# 2014 Greek Football Cup final

The 2014 Greek Cup final was the 70th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 26 April 2014 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and PAOK. It was Panathinaikos' twenty ninth Greek Cup final in their 106 years of existence and PAOK's seventeenth Greek Cup final of their 88-year history.

## Venue

This was the twenty first 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 and 2013 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 was used for Olympiacos, Panathinaikos 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

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty eight times, winning seventeen of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2010, where they had won Aris by 1–0.
PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final sixteen times, winning four of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2003, where they had won Aris by 1–0.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final three times in the 1955, 1972 and 1977 finals.

## Route to the final

| Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Round | PAOK | PAOK | PAOK | PAOK |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Ergotelis | 3–1 | 2–1 (H) | 1–0 (A) | Round of 32 | Anagennisi Karditsa | 4–0 | 3–0 (H) | 1–0 (A) |
| Iraklis Psachna | 4–0 | 3–0 (H) | 1–0 (A) | Round of 16 | Iraklis | 6–1 | 1–0 (A) | 5–1 (H) |
| Olympiacos Volos | 4–1 | 4–0 (H) | 0–1 (A) | Quarter-finals | Apollon Smyrnis | 6–0 | 3–0 (H) | 3–0 (A) |
| OFI | 3–1 | 0–1 (A) | 3–0 (a.e.t.) (H) | Semi-finals | Olympiacos | 2–2 (a) | 1–2 (A) | 1–0 (H) |

## Match
### Details

| Panathinaikos | PAOK |
| GK | 25 | Stefanos Kotsolis |
| RB | 5 | Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos |
| CB | 23 | Gordon Schildenfeld |
| CB | 4 | Giorgos Koutroubis | 20' |
| LB | 21 | Nano |
| DM | 6 | David Mendes da Silva |
| CM | 10 | Zeca (c) | 60' |
| CM | 32 | Danijel Pranjić |
| AM | 20 | Mehdi Abeid | | 75' |
| SS | 19 | Nikos Karelis | 54' | 71' |
| CF | 9 | Marcus Berg | 88' | 89' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 1 | Stefanos Kapino |
| DF | 3 | Diamantis Chouchoumis |
| MF | 18 | Christos Donis |
| MF | 8 | Anastasios Lagos | | 75' |
| FW | 14 | Abdul Ajagun | | 71' |
| FW | 7 | Victor Klonaridis |
| FW | 33 | Mladen Petrić | | 89' |
| Manager: ||
| Yannis Anastasiou ||
| GK | 71 | Panagiotis Glykos |
| RB | 2 | Giannis Skondras | | 77' |
| CB | 15 | Miguel Vítor |
| CB | 29 | Juan Insaurralde |
| LB | 3 | Georgios Tzavellas |
| DM | 26 | Ergys Kaçe | 18' |
| CM | 70 | Stelios Kitsiou |
| CM | 25 | Costin Lazăr | | 55' |
| RW | 10 | Lucas Pérez | | 55' |
| LW | 11 | Miroslav Stoch |
| CF | 14 | Dimitris Salpingidis (c) |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 50 | Asterios Giakoumis |
| DF | 16 | Lino | | 55' |
| DF | 21 | Nikos Spyropoulos |
| MF | 77 | Sotiris Ninis |
| MF | 9 | Zvonimir Vukić | | 55' |
| FW | 20 | Danny Hoesen |
| FW | 18 | Efthymis Koulouris | | 77' |
| Manager: ||
| Giorgos Georgiadis ||
| Man of the Match: Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos) Assistant referees: Michalis Karsiotis (Corinthia) Damianos Efthimiadis (Pieria) Additional assistant referees: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Dodecanese) Andreas Pappas (Athens) Fourth official: Stavros Tritsonis (Athens) | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions |