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The Greek Super Cup (Greek: Σούπερ Καπ Ελλάδος), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity (Greek: Κύπελλο Φιλίας και Αλληλεγγύης) was a Greek association football one-match competition which was contested annually by the Super League champion club and the winners of the Greek Cup.
Between 1948 and 1976, several other tournaments between the Greek champions and the cup winners were played, but without official recognition. The instutition got officialy started in 1980 under the name "Friendship and Solidarity Cup" or Super Cup of Greek football. According to the announcement, if the champion team of the Super League and the cup-winning team were the same, then the match was not held.
Eight competitions were held under the original name, the last in 1996. It returned in 2007 for a single time as the Super Cup. In practice, the competition has been discontinued, as it is not held either due to fear of incidents, such as in 1990 between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos and in 1997 between AEK Athens and Olympiacos, which was the "final blow" or due to a lack of free dates. It started again in 2007 with its new name, but in the next three years the champion teams did the double, so the competition was almost forgotten. In 2011 it was supposed to be held between AEK Athens and Olympiacos but no free dates were found, while the risk of incidents was always present.
From 1987 to 1994, the Friendship and Solidarity Cup matches were held at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, while in 1980, 1996 and 2007 they were held at the Karaiskakis Stadium. The matches were single-elimination and in the event of no winner being determined during regular time, a 30-minute extra time followed and if there was still no winner, then a penalty shootout was held, which was only needed twice: in 1989 and 1996.
The super cup was organized for the first time under PSAT in 1980. For various reasons, the institution was interrupted until 1987. Then the HFF established the "champion-cup winner" match called the Friendship and Solidarity Cup, which was held with breaks until 1996. In ten years, seven finals were held: 1987 to 1989, 1992 to 1994 and 1996. It was then abolished, mainly due to the difficulty of controlling fanaticism in derby matches. For example, in 1990, the match between the champion Panathinaikos and the cup winner Olympiacos was decided to be cancelled, for fear of incidents due to the tense climate caused by the transfer of Stratos Apostolakis from the second to the first team. Matches were also not played in 1991 and 1995, when Panathinaikos had won the double, but not in 1997, 1998. Olympiacos' double in the following year and in general, interest in continuing the institution waned, despite the fact that matches could have been played in between 2000 and 2003. In the three-year period that followed Panathinaikos and Olympiacos emerged as double winners.
In 2007, the Super League reintroduced the institution under the name Super Cup, but it was not continued as in the following years Olympiacos and Panathinaikos won the double. In 2011, the match between the champion Olympiacos and the cup winner AEK Athens was scheduled but never took place for unknown reasons. In the following two seasons Olympiacos' won the double and the competition was discontinued.
Greece - List of Super Cup Finals, Spyros Karasoulos-Alexander Mastrogiannopoulos, Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation RSSSF (The first event took place in season's 1979-80 between Olympiacos-Kastoria, champions and cup winners respectively)
Bibliography
The book Legend: a course through time (Heliotropio Publications, 1997) mentions as the first Super Cup that of 1980: "In 1980 the first organization of the" Super Cup "took place, ..." (p. 245)
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