Founded |
2013 (inactive 2015-16) |
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Country | Greece |
Confederation | UEFA |
Number of teams | 61 |
Domestic cup(s) | Amateurs' Super Cup Greece |
Current champions | A.E. Karaiskakis |
Most championships | AEL, Trikala, A.E. Karaiskakis (1) |
Website | epo.gr |
2016−17 |
The Gamma Ethniki Cup is a football competition cup introduced the 2013–14 season. Only the clubs of the new Football League 2 (Gamma Ethniki) are those that participate. The Gamma Ethniki Cup winner will compete at the end of the season with the winner of the Amateurs' Cup for Amateurs' Super Cup.
The need of organization emerged in 2013, after the abolition of the professional third-tier level Football League 2, and subsequent creation of an amateur third-level Gamma Ethniki, initially with six groups, later reduced to four. The Hellenic Football Federation created a new competition, in which amateur clubs of the newly structured amateur Gamma Ethniki competed against each other in a Cup competition which would be more competitive than the cups of regional football associations. The participation of all teams of Gamma Ethniki is obligatory. As of 2016, the competition structure is as follows: