2008–09 Greek Football Cup

2008–09 Greek Cup

Tournament details
Country	Greece
Dates	30 August 2008 – 2 May 2009
Teams	70
Defending champions	Olympiacos
Final positions
Champions	Olympiacos (24th title)
Runners-up	AEK Athens
Tournament statistics
Matches played	79
Goals scored	181 (2.29 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Ismael Blanco (5 goals)

The 2008–09 Greek Football Cup was the 67th edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition started on 30 August 2008 with the first round and concluded on 2 May 2009 with the final, held at Olympic Stadium.

Olympiacos claimed that season's Greek Cup, after a 4–4 draw and a 15–14 victory on penalties over AEK Athens, and was considered by fans as the most entertaining final in the tournament.^[1][2]

Round	Date(s)	Fixtures	Clubs	New entries	Leagues entering
First Round	30, 31 August & 7 September 2008	18	70 → 52	36	Gamma Ethniki
Second Round	16–18 September 2008	18	52 → 34	18	Beta Ethniki
Additional Round	24 September 2008	2	34 → 32	none	none
Round of 32	28–30 October, 11–13 November 2008	16	32 → 16	16	Super League
Round of 16	13–15, 20–22, 28 January 2009	12	16 → 8	none	none
Quarter-finals	4, 18, 25 February & 4 March 2009	8	8 → 4
Semi-finals	18 March & 8, 9 April 2009	4	4 → 2
Final	2 May 2009	1	2 → 1

Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the quarter-finals and the semi-finals, was played by 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. In the quarter-finals and the semi-finals were 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 round of 16, if the score was level at the end of normal time the two-legged rule was applied.
The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

• In the draw for the second round, the teams from the second division are seeded and the winners from the first round were unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams.
• In the draw for the Round of 32 onwards, the teams from the first division are seeded and the winners from the previous rounds were unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams.
• In the draws for the Round of 16 onwards, there are no seedings and teams from the different group can be drawn against each other.

The draw took place on 18 August 2008.^[3]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
30 August 2008
Hersonissos	1–2	Zakynthos
Anagennisi Arta	0–1	Rodos
Koropi	0–0 (4–3 p)	Eordaïkos 2007
Aiolikos	0–1	Lamia
Chaidari	1–0	Thermaikos
Odysseas Anagennisi	3–2	Keravnos
Makedonikos	4–2	Anagennisi Giannitsa
Vyzas	1–0	Ethnikos Filippiada
31 August 2008
Pyrsos	0–0 (4–3 p)	Agios Dimitrios
Korinthos	3–0	Ethnikos Katerini
Neos Asteras Rethymno	1–1 (4–5 p)	Neoi Epivates
Niki Volos	2–0	Preveza
Aias Salamina	0–1	Ilioupoli
Agia Paraskevi	0–1	Fokikos
Panetolikos	3–0	Atsalenios
Egaleo	0–3	Panachaïki 2005
Fostiras	0–0 (5–4 p)	Panargiakos
Doxa Dramas	3–0	Alexandroupoli Enosi

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The draw took place on 18 August 2008, after the first-round draw.^[3]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
16 September 2008
Pyrsos	1–4	Kallithea
Fokikos	0–1	Kerkyra
17 September 2008
Zakynthos	2–1	Pierikos
Korinthos	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Ethnikos Piraeus
Rodos	0–1	Kavala
Doxa Dramas	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Agrotikos Asteras
Koropi	0–0 (3–2 p)	Ionikos
Neoi Epivates	0–0 (3–4 p)	Ilisiakos
Niki Volos	1–2 (a.e.t.)	PAS Giannina
Lamia	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Kalamata
Odysseas Anagennisi	0–2	Ethnikos Asteras
Ilioupoli	2–2 (3–5 p)	Apollon Kalamarias
Panetolikos	1–1 (4–2 p)	Olympiacos Volos
Panachaïki 2005	0–4	Kastoria
Fostiras	1–3 (a.e.t.)	Atromitos
Vyzas	0–1	Diagoras
18 September 2008
Chaidari	2–2 (1–4 p)	Veria
Makedonikos	2–1	Anagennisi Karditsa

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Team 1	Score	Team 2
Koropi	1–2	Atromitos
Kerkyra	3–0	PAS Giannina

