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2025 Greek Football Cup final

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2025 Greek Cup final
Match Poster
Event2024–25 Greek Football Cup
Date17 May 2025
VenueOlympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
RefereeSzymon Marciniak (Poland)
Attendance55,000
WeatherFair
20 °C (68 °F)
54% humidity
Man of the MatchAyoub El Kaabi (Olympiacos)
2024
2026

The 2025 Greek Cup final was the 81st final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 17 May 2025 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were OFI and Olympiacos.[1][2] It was OFI's third Greek Cup final in their 100 years of existence and Olympiacos' forty second Greek Cup final of their 100-year history.[3] This was the first final to use semi-automated offside technology and goal-line technology.[4]

Venue

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Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the twenty seventh 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, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 finals.

The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982 and renovated once in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue for Panathinaikos and was used for AEK Athens, Olympiacos and Greece and in 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.[5]

Background

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OFI has reached the Greek Cup final two times, winning one of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1987 (3–1 in penalty shootout against Iraklis). The last time that had played in a final was in 1990, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 4–2.

Olympiacos has reached the Greek Cup final forty one times, winning twenty eignt of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2021, where they lost to PAOK by 2–1.

The two teams have met each other in a Cup final once in the 1990 final.[6]

Route to the final

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OFI Round Olympiacos
Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg
Panetolikos 2–1 (H) Fourth Round Bye
Volos 3–2 3–1 (H) 0–1 (A) Round of 16 Athens Kallithea 2–1 1–0 (A) 1–1 (H)
Panachaiki 7–1 5–0 (H) 2–1 (A) Quarter-finals Panathinaikos 2–1 1–1 (A) 1–0 (H)
Asteras Tripolis 2–1 1–0 (A) 1–1 (H) Semi-finals AEK Athens 6–2 6–0 (H) 0–2 (A)

Match

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Details

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OFI0–2Olympiacos
Report
Attendance: 55,000
OFI
Olympiacos
GK 31 Greece Nikos Christogeorgos
RB 17 Spain Borja González
CB 24 Greece Vasilios Lampropoulos (c)  Yellow card 81'
CB 30 Mexico Jordan Silva  Yellow card 2'
LB 12 Greece Ilias Chatzitheodoridis  Yellow card 78'  downward-facing red arrow 83'
DM  6 Greece Zisis Karachalios  downward-facing red arrow 64'
CM 88 Montenegro Marko Bakić  downward-facing red arrow 83'
CM 14 Greece Thanasis Androutsos
RW 11 Greece Taxiarchis Fountas
LW 18 Argentina Thiago Nuss Yellow card 68'
CF  9 Italy Eddie Salcedo  downward-facing red arrow 83'
Substitutes:
GK  1 Bulgaria Daniel Naumov
DF  4 Greece Nikos Marinakis
DF 22 Greece Giannis Christopoulos
DF 34 Uruguay Kevin Lewis  upward-facing green arrow 83'
MF 10 Argentina Juan Neira  upward-facing green arrow 83'
ΜF 27 Georgia (country) Levan Shengelia  upward-facing green arrow 64'
MF 45 Greece Giannis Apostolakis
FW 29 France Andrew Jung
FW 46 Greece Giannis Theodosoulakis  upward-facing green arrow 83'
Manager:
Serbia Milan Rastavac
GK  1 Greece Alexandros Paschalakis
RB 20 Portugal Costinha  downward-facing red arrow 71'
CB 45 Greece Panagiotis Retsos (c)
CB  5 Italy Lorenzo Pirola
LB  3 Argentina Francisco Ortega  downward-facing red arrow 89'
DM 14 Spain Dani García  Yellow card 21'  downward-facing red arrow 84'
DM 32 Argentina Santiago Hezze
RW 23 Brazil Rodinei
LW 10 Portugal Gelson Martins  Yellow card 47'
AM 22 Portugal Chiquinho
CF  9 Morocco Ayoub El Kaabi
Substitutes:
GK 99 Greece Alexandros Anagnostopoulos
DF  4 France Giulian Biancone
DF 16 Portugal David Carmo
DF 70 Nigeria Bruno Onyemaechi  upward-facing green arrow 89'
MF  8 New Zealand Marko Stamenić
MF 96 Greece Christos Mouzakitis  upward-facing green arrow 84'
MF 64 Greece Antonis Papakanellos
FW 11 Norway Kristoffer Velde
FW 17 Ukraine Roman Yaremchuk  Yellow card 74'  upward-facing green arrow 71'
Manager:
Spain José Luis Mendilibar

Man of the Match:
Ayoub El Kaabi (Olympiacos)


Assistant referees:
Listkiewicz Tomasz (Poland)
Kupsik Adam Michal (Poland)
Fourth official:
Ioannis Papadopoulos (Macedonia)
Video assistant referee:
Kwiatkowski Tomasz Andrzej (Poland)
Assistant video assistant referee:
Angelos Evangelou (Athens)
Offside video assistant referee:
Anastasios Papapetrou (Athens)

Match rules

  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
  • Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used at maximum three times, with a sixth allowed in extra time.

References

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  1. ^ "Greek Cup 2024/25 National Associations". UEFA.
  2. ^ "Από τις 17 Μαΐου του 1990 στο 2025: ΟΦΗ και Ολυμπιακός ξανά στον τελικό 35 χρόνια μετά!". sdna.gr.
  3. ^ "Το πρώτο γραφικό της ΕΠΟ για τον τελικό ΟΦΗ – Ολυμπιακός". oficrete.gr.
  4. ^ "Ο τελικός των νέων τεχνολογιών!". epo.gr.
  5. ^ "Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyros Louis" (OAKA)". stadia.gr.
  6. ^ "Greece - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF.