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This article is about the Cypriot men's domestic club Cup. For the women's international tournament, see Cyprus Cup.
Cypriot Cup Founded 1934 Region 
Cyprus (Cyprus Football Association)Number of teams 28 Current champions Omonia (13th time) Most successful club APOEL (19 times) Television broadcasters Lumiere TV
CytaVision
PrimeTel
2011–12 Cypriot CupThe Cypriot Cup (Greek: Κύπελλο Κύπρου) or Cyprus Coca Cola Cup is the main cup competition in Cypriot football, run by the Cyprus Football Association. It began in 1934, the same season with the Cypriot Championship. It is the second most important competition for Cypriot club teams. The sponsor of the competition is Coca Cola.
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Format
The competition was traditionally a pure knockout tournament. All ties were two-legged, except the final which was in a single match. In case of a tie, extra time was played and if the extra time was tie, there was a repeated final.
2002-03 until 2005-06 Format
However, the format of the competition changed radically in the season 2002/03 and until 2006 the format had 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 competing 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 Cypriot 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.
Changes in 2006
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. At the round of 16, every team which was among the 8 first teams in the Cypriot First Division, are drawn to play a winner team of the Third Round. There are no seeded and unseeded team in the Group Round or in the round after anymore.
Changes in 2008
Cyprus Football Association once again changed the formation of the cup. CFA decided to create two cup tournaments, the amateur cup tournament in which the teams from the third and fourth divisions (total 28 teams) are going to participate and also the professional cup tournament in which the teams from the first and second divisions are going to participate. The semi-finalists of the last season's cup tournament will qualify directly to the round of 16. Both Cups are going to have five stages:
- Round of 24 - Two-legged knock-out matches
- Round of 16 - Two-legged knock-out matches
- Quarter-finals - Two-legged knock-out matches
- Semi-finals - Two-legged knock-out matches
- Final - Single match in a neutral stadium
Finals
The list of finals:[1]
Year Winner Score Runner-up 1934-35 Trast AC 0-0, 1-0 (replay) APOEL 1935-36 Trast AC 4-1 Lefkoşa Türk Spor Kulübü 1936-37 APOEL 2-1 Trast AC 1937-38 Trast AC 2-1 AEL Limassol 1938-39 AEL Limassol 3-1 APOEL 1939-40 AEL Limassol 3-1 Pezoporikos Larnaca 1940-41 APOEL 2-1 AEL Limassol 1941-44 Competition was not held due the World War II 1944-45 EPA Larnaca 3-1 APOEL 1945-46 EPA Larnaca 2-1 APOEL 1946-47 APOEL 4-1 Anorthosis 1947-48 AEL Limassol 2-0 APOEL 1948-49 Anorthosis 3-0 APOEL 1949-50 EPA Larnaca 2-1 Anorthosis 1950-51 APOEL 7-0 EPA Larnaca 1951-52 Çetinkaya Türk S.K. 4-1 Pezoporikos Larnaca 1952-53 EPA Larnaca 2-1 Çetinkaya Türk S.K. 1953-54 Çetinkaya Türk S.K. 2-1 Pezoporikos Larnaca 1954-55 EPA Larnaca 2-1 Pezoporikos Larnaca 1955-58 Competition