The 2015 Greek Cup final was the 71st final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 23 May 2015 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Olympiacos and Skoda Xanthi. It was Olympiacos' 38th Greek Cup final in their 90 years of existence and Skoda Xanthi's first-ever Greek Cup final of their 48-year history.
Venue
This was the 22nd 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, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 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 was used for Olympiacos, Panathinaikos 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 Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty seven times, winning twenty six of them. The last time that they had played in a final was in 2013, where they had won against Asteras Tripolis by 3–1 after extra time.
Skoda Xanthi never reached a previous Cup final.
The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.
Route to the final
OlympiacosRoundSkoda XanthiOpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResultPanachaiki1–0 (A)Matchday 1Niki Volos1–0 (H)Panionios1–1 (H)Matchday 2OFI0–1 (A)Fostiras2–0 (A)Matchday 3Zakynthos3–1 (H)Group A winnersFinal standingsGroup C runners-upOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legKnockout phaseOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legTyrnavos11–03–0 (A)8–0 (H)Round of 16Panathinaikos2–11–1 (H)1–0 (A)AEK Athens4–11–1 (H)3–0 () (A)Quarter-finalsOFI4–11–1 (A)3–0 (H)Apollon Smyrnis4–13–0 (A)1–1 (H)Semi-finalsIraklis2–11–0 (A)1–1 (H)
Match
Details
GK 16 Roberto RB 30 Leandro Salino CB 3 Alberto Botía CB 23 Dimitris Siovas LB 26 Arthur Masuaku DM 5 Luka Milivojević DM 8 Delvin N'Dinga RM 19 David Fuster (c) LM 77 Mathieu Dossevi AM 10 Chori Domínguez CF 12 Franco Jara Substitutes:GK 33 Lefteris Choutesiotis DF 29 Praxitelis Vouros MF 9 Jimmy DurmazMF 11 Pajtim Kasami MF 25 Kostas Fortounis FW 7 Kostas Mitroglou FW 27 Jorge Benítez Manager: Vítor Pereira GK 82 Dimitris KyriakidisRB 4 Manolis Bertos CB 28 Dimitrios Goutas CB 55 Christos Karipidis LB 8 Wallace DM 15 Christian Obodo DM 17 Manolis Papasterianos RM 9 Karim Soltani LM 11 Adrián Lucero AM 16 Theodoros Vasilakakis (c)CF 20 Cleyton Substitutes:GK 79 Nikolaos Anastasopoulos DF 5 Dimos Baxevanidis DF 31 Christos Lisgaras MF 14 Fernández Walter MF 21 Kostas Fliskas MF 24 Petros Orfanidis FW 30 Pantelis Kapetanos Manager: Răzvan Lucescu Man of the Match: Chori Domínguez (Olympiacos)
Assistant referees: Christos Akrivos (Athens) Ilias Alexeas (Messinia) Additional assistant referees: Ilias Spathas (Piraeus) Andreas Pappas (Athens) Assistant video assistant referee: Lazaros Dimitriadis (Macedonia)Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions
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