Greek Cup Match Chaos: AEK vs Olympiakos – A History of Fan Disorder and Stadium Riots

The 2000-01 Greek Cup match was also suspended, as well as the capital’s career choice. In the 52nd minute, AEK would have taken a two-goal lead, but Demisz Nikolaidisz’s goal was disallowed by referee Akisz Zikosz for illegal possession of the ball. Because of what happened, Zikosz protested, so the referee sent him off with a second yellow card, and then there was a push, as a result of which Nikolaidisz also received a red card. Olympiakos, who had a double man advantage, then equalized and then

The match it was cancelledand finally Olympiakos was given by the Greek federation.

In the 2014-15 Greek Cup as well, AEK did well because of the fans’ agitation, because in the 89th minute of the second leg of the finals, Olimpiakos took the lead, which allowed them to progress, and as a As a result, around 20 fans from the capital threw objects onto the pitch and run in too there, chasing football players from Piraeus. The Olimpiakos players quickly ran to the locker room with the referee, who stopped the game thirty minutes later. In the end, the guests got the victory with a score of 3-0, so they went on.

The atmosphere at Olympiakos and AEK Athens stadium is always amazing
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The Olimpiakos-AEK Athens rallies have not been broken in recent years, but there were flames, firecrackers, fan disorder, ugly scenes and, above all, a wild atmosphere. In February 2018, for example, Piraeus fans before the game they had a fight with the police on the street, and last April in the Karaiszkakis stadium after the defeat of AEK in the tournament, which ended with a 3-1 victory, the owner of Olimpiakosz, Evangelos Marinakisz he went to the field to ask the referee for the last Athenian goal, and after the whistle, dozens of angry home fans too spilled on the playground.

The Piraeus players were heavily fined and the game closed. Since then, the two clubs have faced off four more times, but they have met without similar chaos – perhaps partly because it was almost forced they make a cry the ultras before games to focus only on the fans and the game, not the opponent.

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The Olimpiakosz team had a total of four players, while AEK Athens had a total of three Hungarian national team players. The Piraeus team signed Lajos Détári for the highest amount in 1988, then Zsolt Laczkó joined the team in 2007, and in the early 2010s Balázs Megyeri and Krisztián Nemeth played football at the club. Márton Esterházy played in the capital team in the eighties, and in this era Dániel Tőzsér and then Krisztián Németh played on loan from Liverpool. So the footballer last played for both teams, at AEK in the 2009-10 season, and at Olympiakos in the fall of 2010.