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1967–68 Greek Football Cup

football competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ4572966 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1967–68 Greek Football Cup was the 26th edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, on 21 July 1968. The match was contested by Olympiacos and Panathinaikos, with Olympiacos winning by 1–0.

Calendar

From the last qualifying round onwards:

Last qualifying round

Additional round

• The last 16 of previous season's Cup qualified for the 2nd round.

Knockout phase

In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over a single match. If the match ends up as a draw, extra time will be played. If a winner doesn't occur after the extra time the winner emerges by a flip of a coin.The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

In the draw for the round of 32, the teams that had qualified to previous' season Round of 16 are seeded and the clubs that passed the qualification round are unseeded.

In the draws for the round of 16 onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group can be drawn against each other.

Bracket

Round of 32

*Coin toss.

Round of 16

*Coin toss.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1967–68 Greek Football Cup” is football competition. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Greek, Football and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Greek, Football and football is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “football competition” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4572966. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1967 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “1967–68 Greek Football Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.