That season's edition was entitled "Vodafone Greek Cup" for sponsorship reasons.
The two finalists were the arch-rivals, PAOK and Aris, meeting up again in a Cup final after 33 years.
They qualified against OFI[1][2] on away goals rule and eliminated league champions Olympiacos[3][4][5] with two wins in the quarter-finals and Cup holders AEK Athens[6][7][8] with 2–1 on aggregate in the semi-finals.
They eliminated PAS Giannina with two wins, Ethnikos Asteras[9][10] with 3–2 on aggregate in the quarter-finals and qualified against Egaleo[11][12][13] on away goals rule in the semi-finals.
PAOK defeated Aris by 1–0[14][15][16] with a goal scored by Georgiadis who made an impressive individual effort, dribbling past a defender with his right foot, faking a shot with his left (outsmarting another defender and the goalkeeper in the process) and finishing with a swift side-foot kick (using his left again) that launched the ball up and into the back of the net.
Aris had a great chance to equalize late at the game, but the ball hit the post on Morris' effort.
During the postgame press conference, Aris manager Giorgos Foiros made a complaint that the final should have been a two-legged tie because PAOK had the advantage of playing on home ground.
The Hellenic Football Federation's regulation for that season's Cup stated that if the final was to be held at Thessaloniki (that would be the case if at least one of the two finalists was a Thessaloniki 's team), it would be hosted at the second largest stadium of the city which was Toumba.
If no goals were scored during extra time, the winners were decided by a penalty shoot-out.
In 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: The draw took place on 11 July 2002.