The 2004–05 Cypriot Cup was the 63rd edition of the

Cypriot Cup The Cypriot Cup () is the main cup competition in Cypriot football, run by the Cyprus Football Association (CFA). It began in 1934, the same season with the Cypriot Championship. It is the second most important competition for Cypriot club te ...

. A total of 54 clubs entered the competition. It began on 11 September 2004 with the first round and concluded on 22 May 2005 with the final which was held at

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. Omonia won their 12th Cypriot Cup trophy after beating Digenis 2–0 in the final.

Format

In the 2004–05 Cypriot Cup, participated all the teams of the

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, the

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, the

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and 12 of the 14 teams of the

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. The competition consisted of seven rounds. In the first and in the second round each tie was played as a single leg and was held at the home ground of the one of the two teams, according to the draw results. Each tie winner was qualifying to the next round. If a match was drawn,

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was following. If extra time was drawn, the winner was decided by

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. The third round was played in a two-legged format, each team playing a home and an away match against their opponent. The team which scored more goals on aggregate, was qualifying to the next round. If the two teams scored the same number of goals on aggregate, then the team which scored more goals away from home was advancing to the next round. If both teams had scored the same number of home and away goals, then

was following after the end of the second leg match. If during the extra thirty minutes both teams had managed to score, but they had scored the same number of goals, then the team who scored the away goals was advancing to the next round (i.e. the team which was playing away). If there weren't scored any goals during extra time, the qualifying team was determined by

. In the next round, the teams were drawn into four groups of four. The teams of each group played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The group winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the next round. The quarter-finals and semi-finals were played over two legs and the same format as in the third round was applied. The final was a single match. The cup winner secured a place in the

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First round

In the first round participated all the teams of the

and the

and 12 of the 14 teams of the

. The two fourth division teams which were promoted from the 2004 amateur divisions promotion play-offs to the 2004–05 Cypriot Fourth Division after finishing to the second and third place ( Digenis Oroklinis and Th.O.I. Avgorou FC) did not participate in the Cypriot Cup.

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which finished first in the 2004 STOK promotion play-offs, participated in the Cypriot Cup. ¹Apollon Lympion did not appear in the stadium. Match was awarded 2–0 to

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Second round

In the second round participated the winners of the first round ties.

Third round

In the third round participated the winners of the second round ties and six teams of the

(the teams which finished 9th, 10th, 11th in the

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and the three teams which promoted from the

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). The first eight teams of the 2003-04 Cypriot First Division did not participate in this round.

Group stage

In the group stage participated the eight winners of the third round ties and the eight teams of the

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which did not participated in the third round, that were the teams which finished in the first eight places in the

. The first four teams of the

( APOEL, Omonia,

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, AEL) were set heads of each group and the 5th–8th placed teams (

Anorthosis Anorthosis Famagusta ( el, Ανόρθωση Αμμοχώστου, translit=Anorthosi Ammochostou), commonly known as Anorthosis in English or Anorthosi in Greek, is a Cypriot football club, part of the Anorthosis Famagusta multi-sport club f ...

, Ethnikos Achna, AEP and Enosis Neon Paralimni) were drawn one per group. The eight teams which advanced from the third round were drawn without limitations. The teams of each group played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The group winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the next round.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Quarter-finals

In the quarter-finals participated all the teams which qualified from the group stage. The group winners were drawn against the runners-up, with the group winners hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other.

Semi-finals

Final

Sources

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:2004-05 Cypriot Cup Cypriot Cup seasons 2004–05 domestic association football cups 2004–05 in Cypriot football