1977 Greek Football Cup final

The 1977 Greek Cup final was the 33rd final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 22 June 1977 at Karaiskakis Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and PAOK. It was Panathinaikos' thirteenth Greek Cup final in their 69 years of existence and PAOK's ninth Greek Cup final in their 51-year history.^[1] In the final, the clubs faced each other at the same stadium as in 1972, where spectacular and episodic match, Panathinaikos won by 2–1 and achieved the double. The footballers of PAOK, protesting the refereeing of the match, refused to receive their medals, as a result of which they received a suspension of one match day in the following season, and in fact two on each match day so that there would be no problem with the selection of the starting line-up.^[2]

This was the ninth Greek Cup final held at Karaiskakis Stadium, after the 1957, 1958, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1975 finals. (Karaiskakis also hosted the replay match of the 1960 final between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos).

Karaiskakis Stadium was built in 1895 and renovated once in 1964. The stadium is used as a venue for Olympiacos and Ethnikos Piraeus and was used for Greece in various occasions. Its current capacity is 42,000 and hosted a European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1971 and the fist leg of the Intercontinental Cup final in 1971.^[3]

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twelve times, winning five of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1969 (They won on a toss of a coin after a 1–1 draw at the end of the extra time against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 1975, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 1–0.

PAOK had reached the Greek Cup final eight times, winning two of them. The last time that they played in a final was in 1974, where they had won Olympiacos by 4–3 on penalties, which came after a 2–2 draw at the end of the extra time.^[4]

GK Vasilis Konstantinou DF Mitsos Dimitriou DF Stelios Stefanakis DF Demetris Kizas DF Anthimos Kapsis   46' MF Spiros Livathinos MF Takis Papadimitriou MF Odysseas Vakalis MF Mimis Domazos (c) FW Antonis Antoniadis   59' FW Óscar Álvarez Substitutes: DF Takis Eleftheriadis   46' DF Christos Giannakoulas   59' Manager: Kazimierz Górski

GK Diamantis Milinis DF Giannis Gounaris  64' DF Konstantinos Iosifidis DF Koulis Apostolidis DF Filotas Pellios MF Ioannis Damanakis MF Christos Terzanidis MF Stavros Sarafis MF Giorgos Koudas (c) MF Angelos Anastasiadis FW Neto Guerino  76' Substitutes: FW Konstantinos Orfanos  76'   Manager: Billy Bingham

• 1976–77 Greek Football Cup