2001 Greek Football Cup final explained

2001 Greek Cup final
Event:2000–01 Greek Football Cup
Team1:Olympiacos
Team1score:2
Team2:PAOK
Team2score:4
Date:12 May 2001
Stadium:Nikos Goumas Stadium
City:Nea Filadelfia, Athens
Referee:Giorgos Kasnaferis (Athens)
Attendance:13,300
Weather:Mostly Cloudy
14°C
72% humidity
Previous:2000
Next:2002

The 2001 Greek Cup final was the 57th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 12 May 2001 at Nikos Goumas Stadium. The contesting teams were Olympiacos and PAOK.[1] It was Olympiacos' twenty-ninth Greek Cup final in their 76 years of existence and PAOK's fifteenth Greek Cup final in their 75-year history. A draw was preceded on 19 April[2] to determine in which stadium/city the final would be hosted: Nikos Goumas Stadium in Athens or Kaftanzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki. Several days before the game, Olympiacos president Sokratis Kokkalis made a memorable statement using a Greek expression that Olympiacos would lose the upcoming final only if "the devil broke his leg", meaning that it was almost impossible for his team to lose. However, PAOK won the match by 4–2[3] [4] with an impressive performance and earned the trophy 27 years after their last success, in the same stadium against the same opponent. During the awarding ceremony, former goalkeeper and member of the coaching staff then of PAOK, Mladen Furtula whispered to Kokkalis that "the devil indeed broke his leg that day" and Kokkalis responded with a laugh. The manager of PAOK, Dušan Bajević became the first in history to win the trophy with three different teams. He had also won it with AEK Athens in 1996 and Olympiacos in 1999.

Venue

This was the eighth Greek Cup final held at the Nikos Goumas Stadium, after the 1962, 1967, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1981, and 1982 finals.

The Nikos Goumas Stadium was built in 1930 and it has been renovated twice, in 1979 and 1998. The stadium was used as a venue for the Greek national football team in various occasions. Its current capacity is 28,729.

Background

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty seven times, winning twenty of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 1999, where they had won Panathinaikos by 2–0.

PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final fourteen times, winning two of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1974 (4–3 on penalties against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 1992, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 3–1 on aggregate (1–1 at Toumba Stadium and 2–0 at Karaiskakis Stadium).

Route to the final

OlympiacosRoundPAOK
OpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResult
Patraikos4–0 (H)Matchday 1Atromitos1–0 (H)
Anagennisi Karditsa2–0 (A)Matchday 2A.S. Ampelokipoi6–1 (A)
Ethnikos Asteras4–1 (A)Matchday 3Kavala5–1 (A)
Egaleo4–1 (H)Matchday 4Panachaiki2–0 (H)
Trikala5–3 (A)Matchday 5Nafpaktiakos Asteras3–3 (A)
Patraikos4–1 (A)Matchday 6Atromitos2–1 (A)
Anagennisi Karditsa7–0 (H)Matchday 7A.S. Ampelokipoi6–1 (H)
Ethnikos Asteras5–0 (H)Matchday 8Kavala3–1 (H)
Egaleo0–3 (A)Matchday 9Panachaiki3–2 (A)
Trikala4–0 (H)Matchday 10Nafpaktiakos Asteras4–0 (H)
Group 1 winnersFinal standingsGroup 4 winners
OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legKnockout phaseOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg
AEK Athens8–12–0 (A)6–1 (H)Round of 16Aris3–11–1 (A)2–0 (H)
Panathinaikos5–21–1 (H)4–1 (A)Quarter-finalsSkoda Xanthi4–12–0 (H)2–1 (A)
Iraklis6–41–0 (A)5–4 (H)Semi-finalsApollon Athens5–35–2 (H)0–1 (A)

Match

Details

GK 31 Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos
RB 14 
CB 19 Athanasios Kostoulas
CB 32
LB 21 
DM 13 Zé Elias
CM  4  
RM  7 Stelios Giannakopoulos
LM 11 Predrag Đorđević
SS 10 Giovanni
CF 30 Alexis Alexandris (c)
Substitutes:
GK  1 Angelos Georgiou
DF  2  
DF  3 Kyriakos Karataidis
MF  6 Ilias Poursanidis
MF  8  
MF 20 Pär Zetterberg
FW 9  
Manager:
Takis Lemonis
GK 16 Ante Čović
RB  2 Vasilios Borbokis
CB 19 
CB  4 Anastasios Katsabis (c)
CB 24
LB  3
CM 28 Pantelis Kafes
RM 30
LM 11 Pantelis Konstantinidis
CF 21 
CF 22 
Substitutes:
GK 26 Apostolos Papadopoulos
DF 14 Loukas Karadimos
DF 23 Dionysis Chasiotis
DF 25 
MF 42 Guy Feutchine
FW  8  
FW 20 
Manager:
Dušan Bajević
width=50% valign=topMan of the Match:
Panayiotis Engomitis (PAOK)


Assistant referees


Andreas Zisis (Corinthia)
Apostolos Kourkounas (Chania)

width=50% valign=topMatch 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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Η κατάκτηση του κυπέλλου από τον ΠΑΟΚ το 2001. gazzetta.gr. 8 March 2022. el.
  2. Web site: http://www.in.gr/2001/04/19/sports/i-edra-toy-telikoy-exei-ti-mikroteri-simasia-gia-olympiako-kai-paok. el:Κλήρωση έδρας Τελικού. el. in.gr. 19 April 2001.
  3. Web site: Κυρίαρχος ο ΠΑΟΚ νίκησε με 4–2 τον Ολυμπιακό και κατέκτησε το Κύπελλο Ελλάδας. el. in.gr. 12 May 2001.
  4. Web site: http://www.gazzetta.gr/stili/afierwmata/article/919801/i-kataktisi-toy-kypelloy-apo-ton-paok-2001. el:Ολυμπιακός–ΠΑΟΚ 2–4. el. gazzetta.gr. 12 May 2016.