1938–39 Greek Football Cup

1938–39 Greek Cup
Tournament details
Country	Greece
Teams	73
Defending champions	Ethnikos Piraeus
Final positions
Champions	AEK Athens (2nd title)
Runner-up	PAOK
Tournament statistics
Matches played	75
Goals scored	336 (4.48 per match)
	← 1932–33 1939–40 →

The 1938–39 Greek Football Cup was the 3rd edition of the Greek Football Cup. 73 teams contested in 75 matches. Ethnikos Piraeus unsuccessfully defended its 1933 title losing in the Round of 16 to AEK Athens. AEK Athens would continue on its tournament streak until defeated in the finals, 2-1, on 28 May at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium against PAOK.^[1]^[2]

Calendar

Round	Date(s)	Fixtures	Clubs	New entries
First Round	26 October 1938	27	73 → 47	65
Second Round		19	47 → 29	none
Third Round		9	29 → 20	none
Fourth Round		3	20 → 17	none
Fifth Round		1	17 → 16	none
Round of 16	19 February 1939	8	16 → 8	8
Quarter-finals	30 April 1939	4	8 → 4	none
Semi-finals	14 May 1939	2	4 → 2	none
Final	28 May 1939	1	2 → 1	none

Qualification round

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Athens Football Clubs Association
Arion Kolonaki	3–4	Apollon Nea Ionia
Olympiacos Athens	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Attikos
Athinaikos	5–1	Olympias Athens
Panerythraikos	0–1	Mikrasiatiki Athens
Atlas Thymarakia	5–3	AE Ierapoli
AE Pangrati	6–2	Fostiras
Dapfni Athens	bye
Asteras Athens	bye
Atromitos	bye
Piraeus Football Clubs Association
Argonaftis Piraeus	4–1	AEK Piraeus
Aris Piraeus	3–0	Amyna Piraeus
Keramikos Kaminia	3–0	Atromitos Piraeus
Panelefsiniakos	4–1	Faliriki Enosis
Thiseas Piraeus	bye
Proodeftiki	bye
E.F. Neapoli	bye
Macedonia Football Clubs Association
Olympiacos Terpsithea	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Apollon Thessaloniki
MENT	5–0	Prosfygiki Enosis Thessaloniki
Ethnikos Kamaras	0–1	Olympiacos Thessaloniki
Hellas Florina	2–1	AE Kozani
Thrace Football Clubs Association
AE Xanthi	5–7	AE Komotini	3–3 (a.e.t.)	2–5
Aspida Xanthi	bye
Central-Eastern Macedonia Football Clubs Association
Apollon Serres	1–5	Orfeas Serres
Elpis Drama	6–1	Aris Drama
Iraklis Kavalas	1–0	Iraklis Serres
Filipi Kavala	bye
Doxa Drama	bye
AEK Kavala	bye
Thessaly Football Clubs Association
PAEK	1–2	Odysseus Volos
Olympiacos Volos	5–1	Kentavros Volos
Niki Volos	bye
Keravnos Volos	bye
Patras Football Clubs Association
Panachaiki	6–2	Aris Patra
Panegialios	5–0	Achilleus Patra
Panetolikos	4–3	Apollon Patras
Olympiakos Patras	4–0	Ethnikos Patra
Crete Football Clubs Association
Olympiacos Heraklion	5–1	Ergotelis
OFI	1–2	Iraklis Heraklion
EGOH	bye

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Athens Football Clubs Association
Dapfni Athens	?	Atromitos
Athinaikos	3–1	Apollon Nea Ionia
Attikos	?	Atlas Thymarakia
AE Pangrati	6–2	Mikrasiatiki Athens
Asteras Athens	bye
Piraeus Football Clubs Association
Thiseas Piraeus	3–6	Proodeftiki
Panelefsiniakos	2–1	E.F. Neapoli
Argonaftis Piraeus	2–6	Keramikos Kaminia
Aris Piraeus	bye
Macedonia Football Clubs Association
Olympiacos Terpsithea	3–1	Olympiacos Thessaloniki
Hellas Florina	3–0	MENT
Thrace Football Clubs Association
AE Komotini	?	Aspida Xanthi
Central-Eastern Macedonia Football Clubs Association
Orfeas Serres	3–1	Iraklis Kavalas
Filipi Kavala	7–1	Doxa Drama
Elpis Drama	3–2	AEK Kavala	2–2 (a.e.t.)	1–0
Thessaly Football Clubs Association
Niki Volos	3–1	Keravnos Volos
Olympiacos Volos	3–0	Odysseus Volos
Patras Football Clubs Association
Panetolikos	1–0	Panegialios
Panachaiki	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Olympiakos Patras
Crete Football Clubs Association
Iraklis Heraklion	?	?
?	bye

