1998–99 Greek Football Cup

1998–99 Greek Cup

Tournament details
Country	Greece
Teams	60
Defending champions	Panionios
Final positions
Champions	Olympiacos (20th title)
Runners-up	Panathinaikos
Tournament statistics
Matches played	65
Goals scored	202 (3.11 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Krzysztof Warzycha (5 goals)

The 1998–99 Greek Football Cup was the 57th edition of the Greek Football Cup. Olympiacos defeated Panathinaikos in the final on 5 May 1999.

In total, 60 teams participated: 18 from Alpha Ethniki, 18 from Beta, and 24 from Gamma. The competition was held over six rounds, included the final. The first three rounds were single elimination matches. AEK Athens and PAOK, both of the Alpha Ethniki, were eliminated by lower division teams Poseidon Michaniona and Panserraikos respectively. As is typically seen in this tournament, half of the eight quarter-final teams came from Beta Ethniki. They were Kalamata, Panserraikos, Athinaikos and ILTEX Lykoi.

The final was contested in Athens at Olympic Stadium on 5 May 1999, by the eternal enemies, Olympiacos and Panathinaikos. They had last met in the Greek Cup Final in 1992–93. Panathinaikos had earlier eliminated Cup holders Panionios in the first round while Olympiacos had eliminated Ionikos by an impressive 4–7 score in the third round. Olympiacos won 2–0 and achieved their 20th Cup conquest.^[1] With the victory, Olympiacos achieved the Double for the first time in 18 years. With the Cup final loss, Panathinaikos became the first team to lose the Cup final three times in a row.^[2]

Round	Date(s)	Fixtures	Clubs	New entries
First Round	8–12 November 1998	30	60 → 30	60
Second Round	16, 17 December 1998	14	30 → 16	none
Round of 16	12–14 January 1999	8	16 → 8	none
Quarter-finals	27 January & 17, 18 February 1999	8	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	6–14 April 1999	4	4 → 2	none
Final	5 May 1999	1	2 → 1	none

Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the first three rounds and the final, was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then extra time was played. The away goals rule was again applied after extra time, i.e. if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team advanced by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the winners were decided by a penalty shoot-out. In the first three rounds and the final, which were played as a single match, if the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the score was still level.
The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

• There are no seedings, and teams from the same group can be drawn against each other.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Paniliakos	6–1	Agersani
Apollon Athens	1–2	Kozani
Marko	6–2	Apollon Kalamarias
Ethnikos Asteras	1–2	Aiolikos
EAR	2–1	Kilkisiakos
Aetos Skydra	0–5	PAOK
Anagennisi Karditsa	4–2	Apollon Krya Vrysi
Panachaiki	2–0	Veria
A.O. Karditsa	4–0	Levadiakos
Agios Nikolaos	0–0 (1–4 p)	Panegialios
ILTEX Lykoi	2–0	Achaiki
Skoda Xanthi	2–0	Kallithea
Niki Volos	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Ethnikos Piraeus
Athinaikos	2–1	Kastoria
AEL	3–0	Proodeftiki
Ampelokipoi Thessaloniki	3–1	Doxa Drama
Iraklis	4–1	Nafpaktiakos Asteras
Panserraikos	2–1 (a.e.t.)	PAS Giannina
Naoussa	0–2	Aris
Panetolikos	2–1	Edessaikos
Panargiakos	1–0	Trikala
Atromitos	0–1	Kavala
Panelefsiniakos	5–0	Preveza
Ialysos	1–0	Keratsini
Pierikos	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Kalamata
Panionios	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Panathinaikos
Olympiacos	4–2	Egaleo
Olympiacos Volos	1–1 (3–4 p)	Ionikos
Doxa Vyronas	1–3	OFI
Poseidon Michaniona	1–0	AEK Athens

