# 1999 Greek Football Cup final

The 1999 Greek Cup final was the 55th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 5 May 1999 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and Olympiacos. It was Panathinaikos' twenty fifth Greek Cup final and third consecutive in their 91 years of existence and Olympiacos' twenty-eighth Greek Cup final in their 74-year history. With their victory Olympiacos won the double after 18 years, while Panathinaikos became the first team to lose in a Greek Cup final three times in a row.

## Venue

This was the thirteenth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996 finals.
The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982. The stadium is used as a venue for Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and Greece and was used for AEK Athens in various occasions. Its current capacity is 80,000 and hosted two European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals in 1983 and 1994, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987 and the 1991 Mediterranean Games.

## Background

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty four times, winning fifteen of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1995 (1–0 against AEK Athens). The last time that had played in a final was in 1998, where they had lost to Panionios by 1–0.
Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty six times, winning nineteen of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1992 (3–1 against PAOK). The last time that had played in a final was in 1993, where they had lost to Panathinaikos by 1–0.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final nine times in the 1960, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1975, 1986, 1988 and 1993 finals.

## Route to the final

| Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Round | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Panionios | 2–1 (a.e.t.) (A) | 2–1 (a.e.t.) (A) | 2–1 (a.e.t.) (A) | First round | Egaleo | 4–2 (H) | 4–2 (H) | 4–2 (H) |
| Panelefsiniakos | 2–1 (H) | 2–1 (H) | 2–1 (H) | Second round | Aris | 3–1 (A) | 3–1 (A) | 3–1 (A) |
| Paniliakos | 2–0 (A) | 2–0 (A) | 2–0 (A) | Round of 16 | Ionikos | 7–4 (A) | 7–4 (A) | 7–4 (A) |
| Panserraikos | 5–0 | 3–0 (A) | 2–0 (H) | Quarter-finals | Skoda Xanthi | 3–2 | 3–1 (H) | 0–1 (A) |
| Athinaikos | 8–3 | 6–1 (H) | 2–2 (A) | Semi-finals | Iraklis | 5–1 | 4–0 (H) | 1–1 (A) |

## Match
### Details

| Panathinaikos | Olympiacos |
| GK | 20 | Antonis Nikopolidis |
| RB | 18 | Kostas Konstantinidis |
| CB | 8 | Giannis Goumas |
| CB | 14 | Leonidas Vokolos |
| LB | 15 | Angelos Basinas |
| DM | 12 | Erik Mykland | 45+1' |
| CM | 7 | Aljoša Asanović | 59' | 71' |
| RM | 26 | Giorgos Karagounis |
| LM | 11 | Andreas Lagonikakis | 20' | 66' |
| SS | 21 | Nikos Liberopoulos | | 81' |
| CF | 9 | Krzysztof Warzycha (c) |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 25 | Stefanos Kotsolis |
| DF | 2 | Stratos Apostolakis |
| DF | 5 | Vladan Milojević |
| MF | 23 | Kostas Kiassos | | 66' |
| MF | 19 | Bledar Kola | | 81' |
| FW | 10 | Alexis Alexoudis | | 71' |
| FW | 13 | Igor Sypniewski |
| Manager: ||
| Juan Ramón Rocha ||
| GK | 31 | Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos |
| RB | 5 | Georgios Amanatidis | 23' 32' |
| CB | 3 | Kyriakos Karataidis (c) |
| CB | 32 | Georgios Anatolakis |
| LB | 14 | Dimitrios Mavrogenidis |
| DM | 6 | Ilias Poursanidis |
| CM | 18 | Vassilis Karapialis | 44' | 82' |
| RM | 11 | Predrag Đorđević |
| LM | 21 | Grigoris Georgatos |
| CF | 9 | Siniša Gogić | | 86' |
| CF | 30 | Alexis Alexandris | | 72' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 1 | Kyriakos Tochouroglou |
| DF | 19 | Savvas Poursaitidis |
| DF | 25 | Paraskevas Antzas | | 82' |
| MF | 4 | Andreas Niniadis | | 86' |
| MF | 15 | Petros Passalis |
| MF | 8 | Luciano de Souza |
| FW | 24 | Peter Ofori-Quaye | | 72' |
| Manager: ||
| Dušan Bajević ||
| Assistant referees: Panagiotis Milionis (Arcadia) Panagiotis Nikolaidis (Thessaloniki) Fourth official: Giorgos Tsagarakis (Chania) | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions |