1990–91 Greek Cup

Tournament details
Country	Greece
Teams	72
Defending champions	Olympiacos
Final positions
Champions	Panathinaikos (12th title)
Runner-up	Athinaikos
Tournament statistics
Matches played	118
Top goal scorer(s)	Dimitris Saravakos (10 goals)

The 1990–91 Greek Football Cup was the 49th 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.

After the Group stage, there were interesting confrontations and many "protagonists" were eliminated by the competition continue. In the Second round, Olympiacos were eliminated by PAOK , Aris by Athinaikos and Iraklis by Xanthi, while in the Third round AEK Athens were eliminated by OFI. In the same round, Edessaikos, a Beta Ethniki team, reversed their loss 4–0 by Ionikos, achieving a draw with the same score in the second leg, in order however to be eliminated in penalty shootout.

The Final^[1] was contested by Panathinaikos, for sixth time in the last 10 years, after the qualify against PAOK in semi-finals, and neophyte in Alpha Ethniki Athinaikos, for first and unique until now time in their history. That year, HFF decided the establishment of a two-legged final match, according to the model of Coppa Italia. Athinaikos selected as home of first match Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, instead of their neutral home, Municipal Stadium of Vyronas, while the second match became in the Athens Olympic Stadium. Panathinaikos won both matches and at the same time The Double.

Athinaikos, as finalist of competition, participated in the next season's European Cup Winners' Cup, for first and unique time in their history. Nikos Sarganis, Athinaikos goalkeeper, that had played in the first match of Final, failed to win the Cup with a fourth team, after Kastoria, Olympiacos and Panathinaikos. The second match was the last for referee Meletis Voutsaras. For the fourth consecutive season, Dimitris Saravakos was the competition's top scorer, with 10 goals.

Calendar

Group stage

The phase was played in a single round-robin format. Each win would gain 2 points, each draw 1 and each loss would not gain any point.

Knockout phase

Each tie in the knockout phase, 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.
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.

Bracket

Round of 32

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

The 47th Greek Cup Final was double-played this season. First leg was played at the Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, and second leg at the Olympic Stadium.

First leg

15 May 1991

Athinaikos	0–3	Panathinaikos
	Report (page 1)	Kourbanas 70' Warzycha 78' Vlachos 89'

Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Ampelokipoi

Attendance: 12,737

Referee: Kostas Dimitriadis (Piraeus)

Nikos Sarganis Theodoros Boutzoukas Yiorghos Basagiannis Tasos Chatziangelis Kostas Theodorakos Giannis Chatziraptis  72' Giorgos Zotalis Vasilis Tzalakostas Hristo Kolev  55' Kostas Tsavalias Vangelis Spiliotis Substitutes: Giorgos Anastasiou  55' Miroslav Bong  72' Manager: Gerd Prokop

GK Józef Wandzik DF Stratos Apostolakis DF Ioannis Kalitzakis DF Nikos Kourbanas MF Spiros Marangos MF Louis Christodoulou MF Kostas Antoniou (c) MF Paris Georgakopoulos  89' MF Kostas Frantzeskos  60' MF Chris Kalantzis FW Krzysztof Warzycha Substitutes: DF Giorgos Kalpakis  89' MF Vangelis Vlachos  60' Manager: Vasilis Daniil

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Mindiouris Vorgias

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. Two named substitutes. Maximum of two substitutions.

Second leg

22 May 1991

Panathinaikos	2–1 (5–1 agg.)	Athinaikos
Saravakos 71' Kourbanas 84'	Report (page 1)	Zotalis 45' (pen.)

Olympic Stadium, Marousi

Attendance: 19,375

Referee: Meletis Voutsaras (Athens)

GK Józef Wandzik DF Stratos Apostolakis DF Ioannis Kalitzakis DF Nikos Kourbanas DF Lysandros Georgamlis MF Spiros Marangos  60' MF Vangelis Vlachos  46' MF Louis Christodoulou MF Kostas Antoniou (c) MF Chris Kalantzis FW Krzysztof Warzycha Substitutes: MF Kostas Frantzeskos  46' FW Dimitris Saravakos  60' Manager: Vasilis Daniil

Theodoros Kantas Giorgos Basagiannis Giannis Tapratzis  46' Tasos Chatziangelis Vangelis Spiliotis Kostas Theodorakos Giannis Chatziraptis Apostolos Vrynios Christos Dimopoulos Giorgos Zotalis  71' Kostas Tsavalias Substitutes: Miroslav Bong  46' Giorgos Anastasiou  71' Manager: Gerd Prokop

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Naziris Doutsias

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Two named substitutes. Maximum of two substitutions.

References

External links

• Greek Cup 1990–91 at RSSSF