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	Second round				Round of 16				Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Panegialios	1
	PAOK (a.e.t.)	3
					PAOK	0
					Panserraikos	1
	Panserraikos (bye)
									Panserraikos	0	0	0
									Panathinaikos	3	2	5
	Kavala	0
	Paniliakos	3
					Paniliakos	0
					Panathinaikos	2
	Panathinaikos	2
	Panelefsiniakos	1
															Panathinaikos	6	2	8
															Athinaikos	1	2	3
	AEL (a.e.t.)	1
	Ampelokipoi Thessaloniki	0
					AEL	0
					Athinaikos	2
	Panargiakos	1
	Athinaikos	2
									Athinaikos (a)	0	1	1
									Kalamata	0	1	1
	Aiolikos (p)	0(5)
	Anagennisi Karditsa	0(4)
					Aiolikos	0
					Kalamata	3
	Kalamata	2
	Marko	0
																					Panathinaikos	0
																					Olympiacos	2
	OFI	2
	Ionikos (a.e.t.)	3
					Ionikos	4
					Olympiacos	7
	Aris	1
	Olympiacos	3
									Olympiacos	3	0	3
									Skoda Xanthi	1	1	2
	Skoda Xanthi (a.e.t.)	1
	Ethnikos Piraeus	0
					Skoda Xanthi	2
					A.O. Karditsa	0
	A.O. Karditsa	2
	Panetolikos	1
															Olympiacos	4	1	5
															Iraklis	0	1	1
	ILTEX Lykoi	2
	EAR	1
					ILTEX Lykoi	5
					Kozani	1
	Kozani (bye)
									ILTEX Lykoi	1	2	3
									Iraklis	3	1	4
	Poseidon Michaniona (p)	1(8)
	Panachaiki	1(7)
					Poseidon Michaniona	1
					Iraklis	2
	Ialysos	2(2)
	Iraklis (p)	2(4)

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Panathinaikos	2–1	Panelefsiniakos
OFI	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Ionikos
Aiolikos	0–0 (5–4 p)	Anagennisi Karditsa
Kalamata	2–0	Marko
Poseidon Michaniona	1–1 (8–7 p)	Panachaiki
Kavala	0–3	Paniliakos
A.O. Karditsa	2–1	Panetolikos
Panegialios	1–3 (a.e.t.)	PAOK
AEL	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Ampelokipoi Thessaloniki
ILTEX Lykoi	2–1	EAR
Panargiakos	1–2	Athinaikos
Ialysos	2–2 (2–4 p)	Iraklis
Skoda Xanthi	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Ethnikos Piraeus
Aris	1–3	Olympiacos
Panserraikos	bye
Kozani	bye

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Team 1	Score	Team 2
Ionikos	4–7	Olympiacos
AEL	0–2	Athinaikos
PAOK	0–1	Panserraikos
ILTEX Lykoi	5–1	Kozani
Poseidon Michaniona	1–2	Iraklis
Skoda Xanthi	2–0	A.O. Karditsa
Aiolikos	0–3	Kalamata
Paniliakos	0–2	Panathinaikos

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The match took place at Kavala because due to punishment of PAOK.

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ILTEX Lykoi	3–4	Iraklis	1–3	2–1
Panserraikos	0–5	Panathinaikos	0–3	0–2
Olympiacos	3–2	Skoda Xanthi	3–1	0–1
Athinaikos	(a) 1–1	Kalamata	0–0	1–1

Iraklis won 4–3 on aggregate.

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Panathinaikos won 5–0 on aggregate.

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Olympiacos won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Athinaikos won on away goals.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Panathinaikos	8–3	Athinaikos	6–1	2–2
Olympiacos	5–1	Iraklis	4–0	1–1

Panathinaikos won 8–3 on aggregate.

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Olympiacos won 5–1 on aggregate.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos	5
2	Antonis Kefaloukos	Marko	4
	Paul Cominges	PAOK
	Siniša Gogić	Olympiacos
5	Ivan Nedeljković	A.O. Karditsa	3
	Miltiadis Sapanis	Paniliakos
	Kyriakos Pantelis	ILTEX Lykoi
	Stelios Kozanidis	Olympiacos
	Stelios Giannakopoulos	Athinaikos
	Nikos Liberopoulos	Panathinaikos

• Greek Cup 1998-99 at RSSSF