2009 Greek Football Cup final

The 2009 Greek Cup final was the 65th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 2 May 2009 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and Olympiacos.^[1] It was AEK Athens' nineteenth Greek Cup final in their 85-year history and Olympiacos' thirty fourth Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 84 years of existence. With 8 goals, including 2 turnarounds and a penalty shoot-out of 29 penalties in total, the match was widely considered as the most entertaining final in the tournament.^[2][3] It was the last match for the captain of Olympiacos, Predrag Đorđević as a footballer, having spent 13 years of his 17 years playing for the club.^[4]

2009 Greek Cup Final

Event	2008–09 Greek Football Cup
AEK Athens Olympiacos 4 4
After extra time Olympiacos won 15–14 on penalties
Date	2 May 2009
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Man of the Match	Matt Derbyshire (Olympiacos)
Referee	Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)
Attendance	48,594
Weather	Fair 13 °C (55 °F) 82% humidity
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Venue

Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the sixteenth 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 and 2002 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 Panathinaikos and was used for Olympiacos and Greece on 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.^[5]

Background

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final eighteen times, winning eleven of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 2002, (2–1 against Olympiacos). The last time that they had played in a final was in 2006, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 3–0.

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty three times, winning twenty three of them. The last time that they had played in a Final was in 2008, where they had won against Aris by 2–0.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final four times in the 1953, 1956, 2002 and 2006 finals.^[6]

Route to the final

Further information: 2008–09 Greek Football Cup

AEK Athens				Round	Olympiacos
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Ilisiakos	2–1 (A)			Round of 32	Diagoras	3–2 (A)
Kerkyra	1–0 (H)			Round of 16	OFI	2–0 (A)
Skoda Xanthi	2–2 (a)	1–2 (A)	1–0 (H)	Quarter-finals	PAOK	2–1	0–1 (A)	2–0 (a.e.t.) (H)
Panserraikos	3–1	3–1 (H)	0–0 (A)	Semi-finals	Asteras Tripolis	4–3	2–2 (A)	2–1 (H)

Match

Details

2 May 2009

20:30 EEST

AEK Athens	4–4 (a.e.t.)	Olympiacos
Blanco 4', 8' Scocco 90', 107'	Report	Derbyshire 47', 90+6' Dudu 72' Galletti 102'
Penalties
Kafes Blanco Scocco Edinho Majstorović Nsaliwa Saja Pelletieri Georgeas Kafes Blanco Scocco Edinho Majstorović Nsaliwa Saja Pelletieri	14–15	Óscar Dudu Diogo Domi Đorđević Torosidis Belluschi Nikopolidis Antzas Óscar Dudu Diogo Domi Đorđević Torosidis Belluschi Nikopolidis

Olympic Stadium, Marousi

Attendance: 48,594

Referee: Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)

AEK Athens

Olympiacos

GK 23 Sebastián Saja RB 31 Nikolaos Georgeas CB 25 Sotirios Kyrgiakos (c)  34'  90'  62' CB 5 Daniel Majstorović LB 4 Geraldo Alves  74' DM 8 Tamandani Nsaliwa  43' CM 1 Pantelis Kafes  28' RM 11 Gustavo Manduca  68' LM 32 Ignacio Scocco SS 10 Rafik Djebbour  77' CF 18 Ismael Blanco Substitutes: GK 77 Jürgen Macho DF 6 Georgios Alexopoulos  62' MF 16 Vasilios Pliatsikas MF 24 Agustín Pelletieri  68' MF 56 Perparim Hetemaj FW 83 Michalis Pavlis FW 9 Edinho  111'  77' Manager: Dušan Bajević

GK 71 Antonios Nikopolidis (c) RB 35 Vasilis Torosidis CB 21 Avraam Papadopoulos  34'  107' CB 18 Paraskevas Antzas LB 3 Didier Domi DM 2 Christos Patsatzoglou  46' CM 20 Dudu RM 7 Luciano Galletti  68'  102' LM 23 Sebastián Leto  62' AM 25 Fernando Belluschi CF 10 Diogo Substitutes: GK 1 Leonidas Panagopoulos DF 30 Anastasios Pantos DF 14 Michał Żewłakow MF 33 Giannis Papadopoulos MF 11 Predrag Đorđević  62' MF 8 Óscar  97' FW 27 Matt Derbyshire  46'  97' Manager: Ernesto Valverde

Man of the Match: Matt Derbyshire (Olympiacos) Assistant referees: Thanasis Thanasakoudis (Macedonia) Dimitris Bozatzidis (Macedonia) Fourth official: Michael Koukoulakis (Heraklion)

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

• 2008–09 Greek Football Cup