The 1980 Greek Super Cup was the 1st edition of the Greek Super Cup, an association football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Alpha Ethniki and Greek Cup competitions. The match took place on 29 May 1980 at Karaiskakis Stadium. The contesting teams were the 1979–80 Alpha Ethniki champions, Olympiacos and the 1979–80 Greek Cup winners, Kastoria. Olympiacos won the match 4–3.

The institution was organized by PSAT as an unofficial match, but it was later officially recognized. The match was held just four days after the cup final and five days after the championship play-off between Olympiacos and Aris.

Venue

This was the first Greek Super Cup held at the Karaiskakis Stadium.

Karaiskakis Stadium was built in 1895 and renovated once in 1964. The stadium is used as a venue for Olympiacos and Ethnikos Piraeus and was used for Greece in various occasions. Its current capacity is 42,000 and hosted a European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1971 and the fist leg of the Intercontinental Cup final in 1971.

Match Details

GK  1 Andreas TsakmakidisRB  6 Petros XanthopoulosCB  3 Stavros PapadopoulosCB  4 Petros MichosLB  5 Nikos VamvakoulasDM  2 Petros Karavitis (c)DM  7 Vangelis KousoulakisAM  8 Gregory Savva RW  9 Takis Lemonis LW 10 Thomas Ahlström CF 11 Michalis Kritikopoulos Substitutes:GK Christos ArvanitisDF Georgios Kokolakis  DF Lykourgos Athanasopoulos  FW Georgios Gavasiadis  FW Christos Kaltsas  Manager: Thanasis Bebis GK  1 Nikos SarganisRB  2 Lazaros AlexiadisCB  3 Giannis SiapanidisCB  6 Georgios Paraschos (c)LB  5 Lakis Simeoforidis DM  4 Antonis KopanosCM  8 Grigoris PapavasiliouCM 10 Pavlos Siantsis LW  7 Giannis Dintsikos RW  9 Andreas VoitsidisCF 11 Dimitris Tsironis Substitutes:GK Thanasis ErmidisMF Argyris Papavasiliou MF Papadopoulos FW Kostas Bakis FW Georgios Chounouzidis Manager: Savvas Vasiliadis Assistant referees: Kostas Dimitriadis (Piraeus) Mouratidis (Piraeus)Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Five named substitutes Maximum of four substitutions

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