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2011 Greek Football Cup final
The 2011 Greek Cup final was the 67th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 30 April 2011 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Atromitos and AEK Athens. It was Atromitos' first-ever Greek Cup final in their 88 years of existence and AEK Athens' twentieth Greek Cup final in their 87-year history. The match that was tarnished by serious incidents caused by AEK Athens' fans afterwards.[1] Venue This was the eighteenth Greek Cup final held at the Athens Olympic Stadium, after the 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2009 and 2010 finals. The Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 1982 and renovated once in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue for AEK Athens and Panathinaikos and was used for Olympiacos and Greece in various occasions. Its current capacity is 69,618 and it hosted three European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals in 1983, 1994 and 2007, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in 1987, the 1991 Mediterranean Games and the 2004 Summer Olympics.[2] BackgroundAtromitos had never competed in a Cup final. AEK Athens had reached the Greek Cup final nineteen times, winning twelve of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 2002 (2–1 against Olympiacos). The last time that had played in a final was in 2009, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 15–14 on a penalty shootout, which came after a 4–4 draw at the end of the extra time. The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.[3] Route to the final
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