# 2005–06 Cypriot Cup

The 2005–06 Cypriot Cup was the 64th edition of the Cypriot Cup. A total of 54 clubs entered the competition. It began on 10 September 2005 with the first round and concluded on 13 May 2006 with the final which was held at GSZ Stadium. APOEL won their 18th Cypriot Cup trophy after beating AEK 3–2 (aet) in the final.

## Format

In the 2005–06 Cypriot Cup, participated all the teams of the Cypriot First Division, the Cypriot Second Division, the Cypriot Third Division and 12 of the 14 teams of the Cypriot Fourth Division.
The competition consisted of seven rounds. In the first and in the second round each tie was played as a single leg and was held at the home ground of one of the two teams, according to the draw results. Each tie winner was qualifying to the next round. If a match was drawn, extra time was following. If extra time was drawn, the winner was decided by penalty shoot-out.
The third round was played in a two-legged format, each team playing a home and an away match against their opponent. The team which scored more goals on aggregate, was qualifying to the next round. If the two teams scored the same number of goals on aggregate, then the team which scored more goals away from home was advancing to the next round.
If both teams had scored the same number of home and away goals, then extra time was following after the end of the second leg match. If during the extra thirty minutes both teams had managed to score, but they had scored the same number of goals, then the team who scored the away goals was advancing to the next round (i.e. the team which was playing away). If there weren't scored any goals during extra time, the qualifying team was determined by penalty shoot-out.
In the next round, the teams were drawn into four groups of four. The teams of each group played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The group winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the next round.
The quarter-finals and semi-finals were played over two legs and the same format as in the third round was applied. The final was a single match.
The cup winner secured a place in the 2006–07 UEFA Cup.

## First round

In the first round participated all the teams of the Cypriot Second Division and the Cypriot Third Division and 12 of the 14 teams of the Cypriot Fourth Division. The two fourth division teams which were promoted from the 2005 STOK promotion play-offs to the 2005–06 Cypriot Fourth Division after finishing to the third and fourth place (APEP Pelendriou and Anagennisi Trachoni) did not participate in the Cypriot Cup. FC Episkopi and Kissos Kissonerga which finished first and second in the 2005 STOK promotion play-offs, participated in the Cypriot Cup.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Spartakos Kitiou (D) | 1–1 (5–3 p) | FC Episkopi (D) |
| Digenis Oroklinis (C) | 0–3 | Omonia Aradippou (B) |
| Frenaros FC 2000 (C) | 2–0 | Onisilos Sotira (B) |
| Anagennisi Deryneia (B) | 1–3 | Aris Limassol F.C. (B) |
| Ellinismos Akakiou (D) | 0–3 | AEK Kythreas (C) |
| ENAD Polis Chrysochous FC (C) | 2–1 | Akritas Chlorakas (C) |
| PAEEK (C) | 5–1 | SEK Agiou Athanasiou (B) |
| Olympos Xylofagou (D) | 1–4 | ASIL Lysi (C) |
| Ayia Napa F.C. (B) | 5–2 | Iraklis Gerolakkou (B) |
| (C) Atromitos Yeroskipou | 3–0 | Ethnikos Latsion (D) |
| (C) Enosis Kokkinotrimithia | 0–0 (3–1 p) | Alki Larnaca F.C. (B) |
| Ethnikos Assia F.C. (B) | 0–2 | MEAP Nisou (B) |
| Achyronas Liopetriou (C) | 1–3 (a.e.t.) | Chalkanoras Idaliou (B) |
| Othellos Athienou F.C. (D) | 1–2 | Kissos Kissonergas (D) |
| Anagennisi Germasogeias (D) | 2–1 | Ermis Aradippou (C) |
| Elia Lythrodonta (D) | 1–2 | AOL Omonia Lakatamias (D) |
| Sourouklis Troullon (D) | 1–2 | Orfeas Nicosia (D) |
| AEP Paphos FC (B) | 2–1 | Elpida Xylofagou (B) |
| AEM Mesogis (C) | 3–0 | AEZ Zakakiou (C) |
| Doxa Katokopias F.C. (B) | 1–2 (a.e.t.) | Adonis Idaliou (C) |

## Second round

In the second round participated the winners of the first round ties.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Orfeas Nicosia (D) | 1–2 | Omonia Aradippou (B) |
| MEAP Nisou (B) | 2–3 (a.e.t.) | Ayia Napa F.C. (B) |
| Aris Limassol F.C. (B) | 9–1 | AOL Omonia Lakatamias (D) |
| Frenaros FC 2000 (C) | 4–3 (a.e.t.) | Anagennisi Germasogeias (D) |
| Chalkanoras Idaliou (B) | 1–3 | AEP Paphos FC (B) |
| AEK Kythreas (C) | 0–2 | PAEEK (C) |
| ENAD Polis Chrysochous FC (C) | 0–1 | AEM Mesogis (C) |
| Enosis Kokkinotrimithia (C) | 1–0 | Adonis Idaliou (C) |
| ASIL Lysi (C) | 1–0 | Atromitos Yeroskipou (C) |
| Spartakos Kitiou (D) | 2–1 | Kissos Kissonerga (D) |

