# 2009 Greek Football Cup final

The 2009 Greek Cup final was the 65th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 2 May 2009 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and Olympiacos. It was AEK Athens' nineteenth Greek Cup final in their 85-year history and Olympiacos' thirty fourth Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 84 years of existence. With 8 goals, including 2 turnarounds and a penalty shoot-out of 29 penalties in total, the match was widely considered as the most entertaining final in the tournament. It was the last match for the captain of Olympiacos, Predrag Đorđević as a footballer, having spent 13 years of his 17 years playing for the club.

## Venue

This was the sixteenth 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 and 2002 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

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final eighteen times, winning eleven of them. The last time that had won the Cup was in 2002, (2–1 against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 2006, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 3–0.
Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty three times, winning twenty three of them. The last time that had played in a Final was in 2008, where they had won Aris by 2–0.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final four times in the 1953, 1956, 2002 and 2006 finals.

## Route to the final

| AEK Athens | AEK Athens | AEK Athens | AEK Athens | Round | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Ilisiakos | 2–1 (A) | 2–1 (A) | 2–1 (A) | Round of 32 | Diagoras | 3–2 (A) | 3–2 (A) | 3–2 (A) |
| Kerkyra | 1–0 (H) | 1–0 (H) | 1–0 (H) | Round of 16 | OFI | 2–0 (A) | 2–0 (A) | 2–0 (A) |
| Skoda Xanthi | 2–2 (a) | 1–2 (A) | 1–0 (H) | Quarter-finals | PAOK | 2–1 | 0–1 (A) | 2–0 (a.e.t.) (H) |
| Panserraikos | 3–1 | 3–1 (H) | 0–0 (A) | Semi-finals | Asteras Tripolis | 4–3 | 2–2 (A) | 2–1 (H) |

## Match
### Details

| AEK Athens | Olympiacos |
| GK | 23 | Sebastián Saja |
| RB | 31 | Nikolaos Georgeas |
| CB | 25 | Sotirios Kyrgiakos (c) | 34' 90' | | 62' |
| CB | 5 | Daniel Majstorović |
| LB | 4 | Geraldo Alves | 74' |
| DM | 8 | Tamandani Nsaliwa | 43' |
| CM | 1 | Pantelis Kafes | 28' |
| RM | 11 | Gustavo Manduca | | | 68' |
| LM | 32 | Ignacio Scocco |
| SS | 10 | Rafik Djebbour | | | 77' |
| CF | 18 | Ismael Blanco |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 77 | Jürgen Macho |
| DF | 6 | Georgios Alexopoulos | | 62' |
| MF | 16 | Vasilios Pliatsikas |
| MF | 24 | Agustín Pelletieri | | 68' |
| MF | 56 | Perparim Hetemaj |
| FW | 83 | Michalis Pavlis |
| FW | 9 | Edinho | 111' | 77' |
| Manager: ||
| Dušan Bajević ||
| GK | 71 | Antonios Nikopolidis (c) |
| RB | 35 | Vasilis Torosidis |
| CB | 21 | Avraam Papadopoulos | 34' 107' |
| CB | 18 | Paraskevas Antzas |
| LB | 3 | Didier Domi |
| DM | 2 | Christos Patsatzoglou | | | 46' |
| CM | 20 | Dudu |
| RM | 7 | Luciano Galletti | 68' 102' |
| LM | 23 | Sebastián Leto | | | 62' |
| AM | 25 | Fernando Belluschi |
| CF | 10 | Diogo |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 1 | Leonidas Panagopoulos |
| DF | 30 | Anastasios Pantos |
| DF | 14 | Michał Żewłakow |
| MF | 33 | Giannis Papadopoulos |
| MF | 11 | Predrag Đorđević | | 62' |
| MF | 8 | Óscar | | 97' |
| FW | 27 | Matt Derbyshire | | 46' | 97' |
| Manager: ||
| Ernesto Valverde ||
| Man of the Match: Matt Derbyshire (Olympiacos) Assistant referees: Thanasis Thanasakoudis (Macedonia) Dimitris Bozatzidis (Macedonia) Fourth official: Michael Koukoulakis (Heraklion) | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions |