# 2010 Greek Football Cup final

The 2010 Greek Cup final was the 66th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 24 April 2010 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and Aris. It was Panathinaikos' twenty eighth Greek Cup final in their 102-year history and Aris' ninth Greek Cup final in their 96 years of existence. Aris achieved a record of most mass movement of fans in Greece. About 25,000 Aris' fans followed their team to the Olympic Stadium forming a queue of many kilometers on the Thessaloniki-Athens highway from a number of buses, as well as cars. It was characteristic that the last vehicle of the procession arrived at the stadium three hours after the arrival of the first.

## Venue

This was the seventeenth 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 and 2009 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

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty seven times, winning sixteen of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 2004 (3–1 against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 2007, where they had lost to AEL by 1–2.
Aris had reached the Greek Cup final eight times, winning one of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1970 (1–0 against PAOK). The last time that had played in a final was in 2008, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 2–0.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final one time in the 1940 final.

## Route to the final

| Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Panathinaikos | Round | Aris | Aris | Aris | Aris |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Eordaikos 2007 | 3–0 (A) | 3–0 (A) | 3–0 (A) | Round of 32 | Aspropyrgos | 4–3 (A) | 4–3 (A) | 4–3 (A) |
| Pierikos | 2–1 (H) | 2–1 (H) | 2–1 (H) | Round of 16 | Asteras Tripolis | 2–0 (H) | 2–0 (H) | 2–0 (H) |
| Kallithea | 2–0 (H) | 2–0 (H) | 2–0 (H) | Quarter-finals | Skoda Xanthi | 4–1 | 1–1 (A) | 3–0 (H) |
| PAS Giannina | 3–1 | 3–1 (H) | 0–0 (A) | Semi-finals | Kavala | 4–2 | 3–1 (H) | 1–1 (A) |

## Match
### Details

| Panathinaikos | Aris |
| GK | 30 | Alexandros Tzorvas |
| RB | 24 | Loukas Vintra |
| CB | 29 | Kostas Katsouranis |
| CB | 8 | Cédric Kanté |
| LB | 31 | Nikos Spiropoulos | 30' |
| DM | 15 | Gilberto Silva (c) |
| DM | 23 | Simão Mate Junior | 59' |
| AM | 7 | Sotiris Ninis | | 66' |
| RW | 14 | Dimitris Salpingidis | | 62' |
| LW | 11 | Sebastián Leto | 40' | 78' |
| CF | 9 | Djibril Cissé |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 27 | Orestis Karnezis |
| DF | 3 | Josu Sarriegi |
| DF | 22 | Stergos Marinos | | 66' |
| DF | 19 | Gabriel |
| MF | 26 | Giorgos Karagounis | | 62' |
| FW | 17 | Lazaros Christodoulopoulos | | 78' |
| FW | 5 | Ante Rukavina |
| Manager: ||
| Nikos Nioplias ||
| GK | 1 | Michalis Sifakis |
| RB | 2 | Darcy Neto |
| CB | 5 | Ronaldo Guiaro |
| CB | 15 | Cristian Nasuti |
| LB | 32 | Kristi Vangjeli |
| DM | 55 | Athanasios Prittas | 47' |
| DM | 6 | Mehdi Nafti | | 74' |
| AM | 17 | Camel Meriem | | 66' |
| RW | 7 | Toni Calvo | 12' | 83' |
| LW | 10 | Sergio Koke (c) |
| CF | 18 | Javier Cámpora |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 28 | Michal Peškovič |
| DF | 4 | Efthimios Kouloucheris |
| DF | 25 | César Ortiz |
| MF | 9 | Darío Fernández | | 74' |
| MF | 20 | Javito | | 66' |
| FW | 11 | Freddy Adu | | 83' |
| FW | 14 | Eddie Johnson |
| Manager: ||
| Héctor Cúper ||
| Man of the Match: Sebastian Leto (Panathinaikos) Assistant referees: Konstantinos Dallas (Epirus) Dimitris Tatsis (Epirus) 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 |