1978 Greek Football Cup final

1978 Greek Cup final

Event	1977–78 Greek Football Cup
AEK Athens PAOK 2 0
Date	4 June 1978
Venue	Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Referee	Nikos Zlatanos (Thessaloniki)
Attendance	23,483
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The 1978 Greek Cup final was the 34th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 4 June 1978 at Karaiskakis Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and PAOK. It was AEK Athens' tenth Greek Cup final in their 54 years of existence and PAOK's tenth Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 52-year history.^[1] With their conquest of the Cup, AEK Athens achieved the first domestic double after 39 years and the second in their history.^[2]

Venue

Karaiskakis Stadium.

This was the tenth Greek Cup final held at Karaiskakis Stadium, after the 1957, 1958, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1977 finals. (Karaiskakis also hosted the replay match of the 1960 final between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos).

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 on various occasions. Its current capacity is 42,000 and hosted a European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1971 and the first leg of the Intercontinental Cup final in 1971.^[3]

Background

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final nine times, winning five of them. The last time that they played in a final was in 1956, where they had won Olympiacos 2–1.

PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final nine times, winning two of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1974 (4–3 on penalties, which came after a 2–2 draw at the end of the extra time against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 1977, where they had lost to Panathinaikos by 2–1.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final one time in the 1939 final.^[4]

Route to the final

AEK Athens		Round	PAOK
Opponent	Result		Opponent	Result
AO Chania	6–1 (H)	First round	Levadiakos	6–1 (H)
Panathinaikos	1–0 (A)	Second round	Olympiacos Volos	4–1 (H)
Panionios	3–0 (H)	Round of 16	Iraklis	1–0 (A)
Panelefsiniakos	4–2 (A)	Quarter-finals	Veria	5–0 (H)
Olympiacos	6–1 (H)	Semi-finals	Aris	1–0 (a.e.t.) (A)

Match

Details

4 June 1978

21:00 EEST

AEK Athens	2–0	PAOK
Bajević 50' Mavros 80'	Report (pages 4,5)

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 23,483

Referee: Nikos Zlatanos (Thessaloniki)

AEK Athens

PAOK

GK  1 Nikos Christidis RB  2 Giannis Mousouris CB  5 Lakis Nikolaou CB  4 Petros Ravousis LB  3 Babis Intzoglou DM  6 Milton Viera  26' RM  7 Tasos Konstantinou  79' LM  8 Takis Nikoloudis AM 10 Mimis Papaioannou (c)  65' CF  9 Dušan Bajević CF 11 Thomas Mavros Substitutes: GK 15 Lakis Stergioudas DF Theodoros Apostolopoulos DF Apostolos Toskas  65' MF Dionysis Tsamis MF Lazaros Papadopoulos  79' MF Christos Ardizoglou Manager: Zlatko Čajkovski

GK  1 Mladen Furtula RB  2 Giannis Gounaris  72' CB  4 Angelos Anastasiadis CB  5 Koulis Apostolidis (c) LB  3 Konstantinos Iosifidis DM  8 Stavros Sarafis RM  7 Panagiotis Kermanidis LM  6 Kostas Orfanos AM 10 Giorgos Koudas CF  9 Georgios Kostikos  79' CF 11 Neto Guerino Substitutes:   DF Nikos Alavantas  79' MF Ioannis Damanakis  72'       Manager: Lakis Petropoulos

Assistant referees: Panagiotis Tsolakidis (Thessaloniki) Giorgos Moschopoulos (Thessaloniki)

Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Five named substitutes Maximum of two substitutions

See also

• 1977–78 Greek Football Cup

References

1. "Kipello1971-1980" (PDF). epo.gr (in Greek).
2. "Σαν σήμερα το 1978 η ΑΕΚ κατακτά το ντάμπλ έπειτα από 39 χρόνια". ertopen.com (in Greek). 4 June 2018.
3. "Velodrome & Karaiskaki Stadium (1895 - 1964 - 2003)". stadia.gr.
4. "Greece - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF.