2001 Greek Football Cup final

2001 Greek Cup final

Event	2000–01 Greek Football Cup
Olympiacos PAOK 2 4
Date	12 May 2001
Venue	Nikos Goumas Stadium, Nea Filadelfia, Athens
Man of the Match	Panayiotis Engomitis (PAOK)
Referee	Giorgos Kasnaferis (Athens)
Attendance	13,300
Weather	Mostly Cloudy 14 °C (57 °F) 72% humidity

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. 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 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 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 of PAOK, Mladen Furtula whispered to Kokkalis that the devil indeed broke his leg that day and the latter responded with a laugh. The manager of PAOK, Dušan Bajević became the first in history to win the trophy with three different clubs, as he had previously won it in 1996 with AEK Athens and in 1999 with Olympiacos.

Venue

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

Nikos Goumas Stadium was built in 1930 and it has been renovated twice, in 1979 and 1998. The stadium is used as a venue for AEK Athens and was used for Greece 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, which came after a 2–2 draw at the end of the extra time 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).

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final six times in the 1951, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1981 and 1992 finals.

Route to the final

Further information: 2000–01 Greek Football Cup

Olympiacos				Round	PAOK
Opponent	Result			Group stage	Opponent	Result
Patraikos	4–0 (H)			Matchday 1	Atromitos	1–0 (H)
Anagennisi Karditsa	2–0 (A)			Matchday 2	A.S. Ampelokipoi	6–1 (A)
Ethnikos Asteras	4–1 (A)			Matchday 3	Kavala	5–1 (A)
Egaleo	4–1 (H)			Matchday 4	Panachaiki	2–0 (H)
Trikala	5–3 (A)			Matchday 5	Nafpaktiakos Asteras	3–3 (A)
Patraikos	4–1 (A)			Matchday 6	Atromitos	2–1 (A)
Anagennisi Karditsa	7–0 (H)			Matchday 7	A.S. Ampelokipoi	6–1 (H)
Ethnikos Asteras	5–0 (H)			Matchday 8	Kavala	3–1 (H)
Egaleo	0–3 (A)			Matchday 9	Panachaiki	3–2 (A)
Trikala	4–0 (H)			Matchday 10	Nafpaktiakos Asteras	4–0 (H)
Group 5 winners Pos Team Pld Pts 1 Olympiacos 10 27 2 Egaleo 10 24 3 Ethnikos Asteras 10 18 4 Trikala 10 12 5 Patraikos 10 4 6 Anagennisi Karditsa 10 4 Source: epo.gr				Final standings	Group 4 winners Pos Team Pld Pts 1 PAOK 10 28 2 Panachaiki 10 17 3 Kavala 10 14 4 Atromitos 10 11 5 Nafpaktiakos Asteras 10 10 6 A.S. Ampelokipoi 10 4 Source: epo.gr
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg	Knockout phase	Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Bye				Additional round	Bye
AEK Athens	8–1	2–0 (w/o) (A)	6–1 (H)	Round of 16	Aris	3–1	1–1 (A)	2–0 (H)
Panathinaikos	5–2	1–1 (H)	4–1 (A)	Quarter-finals	Skoda Xanthi	4–1	2–0 (H)	2–1 (A)
Iraklis	6–4	1–0 (A)	5–4 (H)	Semi-finals	Apollon Athens	5–3	5–2 (H)	0–1 (A)

Match

Details

12 May 2001

21:00 EEST

Olympiacos	2–4	PAOK
Đorđević 78' (pen.) Choutos 90+2'	Report (page 52)	Engomitis 4' Borbokis 31' Georgiadis 46' Nalitzis 85'

Nikos Goumas Stadium, Nea Filadelfia

Attendance: 13,300

Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Athens)

Olympiacos

PAOK

GK 31 Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos RB 14 Dimitrios Mavrogenidis   46' CB 19 Athanasios Kostoulas CB 32 Georgios Anatolakis  36' LB 21 Grigoris Georgatos  69'   69' DM 13 Zé Elias CM  4 Andreas Niniadis   46' RM  7 Stelios Giannakopoulos LM 11 Predrag Đorđević SS 10 Giovanni CF 30 Alexis Alexandris (c) Substitutes: GK  1 Angelos Georgiou DF  2 Christos Patsatzoglou   46' DF  3 Kyriakos Karataidis MF  6 Ilias Poursanidis MF  8 Luciano   69' MF 20 Pär Zetterberg FW 9 Lampros Choutos   46' Manager: Takis Lemonis

GK 16 Ante Čović RB  2 Vasilios Borbokis CB 19 Koffi Amponsah   46' CB  4 Anastasios Katsabis (c) CB 24 Ifeanyi Udeze  88' LB  3 Stylianos Venetidis  51' CM 28 Pantelis Kafes RM 30 Panayiotis Engomitis  29' LM 11 Pantelis Konstantinidis CF 21 Giorgos Georgiadis   79' CF 22 Ioannis Okkas  62'   90' Substitutes: GK 26 Apostolos Papadopoulos DF 14 Loukas Karadimos DF 23 Dionysis Chasiotis DF 25 Georgios Koulakiotis   46' MF 42 Guy Feutchine FW  8 Slađan Spasić   90' FW 20 Dimitris Nalitzis   79' Manager: Dušan Bajević

Man of the Match: Panayiotis Engomitis (PAOK) Assistant referees: Andreas Zisis (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

See also

• 2000–01 Greek Football Cup