Cyprus Cup
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The Cyprus Cup or Cyprus Coca Cola Cup (Greek: Κύπελλο Κύπρου;) is the main cup competition in Cypriot football, run by Cyprus Football Association. It began in 1934, the same season with Cypriot Championship. It is the second most important competition for Cypriot club teams. The sponsor of the competitions is Coca Cola.
[edit] Format
The competition was traditionally a pure knockout tournament. All ties were two-legged, except the final.
However, the format of the competition changed radically in the season 2002/03 and since then the format has a lot of similarities with the UEFA Champions League. That caused difficulties for weak teams to make the surprise. The competition currently consists of the first three knock out rounds, one stage of group competition (where teams play each other in the style of "home-and-away" or "regular season" competition), and then three rounds of knock-out finals.
All knock-out ties are two-legged, with each team hosting one match. The team which scores the greater aggregate number of goals qualifies for the next round. The away goals rule applies. Extra time and penalty kicks are used to determine the winner, if necessary. An exception are the final and the first two rounds which are a single match played.
54 teams competiting Cyprus FA championships from First until Fourth Division are playing in the competition, with all First Division teams receiving a bye until at least on round three. In the first round, the 40 teams playing in low divisions, are paired off to play each other in a single-match playoff in round one. The winners proceed to the second stage, and they paired off again under the same rules.
In the third round, the second round winners are joined by the six teams that finished between 9th and 11th position in the previous season's First Division, and the tree promoted teams to the First Division from the Second one. The third round is played in two-legs, home and away.
Round four in the Cyprus Cup is a league system, where the top eight teams from last season's First Division and the other eight winning teams from round two are placed into four groups of four. The four top First Division teams are top seeded and cannot be placed into the same group. The same with the teams which were between 5th and 8th in the ranking are in second top seeded and cannot play each other, rather than one team of the top seeded and two from the third round winners. All teams play each other two, home and away, with the top two teams in each group proceeding to the quarter finals, from where the Cup becomes a standard knockout competition, played in two legs and one leg for the final. The top teams of the group can not be paired, same for the teams that were in the same group.
Cyprus Football Association changed again in 2006 the formation of the cup by removing the groups from the round of 16 to the quarter finals.
[edit] Finals
- 1935 Trast AC 0-0, 1-0 APOEL Nicosia (replay)
- 1936 Trast AC 4-1 LTSK
- 1937 APOEL Nicosia 2-1 Trast AC
- 1938 Trast AC 2-1 AEL Limassol
- 1939 AEL Limassol 3-1 APOEL Nicosia
- 1940 AEL Limassol 3-1 Pezoporikos Larnaca
- 1941 APOEL Nicosia 2-1 AEL Limassol
- 1942-44 Competition was not held
- 1945 EPA Larnaca 3-1 APOEL Nicosia
- 1946 EPA Larnaca 2-1 APOEL Nicosia
- 1947 APOEL Nicosia 4-1 Anorthosis Famagusta
- 1948 AEL Limassol 2-0 APOEL Nicosia
- 1949 Anorthosis Famagusta 3-0 APOEL Nicosia
- 1950 EPA Larnaca 2-1 Anorthosis Famagusta
- 1951 APOEL Nicosia 7-0 EPA Larnaca
- 1952 Çetinkaya Türk S.K. 4-1 Pezoporikos Larnaca
- 1953 EPA Larnaca 2-1 Çetinkaya Türk S.K.
