1979–80 Greek Football Cup

1979–80 Greek Cup

Country	Greece
Teams	58
Defending champions	Panionios
Champions	Kastoria (1st title)
Runners-up	Iraklis
Matches played	62
Top goal scorer(s)	Dimitris Tsironis (9)
← 1978–79 1980–81 →

The 1979–80 Greek Football Cup was the 38th edition of the Greek Football Cup.

Tournament details[]

Totally 58 teams participated, 18 from Alpha Ethniki and 40 from Beta Ethniki. It was held in 6 rounds, including the final.

For the first time, a provincial club (not based in Attica and Thessaloniki Prefecture), Kastoria, was awarded the cup. They achieved an unexpected victory over Iraklis in the Final with the impressive score of 5–2,^[1] while at the same time ensured (for the first and only time until today) their participation in next season's Cup Winners' Cup.^[2]

In their way to the Final, Kastoria eliminated Ethnikos Piraeus (winning during extra time and while Ethnikos had 5 post hits), Kavala, Olympiakos Loutraki, AEL and Makedonikos.

On the other hand, Iraklis eliminated lower division teams Veria, Niki Volos, Almopos Aridea and Panarkadikos to reach the semifinals, where they faced rivals PAOK. Both matches were held in Iraklis home, Lysandros Kaftanzoglou Stadium and Iraklis progressed to the Final with a 2–1 aggregate victory. Before the second leg, there was an alleged bribe attempt of PAOK footballer, Filotas Pellios, by Iraklis. Due to those charges, Iraklis were eventually relegated to Beta Ethniki.

Earlier, PAOK had eliminated Olympiacos, AEK Athens and Aris, before they were eliminated by fellow-citizen Iraklis. Panathinaikos made an early exit from the cup, following the defeat by PAS Giannina in the Second Round.

From First Round matches, Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, PAOK and Iraklis won Beta Ethniki teams with big scores. Takis Tsironis of Kastoria was elected first scorer with 9 goals, 3 of them in Final. Kastoria success was decisive for some of their players' careers, as Sarganis, Simeoforidis, Papavasiliou and Dintsikos were later acquired by Olympiacos, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens.

Calendar[]

Round	Date(s)	Fixtures	Clubs	New entries
First Round	21, 22, 29 November, 20 December 1979	28	58 → 29	58
Second Round	6, 7 February 1980	13	29 → 16	none
Round of 16	20, 21 February 1980	8	16 → 8	none
Quarter-finals	5 March, 26 April 1980	8	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	7, 14, 21 May 1980	4	4 → 2	none
Final	25 May 1980	1	2 → 1	none

First round[]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Vyzas Megara	0–1	Aris
Anagennisi Karditsa	0–1	Agrotikos Asteras
Trikala	4–0	Petralona
Kozani	2–1	Kallithea
Panserraikos	6–0	Levadiakos
Makedonikos	1–1 (5–4 p)	Panionios
AEL	4–0	Kilkisiakos
Panathinaikos	9–1	Eordaikos
Apollon Athens	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Rodos
Acharnaikos	2–0	Doxa Drama
Panachaiki	3–4 (a.e.t.)	AEK Athens
Panthrakikos	1–0	Chania
Panetolikos	1–0	Xanthi
Almopos Aridea	7–3	Makedonikos Siatista
Anagennisi Epanomi	3–0	Ilisiakos
Olympiacos	7–0	Lamia
Atromitos	6–0	Ethnikos Asteras
Panelefsiniakos	1–4	PAS Giannina
Iraklis	7–0	Veria
Olympiakos Loutraki	2–1 (a.e.t.)	OFI
Kavala	3–0	A.F.C. Patra
Niki Volos	1–0	Proodeftiki
Fostiras	3–2	Naoussa
PAOK	6–0	Anagennisi Giannitsa
Ethnikos Piraeus	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Kastoria
Panegialios	4–1	Edessaikos
Pandramaikos	5–1	Olympiacos Volos
Egaleo	1–1 (1–4 p)	Korinthos
Panarkadikos	1–0	Irodotos

Second round[]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
AEK Athens	5–1	Panetolikos
Almopos Aridea	2–1	Fostiras
Acharnaikos	0–0 (4–5 p)	Atromitos
PAS Giannina	2–1	Panathinaikos
Kastoria	2–0	Kavala
AEL	1–1 (5–4 p)	Panserraikos
Makedonikos	2–1	Korinthos
Niki Volos	0–5	Iraklis
Olympiacos	1–2	PAOK
Panarkadikos	1–0	Apollon Athens
Pandramaikos	1–0	Trikala
Panthrakikos	3–1	Kozani
Panegialios	0–1	Anagennisi Epanomi
Aris	bye
Agrotikos Asteras	bye
Olympiakos Loutraki	bye

Round of 16[]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Panarkadikos	3–1	Panthrakikos
AEL	1–0	PAS Giannina
PAOK	1–0	AEK Athens
Olympiakos Loutraki	1–5	Kastoria
Anagennisi Epanomi	0–0 (5–4 p)	Pandramaikos
Agrotikos Asteras	1–4	Makedonikos
Aris	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Atromitos
Almopos Aridea	1–2	Iraklis

Quarter-finals[]

First legs were played on March 5, 1980. Second legs on April 26.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aris	1–2	PAOK	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Kastoria	2–1	AEL	1–0	1–1
Iraklis	1–0	Panarkadikos	1–0	0–0
Anagennisi Epanomi	2–3	Makedonikos	1–0	1–3

Semi-finals[]

First legs were played on May 7, 1980, while second on the 14th.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PAOK	1–2*	Iraklis	0–1	1–1
Kastoria	4–1	Makedonikos	2–0	2–1

^* Both games held at Kaftanzoglio Stadium. The Second leg took part on 21 May.

Final[]

The 36th Greek Cup Final was played at the AEK Stadium.

GK  1 Nikos Sarganis  88' DF  2 Lazaros Alexiadis DF  3 Giannis Siapanidis DF  6 Georgios Paraschos (c) DF  9 Andreas Voitsidis MF  5 Lakis Simaioforidis MF  4 Antonis Kopanos MF 10 Grigoris Papavasiliou MF  8 Argyris Papavasiliou MF  7 Ioannis Dintsikos  72' FW 11 Dimitris Tsironis Substitutes: GK Thanasis Ermidis  88' Giorgos Chounouzidis  72' Manager: Savvas Vasiliadis

1 Tasos Papadopoulos  2 Vasilis Voulgaris  4 Giannis Mavrodoulakis  81'  5 Georgios Michailidis  54'  3 Henryk Wawrowski  6 Charalambos Xanthopoulos 10 Tasos Kafkenaris  8 Ilias Chatzieleftheriou  70'  7 Nikos Kalambakas 11 Vassilis Hatzipanagis  9 Lakis Papaioannou Substitutes: 14 Vangelis Tsirikas  70' 16 Ilias Alexiadis  81' Manager: Kostas Karapatis

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Dedes Vasaras

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

References[]

External links[]

• Greek Cup 1979-80 at RSSSF
• sport24 Το έπος των γουναράδων at sport24.gr