2011 Greek Football Cup final

The 2011 Greek Cup final was the 67th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 30 April 2011 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Atromitos and AEK Athens. It was Atromitos' first-ever Greek Cup final in their 88 years of existence and AEK Athens' twentieth Greek Cup final in their 87-year history. The match that was tarnished by serious incidents caused by AEK Athens' fans afterwards.^[1]

2011 Greek Cup final

Event	2010–11 Greek Football Cup
Atromitos AEK Athens 0 3
Date	30 April 2011
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Man of the Match	Nikos Liberopoulos (AEK Athens)
Referee	Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)
Attendance	50,912
Weather	Mostly Cloudy 17 °C (63 °F) 68% humidity
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Venue

Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the eighteenth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium.

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 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.^[2]

Background

Atromitos had never competed in a Cup final.

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final nineteen times, winning twelve of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 2002 (2–1 against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 2009, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 15–14 on a penalty shootout, which came after a 4–4 draw at the end of the extra time.

The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.^[3]

Route to the final

Further information: 2010–11 Greek Football Cup

Atromitos				Round	AEK Athens
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Anagennisi Giannitsa	3–1 (A)			Round of 32	Panthrakikos	5–1 (A)
Kavala	1–0 (H)			Round of 16	AEL	4–0 (A)
Diagoras	3–0	2–0 (H)	1–0 (A)	Quarter-finals	Panathinaikos	4–3	2–0 (A)	2–3 (H)
Olympiakos Volos	2–1	2–1 (H)	0–0 (A)	Semi-finals	PAOK	1–0	0–0 (H)	1–0 (A)

Match

Details

30 April 2011

20:30 EEST

Atromitos	0–3	AEK Athens
	Report	Liberopoulos 28' Baha 78' Kafes 85'

Olympic Stadium, Marousi

Attendance: 50,912

Referee: Anastasios Kakos (Corfu)

Atromitos

AEK Athens

GK  1 Charles Itandje RB 32 Giannis Skondras   25' CB  4 Marcin Baszczyński CB 26 Marcelo Oliveira  83' LB  2 Vangelis Nastos DM  6 Konstantinos Nebegleras (c)   43' CM 19 Stelios Sfakianakis CM 22 Andreas Tatos RW  7 Henri Camara  89' LW 20 Marek Saganowski  66' CF  8 Ilias Anastasakos Substitutes: GK 23 Chrysostomos Michailidis DF  5 Massamba Sambou  89' DF 31 Filippos Darlas MF 11 Luiz Brito  66' MF 17 Marcelo Sarmiento  83' FW 21 Thanasis Karagounis FW 40 Giannis Karalis Manager: Giorgos Donis

GK 23 Sebastián Saja RB 31 Nikolaos Georgeas CB  5 Traianos Dellas CB  4 Kostas Manolas LB 15 Nikolaos Karabelas DM 21 Papa Bouba Diop   63' CM 14 Grigoris Makos   25' CM 19 Panagiotis Lagos AM 33 Nikos Liberopoulos (c)   29' SS 32 Ignacio Scocco   33' CF 18 Ismael Blanco   70' Substitutes: GK 22 Giannis Arabatzis DF  6 David Mateos MF  1 Pantelis Kafes   89'   70' MF 11 Míchel MF 90 Savvas Gentsoglou FW  9 Leonardo FW 39 Nabil Baha   33' Manager: Manolo Jiménez

Man of the Match: Nikos Liberopoulos (AEK Athens) Assistant referees: Christos Baltas (Achaea) Petros Tryfon (Drama) Fourth official: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Dodecanese) Match Observer: Giannis Tsachilidis

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

• 2010–11 Greek Football Cup