1977 Greek Football Cup final

November 2024 1977 Greek Cup final 1976–77 Greek Football Cup Panathinaikos 2 PAOK 1 22 June 1977 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus Nikos Zlatanos (Thessaloniki) 23,483 1976 1978 The 1977 Greek Cup final was the 33rd final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 22 June 1977 at Karaiskakis Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and PAOK. It was Panathinaikos' thirteenth Greek Cup final in their 69 years of existence and PAOK's ninth Greek Cup final in their 51-year history.https://www.epo.gr/vodafon/kyppello/Kipello1971-1980.pdf Kipello1971-1980 epo.gr el In the final, the clubs faced each other at the same stadium as in 1972, where after a spectacular match Panathinaikos won by 2–1, achieved the domestic double and completed a very successful season in general since they won the Balkans Cup, as well.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/balkanclub70s.html Balkans Cup 1977 RSSSF The footballers of PAOK, protesting the refereeing of the match, refused to receive their medals, as a result of which they received a suspension of one matchday in the following season and in fact two on each matchday so that there would be no problem with the selection of the starting line-up.http://www.newsbeast.gr/sports/arthro/189186/otan-o-panathinaikos-to-sikose-sto-karaiskakis Όταν ο Παναθηναϊκός το σήκωσε στο Καραϊσκάκης newsbeast.gr 22 June 2011 el Venue thumb|left|Karaiskakis Stadium. This was the ninth Greek Cup final held at Karaiskakis Stadium, after the 1957, 1958, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1975 finals. (Karaiskakis also hosted the replay match of the 1960 final between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos). Karaiskakis Stadium was built in 1895 and renovated once in 1964. The stadium is used as a venue for Olympiacos and Ethnikos Piraeus and was used for Greece on various occasions. Its current capacity is 42,000 and hosted a European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1971 and the first leg of the Intercontinental Cup final in 1971.http://stadia.gr/karaiskaki/karaiskakiold.html Velodrome & Karaiskaki Stadium (1895 - 1964 - 2003) stadia.gr Background Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twelve times, winning five of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1969 (They won on a toss of a coin after a 1–1 draw at the end of the extra time against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 1975, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 1–0. PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final eight times, winning two of them. The last time that they played in a final was in 1974, where they had won Olympiacos 4–3 on penalties, which had come after a 2–2 draw at the end of the extra time. The two teams had met each other in a Cup final two times in the 1955 and 1972 finals.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesg/grkcuphist.html Greece - List of Cup Winners RSSSF Route to the final 1976–77 Greek Football Cup PanathinaikosRoundPAOKOpponentResultOpponentResultKampaniakos1–1 3–1 (A)First roundPanthrakikos3–0 (H)Kozani4–0 (H)Second roundByeTrikala4–2 (H)Round of 16AEK Athens2–1 (H)Egaleo9–0 (H)Quarter-finalsEthnikos Piraeus3–2 (A)Olympiacos2–1 (H)Semi-finalsFostiras4–0 (H) Match Details 22 June 1977 21:00 EEST Panathinaikos 2–1 https://www.newsbeast.gr/sports/greek-football/arthro/189186/otan-o-panathinaikos-to-sikose-sto-karaiskakis PAOK Papadimitriou 29 Vakalis 83 Terzanidis 43 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 28,490 Manolis Platopoulos (Athens) GK GRE old Vasilis KonstantinouDF GRE old Mitsos DimitriouDF GRE old Stelios StefanakisDF CYP 1960 Demetris KizasDF GRE old Anthimos Kapsis  46MF GRE old Spyros Livathinos MF GRE old Takis PapadimitriouMF GRE old Odysseas VakalisMF GRE old Mimis Domazos (c) FW GRE old Antonis Antoniadis  59FW ARG Óscar ÁlvarezSubstitutes:DF GRE old Takis Eleftheriadis  46DF GRE old Christos Giannakoulas  59Manager: POL Kazimierz Górski GK GRE old Diamantis MilinisDF GRE old Giannis Gounaris 0 64DF GRE old Konstantinos IosifidisDF GRE old Koulis ApostolidisDF GRE old Filotas PelliosMF GRE old Ioannis DamanakisMF GRE old Christos TerzanidisMF GRE old Stavros SarafisMF GRE old Giorgos Koudas (c)MF GRE old Angelos AnastasiadisFW BRA Neto Guerino 76Substitutes:FW GRE old Konstantinos Orfanos 76  Manager:NIR Billy Bingham Assistant referees: Nikos Fakis (Athens) Ioannis Ioannidis (Thessaloniki)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 1976–77 Greek Football Cup References 1977 Cup final Cup final 1977 Cup final 1977 Category:Football matches in Athens Category:June 1977 sports events in Europe