2005–06 Greek Football Cup

The 2005–06 Greek Football Cup was the 64th edition of the Greek Football Cup, competition. This season's edition was the first to be entitled "SINCO Greek Cup" after SINCO Insurance Brokers. The competition started on 20 August 2005 and concluded on 10 May 2006 with the Final, held at Pankritio Stadium. Olympiacos won the trophy with a 3-0^[1] victory over AEK Athens.

Calendar

Round[2]	Date(s)	Fixtures	Clubs	New entries	Leagues entering
Qualifying Round	21 August 2005	1	65 → 64	2	Gamma Ethniki
First Round	20, 21, 24 August 2005	16	64 → 48	31
Second Round	31 August, 1 September 2005	16	48 → 32	16	Beta Ethniki
Round of 32	26, 27 October, 8–10 November 2005	16	32 → 16	16	Alpha Ethniki
Round of 16	20–22 December 2005 & 11 January 2006	11	16 → 8	none	none
Quarter-finals	31 January & 1, 2, 7–9, 22 February 2006	8	8 → 4
Semi-finals	21, 22 March & 12 April 2006	4	4 → 2
Final	10 May 2006	1	2 → 1

Knockout phase

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

Qualifying round

The draw took place on 11 August 2005.^[3]

Summary

Team 1	Score	Team 2
21 August 2005[4]
Atsalenios	2–1	Agios Dimitrios

Matches

First round

The draw took place on 11 August 2005.^[3]

Summary

Team 1	Score	Team 2
20 August 2005[4]
Ptolemaida-Lignitorikhi	0–1	Anagennisi Karditsa
Keratsini	0–0 (2–4 p)	Doxa Drama
AE Giannena	1–4	Enosi Thraki
Thyella Patras	4–1	Ionia 2000 Chania
Agrotikos Asteras	6–2	Vyzas Megara
21 August 2005[4]
Lamia	1–2	Ethnikos Piraeus
Achaiki	1–2	Asteras Tripolis
Panetolikos	1–1 (6–7 p)	Aiolikos
PAS Giannina	3–0	Apollon Athens
Lilas Vasilikou	1–1 (2–4 p)	Panthrakikos
Pierikos	3–0	Messiniakos
Anagennisi Arta	2–1	Acharnaikos
Trikala	2–1	Kozani
24 August 2005[5]
Parrodiakos/Diagoras	3–0	Thermaikos
Polykastro	2–0	Atsalenios
Kavala	3–0	Rodos

Matches

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Second round

The draw took place on 11 August 2005, after the First Round draw.^[3]

Summary

Team 1	Score	Team 2
31 August 2005[6]
Asteras Tripolis	1–0	Chaidari
Anagennisi Karditsa	0–4	Ilisiakos
PAS Giannina	2–0	Kerkyra
Doxa Drama	0–1	Panachaiki 2005
Anagennisi Arta	2–3	Thrasyvoulos
Enosi Thraki	2–1	Kalamata
Polykastro	0–5	Ergotelis
Thyella Patras	1–1 (3–5 p)	Veria
1 September 2005[7]
Aiolikos	1–2	Niki Volos
Agrotikos Asteras	3–1	Kastoria
Parrodiakos/Diagoras	1–1 (4–5 p)	Panserraikos
Trikala	0–2	Ethnikos Asteras
Kavala	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Paniliakos
Ethnikos Piraeus	6–1	Proodeftiki
Pierikos	2–2 (3–4 p)	Olympiacos Volos
Panthrakikos	2–1	Aris

