1985–86 Greek Football Cup

1985–86 Greek Cup

Country	Greece
Teams	76
Defending champions	AEL
Champions	Panathinaikos (9th title)
Runners-up	Olympiacos
Matches played	105
← 1984–85 1986–87 →

The 1985–86 Greek Football Cup was the 44th edition of the Greek Football Cup.

Tournament details[]

Totally 76 teams participated, 16 from Alpha Ethniki, 20 from Beta, and 40 from Gamma. It was held in 7 rounds, included final. An Additional Round was held between First and Second, with 6 matches, in order that the teams would continue to be 32.

It was an interesting edition, with the eternal enemies, Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, to contest the Final after 11 years. Olympiacos had eliminated "big three of Thessaloniki" (PAOK, Aris, and Iraklis), while Panathinaikos only one Alpha Ethniki team, AEK Athens, in semi-finals. In the Final, that was held in Olympic Stadium, the common home of all three teams of former P.O.K. that year, Panathinaikos achieved an impressive 4–0^[1] victory against their opponent, completing one successful season with the win of The Double.^[2]

There were nevertheless many unusual events. Cup holders, AEL, were eliminated by Panseraikos in the First Round. Also, Panionios eliminated by Naoussa. PAOK struggled to qualify against Anagennisi Giannitsa, with impressive score 16–15 in penalty shootout, when with pointless shot there were in total 36 implementations from both teams in the process. Finally, it was memorable in the fact that HFF allocated the 1/5 of crude income of the Final in favour of the aims of UNICEF.

Calendar[]

Round	Date(s)[3]	Fixtures	Clubs	New entries
First Round	10, 17, 24 October & 6, 7 November 1985	38	76 → 38	76
Additional Round	21 November 1985	6	38 → 32	none
Round of 32	4, 5, 12, 29, 30 December 1985	32	32 → 16	none
Round of 16	21 January, 12 February 1986	16	16 → 8	none
Quarter-finals	12 March, 9 April 1986	8	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	11, 19, 21 May 1986	4	4 → 2	none
Final	28 May 1986	1	2 → 1	none

First round[]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Lamia	1–0	Apollon Kalamaria
Kastoria	3–0	Ionikos
Odysseas Kordelio	0–1	Kavala
Proodeftiki	0–2	Athinaikos
Anagennisi Giannitsa	1–1 (15–16 p)	PAOK
Eordaikos	2–0	Polykastro
Veria	4–1	Xanthi
Rodos	0–1	Irodotos
Almopos Aridea	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Kilkisiakos
Paniliakos	2–0	Vyzas Megara
Pannafpliakos	1–1 (4–5 p)	Thiva
OFI	1–0	Charavgiakos
Aiolikos	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Panetolikos
Olympiacos	3–1	Pierikos
Chalkida	6–1	Neapoli Piraeus
Atromitos	3–0	Achilleas Farsala
Anagennisi Karditsa	1–0	PAS Giannina
Panthrakikos	1–0	Agrotikos Asteras
Ethnikos Alexandroupoli	3–1	Acharnaikos
Kerkyra	1–2	Doxa Drama
Ethnikos Asteras	1–4	Iraklis
Thriamvos Athens	1–2	Olympiacos Volos
Ergotelis	4–1	Niki Volos
Fostiras	1–2	Trikala
Levadiakos	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Panachaiki
Makedonikos	2–1	Alexandreia
Iraklis Kavala	1–0	Panarkadikos
Agrinio	1–3 (a.e.t.)	Apollon Athens
Edessaikos	2–0	Kalamata
APE Langadas	0–2	Aris
Korinthos	0–2	Ethnikos Piraeus
Panserraikos	1–0	AEL
Kallithea	4–1	Kozani
Naoussa	2–1	Panionios
Anagennisi Arta	2–4	Egaleo
Diagoras	4–1	Panelefsiniakos
Panathinaikos	5–0	Poseidon Michaniona
AEK Athens	10–0	Ilioupoli

