1996–97 Greek Cup

The Greek Cup 1996–97 was the 55th edition of The Greek Football Cup, or Greek Cup for short.

Tournament details

Totally 72 teams participated, 18 from Alpha Ethniki, 18 from Beta, and 36 from Gamma. It was held in 7 rounds, included final. After 8 years the phase of groups was suppressed, while the teams of Alpha Ethniki would enter in the competition in the Third Round.

Fourth Round (Round of 16) was very interesting. Olympiacos eliminated PAOK and Panathinaikos the team of Iraklis. Also, Ionikos tipped OFI with 7 goals. For third time in the 4 last years AEK Athens and Panathinaikos were pondered over in the Final, held in Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium and not in the Athens Olympic Stadium, the home of Panathinaikos. AEK Athens won in the penalty shootout.

The loss of Cup for Panathinaikos, in combination with their mediocre course in the championship, meant the unique time at the last 25 years that the club did not participate in any European competition.

First round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atromitos	0-4	Anagennisi Karditsa	0-3	0-1
Varvasiakos	1-2	Agios Nikolaos	1-1	0-1
Tyrnavos	0-1	Doxa Drama	0-1	0-0
Proodeftiki	0-1	Panegialios	0-0	0-1
Ilisiakos	5-3	Anagennisi Kolindros	4-2	1-1
Trikala	1-1	Naoussa (a.g.)	1-1	0-0
Orestis Orestiada	2-5	Panionios	1-1	1-4
Niki Volos	1-3	Doxa Vyronas	1-1	0-2
Larissa	6-2	Poseidon Michaniona	2-0	4-2
Ethnikos Asteras	2-1	Aetos Skydra	1-0	1-1
Egaleo	4-6	Iraklis Ptolemaida	1-1	3-5
Kallithea	1-0	Apollon Kalamaria	0-0	1-0
Lamia	3-4	Ergotelis	0-1	3-3
Korinthos	1-5	Nafpaktiakos Asteras	0-1	1-4
Panetolikos	5-1	Marko	1-0	4-1
Nigrita	1-6	Pyrgos	1-1	0-5
Almopos Aridea	0-2	ILTEX Lykoi	0-0	0-2
Ethnikos Piraeus (a.g.)	4-4	PAS Giannina	2-1	2-3
Patras A.F.C.	3-5	EAR Rethymno	1-0	2-5
Anagennisi Arta	6-2	Irodotos	4-1	2-1
Panserraikos	3-1	Panargiakos	3-1	0-0
Aiolikos	1-1	Levadiakos (a.g.)	1-1	0-0
Apollon Larissa	0-3	Panelefsiniakos	0-0	0-3
Agrotikos Asteras	0-2	Ambelokipi Thessaloniki	0-1	0-1
Kerkyra	3-3	Ialysos (a.g.)	3-1	0-2
Pierikos	2-1	Anagennisi Giannitsa	0-0	2-1
Ethnikos Olympiakos Volos	2-1	Diagoras - Rodos Enosis	2-0	0-1

Second round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Larissa	0-0	Kallithea (5-3 PSO)	0-0	0-0
Panelefsiniakos	1-0	Doxa Vyronas	1-0	0-0
Panionios	5-0	EAR Rethymno	2-0	3-0
Panetolikos	0-1	Ethnikos Piraeus	0-0	0-1 (a.e.t.)
Ambelokipi Thessaloniki	2-2	Panserraikos (a.g.)	2-1	0-1
Naousa	4-1	Pierikos	2-0	2-1
Pyrgos	2-0	Agios Nikolaos	2-0	0-0
Ilisiakos	4-5	Ialysos	2-2	2-3
ILTEX Lykoi	4-0	Anagennisi Karditsa	3-0	1-0
Ethnikos Olympiakos Volos	3-2	Anagennisi Arta	2-0	1-2
Doxa Drama	2-6	Ethnikos Asteras	1-2	1-4
Iraklis Ptolemaida	1-5	Levadiakos	1-0	0-5
Ergotelis	2-4	Panegialios	1-0	1-4 (a.e.t.)
Nafpaktiakos Asteras	bye		-	-

