The 2010 Greek Cup final was the 66th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 24 April 2010 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and Aris. It was Panathinaikos' twenty eighth Greek Cup final in their 102-year history and Aris' ninth Greek Cup final in their 96 years of existence. Aris achieved a record of most mass movement of fans in Greece. About 25,000 Aris' fans followed their team to the Olympic Stadium forming a queue of many kilometers on the Thessaloniki-Athens highway from a number of buses, as well as cars. It was characteristic that the last vehicle of the procession arrived at the stadium three hours after the arrival of the first.
Venue
This was the seventeenth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2009 finals.
The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982 and renovated once in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue for AEK Athens and Panathinaikos and was used for Olympiacos and Greece on various occasions. Its current capacity is 69,618 and it hosted three European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals in 1983, 1994 and 2007, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987, the 1991 Mediterranean Games and the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Background Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty seven times, winning sixteen of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 2004 (3–1 against Olympiacos). The last time that they had played in a final was in 2007, where they had lost to AEL by 1–2.
Aris had reached the Greek Cup final eight times, winning one of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1970 (1–0 against PAOK). The last time that they had played in a final was in 2008, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 2–0.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final one time in the 1940 final.
Route to the final
PanathinaikosRoundArisOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg Eordaikos 2007 3–0 (A) Round of 32 Aspropyrgos 4–3 (A) Pierikos 2–1 (H) Round of 16 Asteras Tripolis 2–0 (H) Kallithea 2–0 (H) Quarter-finals Skoda Xanthi 4–1 1–1 (A) 3–0 (H) PAS Giannina 3–1 3–1 (H) 0–0 (A) Semi-finals Kavala 4–2 3–1 (H) 1–1 (A)
Match Details
GK 30 Alexandros TzorvasRB 24 Loukas VintraCB 29 Kostas KatsouranisCB 8 Cédric KantéLB 31 Nikos Spiropoulos DM 15 Gilberto Silva (c)DM 23 Simão Mate Junior AM 7 Sotiris Ninis RW 14 Dimitris Salpingidis LW 11 Sebastián Leto CF 9 Djibril CisséSubstitutes:GK 27 Orestis KarnezisDF 3 Josu SarriegiDF 22 Stergos Marinos DF 19 Gabriel MF 26 Giorgos Karagounis FW 17 Lazaros Christodoulopoulos FW 5 Ante RukavinaManager: Nikos Nioplias GK 1 Michalis SifakisRB 2 Darcy NetoCB 5 Ronaldo GuiaroCB 15 Cristian NasutiLB 32 Kristi VangjeliDM 55 Athanasios Prittas DM 6 Mehdi Nafti AM 17 Camel Meriem RW 7 Toni Calvo LW 10 Sergio Koke (c)CF 18 Javier CámporaSubstitutes:GK 28 Michal PeškovičDF 4 Efthimios Kouloucheris DF 25 César OrtizMF 9 Darío Fernández MF 20 Javito FW 11 Freddy Adu FW 14 Eddie JohnsonManager: Héctor Cúper Man of the Match: Sebastian Leto (Panathinaikos)
Assistant referees: Konstantinos Dallas (Epirus) Dimitris Tatsis (Epirus) Fourth official: Michael Koukoulakis (Heraklion)Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions
See also 2009–10 Greek Football Cup
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