The 2013 Greek Cup final was the 69th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 11 May 2013 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Olympiacos and Asteras Tripolis. It was Asteras Tripolis' first ever Greek Cup final in their 72 years of existence and Olympiacos' thirty seventh and second consecutive Greek Cup final of their 88-year history. The match was marked by the bad refereeing of Athanasios Giachos, who deprived Asteras Tripolis the chance of winning the trophy on multiple occasions, once at the 68th minute, with the score at 1–1, the midfielder of Olympiacos, Maniatis saved a header from Sankaré pushing it back with his hand over the goal line, with the referee and his assistant turning a blind eye to the violation and indicating play on. Another was at the 117th minute, when the midfielder of Olympiacos, Fejsa fouled Rayos inside the area and no penalty was awarded. On the contrary, in the following phase the referee awarded Olympiacos a penalty, even though he was 40 meters away from the spot of the foul that was clearly outside the area. Several fans of the "red and whites" left the stadium before the award ceremony, as an act of bitterness over their club's loss.

Venue

This was the twentieth 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 and 2012 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 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.

Background Asteras Tripolis had never competed in a Cup final.

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty six times, winning twenty five of them. The last time that they had played in a final was in 2012, where they had won Atromitos by 2–1 after extra time.

The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.

Route to the final

OlympiacosRoundAsteras TripolisOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg AEL 4–1 0–0 (A) 4–1 (H) Round of 32 Panachaiki 5–0 2–0 (H) 3–0 () (A) Olympiacos Volos 3–1 1–1 (A) 2–0 (H) Round of 16 Kavala 3–0 2–0 (H) 1–0 (A) Platanias 5–2 2–1 (A) 3–1 (H) Quarter-finals PAS Giannina 3–0 1–0 (A) 2–0 (H) PAOK 3–2 1–2 (A) 2–0 (H) Semi-finals Panthrakikos 8–3 6–2 (H) 2–1 (A)

Match

Details

GK  1 Márton FülöpRB 11 Savvas TsabourisCB 25 Dimitrios Kourbelis  CB 19 Khalifa SankaréLB  3 Christos Pipinis DM 33 Giannis Kontoes  CM  8 Fernando UseroRM 23 Ximo Navarro LM 32 Pablo de Blasis AM 10 Rubén Rayos (c)CF  9 Emanuel Perrone  Substitutes:GK 37 Georgios Bantis DF 22 Sebastián Bartolini  MF 13 Leandro ÁlvarezMF 14 Anastasios Bakasetas FW 18 Francisco Pol HurtadoFW 29 László Lencse  FW 96 Christos Kalantzis  Manager: Sakis Tsiolis GK  1 Roy CarrollRB  3 François Modesto (c)  CB 24 Kostas ManolasCB 23 Dimitrios Siovas LB 20 José Holebas DM  8 Ljubomir Fejsa CM  2 Giannis Maniatis CM  5 Paulo Machado   RW 19 David FusterLW 93 Djamel Abdoun CF 11 Kostas Mitroglou  Substitutes:GK 42 Balázs MegyeriDF 15 Pablo ContrerasDF 45 Konstantinos RougalasMF  7 Ariel Ibagaza  MF 25 Charalampos LykogiannisFW 99 Juan Pablo Pino  FW 10 Rafik Djebbour   Manager: Míchel Man of the Match: David Fuster (Olympiacos)

Assistant referees: Dimitrios Saraidaris (Macedonia) Antonis Karatzikas (Athens) Additional assistant referees: Stavros Tritsonis (Athens) Stavros Mantalos (Athens) Fourth official: Ilias Spathas (Piraeus)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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