# 2012 Greek Football Cup final

The 2012 Greek Cup final was the 68th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 28 April 2012 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Atromitos and Olympiacos. It was the second consecutive Greek Cup final for Atromitos in their 89 years of existence and Olympiacos' thirty sixth Greek Cup final of their 87-year history.

## Venue

This was the nineteenth 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 and 2011 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 reached the Greek Cup final one time, in 2011, where they had lost to AEK Athens by 3–0.
Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty five times, winning twenty four of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2009, where they had won AEK Athens 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 | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Annagenisi Epanomi | 3–2 (A) | 3–2 (A) | 3–2 (A) | Round of 32 | Pierikos | 3–1 (A) | 3–1 (A) | 3–1 (A) |
| Aris | 2–1 (H) | 2–1 (H) | 2–1 (H) | Round of 16 | Thrasyvoulos | 3–0 (H) | 3–0 (H) | 3–0 (H) |
| PAOK | 2–1 (a.e.t.) (A) | 2–1 (a.e.t.) (A) | 2–1 (a.e.t.) (A) | Quarter-finals | Panionios | 4–0 (H) | 4–0 (H) | 4–0 (H) |
| Asteras Tripolis | 2–2 (a) | 0–0 (H) | 2–2 (A) | Semi-finals | OFI | 1–0 | 1–0 (H) | 0–0 (A) |

## Match
### Details

| Atromitos | Olympiacos |
| GK | 1 | Charles Itandje |
| RB | 2 | Giannis Skondras (c) | 102' |
| CB | 5 | Wayne Thomas | 112' |
| CB | 6 | Sokratis Fytanidis | 36' |
| LB | 3 | Vangelis Ikonomou | 15' |
| DM | 17 | Matías Iglesias | 63' | 98' |
| CM | 9 | Luiz Brito | | 77' |
| RM | 21 | Elini Dimoutsos |
| LM | 8 | Denis Epstein |
| AM | 7 | Andreas Tatos | | 63' |
| CF | 23 | Kostas Mitroglou |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 30 | Velimir Radman |
| DF | 13 | Vangelis Nastos |
| DF | 24 | Francisco Zuela | | 98' |
| MF | 16 | Panagiotis Ballas |
| MF | 19 | Stelios Sfakianakis | | 77' |
| FW | 10 | Thanasis Karagounis |
| FW | 20 | Anastasios Karamanos | | 63' |
| Manager: ||
| Giorgos Donis ||
| GK | 1 | Roy Carroll |
| RB | 35 | Vasilis Torosidis (c) |
| CB | 4 | Olof Mellberg |
| CB | 21 | Avraam Papadopoulos |
| LB | 20 | José Holebas | 44' |
| DM | 31 | Pablo Orbaiz | 68' |
| CM | 2 | Giannis Maniatis | | 103' |
| CM | 77 | Jean Makoun | | 83' |
| RW | 93 | Djamel Abdoun | | 72' |
| LW | 14 | Kevin Mirallas |
| CF | 10 | Rafik Djebbour |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 42 | Balázs Megyeri |
| DF | 3 | François Modesto | | 103' |
| DF | 23 | Iván Marcano |
| DF | 92 | Ioannis Potouridis |
| MF | 18 | Giannis Fetfatzidis | | 72' |
| MF | 19 | David Fuster | | 83' |
| FW | 25 | Dimitrios Diamantakos |
| Manager: ||
| Ernesto Valverde ||
| Man of the Match: Rafik Djebbour (Olympiacos) Assistant referees: Dimitrios Saraidaris (Thessaloniki) Leonidas Vasileiadis (Thessaloniki) Fourth official: Athanasios Giachos (Chios) Match observer: Michail Kalathenos (Dodecanese) | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions |