# 1987 Greek Football Cup final

The 1987 Greek Cup final was the 43rd final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 21 June 1987 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Iraklis and OFI. It was Iraklis' fifth Greek Cup final in their 79 years of existence and OFI's first ever Greek Cup final in their 62-year history. Myron Sifakis, the third-choice at the time goalkeeper of OFI emerged as the hero of his team, saving two penalties during the penalty shoot-out.

## Venue

This was the fifth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986 finals.
The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982. The stadium is used as a venue for Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, AEK Athens and Greece. Its current capacity is 80,000 and hosted a European Cup final in 1983 and a European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987.

## Background

Iraklis had reached the Greek Cup final four times, winning one of them. The last time that they won the Cup was in 1976 (6–5 on penalties, which came after a 4–4 draw at the end of the extra time against Olympiacos). The last time that they played in a final was in 1980, where they had lost to Kastoria by 5–2.
OFI had never competed in a Cup final.
The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.

## Route to the final

| Iraklis | Iraklis | Iraklis | Iraklis | Round | OFI | OFI | OFI | OFI |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Kavala | 1–1 (4–3 p) (A) | 1–1 (4–3 p) (A) | 1–1 (4–3 p) (A) | First round | Thiva | 2–0 (H) | 2–0 (H) | 2–0 (H) |
| Bye | Bye | Bye | Bye | Additional round | Bye | Bye | Bye | Bye |
| Polykastro | 4–0 | 3–0 (H) | 1–0 (A) | Round of 32 | Edessaikos | 4–2 | 3–0 (H) | 1–2 (A) |
| Kozani | 9–2 | 5–0 (H) | 4–2 (A) | Round of 16 | Apollon Athens | 4–1 | 4–0 (H) | 0–1 (A) |
| AEL | 2–1 | 1–1 (A) | 1–0 (H) | Quarter-finals | Kallithea | 6–0 | 2–0 (A) | 4–0 (H) |
| Panathinaikos | 3–2 | 0–0 (H) | 3–2 (A) | Semi-finals | Diagoras | 5–1 | 2–0 (A) | 3–1 (H) |

## Match
### Details

| Iraklis | OFI |
| GK | Blanko Georgiev |
| DF | Tasos Lefkopoulos |
| DF | Christos Zifkas |
| DF | Pagonis Vakalopoulos |
| DF | Kostas Iliadis |
| MF | Savvas Kofidis (c) |
| MF | Daniil Papadopoulos |
| MF | Sakis Anastasiadis |
| MF | Giorgos Karaiskos | 57' |
| MF | Vasilis Hatzipanagis | 98' |
| FW | Tom Sundby |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | Fotis Gizelis |
| DF | Giorgos Papadopoulos | 57' |
| FW | Kostas Maloumidis |
| FW | Fanis Toutziaris |
| FW | Dimitris Adamou | 98' |
| Manager: ||
| Christos Archontidis ||
| GK | Myron Sifakis |
| DF | Nikos Goulis |
| DF | Christos Vasiliou |
| DF | Grigoris Tsinos |
| DF | Giannis Michalitsos | 102' |
| DF | Alejandro Hisis |
| MF | Takis Persias (c) |
| MF | Grigoris Papavasiliou |
| MF | Nikos Nioplias | 94' |
| FW | Giannis Samaras |
| FW | Grigoris Charalampidis |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | Vangelis Chosadas |
| DF | Nikos Tsimpos |
| MF | Miltos Andreanidis | 102' |
| FW | Georgios Vlastos |
| FW | Christos Kariotis | 94' |
| Manager: ||
| Eugène Gerards ||
| Assistant referees: Dimitris Daoulas (Aetoloacarnania) Giorgos Bikas (Chalkidiki) | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Five named substitutes Maximum of two substitutions |