Third round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pyrgos	0-4	Iraklis	0-0	0-4
Olympiacos	7-2	Kalamata	4-1	3-1
AEK Athens	8-3	Skoda Xanthi	5-0	3-3
Nafpaktiakos Asteras	3-4	ILTEX Lykoi	1-1	2-3
Apollon Athens	4-1	Edessaikos	3-1	1-0
Naousa	2-5	Ionikos	1-2	1-3
Paniliakos	6-1	Panegialios	4-0	2-1
PAOK	7-2	Panionios	4-0	3-2
Kastoria	2-4	Ethnikos Asteras	1-0	1-4
Panathinaikos	6-0	Athinaikos	3-0	3-0
Panserraikos	2-9	OFI	2-3	0-6
Ialysos	3-1	Levadiakos	1-0	2-1
Veria	5-1	Kavala	4-0	1-1
Aris	3-1	Panelefsiniakos	2-1	1-0
Ethnikos Olympiakos Volos	2-4	Panachaiki	0-2	2-2
Ethnikos Piraeus (2-0 PSO)	1-1	Kallithea	0-1	1-0

Fourth round

First legs were held on November 27–28, 1996, while second legs on December 11–12.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ionikos	7-4	OFI	7-2	0-2
Aris	1-4	Panachaiki	1-2	0-2
Veria	1-2	Apollon Athens	1-0	0-2
Iraklis	0-4	Panathinaikos	0-1	0-3
Ialysos	6-3	Ethnikos Piraeus	4-1	2-2
AEK Athens	6-1	ILTEX Lykoi	3-1	3-0
PAOK	2-4	Olympiacos	1-2	1-2
Ethnikos Asteras	2-8	Paniliakos	0-5	2-3

Quarter-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ionikos	3-3	Panachaiki (a.g.)	3-1	0-2
Apollon Athens	1-2	Olympiacos	1-1	0-1
Panathinaikos	3-1	Ialysos	2-0	1-1
AEK Athens	5-1	Paniliakos	3-1	2-0

Semi-finals

First legs were held on February 12, 1997. Second legs on 26th.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEK Athens	3-1	Olympiacos	2-1	1-0
Panathinaikos	7-0	Panachaiki	3-0	4-0

Final

The 55th Greek Cup Final was played at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium.

AEK Athens v Panathinaikos

April 16, 1997

AEK Athens	0 – 0	Panathinaikos
	Penalties
Kopitsis Borbokis Nikolaidis Doboş Atmatsidis	5 – 3	Warzycha Konstantinidis Georgiadis Markos

Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus Attendance: 21,926 Referee: Giorgos Psychomanis (Athens)

AEK	Panathinaikos

AEK ATHENS: 1 Ilias Atmatsidis 4 Vassilis Borbokis  ???' 3 Michalis Kasapis (c)  ???' 6 Stelios Manolas 3 Nikos Kostenoglou 5 Triantafyllos Machairidis 10 Temuri Ketsbaia  ???' 7 Toni Savevski  98' 8 Daniel Batista Lima 9 Christos Kostis  83' 11 Demis Nikolaidis Substitutes: 16 Charis Kopitsis  ???'  83' 15 Veridiano Marcelo  98'  120' 14 Anton Doboş  120' Manager: Petros Ravousis

PANATHINAIKOS: 1 Józef Wandzik 2 Stratos Apostolakis (c) 6 Marinos Ouzounidis  ???' 4 Giannis Goumas  ???' 3 Thanasis Kolitsidakis  ???', 119' 8 Giorgos Alexopoulos  ???'  105' 7 Giorgos Georgiadis 5 Dimitris Markos  ???' 9 Krzysztof Warzycha 10 Bledar Kola  97' 11 Alexis Alexoudis  112' Substitutes: 15 Giorgos Kapouranis  97' 16 Kostas Konstantinidis  105' 17 Giorgos Nasiopoulos  112' Manager: Velimir Zajec

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Christoforos Zografos (Athens) Christos Ioannidis (Serres) Fourth official: Panagiotis Varouchas (Athens)

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Three named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions.

References

• Greek Cup 1996-97 at RSSSF