1948–49 Greek Football Cup Explained

Greek Cup
Year:	1948–49
Country:	Greece
Num Teams:	139
Defending Champions:	Panathinaikos
Winners:	AEK Athens (3rd title)
Second:	Panathinaikos
Matches:	144
Prev Season:	1947–48
Next Season:	1949–50

The 1948–49 Greek Football Cup was the seventh edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, replayed at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, on 3 July 1949, because of the previous match (19 June) draw. The match was contested by AEK Athens and Panathinaikos, with AEK Athens winning by 2–1 after extra time.^[1]

Calendar

Round	Date(s)	Fixtures	Clubs	New entries
First Round	3, 6, 13 October 1948	24	139 → 116	46
Second Round	17, 20, 21 October 1948	33	116 → 84	41
Third Round	23, 24 October 1948	19	84 → 67	33
Additional Round	30, 31 October 3, 7, 10, November 1948	10	67 → 58	7
Fourth Round	14, 17, 18 November 1948	13	58 → 46	4
Fifth Round	21, 28 November, 2 December 1948	12	46 → 34	none
Sixth Round	5 December 1948	7	34 → 26	none
Seventh Round	12, 14, 19, 25, 26 December 1948	6	26 → 19	none
Eighth Round	6, 16, 20, 23 January 1949	4	19 → 16	none
Round of 16	30 January 1949	9	16 → 8	8
Quarter-finals	20 February 1949	4	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	10 April 1949	2	4 → 2	none
Final	19 June, 3 July 1949	1	2 → 1	none

Qualification round

First round

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Second round

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Ethnikos was zeroed due to late arrival in the match. A friendly match against Ionikos Asteras Thiva took place instead that ended 3–7.

Third round

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Olympiacos Corinth won the match by, 2–3 but was zeroed due to illegal usage of football players.

- Suspended due to the withdrawal of Ionikos Astaras Thiva.

Additional round

|-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Central Greece/Islands Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" |-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Crete Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" |-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Patras/Western Greece Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" |-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Thessaly Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" |-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Thessaloniki Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" rowspan="4" |}

Aris Thiva resigned.

Fourth round

|-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Central Greece/Islands Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" |-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Crete Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" rowspan="2" |-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Patras/Western Greece Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" |-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Thessaly Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" rowspan="2" |-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Thessaloniki Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" |-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Eastern Macedonia Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" rowspan="3" |}

Fifth round

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Panthivaikos left the match at the 85th minute, after they conceided the second goal.

Sixth round

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Seventh round

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Eighth round

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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 round of 16, the eight top teams of each association are seeded and the eight clubs that passed the qualification round are unseeded.
The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams with the exception of 2 draws.
In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group can be drawn against each other.

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

Final

The 7th Greek Cup Final was played twice at the Leoforos Alexandras Stadium.

The match was abandoned at the 109 minute.


GK	1	Napoleon Tavlas
DF	2	Antonis Parayios
DF	3	Youlielmos Arvanitis
MF	4	Michalis Papatheodorou
MF	5	Tryfon Tzanetis
MF	6	Kostas Poulis
FW	7	Stathis Lazaridis
FW	8	Xenofon Markopoulos
FW	9	Pavlos Emmanouilidis
FW	10	Kleanthis Maropoulos
FW	11	Manolis Kountouris
Manager:
Jack Beby


		Mathios Vitalis
		Ilias Stafylidis
		Michalis Kyriazopoulos
		Alekos Chionidis
		Vaggelis Nikolopoulos
		Christos Nikolaidis
		Stefanos Dialetis
		Nikos Simos
		Giannis Petsanas
		Kostas Tsitouris
		Babis Fylaktos
Manager:
Johann Strnad

Replay match


GK	1	Napoleon Tavlas
DF	2	Antonis Parayios
DF	3	Youlielmos Arvanitis
MF	4	Michalis Papatheodorou
MF	5	Tryfon Tzanetis
MF	6	Kostas Poulis
FW	7	Stathis Lazaridis
FW	8	Xenofon Markopoulos
FW	9	Pavlos Emmanouilidis
FW	10	Kleanthis Maropoulos
FW	11	Panagiotis Patakas
Manager:
Jack Beby


		Mathios Vitalis
		Ilias Stafylidis
		Michalis Kyriazopoulos
		Alekos Chionidis
		Vaggelis Nikolopoulos
		Christos Nikolaidis
		Stefanos Dialetis
		Nikos Simos
		Giannis Petsanas
		Kostas Tsitouris
		Babis Fylaktos
Manager:
Johann Strnad

External links

Greek Cup 1948-49 at RSSSF

Notes and References

Web site: Κύπελλο 1946-1950 (page 2). el. epo.gr. 28 November 2018.