | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | Tromsø | 2020 | 6 | 5 | ||
| 26 | Bakary Sako | | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | Crystal Palace | 2019 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 31 | Zdeněk Folprecht | | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | Slovan Liberec | 2018 | 44 | 1 | ||
| 42 | Jason Puncheon | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | Crystal Palace | 2019[28] | 2021 | 16 | 0 | ||
| Forwards | ||||||||||
| 9 | | FW | 2020 5, df=yes | Montpellier | 2018 | |||||
| 11 | Alex Konstantinou | | FW | 2020 5, df=yes | Olympiakos Nicosia | 2019 | 9 | 1 | ||
| 28 | Vá | FW | 2020 5, df=yes | Petro de Luanda | 2019 | 18 | 2 | |||
| 32 | Marcelo Torres | | FW | 2020 5, df=yes | loan from Boca Juniors | 2019 | 2020 | 6 | 2 | |
| 77 | Adam Nemec | | FW | 2020 5, df=yes | Dinamo București | 2018 | 48 | 22 | ||
| 87 | Nikita Dubov | FW | 2020 5, df=yes | Academy | 2019 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 91 | Jerson Cabral | | FW | 2020 5, df=yes | Levski Sofia | 2019 | 14 | 3 | ||
| 92 | Deniss Rakels | FW | 2020 5, df=yes | Reading | 2018 | 30 | 2 | |||
| Out on loan | ||||||||||
| 70 | Brayan Angulo | | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | América de Cali | 2020 | 36 | 10 | ||
| Left during the season | ||||||||||
| 10 | Lulinha | | MF | 2020 5, df=yes | Sharjah | 2018 | 29 | 2 | ||
| 19 | Federico Rasic | | FW | 2020 5, df=yes | Arsenal Tula | 2018 | 36 | 9 | ||
See main article: 2019–20 Cypriot First Division.
See main article: 2019–20 Cypriot Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players away on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who appeared for Pafos but left during the season:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=150 | Cyta Championship | width=80 | Cypriot Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MF | | 24 | Onni Valakari | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| 2 | FW | | 91 | Jerson Cabral | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||
| FW | | 77 | Adam Nemec | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| 3 | DF | | 23 | Paulus Arajuuri | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| FW | 28 | Vá | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| FW | | 9 | Kévin Bérigaud | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| FW | | 32 | Marcelo Torres | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| 8 | MF | | 17 | Nahir Besara | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| DF | 13 | Kevin Lafrance | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| DF | | 5 | Kyriacos Antoniou | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| DF | | 22 | Andreas Panayiotou | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW | 92 | Deniss Rakels | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 10 | Lulinha | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| MF | | 26 | Bakary Sako | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW | | 19 | Federico Rasic | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW | | 11 | Alex Konstantinou | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| DF | | 8 | Matija Širok | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 26 | 4 | 30 | ||||||||||||
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=150 | Cyta Championship | width=80 | Cypriot Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | | 1 | Artur Rudko | 6 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
| TOTALS | 6 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Cyta Championship | Cypriot Cup | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | GK | Artur Rudko | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 5 | | DF | Kyriacos Antoniou | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| 7 | | MF | Danny Williams | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 8 | | DF | Matija Širok | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |||
| 9 | | FW | Kévin Bérigaud | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 13 | DF | Kevin Lafrance | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 14 | | MF | Gerasimos Fylaktou | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 15 | | DF | Giorgos Valerianos | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |||
| 17 | | MF | Nahir Besara | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| 18 | | DF | Mickaël Panos | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
| 22 | | DF | Andreas Panayiotou | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||
| 23 | | DF | Paulus Arajuuri | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
| 24 | | MF | Onni Valakari | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 28 | FW | Vá | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 31 | | MF | Zdeněk Folprecht | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 32 | | FW | Marcelo Torres | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 42 | MF | Jason Puncheon | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 66 | | DF | Pavel Lelyukhin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 77 | | FW | Adam Nemec | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| 91 | | FW | Jerson Cabral | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| 92 | FW | Deniss Rakels | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Players away on loan: | ||||||||||||
| Players who left Pafos during the season: | ||||||||||||
| 10 | | MF | Lulinha | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 19 | | FW | Federico Rasic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 62 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 65 | 3 | ||||||