2021 Greek Football Cup final

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2021 Greek Cup final
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Event 2020–21 Greek Football Cup
Date22 May 2021
Venue Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Man of the Match Michael Krmenčík (PAOK)
Referee Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)
Attendance Behind closed doors
WeatherFair
19 °C (66 °F)
52% humidity
2020
2022

The 2021 Greek Cup final was the 77th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 22 May 2021 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Olympiacos and PAOK. [1] It was Olympiacos' forty-first Greek Cup final and second consecutive, in their 96 years of existence and PAOK's twenty first Greek Cup final of their 95-year history.

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Venue

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Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the twenty fifth 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, 2016, 2018 and 2019 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 Greece and was used for Olympiacos and Panathinaikos on 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. [2]

Background

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty nine times, winning twenty eight of them. The last time that they had played in a final was in 2020, where they had won against AEK Athens by 1–0.

PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final twenty times, winning seven of them. The last time that they had played in a final was in 2019, where they had won against AEK Athens by 1–0.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final seven times in the 1951, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1981, 1992 and 2001 finals. [3]

Route to the final

OlympiacosRoundPAOK
OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg
Panetolikos 6–03–0 (A)3–0 (H) First round AEL 7–15–0 (H)2–1 (A)
Aris 3–22–1 (H)1–1 (A) Quarter-finals Lamia 6–35–2 (H)1–1 (A)
PAS Giannina 4–11–1 (A)3–1 (H) Semi-finals AEK Athens 3–11–0 (A)2–1 (H)

Match

Details

Olympiacos 1–2 PAOK
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PAOK
GK 1 Flag of Portugal (official).svg José Sá
CB 3 Flag of Portugal (official).svg Rúben Semedo
CB15 Flag of Greece.svg Sokratis Papastathopoulos  Sub off.svg 25'
CB 6 Flag of France.svg Yann M'Vila
RWB14 Flag of Greece.svg Thanasis Androutsos
CM 4 Flag of Guinea.svg Mady Camara  Sub off.svg 90+1'
CM 5 Flag of Greece.svg Andreas Bouchalakis (c)
LWB25 Flag of Greece.svg José Holebas
RW27 Flag of Portugal (official).svg Bruma  Sub off.svg 46'
LW19 Flag of Greece.svg Georgios Masouras  Sub off.svg 86'
CF11 Flag of Morocco.svg Youssef El-Arabi
Substitutes:
GK88 Flag of Greece.svg Konstantinos Tzolakis
DF61 Flag of Greece.svg Alexios Kalogeropoulos
DF45 Flag of Moldova.svg Oleg Reabciuk  Sub on.svg 25'
DF72 Flag of France.svg Kenny Lala
MF 8 Flag of Portugal (official).svg Tiago Silva
MF28 Flag of France.svg Mathieu Valbuena  Sub on.svg 90+1'
ΜF 7 Flag of Greece.svg Kostas Fortounis  Sub on.svg 46'
FW97 Flag of Serbia.svg Lazar Ranđelović
FW 9 Flag of Egypt.svg Ahmed Hassan  Sub on.svg 86'
Manager:
Flag of Portugal (official).svg Pedro Martins
GK31 Flag of Greece.svg Alexandros Paschalakis
CB20 Flag of Portugal (official).svg Vieirinha (c)
CB 5 Flag of Cape Verde.svg Fernando Varela
CB15 Flag of Spain.svg José Ángel Crespo
RWB 2 Flag of Brazil.svg Rodrigo Soares
CM22 Flag of Austria.svg Stefan Schwab Yellow card.svg 90+2'
CM33 Flag of Brazil.svg Douglas Augusto Yellow card.svg 45+1'
LWB21 Flag of Ghana.svg Baba Rahman Sub off.svg 90+5'
RW14 Flag of Serbia.svg Andrija Živković
LW 8 Flag of Egypt.svg Amr Warda Sub off.svg 80'
CF 9 Flag of Poland.svg Karol Świderski Sub off.svg 80'
Substitutes:
GK88 Flag of Serbia.svg Živko Živković
DF 6 Flag of Albania.svg Enea Mihaj Sub on.svg 90+5'
DF19 Flag of Greece.svg Lefteris Lyratzis
MF51 Flag of Greece.svg Charis Tsingaras Sub on.svg 80'
MF 7 Flag of Morocco.svg Omar El Kaddouri
MF10 Flag of Austria.svg Thomas Murg
MF65 Flag of Greece.svg Giannis Konstantelias
FW11 Flag of Greece.svg Christos Tzolis
FW27 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Michael Krmenčík Sub on.svg 80'
Manager:
Flag of Uruguay.svg Pablo García

Man of the Match:
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Michael Krmenčík (PAOK)


Assistant referees:
Hessel Steegstra (Netherlands)
Jan de Vries (Netherlands)
Fourth official:
Dimitrios Karantonis (Imathia)
Video assistant referee:
Kevin Blom (Netherlands)
Assistant video assistant referee:
Tryfon Petropoulos (Arcadia)

Match rules

  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
  • Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used at maximum three times, with a sixth allowed in extra time.

References

  1. "Ολυμπιακός - ΠΑΟΚ 1-2". gazzetta.gr (in Greek). 22 May 2021.
  2. "Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyros Louis" (OAKA)". stadia.gr.
  3. "Greece - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF .