2025 Greek Football Cup final

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2025 Greek Cup final
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Match Poster
Event 2024–25 Greek Football Cup
Date17 May 2025
Venue Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Referee Szymon Marciniak (Poland)
Attendance55,000
WeatherFair
20 °C (68 °F)
54% humidity
Man of the Match Ayoub El Kaabi (Olympiacos)
2024
2026

The 2025 Greek Cup final was the 81st final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 17 May 2025 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were OFI and Olympiacos. [1] [2] It was OFI's third Greek Cup final in their 100 years of existence and Olympiacos' forty second Greek Cup final of their 100-year history. [3] This was the first final to use semi-automated offside technology and goal-line technology. [4]

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Venue

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Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the twenty seventh 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, 2019, 2021 and 2022 finals.

The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982 and renovated once in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue for Panathinaikos and was used for AEK Athens, Olympiacos and Greece and 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. [5]

Background

OFI has reached the Greek Cup final two times, winning one of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1987 (3–1 in penalty shootout against Iraklis). The last time that had played in a final was in 1990, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 4–2.

Olympiacos has reached the Greek Cup final forty one times, winning twenty eignt of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2021, where they lost to PAOK by 2–1.

The two teams have met each other in a Cup final once in the 1990 final. [6]

Route to the final

OFIRoundOlympiacos
OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg
Panetolikos 2–1 (H) Fourth Round Bye
Volos 3–23–1 (H)0–1 (A) Round of 16 Athens Kallithea 2–11–0 (A)1–1 (H)
Panachaiki 7–15–0 (H)2–1 (A) Quarter-finals Panathinaikos 2–11–1 (A)1–0 (H)
Asteras Tripolis 2–11–0 (A)1–1 (H) Semi-finals AEK Athens 6–26–0 (H)0–2 (A)

Match

Details

OFI 0–2 Olympiacos
Report
Olympic Stadium , Marousi
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)
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OFI
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Olympiacos
GK31 Flag of Greece.svg Nikos Christogeorgos
RB17 Flag of Spain.svg Borja González
CB24 Flag of Greece.svg Vasilios Lampropoulos (c) Yellow card.svg 81'
CB30 Flag of Mexico.svg Jordan Silva  Yellow card.svg 2'
LB12 Flag of Greece.svg Ilias Chatzitheodoridis  Yellow card.svg 78' Sub off.svg 83'
DM 6 Flag of Greece.svg Zisis Karachalios  Sub off.svg 64'
CM88 Flag of Montenegro.svg Marko Bakić  Sub off.svg 83'
CM14 Flag of Greece.svg Thanasis Androutsos
RW11 Flag of Greece.svg Taxiarchis Fountas
LW18 Flag of Argentina.svg Thiago Nuss Yellow card.svg 68'
CF 9 Flag of Italy.svg Eddie Salcedo  Sub off.svg 83'
Substitutes:
GK 1 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Daniel Naumov
DF 4 Flag of Greece.svg Nikos Marinakis
DF22 Flag of Greece.svg Giannis Christopoulos
DF34 Flag of Uruguay.svg Kevin Lewis  Sub on.svg 83'
MF10 Flag of Argentina.svg Juan Neira  Sub on.svg 83'
ΜF27 Flag of Georgia.svg Levan Shengelia  Sub on.svg 64'
MF45 Flag of Greece.svg Giannis Apostolakis
FW29 Flag of France.svg Andrew Jung
FW46 Flag of Greece.svg Giannis Theodosoulakis  Sub on.svg 83'
Manager:
Flag of Serbia.svg Milan Rastavac
GK 1 Flag of Greece.svg Alexandros Paschalakis
RB20 Flag of Portugal (official).svg Costinha  Sub off.svg 71'
CB45 Flag of Greece.svg Panagiotis Retsos (c)
CB 5 Flag of Italy.svg Lorenzo Pirola
LB 3 Flag of Argentina.svg Francisco Ortega  Sub off.svg 89'
DM14 Flag of Spain.svg Dani García  Yellow card.svg 21' Sub off.svg 84'
DM32 Flag of Argentina.svg Santiago Hezze
RW23 Flag of Brazil.svg Rodinei
LW10 Flag of Portugal (official).svg Gelson Martins  Yellow card.svg 47'
AM22 Flag of Portugal (official).svg Chiquinho
CF 9 Flag of Morocco.svg Ayoub El Kaabi
Substitutes:
GK99 Flag of Greece.svg Alexandros Anagnostopoulos
DF 4 Flag of France.svg Giulian Biancone
DF16 Flag of Portugal (official).svg David Carmo
DF70 Flag of Nigeria.svg Bruno Onyemaechi  Sub on.svg 89'
MF 8 Flag of New Zealand.svg Marko Stamenić
MF96 Flag of Greece.svg Christos Mouzakitis  Sub on.svg 84'
MF64 Flag of Greece.svg Antonis Papakanellos
FW11 Flag of Norway.svg Kristoffer Velde
FW17 Flag of Ukraine.svg Roman Yaremchuk  Yellow card.svg 74' Sub on.svg 71'
Manager:
Flag of Spain.svg José Luis Mendilibar

Man of the Match:
Ayoub El Kaabi (Olympiacos)


Assistant referees:
Listkiewicz Tomasz (Poland)
Kupsik Adam Michal (Poland)
Fourth official:
Ioannis Papadopoulos (Macedonia)
Video assistant referee:
Kwiatkowski Tomasz Andrzej (Poland)
Assistant video assistant referee:
Angelos Evangelou (Athens)
Offside video assistant referee:
Anastasios Papapetrou (Athens)

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. "Greek Cup 2024/25 National Associations". UEFA .
  2. "Από τις 17 Μαΐου του 1990 στο 2025: ΟΦΗ και Ολυμπιακός ξανά στον τελικό 35 χρόνια μετά!". sdna.gr (in Greek).
  3. "Το πρώτο γραφικό της ΕΠΟ για τον τελικό ΟΦΗ – Ολυμπιακός". oficrete.gr.
  4. "Ο τελικός των νέων τεχνολογιών!". epo.gr (in Greek).
  5. "Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyros Louis" (OAKA)". stadia.gr.
  6. "Greece - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF .