# 2006 Greek Football Cup final

The 2006 Greek Cup final was the 62nd final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 10 May 2006 at Pankritio Stadium. The contesting teams were Olympiacos and AEK Athens. It was Olympiacos' thirty second Greek Cup final and third consecutive in their 81 years of existence and AEK Athens' eighteenth Greek Cup final in their 82-year history.

## Venue

This was the first Greek Cup final held at Pankritio Stadium.
Pankritio Stadium was built in 2003. The stadium is used as a venue for Ergotelis and OFI and was used for Greece in 2004. Its current capacity is 26,240.

## Background

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty one times, winning twenty one of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2005, where they had won Aris by 3–0.
AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final seventeen times, winning eleven of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2002, where they had won Olympiacos by 2–1.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final three times in the 1953, 1956 and 2002 finals.

## Route to the final

| Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Olympiacos | Round | AEK Athens | AEK Athens | AEK Athens | AEK Athens |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Paniliakos | 4–0 (A) | 4–0 (A) | 4–0 (A) | Round of 32 | PAS Giannina | 3–0 (A) | 3–0 (A) | 3–0 (A) |
| Thrasyvoulos | 2–0 (A) | 2–0 (A) | 2–0 (A) | Round of 16 | Ethnikos Piraeus | 2–2 (4–3 p) | 1–1 (H) | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (A) |
| Skoda Xanthi | 2–1 | 1–1 (H) | 1–0 (A) | Quarter-finals | Niki Volos | 2–0 | 0–0 (A) | 2–0 (H) |
| AEL | 4–1 | 3–1 (H) | 1–0 (A) | Semi-finals | Agrotikos Asteras | 3–1 | 3–0 (H) | 0–1 (A) |

## Match
### Details

| Olympiacos | AEK Athens |
| GK | 71 | Antonios Nikopolidis |
| RB | 14 | Dimitrios Mavrogenidis |
| CB | 32 | Georgios Anatolakis |
| CB | 12 | Gabriel Schürrer |
| LB | 22 | Erol Bulut |
| DM | 6 | Ieroklis Stoltidis |
| CM | 15 | Yaya Touré | 32' | 67' |
| AM | 1 | Pantelis Kafes | 83' |
| RW | 9 | Ioannis Okkas | | 77' |
| LW | 11 | Predrag Đorđević (c) |
| CF | 23 | Michalis Konstantinou | 41' | 90+2' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 33 | Erwin Lemmens |
| DF | 19 | Athanasios Kostoulas |
| DF | 21 | Grigoris Georgatos |
| MF | 8 | Miloš Marić | | 67' |
| FW | 7 | Nery Castillo | | 77' |
| FW | 20 | Dani Garcia | | 90+2' |
| FW | 40 | Haruna Babangida |
| Manager: ||
| Trond Sollied ||
| GK | 1 | Stefano Sorrentino |
| RB | 31 | Nikolaos Georgeas | 46' |
| CB | 5 | Bruno Cirillo | 29' |
| CB | 55 | Traianos Dellas | 50' | 71' |
| LB | 14 | Stavros Tziortziopoulos |
| CM | 21 | Kostas Katsouranis (c) | 78' |
| DM | 25 | Emerson | 34' |
| AM | 17 | Vladimir Ivić |
| RW | 23 | Vasilios Lakis |
| LW | 99 | Júlio César | | 76' |
| CF | 33 | Nikos Liberopoulos | | 84' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 22 | Dionisis Chiotis |
| DF | 6 | Georgios Alexopoulos | | 84' |
| DF | 24 | Christos Kontis |
| MF | 20 | Vasilios Pliatsikas |
| MF | 26 | Ilias Kyriakidis |
| FW | 7 | Alessandro Soares | | 71' |
| FW | 35 | Pantelis Kapetanos | | 76' |
| Manager: ||
| Fernando Santos ||
| Man of the Match: Michalis Konstantinou (Olympiacos) Assistant referees: Dimitris Saraidaris (Thessaloniki) Konstantinos Panou (Thessaloniki) | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions |