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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.
| Panathinaikos | Round | Olympiacos | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opponent | Result | Opponent | Result | |
| Lamia | 2–1 (a.e.t.) (A) | Round of 32 | Anagennisi Karditsa | 2–0 (A) |
| Chalkida | 2–1 (H) | Round of 16 | Olympiakos Nicosia | 4–2 (H) |
| PAOK | 2–1 (a.e.t.) (A) | Quarter-finals | Panachaiki | 8–3 (A) |
| Ethnikos Piraeus | 2–0 (H) | Semi-finals | AEK Athens | 2–1 (H) |
| GK | Takis Ikonomopoulos | ||
| DF | Aristidis Kamaras | ||
| DF | Kostas Athanasopoulos | ||
| DF | Mitsos Dimitriou | ||
| DF | Frangiskos Sourpis | ||
| MF | Michalis Bellis | ||
| MF | Zacharias Pytichoutis | ||
| MF | Giorgos Rokidis | ||
| MF | Mimis Domazos (c) | ||
| FW | Stratos Sakellaridis | ||
| FW | Totis Filakouris | ||
| Manager: | |||
| Juan Hohberg | |||
| GK | Takis Xarchakos | ||
| DF | Giannis Gaitatzis | ||
| DF | Orestis Pavlidis | ||
| DF | Christos Zanteroglou | ||
| MF | Nikos Sideris | ||
| MF | Pavlos Vasiliou | ||
| MF | Giorgos Stolingas | ||
| FW | Grigoris Aganyan | ||
| FW | Giorgos Sideris (c) | ||
| FW | Nikos Gioutsos | ||
| FW | Vasilios Botinos | ||
| Manager: | |||
| Thanasis Kingley |
| Column 1 | Column 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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