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2000 Greek Football Cup final


Event
AEK Athens
Ionikos

3 0 | | 10 May 2000 | | Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens | | Demis Nikolaidis (AEK Athens) | | Giorgos Douros (Corinthia) | | 25,471 |

The 2000 Greek Cup final was the 56th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 10 May 2000 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and Ionikos. It was AEK Athens' sixteenth Greek Cup final in their 76 years of existence and Ionikos' first-ever Greek Cup final of their 35-year history. A remarkable moment of the match was at 32nd minute while the score was 0–0, AEK Athens took the lead with Demis Nikolaidis scoring with his hand. The referee did not realize the violation and ran towards the center of the pitch, but the player approached him and told him that he should not count the goal, explaining what exactly had happened. As a result, the goal was canceled and Nikolaidis was shown a yellow card for handball. Nikolaidis was later honored for his fair play by the International Olympic Committee.

Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the fourteenth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1999 finals.

The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982. The stadium is used as a venue for Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and Greece and was used for AEK Athens on various occasions. Its current capacity is 80,000 and hosted two European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals in 1983 and 1994, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987 and the 1991 Mediterranean Games.

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final fifteen times, winning nine of them. The last time that they had played in a final was in 1997, where they had won against Panathinaikos by 5–3 on a penalty shootout, which came after a 0–0 draw at the end of the extra time.

Ionikos had never competed in a Cup final.

The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.

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AEK AthensIonikos
GK1Ilias Atmatsidis (c)
CB2Traianos Dellas
CB32Michalis Kapsis
CB25Giannis Kalitzakis85'
DM14Akis Zikos25'
CM28Milen Petkov
RM23Vasilios Lakis
LM17Michalis Kasapis
AM10Dragan Ćirić70'
SS20Sotiris Konstantinidis81'
CF11Demis Nikolaidis35'
Substitutes:
GK15Chrisostomos Michailidis
DF12Charis Kopitsis
DF21Vaios Karagiannis70'
MF6Dimitris Markos
MF7Christos Maladenis81'
MF8Toni Savevski85'
MF18Evripidis Katsavos
Manager:
Giannis Pathiakakis
GK15Foto Strakosha
RB3Theodoros Pachatouridis70'
CB2Trond Inge Haugland11'
CB5Giannis Xanthopoulos (c)65'
LB7Georgios Daraklitsas
DM21Dimitris Deligiannis
CM8Mohammad Nasser Afash32'
CM17Sokratis Ofrydopoulos70'75'
AM10Paulinho Kobayashi35'59'
CF9Craig Brewster
CF23Zizi Roberts
Substitutes:
GK32Chrysostomos Veniamin
DF12Apostolos Tsoptsis
DF14Giannis Gyrichidis70'
MF16Giorgos Staboulis
MF20Martín Rodríguez
MF37Marcelo Leopaldi88'75'
FW29Darío Muchotrigo59'
Manager:
Oleg Blokhin
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Man of the Match:
Demis Nikolaidis (AEK Athens)
Assistant referees:
Dimitris Groutsis (Corinthia)
Apostolos Kourkounas (Chania)Match rules

90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions |

  • 1999–2000 Greek Football Cup
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