2021 Greek Football Cup final

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2021 Greek Cup final
Event2020–21 Greek Football Cup
Date22 May 2021
VenueOlympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Man of the MatchMichael Krmenčík (PAOK)
RefereeDanny Makkelie (Netherlands)
AttendanceBehind 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 Olympic Stadium, between Olympiacos and PAOK.[1] It was Olympiacos' forty-first Greek Cup final and second consecutive, in their 97 years of existence and PAOK's twenty first Greek Cup final of their 96-year history.

Venue[edit]

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 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[edit]

Olympiacos qualified for the Greek Cup final thirty-nine times, winning twenty eight of them. They last played in a final in 2020, where they had won AEK Athens, 1–0.

PAOK qualified for the Greek Cup final twenty times, winning seven of them. They last played in a final in 2019, where they had won AEK Athens by 1–0.

Route to the final[edit]

Olympiacos Round PAOK
Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg
Panetolikos 6–0 3–0 (A) 3–0 (H) First round AEL 7–1 5–0 (H) 2–1 (A)
Aris 3–2 2–1 (H) 1–1 (A) Quarter-finals Lamia 6–3 5–2 (H) 1–1 (A)
PAS Giannina 4–1 1–1 (A) 3–1 (H) Semi-finals AEK Athens 3–1 1–0 (A) 2–1 (H)

Match[edit]

Details[edit]

Olympiacos1–2PAOK
  • M'Vila 50'
Report
Olympiacos
PAOK
GK  1 Portugal José Sá
CB  3 Portugal Rúben Semedo
CB 15 Greece Sokratis Papastathopoulos  downward-facing red arrow 25'
CB  6 France Yann M'Vila
RWB 14 Greece Thanasis Androutsos
CM  4 Guinea Mady Camara  downward-facing red arrow 90+1'
CM  5 Greece Andreas Bouchalakis (c)
LWB 25 Greece José Holebas
RW 27 Portugal Bruma  downward-facing red arrow 46'
LW 19 Greece Georgios Masouras  downward-facing red arrow 86'
CF 11 Morocco Youssef El-Arabi
Substitutes:
GK 88 Greece Konstantinos Tzolakis
DF 61 Greece Alexios Kalogeropoulos
DF 45 Moldova Oleg Reabciuk  upward-facing green arrow 25'
DF 72 France Kenny Lala
MF  8 Portugal Tiago Silva
MF 28 France Mathieu Valbuena  upward-facing green arrow 90+1'
ΜF  7 Greece Kostas Fortounis  upward-facing green arrow 46'
FW 97 Serbia Lazar Ranđelović
FW  9 Egypt Ahmed Hassan  upward-facing green arrow 86'
Manager:
Portugal Pedro Martins
GK 31 Greece Alexandros Paschalakis
CB 20 Portugal Vieirinha (c)
CB  5 Cape Verde Fernando Varela
CB 15 Spain José Ángel Crespo
RWB  2 Brazil Rodrigo Soares
CM 22 Austria Stefan Schwab Yellow card 90+2'
CM 33 Brazil Douglas Augusto Yellow card 45+1'
LWB 21 Ghana Baba Rahman downward-facing red arrow 90+5'
RW 14 Serbia Andrija Živković
LW  8 Egypt Amr Warda downward-facing red arrow 80'
CF  9 Poland Karol Świderski downward-facing red arrow 80'
Substitutes:
GK 88 Serbia Živko Živković
DF  6 Albania Enea Mihaj upward-facing green arrow 90+5'
DF 19 Greece Lefteris Lyratzis
MF 51 Greece Charis Tsingaras upward-facing green arrow 80'
MF  7 Morocco Omar El Kaddouri
MF 10 Austria Thomas Murg
MF 65 Greece Giannis Konstantelias
FW 11 Greece Christos Tzolis
FW 27 Czech Republic Michael Krmenčík upward-facing green arrow 80'
Manager:
Uruguay Pablo García

Man of the Match:
Czech Republic 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[edit]

  1. ^ "Ολυμπιακός - ΠΑΟΚ 1-2". gazzetta.gr (in Greek). 22 May 2021.