The 2015–16 Greek Football Cup was the 74th 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 ...

. A total of 34 clubs were accepted to enter. The competition commenced on 9 September 2015 with the preliminary round and was planned to conclude on 23 April 2016 with the final, at the

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. The cup was cancelled by the Greek government on 3 March 2016, following crowd violence. On 5 April 2016, FIFA Emergency Committee decided to provide the Greek authorities with a deadline to have the cancellation of the competition reversed before 15 April 2016 or the

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would face an automatic suspension. The Greek authorities announced on deadline day that the Greek Football Cup will be resumed after an agreement reached with

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and

. A new schedule with the remaining match was announced with the final being played on 7 May 2016, but the final was later postponed to 17 May 2016.

AEK Athens A.E.K. (; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople'') is a major Greek multi-sport club based in Nea Filadelfeia, Attica. The club is more commonly known in European competitions as A.E.K. Athens. Establishe ...

won the trophy with a 2–1 win over

Olympiacos Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós (, Olympic Association of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number of different competitive departments which participate in football, ...

Teams

Calendar

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Participating clubs

Preliminary round

The draw for this round took place on 4 September 2015.

Summary

Matches

''Kallithea won 2–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Acharnaikos won 1–0 on aggregate.''

Group stage

The draw for this round took place on 17 September 2015.

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

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 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 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 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 18 December 2015.

Seeding

Summary

Matches

''Panionios won 2–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Atromitos won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Olympiacos won 10–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Panathinaikos won on away goals.'' ---- ''AEK Athens won 3–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Asteras Tripolis won 6–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''PAOK won 4–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Iraklis won 2–0 on aggregate.''

Quarter-finals

The draw for this round took place on 15 January 2016.

Summary

Matches

''PAOK won on away goals.'' ---- ''Olympiacos won 6–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''AEK Athens won 5–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Atromitos won 1–0 on aggregate.''

Semi-finals

The draw for this round took place on 19 February 2016. After the PAOK–Olympiacos match on 2 March being abandoned due to crowd violence, the Cup was cancelled, before being resumed on 15 April 2016. New dates for the competition were announced by

and the other first leg match was played on 20 April while the second leg matches were played on 26 and 27 April 2016.

Summary

Matches

''AEK Athens won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Match abandoned in the 90th minute with the score at 1–2. It was later awarded as a 0–3 win for Olympiacos.
'' ''PAOK didn't show up to the match.'' ''Olympiacos won 6–0 on aggregate.''

Final

Top scorers

References

External links

2015–16 Greek Football Cup at the Greek Football Federation site
(Greek) {{DEFAULTSORT:2015-16 Greek Football Cup Greek Football Cup seasons

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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 ...