It was an interesting edition, with the eternal enemies, Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, to contest the final after 11 years.
Olympiacos had eliminated "big three of Thessaloniki" (PAOK, Aris, and Iraklis), while Panathinaikos only one Alpha Ethniki team, AEK Athens, in semi-finals.
that year, Panathinaikos achieved an impressive 4–0[1] victory against their opponent, completing one successful season with the win of the double.
Eventually, a memorable fact took place, as HFF allocated the 1/5 of crude income of the final in favour of the aims of UNICEF.
In the first two rounds and the final, which were played as 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.The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows: