1993–94 Greek Football Cup

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1993–94 Greek Cup
Tournament details
Country Greece
Teams72
Defending championsPanathinaikos
Final positions
ChampionsPanathinaikos (14th title)
Runner-upAEK Athens
Tournament statistics
Matches played117
Top goal scorer(s)Zoran Slišković
(10 goals)

The 1993–94 Greek Football Cup was the 52nd edition of the Greek Football Cup.

Tournament details[edit]

Totally 72 teams participated, 18 from Alpha Ethniki, 18 from Beta, and 36 from Gamma. It was held in 6 rounds, included final.

It was a very interesting competition with undecided matches and led in a final between Panathinaikos and AEK Athens, a pair that had not appeared in a Greek Cup Final for 45 years, since the last confrontation between the two teams in the final match was in 1949. AEK Athens qualified in the final after 11 years, while Panathinaikos had eliminated PAOK earlier in penalty shoot-out, after two goalless draws.

The final match[1] was the one of two more shocking finals in history of Greek Cup, after 1976. Panathinaikos preceded 2–0 and appeared to win, however, in a few minutes to its end, AEK Athens managed to tie the game, to take the lead in the start of extra time only to be drawn and eventually to lose the title in the penalty shoot-out. At the same time, they lost the chance to win the double, since the same year they won the championship.

Remarkable in the competition was also the bombardment of goals, almost in all phases and mainly in second legs. Characteristically, in second matches of second round, 16 in the number, were marked 64 goals, mean 4 goals per match, and in corresponding of third round 30 goals in 8 matches.

Also, it is remarkable that in unique two from 16 groups that included two Alpha Ethniki teams, it happened to be drawn opponents Olympiacos and Iraklis in Group 16, that later balloted again in quarter-finals, but also AEK Athens and Panathinaikos in Group 14, that is to say the pair of the final.[2]

Calendar[edit]

Round Main date Fixtures Clubs New entries
this round
Group stage 25 August & 1, 8 September 1993 56 72 → 32 72
Round of 32 27 October, 10 November 1993 32 32 → 16 none
Round of 16 15, 29 December 1993 16 16 → 8 none
Quarter-finals 19 January, 2 February 1994 8 8 → 4 none
Semi-finals 2, 16 March 1994 4 4 → 2 none
Final 20 April 1994 1 2 → 1 none

Group stage[edit]

The phase was played in a single round-robin format. Each win would gain 3 points, each draw 1 and each loss would not gain any point.

Knockout phase[edit]

Each tie in the knockout phase, 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 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 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. 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:

  • There are no seedings, and teams from the same group can be drawn against each other.

Bracket[edit]

Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
Levadiakos (a) 0 1 1
Athinaikos 0 1 1 Levadiakos 0 2 2
Apollon Kalamarias 4 2 6 Olympiacos 0 6 6
Olympiacos 2 5 7 Olympiacos 2 0 2
Skoda Xanthi 4 0 4 Iraklis 2 1 3
Panionios (a) 3 1 4 Panionios 1 1 2
Iraklis 5 8 13 Iraklis 3 1 4
Apollon Krya Vrysi 0 1 1 Iraklis 0 0 0
Panathinaikos 5 0 5 Panathinaikos 0 3 3
OFI 1 2 3 Panathinaikos (p) 0 0 0(5)
PAOK 1 4 5 PAOK 0 0 0(4)
Apollon Athens 0 4 4 Panathinaikos 1 2 3
Panachaiki 3 3 6 Ionikos 1 0 1
Proodeftiki 1 3 4 Panachaiki 1 2 3
Doxa Drama 0 0 0 Ionikos (a.e.t.) 2 2 4
Ionikos 1 1 2 Panathinaikos (p) 3(4)
PAS Giannina 0 1 1 AEK Athens 3(2)
Pandramaikos 0 0 0 PAS Giannina 5 2 7
Naoussa 1 1 2 Olympiacos Volos 1 0 1
Olympiacos Volos 2 4 6 PAS Giannina 2 0 2
Edessaikos 1 0 1 Aris 1 2 3
Aris 0 2 2 Aris 4 2 6
Kastoria 3 0 3 Panargiakos 1 1 2
Panargiakos 1 3 4 Aris 0 1 1
AEL 2 7 9 AEK Athens 0 2 2
Iraklis Ptolemaida 1 1 2 AEL (a) 1 1 2
Pontioi Veria 3 0 3 Pontioi Veria 0 2 2
EAR 0 0 0 AEL 0 1 1
Paniliakos 0 3 3 AEK Athens (a.e.t.) 1 1 2
AEK Athens 0 6 6 AEK Athens 4 7 11
Keravnos Kolchiko 2 0 2 Asteras Ambelokipoi 0 1 1
Asteras Ambelokipoi (a) 2 0 2

