1939–40 Greek Football Cup Explained

Greek Cup
Year:	1939–40
Country:	Greece
Num Teams:	73
Defending Champions:	AEK Athens
Winners:	Panathinaikos (1st title)
Second:	Aris
Matches:	78
Goals:	296
Prev Season:	1938–39
Next Season:	1940–41

The 1939–40 Greek Football Cup was the fourth edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, on 2 June 1940. The match was contested by Panathinaikos and Aris, with Panathinaikos winning by 3–1.^[1]

Calendar

Round	Date(s)	Fixtures	Clubs	New entries
First Round	19 November 1939	20	73 → 53	65
Second Round		14	53 → 39	none
Third Round		12	39 → 27	none
Fourth Round		7	27 → 20	none
Fifth Round		4	20 → 17	none
Sixth Round		1	17 → 16	none
Round of 16		9	16 → 8	8
Quarter-finals		6	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals		4	4 → 2	none
Final	2 June 1940	1	2 → 1	none

Qualification round

First round

|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Athens Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Piraeus Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Macedonia Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Patras Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Thessaly Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Crete Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Central-Eastern Macedonia Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Thrace Football Clubs Association|}

The match was suspended at the 70th minute due to player incidends. That remained as the final score

Second round

Apollon Volos won 1–2 after extra time but Niki Volos put an objection for illegal use of a player of Apollon and was awarded the match.

Third round

|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Athens Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Piraeus Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Macedonia Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Patras Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Thessaly Football Clubs Association|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Thrace/Central-Eastern Macedonia Football Clubs Association|}

Fourth round

Fifth round

|-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Athens Football Clubs Association||colspan="2" rowspan="2" |-|colspan="5" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Piraeus Football Clubs Association|}

Sixth round

|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|Athens Football Clubs Association|}

Knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over a single match. If the match ends up as a draw, extra time will be played and if the match remains a draw a replay match is set at the home of the guest team which the extra time rule stands as well. That procedure will be repeated until a winner occurs.
The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

In the draw for the round of 16, the eight top teams of each association are seeded and the eight clubs that passed the qualification round are unseeded.
The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams.
In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group can be drawn against each other.

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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External links

Greek Cup 1939-40 at RSSSF

Notes and References

Web site: Kipello1931-1940. epo.gr. el. https://web.archive.org/web/20200928222221/https://www.epo.gr/vodafon/kyppello/Kipello1931-1940.pdf. 28 September 2020. live.