1996 Greek Football Cup final

October 2024 1996 Greek Cup final 1995–96 Greek Football Cup Apollon Athens 1 AEK Athens 7 16 April 1997 Olympic Stadium Marousi, Athens Christos Sotiropoulos (Piraeus) 31,563 1995 1997 The 1996 Greek Cup final was the 52nd final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 15 May 1996 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Apollon Athens and AEK Athens. It was Apollon Athens' first-ever Greek Cup final in their 105 years of existence and AEK Athens' fourtheenth Greek Cup final and third consecutive in their 72-year history.https://www.epo.gr/vodafon/kyppello/Kipello1996-1999.pdf Kipello1996-1999 epo.gr https://web.archive.org/web/20220729071901/https://www.epo.gr/vodafon/kyppello/Kipello1996-1999.pdf 29 July 2022 el live Demis Nikolaidis played his last match as footballer of Apollon Athens, a few days before his transfer to AEK Athens. With their 7–1 win over Apollon Athens, AEK Athens achieved a record victory in the history of the Greek Cup finals.https://www.sport-fm.gr/article/Stories/aek-apollwn-smurnis-o-istorikos-telikos-kupellou-tou-1996/4178931 "Ενέργειες που γίνονται με κομπιούτερ": Η ιστορική επτάρα της ΑΕΚ στον Απόλλωνα στον τελικό του '96 sport-fm.gr 15 May 2018 el Furthermore, it proved to be the only Cup title, as well as the last trophy won by Dušan Bajević as the manager of AEK Athens.http://www.sport-retro.gr/video-h-eptara-ths-aek-ston-teliko-kypellou-me-ton-apollona/ Η "επτάρα" της ΑΕΚ στο τελικό κυπέλλου με τον Απόλλωνα sport-retro.gr 27 November 2018 el Venue thumb|left|Athens Olympic Stadium. This was the twelfth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994 and 1995 finals. The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982. The stadium is used as a venue for Panathinaikos and Greece and was used for Olympiacos and 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 Apollon Athens had never competed in a Cup final. AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final thirteen times, winning eight of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1983 (2–0 against PAOK). The last time that they had played in a final was in 1995, where they had lost to Panathinaikos by 1–0 after the extra time. 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 1995–96 Greek Football Cup Apollon AthensRoundAEK AthensOpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResultPanelfsiniakosUnknownMatchday 1Almopos Aridea6–2 (H)AtromitosUnknownMatchday 2Olympiacos Volos2–0 (A)KalamataUnknownMatchday 3Panegialios4–1 (H)Ambelokipoi ThessalonikiUnknownMatchday 4Panathinaikos1–3 (A)Group 3 winners TeamPts Apollon Athens12 Panelfsiniakos5 Atromitos4 Kalamata4 Ambelokipoi Thessaloniki2Final standingsGroup 1 runners-up TeamPts Panathinaikos12 AEK Athens9 Panegialios6 Olympiacos Volos1 Almopos Aridea1OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legKnockout phaseOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legPaniliakos5–42–1 (H)3–3 (A)Round of 32Iraklis3–01–0 (H)2–0 (A)Panetolikos4–32–1 (A)2–2 (H)Round of 16Olympiacos4–13–1 (A)1–1 (H)Skoda Xanthi5–24–0 (H)1–2 (A)Quarter-finalsPanathinaikos5–43–1 (H)2–2 (A)PAOK4–21–1 (H)3–1 (A)Semi-finalsAthinaikos6–05–0 (H)1–0 (A) Match Details 15 May 1996 17:30 EEST Apollon Athens 1–7 Report (page 5) AEK Athens Barnjak 78 Batista 11 34 Tsiartas 22 48 pen. 76 Ketsbaia 60 Kostis 89 Olympic Stadium Marousi 31,563 Christos Sotiropoulos (Piraeus) _shoulder_stripes_navy_stripes _adidas_navyshoulder _shoulder_stripes_navy_stripes _navy_stripes_adidas FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF Apollon Athens _aek9496h _aek9496h _aek9496h _blacktop FFEF00 FFEF00 FFEF00 000000 FFEF00 ΑΕΚ Athens GK  1GRE Dimitris RaptisRB  7BIH 1992 Predrag Erak 25CB  3GRE Kostas Mavridis  55CB  4GRE Andreas Theodoropoulos  35LB  5GRE Giannis Apostolou  46DM  2GRE Konstantinos IoannouCM 10 ALB Bledar KolaRM  6GRE Giannis TatsisLM  8GRE Lefteris Velentzas (c)CF  9BIH 1992 Bernard BarnjakCF 11 GRE Demis NikolaidisSubstitutes:DF 12 GRE Panagiotis Lachanas  55DF 13 GRE Vangelis Kefalas 76  46MF 14 GRE Theodoros Alexis  35Manager:GRE Giannis Pathiakakis GK  1GRE Ilias AtmatsidisCB  3GRE Nikos KostenoglouCB  4GRE Stelios Manolas (c) 29CB  6GRE Michalis Vlachos 1 66DM  5BIH 1992 Refik ŠabanadžovićCM  8MKD Toni SavevskiRM  2GRE Vasilios Borbokis 8 66LM 11 GRE Michalis Kasapis 2AM 10 GRE Vasilios Tsiartas 82SS  7GEO 1990 Temur KetsbaiaCF  9GRE Daniel Batista 0 52Substitutes:GK 15 GRE Vasilis Karagiannis DF 13 GRE Vaios Karagiannis 82DF 16 GRE Charis Kopitsis MF 14 GRE Christos Maladenis 66FW 12 GRE Christos Kostis 66Manager:BIH 1992 Dušan Bajević Assistant referees: Antonis Togias (Piraeus) Nikos Vergis (Thessaloniki) Fourth official: Malamas Tevekelis (Thessaloniki)Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Five named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions See also 1995–96 Greek Football Cup References 1996 Cup final Cup final 1996 Cup final 1996 Category:Football matches in Athens Category:April 1996 sports events in Europe