The 2022–23 Greek Football Cup, also named Novibet Greek Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 81st 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 will qualify for the next season's Europa League third qualifying round. Match times up to 30 October 2022 and from 26 March 2023 were

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). Times on interim ("winter") days were EET (

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Calendar

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Qualifying rounds

First round

The draw took place on 24 August 2022.

Summary

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Matches

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Second round

The draw took place on 8 September 2022. Former Greek professional footballer and current manager, Tasos Tasiopoulos, made the draw using a manually operated lotery ball cage.

Summary

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Matches

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Third round

The draw took place on 20 September 2022. Former Albanian international, Bledar Kola, made the draw using a manually operated lottery ball cage.

Summary

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Matches

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Fourth round

The draw took place on 20 September 2022, after the Third Round draw.

Summary

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Matches

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Fifth round

The draw took place on 11 October 2022. Former Greek international and current football manager,

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, made the draw using a manually operated lottery ball cage.

Summary

Matches

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Knockout phase

Each tie in the

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, 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

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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

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. 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

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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 14 November 2022. Former Greek international and member of the

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squad,

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, made the draw using a manually operated lottery ball cage.

Summary

Matches

''Olympiacos won 6–3 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Panserraikos won 4–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Panathinaikos won 5–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Lamia won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Aris won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''AEK Athens won 5–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''PAOK won 4–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Apollon Paralimnio won 4–3 on aggregate.''

Quarter-finals

The draw took place on 14 November 2022, after the Round of 16 draw.

Summary

Matches

''PAOK won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Olympiacos won 2–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Lamia won 6–3 on aggregate.'' ---- ''AEK Athens won 6–1 on aggregate.''

Semi-finals

The draw took place on 14 November 2022, after the quarter-final draw.

Summary

Matches

''AEK Athens won 4–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''PAOK won 6–2 on aggregate.''

Final

Top scorers

References

External links

Match Program

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