# 2022 Greek Football Cup final

The 2022 Greek Cup final was the 78th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 21 May 2022 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and PAOK. It was Panathinaikos' thirtieth Greek Cup final in their 114 years of existence and PAOK's twenty second Greek Cup final and second consecutive, of their 96-year history. The game was marked by incidents and specifically, when Aitor after scoring for Panathinaikos celebrated in front of the stands of the PAOK ultras. As a result, he a stone was thrown to his hand, injuring him with tensions occurring between the players of both teams immediately after. The referee interrupted the match and in fact, as he headed to the locker room, he was holding the stone that hit the player.

## Venue

This was the twenty sixth 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, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2021 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 Greece and was used for Olympiacos and Panathinaikos in 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

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty-nine times, winning eighteen of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2014, where they had won PAOK by 4–1.
PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final twenty-one times, winning eight of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2021, where they had won Olympiacos by 2–1.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final four times in the 1955, 1972, 1977 and 2014 finals.

## Route to the final

| Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Round | PAOK | PAOK | PAOK | PAOK |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Atromitos | 1–0 (A) | 1–0 (A) | 1–0 (A) | Fifth round | Bye | Bye | Bye | Bye |
| Volos | 2–1 | 2–1 (H) | 0–0 (A) | Round of 16 | AEL | 4–2 | 1–1 (A) | 3–1 (H) |
| Anagennisi Karditsa | 5–0 | 4–0 (H) | 1–0 (A) | Quarter-finals | AEK Athens | 2–1 | 0–0 (H) | 2–1 (A) |
| Lamia | 3–0 | 1–0 (H) | 2–0 (A) | Semi-finals | Olympiacos | 1–1 (a) | 0–0 (H) | 1–1 (A) |

## Match
### Details

| Panathinaikos | PAOK |
| GK | 91 | Alberto Brignoli |
| RB | 27 | Giannis Kotsiras |
| CB | 4 | Fran Vélez (c) |
| CB | 5 | Bart Schenkeveld |
| LB | 3 | Juankar |
| DM | 17 | Rubén Pérez |
| CM | 19 | Lucas Villafáñez | | 68' |
| RM | 34 | Sebastián Palacios | | 90+4' |
| LM | 22 | Aitor Cantalapiedra |
| AM | 50 | Mijat Gaćinović | 66' | 76' |
| CF | 7 | Fotis Ioannidis | | 76' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 1 | Sokratis Dioudis |
| DF | 31 | Zvonimir Šarlija | | 90+4' |
| DF | 2 | Georgios Vagiannidis |
| DF | 14 | Facundo Sánchez |
| MF | 21 | Dimitris Kourbelis | | 68' |
| ΜF | 88 | Maurício |
| MF | 6 | Sotiris Alexandropoulos | 90+5' | 76' |
| FW | 98 | Mateus Vital |
| FW | 10 | Carlitos | | 76' |
| Manager: ||
| Ivan Jovanović ||
| GK | 31 | Alexandros Paschalakis |
| RB | 19 | Lefteris Lyratzis |
| CB | 4 | Sverrir Ingi Ingason |
| CB | 15 | José Ángel Crespo | 90+7' |
| LB | 20 | Vieirinha (c) | 90+8' | 46' |
| CM | 33 | Douglas Augusto | 8' | 52' |
| CM | 27 | Jasmin Kurtić | 90+7' |
| RM | 14 | Andrija Živković | 90+7' 90+8' |
| LM | 21 | Diego Biseswar | | 62' |
| AM | 50 | Filipe Soares | 22' | 46' |
| CF | 47 | Chuba Akpom | | 68' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 64 | Christos Talichmanidis |
| DF | 5 | Fernando Varela |
| DF | 59 | Konstantinos Koulierakis |
| DF | 16 | Sidcley | | 46' |
| MF | 22 | Stefan Schwab | | 52' |
| MF | 7 | Omar El Kaddouri | | 46' |
| FW | 28 | Alexandru Mitriță | 90+7' | 62' |
| FW | 18 | Nélson Oliveira |
| FW | 29 | Antonio Čolak | | 68' |
| Manager: ||
| Răzvan Lucescu ||
| Man of the Match: Aitor Cantalapiedra (Panathinaikos) Assistant referees: Pau Cebrián Devís (Spain) Roberto Díaz Pérez del Palomar (Spain) Fourth official: Evaggelos Manouchos (Argolida) Video assistant referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (Spain) Assistant video assistant referee: Angelos Evangelou (Athens) | 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. |