1992 Greek Football Cup final

The 1992 Greek Cup final was the 48th final of the Greek Cup. The final, was set for the second and last time to be played over two legs in the home ground of the 2 finalists. The contesting teams were PAOK and Olympiacos. It was PAOK's fourteenth Greek Cup final in their 66 years of existence and Olympiacos' twenty-six Greek Cup final in their 67-year history. The first match took place on 20 May 1992 at Toumba Stadium and the second match took place on 27 May 1992 at Karaiskakis Stadium. It was the first time that a private channel ANT1, was covering a Cup final, since all the finals were until then covered by ERT.

1992 Greek Cup final

Event	1991–92 Greek Football Cup
PAOK Olympiacos 1 3
on aggregate
First leg
PAOK Olympiacos 1 1
Date	20 May 1992
Venue	Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki
Referee	Kostas Dimitriadis (Piraeus)
Attendance	25,744
Second leg
Olympiacos PAOK 2 0
Date	27 May 1992
Venue	Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
Referee	Stavros Zakestidis (Thessaloniki)
Attendance	29,831

Background

PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final thirteen 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 they had played in a final was in 1985, where they had lost to AEL by 4–1.

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty-five times, winning nineteen of them. The last time that they played in a final was in 1990, where they had won against OFI by 4–1.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final five times in the 1951, 1971, 1973, 1974 and 1981 finals.

Route to the final

Further information: 1991–92 Greek Football Cup

PAOK				Round	Olympiacos
Opponent	Result			Group stage	Opponent	Result
Poseidon Michaniona	2–3 (A)			Matchday 1	Panionios	Unknown
Poseidon Heraklion	5–0 (H)			Matchday 2	Ilisiakos	Unknown
Olympiacos Volos	1–1 (A)			Matchday 3	Naoussa	Unknown
AE Mesolongi	4–1 (H)			Matchday 4	Preveza	Unknown
Group 4 runners-up Team Pts Poseidon Michaniona 6 PAOK 5 Olympiacos Volos 4 AE Mesolongi 4 Poseidon Heraklion 1				Final standings	Group 5 winners Team Pts Olympiacos 6 Panionios 5 Ilisiakos 4 Naoussa 3 Preveza 2
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg	Knockout phase	Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
A.F.C. Patra	4–1	1–0 (A)	3–1 (H)	Round of 32	Kastoria	7–0	3–1 (A)	4–0 (H)
Korinthos	4–1	4–1 (H)	0–0 (A)	Round of 16	Skoda Xanthi	5–4	1–2 (A)	4–2 (H)
Doxa Drama	4–2	0–2 (A)	4–0 (H)	Quarter-finals	Panathinaikos	1–1 (a)	0–0 (H)	1–1 (A)
AEK Athens	3–2	0–2 (A)	3–0 (a.e.t.) (H)	Semi-finals	Atromitos	8–2	4–1 (A)	4–1 (H)

Match

First leg

20 May 1992

PAOK	1–1	Olympiacos
Skartados 52'	Report (page 2)	Tsalouchidis 63'

Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 25,744

Referee: Kostas Dimitriadis (Piraeus)

PAOK	Olympiacos

GK Tonči Gabrić DF Nikos Plitsis DF Michalis Leontiadis DF Alexandros Alexiou DF Georgios Mitsibonas MF Kostas Oikonomidis   63' MF Kostas Lagonidis MF Stefanos Borbokis MF Georgios Skartados (c) MF Georgios Toursounidis FW Milan Đurđević   59' Substitutes: FW John Anastasiadis   59' FW Thanasis Basbanas   63' Manager: Giannis Gounaris

GK  1 Ilias Talikriadis DF  2 Theodoros Pachatouridis DF  3 Kyriakos Karataidis DF  4 Michalis Vlachos DF  5 Nikos Nentidis   55' MF  6 Panagiotis Tsalouchidis (c) MF  7 Hennadiy Lytovchenko MF  8 Nikos Tsiantakis FW  9 Yuri Savichev FW 10 Oleh Protasov FW 11 Panagiotis Sofianopoulos   77' Substitutes: MF Minas Hantzidis   55' FW Georgios Vaitsis   77' Manager: Oleg Blokhin

Assistant referees: Rentzis (Piraeus) Panagiotis Perlorentzos (Piraeus)

Match rules 90 minutes Five named substitutes Maximum of two substitutions.

Second leg

27 May 1992

20:30 EEST

Olympiacos	2–0 (3–1 agg.)	PAOK
Lytovchenko 21' Tsalouchidis 62'	Report (page 2)

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 29,831

Referee: Stavros Zakestidis (Thessaloniki)

Olympiacos

PAOK

GK  1 Ilias Talikriadis DF  2 Theodoros Pachatouridis DF  3 Kyriakos Karataidis DF  4 Michalis Vlachos DF  5 Nikos Nentidis  54' MF  6 Panagiotis Tsalouchidis (c) MF  7 Hennadiy Lytovchenko MF  8 Nikos Tsiantakis  54' FW  9 Yuri Savichev  69' FW 10 Oleh Protasov FW 11 Panagiotis Sofianopoulos  64' Substitutes: MF Minas Hantzidis  54' MF Vassilis Karapialis  64' Manager: Oleg Blokhin

GK  1 Tonči Gabrić DF  8 Kostas Malioufas   73' DF  3 Alexandros Alexiou  52' DF  4 Georgios Mitsibonas MF  2 Kostas Oikonomidis MF  6 Kostas Lagonidis MF  7 Stefanos Borbokis MF  5 Georgios Skartados (c) MF 10 Georgios Toursounidis FW 11 John Anastasiadis FW  9 Milan Đurđević   46' Substitutes: DF Dimitrios Mitoglou  80'   73' MF Vangelis Kalogeropoulos  68'   46' Manager: Giannis Gounaris

Assistant referees: Tsinaslanidis (Thessaloniki) Filippos Bakas (Thessaloniki)

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

See also

• 1991–92 Greek Football Cup