The 2007 Greek Super Cup was the 9th edition of the Greek Super Cup, an association football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Super League Greece and Greek Cup competitions. The match took place on 31 October 2007 at Karaiskakis Stadium. The contesting teams were the 2006–07 Super League Greece champions, Olympiacos and the 2006–07 Greek Cup winners, AEL. It was the first Greek Super Cup to be held after 11 years, as in the period that mediated the general interest towards the institution waned, while Olympiacos and Panathinaikos won the double in many occasions. That was eventually the last time that the Greek Super Cup was held. Olympiacos won the match 1–0.
Venue
This was the third Greek Super Cup held at Karaiskakis Stadium, after 1980 and 1996.
Karaiskakis Stadium was built in 1895 and renovated once in 1964. The stadium is used as a venue for Olympiacos and Ethnikos Piraeus and was used for Greece in various occasions. Its current capacity is 42,000 and hosted a European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1971 and will host the fist leg of the 1971 Intercontinental Cup final.
Background Olympiacos participated in the Greek Super Cup three times, winning all of them. The last time that they had played in the Super Cup was in 1992, where they had won AEK Athens by 3–1.
AEL participated in the Greek Super Cup two times, winning none of them. The last time that they had played in the Super Cup was in 1988, where they lost to Panathinaikos by 3–1.
The two teams had never met each other in the Super Cup.
Match Details
GK 87 Michalis SifakisRB 30 Anastasios Pantos (c)CB 35 Vasilis TorosidisCB 14 Michał ŻewłakowLB 8 Rodrigo ArchubiDM 24 Georgios Katsikogiannis CM 19 Konstantinos MendrinosCM 31 Aristidis Soiledis LM 10 Leonel Núñez CF 22 Kostas MitroglouCF 23 Michalis KonstantinouSubstitutes: MF 7 Luciano Galletti MF 21 Andreas Vasilogiannis Manager: Takis Lemonis GK 1 Fotis KipourosRB 31 Michalis BoukouvalasCB 24 Anastasios VenetisCB 20 Marco Förster (c)LB 77 Panagiotis KatsiarosDM 42 Matías Iglesias CM 22 Alexandros Vergonis CM 33 Panagiotis Bachramis RW 13 Andreas LampropoulosLW 99 Jozef KožlejCF 9 Facundo ParraSubstitutes:MF 5 Ilias Kyriakidis MF 11 Nektarios Alexandrou FW 21 Toni Muñoz Manager: Georgios Donis Man of the Match: Kostas Mitroglou (Olympiacos)
Assistant referees: Frixos Petrou (Cyprus) Athinodoros Ioannou (Cyprus) Fourth official: Konstantinos Papastamatis (Athens)Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shootout if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions
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