2021 Greek Football Cup final

The 2021 Greek Cup final was the 77th final of the Greek Cup. It took place on 22 May 2021 at Olympic Stadium, between Olympiacos and PAOK. It was Olympiacos' forty-first Greek Cup final and second consecutive, in their 97 years of existence and PAOK's twenty first Greek Cup final of their 96-year history.

2021 Greek Cup final

Match poster
Event	2020–21 Greek Football Cup
Olympiacos PAOK 1 2
Date	22 May 2021
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Man of the Match	Michael Krmenčík (PAOK)
Referee	Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)
Attendance	Behind closed doors
Weather	Fair 19 °C (66 °F) 52% humidity

Venue

Athens Olympic Stadium.

This was the twenty fifth 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, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 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 Greece and was used for Olympiacos and Panathinaikos in various occasions. Its current capacity is 69,618 and hosted 3 UEFA European Cup/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

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty nine times, winning twenty eight of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2020, where they had won AEK Athens by 1–0.

PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final twenty times, winning seven of them. The last time that had played in a final was in 2019, where they had won AEK Athens by 1–0.

Route to the final

Further information: 2020–21 Greek Football Cup

Olympiacos				Round	PAOK
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Panetolikos	6–0	3–0 (A)	3–0 (H)	First round	AEL	7–1	5–0 (H)	2–1 (A)
Aris	3–2	2–1 (H)	1–1 (A)	Quarter-finals	Lamia	6–3	5–2 (H)	1–1 (A)
PAS Giannina	4–1	1–1 (A)	3–1 (H)	Semi-finals	AEK Athens	3–1	1–0 (A)	2–1 (H)

Match

Details

22 May 2021

21:00 EEST

Olympiacos	1–2	PAOK
M'Vila 50'	Report	Vieirinha 36' (pen.) Krmenčík 90'

Olympic Stadium, Marousi

Attendance: Behind closed doors

Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

Olympiacos

PAOK

GK  1 José Sá CB  3 Rúben Semedo CB 15 Sokratis Papastathopoulos   25' CB  6 Yann M'Vila RWB 14 Thanasis Androutsos CM  4 Mady Camara   90+1' CM  5 Andreas Bouchalakis (c) LWB 25 José Holebas RW 27 Bruma   46' LW 19 Georgios Masouras   86' CF 11 Youssef El-Arabi Substitutes: GK 88 Konstantinos Tzolakis DF 61 Alexios Kalogeropoulos DF 45 Oleg Reabciuk   25' DF 72 Kenny Lala MF  8 Tiago Silva MF 28 Mathieu Valbuena   90+1' ΜF  7 Kostas Fortounis   46' FW 97 Lazar Ranđelović FW  9 Ahmed Hassan   86' Manager: Pedro Martins

GK 31 Alexandros Paschalakis CB 20 Vieirinha (c) CB  5 Fernando Varela CB 15 José Ángel Crespo RWB  2 Rodrigo Soares CM 22 Stefan Schwab  90+2' CM 33 Douglas Augusto  45+1' LWB 21 Baba Rahman  90+5' RW 14 Andrija Živković LW  8 Amr Warda  80' CF  9 Karol Świderski  80' Substitutes: GK 88 Živko Živković DF  6 Enea Mihaj  90+5' DF 19 Lefteris Lyratzis MF 51 Charis Tsingaras  80' MF  7 Omar El Kaddouri MF 10 Thomas Murg MF 65 Giannis Konstantelias FW 11 Christos Tzolis FW 27 Michael Krmenčík  80' Manager: Pablo García

Man of the Match: Michael Krmenčík (PAOK) Assistant referees: Hessel Steegstra (Netherlands) Jan de Vries (Netherlands) Fourth official: Dimitrios Karantonis (Imathia) Video assistant referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands) Assistant video assistant referee: Tryfon Petropoulos (Arcadia)

Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shoot-out if scores still level Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used at maximum three times, with a sixth allowed in extra time.