## Third round

In the third round participated the winners of the second round ties and six teams of the Cypriot First Division (the teams which finished 9th, 10th, 11th in the 2004–05 Cypriot First Division and the three teams which promoted from the 2004–05 Cypriot Second Division). The first eight teams of the 2004-05 Cypriot First Division did not participate in this round.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| AEM Mesogis (C) | 4–4 (a) | ASIL Lysi (C) | 3–3 | 1–1 |
| AEP Paphos FC (B) | 7–2 | Spartakos Kitiou (D) | 4–1 | 3–1 |
| Ethnikos Achna FC (A) | 3–1 | APOP Kinyras FC (A) | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| APEP F.C. (A) | 7–3 | PAEEK (C) | 6–2 | 1–1 |
| Enosis Kokkinotrimithia (C) | 0–12 | AEL Limassol (A) | 0–4 | 0–8 |
| Ayia Napa F.C. (B) | 1–3 | AEK Larnaca F.C. (A) | 1–1 | 0–2 |
| Aris Limassol F.C. (B) | 11–1 | Omonia Aradippou (B) | 4–0 | 7–1 |
| ENTHOI Lakatamia FC (A) | 6–1 | Frenaros FC 2000 (C) | 5–0 | 1–1 |

## Group stage

In the group stage participated the eight winners of the third round ties and the eight teams of the 2005–06 Cypriot First Division which did not participated in the third round, that were the teams which finished in the first eight places in the 2004–05 Cypriot First Division. The first four teams of the 2004–05 Cypriot First Division (Anorthosis, APOEL, Omonia, Olympiakos) were set heads of each group and the 5th–8th placed teams (Digenis, Nea Salamina, Apollon and Enosis Neon Paralimni) were drawn one per group. The eight teams which advanced from the third round were drawn without limitations.
The teams of each group played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The group winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the next round.

### Group D
## Quarter-finals

In the quarter-finals participated all the teams which qualified from the group stage. The group winners were drawn against the runners-up, with the group winners hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other.
The first legs were played on 7 and 8 March. The second legs were played on 31 March, 1 April and 2 April. The second leg match between Anorthosis and AEK was abandoned in the 55th minute due to floodlight failure and was replayed on 19 April.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Nea Salamina | 2–5 | APOEL | 2–1 | 0–4 |
| Apollon Limassol | 0–2 | Omonia | 0–2 | 0–0 |
| AEK Larnaca | 3–3 | Anorthosis | 2–0 | 1–3 |
| AEP Paphos | 3–2 | Olympiakos | 2–0 | 1–2 |

## Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 26 April. The second legs were played on 3 May.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Omonia | 4–6 | APOEL | 3–3 | 1–3 |
| AE Paphos | 1–1 | AEK Larnaca | 1–1 | 0–0 |

## Final

APOEL: :
| GK | 1 | Michalis Morfis (c) |
| DF | 19 | Marios Elia |
| DF | 3 | Jean-Paul Abalo |
| DF | 21 | Aleksandar Todorovski 91' |
| DF | 18 | Demetris Daskalakis | |
| MF | 17 | Marinos Satsias |
| MF | 33 | Chrysis Michael |
| FW | 20 | Nektarios Alexandrou | 76' |
| MF | 10 | Ricardo Fernandes |
| FW | 9 | Alexandros Kaklamanos |
| FW | 99 | Marios Neophytou 59' |
| Substitutes: ||||
| FW | 29 | Esteban Solari | 59' |
| FW | 5 | Sasa Jovanovic | 76' |
| DF | 6 | Stelios Okkarides | 91' |
| Manager: ||||
| Jerzy Engel ||||
AEK Larnaca: :
| GK | 40 | Panayiotis Kythreotis |
| DF | 23 | Constantinos Mina |
| DF | 21 | Paraskevas Christou |
| DF | 3 | Zé Nando |
| MF | 22 | Charalambos Siligardakis |
| MF | 4 | Azubuike Oliseh |
| MF | 7 | Jatto Ceesay | 87' |
| MF | 8 | Narcis Răducan (c) |
| MF | 11 | Kyriacos Pavlou | 76' |
| MF | 10 | Ismail Ba | 105' |
| FW | 9 | George Datoru |
| Substitutes: ||||
| MF | 20 | Christos Panagiotou | 76' |
| MF | 27 | Pedro Moita | 87' |
| MF | 25 | Savvas Christou | 105' |
| Manager: ||||
| Marios Constantinou ||||
* Cypriot Cup 2005–06 winners
* APOEL 18th title