1971–72 Greek Football Cup

1971–72 Greek Cup

Tournament details
Country	Greece
Teams	76
Defending champions	Olympiacos
Final positions
Champions	PAOK (1st title)
Runner-up	Panathinaikos

The Greek Cup 1971–72 was the 30th edition of The Greek Football Cup, or Greek Cup for short.

The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus, on 5 July 1972. The match was contested by PAOK and Panathinaikos, with PAOK winning 2–1.

First round

Home team	Score	Away team
Olympiacos	5–0	Ethnikos Asteras
Fostiras	3–0	Ikaros Nea Smyrni
Panathinaikos	9–1	Orfeas Egaleo
Panaspropyrgiakos	1–2	Atromitos Piraeus
AEK Athens	4–1	P.A.O. Rouf
Koropi	2–0	Panelefsiniakos
Vyzas Megara	1–0	Kallithea
Panionios	4–0	Panarkadikos
Pannafpliakos	0–1	Apollon Athens
Panegialios	1–2	Aias Salamina
Olympiakos Nicosia	0–1	Egaleo
Argonaftis	2–0	Chania
Korinthos	1–0	Kalamata
Lamia	3–0	Orchomenos
Leonidas Sparta	1–3	Panachaiki
Panetolikos	1–0	Anagennisi Arta
PAS Giannina	4–2	Karditsa A.C.
Olympiacos Volos	5–2	Levadiakos
Pierikos	4–1	Larissa
Pyrsos Grevena	0–4	Kozani
Florina	0–2	Kastoria
PAOK	5–1	Foinikas Polichni
Aris	4–0	Apollon Krya Vrysi
Doxa Drama	0–1	Panserraikos
Aris Ptolemaida	1–0	Anagennisi Giannitsa
Iraklis	2–0	Pandramaikos
Edessaikos	3–0	Apollon Kalamaria
Panthrakikos	1–0	Orestis Orestiada
Paniliakos	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Ionikos
OFI	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Rodos
Xanthi	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Kavala
Kilkisiakos	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Makedonikos
Atromitos	2–2 (5–4 p.)	Proodeftiki
Acharnaikos	0–0 (4–3 p.)	Ethnikos Piraeus
Naoussa	3–3 (4–2 p.)	Veria
Kerkyra	0–0 (4–1 p.)	A.F.C. Patra
Niki Volos	0–0 (3–1 p.)	Panargiakos
Anagennisi Karditsa	1–1 (3–4 p.)	Trikala

Second round

Home team	Score	Away team
PAOK	3–1	Pierikos
Panathinaikos	3–0	Xanthi
Panetolikos	0–3	Aris
Panionios	3–2	Ionikos
AEK Athens	4–0	Kozani
Trikala	3–0	Edessaikos
Panachaiki	4–1	Naoussa
PAS Giannina	1–0	Panserraikos
Atromitos	1–2	Panthrakikos
Apollon Athens	1–0	Olympiacos Volos
Niki Volos	1–2	Argonaftis
Atromitos Piraeus	1–2	Koropi
Olympiacos	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Egaleo
Iraklis	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Fostiras
OFI	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Kastoria
Aris Ptolemaida	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Vyzas Megara
Kilkisiakos	2–0*	Kerkyra
Lamia	?	Korinthos
Aias Salamina	?	Acharnaikos

^*Without match.

Additional round

Home team	Score	Away team
Olympiacos	5–0	Argonaftis
Iraklis	0–0 (2–4 p.)	Panionios
Panachaiki	2–0*	Kilkisiakos

^*Without match.

Third round

Home team	Score	Away team
PAOK	2–0	Aias Salamina
Apollon Athens	0–1	Panathinaikos
Panionios	5–1	Aris Ptolemaida
OFI	2–1	Koropi
Trikala	1–0	PAS Giannina
Olympiacos	1–2	Aris
Panachaiki	2–0	Panthrakikos
Lamia	1–0 (a.e.t.)	AEK Athens

Quarter-finals

Home team	Score	Away team
Panionios	3–2	Panachaiki
Trikala	2–6	Panathinaikos
OFI	0–0 (2–4 p.)	Lamia
Aris	0–2*	PAOK

^*Awarded. The match was suspended at 89th minute (score:1–2) because Aris players started a fight with the referee.

Semi-finals

Home team	Score	Away team
PAOK	2–0	Lamia
Panathinaikos	2–0	Panionios

Final

The 28th Greek Cup Final was played at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus.

5 July 1972

PAOK	2 – 1	Panathinaikos
Koudas 2', 88'		89' Papadimitriou

Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Referee: Christos Michas

PAOK: Savvas Hatzioannou Ioannis Gounaris Pavlos Papadopoulos Konstantinos Iosifidis Aristarchos Fountoukidis Christos Terzanidis Michalis Bellis Stavros Sarafis  68' Koulis Apostolidis Giorgos Koudas (c) Achilleas Aslanidis  76' Substitutes: Vassilis Lazos  68' Giannis Matzourakis  76' Manager: Les Shannon

PANATHINAIKOS: Takis Ikonomopoulos Nikos Karamanlis  57' Giorgos Gonios Frangiskos Sourpis Mitsos Dimitriou Kostas Athanasopoulos Kostas Eleftherakis Haris Grammos Antonis Antoniadis Mimis Domazos (c) Takis Papadimitriou Substitutes: Giorgos Vlahos  57' Manager: Ferenc Puskas

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

References

• Greek Cup 1971-72 at RSSSF