1997 Greek Football Cup final

1997 Greek Cup final

Event	1996–97 Greek Football Cup
AEK Athens Panathinaikos 0 0
After extra time AEK Athens won 5–3 on penalties
Date	16 April 1997
Venue	Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Referee	Giorgos Psychomanis (Athens)
Attendance	21,926

The 1997 Greek Cup final was the 53rd final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 16 April 1997 at Karaiskakis Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and Panathinaikos. It was AEK Athens' fifteenth Greek Cup final and fourth consecutive in their 73 years of existence and Panathinaikos' twenty third Greek Cup final in their 89-year history.^[1] For third time in the 4 last years AEK Athens and Panathinaikos were pondered over in the final.^[2] The loss of the Cup for Panathinaikos, combined with their 5-place finish in the championship, resulted in club not qualifying in any European competition for the first time in the last 25 years.

Venue

Karaiskakis Stadium.

This was the twelfth Greek Cup final held at Karaiskakis Stadium, after the 1957, 1958, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978 and 1979 finals (Karaiskakis also hosted the replay match of the 1960 final between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos and the second leg of the 1992 two-legged final between PAOK and Olympiacos).

Karaiskakis Stadium was built in 1895 and renovated once in 1964. The stadium is used as a venue for Ethnikos Piraeus and was used for Olympiacos and Greece in various occasions. Its current capacity is 42,000 and hosted a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1971 and the first leg of the Intercontinental Cup final in 1971.^[3]

Background

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final fourteen times, winning nine of them. The last time that played in a final was in 1996, where they had won Apollon Athens by 7–1.

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty two times, winning fifteen of them. The last time that they had played the Cup was in 1995, where they had won AEK Athens by 1–0 after extra time.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final four times in the 1948, 1949, 1994 and 1995 finals.^[4]

Route to the final

Further information: 1996–97 Greek Football Cup

AEK Athens				Round	Panathinaikos
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Skoda Xanthi	8–3	5–0 (H)	3–3 (A)	Round of 32	Athinaikos	6–0	3–0 (H)	3–0 (A)
ILTEX Lykoi	6–1	3–1 (H)	3–0 (A)	Round of 16	Iraklis	4–0	1–0 (A)	3–0 (H)
Paniliakos	5–1	3–1 (H)	2–0 (A)	Quarter-finals	Ialysos	3–1	2–0 (H)	1–1 (A)
Olympiacos	3–1	2–1 (H)	1–0 (A)	Semi-finals	Panachaiki	7–0	3–0 (H)	4–0 (A)

Match

Details

16 April 1997

20:15 EEST

AEK Athens	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Panathinaikos
	Report
Penalties
Kopitsis Borbokis Nikolaidis Doboş Atmatsidis	5–3	Warzycha Konstantinidis Georgiadis Markos

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 21,926

Referee: Giorgos Psychomanis (Athens)

AEK Athens

Panathinaikos

GK  1 Ilias Atmatsidis RB  4 Vasilios Borbokis  10' CB  6 Stelios Manolas CB  2 Nikos Kostenoglou LB  3 Michalis Kasapis (c)  42' DM  5 Triantafyllos Machairidis CM  7 Toni Savevski   98' CM 10 Temuri Ketsbaia  25' RW  8 Daniel Batista LW  9 Christos Kostis   83' CF 11 Demis Nikolaidis Substitutes: DF 14 Anton Doboş   120' DF 16 Charis Kopitsis  110'   83' FW 15 Marcelo Veridiano   98'  120' Manager: Petros Ravousis

GK  1 Józef Wandzik RB  2 Stratos Apostolakis (c) CB  6 Marinos Ouzounidis  63' CB  4 Giannis Goumas  47' CB  8 Georgios Alexopoulos  3'  105' LB  3 Thanasis Kolitsidakis  35'  119' DM  5 Dimitris Markos  24' CM  7 Giorgos Georgiadis CM 10 Bledar Kola  97' CF 11 Alexis Alexoudis  112' CF  9 Krzysztof Warzycha Substitutes: DF 16 Kostas Konstantinidis  105' MF 15 Georgios Kapouranis  97' FW 17 Georgios Nasiopoulos  112' Manager: Velimir Zajec

Assistant referees: Christoforos Zografos (Athens) Christos Ioannidis (Serres) Fourth official: Panagiotis Varouchas (Athens)

Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Five named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions

See also

• 1996–97 Greek Football Cup

References

1. "Kipello1996-1999" (PDF). epo.gr (in Greek). Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 July 2022.
2. "Είναι ΦΟΒΕΡΟ, 20 χρόνια έχει να συμβεί αυτό μεταξύ Παναθηναϊκού και ΑΕΚ!". sportdog.gr (in Greek). 16 April 2017.
3. "Velodrome & Karaiskaki Stadium (1895 - 1964 - 2003)". stadia.gr.
4. "Greece - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF.