The Cup final was played between APOEL and Pezoporikos (Larnaca). Pezoporikos fought with APOEL in the championship as well and finished ahead of them, 3rd, but did not succeed here. Regular time ended 1-1 and in the extra time APOEL scored 2 unanswered goals. All goals were scored late in the game – APOEL opened in the 80the minute and Pezoporikos equalized in the last seconds of the 90th.
Thus, APOEL, even having relatively weak season still maintained its leading position and finished with a trophy. Foreigners made Cypriot football better and there were more and more of them – an Englishman scored the opening goal at the Cup final and another foreigner, Sylvester Vernon, equalized for Pezoporikos. To a point, political traditions and divisions played its role in hiring attitudes – if left-wing Omonia was getting help from Eastern Europe, the right-wing APOEL was looking West.
Their scorer, Ian Moores, had long, if not spectacular, career in England. He was 30 years old, but he became a key player for APOEL and stayed with the club almost to the end of the 1980s.