The 1971–72 Greek Football Cup was the 30th 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 ...

. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at

Karaiskakis Stadium The Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium (), commonly referred to as the Karaiskakis Stadium (, ), is a Association football, football stadium in Piraeus, Attica, Greece, and the home ground of the Piraeus football club Olympiacos F.C., Olympiacos. It i ...

, on 5 July 1972. The match was contested by

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

and Panathinaikos, with PAOK winning by 2–1.

Calendar

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 Overtime (OT) or extra time (ET) is an additional period of play 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 only if the game is required t ...

will be played. If a winner doesn't occur after the extra time the winner emerges by

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 pe ...

.
The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows: *In the draw for the first round, the teams from the first division are seeded and the teams from the second division were unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams in each region. *In the draws for the second round onwards, there are no seedings and teams from the different region can be drawn against each other.

First round

Second round

Additional round

Bracket

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

^*The match was suspended at 89th minute because Aris' players started a fight with the referee. That remained as the final score.

Semi-finals

Final

References

External links

Greek Cup 1971-72
at RSSSF {{DEFAULTSORT:1971-72 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 ...

Cup A cup is an open-top vessel (container) used to hold liquids for drinking, typically with a flattened hemispherical shape, and often with a capacity of about . Cups may be made of pottery (including porcelain), glass, metal, wood, stone, pol ...