# 1983 Greek Football Cup final

The 1983 Greek Cup final was the 39th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 29 June 1983 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and PAOK. It was AEK Athens' twelfth Greek Cup final in their 59 years of existence and PAOK's twelfth Greek Cup final in their 57-year history. The match was marked by terrible incidents, caused by PAOK fans before, during and after the match causing a lot of damages on and off the stadium. The director of the stadium, Vangelis Savramis, tried to cancel the match, something that was not possible and at the board was written that PAOK is charged with ₯100,000,000. The General Secretary of Sports, Kimonas Koulouris asked for the income to be blocked in order to cover the damages, which reached ₯5,000,000, while he stated that the stadium would never be given for any Greek club.

## Venue

This was the first Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium.
The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982. The stadium is used as a venue for Greece. Its current capacity is 80,000 and hosted a European Cup final in 1983.

## Background

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final eleven times, winning six of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1978 (2–0 against PAOK). The last time that had played in a final was in 1979, where they had lost to Panionios by 3–1.
PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final eleven times, winning two of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1974 (4–3 on penalties, which came after a 2–2 draw at the end of the extra time against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 1981, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 3–1.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final two times in the 1939 and 1978 finals.

## Route to the final

| AEK Athens | AEK Athens | AEK Athens | AEK Athens | Round | PAOK | PAOK | PAOK | PAOK |
| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Kilkisiakos | 2–1 (A) | 2–1 (A) | 2–1 (A) | First round | Anagennisi Karditsa | 7–0 (H) | 7–0 (H) | 7–0 (H) |
| Bye | Bye | Bye | Bye | Additional round | Almopos Aridea | 3–0 (A) | 3–0 (A) | 3–0 (A) |
| Panserraikos | 4–2 (H) | 4–2 (H) | 4–2 (H) | Round of 32 | Vyzas Megara | 3–1 (A) | 3–1 (A) | 3–1 (A) |
| Irodotos | 9–1 | 3–1 (H) | 6–0 (A) | Round of 16 | Ethnikos Alexandroupoli | 6–0 | 2–0 (A) | 4–0 (H) |
| Olympiacos | 3–1 | 2–1 (H) | 1–0 (A) | Quarter-finals | Panargiakos | 3–0 | 1–0 (A) | 2–0 (w/o) (H) |
| Iraklis | 3–3 (a) | 1–3 (A) | 2–0 (H) | Semi-finals | Rodos | 3–0 | 2–0 (H) | 1–0 (A) |

## Match
### Details

| AEK Athens | PAOK |
| GK | 1 | Christos Arvanitis |
| DF | 2 | Lysandros Georgamlis | 30' |
| DF | 5 | Takis Karagiozopoulos | | 65' |
| DF | 4 | Stelios Manolas |
| DF | 3 | Vangelis Paraprastanitis |
| MF | 6 | Dinos Ballis | 78' |
| MF | 10 | Vangelis Vlachos (c) |
| MF | 8 | Christos Ardizoglou |
| MF | 9 | Manolis Kottis |
| FW | 7 | Giannis Dintsikos | | 78' |
| FW | 11 | Thomas Mavros |
| Substitutes: ||
| DF | 16 | Michalis Tzirakis | | 65' |
| MF | | Stavros Letsas |
| FW | 14 | Mojaš Radonjić | | 78' |
| Manager: ||
| Helmut Senekowitsch ||
| GK | 1 | Mladen Furtula |
| DF | 2 | Nikos Alavantas |
| DF | 3 | Giannis Psarras | 32' |
| DF | 4 | Thomas Singas |
| DF | 5 | Georgios Skartados |
| MF | 6 | Ioannis Damanakis | | 75' |
| MF | 7 | Holger Trimhold |
| MF | 10 | Giorgos Koudas (c) |
| FW | 8 | Neto Guerino |
| FW | 9 | Christos Dimopoulos |
| FW | 11 | Georgios Kostikos |
| Substitutes: ||
| MF | 13 | Stathis Triantafyllidis | | 75' |
| Manager: ||
| Heinz Höher ||
| Assistant referees: Makis Germanakos (Athens) Giorgos Koukoulakis (Heraklion) | Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Five named substitutes Maximum of two substitutions |