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1968 Greek Football Cup final


Event
Panathinaikos
Olympiacos

0 1 | | 21 July 1968 | | Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Ampelokipoi, Athens | | Aurel Bentu (Romania) | | 22,669 |

The 1968 Greek Cup final was the 24th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 21 July 1968 at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and Olympiacos. It was Panathinaikos' ninth Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 60 years of existence and Olympiacos' fifteenth Greek Cup final in their 43-year history.

Leoforos Alexandras Stadium.

This was the eighteenth Greek Cup final held at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, after the 1932, 1939, 1940, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963 finals. (Leoforos also hosted the replay match of the 1933 final between Ethnikos Piraeus and Aris, the replay match of the 1949 final between AEK Athens and Panathinaikos and the replay match of the 1952 final between Olympiacos and Panionios).

Leoforos Alexandras Stadium was built in 1922. The stadium is used as a venue for Panathinaikos and Greece. Its current capacity is 30,000.

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final eight times, winning four of them. The last time that they had played in a final was in 1967, where they won Panionios 1–0.

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final fourteen times, winning twelve of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1965 (1–0 against Panathinaikos). The last time that had played in a final was in 1966, where they had lost to AEK Athens by 2–0 without a match.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final three times in the 1960, 1962 and 1965 finals.

PanathinaikosRoundOlympiacos
OpponentResultOpponentResult
Lamia2–1 (a.e.t.) (A)Round of 32Anagennisi Karditsa2–0 (A)
Chalkida2–1 (H)Round of 16Olympiakos Nicosia4–2 (H)
PAOK2–1 (a.e.t.) (A)Quarter-finalsPanachaiki8–3 (A)
Ethnikos Piraeus2–0 (H)Semi-finalsAEK Athens2–1 (H)
GKTakis Ikonomopoulos
DFAristidis Kamaras
DFKostas Athanasopoulos
DFMitsos Dimitriou
DFFrangiskos Sourpis
MFMichalis Bellis
MFZacharias Pytichoutis
MFGiorgos Rokidis
MFMimis Domazos (c)
FWStratos Sakellaridis
FWTotis Filakouris
Manager:
Juan Hohberg
GKTakis Xarchakos
DFGiannis Gaitatzis
DFOrestis Pavlidis
DFChristos Zanteroglou
MFNikos Sideris
MFPavlos Vasiliou
MFGiorgos Stolingas
FWGrigoris Aganyan
FWGiorgos Sideris (c)
FWNikos Gioutsos
FWVasilios Botinos
Manager:
Thanasis Kingley
Column 1Column 2
Assistant referees:
Gheorghe Popovici (Romania)
Nicolae Cursaru (Romania)Match rules

90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Coin toss if scores still level |

  • 1967–68 Greek Football Cup
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