Matches

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Bracket

	Round of 32				Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Thrasyvoulos	2
	Atromitos	0
					Thrasyvoulos			0
					Olympiacos			2
	Paniliakos	0
	Olympiacos	4
											Olympiacos	1	1	2
											Skoda Xanthi	1	0	1
	Veria	0
	Skoda Xanthi	2
					Skoda Xanthi			1
					Panachaiki 2005			0
	Panachaiki 2005 (p)	1(4)
	Iraklis	1(2)
																	Olympiacos	3	1	4
																	AEL	1	0	1
	Panserraikos	0
	AEL	1
					AEL	0	2	2
					Apollon Kalamarias	0	1	1
	Asteras Tripolis	0(2)
	Apollon Kalamarias (p)	0(3)
											AEL	1	1	2
											Akratitos	0	0	0
	Panthrakikos	2(5)
	Akratitos (p)	2(6)
					Akratitos (p)	0	1	1(6)
					Egaleo	0	1	1(5)
	Ilisiakos	0
	Egaleo	2
																							Olympiacos	3
																							AEK Athens	0
	Enosi Thraki	0(4)
	Ionikos (p)	0(5)
					Ionikos			1
					Niki Volos			4
	Niki Volos (p)	1(3)
	OFI	1(2)
											Niki Volos	0	0	0
											AEK Athens	0	2	2
	PAS Giannina	0
	AEK Athens	3
					AEK Athens (p)	1	1	2(4)
					Ethnikos Piraeus	1	1	2(3)
	Ethnikos Piraeus (p)	1(4)
	Kallithea	1(2)
																	AEK Athens	3	0	3
																	Agrotikos Asteras	0	1	1
	Ethnikos Asteras	1
	Levadiakos	0
					Ethnikos Asteras			2
					Panionios			1
	Olympiacos Volos	0
	Panionios	2
											Ethnikos Asteras	1	0	1
											Agrotikos Asteras	1	4	5
	Agrotikos Asteras (p)	1(5)
	PAOK	1(4)
					Agrotikos Asteras			2
					Ergotelis			0
	Ergotelis	1
	Panathinaikos	0

Round of 32

The draw took place on 11 August 2005.^[3]

Summary

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Ilisiakos	0–2	Egaleo
Ethnikos Piraeus	1–1 (4–2 p)	Kallithea
Asteras Tripolis	0–0 (2–3 p)	Apollon Kalamarias
Panachaiki 2005	1–1 (4–2 p)	Iraklis
Niki Volos	1–1 (3–2 p)	OFI
Enosi Thraki	0–0 (4–5 p)	Ionikos
PAS Giannina	0–3	AEK Athens
Veria	0–2	Skoda Xanthi
Panthrakikos	2–2 (5–6 p)	Akratitos
Agrotikos Asteras	1–1 (5–4 p)	PAOK
Panserraikos	0–1	AEL
Ergotelis	1–0	Panathinaikos
Olympiacos Volos	0–2	Panionios
Paniliakos	0–4	Olympiacos
Thrasyvoulos	2–0	Atromitos
Ethnikos Asteras	1–0	Levadiakos

Matches

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Round of 16

The draw took place on 18 November 2005.^[8]

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEL	2–1	Apollon Kalamarias	0–0	2–1
Thrasyvoulos	0–2	Olympiacos
AEK Athens	2–2 (4–3 p)	Ethnikos Piraeus	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Ethnikos Asteras	2–1	Panionios
Ionikos	1–4	Niki Volos
Agrotikos Asteras	2–0	Ergotelis
Skoda Xanthi	1–0	Panachaiki 2005
Akratitos	1–1 (6–5 p)	Egaleo	0–0	1–1 (a.e.t.)

Matches

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Replay

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Quarter-finals

The draw took place on 18 November 2005, after the Round of 16 draw.^[8]

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Niki Volos	0–2	AEK Athens	0–0	0–2
Olympiacos	2–1	Skoda Xanthi	1–1	1–0
Ethnikos Asteras	1–5	Agrotikos Asteras	1–1	0–4
AEL	2–0	Akratitos	1–0	1–0

Matches

AEK Athens won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Olympiacos won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Agrotikos Asteras won 5–1 on aggregate.

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AEL won 2–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

The draw took place on 18 November 2005, after the quarter-final draw.^[8]

Summary

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

Matches

AEK Athens won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Olympiacos won 4–1 on aggregate.

Final

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Panagiotis Bekiaris	Agrotikos Asteras	6
2	Georgios Saitiotis	Niki Volos	4
3	Vangelis Kaounos	PAS Giannina	3
	Georgios Papandreou	Enosi Thraki
	Georgios Alexandropoulos	Thyella Patras
	Michalis Konstantinou	Olympiacos
	Stathis Karamalikis	Ethnikos Piraeus
	Dani García	Olympiacos
	Nikos Kyzeridis	Agrotikos Asteras

References

External links

• Greek Cup 2005-2006 at RSSSF
• Greek Cup 2005-2006 at Hellenic Football Federation's official site