2007–08 Cypriot Cup

2007–08 Cypriot Cup

The Cypriot Cup 2007–08 was the 66th edition of The Cypriot Football Cup, or Cypriot Cup for short. 16 clubs' entries were accepted for the competition.

The competition culminated with the Cup Final, held at GSP Stadium, Nicosia on 17 May 2008. The match was contested by APOEL and Anorthosis, with APOEL taking the title 2–0.

Contents

Fourth round

The first leg was played on 23–24 October and the second leg on 31 October and 1 November.

Team 1   Agg.   Team 2   1st leg     2nd leg  
AC Omonia 5-2 Olympiakos Nicosia 1-0 4-2
Nea Salamis 3-3 ENP 1-0 2-3
Ermis Aradippou 2-3 Aris Limassol 1-2 1-1
Apollon Limassol 5-1 Digenis Morphou 3-1 2-0
AEK Larnaca 1-3 AO Agia Napa 0-2[1] 1-1
APOEL 9-0 Olympos Xylofagou 6-0 3-0
APOP 0-2 Anorthosis 0-2 0-0
AE Paphos 1-2 Ethnikos Achna 1-1 0-1
  1. ^ Match was forfeited (finished 1-0) due to AEK Larnaca fielding an ineligible a player.

Group stage

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Apollon Limassol 6 3 3 0 13 6 +7 12
AC Omonia 6 2 3 1 9 6 +3 9
Nea Salamis 6 3 0 3 8 8 0 9
Ethnikos Achna FC 6 0 2 4 4 14 -10 2

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Anorthosis 6 4 2 0 10 4 +6 14
APOEL 6 3 2 1 9 4 +5 11
AO Ayia Napa 6 2 0 4 6 12 -6 6
Aris Limassol 6 1 0 5 9 14 -5 3
Advances to Semi-Finals

Semi-Finals

Team 1   Agg.   Team 2   1st leg     2nd leg  
AC Omonia 2-3 APOEL 2–1 0-2
Apollon Limassol 2-4 Anorthosis 1–0 1-4

Final

The 66th Cypriot Cup Final was played at the GSP Stadium, Nicosia. There would be no replay even if the match was drawn; instead, extra time would be used to decide the Winners. If extra time failed to separate the two sides, the match would go to penalty kicks.

All times at EET

2008-05-17
20:00
APOEL 2 – 0 Anorthosis Neo GSP Stadium, Nicosia
Attendance: 20,280
Referee: Greece Dimitris Kalopoulos
Morais Goal 53'
Mirosavljević Goal 76'
(Report)
APOEL
Anorthosis
APOEL:
GK 12 Republic of Macedonia Jane Nikolovski
DF 5 Romania Daniel Florea
DF 24 Greece Christos Kontis
DF 8 Algeria Bark Seghiri Booked
DF 14 Netherlands Joost Broerse
MF 26 Portugal Nuno Morais
MF 7 Cyprus Constantinos Charalambides Substituted off in the 87th minute 87' Booked
MF 20 Cyprus Constantinos Makrides (c)
MF 23 Portugal Helio Pinto
FW 9 Serbia Nenad Mirosavljević Substituted off in the 90th minute 90'
FW 31 Brazil Zé Carlos Substituted off in the 82nd minute 82'
Substitutes:
DF 32 Albania Altin Haxhi Substituted on in the 82nd minute 82'
DF 18 Cyprus Demetris Daskalakis Substituted on in the 87th minute 87'
FW 9 Greece Nikos Machlas Substituted on in the 90th minute 90'
Manager:
Serbia Ivan Jovanović
Anorthosis:
GK 1 Albania Arjan Beqaj
DF 2 Greece Theodoros Tripotseris
DF 3 Cyprus Lambros Lambrou
DF 24 Cyprus Andreas Constantinou
DF 4 Greece Nikos Katsavakis (c)
MF 21 Cyprus Giorgos Panagi Substituted off in the 59th minute 59'
MF 6 Slovenia Anton Žlogar
MF 20 France Vincent Laban Substituted off in the 72nd minute 72' Booked
MF 10 Portugal Paulo Costa
FW 11 Greece Nikos Frousos
FW 9 Poland Łukasz Sosin
Substitutes:
FW 22 Bulgaria Metodi Deyanov Substituted on in the 59th minute 59'
MF 18 Georgia (country) Klimenti Tsitaishvili Substituted on in the 72nd minute 72' Booked
Manager:
Georgia (country) Temuri Ketsbaia

MATCH OFFICIALS

  • Assistant referees:
    • Aristidis Christou
    • Stefanos Grigoriades

MATCH RULES

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Five named subtitutes.
  • Maximum of three substitutions.

See also

  • Cypriot First Division 2007-08
  • Cypriot Second Division 2007-08
  • 2007-08 in Cypriot football