1999 Greek Football Cup final

The 1999 Greek Cup final was the 55th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 5 May 1999 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and Olympiacos. It was Panathinaikos' twenty fifth Greek Cup final and third consecutive in their 91 years of existence and Olympiacos' twenty-eighth Greek Cup final in their 74-year history.^[1] With their victory Olympiacos won the double after 18 years, while Panathinaikos became the first team to lose in a Greek Cup final three times in a row.^[2]

This was the thirteenth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996 finals.

The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982. The stadium is used as a venue for Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and Greece and was used for AEK Athens in various occasions. Its current capacity is 80,000 and hosted two European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals in 1983 and 1994, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987 and the 1991 Mediterranean Games.^[3]

Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty four times, winning fifteen of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1995 (1–0 against AEK Athens). The last time that had played in a final was in 1998, where they had lost to Panionios by 1–0.

Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty six times, winning nineteen of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1992 (3–1 against PAOK). The last time that had played in a final was in 1993, where they had lost to Panathinaikos by 1–0.^[4]

Panathinaikos

Olympiacos

GK 20 Antonis Nikopolidis RB 18 Kostas Konstantinidis CB  8 Giannis Goumas CB 14 Leonidas Vokolos LB 15 Angelos Basinas DM 12 Erik Mykland  45+1' CM  7 Aljoša Asanović  59'   71' RM 26 Giorgos Karagounis LM 11 Andreas Lagonikakis  20'   66' SS 21 Nikos Liberopoulos   81' CF  9 Krzysztof Warzycha (c) Substitutes: GK 25 Stefanos Kotsolis DF  2 Stratos Apostolakis DF  5 Vladan Milojević MF 23 Kostas Kiassos   66' MF 19 Bledar Kola   81' FW 10 Alexis Alexoudis   71' FW 13 Igor Sypniewski Manager: Juan Ramón Rocha

GK 31 Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos RB  5 Georgios Amanatidis  23'  32' CB  3 Kyriakos Karataidis (c) CB 32 Georgios Anatolakis LB 14 Dimitrios Mavrogenidis DM  6 Ilias Poursanidis CM 18 Vassilis Karapialis  44'   82' RM 11 Predrag Đorđević LM 21 Grigoris Georgatos CF  9 Siniša Gogić   86' CF 30 Alexis Alexandris   72' Substitutes: GK  1 Kyriakos Tochouroglou DF 19 Savvas Poursaitidis DF 25 Paraskevas Antzas   82' MF  4 Andreas Niniadis   86' MF 15 Petros Passalis MF  8 Luciano de Souza FW 24 Peter Ofori-Quaye   72' Manager: Dušan Bajević

• 1998–99 Greek Football Cup