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The Cyprus Cup or Cyprus Coca Cola Cup (Greek: Κύπελλο Κύπρου;) is the main cup competition in Cypriot football, run by Cyprus Football Association. It began in 1934, the same season with Cypriot Championship. It is the second most important competition for Cypriot club teams. The sponsor of the competitions is Coca Cola. 


Format


The competition was traditionally a pure knockout tournament. All ties were two-legged, except the final. 


However, the format of the competition changed radically in the season 2002/03 and since then the format has a lot of similarities with the UEFA Champions League. That caused difficulties for weak teams to make the surprise.
The competition currently consists of the first three knock out rounds, one stage of group competition (where teams play each other in the style of "home-and-away" or "regular season" competition), and then three rounds of knock-out finals. 


All knock-out ties are two-legged, with each team hosting one match. The team which scores the greater aggregate number of goals qualifies for the next round. The away goals rule applies. Extra time and penalty kicks are used to determine the winner, if necessary. An exception are the final and the first two rounds which are a single match played.


54 teams competiting Cyprus FA championships from First until Fourth Division are playing in the competition, with all First Division teams receiving a bye until at least on round three.
In the first round, the 40 teams playing in low divisions, are paired off to play each other in a single-match playoff in round one. The winners proceed to the second stage, and they paired off again under the same rules.


In the third round, the second round winners are joined by the six teams that finished between 9th and 11th position in the previous season's First Division, and the tree promoted teams to the First Division from the Second one. The third round is played in two-legs, home and away. 


Round four in the Cyprus Cup is a league system, where the top eight teams from last season's First Division and the other eight winning teams from round two are placed into four groups of four. The four top First Division teams are top seeded and cannot be placed into the same group. The same with the teams which were between 5th and 8th in the ranking are in second top seeded and cannot play each other, rather than one team of the top seeded and two from the third round winners. All teams play each other two, home and away, with the top two teams in each group proceeding to the quarter finals, from where the Cup becomes a standard knockout competition, played in two legs and one leg for the final. The top teams of the group can not be paired, same for the teams that were in the same group.


Cyprus Football Association changed again in 2006 the formation of the cup by removing the groups from the round of 16 to the quarter finals.



Finals



Performance By Club



 Club
 Winners
 Winning Years


 APOEL Nicosia
 18
 1937, 1941, 1947, 1951, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1984, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2006


 Omonia Nicosia
 12
 1965, 1972, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1994, 2000, 2005


 Anorthosis Famagusta
 9
 1949, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1971, 1975, 1998, 2002, 2003


 AEL Limassol
 6
 1939, 1940, 1948, 1985, 1987, 1989


 Apollon Limassol
 5
 1966, 1967, 1986, 1992, 2001


 EPA Larnaca
 5
 1945, 1946, 1950, 1953, 1955


 Trast AC
 3
 1935, 1936, 1938


 Çetin Kaya
 2
 1952, 1954




 Pezoporikos Larnaca
 1
 1970




 Olympiakos Nicosia
 1
 1977




 Nea Salamina
 1
 1990




 AEK Larnaca
 1
 2004






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