The 1998–99 Greek Football Cup was the 57th edition of the

Greek Football Cup The Greek Football Cup (), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Betsson Greek Cup for sponsorship reasons is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation. The Greek Cup is the second-most important domestic men's footba ...

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defeated Panathinaikos in the final on 5 May 1999.

Tournament details

In total, 60 teams participated: 18 from

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, 18 from

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, and 24 from

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. The competition was held over six rounds, included the final. The first three rounds were single elimination matches.

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and

PAOK PAOK (, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών, ''Panthessalonikeios Athlitikós Ómilos Constantinopoliton'', ''Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans''), commonly ...

, both of the Alpha Ethniki, were eliminated by lower division teams

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and

Panserraikos Panserraikos Football Club (), the ''All-Serres Football Club'', is a Greece, Greek Association football, football club based in Serres in Central Macedonia, Greece. Panserraikos is one of the most important and well-supported clubs in northern G ...

respectively. As is typically seen in this tournament, half of the eight quarter-final teams came from Beta Ethniki. They were

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, Panserraikos,

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and

ILTEX Lykoi G.S. YLTEX Lykoi Thessaloniki also known as ILTEX Lykoi () is a reestablished football club based in Kalochori, Thessaloniki, Greece. The team was owned by the Greek businessman Kostas Iliadis. Iliadis was the owner of a group of companies that ...

. The final was contested in

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on 5 May 1999, by the eternal enemies, Olympiacos and Panathinaikos. They had last met in the Greek Cup Final in 1992–93. Panathinaikos had earlier eliminated

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Panionios in the first round while Olympiacos had eliminated Ionikos by an impressive 4–7 score in the third round. Olympiacos won 2–0 and achieved their 20th Cup conquest. With the victory, Olympiacos achieved the

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for the first time in 18 years. With the Cup final loss, Panathinaikos became the first team to lose the Cup final three times in a row.

Calendar

Knockout phase

Each tie in the

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, apart from the first three rounds and the final, was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, the

away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaking in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. Under the away goals rule, if the total goals scored by each team are equal, the team that ...

was applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then

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was played. The away goals rule was again applied after extra time, i.e. if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team advanced by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the winners were decided by a

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. In the first three rounds and the final, which were played as a single match, if the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the score was still level.
The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows: *There are no seedings, and teams from the same group can be drawn against each other.

First round

Summary

Matches

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Bracket

Second round

Summary

Matches

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Round of 16

Summary

Matches

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Quarter-finals

Summary

Matches

''Iraklis won 4–3 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Panathinaikos won 5–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Olympiacos won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Athinaikos won on away goals.''

Semi-finals

Summary

Matches

''Panathinaikos won 8–3 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Olympiacos won 5–1 on aggregate.''

Final

Top scorers

References

External links

Greek Cup 1998-99
at RSSSF {{DEFAULTSORT:1998-99 Greek Cup Greek Football Cup seasons

Greek Cup The Greek Football Cup (), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Betsson Greek Cup for sponsorship reasons is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation. The Greek Cup is the second-most important domestic men's footba ...

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