Third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Athens Football Clubs Association
Dapfni Athens	1–3	AE Pangrati
Athinaikos	4–7	Atlas Thymarakia
Asteras Athens	bye
Piraeus Football Clubs Association
Aris Piraeus	4–2	Panelefsiniakos	2–2 (a.e.t.)	2–0
Proodeftiki	3–4	Keramikos Kaminia
Macedonia Football Clubs Association
Hellas Florina	5–3	Olympiacos Terpsithea
Thrace/Central-Eastern Macedonia Football Clubs Association
Orfeas Serres	0–3	Filipi Kavala
Aspida Xanthi	bye
Elpis Drama	bye
Thessaly Football Clubs Association
Niki Volos	4–1	Olympiacos Volos
Patras Football Clubs Association
Olympiakos Patras	3–2	Panetolikos
Crete Football Clubs Association
EGOH	2–1	Olympiacos Heraklion

Fourth round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Athens Football Clubs Association
Asteras Athens	5–1 (a.e.t.)	AE Pangrati
Atlas Thymarakia	bye
Piraeus Football Clubs Association
Aris Piraeus	1–0	Keramikos Kaminia
Thrace/Central-Eastern Macedonia Football Clubs Association
Filipi Kavala	2–3	Aspida Xanthi
Elpis Drama	bye

Fifth round

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Athens Football Clubs Association
Asteras Athens	2–1	Atlas Thymarakia

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.

Bracket

Round of 16		Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

Olympiacos	13

Ethnikos Heraklion	0
		Olympiacos (a.e.t.)	2

		Panathinaikos	0
Panathinaikos	4

Elpida Drama	1
				Olympiacos	0

				AEK Athens (w/o)	2
Olympiacos Patra	1

Apollon Athens	5
		Apollon Athens	1

		AEK Athens	3
AEK Athens	7

Aris Piraeus	0
						AEK Athens	2

						PAOK	1
Hellas Florina	1

PAOK	6
		PAOK	3

		Iraklis	2
Aspida Xanthi	1

Iraklis	2
				PAOK	4

				Ethnikos Piraeus	0
Niki Volos	1

Ethnikos Piraeus (a.e.t.)	2
		Ethnikos Piraeus	2

		Aris	0
Aris	8

Asteras Athens	1

Round of 16

Players of AEK Athens and PAOK before the final

Team 1	Score	Team 2
AEK Athens	7–0	Aris Piraeus
Niki Volos	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Ethnikos Piraeus
Hellas Florina	1–6	PAOK
Olympiacos	13–0	Ethnikos Heraklion
Aris	8–1	Asteras Athens
Aspida Xanthi	1–2	Iraklis
Olympiacos Patra	1–5	Apollon Athens
Panathinaikos	4–1	Elpida Drama

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
PAOK	3–2	Iraklis
Olympiacos	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Panathinaikos
Ethnikos Piraeus	2–0	Aris
Apollon Athens	1–3	AEK Athens

Semi-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
PAOK	4–0	Ethnikos Piraeus
Olympiacos	0–2 (w/o)^*	AEK Athens

^*Match suspended at 40th minute while the score was 1–2. Awarded 0–2 to AEK Athens.^[3]

Final

The 3rd Greek Cup Final was played at the Leoforos Alexandras Stadium.

28 May 1939

AEK Athens	2–1	PAOK
Chatzistavridis 43' Manettas 73'	Report	Ioannidis 31'

Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens

Referee: Stavros Chatzopoulos

AEK Athens

PAOK


GK		Christos Ribas
DF		Giorgos Gasparis
DF		Mimis Seltsikas
MF		Dionysis Kapantais
MF		Spyros Kontoulis
MF		Giorgos Mageiras
FW		Kostas Vasiliou
FW		Alekos Chatzistavridis
FW		Tryfon Tzanetis
FW		Kleanthis Maropoulos
FW		Vasilios Manettas
Manager:
Kostas Negrepontis


		Nikos Sotiriadis
		Giorgos Vatikis
		Youlielmos Arvanitis
		Apostolos Kontopoulos
		Kyriakos Bostantzoglou
		Thrasyvoulos Panidis (c)
		Glaros
		Kostas Kritas
		Aristidis Ioannidis
		Kostas Kalogiannis
		Koukoulas
Manager:

References

^ "ΑΕΚ-ΠΑΟΚ:Πρώτα πόζαραν αγκαλιασμένοι, μετά έπαιξαν τον τελικό Κυπέλλου του 1939". sport-retro.gr (in Greek). 28 November 2018.
^ "Kipello1931-1940" (PDF). epo.gr (in Greek). Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2020.
^ "newsp. SKRIP 29.05.1939, p. 5". efimeris.nlg.gr.

External links

Greek Cup 1938-39 at RSSSF

[1] "ΑΕΚ-ΠΑΟΚ:Πρώτα πόζαραν αγκαλιασμένοι, μετά έπαιξαν τον τελικό Κυπέλλου του 1939". sport-retro.gr (in Greek). 28 November 2018.

[2] "Kipello1931-1940" (PDF). epo.gr (in Greek). Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2020.

[3] "newsp. SKRIP 29.05.1939, p. 5". efimeris.nlg.gr.

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