1993–94 Greek Football Cup

1993–94 Greek Cup

Country	Greece
Teams	72
Defending champions	Panathinaikos
Champions	Panathinaikos (14th title)
Runners-up	AEK Athens
Matches played	117
Top goal scorer(s)	Zoran Slišković (10)
← 1992–93 1994–95 →

The 1993–94 Greek Football Cup was the 52nd edition of the Greek Football Cup.

Tournament details[]

Totally 72 teams participated, 18 from Alpha Ethniki, 18 from Beta, and 36 from Gamma. It was held in 6 rounds, included final.

It was a very interesting competition with undecided matches and led in a Final between Panathinaikos and AEK Athens, a pair that had not appeared in a Greek Cup Final for 45 years, since the last confrontation between the two teams in the final match was in 1949. AEK Athens qualified in the Final after 11 years, while Panathinaikos had eliminated PAOK earlier in penalty shootout, after two goalless draws.

The final match^[1] was the one of two more shocking Finals in history of Greek Cup, after the Final of 1976. Panathinaikos preceded 2–0 and appeared to win, however, in a few minutes to its end, AEK Athens accomplished to draw, to precede in the start of extra time and to be drawn, in order finally to lose the Cup in penalty shootout. At the same time they lost The Double, while the same year they won the last championship in their history, until 2009.

Remarkable in the competition was also the bombardment of goals, almost in all phases and mainly in second legs. Characteristically, in second matches of Second Round, 16 in the number, were marked 64 goals, mean 4 goals per match, and in corresponding of Third Round 30 goals in 8 matches.

Also, it is remarkable that in unique two from 16 groups that included two Alpha Ethniki teams, it happened to be drawn opponents Olympiacos and Iraklis in Group 16, that later balloted again in quarter-finals, but also AEK Athens and Panathinaikos in Group 14, that is to say the pair of the Final.

Calendar[]

Round	Main date	Number of fixtures	Clubs	New entries this round
Group stage	25 August & 1, 8 September 1993	56	72 → 32	72
Round of 32	27 October, 10 November 1993	32	32 → 16	none
Round of 16	15, 29 December 1993	16	16 → 8	none
Quarter-finals	19 January, 2 February 1994	8	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	2, 16 March 1994	4	4 → 2	none
Final	20 April 1994	1	2 → 1	none

Group stage[]

The phase was played in a single round-robin format. Each win would gain 3 points, each draw 1 and each loss would not gain any point.

Round of 32[]

First legs were held on October 27, 1993. Second on November 11.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEL	9–2	Iraklis Ptolemaida	2–1	7–1
Panathinaikos	5–3	OFI	5–1	0–2
Naoussa	2–6	Olympiacos Volos	1–2	1–4
Keravnos Kolchiko	2–2 (a)	Asteras Ambelokipoi	2–2	0–0
Doxa Drama	0–2	Ionikos	0–1	0–1
Edessaikos	1–2	Aris	1–0	0–2
Skoda Xanthi	4–4 (a)	Panionios	4–3	0–1
Levadiakos	(a) 1–1	Athinaikos	0–0	1–1
Kastoria	3–4	Panargiakos	3–1	0–3
Apollon Kalamaria	6–7	Olympiacos	4–2	2–5
Paniliakos	3–6	AEK Athens	0–0	3–6
Panachaiki	6–4	Proodeftiki	3–1	3–3
PAOK	5–4	Apollon Athens	1–0	4–4
PAS Giannina	1–0	Pandramaikos	0–0	1–0
Iraklis	13–1	Apollon Krya Vrysi	5–0	8–1
Pontioi Veria	3–0	EAR	3–0	0–0

Round of 16[]

First legs were held on December 15, 1993, while second legs were held on 29th.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Panathinaikos	0–0 (5–4 p)	PAOK	0–0	0–0
PAS Giannina	7–1	Olympiacos Volos	5–1	2–0
Levadiakos	2–6	Olympiacos	0–0	2–6
Panachaiki	3–4	Ionikos	1–2	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Aris	6–2	Panargiakos	4–1	2–1
AEK Athens	11–1	Asteras Ambelokipoi	4–0	7–1
AEL	(a) 2–2	Pontioi Veria	1–0	1–2
Panionios	2–4	Iraklis	1–3	1–1

Quarter-finals[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Olympiacos	2–3	Iraklis	2–2	0–1
PAS Giannina	2–3	Aris	2–1	0–2
AEL	1–2	AEK Athens	0–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Panathinaikos	3–1	Ionikos	1–1	2–0

Semi-finals[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aris	1–2	AEK Athens	0–0	1–2
Iraklis	0–3	Panathinaikos	0–0	0–3

Final[]

The 50th Greek Cup Final was played at the Olympic Stadium.

Panathinaikos

ΑΕΚ Athens

GK  1 Józef Wandzik DF  2 Stratos Apostolakis (c) DF  5 Ioannis Kalitzakis DF  3 Marinos Ouzounidis DF  8 Thanasis Kolitsidakis MF  4 Louis Christodoulou MF  6 Nikos Nioplias MF 10 Giorgos Georgiadis MF 11 Dimitris Markos MF  7 Juan José Borrelli  67' FW  9 Krzysztof Warzycha  65' Substitutes: GK Antonis Nikopolidis MF 12 Spiros Marangos  67' FW 14 Giorgos Donis  65' Manager: Juan Ramón Rocha

GK  1 Ilias Atmatsidis DF  3 Vaios Karagiannis DF  4 Stelios Manolas DF  5 Refik Šabanadžović  46' DF  2 Michalis Kasapis MF  6 Michalis Vlachos  60' MF 10 Stavros Stamatis MF  8 Toni Savevski MF  9 Charis Kopitsis FW 11 Zoran Slišković FW  7 Alexis Alexandris (c) Substitutes: GK 15 Vasilis Karagiannis DF 12 Giorgos Agorogiannis MF 13 Tasos Mitropoulos MF 14 Vasilios Tsiartas  46' FW 16 Vasilis Dimitriadis  60' Manager: Dušan Bajević

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Christos Sotiropoulos Nikos Chaldeos

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 1993-94 at RSSSF