The 2002 Greek Cup final was the 58th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 27 April 2002 at Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and Olympiacos. It was AEK Athens' seventeenth Greek Cup final in their 78 years of existence and Olympiacos' twenty-ninth Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 77-year history. For the 5th and last time, the President of the Republic, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, honored the final with his presence, awarding the trophy to the players of the winning team.
Venue
This was the fifteenth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2000 finals.
The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982. The stadium is used as a venue for Olympiacos and was used for Panathinaikos, AEK Athens and Greece 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.
Background AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final sixteen times, winning ten of them. The last time that they played in a final was in 2000, where they had won against Ionikos by 3–0.
Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty eight times, winning twenty of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1999 (2–0 against Panathinaikos). The last time that had played in a final was in 2001, where they had lost to PAOK by 4–2.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final two times in the 1953 and 1956 finals.
Route to the final
AEK AthensRoundOlympiacosOpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResultPanserraikos5–1 (A)Matchday 1Kalamata3–1 (A)Nafpaktiakos Asteras6–3 (A)Matchday 2AEL1–0 (A)Egaleo2–0 (H)Matchday 3Agios Nikolaos1–0 (H)Panserraikos5–0 (H)Matchday 4Kalamata10–0 (H)Nafpaktiakos Asteras4–0 (H)Matchday 5AEL5–3 (H)Egaleo3–3 (A)Matchday 6Agios Nikolaos6–1 (A)Group 1 winnersFinal standingsGroup 6 winnersOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legKnockout phaseOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legAgios Nikolaos4–03–0 (H)1–0 (A)Second round ByeKilkisiakos7–01–0 (A)6–0 (H)Round of 16Egaleo8–15–1 (H)3–0 (A)PAOK6–12–1 (H)4–0 (A)Quarter-finalsKallithea7–03–0 (H)4–0 (A)Skoda Xanthi1–00–0 (A)1–0 (H)Semi-finalsIraklis6–23–2 (H)3–0 (A)
Match Details
GK 22 Dionysis ChiotisRB 16 Nikolaos GeorgeasCB 4 Carlos GamarraCB 32 Michalis KapsisLB 17 Michalis Kasapis DM 14 Akis Zikos DM 6 Theodoros Zagorakis (c) RM 23 Vasilios Lakis LM 20 Sotiris Konstantinidis AM 10 Vasilios TsiartasCF 11 Demis Nikolaidis Substitutes:GK 27 Sotiris LiberopoulosDF 3 FerrugemDF 5 Nikos KostenoglouDF 12 Georgios Xenidis MF 28 Milen Petkov FW 26 António Folha FW 30 Ilija Ivić Manager: Fernando Santos GK 15 Angelos Georgiou RB 2 Christos PatsatzoglouCB 5 Georgios Amanatidis CB 19 Athanasios Kostoulas LB 33 Stylianos VenetidisDM 8 Christian Karembeu CM 20 Pär Zetterberg RM 7 Stelios Giannakopoulos LM 11 Predrag ĐorđevićSS 10 Giovanni CF 30 Alexis Alexandris (c)Substitutes:GK 34 Kleopas GiannouDF 14 Dimitrios MavrogenidisDF 32 Georgios AnatolakisMF 13 Zé Elias MF 21 Andreas Niniadis FW 17 Peter Ofori-Quaye FW 99 Gabriel Álvez Manager: Takis Lemonis Man of the Match: Dionysis Chiotis (AEK Athens)
Assistant referees: Spyros Tomaras (Aetoloacarnania) Giorgos Tsoukas (Arcadia)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 2001–02 Greek Football Cup
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