Round of 32[edit]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
AEL 9–2 Iraklis Ptolemaida 2–1 7–1
Panathinaikos 5–3 OFI 5–1 0–2
Naoussa 2–6 Olympiacos Volos 1–2 1–4
Keravnos Kolchiko 2–2 (a) Asteras Ambelokipoi 2–2 0–0
Doxa Drama 0–2 Ionikos 0–1 0–1
Edessaikos 1–2 Aris 1–0 0–2
Skoda Xanthi 4–4 (a) Panionios 4–3 0–1
Levadiakos (a) 1–1 Athinaikos 0–0 1–1
Kastoria 3–4 Panargiakos 3–1 0–3
Apollon Kalamarias 6–7 Olympiacos 4–2 2–5
Paniliakos 3–6 AEK Athens 0–0 3–6
Panachaiki 6–4 Proodeftiki 3–1 3–3
PAOK 5–4 Apollon Athens 1–0 4–4
PAS Giannina 1–0 Pandramaikos 0–0 1–0
Iraklis 13–1 Apollon Krya Vrysi 5–0 8–1
Pontioi Veria 3–0 EAR 3–0 0–0

Round of 16[edit]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Panathinaikos 0–0 (5–4 p) PAOK 0–0 0–0
PAS Giannina 7–1 Olympiacos Volos 5–1 2–0
Levadiakos 2–6 Olympiacos 0–0 2–6
Panachaiki 3–4 Ionikos 1–2 2–2 (a.e.t.)
Aris 6–2 Panargiakos 4–1 2–1
AEK Athens 11–1 Asteras Ambelokipoi 4–0 7–1
AEL (a) 2–2 Pontioi Veria 1–0 1–2
Panionios 2–4 Iraklis 1–3 1–1

Quarter-finals[edit]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Olympiacos 2–3 Iraklis 2–2 0–1
PAS Giannina 2–3 Aris 2–1 0–2
AEL 1–2 AEK Athens 0–1 1–1 (a.e.t.)
Panathinaikos 3–1 Ionikos 1–1 2–0

Semi-finals[edit]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Aris 1–2 AEK Athens 0–0 1–2
Iraklis 0–3 Panathinaikos 0–0 0–3

Final[edit]

The 50th Greek Cup Final was played at the Olympic Stadium.

Panathinaikos3–3 (a.e.t.)AEK Athens
Report (pages 3,4)
Penalties
4–2
Attendance: 61,232
Referee: Giannis Spathas (Piraeus)
Panathinaikos
ΑΕΚ Athens
GK  1 Poland Józef Wandzik
DF  2 Greece Stratos Apostolakis (c)
DF  5 Greece Ioannis Kalitzakis
DF  3 Greece Marinos Ouzounidis
DF  8 Greece Thanasis Kolitsidakis
MF  4 GreeceAustralia Louis Christodoulou
MF  6 Greece Nikos Nioplias
MF 10 Greece Giorgos Georgiadis
MF 11 Greece Dimitris Markos
MF  7 Argentina Juan José Borrelli downward-facing red arrow 67'
FW  9 Poland Krzysztof Warzycha downward-facing red arrow 65'
Substitutes:
GK Greece Antonis Nikopolidis
MF 12 Greece Spiros Marangos upward-facing green arrow 67'
FW 14 Greece Giorgos Donis upward-facing green arrow 65'
Manager:
ArgentinaGreece Juan Ramón Rocha
GK  1 Greece Ilias Atmatsidis
DF  3 Greece Vaios Karagiannis
DF  6 Greece Michalis Vlachos downward-facing red arrow 60'
DF  4 Greece Stelios Manolas
DF  2 Greece Michalis Kasapis
MF 10 Greece Stavros Stamatis
MF  5 Bosnia and Herzegovina Refik Šabanadžović downward-facing red arrow 46'
MF  8 North Macedonia Toni Savevski
MF  9 Greece Charis Kopitsis
FW 11 Croatia Zoran Slišković
FW  7 Greece Alexis Alexandris (c)
Substitutes:
GK 15 Greece Vasilis Karagiannis
DF 12 Greece Giorgos Agorogiannis
MF 13 Greece Tasos Mitropoulos
MF 14 Greece Vasilios Tsiartas upward-facing green arrow 46'
FW 16 Greece Vasilis Dimitriadis upward-facing green arrow 60'
Manager:
Bosnia and HerzegovinaGreece Dušan Bajević

MATCH OFFICIALS

  • Assistant referees:
    • Christos Sotiropoulos
    • Nikos Chaldeos

MATCH RULES

  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
  • Five named substitutes
  • Maximum of two substitutions

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Ο τελικός... θρίλερ Παναθηναϊκός-ΑΕΚ το 1994". gazzetta.gr (in Greek). 20 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Κύπελλο 1991–1995" (PDF). epo.gr (in Greek).

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