The Greek Cup 2005-06 was the 64th staging of The Greek Football Cup, or Greek Cup, competition. This season's edition was the first to be entitled "SINCO Greek Cup" after SINCO Insurance Brokers.

The competition started on 20 August 2005 and concluded on 10 May 2006 with the Final, held at the Pankritio.

Olympiacos claimed this season's Greek Cup with a 3-0 victory over AEK Athens.

Calendar

Round	Date
First Round	21 August 2005
Second Round	20, 21 & 24 August 2005
Third Round	31 August & 1 September 2005
Fourth Round	26 & 27 October, 8, 9 & 10 November 2005
Fifth Round	20, 21 & 22 December 2005
Quarter-finals	31 January, 1, 2 & 7 February 2006 (1st leg) 8, 9 & 22 February 2006 (2nd leg)
Semi-finals	21 & 22 March 2006 (1st leg) 12 April 2006 (2nd leg)
Final	10 May 2006

First round

Home team	Score	Away team
Atsalenios	2-1	Agios Dimitrios

Second round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Ptolemaida-Lignitorikhi	0-1	Anagennisi Karditsa Anagennisi Karditsa Anagennisi Karditsa, or Anagennisi Karditsa 1904 , is a Greek association football club based in the city of Karditsa, Greece.The club currently competes in Football League.-History:...
2	Lamia	1-2	Ethnikos Piraeus
3	Achaiki	1-2	Asteras Tripolis
4	Keratsini	0-0	Doxa Drama Doxa Dramas Doxa Drama F.C. is a football club based in the city of Drama, Greece.The club currently competes in the Superleague Greece.-History:During World War I, near the city of Drama, Macedonia, a team of English soldiers who played football regularly in their camp inspired the local Greek population to...
Doxa Drama won 2-4 on penalties
5	Panetolikos	1-1	Aiolikos
Aiolikos won 6-7 on penalties
6	AE Giannena	1-4	Thraki Enosis
7	PAS Giannena	3-0	Apollon Athens
8	Thyella Patras	4-1	Ionia Chania 2000
9	Lilas / Chalkida Lilas FC Lilas Vasilikou is a football club in Greece. Three years ago, they played in the Greek Third Division.Now after a destruction of the team and the rebuiling of it Lilas is playing on the topical championship.NOTABLE GAMES...	1-1 (a.e.t.)	Panthrakikos
Panthrakikos won 2-4 on penalties
10	Agrotikos Asteras	6-2	Vyzas Vyzas Vyzas may refer to:*Vyzas F.C., greek football team*Byzas or Vyzas , was the eponymous founder of Byzantium...
11	Diagoras	3-0	Thermaikos
12	Polykastro	2-0	Atsalenios
13	Pierikos	3-0	Messiniakos Messiniakos fc Founded in 1888, Messiniakos Gymnastic Club is the oldest athletic club in Greece. Messiniakos' traditional colours are green and white.Messiniakos has made a name of itself in many sports and has produced very good athletes, such as OFI's Brazilian footballer Davidson and Louis Tsatoumas in...
14	Kavala	3-0	Rodos
15	Anagennisi Arta	2-1	Acharnaikos
16	Trikala	2-1	Kozani Kozani FC FS Kozani is a football club from Kozani, Greece. The club was founded in April 1964 in Kozani, Greece following the merger between Makedonikos and Olympiakos Kozanis. In the emblem the team kept the date both teams were founded in 1928 and took the colours of Olympiakos, the red and Makedonikos,...

