2010 Greek Football Cup final
The 2010 Greek Cup final was the 66th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 24 April 2010 at the Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were Panathinaikos and Aris. It was Panathinaikos' twenty eighth Greek Cup final in their 102-year history and Aris' ninth Greek Cup final in their 96 years of existence. Aris achieved a record of most mass movement of fans in Greece. About 25,000 Aris' fans followed their team to the Olympic Stadium forming a queue of many kilometers on the Thessaloniki-Athens highway from a number of buses, as well as cars. It was characteristic that the last vehicle of the procession arrived at the stadium three hours after the arrival of the first.
Venue
This was the seventeenth 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 and 2009 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 on 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.
Background
Panathinaikos had reached the Greek Cup final twenty seven times, winning sixteen of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 2004. The last time that they had played in a final was in 2007, where they had lost to AEL by 1–2.Aris had reached the Greek Cup final eight times, winning one of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in 1970. The last time that they had played in a final was in 2008, where they had lost to Olympiacos by 2–0.
The two teams had met each other in a Cup final one time in the 1940 final.