The 2021–22 Greek Football Cup was the 80th 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 winner of the Cup qualified for the
next season's Europa Conference League third qualifying round.
Calendar
Source:
Qualifying rounds
First round
The draw took place on 12 August 2021.
Summary
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Second round
The draw took place on 6 September 2021.
Summary
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Third round
The draw took place on 21 September 2021.
Summary
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Fourth round
The draw took place on 30 September 2021.
Summary
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Fifth round
The draw took place on 14 October 2021.
Summary
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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 quarter-finals and 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 quarter-finals and 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 Round of 16, the four
Super League
Super League (also known as the Betfred Super League for sponsorship reasons, and legally Super League Europe Ltd.) is a professional rugby league competition, and the highest level of the British rugby league system, which consists of twelve t ...
clubs finishing in places 1–4 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 8 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
The draw took place on 18 November 2021.
The first legs were played on 1 December 2021 and the second legs were played on 22 and 23 December 2021.
Summary
Matches
''PAOK won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''Aris won 5–1 on aggregate.''
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''AEK Athens won 5–1 on aggregate.''
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''Olympiacos won 4–3 on aggregate.''
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''Panathinaikos won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Anagennisi Karditsa won 6–0 on aggregate.''
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''Lamia won 3–0 on aggregate.''
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''Panetolikos won 3–0 on aggregate.''
Quarter-finals
The draw took place on 29 December 2021.
Former Greek international and member of the
UEFA Euro 2004
The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2004, was the 12th edition of the UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial association football, football competition contested by the List of men's national associatio ...
squad,
Kostas Katsouranis
Kostas Katsouranis (; born 21 June 1979) is a Greek former professional footballer. A versatile midfielder, who won the Super League Greek Footballer of the Year Award in 2005 and 2013, as well as the Cosme Damião Award for Footballer of the Y ...
, made the draw using a manually operated lottery ball cage.
Summary
Matches
''Lamia won 1–0 on aggregate.''
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''Olympiacos won 4–3 on aggregate.''
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''Panathinaikos won 5–0 on aggregate.''
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''PAOK won 2–1 on aggregate.''
Semi-finals
The draw took place on 29 December 2021, after the quarter-final draw.
Summary
Matches
''Panathinaikos won 3–0 on aggregate''
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''1–1 on aggregate; PAOK won on away goals''
Final
Top scorers
References
External links
Match ProgramSoccerway
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