1976 Greek Football Cup final

November 2024 1976 Greek Cup final 1975–76 Greek Football Cup Iraklis 4 Olympiacos 4 After extra timeIraklis won 6–5 on penalties 9 June 1976 AEK Stadium Nea Filadelfia, Athens Leonidas Vamvakopoulos (Athens) 24,871 1975 1977 The 1976 Greek Cup final was the 32nd final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 9 June 1976 at Nikos Goumas Stadium. The contesting teams were Iraklis and Olympiacos. It was Iraklis' third Greek Cup final in their 68 years of existence and Olympiacos' twenty-first Greek Cup final and fourth consecutive in their 51-year history.https://www.epo.gr/vodafon/kyppello/Kipello1971-1980.pdf Kipello1971-1980 epo.gr el The final has been characterized as one of the most thrilling in the history of the institution. Iraklis took the lead 2 times in regular time and Olympiacos equalized as many times. At the extra time, Iraklis made the 4–2, but again Olympiacos equalized in the last minutes, despite being down to 10 players. Eventually, in an equally dramatic penalty shoot-out, Iraklis won the first and only Cup in their history.http://www.onsports.gr/afieromata/story/568987/otan-o-xatzipanagis-apogeione-ton-hrakli-photo-videos Όταν ο Χατζηπαναγής απογείωνε τον Ηρακλή! onsports.gr 9 June 2021 el Venue This was the fourth Greek Cup final held at AEK Stadium, after the 1962, 1967 and 1974 finals. AEK Stadium was built in 1930. The stadium is used as a venue for AEK Athens and was used for Greece on various occasions. Its current capacity is 32,000.http://www.stadia.gr/ngoumas/ngoumas.html Nikos Goumas Stadium stadia.gr Background Iraklis had reached the Greek Cup final two times. The last time that they played in a final was in 1957, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 2–0. Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty times, winning sixteen of them. The last time that they played in a final was in 1975, where they had won against Panathinaikos by 1–0. The two teams had met each other in a Cup final two times in the 1947 and 1957 finals.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesg/grkcuphist.html Greece - List of Cup Winners RSSSF Route to the final 1975–76 Greek Football Cup IraklisRoundOlympiacosOpponentResultOpponentResultVeria2–2 7–6 (A)First roundProodeftiki3–0 (H)Pierikos1–0 (H)Second roundEthnikos Piraeus1–0 (H)Trikala1–0 (A)Round of 16PAOK1–1 6–5 (H)Panetolikos7–1 (A)Quarter-finalsPanionios3–1 (H)Panathinaikos3–2 (H)Semi-finalsAEK Athens3–2 (A) Match Details 9 June 1976 21:00 EEST Iraklis 4–4 yes https://www.onsports.gr/afieromata/story/568987/otan-o-xatzipanagis-apogeione-ton-hrakli-photo-videos Olympiacos Hatzipanagis 25 102 Kousoulakis 72 Gesios 111 Siokos 60 Viera 81 Karavitis 115 Glezos 119 AEK Stadium Nea Filadelfia 24,871 Leonidas Vamvakopoulos (Athens) Sentelidis Antonijević Christoforidis Pontikis Hatzipanagis Kousoulakis Touboglou 6–5 Kyrastas Karavitis Stavropoulos Vasilopoulos Synetopoulos Glezos Siokos GK  1 GRE old Grigoris Fanaras (c)DF  2 GRE old Manolis TouboglouDF  8 GRE old Makis SentelidisDF  4 GRE old Charalampos XanthopoulosDF  3 GRE old Lazaros KalaitzidisMF  7 YUG Zoran AntonijevićMF  6 GRE old Vangelis KousoulakisMF  9 GRE old Vasilis HatzipanagisFW  6 GRE old Thanasis ChristoforidisFW 10 GRE old Dimitrios Gesios 113FW 11 GRE old Nikos Pantazis 80Substitutes:MF GRE old Giorgos Matsoukatidis 80FW GRE old Nikos Pontikis 113Manager: ENG Les Shannon GK  1GRE old Panagiotis KelesidisDF  2GRE old Giannis Kyrastas DF  3GRE old Thanasis AngelisDF  4GRE old Vasilis Siokos (c)DF  5GRE old Lakis GlezosMF  6GRE old Petros KaravitisMF  7URU Milton Viera 91MF  8GRE old Kostas Davourlis 0 112FW  9GRE old Michalis Kritikopoulos 46FW 10 GRE old Maik GalakosFW 11 GRE old Charalampos StavropoulosSubstitutes:DF GRE old Takis Synetopoulos 46DF GRE old Giorgos Vasilopoulos 91Manager:GRE old Georgios Darivas Assistant referees: Thomas Kaladamis (Athens) Dimitris Protonotarios (Athens)Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Five named substitutes Maximum of two substitutions See also 1975–76 Greek Football Cup References 1976 Cup final Cup final 1976 Cup final 1976 Category:Football matches in Athens Category:June 1976 sports events in Europe