Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup (Russian: Кубок чемпионов Содружества, Кубок Содружества, Кубок чемпионов содружества стран СНГ и Балтии) is a defunct[1] annual regional association football tournament, recognized by FIFA.[2][3]

"CIS Cup" redirects here. For the Scottish competition also known as the CIS Cup, see Scottish League Cup. For the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Cup, see CIS University Cup.
CIS Cup logo.

The tournament was initially established for football clubs of the former Soviet Union republics in 1993 (a year later since the collapse). On several occasions, some national football organizations of the former Soviet republics as well as individual clubs refused participation in the tournament for different reasons. Usually the invitation was sent to the best clubs of the Commonwealth of Independent States member states, as well as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, i.e. either a champion or a runner-up, while in the later editions the Cup (before 2012) saw participation of clubs from Serbia and Finland.

In 2012, the CIS Cup became a competition of national youth teams. Previously only the Russia under-21 team competed in the competition.

The competition was disestablished in 2016.[1]

History

The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup started in 1993 as an open tournament to champions from the USSR successor states (The Commonwealth of Independent States, and well as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania).

Ukraine boycotted the first two competitions, but joined in 1995.

In 1995–2006 the Russia national under-21 football team participated in the tournament as the 16th team, but in 2007 and 2008 Serbia replaced it as the 17th nation sending a team to play in it, and became the first non-former Soviet Union nation participating in the tournament. Unlike the rest of the states, who send their latest champions to play in the tournament, Serbia has sent OFK Beograd to play in the tournament.

Sheriff Tiraspol with the 2009 CIS Cup title.

In its first years the tournament was popular in the territories of the former Soviet Union, including the most titled teams from the old Soviet Top League. Spartak Moscow from Russia, and Dynamo Kyiv from Ukraine each won the cup several times but, after less than a decade, the teams from Russia and Ukraine became hesitant to send their best players to play on the artificial turf at the Olympic Stadium, so they sent their reserve players instead[4][5][6] or sometimes the league runners-up participated in their place. This resulted in the decrease of the tournament's popularity in those states particularly and in the international value of the tournament overall.

In 2006 a new tournament, Channel One Cup, started and caught the attention of the Russian and Ukrainian teams, which even more decreased the popularity of the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup tournament.

A big scandal occurred in 2006, when the Armenian champion FC Pyunik refused to play the Azerbaijani team, PFC Neftchi due to the collapse of diplomatic relations between the two countries' governments at that time around the Nagorno-Karabakh War. FC Pyunik defeated Ukrainian team FC Shakhtar Donetsk 3–1 in the quarter-final, earning a place in the semi-final against PFC Neftchi. However, FC Pyunik announced that they would no play against an Azerbaijani team, and flew home from Moscow the same evening. The Russian Football Union gave FC Shakhtar Donetsk a technical victory 3–0 so they could play in the semi-final instead of FC Pyunik, but FC Shakhtar Donetsk declined the offer stating that "...we would really want to play in the semi-final, but we don't want to get there by any other way than sport". Eventually, PFC Neftchi were given a bye to the final, where they defeated the Lithuanian club FBK Kaunas 4–2.[7]

In 2007 talks began about changing the format of the cup, and uniting it with the Channel One Cup in order to bring back the interest of the Russian and Ukrainian teams,[8] and in 2007 its games were even visited by representatives from FIFA,[9] but nevertheless, nothing came out from those talks and efforts.

In October 2009, Bunyodkor coach Luis Felipe Scolari announced that his Uzbek side would not enter the 2010 tournament due to focusing on the Asian Champions League.[10]

Finals

Competition among junior squads of national teams
Season Winner Score Runner-up Venue
2016
Details		  Russia 4 – 2  Moldova SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg
2015
Details		  South Africa 2 – 1  Finland SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg
2014
Details		  Ukraine 4 – 0  Russia SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg
2013
Details		  Russia 4 – 2  Ukraine SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg
2012
Details		  Russia 2 – 0  Belarus SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg

Club competitions
Season Winner Score Runner-up Venue
2011
Details		 Inter Baku 0 – 0
6 – 5 on penalties		 Shakhtyor Soligorsk SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg
2010
Details		 FK Rubin Kazan 5 – 2 FC Aktobe Olympic Stadium,
Moscow
2009
Details		 FC Sheriff Tiraspol 0 – 0
5 – 4 on penalties		 FC Aktobe Olympic Stadium,
Moscow
2008
Details		 Khazar Lenkoran 4 – 3 Pakhtakor Tashkent SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg
2007
Details		 Pakhtakor Tashkent 0 – 0
9 – 8 on penalties		 FK Ventspils Olympic Stadium,
Moscow
2006
Details		 Neftchi Baku 4 – 2 FBK Kaunas Olympic Stadium,
Moscow
2005
Details		 Lokomotiv Moscow 2 – 1 Neftchi Baku Dynamo Manage,
Moscow
2004
Details		 Dinamo Tbilisi 3 – 1 Skonto Riga Olympic Stadium,
Moscow
2003
Details		 Sheriff Tiraspol 2 – 1 Skonto Riga Olympic Stadium,
Moscow
2002
Details		 Dynamo Kyiv 4 – 3 Spartak Moscow Olympic Stadium,
Moscow
2001
Details		 Spartak Moscow 2 – 1 aet Skonto Riga Olympic Stadium,
Moscow
2000
Details		 Spartak Moscow 3 – 0 Zimbru Chişinău Olympic Stadium,
Moscow
1999
Details		 Spartak Moscow 2 – 1 Dynamo Kyiv Olympic Stadium,
Moscow
1998
Details		 Dynamo Kyiv 1 – 0 Spartak Moscow LFK CSKA,
Moscow
1997
Details		 Dynamo Kyiv 3 – 2 Spartak Moscow LFK CSKA,
Moscow
1996
Details		 Dynamo Kyiv 1 – 0 Alania Vladikavkaz LFK CSKA,
Moscow
1995
Details		 Spartak Moscow 5 – 1 Dinamo Tbilisi LFK CSKA,
Moscow
1994
Details		 Spartak Moscow 7 – 0 Neftchi Fergana Olympic Stadium,
Moscow
1993
Details		 Spartak Moscow 8 – 0 Belarus Minsk LFK CSKA,
Moscow

