2005 Greek Football Cup final

The 2005 Greek Cup final was the 61st final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 21 May 2005 at Pampeloponnisiako Stadium. The contesting teams were Olympiacos and Aris.^[1] It was Olympiacos' thirty- first Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 80 years of existence and Aris' seventh Greek Cup final in their 91-year history. It was the first time that the match was held outside Athens or Thessaloniki Prefecture. It is characteristic that Aris had already been relegated to the second division during his presence in the final, with the result that the competitive and psychologically superior Olympiacos reached the conquest of the cup and consequently the double, while Dušan Bajević reached the 4th cup win as a coach. The following season, Aris, as a cup finalist played in the UEFA Cup thus becoming the first and only second division team in Greece that ever competed in any European competition.

2005 Greek Cup final

Event	2004–05 Greek Football Cup
Olympiacos Aris 3 0
Date	21 May 2005
Venue	Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras
Man of the Match	Rivaldo (Olympiacos)
Referee	Giorgos Kasnaferis (Athens)
Attendance	15,550
Weather	Partly Cloudy 22 °C (72 °F) 60% humidity
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Venue

Pampeloponnisiako Stadium.

This was the first Greek Cup final held at Pampeloponnisiako Stadium.

Pampeloponnisiako Stadium was built in 1981 and was renovated once, in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue for Panachaiki. Its current capacity is 23,588.^[2]

Background

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty times, winning twenty of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1999 (2–0 against Panathinaikos). The last time that they had played in a final was in 2004, where they had lost to Panathinaikos by 3–1.

Aris had reached the Greek Cup final six times, winning one of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1970 (1–0 against PAOK). The last time that they had played in a final was in 2003, where they had lost to PAOK by 1–0.

The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.^[3]

Route to the final

Further information: 2004–05 Greek Football Cup

Olympiacos				Round	Aris
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Veria	5–1	0–0 (A)	5–1 (H)	First round	Kavala	5–3	1–2 (A)	4–1 (H)
Bye				Additional round	Bye
Kallithea	3–3 (a)	1–0 (H)	2–3 (A)	Round of 32	Atromitos	8–0	5–0 (A)	3–0 (H)
Iraklis	2–1	0–1 (A)	2–0 (H)	Round of 16	Ethnikos Piraeus	4–2	2–1 (H)	2–1 (A)
Kastoria	6–3	1–2 (A)	5–1 (H)	Quarter-finals	Apollon Kalamarias	1–1 (a)	0–0 (H)	1–1 (A)
AEK Athens	3–1	1–0 (A)	2–1 (H)	Semi-finals	Skoda Xanthi	3–2	1–2 (H)	2–0 (A)

Match

Details

21 May 2005

19:00 EEST

Olympiacos	3–0	Aris
Đorđević 56' (pen.), 90' Rivaldo 70'	Report

Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras

Attendance: 15,550

Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Athens)

Olympiacos

Aris

GK 71 Antonios Nikopolidis RB 14 Dimitrios Mavrogenidis   51' CB 32 Georgios Anatolakis CB 19 Athanasios Kostoulas LB 30 Anastasios Pantos DM 17 Giannis Taralidis CM 11 Predrag Đorđević (c) RM  1 Pantelis Kafes   51' LM 21 Grigoris Georgatos AM  5 Rivaldo CF  9 Ioannis Okkas   84' Substitutes: GK 34 Kleopas Giannou DF 25 Spyros Vallas DF 12 Gabriel Schürrer MF  6 Ieroklis Stoltidis   84' MF  8 Miloš Marić FW 10 Giovanni   51' FW  7 Nery Castillo   51' Manager: Dušan Bajević

GK 15 Vangelis Pourliotopoulos RB 20 Konstantinos Kallimanis   87' CB  4 Avraam Papadopoulos CB 23 Georgios Koltsidas CB  5 Spyros Gogolos LB 30 Christos Naintos DM  6 Petros Passalis (c) DM  2 Maciej Murawski   68' RM 44 Konstantinos Nebegleras   66' LM 40 Dorge Kouemaha CF 32 Mimis Beniskos Substitutes: GK 31 Sotiris Liberopoulos DF 17 Kristi Vangjeli DF 25 Dimitrios Markomichalis   87' DF  8 Agapitos Abelas   66' MF  7 Giannis Chrysafis MF 22 Fernando Sanjurjo   68' FW  9 Giannis Lazanas Manager: Georgios Chatzaras

Man of the Match: Rivaldo (Olympiacos) Assistant referees: Lykourgos Tsolakidis (Athens) Giorgos Tabrantzis (Aetoloacarnania)

Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions

See also

• 2004–05 Greek Football Cup