# 2011 Greek Football Cup final

The 2011 Greek Cup final was the 67th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 30 April 2011 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Atromitos and AEK Athens. It was Atromitos' first-ever Greek Cup final in their 88 years of existence and AEK Athens' twentieth Greek Cup final in their 87-year history. The match that was tarnished by serious incidents caused by AEK Athens' fans afterwards.

## Venue

This was the eighteenth 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 and 2010 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 Panathinaikos and was used for Olympiacos and Greece 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

Atromitos had never competed in a Cup final.
AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final nineteen times, winning twelve of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 2002 (2–1 against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 2009, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 15–14 on a penalty shootout, which came after a 4–4 draw at the end of the extra time.
The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.

## Route to the final

| Atromitos | Atromitos | Atromitos | Atromitos | Round | AEK Athens | AEK Athens | AEK Athens | AEK Athens |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Anagennisi Giannitsa | 3–1 (A) | 3–1 (A) | 3–1 (A) | Round of 32 | Panthrakikos | 5–1 (A) | 5–1 (A) | 5–1 (A) |
| Kavala | 1–0 (H) | 1–0 (H) | 1–0 (H) | Round of 16 | AEL | 4–0 (A) | 4–0 (A) | 4–0 (A) |
| Diagoras | 3–0 | 2–0 (H) | 1–0 (A) | Quarter-finals | Panathinaikos | 4–3 | 2–0 (A) | 2–3 (H) |
| Olympiakos Volos | 2–1 | 2–1 (H) | 0–0 (A) | Semi-finals | PAOK | 1–0 | 0–0 (H) | 1–0 (A) |

## Match
### Details

| Atromitos | AEK Athens |
| GK | 1 | Charles Itandje |
| RB | 32 | Giannis Skondras | 25' |
| CB | 4 | Marcin Baszczyński |
| CB | 26 | Marcelo Oliveira | | 83' |
| LB | 2 | Vangelis Nastos |
| DM | 6 | Konstantinos Nebegleras (c) | 43' |
| CM | 19 | Stelios Sfakianakis |
| CM | 22 | Andreas Tatos |
| RW | 7 | Henri Camara | | 89' |
| LW | 20 | Marek Saganowski | | 66' |
| CF | 8 | Ilias Anastasakos |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 23 | Chrisostomos Michailidis |
| DF | 5 | Massamba Sambou | | 89' |
| DF | 31 | Filippos Darlas |
| MF | 11 | Luiz Brito | | 66' |
| MF | 17 | Marcelo Sarmiento | | 83' |
| FW | 21 | Thanasis Karagounis |
| FW | 40 | Giannis Karalis |
| Manager: ||
| Giorgos Donis ||
| GK | 23 | Sebastián Saja |
| RB | 31 | Nikolaos Georgeas |
| CB | 5 | Traianos Dellas |
| CB | 4 | Kostas Manolas |
| LB | 15 | Nikolaos Karabelas |
| DM | 21 | Papa Bouba Diop | 63' |
| CM | 14 | Grigoris Makos | 25' |
| CM | 19 | Panagiotis Lagos |
| AM | 33 | Nikos Liberopoulos (c) | 29' |
| SS | 32 | Ignacio Scocco | | 33' |
| CF | 18 | Ismael Blanco | | 70' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 22 | Giannis Arabatzis |
| DF | 6 | David Mateos |
| MF | 1 | Pantelis Kafes | 89' | 70' |
| MF | 11 | Míchel |
| MF | 90 | Savvas Gentsoglou |
| FW | 9 | Leonardo |
| FW | 39 | Nabil Baha | | 33' |
| Manager: ||
| Manolo Jiménez ||
| Man of the Match: Nikos Liberopoulos (AEK Athens) Assistant referees: Christos Baltas (Achaea) Petros Tryfon (Drama) Fourth official: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Dodecanese) Match Observer: Giannis Tsachilidis | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions |