Greek Water Polo Super Cup

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Greek Water Polo Super Cup
Sport Water Polo
Founded1996
No. of teams2
Country Greece
Most recent
champion(s)

Olympiacos (2020)
Most titles Olympiacos (5)

The Greek Water Polo Super Cup is a Water Polo club competition in Greece since 1996. It is an annual match contested between the Water Polo Champion of the Greek League and the Cup's Winner. The matches take place in different cities every year. The competition was held for three consecutive years, between 1996 and 1998. The next years the competition stopped, and it restarted in 2018. Olympiacos has the most cups, and Vouliagmeni follows.

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The matches

YearWinnerScoreFinalistLocationSource
1996 NC Vouliagmeni 10 - 7 Olympiacos Athens [1]
1997 Olympiacos 10 - 5 NC Vouliagmeni Athens [2]
1998 Olympiacos 6 - 5 NC Vouliagmeni Athens [3]
1999-2017Not held
2018 Olympiacos 11 - 4 ANO Glyfada Athens [4]
2019 Olympiacos 11 - 5 NC Vouliagmeni Piraeus [5]
2020 Olympiacos 21 - 6 Ethnikos Piraeus Piraeus [6]

Performance by club

ClubWinnersRunners-upYears wonYears Runners-up
Olympiacos
5
1
1997, 1998, 2018, 2019, 20201996
NC Vouliagmeni
1
3
19961997, 1998, 2019
ANO Glyfada
-
1
-2018
Ethnikos Piraeus
-
1
-2020

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