PAOK Thessaloniki captured their first ever domestic double in their 93-year history on Saturday defeating AEK Athens for the third straight time in the Greek Cup final 1-0 in a near empty Olympic Stadium.

English 23-year-old forward Chuba Akpom scored the winner with a scissor-kick in first-half injury-time in a match watched by only a handful of people by order of the government to avoid the violence which marred the last two encounters between the clubs.

Some 3,000 police inside and outside the stadium were used to keep the peace between only 220 selected fans and family members of each team allowed to watch.

Another 600 spectators were invited to attend by the Greek federation in the nearly deserted 70,000-capacity venue.

Except for some pushing and shoving between PAOK fans and police and an occasional plastic bottle being thrown, the spectators behaved as they were outnumbered 3 to 1 by the police.

The match also saw the use for the first time in Greece of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) and goal line technology.

PAOK won their first league title in over three decades last month and became just the second team in Greek history to finish the season undefeated, following the feat accomplished by Panathinaikos in 1964.

AEK finished third (behind Olympiakos), a full 23 points behind PAOK.

PAOK had beaten AEK 2-0 last year and 2-1 in 2017 in the previous two cup finals.

The Thessaloniki squad, coached by Romanian Razvan Lucescu, has been owned by Greek-Russian businessman Ivan Savvidis since 2015 and won their previous two league titles in 1976 and 1985.

They have won the cup seven times since their foundation in 1926.