The 2003–04 Cypriot Cup was the 62nd edition of the

Cypriot Cup The Cypriot Cup, formally known as the Cypriot Coca-Cola Cup of First and Second Division () for sponsorship purposes, is a Cypriot knockout football club competition, hosted annually by the Cyprus Football Association. First held in 1934, it i ...

. A total of 54 clubs entered the competition. It began on 13 September 2003 with the first round and concluded on 23 May 2004 with the final which was held at

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AEK Larnaca AEK Larnaca FC (, "Athletic Union Kition (ancient state), Kition of Larnaca") is a Cyprus, Cypriot professional association football, football club based in Larnaca. The club was formed in 1994 after a merger of two historical Larnaca clubs, EP ...

won their 1st Cypriot Cup trophy after beating

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2–1 in the final.

Format

In the 2003–04 Cypriot Cup, participated all the teams of the

Cypriot First Division The Cypriot First Division (), also known as the Cyprus League by Stoiximan for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Cyprus and the highest level of the Cypriot football league system. Operated by the Cyprus Fo ...

, 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 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 2003 STOK promotion play-offs to the 2003–04 Cypriot Fourth Division after finishing to the second and third place ( Spartakos Kitiou and Th.O.I Filias) did not participate in the Cypriot Cup. ENAD Polis Chrysochous which finished first in the 2003 STOK promotion play-offs, participated in the Cypriot Cup.

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 2002–03 Cypriot First Division and the three teams which promoted from the

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). The first eight teams of the 2002-03 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

2003–04 Cypriot First Division The 2003–04 Cypriot First Division was the 65th season of the Cypriot top-level Association football, football league. APOEL FC, APOEL won their 18th title. Format Fourteen teams participated in the 2003–04 Cypriot First Division. All teams p ...

which did not participated in the third round, that were the teams which finished in the first eight places in the 2002–03 Cypriot First Division. The first four teams of the 2002–03 Cypriot First Division ( Omonia,

Anorthosis Anorthosis Famagusta (), commonly known as Anorthosis in English or Anorthosi in Greek, is a Cypriot football club, part of the Famagusta multi-sport club founded in 1911 in Varosha, Famagusta.

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

Ethnikos Achna Ethnikos Achna Football Club (), commonly known as Ethnikos Achna, or simply Ethnikos, is a Cyprus, Cypriot professional Association football, football club based in the village of Dasaki Achnas. Founded in 1968, the club currently plays in the ...

, AEP and AEK) 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

¹The match APOEL-AEL abandoned at 1–0 in 83' after the referee was hit by an object that was thrown from the APOEL section of the crowd. It awarded 0–2 to AEL.

Final

Sources

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