The 1992 Greek Cup final was the 48th final of the Greek Cup. The final, was set for the second and last time to be played over two legs in the home ground of the 2 finalists. The contesting teams were PAOK and Olympiacos. It was PAOK's fourteenth Greek Cup final in their 66 years of existence and Olympiacos' twenty-six Greek Cup final in their 67-year history. The first match took place on 20 May 1992 at Toumba Stadium and the second match took place on 27 May 1992 at Karaiskakis Stadium. It was the first time that a private channel ANT1, was covering a Cup final, since all the finals were until then covered by ERT.
Background PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final thirteen times, winning two of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1974 (4–3 on penalties, which came after a 2–2 draw at the end of the extra time against Olympiacos). The last time that they had played in a final was in 1985, where they had lost to AEL by 4–1.
Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty-five times, winning nineteen of them. The last time that they played in a final was in 1990, where they had won against OFI by 4–2.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final five times in the 1951, 1971, 1973, 1974 and 1981 finals.
Route to the final
PAOKRoundOlympiacosOpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResultPoseidon Michaniona2–3 (A)Matchday 1PanioniosUnknownPoseidon Heraklion5–0 (H)Matchday 2IlisiakosUnknownOlympiacos Volos1–1 (A)Matchday 3NaoussaUnknownAE Mesolongi4–1 (H)Matchday 4PrevezaUnknownGroup 4 runners-up TeamPts Poseidon Michaniona6 PAOK5 Olympiacos Volos4 AE Mesolongi4 Poseidon Heraklion1Final standingsGroup 5 winners TeamPts Olympiacos6 Panionios5 Ilisiakos4 Naoussa3 Preveza2OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legKnockout phaseOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legA.F.C. Patra4–11–0 (A)3–1 (H)Round of 32Kastoria7–03–1 (A)4–0 (H)Korinthos4–14–1 (H)0–0 (A)Round of 16Skoda Xanthi5–41–2 (A)4–2 (H)Doxa Drama4–20–2 (A)4–0 (H)Quarter-finalsPanathinaikos1–1 (a)0–0 (H)1–1 (A)AEK Athens3–20–2 (A)3–0 (H)Semi-finalsAtromitos8–24–1 (A)4–1 (H)
Match First leg
GK Tonči GabrićDF Nikos PlitsisDF Michalis LeontiadisDF Alexandros AlexiouDF Georgios MitsibonasMF Kostas Oikonomidis MF Kostas LagonidisMF Stefanos BorbokisMF Georgios Skartados (c)MF Georgios ToursounidisFW Milan Đurđević Substitutes:FW John Anastasiadis FW Thanasis Basbanas Manager: Giannis Gounaris GK 1 Ilias TalikriadisDF 2 Theodoros PachatouridisDF 3 Kyriakos KarataidisDF 4 Michalis VlachosDF 5 Nikos Nentidis MF 6 Panagiotis Tsalouchidis (c)MF 7 Hennadiy LytovchenkoMF 8 Nikos TsiantakisFW 9 Yuri SavichevFW 10 Oleh ProtasovFW 11 Panagiotis Sofianopoulos Substitutes:MF Minas Hantzidis FW Georgios Vaitsis Manager: Oleg Blokhin Assistant referees: Rentzis (Piraeus) Panagiotis Perlorentzos (Piraeus)Match rules 90 minutes Five named substitutes Maximum of two substitutions.
Second leg
GK 1 Ilias TalikriadisDF 2 Theodoros PachatouridisDF 3 Kyriakos KarataidisDF 4 Michalis VlachosDF 5 Nikos Nentidis MF 6 Panagiotis Tsalouchidis (c)MF 7 Hennadiy LytovchenkoMF 8 Nikos Tsiantakis FW 9 Yuri Savichev FW 10 Oleh ProtasovFW 11 Panagiotis Sofianopoulos Substitutes:MF Minas Hantzidis MF Vassilis Karapialis Manager: Oleg Blokhin GK 1 Tonči GabrićDF 8 Kostas Malioufas DF 3 Alexandros Alexiou DF 4 Georgios MitsibonasMF 2 Kostas OikonomidisMF 6 Kostas LagonidisMF 7 Stefanos BorbokisMF 5 Georgios Skartados (c)MF 10 Georgios ToursounidisFW 11 John AnastasiadisFW 9 Milan Đurđević Substitutes:DF Dimitrios Mitoglou MF Vangelis Kalogeropoulos Manager: Giannis Gounaris Assistant referees: Tsinaslanidis (Thessaloniki) Filippos Bakas (Thessaloniki)Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Five named substitutes Maximum of two substitutions
See also 1991–92 Greek Football Cup
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