The 2020–21 Greek Football Cup was the 79th edition of the Greek Football Cup. It took place with the participation of the 14 clubs from the Super League 1, as there was no competitive action in the lower divisions (Super League 2, Football League and Gamma Ethniki) until early January due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hellenic Football Federation decided that the Cup would be held with the participation of teams only from the Super League, which was running normally. The winner of the Cup qualified for the next season's Europa Conference League third qualifying round.
Calendar Round Date(s) Fixtures Clubs New entriesFirst round 20, 21 January and 3, 4 February 2021 12 14 → 8 12Quarter-finals 10, 11, 18 February and 3, 4 March 2021 8 8 → 4 2Semi-finals 7 April and 28, 29 April 2021 4 4 → 2 noneFinal 22 May 2021 1 2 → 1 none
Bracket
First round The draw for this round took place on 5 January 2021.
Summary
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Matches
PAOK won 7–1 on aggregate.
Volos won 3–1 on aggregate.
PAS Giannina won 5–4 on aggregate.
Aris won 4–0 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 3–2 on aggregate.
Olympiacos won 6–0 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
The draw for this round took place on 5 February 2021. Shortly afterwards, Olympiacos vice-president Kostas Karapapas and Aris president Theodoros Karypidis both implied that the draw was fixed and claimed that some of the balls used during the procedure by the HFF representative and chairman of the Greek Cup Committee Manos Gavrielidis were previously heated. Gavrielidis stated that there was a livestream of the draw and everything was performed according to the restrictions concerning the COVID-19 pandemic which forbade the presence of club representatives, a rule that was also applied in the previous round's draw. The HFF issued a statement later that day denouncing the accusation as ridiculous and absurd. Olympiacos issued a statement in response, insisting that the draw was fixed by the Federation and accusing the HFF representatives of being corrupt and responsible for the total degradation of the competition and of Greek football in general.
Summary
Matches
PAOK won 6–3 on aggregate.
Olympiacos won 3–2 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 4–3 on aggregate.
The match was held at Panetolikos Stadium due to the inappropriateness of the Zosimades Stadium.
PAS Giannina won 4–2 on aggregate.
Semi-finals The draw for this round took place on 16 March 2021.
Summary
Matches
Olympiacos won 4–2 on aggregate.
PAOK won 3–1 on aggregate.
Final
Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 Christos Tzolis PAOK5 Michael Krmenčík3 Anastasios Douvikas Volos2 Ahmed Hassan Olympiacos3 Konstantinos Kotsopoulos Atromitos2 Gerasimos Mitoglou Volos Nélson Oliveira AEK Athens Youssef El-Arabi Olympiacos Muamer Tanković AEK Athens Bruma Olympiacos
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