1973–74 Greek Football Cup Explained

Greek Cup
Year:1973–74
Country: Greece
Num Teams:79
Defending Champions:Olympiacos
Winners:PAOK (2nd title)
Second:Olympiacos
Scoring Leader:Yves Triantafyllos
(7 goals)
Prev Season:1972–73
Next Season:1974–75

The 1973–74 Greek Football Cup was the 32nd edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at AEK Stadium on 16 June 1974. The match was contested by PAOK and Olympiacos, with PAOK winning by 4–3[1] on penalty shoot-out, after a 2–2 draw between the two teams.[2]

Calendar

Round Date(s) Fixtures Clubs New entries
Qualifying Round 9 September 1973 13 79 → 65 28
Additional Round 1973 1 65 → 64 1
First Round 26 December 1973 28 64 → 32 50
Round of 32 23 January 1974 15 32 → 16 none
Round of 16 24 February 1974 8 16 → 8 none
Quarter-finals 10 April 1974 4 8 → 4 none
Semi-finals 8 May 1974 2 4 → 2 none
Final 16 June 1974 1 2 → 1 none

Qualifying round

28 clubs from Beta Ethniki entered the qualification round.

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Additional 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. If a winner doesn't occur after the extra time the winner emerges by penalty shoot-out.
The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

First round

18 clubs from Alpha Ethniki and 32 clubs from Beta Ethniki entered the first round.

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Round of 32

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Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

The 30th Greek Cup Final was played at the AEK Stadium. It was the first Final that was decided on penalty shoot-out.

Ioannis Stefas
Ioannis Gounaris
Konstantinos Iosifidis
Giannis Tsilingiridis
Filotas Pellios
 
Dimitris Paridis
Stavros Sarafis
Koulis Apostolidis
Giorgos Koudas (c)
 
Substitutes:
 
 
Manager:
Les Shannon
Lefteris Poupakis
Giannis Gaitatzis
Thanasis Aggelis
Vasilis Siokos (c)
Lakis Glezos
Peter Persidis
Michalis Kritikopoulos
Milton Viera
Yves Triantafyllos
Georgios Delikaris
Substitutes:
  66'  
Giotis Papadimitriou
Manager:
Lakis Petropoulos
width=50% valign=topMATCH RULES
  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Two substitutes.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ΠΑΟΚ-Ολυμπιακός: Ο πρώτος τελικός που κρίθηκε στα πέναλτι βάφτηκε "ασπρόμαυρος". el. sport-retro.gr. 28 November 2018.
  2. Web site: Kipello1971-1980. epo.gr. https://web.archive.org/web/20181128075331/https://www.epo.gr/vodafon/kyppello/Kipello1971-1980.pdf. el. 28 November 2018. live.