Additional Round[]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Veria	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Doxa Drama
OFI	3–0	Edessaikos
Kastoria	3–0	Naoussa
Olympiacos	0–0 (4–3 p)	PAOK
Trikala	4–0	Atromitos
Makedonikos	3–1	Panthrakikos

Round of 32[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Panachaiki	4–1	Diagoras	2–0	2–1
Trikala	1–2	Olympiacos Volos	0–2	1–0
Irodotos	2–4	Anagennisi Karditsa	1–3	1–1
AEK Athens	2–1	Kallithea	1–1	1–0
Makedonikos	2–4	Panathinaikos	0–2	2–2
Iraklis	8–0	Thiva	7–0	1–0
Apollon Athens	3–2	Athinaikos	1–1	2–1
OFI	3–1	Doxa Drama	2–0	1–1
Aris	(a) 1–1	Kastoria	0–0	1–1
Egaleo	0–1	Kavala	0–0	0–1
Aiolikos	6–1	Paniliakos	3–0	3–1
Almopos Aridea	0–6	Ethnikos Piraeus	0–3	0–3
Eordaikos	2–1	Ethnikos Alexandroupoli	0–0	2–1
Chalkida	1–1 (3–0 p)	Iraklis Kavala	1–0	0–1
Olympiacos	3–1	Lamia	2–1	1–0
Ergotelis	1–0	Panserraikos	1–0	0–0

Round of 16[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aris	6–1	Eordaikos	5–1	1–0
Ethnikos Piraeus	(a) 2–2	Apollon Athens	1–0	1–2
Anagennisi Karditsa	4–6	OFI	1–1	3–5
Olympiacos Volos	1–2	Ergotelis	1–0	0–2
Olympiacos	3–2	Iraklis	3–1	0–1
Panathinaikos	6–0	Aiolikos	5–0	1–0
Panachaiki	4–2	Kavala	4–1	0–1
Chalkida	1–4	AEK Athens	1–2	0–2

Quarter-finals[]

First legs were played on March 12, 1986, and second legs on April 9.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEK Athens	3–1	Panachaiki	3–0	0–1
OFI	3–5	Aris	1–1	2–4
Ergotelis	3–10	Panathinaikos	2–3	1–7
Olympiacos	4–1	Ethnikos Piraeus	3–1	1–0

Semi-finals[]

First legs were played on May 11, 1986. Second on the 19th.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aris	2–3	Olympiacos	1–1	1–2
AEK Athens	3–4	Panathinaikos	2–2	1–2

Final[]

The 42nd Greek Football Cup Final was played at the Olympic Stadium.

Panathinaikos

Olympiacos

GK  1 Antonis Minou DF  2 Kostas Tarasis DF  3 Nikos Patsiavouras DF  4 Ioannis Kyrastas (c) DF  6 Kostas Mavridis MF  5 Velimir Zajec MF 10 Vangelis Vlachos MF  8 Michalis Gerothodoros   61' MF  9 Kostas Batsinilas FW  7 Dimitris Saravakos FW 11 Christos Dimopoulos   84' Substitutes: GK 15 Ilias Missas MF 12 Juan Ramón Rocha   61' MF 14 Kostas Antoniou   84' MF 16 Lysandros Georgamlis FW 13 Thanasis Dimopoulos Manager: Petr Packert

GK  1 Christos Arvanitis DF  2 Petros Xanthopoulos DF  3 Giorgos Kokolakis DF  4 Giorgos Toyias DF  5 Petros Michos (c) MF  6 Giorgos Semertzidis MF  7 Miloš Šestić MF  8 Vassilis Papachristou MF 10 Tasos Mitropoulos  90+1' FW 11 Giorgos Vaitsis  46' FW  9 Nikos Anastopoulos Substitutes: GK 15 Giannis Papamichail DF 16 Makis Aggelinas MF 12 Vassilis Papaggelis  46' MF 14 Michalis Georgoudakis FW 13 Takis Lemonis Manager: Antonis Georgiadis

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Koukoulakis Chrissanis

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[]

External links[]

• Greek Cup 1985-86 at RSSSF