2000–01 Greek Football Cup

2000–01 Greek Cup

Tournament details
Country	Greece
Teams	50
Defending champions	AEK Athens
Final positions
Champions	PAOK (3rd title)
Runner-up	Olympiacos
Tournament statistics
Matches played	270
Goals scored	815 (3.02 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Sotiris Konstantinidis Giovanni (11 goals each)
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The 2000–01 Greek Football Cup was the 59th edition of the Greek Football Cup.

Totally 50 teams participated, 16 from Alpha Ethniki, 16 from Beta, and 18 from Gamma. It was held in 6 rounds, including the final. An additional round was held between First and Second, with 2 matches, in order that the teams who progress would be 16. In the Group stage, there were 8 groups with 6 teams each, while 2 teams qualified without matches.

For the first time, there were double(home and away) matches in the group stage, thus each team played 10 games. Because the tournament began very early in the summer, in a period where teams should play preparation friendlies, the HFF allowed at the 5 first matches a maximum of 7 substitutions, something unusual in Greece, very probably and internationally, for matches of an official competition.

After the group stage, there were very interesting confrontations, after drawing elected "strong" pairs. In the round of 16, Olympiacos eliminated AEK Athens with two wins. The first leg in Nikos Goumas Stadium was awarded to Olympiacos 2–0 in an eventful match^[1] that was abandoned against AEK Athens and while the scoreline was 1–1 at the time. In the second leg, at Olympic Stadium, Olympiacos' home ground then, they shattered AEK Athens 6–1.^[2] In the same round, in derby of Thessaloniki between PAOK and Aris, the black and whites were qualified with a 1–1^[3] away draw and a 2–0^[4] home victory. Remarkable in this round was also the qualification of Panathinaikos against Panionios with a 7–2 second leg demolition, while the first leg ended with a 1–0 win of Panionios.

In the quarter-finals followed the derby between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos. First leg ended 1–1^[5] in Athens Olympic Stadium, while in the second leg the "reds" triumphed by 4–1^[6] in Leoforos Alexandras Stadium against their arch-rivals. More exciting were the semi-finals between Olympiacos and Iraklis. Olympiacos with two victories, 1–0 away and 5–4^[7] at home (in an impressive game where 10 minutes before the end the scoreline was 3–4), qualified for the final.

The final was held in Nikos Goumas Stadium, Athens on 12 May 2001. A draw was preceded on 19 April^[8] to determine in which stadium and city the final would be hosted (Nikos Goumas Stadium at Athens or Kaftanzoglio Stadium at Thessaloniki). Olympiacos faced PAOK, 9 years after their last conflict in a cup final and for a 7th clash in total. Several days before the game, Olympiacos president Sokratis Kokkalis made a memorable statement using a Greek expression that Olympiacos would lose the upcoming final only if the devil would break his leg (meaning that it was almost impossible to lose). However, PAOK easily won the match 4–2^[9][10] with an impressive performance and earned the trophy 27 years after their last success, in the same stadium against the same opponent. During the awarding ceremony, former goalkeeper of PAOK Mladen Furtula and then member of the coaching staff whispered to Sokratis Kokkalis that the devil did break his leg that day and Kokkalis responded with a laugh. The manager of PAOK, Dušan Bajević became the first in history to win the trophy with three different teams, as je also won it with AEK Athens in 1996 and Olympiacos in 1999.

Round	Date(s)	Fixtures	Clubs	New entries
Group stage	5–11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19–25, 27, 28, 30 August, 2, 3, 6, 9–11, September, 4, 5, 8, 9 October, 29 November & 13 December 2000	239	50 → 18	48
Additional Round	20 December 2000	2	18 → 16	2
Round of 16	10, 16, 17, 24, 30, 31 January 2001	16	16 → 8	none
Quarter-finals	7, 21 February & 7, 14, 21 March 2001	8	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	4, 11 April 2001	4	4 → 2	none
Final	12 May 2001	1	2 → 1	none

The teams play each other home and away.

