Football tournament season
2002–03 Greek CupVodafone Greek Cup |
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Tournament details |
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Country | Greece |
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Teams | 52 |
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Defending champions | AEK Athens |
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Final positions |
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Champions | PAOK (4th title) |
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Runner-up | Aris |
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Tournament statistics |
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Matches played | 101 |
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Top goal scorer(s) | Patrick Ogunsoto (5 goals) |
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The 2002–03 Greek Football Cup was the 61st edition of the Greek Football Cup. That season's edition was entitled "Vodafone Greek Cup" for sponsorship reasons.
Tournament details
The two finalists were the arch-rivals, PAOK and Aris, meeting up again in a Cup final after 33 years. PAOK had to overcome some big obstacles to reach the final. They qualified against OFI on away goals rule and eliminated league champions Olympiacos with two wins in the quarter-finals and Cup holders AEK Athens with 2–1 on aggregate in the semi-finals.
On the contrary, Aris had an easier path on their route to the final. They eliminated PAS Giannina with two wins, Ethnikos Asteras with 3–2 on aggregate in the quarter-finals and qualified against Egaleo on away goals rule in the semi-finals.
The final was held at Toumba Stadium, on 17 May 2003. PAOK defeated Aris by 1–0 with a goal scored by Georgiadis who made an impressive individual effort, dribbling past a defender with his right foot, faking a shot with his left (outsmarting another defender and the goalkeeper in the process) and finishing with a swift side-foot kick (using his left again) that launched the ball up and into the back of the net. The assist was provided by Markos. Aris had a great chance to equalize late at the game, but the ball hit the post on Morris' effort.
During the postgame press conference, Aris manager Giorgos Foiros made a complaint that the final should have been a two-legged tie because PAOK had the advantage of playing on home ground. Kaftanzoglio Stadium, a neutral ground and Thessaloniki 's largest stadium was under renovation for the 2004 Summer Olympic games. The Hellenic Football Federation's regulation for that season's Cup stated that if the final was to be held at Thessaloniki (that would be the case if at least one of the two finalists was a Thessaloniki 's team), it would be hosted at the second largest stadium of the city which was Toumba. About a week before the game, Aris demanded from the federation either the final to be played at Kalamaria Stadium or Makedonikos Stadium, both neutral grounds (with much smaller capacity though) or to be held a draw between Toumba Stadium and Aris Stadium, but both requests were denied due to the tournament's regulation.
PAOK manager Angelos Anastasiadis became the first in club's history to win the Cup both as a player, in 1974 and manager.
Calendar
Round |
Date(s) |
Fixtures |
Clubs |
New entries
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First Round |
8–12, 14, 16–18, 21, 28 August & 4, 11, 12, 25 September 2002 |
52 |
52 → 26 |
52
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Second Round |
6, 7, 14, 21, 23, 30 October & 2, 6, 13 November 2002 |
20 |
26 → 16 |
none
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Round of 16 |
4, 11, 18, 19 December 2002 & 8, 15, 22, 23, 29 January 2003 |
16 |
16 → 8 |
none
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Quarter-finals |
5, 19, 26 February & 5, 12, 19 March 2003 |
8 |
8 → 4 |
none
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Semi-finals |
9, 23 April & 7 May 2003 |
4 |
4 → 2 |
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Final |
17 May 2003 |
1 |
2 → 1 |
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Knockout phase
Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from 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 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:
- For the 1st Round draw, the 1st Division teams and the top 10 teams of the 2nd Division are seeded, the remaining teams are unseeded.
- From the 2nd Round draw onwards, there are no seedings.
First round
The draw took place on 11 July 2002.
Seeding
Summary
Matches
Kallithea won 6–0 on aggregate
Referee: Kostas Finokaliotis (
Athens)
Referee: Makis Efthimiadis (
Drama)
OFI won 4–0 on aggregate
Referee: Frangiskos Somarakakis (
Athens)
Panionios won 3–1 on aggregate
Referee: Theodoros Triantafyllidis (
Piraeus)
Pantelis Magoulas Stadium,
Volos
Ethnikos Asteras won 2–1 on aggregate
Referee: I. Toumpanis (
Athens)
Agios Dimitrios won 3–2 on aggregate
Referee: Efthimios Damianos (
Kozani)
Referee: Charalampos Karatzas (
Euboea)
PAS Giannina won 3–1 on aggregate
Referee: Giannis Tsachilidis (
Piraeus)
Referee: Manolis Tapatzas (
Thrace)
Egaleo won 6–4 on aggregate
Aigio National Stadium,
Aigio
Olympiakos Volos won on penalties
Skoda Xanthi won 4–0 on aggregate
Referee: Petros Michailidis (
Athens)
Referee: Dimitris Christodoulakis (
Rethymno)
Ergotelis won 6–2 on aggregate
Referee: Giannis Tsachilidis (
Piraeus)
Panachaiki won 7–2 on aggregate
Referee: Christos Trikalis (
Trikala)
Akratitos won 8–0 on aggregate
Referee: Giorgos Tsangarakis (
Chania)
Referee: Romanos Kontogiannidis (
Xanthi)
Iraklis won 4–2 on aggregate
Referee: Giannis Peppas (
Athens)
Referee: Stavros Georgopoulos (
Arcadia)
Paniliakos won 7–0 on aggregate
Referee: Manolis Tapatzas (
Thrace)
Referee: Giannis Tsachilidis (
Piraeus)
Panathinaikos won 5–0 on aggregate
Referee: Lazaros Polatian (
Pella)
Apollon Kalamarias won 5–4 on aggregate
Pantelis Nikolaidis Stadium,
Nikaia Referee: Emmanouil Vomvas (
Lesbos)
Chalkidona won 6–1 on aggregate
Patraikos won 3–2 on aggregate
Attendance: 591
Referee: Efthimios Damianos (
Kozani)
PAOK won 1–0 on aggregate
Municipal Stadium of Kilkis,
Kilkis
Referee: Sotiris Tiligadas (
Achaea)
Kalamata won 2–1 on aggregate
AEK Athens won 2–0 on aggregate.
