2006 Greek Football Cup final

2006 Greek Cup final

Event	2005–06 Greek Football Cup
Olympiacos AEK Athens 3 0
Date	10 May 2006
Venue	Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion
Man of the Match	Michalis Konstantinou (Olympiacos)
Referee	Vasilis Terovitsas (Aetoloacarnania)
Attendance	22,079
Weather	Fair 18 °C (64 °F) 73% humidity

The 2006 Greek Cup final was the 62nd final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 10 May 2006 at Pankritio Stadium. The contesting teams were Olympiacos and AEK Athens.^[1][2][3] It was Olympiacos' thirty second Greek Cup final and third consecutive in their 81 years of existence and AEK Athens' eighteenth Greek Cup final in their 82-year history.

Venue

Pankritio Stadium.

This was the first Greek Cup final held at Pankritio Stadium.

Pankritio Stadium was built in 2003. The stadium is used as a venue for Ergotelis and OFI and was used for Greece in 2004. Its current capacity is 26,240.^[4]

Background

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty one times, winning twenty one of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2005, where they had won Aris by 3–0.

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final seventeen times, winning eleven of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2002, where they had won Olympiacos by 2–1.^[5]

Route to the final

Further information: 2005–06 Greek Football Cup

Olympiacos				Round	AEK Athens
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Paniliakos	4–0 (A)			Round of 32	PAS Giannina	3–0 (A)
Thrasyvoulos	2–0 (A)			Round of 16	Ethnikos Piraeus	2–2 (4–3 p)	1–1 (H)	1–1 (a.e.t.) (A)
Skoda Xanthi	2–1	1–1 (H)	1–0 (A)	Quarter-finals	Niki Volos	2–0	0–0 (A)	2–0 (H)
AEL	4–1	3–1 (H)	1–0 (A)	Semi-finals	Agrotikos Asteras	3–1	3–0 (H)	0–1 (A)

Match

Details

10 May 2006

20:30 EEST

Olympiacos	3–0	AEK Athens
Konstantinou 61' Ivić 70' (o.g.) Castillo 90'	Report

Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion

Attendance: 22,079

Referee: Vasilis Terovitsas (Aetoloacarnania)

Olympiacos

AEK Athens

GK 71 Antonios Nikopolidis RB 14 Dimitrios Mavrogenidis CB 32 Georgios Anatolakis CB 12 Gabriel Schürrer LB 22 Erol Bulut DM  6 Ieroklis Stoltidis CM 15 Yaya Touré   32'   67' AM  1 Pantelis Kafes   83' RW  9 Ioannis Okkas   77' LW 11 Predrag Đorđević (c) CF 23 Michalis Konstantinou   41'   90+2' Substitutes: GK 33 Erwin Lemmens DF 19 Athanasios Kostoulas DF 21 Grigoris Georgatos MF  8 Miloš Marić   67' FW  7 Nery Castillo   77' FW 20 Dani Garcia   90+2' FW 40 Haruna Babangida Manager: Trond Sollied

GK  1 Stefano Sorrentino RB 31 Nikolaos Georgeas  46' CB  5 Bruno Cirillo  29' CB 55 Traianos Dellas  50'   71' LB 14 Stavros Tziortziopoulos CM 21 Kostas Katsouranis (c)  78' DM 25 Emerson  34' AM 17 Vladimir Ivić RW 23 Vasilios Lakis LW 99 Júlio César   76' CF 33 Nikos Liberopoulos   84' Substitutes: GK 22 Dionisis Chiotis DF  6 Georgios Alexopoulos   84' DF 24 Christos Kontis MF 20 Vasilios Pliatsikas MF 26 Ilias Kyriakidis FW  7 Alessandro Soares   71' FW 35 Pantelis Kapetanos   76' Manager: Fernando Santos

Man of the Match: Michalis Konstantinou (Olympiacos) Assistant referees: Dimitris Saraidaris (Thessaloniki) Konstantinos Panou (Thessaloniki)

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

See also

• 2005–06 Greek Football Cup

References

1. "Ολυμπιακός-ΑΕΚ 3-0". ant1news.gr (in Greek). 27 November 2018.
2. "ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΠΟΔΟΣΦΑΙΡΙΚΗ ΟΜΟΣΠΟΝΔΙΑ". epo.gr (in Greek). 6 April 2008. Archived from the original on 6 April 2008.
3. "Greece Cup 2005/06". RSSSF.
4. "Pancretan Stadium". stadia.gr.
5. "Greece - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF.