1947–48 Greek Football Cup Explained

Greek Cup
Year:	1947–48
Country:	Greece
Num Teams:	127
Defending Champions:	Olympiacos
Winners:	Panathinaikos (2nd title)
Second:	AEK Athens
Matches:	128
Prev Season:	1946–47
Next Season:	1948–49

The 1947–48 Greek Football Cup was the sixth edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, on 20 June 1948. The match was contested by Panathinaikos and AEK Athens, with Panathinaikos winning by 2–1.

Calendar

Round	Date(s)	Fixtures	Clubs	New entries
First Round	5 October 1947	23	127 → 102	52
Second Round	12 October 1947	6	102 → 96	8
Third Round	19 October 1947	19	96 → 75	17
Fourth Round	26 October 1947	10	75 → 68	13
Fifth Round	2, 6 November 1947	6	68 → 63	1
Sixth Round	16, 19 November 1947	21	63 → 43	23
Seventh Round	23, 26 November 1947	6	43 → 38	6
Eighth Round	30 November 1947	2	38 → 35	none
Ninth Round	7, 8, 21 December 1947	8	35 → 28	1
Tenth Round	11, 18, 25, 28 January 1948	8	28 → 21	none
Eleventh Round	8, 15, 18 February, 3 March 1948	6	21 → 13	3
Twelfth Round		5	13 → 8	5
Quarter-finals	21 May 1948	5	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	30 May 1948	2	4 → 2	none
Final	20 June 1948	1	2 → 1	none

Qualification round

First round

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• The match was suspended at the 84th minute in expense of Panetolikos while they were 3–1 in front.

Second round

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• Replay match.

Third round

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• Both teams didn't came and disqualified.

Fourth round

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• Replay match.

Fifth round

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• Replay match.

Sixth round

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• The match ended 0–1, but Apollon Patras was zeroed for illegal usage of football players.

• • Suspended at the 85th minute at the expense of Olympiacos Volos.

• • • Suspended at the 80th minute at the expense of Kentavros Volos.

• • • • Replay match.

Seventh round

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• Replay match.

• • The match ended 0–1, but Ethnikos Sidirokastro was zeroed for illegal usage of football players.

Eighth round

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Ninth round

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• Suspended at the 54th minute due to rainfall while the score was 2–0. The match was replayed the next day.

• • Suspended due to withdrawal of the referee.

Tenth round

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• Replay match.

• • The match ended 2–0, but Apollon Serres was zeroed for illegal usage of football players.

Eleventh round

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• Iraklis was disqualified as punishment of their footballers incident in a previous match.

Knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over a single match. If the match ends up as a draw, extra time will be played and if the match remains a draw a replay match is set at the home of the guest team which the extra time rule stands as well. That procedure will be repeated until a winner occurs.
The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

• In the draw for the twelfth, the five top teams of each association are seeded and the eight clubs that passed the qualification round are unseeded.
  Three of the seeded teams are drawn against three of the unseeded teams. The rest three of the seeded times proceed to the quarter-finals while the remaining four of the unseeded teams are drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group can be drawn against each other.

Twelfth round

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

The 6th Greek Cup Final was played at the Leoforos Alexandras Stadium.

		Mathios Vitalis
		Spyros Bogdanos
		Tasos Kritikos
		Gavrilos Gazis
		Vaggelis Nikolopoulos
		Alekos Chionidis
		Stefanos Dialetis
		Antonis Papantoniou
		Giannis Petsanas
		Nikos Simos
		Babis Fylaktos
Manager:
Antonis Migiakis

		Michalis Delavinias
		Giorgos Gasparis
		Goulios Arvanitis
		Giannis Vlantis
		Tryfon Tzanetis
		Giorgos Mageiras
		Pavlos Emmanouilidis
		Lelos Adamidis
		Kleanthis Maropoulos
		Giannis Papantoniou
		Xenofon Markopoulos
Manager:
Jack Beby

External links

• Greek Cup 1947-48 at RSSSF