2018 Greek Football Cup final

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2018 Greek Cup final
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Match poster
Event 2017–18 Greek Football Cup
Date12 May 2018
Venue Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Man of the Match Vieirinha (PAOK)
Referee David Fernández Borbalán (Spain)
Attendance35,545
WeatherFair
19 °C (66 °F)
40% humidity
2017
2019

The 2018 Greek Cup final was the 74th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 12 May 2018 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and PAOK [1] for a second time in row. It was AEK Athens' twenty third Greek Cup final and third consecutive, of their 94-year history and PAOK's nineteenth Greek Cup final and second consecutive, in their 92 years of existence.

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Venue

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Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the twenty third 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, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 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 was used for Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and Greece in various occasions. Its current capacity is 69,618 and hosted 3 UEFA European Cup/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.

Background

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final twenty two times, winning fourteen of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 2016 (2–1 against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 2017, where they had lost to PAOK by 2–1.

PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final eighteen times, winning five of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2017, where they had won AEK Athens by 2–1. [2]

Route to the final

AEK AthensRoundPAOK
OpponentResult Group stage OpponentResult
Lamia 2–0 (H)Matchday 1 Levadiakos 2–1 (H)
Apollon Larissa 7–0 (A)Matchday 2 Apollon Pontus 1–0 (A)
Kallithea 3–2 (A)Matchday 3 Aiginiakos 5–0 (A)
Group C winners

PosTeamPldPts
1 AEK Athens 39
2 Lamia 36
3 Apollon Larissa 33
4 Kallithea 30
Source: epo.gr
Final standings Group B winners

PosTeamPldPts
1 PAOK 39
2 Levadiakos 36
3 Apollon Pontus 33
4 Aiginiakos 30
Source: epo.gr
OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg Knockout phase OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg
Panetolikos 5–04–0 (A)1–0 (H) Round of 16 Trikala 7–25–1 (A)2–1 (H)
Olympiacos 2–10–0 (A)2–1 (H) Quarter-finals Atromitos 5–12–0 (H)3–1 (A)
AEL 2–2 (a)1–2 (A)1–0 (H) Semi-finals Panionios 6–23–1 (A)3–1 (H)

Match

Details

AEK Athens 0–2 PAOK
Report
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PAOK
GK 1 Flag of Greece.svg Vasilis Barkas
RB 2 Flag of Greece.svg Michalis Bakakis
CB 4 Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Ognjen Vranješ Yellow card.svg 64' Yellow-red card.svg 80'
CB19 Flag of Ukraine.svg Dmytro Chyhrynskyi
LB23 Flag of Sweden.svg Niklas Hult Sub off.svg 53'
DM 8 Flag of Portugal.svg André Simões
CM25 Flag of Greece.svg Konstantinos Galanopoulos Yellow card.svg 90'
RM14 Flag of Greece.svg Anastasios Bakasetas Yellow card.svg 71'Sub off.svg 73'
LM10 Flag of Croatia.svg Marko Livaja Yellow card.svg 46'
AM20 Flag of Greece.svg Petros Mantalos (c) Sub off.svg 67'
CF11 Flag of Argentina.svg Sergio Araujo
Substitutes:
GK16 Flag of Greece.svg Panagiotis Tsintotas
DF 5 Flag of Greece.svg Vasilios Lampropoulos
DF12 Flag of Brazil.svg Rodrigo Galo Sub on.svg 53'
DF33 Flag of Greece.svg Giorgos Giannoutsos
FW77 Flag of Greece.svg Christos Giousis
FW 7 Flag of Greece.svg Lazaros Christodoulopoulos Sub on.svg 67'
FW 9 Flag of Greece.svg Giorgos Giakoumakis Sub on.svg 73'
Manager:
Flag of Spain.svg Manolo Jiménez
GK31 Flag of Greece.svg Alexandros Paschalakis
RB 3 Flag of Brazil.svg Léo Matos Yellow card.svg 21'
CB15 Flag of Spain.svg José Ángel Crespo Yellow card.svg 45+1'
CB 5 Flag of Cape Verde.svg Fernando Varela Yellow card.svg 80' Red card.svg 90+4'
LB88 Flag of Portugal.svg Vieirinha (c) Sub off.svg 82'
DM87 Flag of Spain.svg José Cañas
DM 8 Flag of Brazil.svg Maurício Red card.svg 80'
RM10 Flag of Angola.svg Djalma Campos Yellow card.svg 6'Sub off.svg 52'
LM21 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Diego Biseswar Sub off.svg 75'
AM77 Flag of Greece.svg Dimitris Pelkas Yellow card.svg 90+3'
CF 9 Flag of Serbia.svg Aleksandar Prijović
Substitutes:
GK99 Flag of Greece.svg Marios Siampanis
DF13 Flag of Greece.svg Stelios Malezas Sub on.svg 82'
MF28 Flag of Ukraine.svg Yevhen Shakhov Sub on.svg 75'
MF 7 Flag of Morocco.svg Omar El Kaddouri
FW29 Flag of Slovakia.svg Róbert Mak Sub on.svg 52'
FW18 Flag of Greece.svg Dimitris Limnios
FW20 Flag of Greece.svg Efthymis Koulouris
Manager:
Flag of Romania.svg Răzvan Lucescu

Man of the Match:
Flag of Portugal.svg Vieirinha (PAOK)


Assistant referees:
Raúl Cabañero Martínez (Spain)
José Manuel Matías Caballero (Spain)
Additional assistant referees:
Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)
Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)
Fourth official:
Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Dodecanese)

Match rules

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

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