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1987 Greek Cup final
Event	1986–87 Greek Football Cup
	After extra time; OFI won 3–1 on penalties
Date	21 June 1987
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Marousi, Athens
Referee	Meletis Voutsaras (Athens)
Attendance	23,587
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The 1987 Greek Cup final was the 43rd final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 21 June 1987 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Iraklis and OFI. It was Iraklis' fifth Greek Cup final in their 79 years of existence and OFI's first ever Greek Cup final in their 62-year history.^[1] Myron Sifakis, the third-choice at the time goalkeeper of OFI emerged as the hero of his team, saving two penalties during the penalty shoot-out.^[2]

Venue

This was the fifth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986 finals.

The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982. The stadium is used as a venue for Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, AEK Athens and Greece. Its current capacity is 80,000 and hosted a European Cup final in 1983 and a European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987.^[3]

Background

Iraklis had reached the Greek Cup final four times, winning one of them. The last time that they won the Cup was in 1976 (6–5 on penalties, which came after a 4–4 draw at the end of the extra time against Olympiacos). The last time that they played in a final was in 1980, where they had lost to Kastoria by 5–2.

OFI had never competed in a Cup final.

The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.^[4]

Route to the final

Iraklis				Round	OFI
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Kavala	1–1 (4–3 p) (A)			First round	Thiva	2–0 (H)
Bye				Additional round	Bye
Polykastro	4–0	3–0 (H)	1–0 (A)	Round of 32	Edessaikos	4–2	3–0 (H)	1–2 (A)
Kozani	9–2	5–0 (H)	4–2 (A)	Round of 16	Apollon Athens	4–1	4–0 (H)	0–1 (A)
AEL	2–1	1–1 (A)	1–0 (H)	Quarter-finals	Kallithea	6–0	2–0 (A)	4–0 (H)
Panathinaikos	3–2	0–0 (H)	3–2 (A)	Semi-finals	Diagoras	5–1	2–0 (A)	3–1 (H)

Match

Details

21 June 1987

21:00 EEST

Iraklis	1–1 (a.e.t.)	OFI
Kofidis 30'	Report	Charalampidis 34'
Penalties
Sundby Zifkas D. Papadopoulos Adamou	1–3	Charalampidis Tsinos Papavasiliou

Olympic Stadium, Marousi

Attendance: 23,587

Referee: Meletis Voutsaras (Athens)

Iraklis

OFI


GK	Blanko Georgiev
DF	Tasos Lefkopoulos
DF	Christos Zifkas
DF	Pagonis Vakalopoulos
DF	Kostas Iliadis
MF	Savvas Kofidis (c)
MF	Daniil Papadopoulos
MF	Sakis Anastasiadis
MF	Giorgos Karaiskos	57'
MF	Vasilis Hatzipanagis	98'
FW	Tom Sundby
Substitutes:
GK	Fotis Gizelis
DF	Giorgos Papadopoulos	57'
FW	Kostas Maloumidis
FW	Fanis Toutziaris
FW	Dimitris Adamou	98'
Manager:
Christos Archontidis


GK	Myron Sifakis
DF	Nikos Goulis
DF	Christos Vasiliou
DF	Grigoris Tsinos
DF	Giannis Michalitsos	102'
DF	Alejandro Hisis
MF	Takis Persias (c)
MF	Grigoris Papavasiliou
MF	Nikos Nioplias	94'
FW	Giannis Samaras
FW	Grigoris Charalampidis
Substitutes:
GK	Vangelis Chosadas
DF	Nikos Tsimpos
MF	Miltos Andreanidis	102'
FW	Georgios Vlastos
FW	Christos Kariotis	94'
Manager:
Eugène Gerards