1997 Greek Football Cup final

October 2024 1997 Greek Cup final 1996–97 Greek Football Cup AEK Athens 0 Panathinaikos 0 After extra timeAEK Athens won 5–3 on penalties 16 April 1997 Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus Giorgos Psychomanis (Athens) 21,926 1996 1998 The 1997 Greek Cup final was the 53rd final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 16 April 1997 at Karaiskakis Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and Panathinaikos. It was AEK Athens' fifteenth Greek Cup final and fourth consecutive in their 73 years of existence and Panathinaikos' twenty third Greek Cup final in their 89-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 For third time in the 4 last years AEK Athens and Panathinaikos were pondered over in the final.http://www.sportdog.gr/sports/podosfairo/article/382728/einai-fobero-20-xronia-exei-na-symbei-ayto-metaksy-panathhna-koy-kai-aek-binteo Είναι ΦΟΒΕΡΟ, 20 χρόνια έχει να συμβεί αυτό μεταξύ Παναθηναϊκού και ΑΕΚ! sportdog.gr 16 April 2017 el The loss of Cup for Panathinaikos, in combination with their 5th place finish in the championship, resulted in club not qualifying for any European competition for the first time in the last 25 years. Venue thumb|left|Karaiskakis Stadium. This was the twelfth Greek Cup final held at Karaiskakis Stadium, after the 1957, 1958, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978 and 1979 finals (Karaiskakis also hosted the replay match of the 1960 final between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos and the second leg of the 1992 two-legged final between PAOK and Olympiacos). Karaiskakis Stadium was built in 1895 and renovated once in 1964. The stadium is used as a venue for Ethnikos Piraeus and was used for Olympiacos and Greece on various occasions. Its current capacity is 42,000 and hosted a UEFA 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 AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final fourteen times, winning nine of them. The last time that played in a final was in 1996, where they had won against Apollon Athens by 7–1. Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty two times, winning fifteen of them. The last time that they had played the Cup was in 1995, where they had won against AEK Athens by 1–0 after extra time. The two teams had met each other in a Cup final four times in the 1948, 1949, 1994 and 1995 finals.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesg/grkcuphist.html Greece - List of Cup Winners RSSSF Route to the final 1996–97 Greek Football Cup AEK AthensRoundPanathinaikosOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legSkoda Xanthi8–35–0 (H)3–3 (A)Round of 32Athinaikos6–03–0 (H)3–0 (A)ILTEX Lykoi6–13–1 (H)3–0 (A)Round of 16Iraklis4–01–0 (A)3–0 (H)Paniliakos5–13–1 (H)2–0 (A)Quarter-finalsIalysos3–12–0 (H)1–1 (A)Olympiacos3–12–1 (H)1–0 (A)Semi-finalsPanachaiki7–03–0 (H)4–0 (A) Match Details 16 April 1997 20:15 EEST AEK Athens 0–0 yes https://www.aektoday.com/16-apriliou/959-16-4-1997-aek-panathinaikos0-0-penalty-5-3 Panathinaikos Karaiskakis Stadium Piraeus 21,926 Giorgos Psychomanis (Athens) Kopitsis Borbokis Nikolaidis Doboş Atmatsidis 5–3 Warzycha Konstantinidis Georgiadis Markos _band_black FFEF00 FFEF00 FFEF00 000000 FFEF00 AEK Athens _white_stripes _panathinaikosfc9596t1 _white_stripes _3_stripes_white 109252 109252 109252 109252 109252 Panathinaikos GK  1GRE Ilias AtmatsidisRB  4GRE Vasilios Borbokis 10CB  6GRE Stelios ManolasCB  2GRE Nikos KostenoglouLB  3GRE Michalis Kasapis (c) 42DM  5GRE Triantafyllos MachairidisCM  7MKD Toni Savevski  98CM 10 GEO 1990 Temuri Ketsbaia 25RW  8GRE Daniel BatistaLW  9GRE Christos Kostis  83CF 11 GRE Demis NikolaidisSubstitutes:DF 14 ROU Anton Doboş  120DF 16 GRE Charis Kopitsis 110  83FW 15 BRA Marcelo Veridiano  98 120Manager:GRE Petros Ravousis GK  1POL Józef WandzikRB  2GRE Stratos Apostolakis (c)CB  6GRE Marinos Ouzounidis 63CB  4GRE Giannis Goumas 47CB  8GRE Georgios Alexopoulos 3 105LB  3GRE Thanasis Kolitsidakis 2 35 119DM  5GRE Dimitris Markos 24CM  7GRE Giorgos GeorgiadisCM 10 ALB Bledar Kola 97CF 11 GRE Alexis Alexoudis 112CF  9 POL Krzysztof WarzychaSubstitutes:DF 16 GRE Kostas Konstantinidis 105MF 15 GRE Georgios Kapouranis 97FW 17 GRE Georgios Nasiopoulos 112Manager:CRO Velimir Zajec Assistant referees: Christoforos Zografos (Athens) Christos Ioannidis (Serres) Fourth official: Panagiotis Varouchas (Athens)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 1996–97 Greek Football Cup References 1997 Cup final Cup final 1997 Cup final 1997 Category:Football matches in Athens Category:April 1997 sports events in Europe