1980–81 Greek Cup

The Greek Cup 1980–81 was the 39th edition of The Greek Football Cup, or Greek Cup for short.

Tournament details

Totally 58 teams participated, 18 from Alpha Ethniki and 40 from Beta Ethniki. It was held in 6 rounds, included final. Concerning the two previous years, two-legged tie would be extended in Third Round too.

Even if many Alpha Ethniki teams eliminated from the First Round, afterwards there were very interesting matches. AEK Athens had the most difficult draws, after they eliminated Panathinaikos and Aris, in order to be eliminated by PAOK with two loses in semi-finals (second leg became in Chalcis due to punishment).

Olympiacos had to win Panionios during the extra time of second leg in Third Round in order to qualify, while the surprise of season were Panegialios, which qualify to semi-finals, after qualifies against OFI and Doxa Drama, both teams of Alpha Ethniki. In deed, they achieved good results in away second legs.

Final was contested by Olympiacos and PAOK, after 7 years and in the same stadium (Nikos Goumas). Olympiacos took the title 3–1, while won The Double after both winning of Alpha Ethniki championship of the season. They would achieve this again in 1999. The match was marked by riots between fans of both teams, one of the first phenomena of hooliganism that were imported in Greece in the beginning of 1980 decade.

It is still characteristic that the footballers of both teams played wearing black brassards, Olympiacos players mourning the victims of tragedy of gate 7, and PAOK players in memory of their coach Gyula Lóránt, who had died at the bench on May 31, 1981.

First round

Home team	Score	Away team
Veria	2–1	Apollon Athens
Aris	3–0	Pelopas Kiato
Kavala	1–0	PAS Giannina
Chalkida	1–3	Olympiacos
Apollon Kalamaria	2–2	Pandramaikos
Pandramaikos won 5-3 on penalties
Panetolikos	0–1	Atromitos
Agrotikos Asteras	2–0	Ilisiakos
Acharnaikos	5–1	Proodeftiki
Makedonikos	1–1	Kastoria
Kastoria won 5-3 on penalties
Elassona	4–1	Patras A.F.C.
Korinthos	1–1	Iraklis
Korinthos won 6-5 on penalties
Kallithea	1–0	Naousa
AEK Athens	6–2	Egaleo
Ethnikos Olympiakos Volos	3–1	Vyzas
Panserraikos	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Larissa
Irodotos	3–1	Panelefsiniakos
Panegialios	2–0	Almopos Aridea
Niki Volos	1–1	PAOK
PAOK won 5-3 on penalties
Diagoras	1–2 (a.e.t.)	OFI
Panarkadikos	2–0	Xanthi
Eordaikos	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Panachaiki
Olympiakos Liosia	0–1	Doxa Drama
Panionios	5–0	Panthrakikos
Anagennisi Epanomi	0–1	Trikala
Fostiras	4–0	Olympiakos Loutraki
Ethnikos Piraeus	0–0	Anagennisi Giannitsa
Anagennisi won 4-3 on penalties
Pierikos	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Edessaikos
Ethnikos Asteras	2–1	Odysseas Mavrodendri
Rodos	1–2	Panathinaikos

Second round

Home team	Score	Away team
Korinthos	3–1	Panarkadikos
Ethnikos Asteras	2–1	Kallithea
Olympiacos	5–0	Pierikos
OFI	3–0	Agrotikos Asteras
Elassona	2–4	Doxa Drama
Eordaikos	1–1	Trikala
Eordaikos won 6-5 on penalties
Ethnikos Olympiakos Volos	2–0	Anagennisi Giannitsa
Panathinaikos	3–0	Panserraikos
Veria	0–2	PAOK
AEK Athens	2–0	Kastoria
Fostiras	0–1	Pandramaikos
Irodotos	0–0	Panegialios
Panegialios won 4-2 on penalties
Aris	5–1	Acharnaikos
Kavala	bye
Panionios	bye
Atromitos	bye

Third round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
PAOK	4-2	Ethnikos Olympiakos Volos	2-1	2-1
Aris	2-0	Atromitos	1-0	1-0
Korinthos	2-2	Kavala (3-1 PSO)	2-0	0-2
Pandramaikos	1-2	Doxa Drama	1-2	0-0
Eordaikos	2-4	Ethnikos Asteras	2-2	0-2
Panathinaikos	3-3	AEK Athens (a.g.)	3-2	0-1
Olympiacos	2-0	Panionios	0-0	2-0 (a.e.t.)
Panegialios (a.g.)	1-1	OFI	0-0	1-1

Quarter-finals

First legs were played on May 13, 1981, while second legs on 27th.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEK Athens	3-2	Aris	2-2	1-0
Kavala	0-2	Olympiacos	0-0	0-2
PAOK	8-2	Ethnikos Asteras	5-0	3-2
Panegialios	3-2	Doxa Drama	0-1	3-1

Semi-finals

First legs were played on June 3, 1981. Second legs on the 10th.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Panegialios	1-6	Olympiacos	0-3	1-3
PAOK	3-0	AEK Athens	1-0	2-0

Final

The 39th Greek Cup Final was played at the Nikos Goumas Stadium, Athens.

Olympiacos v PAOK

June 21, 1981

Olympiacos	3 – 1	PAOK
Damanakis 18' (o.g.) Orfanos 61' Kousoulakis 92'		Damanakis 63'

Nikos Goumas Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 30,512
Referee: Zlatanos (Thessaloniki)


OLYMPIACOS:
		Sarganis
		Kyrastas
		Vamvakoulas
		Papadopoulos (c)
		Novoselac
		Kousoulakis
		Orfanos 80'
		Nikoloudis 69'
		Lemonis
		Galakos
		Persias
Substitutes:
		Michos 69'
		Ahlström 80'
Manager:
Kazimierz Górski


PAOK:
		Furtula
		Gounaris
		Iosifidis
		Shalamon
		Siggas
		Damanakis
		Kermanidis 68'
		Georgopoulos
		Guerino
		Koudas (c) 75'
		Kostikos
Substitutes:
		Triantafyllidis 68'
		Vasilakos 75'
Manager:
Aristos Fountoukidis

MATCH RULES

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Two named substitutes.
Maximum of two substitutions.

References

Greek Cup 1980-81 at RSSSF

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