2024 Greek Football Cup final

The 2024 Greek Cup final was the 80th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 25 May 2024 at Panthessaliko Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and Aris.^[1][2][3] It was Panathinaikos' thirty first Greek Cup final in their 116 years of existence and Aris' tenth Greek Cup final of their 110-year history. After the end of the match having strong complaints from the refereeing, officials of Aris, alongside the president of the club Thodoros Karipidis, verbally attacked the referee, who went with a police escort to the locker room. Thus, as protest and in risk of punishment, they did not present to receive the medals of the runners-up.^[4]

2024 Greek Cup final

Match poster
Event	2023–24 Greek Football Cup
Panathinaikos Aris 1 0
Date	25 May 2024
Venue	Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos
Man of the Match	Georgios Vagiannidis (Panathinaikos)
Referee	Stéphanie Frappart (France)
Attendance	Behind closed doors
Weather	Fair 21 °C (70 °F) 60% humidity
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Venue

Panthessaliko Stadium.

This was the fifth Greek Cup final held at Panthessaliko Stadium after the 2007, 2017, 2020 and 2023 finals.

Panthessaliko Stadium was built in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue for Niki Volos and Volos. Its current capacity is 22,189.^[5]

Background

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty times, winning nineteen of them. The last time that they had played in a final was in 2022, where they had won PAOK by 1–0.

Aris had reached the Greek Cup final nine times, winning one of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1970 (1–0 against PAOK). The last time that they had played in a final was in 2010, where they had lost to Panathinaikos by 1–0.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final two times in the 1940 and 2010 finals.^[6]

Route to the final

Further information: 2023–24 Greek Football Cup

Panathinaikos				Round	Aris
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Olympiacos	1–1 (7–6 p)	1–1 (H)	0–0 (a.e.t.) (A)	Round of 16	AEK Athens	1–1 (4–2 p)	0–0 (A)	1–1 (a.e.t.) (H)
Atromitos	3–2	1–2 (H)	2–0 (A)	Quarter-finals	Niki Volos	5–2	3–0 (H)	2–2 (A)
PAOK	2–2 (6–5 p)	1–0 (A)	1–2 (a.e.t.) (H)	Semi-finals	Panetolikos	1–0	1–0 (A)	0–0 (H)

Match

Details

25 May 2024

20:30 EEST

Panathinaikos	1–0	Aris
Vagiannidis 90+7'	Report

Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos

Attendance: Behind closed doors

Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

Panathinaikos

Aris

GK 12 Yuri Lodygin RB 27 Giannis Kotsiras   36'  51' CB 21 Tin Jedvaj CB 55 Willian Arão LB  3 Juankar   90+4' DM  4 Rubén Pérez CM 16 Adam Gnezda Čerin   43' CM  8 Anastasios Bakasetas RW 17 Daniel Mancini   62' LW 10 Bernard CF  7 Fotis Ioannidis (c) Substitutes: GK 69 Bartłomiej Drągowski DF 20 Vitor Hugo DF 36 Georgios Katris DF  2 Georgios Vagiannidis   62' DF 25 Filip Mladenović ΜF 60 Georgios Kyriopoulos MF 22 Aitor Cantalapiedra MF 31 Filip Đuričić FW 29 Alexander Jeremejeff Manager: Christos Kontis

GK 23 Julián Cuesta (c) RB 22 Moses Odubajo CB  4 Fabiano Leismann CB 14 Jakub Brabec LB 33 Martín Montoya   42' DM 30 Jean Jules   71' CM 16 Vladimír Darida   15'  65' RM 93 Shapi Suleymanov   90+9' LM 12 Álvaro Zamora   36' AM  6 Manu García   68' CF 80 Loren Morón   90+2' Substitutes: GK 94 Lefteris Choutesiotis DF 44 Fran Vélez DF 92 Lindsay Rose DF  3 Franco Ferrari MF 28 Birger Verstraete   68' MF 19 Giannis Fetfatzidis MF 77 Michalis Panagidis FW 17 Karim Ansarifard FW 41 Theodoros Agorastos Manager: Akis Mantzios

Man of the Match: Georgios Vagiannidis (Panathinaikos) Assistant referees: Mikael Berchebru (France) Steven Torregrossa (France) Fourth official: Aristotelis Diamantopoulos (Arcadia) Video assistant referee: Hamid Guenaoui (France) Assistant video assistant referee: Konstantinos Psarris (Zakynthos)

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.