The 1990 Greek Cup final was the 46th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 17 May 1990 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were OFI and Olympiacos. It was OFI's second Greek Cup final in their 65 years of existence and Olympiacos' twenty-fifth Greek Cup final in their 65-year history.

Venue

This was the eighth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989 finals.

The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982. The stadium is used as a venue for Panathinaikos and Greece and was used for Olympiacos and AEK Athens on various occasions. Its current capacity is 80,000 and hosted a European Cup final in 1983 and a European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987.

Background OFI had reached the Greek Cup one time, in 1987, where they had won against Iraklis by 3–1 on penalties, which came after a 1–1 draw at the end of the extra time.

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty four times, winning seventeen of them. The last time that they won the Cup was in 1981 (3–1 against PAOK). The last time that they played in a final was in 1988, where they had lost to Panathinaikos by 4–3 on penalties, which came after a 2–2 draw at the end of the extra time.

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

Route to the final

OFIRoundOlympiacosOpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResultKerkyraUnknownMatchday 1SpartaUnknownOdysseas KordelioUnknownMatchday 2KorinthosUnknownNigritaUnknownMatchday 3KallitheaUnknownNot playedMatchday 4IrodotosUnknownGroup 15 winners TeamPts OFI5 Kerkyra3 Odysseas Kordelio3 Nigrita1Final standingsGroup 2 winners TeamPts Olympiacos6 Sparta5 Korinthos4 Kallithea4 Irodotos1OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legKnockout phaseOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legPanserraikos9–33–2 (A)6–1 (H)Round of 32Proodeftiki3–11–1 (A)2–0 (H)Aris2–11–1 (H)1–0 (A)Round of 16PAOK1–1 0–1 (A)1–0 (H)Athinaikos5–30–3 (A)5–0 (H)Quarter-finalsOlympiacos Volos6–25–0 (H)1–2 (A)Apollon Athens1–00–0 (H)1–0 (A)Semi-finalsPanathinaikos5–42–1 (H)3–3 (A)

Match Details

GK Kostas Chaniotakis DF Nikos Goulis (c) DF Stefanos Vavoulas DF Manolis PatemtzisDF Nikos TsimposDF Alejandro HisisMF Miltos Andreanidis MF Jaime VeraMF Nikos NiopliasFW Georgios Vlastos FW Dimosthenis KavourasSubstitutes:MF Grigoris Tsinos MF Kostas Batsinilas Manager: Eugène Gerards GK Ilias TalikriadisDF Stratos ApostolakisDF Theodoros PachatouridisDF Alexandros AlexiouDF Kyriakos KarataidisMF Panagiotis TsalouchidisMF Sotiris Mavrommatis MF Savvas Kofidis MF Tasos Mitropoulos (c)MF Lajos DétáriFW Nikos AnastopoulosSubstitutes:MF Nikos Tsiantakis FW Apostolos Drakopoulos Manager: Imre Komora Assistant referees: Stratos Kannos (Athens) Lefteris Filippidis (Patras)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 1989–90 Greek Football Cup

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