# 2002 Greek Football Cup final

The 2002 Greek Cup final was the 58th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 27 April 2002 at Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and Olympiacos. It was AEK Athens' seventeenth Greek Cup final in their 78 years of existence and Olympiacos' twenty-ninth Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 77-year history. For the 5th and last time, the President of the Republic, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, honored the final with his presence, awarding the trophy to the players of the winning team.

## Venue

This was the fifteenth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2000 finals.
The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982. The stadium is used as a venue for Olympiacos and was used for Panathinaikos, AEK Athens and Greece in various occasions. Its current capacity is 80,000 and hosted two European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals in 1983 and 1994, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987 and the 1991 Mediterranean Games.

## Background

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final sixteen times, winning ten of them. The last time that played in a final was in 2000, where they had won Ionikos by 3–0.
Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty eight times, winning twenty of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1999 (2–0 against Panathinaikos). The last time that had played in a final was in 2001, where they had lost to PAOK by 4–2.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final two times in the 1953 and 1956 finals.

## Route to the final

| AEK Athens | AEK Athens | AEK Athens | AEK Athens | Round | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos |
| Opponent | Result | Result | Result | Group stage | Opponent | Result | Result | Result |
| Panserraikos | 5–1 (A) | 5–1 (A) | 5–1 (A) | Matchday 1 | Kalamata | 3–1 (A) | 3–1 (A) | 3–1 (A) |
| Nafpaktiakos Asteras | 6–3 (A) | 6–3 (A) | 6–3 (A) | Matchday 2 | AEL | 1–0 (A) | 1–0 (A) | 1–0 (A) |
| Egaleo | 2–0 (H) | 2–0 (H) | 2–0 (H) | Matchday 3 | Agios Nikolaos | 1–0 (H) | 1–0 (H) | 1–0 (H) |
| Panserraikos | 5–0 (H) | 5–0 (H) | 5–0 (H) | Matchday 4 | Kalamata | 10–0 (H) | 10–0 (H) | 10–0 (H) |
| Nafpaktiakos Asteras | 4–0 (H) | 4–0 (H) | 4–0 (H) | Matchday 5 | AEL | 5–3 (H) | 5–3 (H) | 5–3 (H) |
| Egaleo | 3–3 (A) | 3–3 (A) | 3–3 (A) | Matchday 6 | Agios Nikolaos | 6–1 (A) | 6–1 (A) | 6–1 (A) |
| Group 1 winners Pos Teamvte Pld Pts 1 AEK Athens 6 16 2 Egaleo 6 9 3 Panserraikos 6 8 4 Nafpaktiakos Asteras 6 0 Source: epo.gr | Group 1 winners Pos Teamvte Pld Pts 1 AEK Athens 6 16 2 Egaleo 6 9 3 Panserraikos 6 8 4 Nafpaktiakos Asteras 6 0 Source: epo.gr | Group 1 winners Pos Teamvte Pld Pts 1 AEK Athens 6 16 2 Egaleo 6 9 3 Panserraikos 6 8 4 Nafpaktiakos Asteras 6 0 Source: epo.gr | Group 1 winners Pos Teamvte Pld Pts 1 AEK Athens 6 16 2 Egaleo 6 9 3 Panserraikos 6 8 4 Nafpaktiakos Asteras 6 0 Source: epo.gr | Final standings | Group 6 winners Pos Teamvte Pld Pts 1 Olympiacos 6 18 2 Agios Nikolaos 6 9 3 AEL 6 6 4 Kalamata 6 3 Source: epo.gr | Group 6 winners Pos Teamvte Pld Pts 1 Olympiacos 6 18 2 Agios Nikolaos 6 9 3 AEL 6 6 4 Kalamata 6 3 Source: epo.gr | Group 6 winners Pos Teamvte Pld Pts 1 Olympiacos 6 18 2 Agios Nikolaos 6 9 3 AEL 6 6 4 Kalamata 6 3 Source: epo.gr | Group 6 winners Pos Teamvte Pld Pts 1 Olympiacos 6 18 2 Agios Nikolaos 6 9 3 AEL 6 6 4 Kalamata 6 3 Source: epo.gr |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Knockout phase | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Agios Nikolaos | 4–0 | 3–0 (H) | 1–0 (A) | Second round | Bye | Bye | Bye | Bye |
| Kilkisiakos | 7–0 | 1–0 (A) | 6–0 (H) | Round of 16 | Egaleo | 8–1 | 5–1 (H) | 3–0 (A) |
| PAOK | 6–1 | 2–1 (H) | 4–0 (A) | Quarter-finals | Kallithea | 7–0 | 3–0 (H) | 4–0 (A) |
| Skoda Xanthi | 1–0 | 0–0 (A) | 1–0 (a.e.t.) (H) | Semi-finals | Iraklis | 6–2 | 3–2 (H) | 3–0 (A) |

## Match
### Details

| AEK Athens | Olympiacos |
| GK | 22 | Dionysis Chiotis |
| RB | 16 | Nikolaos Georgeas |
| CB | 4 | Carlos Gamarra |
| CB | 32 | Michalis Kapsis |
| LB | 17 | Michalis Kasapis | | 29' |
| DM | 14 | Akis Zikos | 74' |
| DM | 6 | Theodoros Zagorakis (c) | 88' |
| RM | 23 | Vasilios Lakis | 89' |
| LM | 20 | Sotiris Konstantinidis | 60' | 81' |
| AM | 10 | Vasilios Tsiartas |
| CF | 11 | Demis Nikolaidis | 62' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 27 | Sotiris Liberopoulos |
| DF | 5 | Nikos Kostenoglou |
| DF | 3 | Ferrugem |
| DF | 12 | Georgios Xenidis | 71' | 29' |
| MF | 28 | Milen Petkov |
| FW | 26 | António Folha |
| FW | 30 | Ilija Ivić | | 81' |
| Manager: ||
| Fernando Santos ||
| GK | 15 | Angelos Georgiou | 51' |
| RB | 2 | Christos Patsatzoglou |
| CB | 5 | Georgios Amanatidis | 73' |
| CB | 19 | Athanasios Kostoulas | 84' | 85' |
| LB | 33 | Stylianos Venetidis |
| DM | 8 | Christian Karembeu | | 44' |
| CM | 20 | Pär Zetterberg | | 85' |
| RM | 7 | Stelios Giannakopoulos | 26' |
| LM | 11 | Predrag Đorđević |
| SS | 10 | Giovanni | 79' |
| CF | 30 | Alexis Alexandris (c) |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 34 | Kleopas Giannou |
| DF | 14 | Dimitrios Mavrogenidis |
| DF | 32 | Georgios Anatolakis |
| MF | 13 | Zé Elias | 54' | 44' |
| MF | 21 | Andreas Niniadis | | 85' |
| FW | 17 | Peter Ofori-Quaye | | 85' |
| FW | 99 | Gabriel Álvez |
| Manager: ||
| Takis Lemonis ||
| Man of the Match: Dionysis Chiotis (AEK Athens) Assistant referees: Spyros Tomaras (Aetoloacarnania) Giorgos Tsoukas (Arcadia) | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions |