# 2021 Greek Football Cup final

The 2021 Greek Cup final was the 77th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 22 May 2021 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Olympiacos and PAOK. It was Olympiacos' forty-first Greek Cup final and second consecutive, in their 96 years of existence and PAOK's twenty first Greek Cup final of their 95-year history.

## Venue

This was the twenty fifth 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 and 2019 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

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty nine times, winning twenty eight of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2020, where they had won AEK Athens by 1–0.
PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final twenty times, winning seven of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2019, where they had won AEK Athens by 1–0.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final seven times in the 1951, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1981, 1992 and 2001 finals.

## Route to the final

| Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Round | PAOK | PAOK | PAOK | PAOK |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Panetolikos | 6–0 | 3–0 (A) | 3–0 (H) | First round | AEL | 7–1 | 5–0 (H) | 2–1 (A) |
| Aris | 3–2 | 2–1 (H) | 1–1 (A) | Quarter-finals | Lamia | 6–3 | 5–2 (H) | 1–1 (A) |
| PAS Giannina | 4–1 | 1–1 (A) | 3–1 (H) | Semi-finals | AEK Athens | 3–1 | 1–0 (A) | 2–1 (H) |

## Match
### Details

| Olympiacos | PAOK |
| GK | 1 | José Sá |
| CB | 3 | Rúben Semedo |
| CB | 15 | Sokratis Papastathopoulos | 25' |
| CB | 6 | Yann M'Vila |
| RWB | 14 | Thanasis Androutsos |
| CM | 4 | Mady Camara | 90+1' |
| CM | 5 | Andreas Bouchalakis (c) |
| LWB | 25 | José Holebas |
| RW | 27 | Bruma | 46' |
| LW | 19 | Georgios Masouras | 86' |
| CF | 11 | Youssef El-Arabi |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 88 | Konstantinos Tzolakis |
| DF | 61 | Alexios Kalogeropoulos |
| DF | 45 | Oleg Reabciuk | 25' |
| DF | 72 | Kenny Lala |
| MF | 8 | Tiago Silva |
| MF | 28 | Mathieu Valbuena | 90+1' |
| ΜF | 7 | Kostas Fortounis | 46' |
| FW | 97 | Lazar Ranđelović |
| FW | 9 | Ahmed Hassan | 86' |
| Manager: ||
| Pedro Martins ||
| GK | 31 | Alexandros Paschalakis |
| CB | 20 | Vieirinha (c) |
| CB | 5 | Fernando Varela |
| CB | 15 | José Ángel Crespo |
| RWB | 2 | Rodrigo Soares |
| CM | 22 | Stefan Schwab | 90+2' |
| CM | 33 | Douglas Augusto | 45+1' |
| LWB | 21 | Baba Rahman | | 90+5' |
| RW | 14 | Andrija Živković |
| LW | 8 | Amr Warda | | 80' |
| CF | 9 | Karol Świderski | | 80' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 88 | Živko Živković |
| DF | 6 | Enea Mihaj | | 90+5' |
| DF | 19 | Lefteris Lyratzis |
| MF | 51 | Charis Tsingaras | | 80' |
| MF | 7 | Omar El Kaddouri |
| MF | 10 | Thomas Murg |
| MF | 65 | Giannis Konstantelias |
| FW | 11 | Christos Tzolis |
| FW | 27 | Michael Krmenčík | | 80' |
| Manager: ||
| Pablo García ||
| Man of the Match: Michael Krmenčík (PAOK) Assistant referees: Hessel Steegstra (Netherlands) Jan de Vries (Netherlands) Fourth official: Dimitrios Karantonis (Imathia) Video assistant referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands) Assistant video assistant referee: Tryfon Petropoulos (Arcadia) | 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. |