The Cypriot Super Cup is a
Cypriot football
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trophy, contested in an annual match between the previous season's
Cypriot First Division
The Cypriot First Division (), also known as the Cyprus League by Stoiximan for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Cyprus and the highest level of the Cypriot football league system. Operated by the Cyprus Fo ...
champions, and the
Cypriot Cup
The Cypriot Cup, formally known as the Cypriot Coca-Cola Cup of First and Second Division () for sponsorship purposes, is a Cypriot knockout football club competition, hosted annually by the Cyprus Football Association.
First held in 1934, it i ...
winners. The match is contested at the beginning of the football season, and is usually played at the
GSP Stadium
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in
Nicosia
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. The most successful team in the competition are
Omonia, who have won the trophy on 17 occasions.
The current holders are
APOEL Nicosia who defeated
Pafos FC 1–0 in the 2024 match.
History
The first match was played in 1951, under the name Pakkos Shield (
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: 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
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. 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
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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.
Rules
* If a team wins the
double
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(the Championship and the Cup in the same season), then this team plays the runners-up of the
Cypriot Cup
The Cypriot Cup, formally known as the Cypriot Coca-Cola Cup of First and Second Division () for sponsorship purposes, is a Cypriot knockout football club competition, hosted annually by the Cyprus Football Association.
First held in 1934, it i ...
.
* If no winner is determined after 90 minutes, a
penalty shootout
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takes place.
Cypriot Super Cup Finals
List of finals:
Performances
Performance by club
References
External links
Cyprus – List of Super Cup Finalsat
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