was not held 1958-59 Anorthosis 1-0 AEL Limassol 1960-61 Competition was not held 1961-62 Anorthosis 5-2 Olympiakos Nicosia 1962-63 APOEL 2-2, 1-0 (replay) Anorthosis 1963-64 Anorthosis 3-0 APOEL 1964-65 Omonia 5-1 Apollon Limassol 1965-66 Apollon Limassol 4-2 Nea Salamina 1966-67 Apollon Limassol 1-0 Alki Larnaca 1967-68 APOEL 2-1 EPA Larnaca 1968-69 APOEL 1-0 Omonia 1969-70 Pezoporikos Larnaca 2-1 Alki Larnaca 1970-71 Anorthosis 1-1, 1-0 (replay) Omonia 1971-72 Omonia 3-1 (aet) Pezoporikos Larnaca 1972-73 APOEL 1-0 Pezoporikos Larnaca 1973-74 Omonia 2-0 Enosis Neon Paralimni 1974-75 Anorthosis 3-2 Enosis Neon Paralimni 1975-76 APOEL 6-0 Alki Larnaca 1976-77 Olympiakos Nicosia 2-0 Alki Larnaca 1977-78 APOEL 3-0 Olympiakos Nicosia 1978-79 APOEL 1-0 AEL Limassol 1979-80 Omonia 3-1 Alki Larnaca 1980-81 Omonia 1-1, 3-0 (replay) Enosis Neon Paralimni 1981-82 Omonia 2-2, 4-1 (replay) Apollon Limassol 1982-83 Omonia 2-1 Enosis Neon Paralimni 1983-84 APOEL 3-1 (aet) Pezoporikos Larnaca 1984-85 AEL Limassol 1-0 EPA Larnaca 1985-86 Apollon Limassol 2-0 APOEL 1986-87 AEL Limassol 1-0 Apollon Limassol 1987-88 Omonia 2-1 AEL Limassol 1988-89 AEL Limassol 3-2 (aet) Aris Limassol 1989-90 Nea Salamina 3-2 Omonia 1990-91 Omonia 1-0 Olympiakos Nicosia 1991-92 Apollon Limassol 1-0 Omonia 1992-93 APOEL 4-1 Apollon Limassol 1993-94 Omonia 1-0 (aet) Anorthosis 1994-95 APOEL 4-2 Apollon Limassol 1995-96 APOEL 2-0 (aet) AEK Larnaca 1996-97 APOEL 2-0 Omonia 1997-98 Anorthosis 3-1 Apollon Limassol 1998-99 APOEL 2-0 Anorthosis 1999-00 Omonia 4-2 APOEL 2000-01 Apollon Limassol 1-0 Nea Salamina 2001-02 Anorthosis 1-0 Ethnikos Achna FC 2002-03 Anorthosis 0-0 (aet, 5-3 pen) AEL Limassol 2003-04 AEK Larnaca 2-1 AEL Limassol 2004-05 Omonia 2-0 Digenis Morphou 2005-06 APOEL 3-2 (aet) AEK Larnaca 2006-07 Anorthosis 3-2 Omonia 2007-08 APOEL 2-0 Anorthosis 2008-09 APOP Kinyras Peyias FC 2-0 AEL Limassol 2009-10 Apollon Limassol 2-1 APOEL 2010-11 Omonia 1-1 (aet, 4-3 pen) Apollon Limassol Performance by club
Club Winners Runners-up Winning Years APOEL 19 9 1937, 1941, 1947, 1951, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1984, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2006, 2008 Omonia 13 6 1965, 1972, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1994, 2000, 2005, 2011 Anorthosis 10 6 1949, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1971, 1975, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2007 AEL Limassol 6 8 1939, 1940, 1948, 1985, 1987, 1989 Apollon Limassol 6 6 1966, 1967, 1986, 1992, 2001, 2010 EPA Larnaca 5 3 1945, 1946, 1950, 1953, 1955 Trast AC 3 1 1935, 1936, 1938 Çetinkaya Türk S.K. 2 1 1952, 1954 Pezoporikos Larnaca 1 7 1970 Olympiakos Nicosia 1 3 1977 Nea Salamina 1 2 1990 AEK Larnaca 1 2 2004 APOP Kinyras Peyias FC 1 0 2009 Alki Larnaca 0 5 Enosis Neon Paralimni 0 4 Aris Limassol 0 1 Digenis Morphou 0 1 Ethnikos Achna 0 1 Lefkoşa Türk Spor Kulübü 0 1 See also
- Cypriot Women's Cup, women's edition
References
- ^ "Cyprus - List of Cup Finals". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/cypcuphist.html. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
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