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1968 Greek Football Cup final

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1968 Greek Cup final
Event1967–68 Greek Football Cup
Date21 July 1968
VenueLeoforos Alexandras Stadium, Ampelokipoi, Athens
RefereeAurel Bentu (Romania)
Attendance22,318
1967
1969

The 1968 Greek Cup final was the 24th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 21 July 1968 at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and Olympiacos. It was Panathinaikos' eighth Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 60 years of existence and Olympiacos' fifteenth Greek Cup final in their 43-year history.[1]

Venue

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Leoforos Alexandras Stadium.

This was the nineteenth Greek Cup final held at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, after the 1932, 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963 finals. (Leoforos also hosted the replay match of the 1933 final between Ethnikos Piraeus and Aris, the replay match of the 1949 final between AEK Athens and Panathinaikos and the replay match of the 1952 final between Olympiacos and Panionios).

Leoforos Alexandras Stadium was built in 1922. The stadium is used as a venue for Panathinaikos and Greece. Its current capacity is 30,000.[2]

Background

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Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final eight times, winning four of them. The last time that they had played in a final was in 1967, where they won Panionios by 1–0.

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final fourteen times, winning twelve of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1965 (1–0 against Panathinaikos). The last time that had played in a final was in 1966, where they had lost to AEK Athens by 2–0 without a match.[3]

Route to the final

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Panathinaikos Round Olympiacos
Opponent Result Opponent Result
Lamia 2–1 (a.e.t.) (A) Round of 32 Anagennisi Karditsa 2–0 (A)
Chalkida 2–1 (H) Round of 16 Olympiakos Nicosia 4–2 (H)
PAOK 2–1 (a.e.t.) (A) Quarter-finals Panachaiki 8–3 (A)
Ethnikos Piraeus 2–0 (H) Semi-finals AEK Athens 2–1 (H)

Match

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Details

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Panathinaikos0–1Olympiacos
Report (pages 4,5)
  • Vasiliou 75'
Attendance: 22,318
Referee: Aurel Bentu (Romania)
GK Greece Takis Ikonomopoulos
DF Greece Aristidis Kamaras
DF Greece Kostas Athanasopoulos
DF Greece Mitsos Dimitriou
DF Greece Frangiskos Sourpis
MF Greece Michalis Bellis
MF Greece Zacharias Pytichoutis
MF Greece Giorgos Rokidis
MF Greece Mimis Domazos (c)
FW Greece Stratos Sakellaridis
FW Greece Totis Filakouris
Manager:
Greece Gavriilos Gazis,
Greece Odysseas Tsoutsos
GK Greece Takis Xarchakos
DF Greece Giannis Gaitatzis
DF Greece Orestis Pavlidis
DF Greece Christos Zanteroglou
MF Greece Nikos Sideris
MF Cyprus Pavlos Vasiliou
MF Greece Giorgos Stolingas
FW Greece Grigoris Aganyan
FW Greece Giorgos Sideris (c)
FW Greece Nikos Gioutsos
FW Greece Vasilios Botinos
Manager:
Greece Thanasis Kingley

Assistant referees:
Popović (Romania)
Koussou (Romania)

Match rules

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Kipello1961-1970" (PDF). epo.gr (in Greek).
  2. ^ "Leoforos Stadium "Apostolos Nikolaidis"". stadia.gr.
  3. ^ "Greece - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF.