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1983 Greek Cup final
Event	1982–83 Greek Football Cup
Date	29 June 1983
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Referee	Antonis Vassaras (Thessaloniki)
Attendance	72,240
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The 1983 Greek Cup final was the 39rd final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 29 June 1983 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were AEK Athens and PAOK. It was AEK Athens' twelfth Greek Cup final in their 59 years of existence and PAOK's twelfth Greek Cup final in their 57-year history.^[1] The match was marked by terrible incidents, caused by PAOK fans before, during and after the match causing a lot of damages on and off the stadium. The director of the stadium, Vangelis Savramis, tried to cancel the match, something that was not possible and at the board was written that PAOK is charged with ₯100,000,000. The General Secretary of Sports, Kimonas Koulouris asked for the income to be blocked in order to cover the damages, which reached ₯5,000,000, while he stated that the stadium would never be given for any Greek club.^[2]^[3]

Venue

This was the first Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium.

The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982. The stadium is used as a venue for Greece. Its current capacity is 80,000 and hosted a European Cup final in 1983.^[4]

Background

AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final eleven times, winning six of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1978 (2–0 against PAOK). The last time that had played in a final was in 1979, where they had lost to Panionios by 3–1.

PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final eleven 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 had played in a final was in 1981, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 3–1.

The two teams had met each other in a Cup final two times in the 1939 and 1978 finals.^[5]

Route to the final

AEK Athens				Round	PAOK
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Kilkisiakos	2–1 (A)			First round	Anagennisi Karditsa	7–0 (H)
Bye				Additional round	Almopos Aridea	3–0 (A)
Panserraikos	4–2 (H)			Round of 32	Vyzas Megara	3–1 (A)
Irodotos	9–1	3–1 (H)	6–0 (A)	Round of 16	Ethnikos Alexandroupoli	6–0	2–0 (A)	4–0 (H)
Olympiacos	3–1	2–1 (H)	1–0 (A)	Quarter-finals	Panargiakos	3–0	1–0 (A)	2–0 (w/o) (H)
Iraklis	3–3 (a)	1–3 (A)	2–0 (H)	Semi-finals	Rodos	3–0	2–0 (H)	1–0 (A)

Match

Details

29 June 1983

21:00 EEST

AEK Athens	2–0	PAOK
Mavros 27' Vlachos 80'	Report

Olympic Stadium, Marousi

Attendance: 72,240

Referee: Antonis Vassaras (Thessaloniki)


GK	1	Christos Arvanitis
DF	2	Lysandros Georgamlis	30'
DF	5	Takis Karagiozopoulos		65'
DF	4	Stelios Manolas
DF	3	Vangelis Paraprastanitis
MF	6	Dinos Ballis	78'
MF	10	Vangelis Vlachos (c)
MF	8	Christos Ardizoglou
MF	9	Manolis Kottis
FW	7	Giannis Dintsikos		78'
FW	11	Thomas Mavros
Substitutes:
DF	16	Michalis Tzirakis		65'
MF		Stavros Letsas
FW	14	Mojaš Radonjić		78'
Manager:
Helmut Senekowitsch


GK	1	Mladen Furtula
DF	2	Nikos Alavantas
DF	3	Giannis Psarras	32'
DF	4	Thomas Singas
DF	5	Georgios Skartados
MF	6	Ioannis Damanakis		75'
MF	7	Holger Trimhold
MF	10	Giorgos Koudas (c)
FW	8	Neto Guerino
FW	9	Christos Dimopoulos
FW	11	Georgios Kostikos
Substitutes:

MF	13	Stathis Triantafyllidis		75'

Manager:
Heinz Höher