1968 Greek Football Cup final

November 2024 1968 Greek Cup final 1967–68 Greek Football Cup Panathinaikos 0 Olympiacos 1 21 July 1968 Leoforos Alexandras Stadium Ampelokipoi, Athens Aurel Bentu (Romania) 22,669 1967 1969 The 1968 Greek Cup final was the 24th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 21 July 1968 at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and Olympiacos. It was Panathinaikos' ninth Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 60 years of existence and Olympiacos' fifteenth Greek Cup final in their 43-year history.https://www.epo.gr/vodafon/kyppello/Kipello1961-1970.pdf Kipello1961-1970 epo.gr el Venue thumb|left|Leoforos Alexandras Stadium. This was the eighteenth Greek Cup final held at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, after the 1932, 1939, 1940, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963 finals. (Leoforos also hosted the replay match of the 1933 final between Ethnikos Piraeus and Aris, the replay match of the 1949 final between AEK Athens and Panathinaikos and the replay match of the 1952 final between Olympiacos and Panionios). Leoforos Alexandras Stadium was built in 1922. The stadium is used as a venue for Panathinaikos and Greece. Its current capacity is 30,000.http://www.stadia.gr/leoforos/leoforos.html Leoforos Stadium "Apostolos Nikolaidis" stadia.gr Background Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final eight times, winning four of them. The last time that they had played in a final was in 1967, where they won Panionios 1–0. Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final fourteen times, winning twelve of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1965 (1–0 against Panathinaikos). The last time that had played in a final was in 1966, where they had lost to AEK Athens by 2–0 without a match. The two teams had met each other in a Cup final three times in the 1960, 1962 and 1965 finals.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesg/grkcuphist.html Greece - List of Cup Winners RSSSF Route to the final 1967–68 Greek Football Cup PanathinaikosRoundOlympiacosOpponentResultOpponentResultLamia2–1 (A)Round of 32Anagennisi Karditsa2–0 (A)Chalkida2–1 (H)Round of 16Olympiakos Nicosia4–2 (H)PAOK2–1 (A)Quarter-finalsPanachaiki8–3 (A)Ethnikos Piraeus2–0 (H)Semi-finalsAEK Athens2–1 (H) Match Details 21 July 1968 17:30 EET Panathinaikos 0–1 Report (pages 4,5) Olympiacos Vasiliou 75 Leoforos Alexandras Stadium Ampelokipoi 22,669 Aurel Bentu (Romania) GK GRE old Takis IkonomopoulosDF GRE old Aristidis KamarasDF GRE old Kostas AthanasopoulosDF GRE old Mitsos DimitriouDF GRE old Frangiskos SourpisMF GRE old Michalis BellisMF GRE old Zacharias PytichoutisMF GRE old Giorgos RokidisMF GRE old Mimis Domazos (c)FW GRE old Stratos SakellaridisFW GRE old Totis FilakourisManager:URU Juan Hohberg GK GRE old Takis XarchakosDF GRE old Giannis GaitatzisDF GRE old Orestis PavlidisDF GRE old Christos ZanteroglouMF GRE old Nikos SiderisMF CYP 1960 Pavlos VasiliouMF GRE old Giorgos StolingasFW GRE old Grigoris AganyanFW GRE old Giorgos Sideris (c)FW GRE old Nikos GioutsosFW GRE old Vasilios BotinosManager:GRE old Thanasis Kingley Assistant referees: Gheorghe Popovici (Romania) Nicolae Cursaru (Romania)Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Coin toss if scores still level See also 1967–68 Greek Football Cup References 1968 Cup final Cup final 1968 Cup final 1968 Category:Football matches in Athens Category:July 1968 sports events in Europe