The 2018–19 Greek Football Cup was the 77th season of the

Greek Football Cup The Greek Football Cup ( el, Κύπελλο Ελλάδος Ποδοσφαίρου), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Kypello Elladas is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Football Federation. The Greek Cup is the second most im ...

. A total of 73 clubs were accepted to enter, 16 from the

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, 16 from the

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and the 41 previous season local FCA Cup Winners. PAOK won the competition for third consecutive year beating

AEK Athens A.E.K ( el, AEK , formally Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople''), known as A.E.K, is a major Greece, Greek multi-sport club based in Nea ...

1–0 in the final held at the

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Teams

Calendar

Participating clubs

Qualifying rounds

First round

The draw for this round took place on 13 August 2018. 12 teams out of the original 53 did not participate in the draw. The majority of the games were held on 26 August 2018, with the exception of matches 12 and 16, which took place on 2 September. Megas Alexandros Trikala advanced on walkover.

Summary

, colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center, 26 August 2018 , - , colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center, 2 September 2018

Matches

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Second round

The draw for this round took place on 27 August 2018. All Games were held between 5-12 September 2018. AO Kardia, Apollon Paralimnio, Aris Avato,

Niki Volos Niki Volou Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Νίκη Βόλου) is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Volos, in the region of Magnesia, Greece. The club currently competes in the Super League 2, the second tier of Greek football ...

, Tilikratis, O.F. Ierapetra,

Ermionida Ermionida ( el, Ερμιονίδα) is a municipality in the Argolis regional unit, Peloponnese, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Kranidi. The municipality has an area of 421 km2. Municipality The municipality Ermionida was forme ...

, Korinthos 2006, Thyella Kamari,

Ethnikos Piraeus Ethnikos Piraeus (Greek: Εθνικός Πειραιώς) is a Greek multisport club based in Piraeus. It was founded in 1923. The full name of the club is Ethnikos Omilos Filathlon Pireos/Phalirou or Ethnikos OFPF (Greek: Εθνικός Όμιλ ...

and PAS Cithaeron Kaparelli advanced on walkover.

Summary

, colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center, 5 September 2018 , - , colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center, 9 September 2018 , - , colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center, 12 September 2018

Matches

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Third round

The draw for this took place on 7 September 2018. A total of 32 teams were involved in the Round 3 draw: The 16 2018−19 Football League teams that entered in this round, and the sixteen winners of the previous round. 16 single-match fixtures were determined, of which the winners qualified to the competition Group Stage. All Games were held between 15 and 16 September 2018.

Summary

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Matches

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Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 18 September 2018, 12:00

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, at the headquarters of the

Hellenic Football Federation The Hellenic Football Federation (HFF), also known as the Greek Football Federation ( el, Ελληνική Ποδοσφαιρική Ομοσπονδία; ΕΠΟ, translit=Ellinikí Podosferikí Omospondía; EPO) is the governing body of associat ...

Goudi Goudi (, since 2006; formerly Γουδί ) is a residential neighbourhood of Athens, Greece, on the eastern part of town and on the foothills of Mount Hymettus. History The name of the area derives from the 19th century Goudi (Γουδή) famil ...

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots based on the following principles: *Pot 1 contained the clubs finishing 1st through 8th in the Super League . *Pot 1 contained the clubs finishing 9th through 14th in the Super League , along with the two cubs promoted from the

. *Pot 3 and 4 contained the remaining teams, seeded based on their current league and placement during the 2017−18 season Teams in each group will play one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the

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. Match-day 1 matches will be held between 25-27 September, Match-day 2 matches will be held between 30 October and 1 November, while Match-day 3 will be held between 4-6 December 2018.

Seeding

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Group E

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Group F

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Group G

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Group H

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Knockout phase

Each tie in the

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, apart from 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 tiebreaker, 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 ...

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

extra time Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played onl ...

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

penalty shoot-out The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pen ...

. In 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: *In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners are seeded, and the eight group runners-up are unseeded.
The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. *In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group can be drawn against each other.

Bracket

Round of 16

The draw for this round took place on 21 December 2018.

Seeding

Summary

Matches

''Panionios won 2–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''PAOK won 6–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Olympiacos won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Ergotelis won 4–3 on penalties.'' ---- ''Atromitos won 5–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Asteras Tripolis won 7–6 on aggregate.'' ---- ''AEK Athens won 6–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Lamia won 4–2 on penalties.''

Quarter-finals

The draw for this round took place on 25 January 2019.

Summary

Matches

''PAOK won 5–4 on aggregate.'' ---- ''AEK Athens won 4–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Asteras Tripolis won 5–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Lamia won 4–3 on aggregate.''

Semi-finals

Summary

The draw for this round took place on 8 March 2019.

Matches

''PAOK won 2–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''AEK Athens won 6–0 on aggregate.''

Final

References

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Greek Football Cup seasons

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