2010 Greek Football Cup final

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2010 Greek Cup final
Event 2009–10 Greek Football Cup
Date24 April 2010
Venue Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Man of the Match Sebastián Leto (Panathinaikos)
Referee Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)
Attendance48,926
WeatherPartly Cloudy
15 °C (59 °F)
72% humidity
2009
2011

The 2010 Greek Cup final was the 66th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 24 April 2010 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and Aris. [1] It was Panathinaikos' twenty eighth Greek Cup final in their 102-year history and Aris' ninth Greek Cup final in their 96 years of existence. Aris achieved a record of most mass movement of fans in Greece. About 25,000 Aris' fans followed their team to the Olympic Stadium forming a queue of many kilometers on the Thessaloniki-Athens highway from a number of buses, as well as cars. It was characteristic that the last vehicle of the procession arrived at the stadium three hours after the arrival of the first. [2]

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Venue

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Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the seventeenth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2009 finals.

The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982 and renovated once in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue for AEK Athens and Panathinaikos and was used for Olympiacos and Greece in various occasions. Its current capacity is 69,618 and it hosted three European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals in 1983, 1994 and 2007, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987, the 1991 Mediterranean Games and the 2004 Summer Olympics. [3]

Background

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty seven times, winning sixteen of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 2004 (3–1 against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 2007, where they had lost to AEL by 1–2.

Aris had reached the Greek Cup final eight times, winning one of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1970 (1–0 against PAOK). The last time that had played in a final was in 2008, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 2–0. [4]

Route to the final

PanathinaikosRoundAris
OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg
Eordaikos 2007 3–0 (A) Round of 32 Aspropyrgos 4–3 (A)
Pierikos 2–1 (H) Round of 16 Asteras Tripolis 2–0 (H)
Kallithea 2–0 (H) Quarter-finals Skoda Xanthi 4–11–1 (A)3–0 (H)
PAS Giannina 3–13–1 (H)0–0 (A) Semi-finals Kavala 4–23–1 (H)1–1 (A)

Match

Details

Panathinaikos 1–0 Aris
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Report
Olympic Stadium , Marousi
Attendance: 48,926
Referee: Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)
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Aris
GK30 Flag of Greece.svg Alexandros Tzorvas
RB24 Flag of Greece.svg Loukas Vintra
CB29 Flag of Greece.svg Kostas Katsouranis
CB 8 Flag of Mali.svg Cédric Kanté
LB31 Flag of Greece.svg Nikos Spiropoulos Yellow card.svg 30'
DM15 Flag of Brazil.svg Gilberto Silva (c)
DM23 Flag of Mozambique.svg Simão Mate Junior Yellow card.svg 59'
AM 7 Flag of Greece.svg Sotiris Ninis  Sub off.svg 66'
RW14 Flag of Greece.svg Dimitris Salpingidis  Sub off.svg 62'
LW11 Flag of Argentina.svg Sebastián Leto Yellow card.svg 40' Sub off.svg 78'
CF 9 Flag of France.svg Djibril Cissé
Substitutes:
GK27 Flag of Greece.svg Orestis Karnezis
DF 3 Flag of Spain.svg Josu Sarriegi
DF22 Flag of Greece.svg Stergos Marinos  Sub on.svg 66'
DF19 Flag of Brazil.svg Gabriel
MF26 Flag of Greece.svg Giorgos Karagounis  Sub on.svg 62'
FW17 Flag of Greece.svg Lazaros Christodoulopoulos  Sub on.svg 78'
FW 5 Flag of Croatia.svg Ante Rukavina
Manager:
Flag of Greece.svg Nikos Nioplias
GK 1 Flag of Greece.svg Michalis Sifakis
RB 2 Flag of Brazil.svg Darcy Neto
CB 5 Flag of Brazil.svg Ronaldo Guiaro
CB15 Flag of Argentina.svg Cristian Nasuti
LB32 Flag of Albania.svg Kristi Vangjeli
DM55 Flag of Greece.svg Athanasios Prittas Yellow card.svg 47'
DM 6 Flag of Tunisia.svg Mehdi Nafti  Sub off.svg 74'
AM17 Flag of France.svg Camel Meriem  Sub off.svg 66'
RW 7 Flag of Spain.svg Toni Calvo Yellow card.svg 12' Sub off.svg 83'
LW10 Flag of Spain.svg Sergio Koke (c)
CF18 Flag of Argentina.svg Javier Cámpora
Substitutes:
GK28 Flag of Slovakia.svg Michal Peškovič
DF 4 Flag of Greece.svg Efthimios Kouloucheris
DF25 Flag of Spain.svg César Ortiz
MF 9 Flag of Argentina.svg Darío Fernández  Sub on.svg 74'
MF20 Flag of Spain.svg Javito  Sub on.svg 66'
FW11 Flag of the United States.svg Freddy Adu  Sub on.svg 83'
FW14 Flag of the United States.svg Eddie Johnson
Manager:
Flag of Argentina.svg Héctor Cúper

Man of the Match:
Flag of Argentina.svg Sebastian Leto (Panathinaikos)


Assistant referees:
Konstantinos Dallas (Epirus)
Dimitris Tatsis (Epirus)
Fourth official:
Michael Koukoulakis (Heraklion)

Match rules

  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary
  • Penalty shootout if scores still level
  • Seven named substitutes
  • Maximum of three substitutions

See also

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