• Chalkidona and Apollon Krya Vrysi qualified to the Additional Round without matches.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ARIS	PNS	AKR	LEO	KLM	LYK
1	Aris	10	6	3	1	16	9	+7	21	Round of 16			2–0	3–3	2–1	1–0	1–0
2	Panserraikos	10	5	3	2	16	8	+8	18			0–0		2–1	4–1	1–0	4–1
3	Akratitos	10	4	3	3	16	14	+2	15			1–2	1–1		0–0	1–2	2–1
4	Leonidio	10	3	3	4	10	15	−5	12			2–1	1–0	1–2		2–2	1–0
5	Kalamata	10	3	2	5	13	13	0	11			1–1	1–2	0–1	4–1		2–1
6	ILTEX Lykoi	10	1	2	7	8	20	−12	5			1–3	0–0	2–4	0–0	2–1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PNI	ION	PNG	LAM	MAR	KLT
1	Paniliakos	10	6	4	0	14	1	+13	22	Additional Round			4–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–0
2	Ionikos	10	5	3	2	18	10	+8	18	Round of 16		0–1		3–0	3–0	4–1	3–0
3	Panegialios	10	3	2	5	10	13	−3	11			0–3	1–1		0–0	4–0	3–1
4	Lamia	10	2	4	4	7	14	−7	10			1–1	1–2	0–2		3–2	1–0
5	Marko	10	2	4	4	11	17	−6	10			0–0	2–2	2–0	0–0		1–1
6	Kallithea	10	2	3	5	9	14	−5	9			0–0	0–0	1–0	4–1	2–3

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		IRA	APS	ATH	AGN	ACH	PIE
1	Iraklis	10	8	1	1	27	6	+21	25	Round of 16			2–0	3–0	6–0	3–1	2–0
2	Apollon Athens	10	5	3	2	14	9	+5	18			0–2		1–0	0–0	3–0	1–0
3	Athinaikos	10	5	3	2	15	12	+3	18			2–2	3–3		1–0	1–0	3–1
4	Agios Nikolaos	10	3	1	6	6	16	−10	10			1–2	0–1	0–2		1–0	1–0
5	Acharnaikos	10	2	1	7	12	15	−3	7			2–1	0–0	1–2	1–2		6–0
6	Pierikos	10	2	1	7	9	25	−16	7			0–4	2–5	1–1	3–1	2–1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAOK	PNC	KAV	ATR	NAF	AMP
1	PAOK	10	9	1	0	35	10	+25	28	Round of 16			2–0	3–1	1–0	4–0	6–1
2	Panachaiki	10	5	2	3	28	16	+12	17			2–3		4–1	1–2	2–2	6–0
3	Kavala	10	4	2	4	17	22	−5	14			1–5	2–6		3–1	1–0	4–0
4	Atromitos	10	3	2	5	15	17	−2	11			1–2	0–2	1–1		2–0	4–0
5	Nafpaktiakos Asteras	10	2	4	4	15	18	−3	10			3–3	2–2	1–1	5–2		0–1
6	A.S. Ampelokipoi	10	1	1	8	6	33	−27	4			1–6	1–2	1–2	1–1	0–2

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The referee Giannadakis was replaced at the 27th minute by Zografos.

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		OLY	EGA	ETA	TRI	PTR	ASA
1	Olympiacos	10	9	0	1	39	9	+30	27	Round of 16			4–1	5–0	4–0	4–0	7–0
2	Egaleo	10	8	0	2	23	10	+13	24			3–0		4–0	3–0	5–2	1–0
3	Ethnikos Asteras	10	6	0	4	20	19	+1	18			1–4	2–0		6–0	3–1	3–2
4	Trikala	10	4	0	6	12	22	−10	12			3–5	0–1	2–1		2–1	0–1
5	Patraikos	10	1	1	8	11	28	−17	4			1–4	1–2	1–2	0–3		1–1
6	Anagennisi Karditsa	10	1	1	8	7	24	−17	4			0–2	1–3	0–2	0–2	2–3

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