All-time top scorers
All-time top scorers in the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup[11]
RankPlayerGoals
1 Vladimir Beschastnykh (FC Spartak Moskva) 20
2 Yegor Titov (FC Spartak Moskva) 18
3 Valeri Kechinov (Pakhtakor Tashkent & FC Spartak Moskva) 17
* Mikhail Mikholap (FC Skonto Rīga) 17
5 Mikhail Kavelashvili (FC Dinamo Tbilisi & Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz) 14
* Luis Robson (FC Spartak Moskva) 14
7 Andrei Tikhonov (FC Spartak Moskva) 13
8 Valentin Belkevich (FC Dinamo Minsk & FC Dynamo Kyiv) 12
* Andriy Shevchenko (FC Dynamo Kyiv) 12
10 Gela Inalishvili (FC Dinamo Tbilisi) 11
* Anatoliy Kanischev (Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz & FC Spartak Moskva) 11
* Mihails Zemļinskis (FC Skonto Rīga) 11

Top scorers by year
RankPlayerGoals
1993 Shota Arveladze (FC Dinamo Tbilisi) 5[12]
1994 Vladimir Beschastnykh (FC Spartak Moskva) 10[13]
1995 Ilia Tsymbalar (FC Spartak Moskva) 6[14]
1996 Uladzimir Makowski (FC Dinamo Minsk) 5[15]
1997 Andrey Tikhonov (Spartak Moscow) , Andriy Shevchenko (Dinamo Kiev) 6[16]
1998 Anatoliy Kanischev (Spartak Moscow) 8[17]
1999 Mihails Miholaps (Skonto Riga) 7[18]
2000 Vladimirs Koļesņičenko (Skonto Riga) , Luis Robson (Spartak Moscow) , Yegor Titov (Spartak Moscow) 5[19]
2001 Mikheil Ashvetia (FC Torpedo Kutaisi) , Jafar Irismetov (Spartak Moscow) , Marcão (Spartak Moscow) , Valery Strypeykis (FC Slavia Mozyr) , Raman Vasilyuk (FC Slavia Mozyr) 4[20]
2002 Vladimir Beschastnykh (Spartak Moscow) 7[21]
2003 Cristian Tudor (Sheriff Tiraspol) 9[22]
2004 Vitaly Daraselia Jr. (FC Dinamo Tbilisi) 6[23]
2005 Giorgi Adamia (Neftchi Baku) 6[24]
2006 Evhen Seleznyov (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 5[25]
2007 Server Djeperov (FC Pakhtakor Tashkent) , Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov) 4[26]
2008 Uladzimir Yurchanka (Zenit Saint Petersburg) 4[27]
2009 Ibrahim Rabimov (Regar-TadAZ Tursunzoda) , Vīts Rimkus (FK Ventspils) , Alexandr Erokhin (Sheriff Tiraspol) 4[28]
2010 Emil Kenzhesariev (FC Aktobe) 6[29]
2011 Ģirts Karlsons (FC Inter Baku) 6[30]
2012 Sardar Azmoun (Iran U20) 8[31]
2013 Andrei Panyukov (Russia U21) 6[32]
2014 Roman Murtazaev (Kazakhstan U21) , Ruslan Bolov (Russia U21) , Abdurasul Rakhmonov (Tajikistan U21) 5[33]

Performances by team
Team Titles Runners-up
Spartak Moscow 6 (1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001) 3 (1997, 1998, 2002)
Dynamo Kyiv 4 (1996, 1997, 1998, 2002) 1 (1999)
 Russia 3 (2012, 2013, 2016) 1 (2014)
Sheriff Tiraspol 2 (2003, 2009)
 Ukraine 1 (2014) 1 (2013)
Dinamo Tbilisi 1 (2004) 1 (1995)
Neftchi Baku 1 (2006) 1 (2005)
Pakhtakor Tashkent 1 (2007) 1 (2008)
 South Africa 1 (2015)
Lokomotiv Moscow 1 (2005)
Khazar Lenkoran 1 (2008)
Rubin Kazan 1 (2010)
Inter Baku 1 (2011)
Skonto Riga 3 (2001, 2003, 2004)
Aktobe 2 (2009, 2010)
FBK Kaunas 1 (2006)
Belarus Minsk 1 (1993)
Neftchi Fergana 1 (1994)
Alania Vladikavkaz 1 (1996)
Zimbru Chişinău 1 (2000)
FK Ventspils 1 (2007)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 1 (2011)
 Belarus 1 (2012)
 Finland 1 (2015)
 Moldova 1 (2016)

Performances by country the clubs came from
Country Titles Runners-up
Russia 11 5
Ukraine 5 2
Azerbaijan 3 1
Moldova 2 2
Uzbekistan 1 2
Georgia 1 1
South Africa 1
Latvia 4
Belarus 3
Kazakhstan 2
Lithuania 1
Finland 1

Records
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See also

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