Referee: Vasilis Skoufitsas (
Athens)
Referee: Giorgos Takidis (
Kilkis)
Aris won 6–0 on aggregate
Referee: Thanasis Briakos (
Epirus)
Kerkyra won 1–0 on aggregate
Referee: Charalampos Karatzas (
Euboea)
Olympiacos won 4–1 on aggregate
Referee: Giorgos Giannopoulos (
Athens)
Referee: Dimitris Detsis (
Athens)
Apollon Athens won 3–0 on aggregate
Referee: Frangiskos Somarakakis (
Athens)
Ionikos won 4–0 on aggregate
Bracket
Second round
The draw took place on 27 September 2002.
Summary
Matches
Referee: Thanasis Briakos (
Epirus)
Panionios won 2–1 on aggregate.
Attendance: 461
Referee: Christos Trikalis (
Trikala)
AEK Athens won 6–1 on aggregate.
Referee: Romanos Kontogiannidis (
Xanthi)
Referee: Dimitris Takidis (
Kilkis)
PAOK won 2–0 on aggregate.
Panathinaikos won 1–0 on aggregate.
Referee: Ioannis Tsacheilidis (
Piraeus)
Referee: Romanos Kontogiannidis (
Xanthi)
Akratitos won 3–1 on aggregate.
Referee: Vasilis Skoufitsas (
Athens)
Referee: Ioannis Tsacheilidis (
Piraeus)
Egaleo won 4–2 on aggregate.
Olympiacos won 4–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Giorgos Tsangarakis (
Chania)
Referee: Manolis Tapatzas (
Thrace)
Aris won 4–1 on aggregate.
Referee: Efthimios Damianos (
Kozani)
Referee: Frangiskos Somarakakis (
Athens)
OFI won 4–0 on aggregate.
Referee: Stavros Georgopoulos (
Arcadia)
Referee: Spyros Vasiliou (
Elis)
Ethnikos Asteras won 3–2 on aggregate.
Round of 16
The draw took place on 28 November 2002.
Summary
Matches
Attendance: 134
Referee: Kostas Finokaliotis (
Athens)
Attendance: 524
Referee: Vasilis Skoufitsas (
Athens)
AEK Athens won 5–0 on aggregate.
Referee: Giorgos Kaznaferis (
Athens)
PAOK won on away goals.
Referee: Dimitris Takidis (
Kilkis)
Aris won 4–0 on aggregate.
Referee: Giorgos Borovilos (
Arcadia)
Panionios won 2–1 on aggregate.
Attendance: 1,101
Referee: Thanasis Briakos (
Epirus)
Attendance: 1,618
Referee: Charalampos Karatzas (
Euboea)
Olympiacos won 2–0 on aggregate.
Referee: Stavros Georgopoulos (
Arcadia)
Egaleo won 6–1 on aggregate.
Ethnikos Asteras won 4–1 on aggregate.
Referee: Ioannis Tsacheilidis (
Piraeus)
Panathinaikos won 4–0 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
The draw took place on 30 January 2003.
Summary
Matches
Egaleo won 2–1 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 5–3 on aggregate.
Referee: Dimitris Takidis (
Kilkis)
Referee: Manolis Tapatzas (
Thrace)
Aris won 3–2 on aggregate.
Attendance: 17,647
Referee: Giorgos Tsangarakis (
Chania)
PAOK won 5–2 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
The draw took place on 20 March 2003.
Summary
Matches
Referee: Makis Efthimiadis (
Drama)
Aris won on away goals.
Attendance: 10,082
Referee: Giorgos Borovilos (
Arcadia)
Attendance: 8,363
Referee: Thanasis Briakos (
Epirus)
PAOK won 2–1 on aggregate.
Final
Top scorers
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