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1980 Greek Cup final
Event	1979–80 Greek Football Cup
Date	25 May 1980
Venue	AEK Stadium, Nea Filadelfia, Athens
Referee	Vasilis Vourakis (Piraeus)
Attendance	9,471
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The 1980 Greek Cup final was the 36th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 25 May 1980 at Nikos Goumas Stadium. The contesting teams were Iraklis and Kastoria. It was Iraklis' fourth Greek Cup final in their 72 years of existence and Kastoria's first ever Greek Cup final in their 17-year history.^[1] Iraklis on their way to the final, faced their local rivals PAOK on the semi-finals. Before the second leg, there was an alleged bribe attempt by Iraklis on the footballer of PAOK, Filotas Pellios. Due to those charges, Iraklis were eventually relegated to the second division, despite the prescribed penalty being the exclusion from next year's Cup. The allegations were later proven false, but the relegation decision was not overturned.^[2] With their conquest of the Cup, Kastoria became the first club that was not based in neither Attica or Thessaloniki to win the trophy, while at the same time ensured their only participation in the next season's Cup Winners' Cup.^[3]

Venue

This was the fifth Greek Cup final held at AEK Stadium, after the 1962, 1967, 1974 and 1976 finals.

AEK Stadium was built in 1930 and it has been renovated in 1979. The stadium is used as a venue for AEK Athens and was used for Greece in various occasions. Its current capacity is 35,000.^[4]

Background

Iraklis had reached the Greek Cup final three times, winning one of them. The last time that they played in a final was in 1976, where they had won Olympiacos by 6–5 on penalties, which came after a 4–4 draw at the end of the extra time.

Kastoria had never competed in a Cup final.

The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.^[5]

Route to the final

Iraklis				Round	Kastoria
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Veria	7–0 (H)			First round	Ethnikos Piraeus	1–0 (a.e.t.) (A)
Niki Volos	5–0 (A)			Second round	Kavala	2–0 (H)
Almopos Aridea	2–1 (A)			Round of 16	Olympiakos Loutraki	5–1 (A)
Panarkadikos	1–0	1–0 (H)	0–0 (A)	Quarter-finals	AEL	2–1	1–0 (H)	1–1 (A)
PAOK	2–1	1–0 (A)	1–1 (H)	Semi-finals	Makedonikos	4–1	2–0 (H)	2–1 (A)

Match

Details

25 May 1980

21:00 EEST

Iraklis	2–5	Kastoria
Kalabakas 14' (pen.) Mavrodoulakis 80'	Report	Simeoforidis 40' Dintsikos 49' Tsironis 69', 87', 90+1' (pen.)

AEK Stadium, Nea Filadelfia

Attendance: 9,471

Referee: Vasilis Vourakis (Piraeus)


GK	1	Tasos Papadopoulos
DF	2	Vasilis Voulgaris
DF	4	Giannis Mavrodoulakis		81'
DF	5	Georgios Michailidis	54'
DF	3	Henryk Wawrowski
MF	6	Charalampos Xanthopoulos
MF	10	Tasos Kafkenaris
MF	8	Ilias Chatzieleftheriou		70'
MF	7	Nikos Kalabakas
MF	11	Vasilis Hatzipanagis
FW	9	Lakis Papaioannou
Substitutes:
MF	14	Vangelis Tsirikas		70'
FW	16	Ilias Alexiadis		81'
Manager:
Kostas Karapatis


GK	1	Nikos Sarganis	88'
DF	2	Lazaros Alexiadis
DF	3	Giannis Siapanidis
DF	6	Georgios Paraschos (c)
DF	9	Andreas Voitsidis
MF	5	Lakis Simeoforidis
MF	4	Antonis Kopanos
MF	10	Grigoris Papavasiliou
MF	8	Argyris Papavasiliou
MF	7	Giannis Dintsikos	72'
FW	11	Dimitris Tsironis
Substitutes:
GK		Thanasis Ermidis	88'
FW		Georgios Chounouzidis	72'
Manager:
Savvas Vasiliadis