# 1980 Greek Football Cup final

The 1980 Greek Cup final was the 36th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 25 May 1980 at Nikos Goumas Stadium. The contesting teams were Iraklis and Kastoria. It was Iraklis' fourth Greek Cup final in their 72 years of existence and Kastoria's first ever Greek Cup final in their 17-year history. Iraklis on their way to the final, faced their local rivals PAOK on the semi-finals. Before the second leg, there was an alleged bribe attempt by Iraklis on the footballer of PAOK, Filotas Pellios. Due to those charges, Iraklis were eventually relegated to the second division, despite the prescribed penalty being the exclusion from next year's Cup. The allegations were later proven false, but the relegation decision was not overturned. With their conquest of the Cup, Kastoria became the first club that was not based in neither Attica or Thessaloniki to win the trophy, while at the same time ensured their only participation in the next season's Cup Winners' Cup.

## Venue

This was the fifth Greek Cup final held at AEK Stadium, after the 1962, 1967, 1974 and 1976 finals.
AEK Stadium was built in 1930 and it has been renovated in 1979. The stadium is used as a venue for AEK Athens and was used for Greece in various occasions. Its current capacity is 35,000.

## Background

Iraklis had reached the Greek Cup final three times, winning one of them. The last time that they played in a final was in 1976, where they had won Olympiacos by 6–5 on penalties, which came after a 4–4 draw at the end of the extra time.
Kastoria had never competed in a Cup final.
The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.

## Route to the final

| Iraklis | Iraklis | Iraklis | Iraklis | Round | Kastoria | Kastoria | Kastoria | Kastoria |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Veria | 7–0 (H) | 7–0 (H) | 7–0 (H) | First round | Ethnikos Piraeus | 1–0 (a.e.t.) (A) | 1–0 (a.e.t.) (A) | 1–0 (a.e.t.) (A) |
| Niki Volos | 5–0 (A) | 5–0 (A) | 5–0 (A) | Second round | Kavala | 2–0 (H) | 2–0 (H) | 2–0 (H) |
| Almopos Aridea | 2–1 (A) | 2–1 (A) | 2–1 (A) | Round of 16 | Olympiakos Loutraki | 5–1 (A) | 5–1 (A) | 5–1 (A) |
| Panarkadikos | 1–0 | 1–0 (H) | 0–0 (A) | Quarter-finals | AEL | 2–1 | 1–0 (H) | 1–1 (A) |
| PAOK | 2–1 | 1–0 (A) | 1–1 (H) | Semi-finals | Makedonikos | 4–1 | 2–0 (H) | 2–1 (A) |

## Match
### Details

| GK | 1 | Tasos Papadopoulos |
| DF | 2 | Vasilis Voulgaris |
| DF | 4 | Giannis Mavrodoulakis | | 81' |
| DF | 5 | Georgios Michailidis | 54' |
| DF | 3 | Henryk Wawrowski |
| MF | 6 | Charalampos Xanthopoulos |
| MF | 10 | Tasos Kafkenaris |
| MF | 8 | Ilias Chatzieleftheriou | | 70' |
| MF | 7 | Nikos Kalabakas |
| MF | 11 | Vasilis Hatzipanagis |
| FW | 9 | Lakis Papaioannou |
| Substitutes: ||
| MF | 14 | Vangelis Tsirikas | | 70' |
| FW | 16 | Ilias Alexiadis | | 81' |
| Manager: ||
| Kostas Karapatis ||
| GK | 1 | Nikos Sarganis | 88' |
| DF | 2 | Lazaros Alexiadis |
| DF | 3 | Giannis Siapanidis |
| DF | 6 | Georgios Paraschos (c) |
| DF | 9 | Andreas Voitsidis |
| MF | 5 | Lakis Simeoforidis |
| MF | 4 | Antonis Kopanos |
| MF | 10 | Grigoris Papavasiliou |
| MF | 8 | Argyris Papavasiliou |
| MF | 7 | Giannis Dintsikos | 72' |
| FW | 11 | Dimitris Tsironis |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | | Thanasis Ermidis | 88' |
| FW | | Georgios Chounouzidis | 72' |
| Manager: ||
| Savvas Vasiliadis ||
| Assistant referees: Kostas Dedes (Messinia) Antonis Vassaras (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 |