2000 Greek Football Cup final

October 2024 2000 Greek Cup final 1999–2000 Greek Football Cup AEK Athens 3 Ionikos 0 10 May 2000 Olympic Stadium Marousi, Athens Demis Nikolaidis (AEK Athens) Giorgos Douros (Corinthia) 25,471 1999 2001 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.https://www.onsports.gr/themata/story/674268/aek-ionikos-3-0-o-telikos-kypelloy-ithoys-me-to-fair-play-toy-ntemi-photos-videos ΑΕΚ-Ιωνικός 3-0: Ο τελικός Κυπέλλου… ήθους με το fair play του Ντέμη onsports.gr 10 May 2022 el 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.https://www.sport24.gr/football/san-simera-to-fair-play-toy-ntemi-nikolaidi-poy-timithike-apo-tin-doe.8949121.html Σαν Σήμερα: Το Fair Play του Ντέμη Νικολαΐδη που τιμήθηκε από την ΔΟΕ sport24.gr el Venue thumb|left|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.http://www.stadia.gr/oaka/oaka-f.html Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyros Louis" (OAKA) stadia.gr Background 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.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesg/grkcuphist.html Greece - List of Cup Winners RSSSF Route to the final 1999–2000 Greek Football Cup AEK AthensRoundIonikosOpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResultEgaleo6–1 (H)Matchday 1Panetolikos3–0 (H)A.O. Karditsa6–1 (A)Matchday 2Leonidio2–1 (A)Trikala2–1 (A)Matchday 3Panathinaikos1–0 (A)Athinaikos3–0 (H)Matchday 4Ialysos6–0 (H)Akratitos3–0 (H)Matchday 5Keratsini3–2 (H)Group 8 winners Group 8 yes no AEKFinal standingsGroup 1 runners-up Group 1 yes no IONOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legKnockout phaseOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg ByeAdditional roundMarko 4–1 (H)Trikala 6–0 (H)Round of 16Iraklis 4–2 (H)Olympiacos4–11–1 (A)3–0 (H)Quarter-finalsNafpaktiakos Asteras9–28–0 (H)1–2 (A)Panionios5–34–1 (H)1–2 (A)Semi-finalsKalamata6–22–0 (A)4–2 (H) Match Details 10 May 2000 20:00 EEST AEK Athens 3–0 Report (page 35) Ionikos Nikolaidis 37 Petkov 76 Maladenis 81 Olympic Stadium Marousi 25,471 Giorgos Douros (Corinthia) _aek9900 _aek9900 _9900 _aek9900 _aek9900 FFDE00 FFDE00 FFDE00 000000 000000 AEK Athens 333399 333399 333399 333399 333399 Ionikos GK  1GRE Ilias Atmatsidis (c)CB  2GRE Traianos DellasCB 32GRE Michalis KapsisCB 25GRE Giannis Kalitzakis 85DM 14GRE Akis Zikos 25CM 28BUL Milen PetkovRM 23GRE Vasilios LakisLM 17GRE Michalis KasapisAM 10FRY Dragan Ćirić 70SS 20GRE Sotiris Konstantinidis 81CF 11GRE Demis Nikolaidis 35Substitutes:GK 15GRE Chrisostomos Michailidis DF 12GRE Charis Kopitsis DF 21GRE Vaios Karagiannis 70MF  6GRE Dimitris Markos MF  7GRE Christos Maladenis 81MF  8MKD Toni Savevski 85 MF 18GRE Evripidis KatsavosManager:GRE Giannis Pathiakakis GK 15ALB Foto StrakoshaRB  3 GRE Theodoros Pachatouridis  70CB  2 NOR Trond Inge Haugland  11CB  5 GRE Giannis Xanthopoulos (c)  65LB  7 GRE Georgios DaraklitsasDM 21GRE Dimitris DeligiannisCM  8 SYR Mohammad Nasser Afash  32CM 17GRE Sokratis Ofrydopoulos  70  75AM 10BRA Paulinho Kobayashi  35  59CF  9 SCO Craig BrewsterCF 23LBR Zizi RobertsSubstitutes:GK 32 GRE Chrysostomos VeniaminDF 12 GRE Apostolos TsoptsisDF 14 GRE Giannis Gyrichidis  70MF 16 GRE Giorgos StaboulisMF 20 PER Martín Rodríguez MF 37 ARG Marcelo Leopaldi  88  75FW 29 PER Darío Muchotrigo  59Manager:UKR Oleg Blokhin 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 See also 1999–2000 Greek Football Cup References 2000 Cup final Cup final 2000 Cup final 2000 Category:Football matches in Athens Category:May 2000 sports events in Europe