Third round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
17	Anagennisi Karditsa Anagennisi Karditsa Anagennisi Karditsa, or Anagennisi Karditsa 1904 , is a Greek association football club based in the city of Karditsa, Greece.The club currently competes in Football League.-History:...	0-4	Ilisiakos
18	Ethnikos Piraeus	6-1	Proodeftiki Proodeftiki FC Proodeftiki FC is an historical Greek sports club based at Korydallos. The club was established in 1927.Today it has a football club playing in the Greek Fourth Division, and basketball and volleyball teams playing at regional tournaments....
19	Asteras Tripolis	1-0	Chaidari
20	Doxa Drama Doxa Dramas Doxa Drama F.C. is a football club based in the city of Drama, Greece.The club currently competes in the Superleague Greece.-History:During World War I, near the city of Drama, Macedonia, a team of English soldiers who played football regularly in their camp inspired the local Greek population to...	0-1	Panachaiki 2005 Panachaiki Panachaiki, known officially as Panachaiki GE , the Pan-Achaean Athletic Union, is a Greek multisport club based in the city of Patras, Greece.- History :...
21	Aiolikos	1-2	Niki Volos
22	Thraki Enosis	2-1	Kalamata Kalamata FC Kalamata F.C. is a professional football club based in Kalamata, Greece, currently competing in Delta Ethniki.-Background:Kalamata F.C. was formed in 1967 in a merger among Apollon Kalamata and other local sides.- History :...
23	PAS Giannena PAS Giannina PAS Giannina , the Panepirotic Athletic Association Giannina, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Ioannina, the capital of Greece’s Epirus region.Following the 2010–11 season, PAS was promoted to Greece’s Super League division...	2-0	Kerkyra Kerkyra FC Kerkyra FC, also known as AO Kerkyra , the Athletic Club Kerkyra, is a Greek association football club based on the island of Kerkyra , Greece.-History:...
24	Thyella Patras	1-1	Veria
Veria won 3-5 on penalties
25	Panthrakikos	2-1	Aris Aris Thessaloniki F.C. Aris Football Club , also known as God of war and the Yellows, is a Greek football club based in the city of Thessaloniki, Macedonia. Formed in 1914, the club was a founding member of Macedonian Football Clubs Association as well as the Hellenic Football Federation, they currently compete in...
26	Agrotikos Asteras	3-1	Kastoria
27	Diagoras	1-1	Panserraikos
Panserraikos won 4-5 on penalties
28	Polykastro	0-5	Ergotelis
29	Pierikos	2-2	ASK Olympiakos Volos
ASK Olympiakos Volos won 3-4 on penalties
30	Kavala	1-2 (a.e.t.)	Paniliakos Paniliakos Paniliakos was founded in 1958 from the union of four teams from the city of Pyrgos...
31	Anagennisi Arta	2-3	Thrasyvoulos
32	Trikala	0-2	Ethnikos Asteras

Fourth round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
33	ASK Olympiakos Volos	0-2	Panionios
34	Ilisiakos	0-2	Egaleo Egaleo FC Egaleo F.C. is a Greek football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens. Founded in 1931, it currently plays in Greece's fourth division, holding home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium, with a 14,000-seat capacity....
35	Niki Volos	1-1	OFI OFI Crete OFI , the Sportfriends Association Heraklion, is a Greek association football club based in Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Outside Greece, the club is generally known as OFI Crete F.C., however, the name Crete is not actually part of the club's official title.OFI is the club with most...
Niki Volos won 3-2 on penalties
36	Thraki Enosis	0-0	Ionikos
Ionikos won 4-5 on penalties
37	PAS Giannena PAS Giannina PAS Giannina , the Panepirotic Athletic Association Giannina, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Ioannina, the capital of Greece’s Epirus region.Following the 2010–11 season, PAS was promoted to Greece’s Super League division...	0-3	AEK Athens AEK Athens FC AEK Athens F.C. , the Athletic Union of Constantinople, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Athens, Greece. Outside Greece, the club is also known as AEK Athens, however, the word Athens is not part of the club's official title.Established in Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees...
38	Veria	0-2	Skoda Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Skoda Xanthi F.C. , or F.C. Skoda Xanthi Athletic Club, is a Greek football club, based in the city of Xanthi. The club currently competes in the Super League Greece.-History:...
39	Agrotikos Asteras	1-1	PAOK PAOK FC P.A.O.K. F.C. is a Greek association football club based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is the largest supported football club in Macedonia.PAOK FC is the football department of Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans , a multi-sport club. Since its formation in 1926 the football club...
Agrotikos Asteras won 5-4 on penalties
40	Panserraikos	0-1	Larissa AEL 1964 AEL 1964 F.C., fully the Athletic Union of Larissa 1964 , is a Greek association football club based in the city of Larissa, capital of Greece's Thessaly region. The club is also known, unofficially, as Larissa. It is the only FC outside the two big Greek cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, to have...
41	Ethnikos Piraeus	1-1	Kallithea Kallithea FC Kallithea F.C. is a Greek professional football club based in Kallithea, currently competing in the Football League .-Background:...
Ethnikos Piraeus won 4-2 on penalties
42	Asteras Tripolis	0-0	Apollon Kalamaria Apollon Kalamarias Apollon Kalamarias is a Greek association football club based in the district of Kalamaria, in southeast Thessaloniki, Greece.The club was suspended from playing in the Second Division for the 2009-10 season, due to unsettled debts...
Apollon Kalamaria won 2-3 on penalties
43	Panthrakikos	2-2	Akratitos Akratitos A.P.O. Akratitos is a football club that plays in the Athens amateur division in Greece.The club rose from the lower ranks to the top flight under the stewardship of Yannis Pathiakakis, who in 2002 died on the pitch during a training session...
Akratitos won 5-6 on penalties
44	Ergotelis	1-0	Panathinaikos Panathinaikos FC Panathinaikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Athens. Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Greek football history. They have won 20 Greek Championships and 17 Greek Cups.Panathinaikos is the most...
45	Ethnikos Asteras	1-0	Levadiakos Levadiakos Levadiakos FC is a Greek association football club that plays in the second division Football League in Greece in the 2010–2011 season.Based in Livadeia, Greece, the club was promoted to the Alpha Ethniki, forerunner of the Super League, after ten seasons in minor divisions in the 2005–2006...
46	Panachaiki 2005 Panachaiki Panachaiki, known officially as Panachaiki GE , the Pan-Achaean Athletic Union, is a Greek multisport club based in the city of Patras, Greece.- History :...	1-1	Iraklis
Panachaiki 2005 won 4-2 on penalties
47	Paniliakos Paniliakos Paniliakos was founded in 1958 from the union of four teams from the city of Pyrgos...	0-4	Olympiacos
48	Thrasyvoulos	2-0	Atromitos Atromitos Atromitos FC is a football club based in Peristeri, Athens that plays in the Super League Greece.-History:Atromitos FC was officially founded in May 1923 when Kalomvounis, Petos, Glykofridis, Stathopoulos, Synodinos, Rigopoulos, Stamatopoulos, and other students living in Victoria Square decided...

