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2009 Greek Football Cup final


Event
AEK Athens
Olympiacos

4 4 | | After extra timeOlympiacos won 15–14 on penalties | | 2 May 2009 | | Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens | | Matt Derbyshire (Olympiacos) | | Anastasios Kakos (Corfu) | | 48,594 | | Fair13 °C (55 °F)82% humidity |

The 2009 Greek Cup final was the 65th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 2 May 2009 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and Olympiacos. It was AEK Athens' nineteenth Greek Cup final in their 85-year history and Olympiacos' thirty fourth Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 84 years of existence. With 8 goals, including 2 turnarounds and a penalty shoot-out of 29 penalties in total, the match was widely considered as the most entertaining final in the tournament. It was the last match for the captain of Olympiacos, Predrag Đorđević as a footballer, having spent 13 years of his 17 years playing for the club.

Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the sixteenth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000 and 2002 finals.

The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982 and renovated once in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue for AEK Athens and Panathinaikos and was used for Olympiacos and Greece on various occasions. Its current capacity is 69,618 and it hosted three European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals in 1983, 1994 and 2007, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987, the 1991 Mediterranean Games and the 2004 Summer Olympics.

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final eighteen times, winning eleven of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 2002, (2–1 against Olympiacos). The last time that they had played in a final was in 2006, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 3–0.

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty three times, winning twenty three of them. The last time that they had played in a Final was in 2008, where they had won against Aris by 2–0.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final four times in the 1953, 1956, 2002 and 2006 finals.

AEK AthensRoundOlympiacos
OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg
Ilisiakos2–1 (A)Round of 32Diagoras3–2 (A)
Kerkyra1–0 (H)Round of 16OFI2–0 (A)
Skoda Xanthi2–2 (a)1–2 (A)1–0 (H)Quarter-finalsPAOK2–10–1 (A)2–0 (a.e.t.) (H)
Panserraikos3–13–1 (H)0–0 (A)Semi-finalsAsteras Tripolis4–32–2 (A)2–1 (H)
Column 1Column 2
AEK AthensOlympiacos
GK23Sebastián Saja
RB31Nikolaos Georgeas
CB25Sotirios Kyrgiakos (c)34'  90'62'
CB5Daniel Majstorović
LB4Geraldo Alves74'
DM8Tamandani Nsaliwa43'
CM1Pantelis Kafes28'
RM11Gustavo Manduca68'
LM32Ignacio Scocco
SS10Rafik Djebbour77'
CF18Ismael Blanco
Substitutes:
GK77Jürgen Macho
DF6Georgios Alexopoulos62'
MF16Vasilios Pliatsikas
MF24Agustín Pelletieri68'
MF56Perparim Hetemaj
FW9Edinho111'77'
FW83Michalis Pavlis
Manager:
Dušan Bajević
GK71Antonios Nikopolidis (c)
RB35Vasilis Torosidis
CB21Avraam Papadopoulos34'  107'
CB18Paraskevas Antzas
LB3Didier Domi
DM2Christos Patsatzoglou46'
CM20Dudu
RM7Luciano Galletti68'  102'
LM23Sebastián Leto62'
AM25Fernando Belluschi
CF10Diogo
Substitutes:
GK1Leonidas Panagopoulos
DF14Michał Żewłakow
DF30Anastasios Pantos
MF8Óscar97'
MF11Predrag Đorđević62'
MF33Giannis Papadopoulos
FW27Matt Derbyshire46'  97'
Manager:
Ernesto Valverde
Column 1Column 2
Man of the Match:
Matt Derbyshire (Olympiacos)
Assistant referees:
Thanasis Thanasakoudis (Macedonia)
Dimitris Bozatzidis (Macedonia)
Fourth official:
Michael Koukoulakis (Heraklion)Match rules

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

  • 2008–09 Greek Football Cup
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