The 2022–23 Greek Football Cup, also named Novibet Greek Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 81st edition of the Greek Football Cup. The winner of the Cup will qualify for the next season's Europa League third qualifying round.
Match times up to 30 October 2022 and from 26 March 2023 were EEST (UTC+3). Times on interim ("winter") days were EET (UTC+2).
Calendar Round Date(s) Fixtures Clubs New entries Leagues entering First Round 31 August & 1, 14 September 2022 22 85 → 62 45 Local Cup Winners Second Round 21, 25 September 2022 9 62 → 52 none none Third Round 28 September & 5 October 2022 16 52 → 35 26 Super League 2 Fourth Round 8, 9 & 12 October 2022 6 35 → 29 none none Fifth Round 18–20 October 2022 12 29 → 16 10 Super League 1, places 5–14 Round of 16 14–16 December 2022 & 10–12 January 2023 16 16 → 8 4 Super League 1, places 1–4 Quarter-finals 18, 25, 26 January 2023 8 8 → 4 none none Semi-finals 9 February, 18 March & 12, 13 April 2023 4 4 → 2 Final 24 May 2023 1 2 → 1 Source:
Qualifying rounds
First round The draw took place on 24 August 2022.
Summary
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|31 August 2022
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|1 September 2022
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|14 September 2022
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|N/A
Matches
Second round The draw took place on 8 September 2022. Former Greek professional footballer and current manager, Tasos Tasiopoulos, made the draw using a manually operated lotery ball cage.
Summary
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|21 September 2022
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|25 September 2022
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|N/A
Matches
Third round The draw took place on 20 September 2022. Former Albanian international, Bledar Kola, made the draw using a manually operated lottery ball cage.
Summary
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|28 September 2022
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|2 October 2022
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|5 October 2022
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|N/A
Matches
Fourth round The draw took place on 20 September 2022, after the Third Round draw.
Summary
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|8 October 2022
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|9 October 2022
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|12 October 2022
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#D0D0D0" align=center|N/A
Matches
Fifth round The draw took place on 11 October 2022. Former Greek international and current football manager, Sakis Tsiolis, made the draw using a manually operated lottery ball cage.
Summary
Matches
Knockout phase Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the quarter-finals and the semi-finals, was played by a single match. If the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time was played, followed by a penalty shoot-out if the score was still level. In the quarter-finals and the semi-finals were played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then extra time was played. The away goals rule was again applied after extra time, i.e. if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team advanced by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the winners were decided by a penalty shoot-out. In the round of 16, if the score was level at the end of normal time the two-legged rule was applied.The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows: In the draw for the Round of 16, the four Super League clubs finishing in places 1–4 in the previous season are seeded, while the clubs advancing from the Fifth Round are unseeded.The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. The remaining 8 unseeded clubs will be drawn against one another with the team being drawn last hosting the second leg. 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 The draw took place on 14 November 2022. Former Greek international and member of the UEFA Euro 2004 squad, Antonios Nikopolidis, made the draw using a manually operated lottery ball cage.
Summary
Matches
Olympiacos won 6–3 on aggregate.
Panserraikos won 4–0 on aggregate.
Panathinaikos won 5–0 on aggregate.
Lamia won 3–2 on aggregate.
Aris won 3–1 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 5–0 on aggregate.
PAOK won 4–0 on aggregate.
Apollon Paralimnio won 4–3 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
The draw took place on 14 November 2022, after the Round of 16 draw.
Summary
Matches
PAOK won 3–1 on aggregate.
Olympiacos won 2–0 on aggregate.
Lamia won 6–3 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 6–1 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
The draw took place on 14 November 2022, after the quarter-final draw.
Summary
Matches
AEK Athens won 4–2 on aggregate.
PAOK won 6–2 on aggregate.
Final
Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 Brandon Thomas PAOK52 Vangelis Lathyris PAO Vardas4 Andreas Katsantonis Panserraikos Periklis Minas A.O. Agios Nikolaos Levi García AEK Athens Kosmas Gekas Apollon Paralimnio Georgios Georgiadis Petros Mantalos AEK Athens9 Nikolaos Skondras P.O. Fiki3 Marcelo Olympiacos Georgios Chantzis Asteras Stavrou Christos Vaskos Panthrakikos Thomas Vasiliou Ilioupoli Adam Gnezda Čerin Panathinaikos Ledis Elezi Apollon Paralimnio
References
External links Match Program Soccerway