Fifth round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Thrasyvoulos	0-2	Olympiacos
2	Larissa AEL 1964 AEL 1964 F.C., fully the Athletic Union of Larissa 1964 , is a Greek association football club based in the city of Larissa, capital of Greece's Thessaly region. The club is also known, unofficially, as Larissa. It is the only FC outside the two big Greek cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, to have...	0-0	Apollon Kalamaria Apollon Kalamarias Apollon Kalamarias is a Greek association football club based in the district of Kalamaria, in southeast Thessaloniki, Greece.The club was suspended from playing in the Second Division for the 2009-10 season, due to unsettled debts...
replay	Apollon Kalamaria Apollon Kalamarias Apollon Kalamarias is a Greek association football club based in the district of Kalamaria, in southeast Thessaloniki, Greece.The club was suspended from playing in the Second Division for the 2009-10 season, due to unsettled debts...	1-2	Larissa AEL 1964 AEL 1964 F.C., fully the Athletic Union of Larissa 1964 , is a Greek association football club based in the city of Larissa, capital of Greece's Thessaly region. The club is also known, unofficially, as Larissa. It is the only FC outside the two big Greek cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, to have...
3	AEK Athens AEK Athens FC AEK Athens F.C. , the Athletic Union of Constantinople, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Athens, Greece. Outside Greece, the club is also known as AEK Athens, however, the word Athens is not part of the club's official title.Established in Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees...	1-1	Ethnikos Piraeus
replay	Ethnikos Piraeus	1-1 (a.e.t.)	AEK Athens AEK Athens FC AEK Athens F.C. , the Athletic Union of Constantinople, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Athens, Greece. Outside Greece, the club is also known as AEK Athens, however, the word Athens is not part of the club's official title.Established in Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees...
AEK Athens won 3-4 on penalties
4	Agrotikos Asteras	2-0	Ergotelis
5	Ethnikos Asteras	2-1	Panionios
6	Ionikos	1-4	Niki Volos
7	Skoda Xanthi Skoda Xanthi Skoda Xanthi F.C. , or F.C. Skoda Xanthi Athletic Club, is a Greek football club, based in the city of Xanthi. The club currently competes in the Super League Greece.-History:...	1-0	Panachaiki 2005 Panachaiki Panachaiki, known officially as Panachaiki GE , the Pan-Achaean Athletic Union, is a Greek multisport club based in the city of Patras, Greece.- History :...
8	Akratitos Akratitos A.P.O. Akratitos is a football club that plays in the Athens amateur division in Greece.The club rose from the lower ranks to the top flight under the stewardship of Yannis Pathiakakis, who in 2002 died on the pitch during a training session...	0-0	Egaleo Egaleo FC Egaleo F.C. is a Greek football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens. Founded in 1931, it currently plays in Greece's fourth division, holding home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium, with a 14,000-seat capacity....
replay	Egaleo Egaleo FC Egaleo F.C. is a Greek football club based in Egaleo, a suburb of Athens. Founded in 1931, it currently plays in Greece's fourth division, holding home matches at Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium, with a 14,000-seat capacity....	1-1	Akratitos Akratitos A.P.O. Akratitos is a football club that plays in the Athens amateur division in Greece.The club rose from the lower ranks to the top flight under the stewardship of Yannis Pathiakakis, who in 2002 died on the pitch during a training session...
Akratitos won 5-6 on penalties

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Final

The 64th Greek Cup Final was played at the Pankritio Stadium and it was the first Greek Cup Final to be played in Heraklion since 1931. Similarly to the semi-finals, 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.

