# 2024 Greek Football Cup final

The 2024 Greek Cup final was the 80th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 25 May 2024 at Panthessaliko Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and Aris. It was Panathinaikos' thirty first Greek Cup final in their 116 years of existence and Aris' tenth Greek Cup final of their 110-year history. After the end of the match having strong complaints from the refereeing, officials of Aris, alongside the president of the club Thodoros Karipidis, verbally attacked the referee, who went with a police escort to the locker room. Thus, as protest and in risk of punishment, they did not present to receive the medals of the runners-up.

## Venue

This was the fifth Greek Cup final held at Panthessaliko Stadium after the 2007, 2017, 2020 and 2023 finals.
Panthessaliko Stadium was built in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue for Niki Volos and Volos. Its current capacity is 22,189.

## Background

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty times, winning nineteen of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2022, where they had won PAOK by 1–0.
Aris had reached the Greek Cup final nine 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 had played in a final was in 2010, where they had lost to Panathinaikos by 1–0.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final two times in the 1940 and 2010 finals.

## Route to the final

| Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Round | Aris | Aris | Aris | Aris |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Olympiacos | 1–1 (7–6 p) | 1–1 (H) | 0–0 (a.e.t.) (A) | Round of 16 | AEK Athens | 1–1 (4–2 p) | 0–0 (A) | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (H) |
| Atromitos | 3–2 | 1–2 (H) | 2–0 (A) | Quarter-finals | Niki Volos | 5–2 | 3–0 (H) | 2–2 (A) |
| PAOK | 2–2 (6–5 p) | 1–0 (A) | 1–2 (a.e.t.) (H) | Semi-finals | Panetolikos | 1–0 | 1–0 (A) | 0–0 (H) |

## Match
### Details

| Panathinaikos | Aris |
| GK | 12 | Yuri Lodygin |
| RB | 27 | Giannis Kotsiras | 36' 51' |
| CB | 21 | Tin Jedvaj |
| CB | 55 | Willian Arão |
| LB | 3 | Juankar | 90+4' |
| DM | 4 | Rubén Pérez |
| CM | 16 | Adam Gnezda Čerin | 43' |
| CM | 8 | Anastasios Bakasetas |
| RW | 17 | Daniel Mancini | | 62' |
| LW | 10 | Bernard |
| CF | 7 | Fotis Ioannidis (c) |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 69 | Bartłomiej Drągowski |
| DF | 20 | Vitor Hugo |
| DF | 36 | Georgios Katris |
| DF | 2 | Georgios Vagiannidis | | 62' |
| DF | 25 | Filip Mladenović |
| ΜF | 60 | Georgios Kyriopoulos |
| MF | 22 | Aitor Cantalapiedra |
| MF | 31 | Filip Đuričić |
| FW | 29 | Alexander Jeremejeff |
| Manager: ||
| Christos Kontis ||
| GK | 23 | Julián Cuesta (c) |
| RB | 22 | Moses Odubajo |
| CB | 4 | Fabiano Leismann |
| CB | 14 | Jakub Brabec |
| LB | 33 | Martín Montoya | 42' |
| DM | 30 | Jean Jules | 71' |
| CM | 16 | Vladimír Darida | 15' 65' |
| RM | 93 | Shapi Suleymanov | 90+9' |
| LM | 12 | Álvaro Zamora | 36' |
| AM | 6 | Manu García | | 68' |
| CF | 80 | Loren Morón | 90+2' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 94 | Lefteris Choutesiotis |
| DF | 44 | Fran Vélez |
| DF | 92 | Lindsay Rose |
| DF | 3 | Franco Ferrari |
| MF | 28 | Birger Verstraete | | 68' |
| MF | 19 | Giannis Fetfatzidis |
| MF | 77 | Michalis Panagidis |
| FW | 17 | Karim Ansarifard |
| FW | 41 | Theodoros Agorastos |
| Manager: ||
| Akis Mantzios ||
| Man of the Match: Georgios Vagiannidis (Panathinaikos) Assistant referees: Mikael Berchebru (France) Steven Torregrossa (France) Fourth official: Aristotelis Diamantopoulos (Arcadia) Video assistant referee: Hamid Guenaoui (France) Assistant video assistant referee: Konstantinos Psarris (Zakynthos) | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shoot-out if scores still level Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used at maximum three times, with a sixth allowed in extra time. |