- 1954 Çetinkaya Türk S.K. 2-1 Pezoporikos Larnaca
- 1955 EPA Larnaca 2-1 Pezoporikos Larnaca
- 1956-58 Competition was not held
- 1959 Anorthosis Famagusta 1-0 AEL Limassol
- 1960-61 Competition was not held
- 1962 Anorthosis Famagusta 5-2 Olympiakos Nicosia
- 1963 APOEL Nicosia 2-2, 1-0 Anorthosis Famagusta (replay)
- 1964 Anorthosis Famagusta 3-0 APOEL Nicosia
- 1965 Omonia Nicosia 5-1 Apollon Limassol
- 1966 Apollon Limassol 4-2 Nea Salamina
- 1967 Apollon Limassol 1-0 Alki Larnaca
- 1968 APOEL Nicosia 2-1 EPA Larnaca
- 1969 APOEL Nicosia 1-0 Omonia Nicosia
- 1970 Pezoporikos Larnaca 2-1 Alki Larnaca
- 1971 Anorthosis Famagusta 1-0 Omonia Nicosia
- 1972 Omonia Nicosia 3-1 Pezoporikos Larnaca
- 1973 APOEL Nicosia 1-0 Pezoporikos Larnaca
- 1974 Omonia Nicosia 2-0 Enosis Neon Paralimni
- 1975 Anorthosis Famagusta 3-2 Enosis Neon Paralimni
- 1976 APOEL Nicosia 6-0 Alki Larnaca
- 1977 Olympiakos Nicosia 2-0 Alki Larnaca
- 1978 APOEL Nicosia 3-0 Olympiakos Nicosia
- 1979 APOEL Nicosia 1-0 AEL Limassol
- 1980 Omonia Nicosia 3-1 Alki Larnaca
- 1981 Omonia Nicosia 1-1, 3-0 Enosis Neon Paralimni (replay)
- 1982 Omonia Nicosia 2-2, 4-1 Apollon Limassol (replay)
- 1983 Omonia Nicosia 2-1 Enosis Neon Paralimni
- 1984 APOEL Nicosia 3-1 Pezoporikos Larnaca
- 1985 AEL Limassol 1-0 EPA Larnaca
- 1986 Apollon Limassol 2-0 APOEL Nicosia
- 1987 AEL Limassol 1-0 Apollon Limassol
- 1988 Omonia Nicosia 2-1 AEL Limassol
- 1989 AEL Limassol 3-2 Aris Limassol
- 1990 Nea Salamina 3-2 Omonia Nicosia
- 1991 Omonia Nicosia 1-0 Olympiakos Nicosia
- 1992 Apollon Limassol 1-0 Omonia Nicosia
- 1993 APOEL Nicosia 4-1 Apollon Limassol
- 1994 Omonia Nicosia 1-0 Anorthosis Famagusta (aet)
- 1995 APOEL Nicosia 4-2 Apollon Limassol
- 1996 APOEL Nicosia 2-0 AEK Larnaca (aet)
- 1997 APOEL Nicosia 2-0 Omonia Nicosia
- 1998 Anorthosis Famagusta 3-1 Apollon Limassol
- 1999 APOEL Nicosia 2-0 Anorthosis Famagusta
- 2000 Omonia Nicosia 4-2 APOEL Nicosia
- 2001 Apollon Limassol 1-0 Nea Salamina
- 2002 Anorthosis Famagusta 1-0 Ethnikos Achna FC
- 2003 Anorthosis Famagusta 0-0 AEL Limassol (aet, 5-3 pen)
- 2004 AEK Larnaca 2-1 AEL Limassol
- 2005 Omonia Nicosia 2-0 Digenis Morphou
- 2006 APOEL Nicosia 3-2 AEK Larnaca
[edit] Performance By Club
| Club | Winners | Winning Years |
|---|---|---|
| APOEL Nicosia | 18 | 1937, 1941, 1947, 1951, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1984, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2006 |
| Omonia Nicosia | 12 | 1965, 1972, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1994, 2000, 2005 |
| Anorthosis Famagusta | 9 | 1949, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1971, 1975, 1998, 2002, 2003 |
| AEL Limassol | 6 | 1939, 1940, 1948, 1985, 1987, 1989 |
| Apollon Limassol | 5 | 1966, 1967, 1986, 1992, 2001 |
| EPA Larnaca | 5 | 1945, 1946, 1950, 1953, 1955 |
| Trast AC | 3 | 1935, 1936, 1938 |
| Çetinkaya Türk S.K. | 2 | 1952, 1954 |
| Pezoporikos Larnaca | 1 | 1970 |
| Olympiakos Nicosia | 1 | 1977 |
| Nea Salamina | 1 | 1990 |
| AEK Larnaca | 1 | 2004 |
| Football in Cyprus | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cyprus Football Association - National team - List of football clubs in Cyprus | ||
| Competitions: Cypriot First Division - Cyprus Cup - Cyprus FA Shield | ||
