The 2026 Greek Cup final was the 82nd final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 25 April 2026 at Panthessaliko Stadium. The contesting teams were OFI and PAOK. It was OFI's fourth Greek Cup final and second consecutive, in their 101 years of existence and PAOK's twenty fourth Greek Cup final of their 100-year history.
Venue
This was the sixth Greek Cup final held at the Panthessaliko Stadium, after the 2007, 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2024 finals.
Panthessaliko Stadium was built in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue for Niki Volos and Volos. Its current capacity is 22,189.
Background OFI has reached the Greek Cup final three times, winning one of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1987 (3–1 in penalty shootout against Iraklis). The last time that had played in a final was in 2025, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 2–0.
PAOK has reached the Greek Cup final twenty three times, winning eight of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2023, where they lost to AEK Athens by 2–0.
The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.
Route to the final
PAOKRoundOFIOpponentResultLeague phaseOpponentResultLevadiakos 1–4 (A)Matchday 1Kavala 3–0 (H)AEL 4–1 (H)Matchday 2Athens Kallithea 1–0 (A)Aris 1–1 (A)Matchday 3Iraklis 3–1 (H)Marko 4–1 (H)Matchday 4AEK Athens 0–2 (A)8th placeAdvanced to knockout phase play-offsFinal position6th placeAdvanced to knockout phase play-offsAtromitos1–1 (H)Play-offsAsteras Tripolis2–0 (H)Olympiacos2–0 (A)Quarter-finalsAEK Athens1–0 (A)OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legPanathinaikos3–01–0 (A)2–0 (H)Semi-finalsLevadiakos2–11–1 (H)1–0 (A)
Match
Details
GK 99 Antonis Tsiftsis RB 3 Jonjoe KennyCB 5 Giannis MichailidisCB 15 Tomasz KędzioraLB 21 Baba RahmanCM 8 Soualiho Meïté CM 27 Magomed Ozdoyev AM 65 Giannis Konstantelias LW 11 Taison RW 14 Andrija Živković (c) CF 56 Anestis Mythou Substitutes:GK 1 Jiří PavlenkaGK 41 Dimitrios MonastirlisDF 4 Alessandro VogliaccoDF 32 Greg TaylorDF 35 Jorge SánchezMF 2 Mady Camara MF 10 Dimitris Pelkas MF 18 Luka IvanušecMF 20 Christos Zafeiris ΜF 21 Alessandro Bianco MF 52 Dimitris Chatsidis FW 19 Alexander Jeremejeff Manager: Răzvan Lucescu GK 31 Nikos Christogeorgos RB 27 Levan Shengelia CB 2 Krešimir Krizmanić CB 15 Achilleas Poungouras CB 5 Konstantinos Kostoulas LB 3 Nikos AthanasiouDM 6 Zisis KarachaliosCM 14 Thanasis Androutsos (c)RW 11 Taxiarchis Fountas LW 18 Thiago Nuss CF 9 Eddie Salcedo Substitutes:GK 1 Klidman Lilo GK 13 Panagiotis KatsikasDF 4 Nikos MarinakisDF 12 Ilias ChatzitheodoridisDF 24 Vasilios Lampropoulos DF 90 Pavlos KenourgiakisMF 7 Georgios Kanellopoulos MF 10 Juan NeiraMF 21 Giannis Apostolakis ΜF 25 Filip BainovićFW 46 Giannis Theodosoulakis FW 99 Aaron Leya Iseka Manager: Christos Kontis Man of the Match: Aaron Leya Iseka (OFI)
Assistant referees: Andreas Fotopoulos (Athens) Ioannis Karagizopoulos (Imathia) Fourth official: Christos Vergetis (Arcadia) Video assistant referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Athens) Assistant video assistant referee: Vasilis Fotias (Pella)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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