| Event | 2004–05 Greek Football Cup | ||||||
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| Date | 21 May 2005 | ||||||
| Venue | Pampeloponnisiako Stadium,Patras | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Rivaldo(Olympiacos) | ||||||
| Referee | Giorgos Kasnaferis (Athens) | ||||||
| Attendance | 15,550 | ||||||
| Weather | Partly Cloudy 22 °C (72 °F) 60%humidity | ||||||
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The2005 Greek Cup final was the 61st final of theGreek Cup. The match took place on 21 May 2005 atPampeloponnisiako Stadium. The contesting teams wereOlympiacos andAris.[1] It was Olympiacos' thirty- first Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 80 years of existence and Aris' seventh Greek Cup final in their 91-year history. It was the first time that the match was held outside Athens or Thessaloniki Prefecture. It is characteristic that Aris had already been relegated to the second division during his presence in the final, with the result that the competitive and psychologically superior Olympiacos reached the conquest of the cup and consequently the double, whileDušan Bajević reached the 4th cup win as a coach. The following season, Aris, as a cup finalist played in theUEFA Cup thus becoming the first and only second division team in Greece that ever competed in any European competition.

This was the first Greek Cup final held atPampeloponnisiako Stadium.
Pampeloponnisiako Stadium was built in 1981 and was renovated once, in 2004. The stadium is used as a venue forPanachaiki. Its current capacity is 23,588.[2]
Olympiacos had reached the Greek Cup final thirty times, winning twenty of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in1999 (2–0 againstPanathinaikos). The last time that they had played in a final was in2004, where they had lost to Panathinaikos by 3–1.
Aris had reached the Greek Cup final six times, winning one of them. The last time that they had won the Cup was in1970 (1–0 againstPAOK). The last time that they had played in a final was in2003, where they had lost to PAOK by 1–0.
The two teams had never met each other in a Cup final.[3]
| Olympiacos | Round | Aris | ||||||
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| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | |
| Veria | 5–1 | 0–0 (A) | 5–1 (H) | First round | Kavala | 5–3 | 1–2 (A) | 4–1 (H) |
| Bye | Additional round | Bye | ||||||
| Kallithea | 3–3 (a) | 1–0 (H) | 2–3 (A) | Round of 32 | Atromitos | 8–0 | 5–0 (A) | 3–0 (H) |
| Iraklis | 2–1 | 0–1 (A) | 2–0 (H) | Round of 16 | Ethnikos Piraeus | 4–2 | 2–1 (H) | 2–1 (A) |
| Kastoria | 6–3 | 1–2 (A) | 5–1 (H) | Quarter-finals | Apollon Kalamarias | 1–1 (a) | 0–0 (H) | 1–1 (A) |
| AEK Athens | 3–1 | 1–0 (A) | 2–1 (H) | Semi-finals | Skoda Xanthi | 3–2 | 1–2 (H) | 2–0 (A) |
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