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. 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.
Venue
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.
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.
Route to the final
OlympiacosRoundPAOKOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legPanetolikos6–03–0 (A)3–0 (H)First roundAEL7–15–0 (H)2–1 (A)Aris3–22–1 (H)1–1 (A)Quarter-finalsLamia6–35–2 (H)1–1 (A)PAS Giannina4–11–1 (A)3–1 (H)Semi-finalsAEK Athens3–11–0 (A)2–1 (H)
Match
Details
GK 1 José Sá CB 3 Rúben Semedo CB 15 Sokratis Papastathopoulos CB 6 Yann M'Vila RWB14 Thanasis Androutsos CM 4 Mady Camara CM 5 Andreas Bouchalakis (c)LWB25 José Holebas RW 27 Bruma LW 19 Georgios Masouras CF 11 Youssef El-Arabi Substitutes:GK 88 Konstantinos TzolakisDF 61 Alexios Kalogeropoulos DF 45 Oleg Reabciuk DF 72 Kenny LalaMF 8 Tiago Silva MF 28 Mathieu Valbuena ΜF 7 Kostas Fortounis FW 97 Lazar Ranđelović FW 9 Ahmed Hassan Manager: Pedro Martins GK 31 Alexandros PaschalakisCB 20 Vieirinha (c)CB 5 Fernando Varela CB 15 José Ángel Crespo RWB 2 Rodrigo Soares CM 22 Stefan Schwab CM 33 Douglas Augusto LWB21 Baba Rahman RW 14 Andrija Živković LW 8 Amr Warda CF 9 Karol Świderski Substitutes:GK 88 Živko Živković DF 6 Enea Mihaj DF 19 Lefteris Lyratzis MF 51 Theocharis Tsingaras MF 7 Omar El Kaddouri MF 10 Thomas MurgMF 65 Giannis Konstantelias FW 11 Christos TzolisFW 27 Michael Krmenčík Manager: Pablo García Man of the Match: 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.
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