Cypriot Super Cup

The Cypriot Super Cup is a Cypriot football trophy, contested in an annual match between the previous season's Cypriot First Division champions, and the Cypriot Cup winners. The match is contested at the beginning of the football season, and is usually played at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia. The most successful team in the competition are Omonia, who have won the trophy on 17 occasions.

Cypriot Super Cup
Founded1951 (1951)
RegionCyprus Cyprus (Cyprus Football Association)
Number of teams2
Current championsAris Limassol
(1st title)
Most successful club(s)Omonia
(17 titles)
Television broadcastersAlpha TV Cyprus

The current holders are Aris Limassol, who defeated Omonia 2–0 in the 2023 match.

History

The first match was played in 1951, under the name Pakkos Shield (Greek: Ασπίδα Πάκκου). At the time, the trophy was not awarded to the winner of the match, but would instead be awarded to the overall most successful team in the competition, after 10 matches. The Shield was finally awarded for the first time in 1967, to Çetinkaya, who were the first club to win the trophy three times. At the time, if the league champions and the Cup winners were the same team, they were automatically named winners of the Shield.

Due to different circumstances, the competition wasn't held for 10 years, and returned in 1979 under the name Stylianakis Shield, in honor of the former president of the Cyprus Football Association. This name remained for 10 years, after which the Shield was awarded to Omonia, who won the trophy seven times in this time period.

The competition was renamed as Cyprus Football Association Shield in 1989. From 2008 until 2013, the competition was held under the name LTV Super Cup, for sponsorship reasons. Since LTV's withdrawal as the competition's sponsor in 2014, the competition is simply called the Super Cup.[1]

Rules
  • If a team wins the double (the Championship and the Cup in the same season), then this team plays the runners-up of the Cypriot Cup.
  • If no winner is determined after 90 minutes, a penalty shootout takes place.

Cypriot Super Cup Finals

List of finals:[2]

Year Winner Score Runner-up
Pakkos Shield[3]
1951 Çetinkaya Türk 5–1 APOEL
1952 Çetinkaya Türk 2–1 APOEL
1953 AEL Limassol 4–2 EPA Larnaca
1954 Çetinkaya Türk 2–1 Pezoporikos Larnaca
1955 EPA Larnaca 4–2 AEL Limassol
1956–1961 Not held
1962 Anorthosis Famagusta[4] No opponent
1963 APOEL 1–0 Anorthosis Famagusta
1964–1965 Not held
1966 Omonia 3–1 Apollon Limassol
1967 Olympiakos Nicosia 1–0 Apollon Limassol
1968 AEL Limassol 2–1 APOEL
1969–1978 Not held
Stylianakis Shield[3]
1979 Omonia 3–0 APOEL
1980 Omonia 1–1 (2–1 aet) APOEL
1981 Omonia 4–1 Enosis Neon Paralimni
1982 Omonia 2–0 Apollon Limassol
1983 Omonia 3–1 Enosis Neon Paralimni
1984 APOEL 3–2 Omonia
1985 AEL Limassol 1–0 Omonia
1986 APOEL 5–5 (6–5 aet) Apollon Limassol
1987 Omonia 2–1 AEL Limassol
1988 Omonia 0–0 (1–0 aet) Pezoporikos Larnaca
Cyprus FA Shield[5]
1989 Omonia 1–1 (3–1 aet) AEL Limassol
1990 Nea Salamina 1–0 APOEL
1991 Omonia 4–0 Apollon Limassol
1992 APOEL 3–0 Apollon Limassol
1993 APOEL 4–3 Omonia
1994 Omonia 2–1 Apollon Limassol
1995 Anorthosis Famagusta 1–1 (aet, 5–4 pen) APOEL
1996 APOEL 1–0 AEK Larnaca
1997 APOEL 2–1 Anorthosis Famagusta
1998 Anorthosis Famagusta 4–1 Apollon Limassol
1999 Anorthosis Famagusta 2–0 APOEL
2000 Anorthosis Famagusta 2–1 Omonia
2001 Omonia 1–0 Apollon Limassol
2002 APOEL 6–3 Anorthosis Famagusta
2003 Omonia 3–2 Anorthosis Famagusta
2004 APOEL 3–3 (5–4 aet) AEK Larnaca
2005 Omonia 1–1 (2–2 aet, 5–4 pen) Anorthosis Famagusta
2006 Apollon Limassol 1–1 (3–1 aet) APOEL
2007 Anorthosis Famagusta 2–1 APOEL
LTV Super Cup[5]
2008 APOEL 1–0 Anorthosis Famagusta
2009 APOEL 2–1 APOP Kinyras
2010 Omonia 1–1 (aet, 3–2 pen) Apollon Limassol
2011 APOEL 1–0 Omonia
2012 Omonia 5–3 AEL Limassol
2013 APOEL 1–0 Apollon Limassol
Super Cup[5]
2014 Ermis Aradippou 2–1 APOEL
2015 AEL Limassol 0–0 (4–3 pen) APOEL
2016 Apollon Limassol 2–1 APOEL
2017 Apollon Limassol 2–1 APOEL
2018 AEK Larnaca 1–1 (4–1 pen) APOEL
2019 APOEL 1–0 AEL Limassol
2020 Not held
2021 Omonia 1–1 (3–2 pen) Anorthosis Famagusta
2022 Apollon Limassol 2–0 Omonia
2023 Aris Limassol 2–0 Omonia

Performances

Performance by club
Club Winners Runners-up Winning Years
Omonia 17 6 1966, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2021
APOEL 14 15 1963, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2019
Anorthosis Famagusta 6 7 1962, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007
Apollon Limassol 4 11 2006, 2016, 2017, 2022
AEL Limassol 4 5 1953, 1968, 1985, 2015
Çetinkaya Türk 3 – 1951, 1952, 1954
AEK Larnaca 1 2 2018
EPA Larnaca 1 1 1955
Olympiakos Nicosia 1 – 1967
Nea Salamina 1 – 1990
Ermis Aradippou 1 – 2014
Aris Limassol 1 – 2023
Enosis Neon Paralimni – 2 –
Pezoporikos Larnaca – 2 –
APOP Kinyras – 1 –

References
  1. "Συνέντευξη Τύπου Super Cup 2014". CFA. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  2. "Cyprus - List of Super Cup Finals". RSSSF. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  3. Σούπερ Καπ: Μια ιστορία παλιά (in Greek). goal.philenews.com. 7 August 2011. Archived from the original on August 12, 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  4. Anorthosis won the double during the previous season, so automatically they became the Super Cup winner.
  5. Αγώνες - Κατακτήσεις / Super Cup (in Greek). cfa.com.cy. 17 January 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
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