1977–78 Greek Football Cup

1977–78 Greek Cup

Tournament details
Country	Greece
Teams	58
Defending champions	Panathinaikos
Final positions
Champions	AEK Athens (8th title)
Runner-up	PAOK

The 1977–78 Greek Football Cup was the 36th edition of The Greek Football Cup, or Greek Football Cup.

The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus on 4 June 1978. The match was contested by AEK Athens and PAOK, with AEK Athens winning 2–0.

First round

Home team	Score	Away team
Kavala	1–0	Proodeftiki
Panathinaikos	9–0	Thyella Serres
Panthrakikos	4–2	Chalkida
Olympiacos Volos	6–0	Atromitos Piraeus
Fostiras	0–1	Olympiacos
PAO Agios Dimitrios	2–1	Niki Volos
Larissa	2–1	Almopos Aridea
PAS Giannina	1–0	Panarkadikos
Iraklis	1–0	Olympiacos Liosia
Pandramaikos	3–0	Ilisiakos
PAOK	6–1	Levadiakos
Ethnikos Asteras	1–2	Aris
Panachaiki	3–1	Makedonikos
Veria	1–0	Kastoria
Korinthos	5–0	Egaleo
Naoussa	0–2	Kallithea
Panetolikos	4–2	Elassona
Ethnikos	4–0	Anagennisi Karditsa
Mesologgi	0–1	Trikala
Xanthi	1–0	Doxa Drama
Anagennisi Epanomi	2–1	Kilkisiakos
AEK	6–1	Chania
OFI	5–0	Pierikos
Apollon Kalamaria	3–0	Lamia
Panelefsiniakos	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Ionikos
Panionios	0–0 (4–2 p.)	Irodotos
Edessaikos	1–1 (1–2 p.)	Rodos
Panserraikos	0–0 (4–1 p.)	Atromitos
A.F.C. Patra	1–1 (3–4 p.)	Apollon Athens

Second round

Home team	Score	Away team
Ethnikos Piraeus	1–0	Panetolikos
Korinthos	0–2	Veria
Panathinaikos	0–1	AEK Athens
Trikala	2–5	Olympiacos
PAS Giannina	3–2	Rodos
Pandramaikos	1–0	Apollon Athens
PAOK	4–1	Olympiacos Volos
PAO Agios Dimitrios	0–1	Larissa
Iraklis	1–0	Kallithea
Xanthi	1–0	Panserraikos
Anagennisi Epanomi	0–1	Aris
Kavala	1–0 (a.e.t.)	OFI
Panthrakikos	0–0 (4–3 p.)	Apollon Kalamaria
Panionios	bye
Panachaiki	bye
Panelefsiniakos	bye

Third round

Home team	Score	Away team
AEK Athens	3–0	Panionios
PAS Giannina	5–0	Xanthi
Ethnikos Piraeus	2–5	Aris
Iraklis	0–1	PAOK
Pandramaikos	0–1	Kavala
Veria	4–1	Panthrakikos
Panelefsiniakos	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Larissa
Panachaiki	0–0 (3–4 p.)	Olympiacos

Quarter-finals

Home team	Score	Away team
Kavala	2–3	Aris
PAOK	5–0	Veria
Panelefsiniakos	2–4	AEK Athens
Olympiacos	2–1 (a.e.t.)	PAS Giannina

Semi-finals

Home team	Score	Away team
AEK Athens	6–1	Olympiacos
Aris	0–1 (a.e.t.)	PAOK

Final

The 34th Greek Cup Final was played at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus.

4 June 1978

AEK Athens	2 – 0	PAOK
Bajević 50' Mavros 80'

Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens

Referee: Zlatanos

Nikos Christidis Giannis Mousouris Charalambos Intzoglou Petros Ravousis Lakis Nikolaou Milton Viera Tasos Kōnstantinou  79' Takis Nikoloudis Dušan Bajević Mimis Papaioannou (c)  65' Thomas Mavros Substitutes: Lazaros Papadopoulos  79' Apostolos Toskas  65' Manager: Zlatko Čajkovski

Mladen Furtula Ioannis Gounaris  72' Konstantinos Iosifidis Koulis Apostolidis (c) Angelos Anastasiadis Panagiotis Kermanidis Neto Guerino Stavros Sarafis Kostas Orfanos Giorgos Koudas Georgios Kostikos  79' Substitutes: Ioannis Damanakis  72' Nikos Alavantas  79' Manager: Lakis Petropoulos

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Two substitutes.

References

• Greek Cup 1977-78 at RSSSF