1950 Greek Football Cup final

1950 Greek Cup final
AEK Athens Cup with the Cup
Event1949–50 Greek Football Cup
Date28 May 1950
VenueLeoforos Alexandras Stadium, Ampelokipoi, Athens
RefereeSotiris Asprogerakas (Athens)
Attendance5,500
1949
1951

The 1950 Greek Cup final was the 8th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 28 May 1950 at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and Aris. It was AEK Athens' fifth Greek Cup final and third consecutive in their 26 years of existence and Aris' fourth Greek Cup final in their 36-year history.[1]

Venue

Leoforos Alexandras Stadium.

This was the seventh Greek Cup final held at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, after the 1932, 1939, 1940, 1947, 1948 and 1949 finals. (Leoforos also hosted the replay match of the 1933 final between Ethnikos Piraeus and Aris and the replay match of the 1949 final between AEK Athens and Panathinaikos).

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

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final four times, winning three of them. The last time that they played in a final was in 1949, where they had won Panathinaikos by 2–1 in a replay match, after the 0–0 of the initial match.

Aris had reached the Greek Cup final three times. The last time that had played in a final was in 1940, where they had lost to Panathinaikos by 3–1.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final one time in the 1932 final.[3]

Route to the final

AEK Athens Round Aris
Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg
Niki Ampelokipoi 12–0 (H) First round Bye
Sparta 9–1 (H) Second round
Bye Third round
Fourth round
AE Pangrati 2–0 (H) Fifth round
Bye Sixth round
Olympiacos 2–0 0–0 (a.e.t.) (A) 2–0 (H) Round of 16 Elpida Drama 3–1 (A)
Apollon Athens 2–0 (c) 2–2 (a.e.t.) (H) 0–0 (a.e.t.) (A) Quarter-finals PAOK 6–4 3–3 (a.e.t.) (H) 3–1 (A)
Panathinaikos 4–2 1–1 (a.e.t.) (H) 3–1 (a.e.t.) (A) Semi-finals Ethnikos Piraeus 2–1 (H)

Match

Details

AEK Athens4–0Aris
Report (page 2)
Attendance: 5,500
Referee: Sotiris Asprogerakas (Athens)
GK  1 Greece Michalis Delavinias
DF  2 Greece Antonis Parayios
DF  3 Greece Youlielmos Arvanitis
MF  4 Greece Michalis Papatheodorou
MF  5 Greece Tryfon Tzanetis
MF  6 Greece Kostas Poulis
FW  7 Greece Stathis Lazaridis
FW  8 Greece Pavlos Emmanouilidis
FW  9 Greece Kleanthis Maropoulos (c)
FW 10 Greece Panagiotis Patakas
FW 11 Greece Manolis Kountouris
Manager:
England Jack Beby
GK  1 Greece Kostas Velliadis
DF  2 Greece Vachak Abrachamian (c)
DF  3 Greece Takis Nikolaidis
MF  4 Greece Simos Kaftantzis
MF  5 Greece Giannis Grigoriadis
MF  6 Greece Leonidas Pozanis
FW  7 Greece Stelios Papoutsopoulos
FW  8 Greece Giannis Liakopoulos
FW  9 Greece Dimitris Kazantzis
FW 10 Greece Dimitris Kaltekis
FW 11 Greece Lefteris Chalyvopoulos
Manager:
Greece Iakovos Giakoumis

Assistant referees:
Tzilos (Piraeus)
Diamantopoulos (Athens)

Match rules

See also

References

  1. ^ "Kipello1941-1950" (PDF). epo.gr (in Greek).
  2. ^ "Leoforos Stadium "Apostolos Nikolaidis"". stadia.gr.
  3. ^ "Greece - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF.