2012 Greek Football Cup final

The 2012 Greek Cup final was the 68th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 28 April 2012 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Atromitos and Olympiacos.^[2] It was the second consecutive Greek Cup final for Atromitos in their 89 years of existence and Olympiacos' thirty sixth Greek Cup final of their 87-year history.

2012 Greek Cup final

Event	2011–12 Greek Football Cup
Atromitos Olympiacos 1 2
After extra time
Date	28 April 2012
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Man of the Match	Rafik Djebbour (Olympiacos)
Referee	Ilias Spathas (Piraeus)[1]
Attendance	41,500
Weather	Partly Cloudy 15 °C (59 °F) 82% humidity
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Venue

Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the nineteenth 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.^[3]

Background

Atromitos had reached the Greek Cup final one time, in 2011, where they had lost to AEK Athens by 3–0.

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty five times, winning twenty four of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2009, where they had won AEK Athens 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.^[4]

Route to the final

Further information: 2011–12 Greek Football Cup

Atromitos				Round	Olympiacos
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Annagenisi Epanomi	3–2 (A)			Round of 32	Pierikos	3–1 (A)
Aris	2–1 (H)			Round of 16	Thrasyvoulos	3–0 (H)
PAOK	2–1 (a.e.t.) (A)			Quarter-finals	Panionios	4–0 (H)
Asteras Tripolis	2–2 (a)	0–0 (H)	2–2 (A)	Semi-finals	OFI	1–0	1–0 (H)	0–0 (A)

Match

Details

28 April 2012

20:30 EEST

Atromitos	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Olympiacos
Iglesias 76'	Report	Djebbour 29' Fuster 119'

Olympic Stadium, Marousi

Attendance: 41,500

Referee: Ilias Spathas (Piraeus)

Atromitos

Olympiacos

GK  1 Charles Itandje RB  2 Giannis Skondras (c)   102' CB  5 Wayne Thomas   112' CB  6 Sokratis Fytanidis   36' LB  3 Vangelis Ikonomou   15' DM 17 Matías Iglesias   63'  98' CM  9 Luiz Brito  77' RM 21 Elini Dimoutsos LM  8 Denis Epstein AM  7 Andreas Tatos  63' CF 23 Kostas Mitroglou Substitutes: GK 30 Velimir Radman DF 13 Vangelis Nastos DF 24 Francisco Zuela  98' MF 16 Panagiotis Ballas MF 19 Stelios Sfakianakis  77' FW 10 Thanasis Karagounis FW 20 Anastasios Karamanos  63' Manager: Giorgos Donis

GK  1 Roy Carroll RB 35 Vasilis Torosidis (c) CB  4 Olof Mellberg CB 21 Avraam Papadopoulos LB 20 José Holebas  44' DM 31 Pablo Orbaiz  68' CM  2 Giannis Maniatis  103' CM 77 Jean Makoun  83' RW 93 Djamel Abdoun  72' LW 14 Kevin Mirallas CF 10 Rafik Djebbour Substitutes: GK 42 Balázs Megyeri DF  3 François Modesto  103' DF 23 Iván Marcano DF 92 Ioannis Potouridis MF 18 Giannis Fetfatzidis  72' MF 19 David Fuster  83' FW 25 Dimitrios Diamantakos Manager: Ernesto Valverde

Man of the Match: Rafik Djebbour (Olympiacos) Assistant referees: Dimitrios Saraidaris (Thessaloniki) Leonidas Vasileiadis (Thessaloniki) Fourth official: Athanasios Giachos (Chios) Match observer: Michail Kalathenos (Dodecanese)

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