2025 Greek Football Cup final

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)

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] In social media, the final was branded as #TheCentennials.[5]

Venue

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 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.[6]

Background

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 eight 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.[7]

Route to the final

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

Details

OFI0–2Olympiacos
Report
Attendance: 55,000
OFI
Olympiacos
GK31Greece Nikos Christogeorgos
RB17Spain Borja González
CB24Greece Vasilios Lampropoulos (c) Yellow card 81'
CB30Mexico Jordan Silva Yellow card 2'
LB12Greece Ilias Chatzitheodoridis Yellow card 78' downward-facing red arrow 83'
DM 6Greece Zisis Karachalios downward-facing red arrow 64'
CM88Montenegro Marko Bakić downward-facing red arrow 83'
CM14Greece Thanasis Androutsos
RW11Greece Taxiarchis Fountas
LW18Argentina Thiago NussYellow card 68'
CF 9Italy Eddie Salcedo downward-facing red arrow 83'
Substitutes:
GK 1Bulgaria Daniel Naumov
DF 4Greece Nikos Marinakis
DF22Greece Giannis Christopoulos
DF34Uruguay Kevin Lewis upward-facing green arrow 83'
MF10Argentina Juan Neira upward-facing green arrow 83'
ΜF27Georgia (country) Levan Shengelia upward-facing green arrow 64'
MF45Greece Giannis Apostolakis
FW29France Andrew Jung
FW46Greece Giannis Theodosoulakis upward-facing green arrow 83'
Manager:
Serbia Milan Rastavac
GK 1Greece Alexandros Paschalakis
RB20Portugal Costinha downward-facing red arrow 71'
CB45Greece Panagiotis Retsos (c)
CB 5Italy Lorenzo Pirola
LB 3Argentina Francisco Ortega downward-facing red arrow 89'
DM14Spain Dani García Yellow card 21' downward-facing red arrow 84'
DM32Argentina Santiago Hezze
RW23Brazil Rodinei
LW10Portugal Gelson Martins Yellow card 47'
AM22Portugal Chiquinho
CF 9Morocco Ayoub El Kaabi
Substitutes:
GK99Greece Alexandros Anagnostopoulos
DF 4France Giulian Biancone
DF16Portugal David Carmo
DF70Nigeria Bruno Onyemaechi upward-facing green arrow 89'
MF 8New Zealand Marko Stamenić
MF96Greece Christos Mouzakitis upward-facing green arrow 84'
MF64Greece Antonis Papakanellos
FW11Norway Kristoffer Velde
FW17Ukraine 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

  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 (in Greek).
  3. ↑ "Το πρώτο γραφικό της ΕΠΟ για τον τελικό ΟΦΗ – Ολυμπιακός". oficrete.gr.
  4. ↑ "Ο τελικός των νέων τεχνολογιών!". epo.gr (in Greek).
  5. ↑ "Τελικός Κυπέλλου, ΟΦΗ-Ολυμπιακός: Τι σημαίνει η λέξη που είχαν τα μπλουζάκια των παικτών των φιναλιστ". gazzetta.gr. 17 May 2025.
  6. ↑ "Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyros Louis" (OAKA)". stadia.gr.
  7. ↑ "Greece - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF.