1984–85 Greek Football Cup

Totally 76 teams participated, 16 from Alpha Ethniki, 20 from Beta, and 40 from Gamma. It was held in 7 rounds, included final. An Additional Round was held between First and Second, with 6 matches, in order that the teams would continue to be 32.

It was the first Greek Cup Final since 1980, where the two finalists were clubs not based on Attica, Larissa and PAOK. The two teams had lost in the four previous Finals. PAOK had eliminated two fellow-citizens, Iraklis and Aris, in the two first rounds, and cup holders Panathinaikos in the semi-finals with an impressive second-leg 4-0 home victory(4-2 on aggregate). Larissa had eliminated only one Alpha Ethniki team, Apollon Kalamaria, in the Additional Round. However, they had won with big scores their opponents from lowest divisions: Panegialios with 8–0, Neapoli Piraeus with 7–0, Korinthos with 6–1 and Levadiakos with 5–0.

From the interests of year were the qualification of Panathinaikos against Olympiacos, in the Third Round, with two wins in the Athens Olympic Stadium, the common home of both teams. Also, the elimination of AEK Athens for first time from a Gamma Ethniki team, Lamia, that afterwards was crushed, accepting in total 15 goals from PAOK in the Third Round. Also, in the First Round, Ethnikos Olympiakos Volos eliminated Acharnaikos in penalty shootout 1–0, after a "white draw". By 9 shoots, there was only one well-aimed. OFI were eliminated in the First Round by Odysseas Kordelio.

In the Final, Larissa gained their first title in their history, winning PAOK 4–1.[1] Simultaneously, they deprived The Double by PAOK, that won the championship of that year. It is remarkable that PAOK's coach, Austrian Walter Skotzik, was the coach of Larissa in previous season, when they lost in the Final by Panathinaikos. An interesting story of the final was that PAOK’s top goalscorer of that season Christos Dimopoulos didn’t participate as he left the team at Athens‘ airport when they arrived from Thessaloniki for the game. Dimopoulos headed to the headquarters of Motor Oil (company of Panathinaikos‘ president Vardinoyannis) in order to seal his transfer to Panathinaikos as his 5-year contract with PAOK was expiring.

First legs were played on April 3, 1985. Second legs on May 8.

First legs were played on May 22, 1985, while second on June 4 and 5.

The 41st Greek Cup Final was played at the Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis".

22 June 1985

AE Larissa	4 – 1	PAOK
Ziogas  39', 73' Kmiecik  47' Valaoras  75'		Vasilakos  20' Skartados  55'

Athens Olympic Stadium "Spyridon Louis"

Attendance: 24,994

Referee: Makis Germanakos (Athens)

GK  1 Georgios Plitsis DF  2 Takis Parafestas (c) DF  3 Kostas Kolomitrousis DF  4 Georgios Mitsibonas DF  5 Giannis Galitsios MF  6 Theodoros Voutiritsas MF  7 Michalis Ziogas MF  8 Christos Andreoudis  87' FW  9 Krzysztof Adamczyk MF 10 Kazimierz Kmiecik FW 11 Giannis Valaoras Substitutes: MF 12 Sakis Tsiolis  87' DF 13 Babis Dossas MF 14 Giannis Alexoulis GK 15 Christos Michail MF 16 Lazaros Kyrilidis Manager: Andrzej Strejlau

GK  1 Lakis Stergioudas DF  2 Apostolos Tsourelas DF  3 Nikos Alavantas (c) DF  4 Ivan Jurišić DF  5 Charis Baniotis  21' MF  6 Giorgos Skartados MF  7 Kyriakos Alexandridis MF  8 Vassilis Vasilakos  20' MF  9 Thomas Siggas FW 10 Rade Paprica FW 11 Georgios Kostikos  63' Substitutes: DF 12 Kostas Iosifidis DF 13 Kostas Malioufas MF 14 Ioannis Damanakis  63' GK 15 Takis Pantelis FW 16 Aris Karasavvidis   21' Manager: Walter Skocik

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