2022 Greek Football Cup final

The 2022 Greek Cup final was the 78th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 21 May 2022 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and PAOK.^[1] It was Panathinaikos' thirtieth Greek Cup final in their 114 years of existence and PAOK's twenty second Greek Cup final and second consecutive, of their 96-year history. The game was marked by incidents and specifically, when Aitor after scoring for Panathinaikos celebrated in front of the stands of the PAOK ultras. As a result, he a stone was thrown to his hand, injuring him with tensions occurring between the players of both teams immediately after. The referee interrupted the match and in fact, as he headed to the locker room, he was holding the stone that hit the player.^[2]

2022 Greek Cup final

Match poster
Event	2021–22 Greek Football Cup
Panathinaikos PAOK 1 0
Date	21 May 2022
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Man of the Match	Aitor Cantalapiedra (Panathinaikos)
Referee	Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)
Attendance	45,409
Weather	Fair 21 °C (70 °F) 31% humidity
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Venue

Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the twenty sixth 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, 2019 and 2021 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 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.^[3]

Background

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty-nine times, winning eighteen of them. The last time that they had played in a final was in 2014, where they had won against PAOK by 4–1.

PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final twenty-one times, winning eight of them. The last time that they had played in a final was in 2021, where they had won against Olympiacos by 2–1.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final four times in the 1955, 1972, 1977 and 2014 finals.^[4]

Route to the final

Further information: 2021–22 Greek Football Cup

Panathinaikos				Round	PAOK
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Atromitos	1–0 (A)			Fifth round	Bye
Volos	2–1	2–1 (H)	0–0 (A)	Round of 16	AEL	4–2	1–1 (A)	3–1 (H)
Anagennisi Karditsa	5–0	4–0 (H)	1–0 (A)	Quarter-finals	AEK Athens	2–1	0–0 (H)	2–1 (A)
Lamia	3–0	1–0 (H)	2–0 (A)	Semi-finals	Olympiacos	1–1 (a)	0–0 (H)	1–1 (A)

Match

Details

21 May 2022

20:00 EEST

Panathinaikos	1–0	PAOK
Aitor 34' (pen.)	Report

Olympic Stadium, Marousi

Attendance: 45,409

Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

Panathinaikos

PAOK

GK 91 Alberto Brignoli RB 27 Giannis Kotsiras CB  4 Fran Vélez (c) CB  5 Bart Schenkeveld LB  3 Juankar DM 17 Rubén Pérez CM 19 Lucas Villafáñez   68' RM 34 Sebastián Palacios   90+4' LM 22 Aitor Cantalapiedra AM 50 Mijat Gaćinović  66'   76' CF  7 Fotis Ioannidis   76' Substitutes: GK  1 Sokratis Dioudis DF 31 Zvonimir Šarlija   90+4' DF  2 Georgios Vagiannidis DF 14 Facundo Sánchez MF 21 Dimitris Kourbelis   68' ΜF 88 Maurício MF  6 Sotiris Alexandropoulos  90+5'   76' FW 98 Mateus Vital FW 10 Carlitos   76' Manager: Ivan Jovanović

GK 31 Alexandros Paschalakis RB 19 Lefteris Lyratzis CB  4 Sverrir Ingi Ingason CB 15 José Ángel Crespo  90+7' LB 20 Vieirinha (c)  90+8'  46' CM 33 Douglas Augusto  8'  52' CM 27 Jasmin Kurtić  90+7' RM 14 Andrija Živković  90+7'  90+8' LM 21 Diego Biseswar  62' AM 50 Filipe Soares  22'  46' CF 47 Chuba Akpom  68' Substitutes: GK 64 Christos Talichmanidis DF  5 Fernando Varela DF 59 Konstantinos Koulierakis DF 16 Sidcley  46' MF 22 Stefan Schwab  52' MF  7 Omar El Kaddouri  46' FW 28 Alexandru Mitriță  90+7'  62' FW 18 Nélson Oliveira FW 29 Antonio Čolak  68' Manager: Răzvan Lucescu

Man of the Match: Aitor Cantalapiedra (Panathinaikos) Assistant referees: Pau Cebrián Devís (Spain) Roberto Díaz Pérez del Palomar (Spain) Fourth official: Evaggelos Manouchos (Argolida) Video assistant referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (Spain) Assistant video assistant referee: Angelos Evangelou (Athens)

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.