The Greek Cup 2000-2001 was the 59th edition of The Greek Football Cup, or Greek Cup for short.

[edit] Tournament details

Totally 50 teams participated, 16 from Alpha Ethniki, 16 from Beta, and 18 from Gamma. It was held in 6 rounds, included final. An Additional Round was held between First and Second, with 2 matches, in order that the teams would continue to be 16. In the First Round, there were 8 groups with 6 teams each, while 2 teams qualified without matches in that phase.

For first time were established double matches in the phase of groups, thus each team played 10 matches. Because the phase began very early, in a period that teams should play preparation friendlies, the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) allowed at the 5 first matches a maximum of 7 subtitutions, something unusual in Greece, very probably and internationally, for matches of an official competition.

There were very interesting confrontations, after drawing elected "strong" pairs. In the Second Round (phase of 16) Olympiacos eliminated AEK Athens with two wins. The first match in Nikos Goumas Stadium awarded to Olympiacos 2–0 in cards, in an eventful match that was abandoned against Enosis and while the score was 1–1. In the second match, at Athens Olympic Stadium, Olympiacos home then, they shattered AEK Athens 6–1. In the same round, in Thessaloniki's derby between PAOK and Aris, the first qualified with a 1–1 draw and a 2–0 victory in second match. Remarkable in this phase was also the qualification of Panathinaikos against Panionios with score 7–2, while the first match between two teams had been ended 1–0 for Panionios.

In quarter-finals followed the conflict between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos. Afterwards undecided 1–1 in Athens Olympic Stadium, the reds triumphed 4–1 in Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium against their opponents. More shocking was the semi-final between Olympiacos and Iraklis. Olympiacos with two victories, 1–0 away and 5–4 in home, in an impressive match where 10 minutes before the end the score was 3–4, qualified in the Final.

There, they faced PAOK, after 9 years and for seventh totally time in a Greek Cup Final, that gaining the match 4–2 won the Cup 27 years afterwards their last success, in the same stadium against same opponent. The Final was held in Nikos Goumas Stadium, after draw that preceded between that and Lysandros Kaftanzoglou Stadium. The winner coach of fight, Dušan Bajević, became the first that won the trophy with three different teams, since were preceded AEK Athens in 1996 and Olympiacos in 1999.

[edit] First round

The teams play each other in home and away.

[edit] Group 1

[edit] Group 2

[edit] Group 3

[edit] Group 4

[edit] Group 5

[edit] Group 6

[edit] Group 7

[edit] Group 8

[edit] Additional Round

[edit] Second round

First legs were held on January 10th-16th-17th 2001 and second legs on 24th-30th-31st

⁺Without match.

[edit] Quarter-finals

First legs were held on February 7th-21st 2001. Second legs were held on March 7th-14th-21st.

[edit] Semi-finals

First legs were held on April 4, 2001, while second on 11th.

[edit] Final

The 59th Greek Cup Final was played at the Nikos Goumas Stadium, Athens.

May 12, 2001	Olympiacos	2 – 4	PAOK	Nikos Goumas Stadium, Athens Attendance: 13,600 Referee: Giorgos Kasnaferis (Athens)
	Đorđević  79' (pen.) Choutos  92'		Engomitis  4' Borbokis  31' Georgiadis  46' Nalitzis  85'

Olympiacos

PAOK

OLYMPIACOS: GK 1 Dimitris Eleftheropoulos DF 14 Dimitris Mavrogenidis 46' DF 19 Thanasis Kostoulas DF 32 Giorgos Anatolakis 35' DF 21 Grigoris Georgatos 67' 67' MF 13 Zé Elias MF 7 Stelios Giannakopoulos MF 4 Andreas Niniadis 46' FW 30 Alekos Alexandris (c) FW 10 Giovanni FW 11 Predrag Đorđević Substitutes: FW 9 Lampros Choutos 46' MF 2 Christos Patsatzoglou 46' MF 8 Luciano de Souza 67' Manager: Takis Lemonis

PAOK: GK Ante Čović DF 2 Vassilis Borbokis DF 3 Stelios Venetidis 50' DF 4 Tasos Katsambis (c) DF 19 Koffi Amponsah 46' DF 24 Ifeanyi Udeze 84' MF 21 Giorgos Georgiadis 77' MF 30 Panayiotis Engomitis 28' MF Pantelis Konstantinidis MF 1 Pantelis Kafes FW 9 Giannis Okkas 61' 86' Substitutes: MF Giorgos Koulakiotis 46' FW 20 Dimitris Nalitzis 77' FW 10 Slazdan Spasić 86' Manager: Dušan Bajević

[edit] References

• Greek Cup 2000-2001 at RSSSF
• Greek Cup 2000-2001 at Hellenic Football Federation's official site