1949–50 Greek Football Cup Explained

Greek Cup
Year:	1949–50
Country:	Greece
Num Teams:	157
Defending Champions:	AEK Athens
Winners:	AEK Athens (4th title)
Second:	Aris
Matches:	161
Prev Season:	1948–49
Next Season:	1950–51

The 1949–50 Greek Football Cup was the eighth edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens on 28 May 1950. The match was contested by AEK Athens and Aris, with AEK Athens winning by 4–0.^[1]

Calendar

Round	Date(s)	Fixtures	Clubs	New entries
First Round	6, 16, 23, 26, 30 October, 11 November 1949	68	157 → 89	134
Second Round	30, 31 October, 2, 9, 13 November 1949	28	89 → 64	12
Third Round	13, 20, 23, 24, 27 November, 7 December 1949	16	64 → 49	2
Fourth Round	20, 22, 27–29 November, 18 December 1949	15	49 → 32	1
Fifth Round	27 November, 4, 14, 15, 18 December 1949 & 8 January 1950	11	32 → 21	none
Sixth Round	25 December 1949 & 1, 6, 8 January 1950	5	21 → 16	none
Round of 16	29 January, 8 March 1950	8	16 → 8	8
Quarter-finals	19, 29 March 1950	6	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	30 April, 11 May 1950	3	4 → 2	none
Final	28 May 1950	1	2 → 1	none

Qualification round

First round

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Victoria withdrew at the 33rd minute. That remained as the final score.

- Dorieus qualified for the next phase, where he would face a team from Central Greece, but resigned due to inability to cover the travel expenses of the Athenian team.

- - Aris Patras withdrew at the 70th minute. That remained as the final score.

- - - AEK Pyrgos withdrew at the 54th minute while the score was 1–1. Awarded to Lefkos Asteras Amaliadas.

Second round

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Iraklis Kallithea withdrew after the second draw.

Third round

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Prasina Poulia withdrew at the 70th minute.

Fourth round

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Suspended due to incidents. Both teams were zeroed.

- Filippoi Kavala won 3–2 but were zeroed due to illeagal usage of a football player.

Fifth round

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Pallesviakos qualified for the next phase, where he would face a team from Central Greece, but resigned due to inability to cover the travel expenses of the Athenian team.

- Suspended due to rainfall.

- - Suspended at the 43rd minute due to the withdrawal of Iraklis Heraklion.

Sixth round

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:

The round of 16 is contested by the eight top teams of each association and the eight clubs that passed the qualification round.
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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AEK Athens won by draw.

Semi-finals

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Final

The 8th Greek Cup Final was played at the Leoforos Alexandras Stadium.


GK	1	Michalis Delavinias
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	Pavlos Emmanouilidis
FW	9	Kleanthis Maropoulos
FW	10	Panagiotis Patakas
FW	11	Manolis Kountouris
Manager:
Jack Beby


	1	Kostas Velliadis
	2	Vachak Abrachamian
	3	Takis Nikolaidis
	4	Simos Kaftantzis
	5	Giannis Grigoriadis
	6	Leonidas Pozanis
	7	Stelios Papoutsopoulos
	8	Giannis Liakopoulos
	9	Dimitris Kazantzis
	10	Dimitris Kaltekis
	11	Lefteris Chalyvopoulos
Manager:
Iakovos Giakoumis

External links

Greek Cup 1949-50 at RSSSF

Notes and References

Web site: 28/5/1950 ΑΕΚ - Άρης 4-0. el. aektoday.com. 28 May 2018. 29 November 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181129012825/https://www.aektoday.com/28-maiou/160-28-5-1950-aek-aris-4-0. dead.