The 2009–10 Greek Football Cup was the 68th 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 final held at
Olympic Stadium
''Olympic Stadium'' is the name usually given to the main stadium of an Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports ...
on 24 April 2010. The final was contested by
Panathinaikos
Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (, literally in English: "Panathenaic Athletic Club" or Panathinaikos A.C.), also known simply as Panathinaikós , is a major Greek multi-sport club based in the City of Athens. Panathinaikos is one of the mos ...
and
Aris Aris or ARIS may refer to:
People
* Aris (surname)
Given name
* Aris Alexandrou, Greek writer
* Aris Brimanis, ice hockey player
* Aris Christofellis, Greek male soprano
* Aris Gavelas, Greek sprinter
* Aris Konstantinidis, Greek architect
* ...
. The last time that the two clubs were met in the Final was in
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
Events
Below, events related to World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
*Janu ...
. Panathinaikos didn't win the Cup since
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
and the last time that participated in a Final was in
2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
Events
January
* January 1
**Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
. Aris on the other hand, didn't win the Cup since
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...
and the last time that played in a Final was in
2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
. Panathinaikos earned the trophy with a 1-0 win over Aris.
Calendar
Knockout phase
Each tie in the
knockout phase
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, w ...
, apart from the semi-finals, was played by 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. In the semi-finals were 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 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 team that ...
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 (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 ...
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 pe ...
. In the round of 16, if the score was level at the end of normal time the two-legged rule was applied.
The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:
*In the draw for the second round, the teams from the second division are seeded and the winners from the first round were unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams.
*In the draw for the Round of 32 onwards, the teams from the first division are seeded and the winners from the previous rounds were unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams.
*In the draws for the Round of 16 onwards, there are no seedings and teams from the different group can be drawn against each other.
First round
The draw took place on 7 August 2009.
Summary
, -
, colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center, 22 August 2009
, -
, colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center, 23 August 2009
Matches
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
Second round
The draw took place on 7 August 2009, after the First Round draw.
Summary
, -
, colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center, 30 August 2009
, -
, colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center, 2 September 2009
, -
, colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center, 3 September 2009
Matches
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
Additional round
Summary
, -
, colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center, 23 September 2009
Matches
----
Bracket
Round of 32
The draw took place on 7 August 2009.
Summary
Matches
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
Round of 16
The draw took place on 2 November 2009.
Summary
Matches
----
----
----
----
----
----
----
Quarter-finals
The draw took place on 22 January 2010.
Summary
, , colspan="2"
, , colspan="2"
Matches
----
----
----
*The match was interrupted at the 69th minute due to the bad condition of field, that occurred from continuous raining. The match continued from minute that had been stopped, the following day.
Replay
----
Semi-finals
The draw took place on 22 January 2010, after the quarter-final draw.
Summary
Matches
''Panathinaikos won 3–1 on aggregate.''
----
''Aris won 4–2 on aggregate.''
Final
Top scorers
References
External links
Greek Cup 2006-2007at Hellenic Football Federation's official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Greek Cup 2009-10
2009-10
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 ...
2009–10 European domestic association football cups