Contrary to the sensational final of 1994, the final of that season was marked by incidents on and off the pitch, by the moment that the referee, Filippos Bakas awarded a penalty in favour of Panathinaikos a few minutes before the end of extra time.
[1] This event caused protests, expulsions and riots between fans of both teams (with 21 arrests in total), while certain footballers of AEK Athens denied to attend in the title ceremony.
Few days later, Bakas was attacked and wounded from an unknown person in a street near to the airport of Elliniko.
If no goals were scored during extra time, the winners were decided by a penalty shoot-out.
In the final, which were played as a single match, if the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the score was still level.The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows: