2021 Greek Football Cup final

The 2021 Greek Cup final was the 77th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 22 May 2021 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Olympiacos and PAOK. It was Olympiacos' forty-first Greek Cup final and second consecutive, in their 96 years of existence and PAOK's twenty first Greek Cup final of their 95-year history.

Venue

This was the twenty fifth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 finals.

The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982 and renovated once in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue for AEK Athens and Greece and was used for Olympiacos and Panathinaikos in various occasions. Its current capacity is 69,618 and it hosted three European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals in 1983, 1994 and 2007, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987, the 1991 Mediterranean Games and the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Background

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty nine times, winning twenty eight of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2020, where they had won AEK Athens by 1–0.

PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final twenty times, winning seven of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2019, where they had won AEK Athens by 1–0.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final seven times in the 1951, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1981, 1992 and 2001 finals.

Route to the final

Further information: 2020–21 Greek Football Cup

Olympiacos				Round	PAOK
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Panetolikos	6–0	3–0 (A)	3–0 (H)	First round	AEL	7–1	5–0 (H)	2–1 (A)
Aris	3–2	2–1 (H)	1–1 (A)	Quarter-finals	Lamia	6–3	5–2 (H)	1–1 (A)
PAS Giannina	4–1	1–1 (A)	3–1 (H)	Semi-finals	AEK Athens	3–1	1–0 (A)	2–1 (H)

Match

Details

22 May 202121:00 EEST

Olympiacos	1–2	PAOK
M'Vila 50'	Report	Vieirinha 36' (pen.) Krmenčík 90'

Olympic Stadium, MarousiAttendance: Behind closed doorsReferee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

Olympiacos

PAOK


GK	1	José Sá
CB	3	Rúben Semedo
CB	15	Sokratis Papastathopoulos	25'
CB	6	Yann M'Vila
RWB	14	Thanasis Androutsos
CM	4	Mady Camara	90+1'
CM	5	Andreas Bouchalakis (c)
LWB	25	José Holebas
RW	27	Bruma	46'
LW	19	Georgios Masouras	86'
CF	11	Youssef El-Arabi
Substitutes:
GK	88	Konstantinos Tzolakis
DF	61	Alexios Kalogeropoulos
DF	45	Oleg Reabciuk	25'
DF	72	Kenny Lala
MF	8	Tiago Silva
MF	28	Mathieu Valbuena	90+1'
ΜF	7	Kostas Fortounis	46'
FW	97	Lazar Ranđelović
FW	9	Ahmed Hassan	86'
Manager:
Pedro Martins


GK	31	Alexandros Paschalakis
CB	20	Vieirinha (c)
CB	5	Fernando Varela
CB	15	José Ángel Crespo
RWB	2	Rodrigo Soares
CM	22	Stefan Schwab	90+2'
CM	33	Douglas Augusto	45+1'
LWB	21	Baba Rahman		90+5'
RW	14	Andrija Živković
LW	8	Amr Warda		80'
CF	9	Karol Świderski		80'
Substitutes:
GK	88	Živko Živković
DF	6	Enea Mihaj		90+5'
DF	19	Lefteris Lyratzis
MF	51	Charis Tsingaras		80'
MF	7	Omar El Kaddouri
MF	10	Thomas Murg
MF	65	Giannis Konstantelias
FW	11	Christos Tzolis
FW	27	Michael Krmenčík		80'
Manager:
Pablo García

Man of the Match:
Michael Krmenčík (PAOK)

Assistant referees:
Hessel Steegstra (Netherlands)
Jan de Vries (Netherlands)
Fourth official:
Dimitrios Karantonis (Imathia)
Video assistant referee:
Kevin Blom (Netherlands)
Assistant video assistant referee:
Tryfon Petropoulos (Arcadia)

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.

References

"Ολυμπιακός - ΠΑΟΚ 1-2". gazzetta.gr (in Greek). 22 May 2021.
"Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyros Louis" (OAKA)". stadia.gr.
"Greece - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF.

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2020–21 in Greek football

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HFF competitions

Cup (Final)

Leagues

European competitions

Men	Champions League (Final) Europa League (Final)
Women	Champions League (Final)
Youth	Youth League (Final)

Related to national teams

Men	2020–21 UEFA Nations League (League C) 2022 FIFA World Cup (Qualification: Group B) John van 't Schip
Women	National football team

Club seasons
Super League 1	AEK Athens AEL Apollon Smyrnis Aris Asteras Tripolis Atromitos Lamia OFI Olympiacos Panathinaikos Panetolikos PAOK PAS Giannina Volos
Super League 2	Ergotelis

Olympiacos F.C. matches

National

Greek Cup finals	1947 1951 1952 1953 1954 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 ~~1962~~ 1963 1965 1966 1968 1969 1971 1973 1974 1975 1976 1981 1986 1988 1990 1992 1993 1999 2001 2002 2004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2012 2013 2015 2016 2020 2021
Greek Super Cup finals	1980 1987 1992 2007
Other matches	Greek League Cup

Continental

UEFA Europa Conference League final	2024
Balkans Cup final	1963

v t e PAOK FC matches
Greek Cup finals	1939 1951 1955 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1977 1978 1981 1983 1985 1992 2001 2003 2014 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023

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