The 2019–20 Greek Football Cup is the 78th 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 84 clubs are accepted to enter. 14 from the Super League 1 (1st tier), 12 from the

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(2nd tier), 14 from the

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(3rd tier) and 44 previous season local Cup winners. The Second Leg Semi-Final matches and the Final were postponed due to the

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until June. The Final was originally scheduled for 26 July and was postponed to 30 August because of Olympiacos' pressure in HFF to change the stadium from

Georgios Kamaras Stadium Georgios Kamaras Stadium ( el, Στάδιο Γεώργιος Καμάρας) is a multi-purpose stadium in Athens, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Apollon Smyrnis. The stadium holds 14,200 ...

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and after the no of the

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in the first stadium. The Final was rescheduled for 30 August in the Olympic Stadium but it was postponed again because Olympiacos' player Maximiliano Lovera was tested positive for

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. The Final was rescheduled again for 12 September at

Panthessaliko Stadium The Panthessaliko Stadium is a stadium located at Volos, Greece. The stadium was the site of football (soccer) matches during the 2004 Summer Olympics. It was officially opened on July 30, 2004 and has a capacity of 22,700 seats, though only 21,10 ...

Volos Volos ( el, Βόλος ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the sixth most populous city of Greece, and the capital of the Magnesia regional unit ...

Calendar

Participating clubs

Qualifying rounds

First round

The draw for this round took place on 9 August 2019. The majority of fixtures were held on 24, 25 and 28 August 2019. Two of the fixtures,

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–Atromitos Patras and Enosis Vathyllos-Pansamiakos–

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were postponed in light the bids of

and

to enter the

were eventually greenlighted to play in the

by decision of the HFF, taking the place of Nestos Chrysoupoli, who withdrew their participation. As such, despite being drawn against Atromitos Patras, they advanced to the Third Round draw on walkover. Likewise, Atromitos advanced to the next round on walkover.

Summary

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Matches

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Second round

The draw for this round took place on 27 August 2018.

Summary

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Matches

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Third round

The draw for this round took place on 9 September 2019. A total of 24 teams are involved in the Round 3 draw: The 12 2019−20 Football League teams entering in this round, and the twelve winners of the previous round. 12 single-match fixtures were determined, of which the winners will qualify to the next Round. The majority of fixtures were held on 14, 15 and 18 September.

Summary

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Matches

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Fourth round

The draw for this round took place on 17 September 2019. A total of 24 teams were involved in the Round 4 draw: The 12 2019−20 Super League 2 teams entering in this round, and the twelve winners of the previous round. 12 single-match fixtures were determined, of which the winners qualified to the next Round. The majority of fixtures were held on 24, 25 and 26 September.

Summary

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Matches

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Fifth round

The draw for this round took place on 16 October 2019. A total of 22 teams are involved in the Round 5 draw: The 8 2019−20 Super League teams, who finished in places 6–13 in the 2018−19 season entering the competition in this round, the twelve winners of the previous round, the champion of the 2018–19 Football League (

), and the single club advancing on walkover in Round 4 (

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). As of this phase onward, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. In the draw for Round 5, the nine

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teams are seeded, and the 13 clubs advancing from previous Rounds are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. The remaining 4 unseeded clubs will be drawn against one another with the team being drawn last hosting the second leg. A total of 11 fixtures were determined, of which the winners will qualify to the Round of 16. The first leg matches will be held on 29, 30 and 31 October, while the 2nd leg matches will be held 3, 4 and 5 December 2019.

Seeding

Summary

Matches

''Xanthi won 4–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Volos won 4–2 on penalties.'' ---- ''PAS Giannina won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Panionios won 9–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Kalamata won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''OFI won 4–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Asteras Tripolis won 4–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Panetolikos won 9–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Lamia won 6–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Trikala won 4–2 on aggregate.''

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

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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 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 five

clubs finishing in places 1–5 in the previous season are seeded, while the clubs advancing from the Fifth Round are unseeded.
The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. The remaining 6 unseeded clubs will be drawn against one another with the team being drawn last 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

Seeding

Summary

Matches

''Atromitos won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Panathinaikos won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''AEK Athens won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Olympiacos won 6–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''PAOK won 7–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Lamia won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Aris won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Panetolikos won on away goals.''

Quarter-finals

Summary

Matches

''Olympiacos won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''AEK Athens won 5–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''PAOK won 3–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Aris won 1–0 on aggregate.''

Semi-finals

Summary

Matches

''AEK Athens won 4–3 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Olympiacos won 4–3 on aggregate.''

Final

References

External links

The 2019–20 Greek Cup format (in Greek)
{{DEFAULTSORT:2019-20 Greek Football Cup

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Greek Football Cup seasons

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