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style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">	OLYMPIACOS:
GK	71	Antonis Nikopolidis
DF	14	Dimitris Mavrogenidis Dimitris Mavrogenidis Dimitris Mavrogenidis is a retired Uzbek-born Greek football right-back.Mavrogenidis is best known as Olympiacos' first-choice right-back for a long stretch of the club's dominance of Greek football in the late 1990s and early 2000s.-Aris:...
DF	22	Erol Bulut Erol Bulut Erol Bulut is a Turkish-German football player playing in the left wing position, who is currently playing for OFI Crete...
DF	32	Giorgos Anatolakis Georgios Anatolakis Georgios Anatolakis was a Greek football central defender, who last played for Atromitos in the Greek Super League. He is well known in Greece for his strength, passion and persistence. A strong aerial challenger, he also advances on set pieces to find himself scoring on several occasions...
DF	12	Gabriel Schürrer Gabriel Schürrer Gabriel Francisco Schürrer Peralta is a retired Argentine football central defender, and the current manager of Club Atlético Lanús....
MF	6	Ieroklis Stoltidis Ieroklis Stoltidis Ieroklis Stoltidis , also known as "Iéro", is a retired Greek footballer, who played as a defensive midfielder. He's well known as a passionate, determined anchorman with tremendous mental and physical courage....
MF	15	Yaya Touré Yaya Touré Gnégnéri Yaya Touré , commonly known as Yaya Touré, is an Ivorian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Côte d'Ivoire national side...
MF	1	Pantelis Kafes Pantelis Kafes Pantelis Kafes is a Greek footballer currently playing as a deep-lying playmaker for AEK Athens in the Greek Super League...
FW	9	Giannis Okkas
MF	11	Predrag Đorđević
FW	23	Michalis Konstantinou Michalis Konstantinou Michalis Konstantinou is a Cypriot football striker. He plays for the Cyprus national football team, and is already the all-time leading scorer with 32 goals in 80 appearances....
Substitutes:
GK	33	Erwin Lemmens Erwin Lemmens Erwin Lemmens is a Belgian footballer who plays for K.S.K. Beveren, as a goalkeeper.-Club career:Lemmens started his career at K.S.K. Beveren in 1995, and was a regular from 1997–99, when he signed for Real Racing Club de Santander in Spain...
DF	19	Thanasis Kostoulas Athanasios Kostoulas Athanasios Kostoulas is a Greek football player, currently playing for Asteras Tripolis.A determined tackler with timing to match, Kostoulas prefers to operate as a defensive midfield player but has played in every position across the back line.Kostoulas stayed for a year at his first professional...
DF	21	Grigoris Georgatos
MF	8	Miloš Marić Miloš Maric Miloš Marić is a Serbian football midfielder, currently playing for Lierse S.K. in Belgium.-Career:...
MF	7	Nery Castillo Nery Castillo Nery Alberto Castillo Confalonieri , is a Mexican international footballer who currently plays for Aris.He began his career at Uruguayan club Danubio, moving to Greece at the age of 16 to play for Olympiacos....
FW	20	Dani Garcia
FW	40	Haruna Babangida Haruna Babangida Haruna Babangida is a Nigerian footballer who currently is free agent.Babangida is a hard working, quick right wing who can also play on the left side.He is the younger brother of Tijani Babangida and Ibrahim Babangida...
Manager:
Trond Sollied Trond Sollied Trond Johan Sollied is a Norwegian football manager and retired player, currently managing the Belgian first division team Gent....

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DF 31   Nikos Georgeas

Nikolaos Georgeas

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  DF 14   Stavros Tziortziopoulos

Stavros Tziortziopoulos

Stavros Tziortziopoulos born 15 August 1978 in Athens is a Greek football defender currently playing for Kalloni F.C.. In 2006–07 he played for AEK Athens FC....

DF  5   Bruno Cirillo

Bruno Cirillo

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  DF 55   Traianos Dellas

Traianos Dellas

Traianos Dellas is a Greek international footballer currently playing as a centre back for AEK Athens in the Greek Super League...

  MF 21   Kostas Katsouranis

Kostas Katsouranis

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  MF 23   Vassilis Lakis

Vassilis Lakis

Vasilis Lakis is a Greek footballer and he was named "Turbo" for his speed on the attacking wing and making great cross in the area for the strikers.-FAS Naussa:...

MF 17   Vladan Ivić

Vladimir Ivic

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FW 99   Júlio César

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  MF 25   Emerson

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  FW 33   Nikos Liberopoulos  Substitutes: GK 22   Dionisis Chiotis

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DF  6   Giorgos Alexopoulos

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  DF 24   Christos Kontis

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MF 20   Vasileios Pliatsikas MF 26   Ilias Kyriakidis FW  7   Alessandro Soares

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  FW 35   Pantelis Kapetanos

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  Manager:   Fernando Santos

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Saraidaris Panou

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

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