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	Round of 32				Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Ethnikos Asteras	0
	Ergotelis	2
					Ergotelis			0
					Skoda Xanthi			3
	Kallithea	1
	Skoda Xanthi	3
											Skoda Xanthi	2	1	2
											AEK Athens (a)	1	0	2
	Ilisiakos	1
	AEK Athens	2
					AEK Athens			1
					Kerkyra			0
	Kerkyra	0(4)
	Levadiakos	0(2)
																	AEK Athens	3	0	3
																	Panserraikos	1	0	1
	Lamia	1
	Panserraïkos	2
					Panserraïkos			1
					AEL			0
	Panetolikos	0
	AEL	2
											Panserraïkos	3	0	3
											Panathinaïkos	1	0	1
	Zakynthos	0
	Panthrakikos (a.e.t.)	2
					Panthrakikos			0
					Panathinaïkos			4
	Kavala	0
	Panathinaïkos	3
																							AEK Athens	4(14)
																							Olympiacos (p)	4(15)
	Veria	3
	Thrasyvoulos	1
					Veria	0	0	0
					Panionios	0	2	2
	Ethnikos Piraeus	0
	Panionios	2
											Panionios	0	0	0
											Asteras Tripolis	1	1	2
	Apollon Kalamarias	0
	Asteras Tripolis	1
					Asteras Tripolis			2
					Iraklis			0
	Kastoria	2
	Iraklis (a.e.t.)	3
																	Asteras Tripolis	2	1	3
																	Olympiacos	2	2	4
	Makedonikos	1
	PAOK	2
					PAOK (p)	0	0	0(9)
					Aris	0	0	0(8)
	Atromitos	1
	Aris	2
											PAOK	1	0	1
											Olympiacos (a.e.t.)	0	2	2
	Agrotikos Asteras	1
	OFI	2
					OFI			0
					Olympiacos			2
	Diagoras	2
	Olympiacos	3

The draw took place on 18 August 2008.^[3]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Zakynthos	0–2 (a.e.t.)	Panthrakikos
Kallithea	1–3	Skoda Xanthi
Ethnikos Piraeus	0–2	Panionios
Kavala	0–3	Panathinaïkos
Agrotikos Asteras	1–2	OFI
Ilisiakos	1–2 (a.e.t.)	AEK Athens
Lamia	1–2	Panserraïkos
Veria	3–1	Thrasyvoulos
Ethnikos Asteras	0–2	Ergotelis
Apollon Kalamarias	0–1	Asteras Tripolis
Makedonikos	1–2	PAOK
Panetolikos	0–2	AEL
Kastoria	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Iraklis
Diagoras	2–3	Olympiacos
Atromitos	1–2	Aris
Kerkyra	0–0 (4–2 p)	Levadiakos

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The draw took place on 19 November 2008.^[4]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ergotelis	0–3	Skoda Xanthi
Veria	0–2	Panionios	0–0	0–2
Panthrakikos	0–4	Panathinaïkos
Panserraïkos	1–0	AEL
PAOK	0–0	Aris	0–0	0–0 (9–8 p)
OFI	0–2	Olympiacos
AEK Athens	1–0	Kerkyra
Asteras Tripolis	2–0	Iraklis

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The draw took place on 26 January 2009.^[5]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
PAOK	1–2	Olympiacos	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Skoda Xanthi	2–2 (a)	AEK Athens	2–1	0–1
Panionios	0–2	Asteras Tripolis	0–1	0–1
Panserraïkos	3–2	Panathinaïkos	0–0	3–2

Olympiacos won 2–1 on aggregate.

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AEK Athens won on away goals.

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Asteras Tripolis won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Panserraikos won 3–2 on aggregate.

The draw took place on 26 January 2009, after the quarter-final draw.^[5]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEK Athens	3–1	Panserraikos	3–1	0–0
Asteras Tripolis	3–4	Olympiacos	2–2	1–2

AEK Athens won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Olympiacos won 4–3 on aggregate.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ismael Blanco	AEK Athens	5
	Diogo	Olympiacos
3	Michalis Klokidis	Makedonikos	4
	Lazaros Christodoulopoulos	Panathinaikos
5	Emanuel Perrone	Atromitos	3
	Gilvan Carlos	Zakynthos
	Matt Derbyshire	Olympiacos
	Ante Rukavina	Panathinaikos
	Ignacio Scocco	AEK Athens
10	Pavlos Leptokaridis	Anagennisi Giannitsa	2
	Fabian Gerber	OFI
	Marko Markovski	Kallithea
	Nastja Čeh	Panserraikos
	Anastasios Triantafyllou	Diagoras
	Christos Kanellopoulos	Niki Volos
	Ilias Siokos	Korinthos
	Rogério Martins	Ergotelis
	Facundo Parra	AEL
	Vasilios Chatzivasiliadis	Kastoria
	Danijel Cesarec	Asteras Tripolis
	Stavros Tsoukalas	Doxa Drama
	Victor Agali	Skoda Xanthi
	Amr El Halwani	Veria
	Petros Dimitriadis	Makedonikos
	Ilias Manikas	Panetolikos
	Ibrahima Bakayoko	PAOK
	Israel Silva	Kerkyra
	Bennard Yao Kumordzi	Panionios
	Luciano Galletti	Olympiacos
	Lucio Filomeno	Asteras Tripolis
	Rafik Djebbour	AEK Athens
	Vangelis Kaounos	Kalamata / Asteras Tripolis
	Dudu Cearense	Olympiacos

• Greek Cup 2008-2009 at Hellenic Football Federation's official site