Ukrainian Cup

The Ukrainian Cup (Ukrainian: Кубок України) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs.[1] Since the 2003–04 season, the Cup winner qualifies to play the Ukrainian Premier League winner for the Ukrainian Super Cup.

Ukrainian Cup

Founded	1992
Region	Ukraine
Number of teams	45
Qualifier for	UEFA Europa League
Domestic cup(s)	Ukrainian Super Cup
Current champions	Dynamo Kyiv (12th title)
Most successful club(s)	Shakhtar Donetsk (13 titles)
Website	Official website
2019–20 Ukrainian Cup

Current format

The format of this competition consists of two stages: a qualification stage with two rounds followed by the main event (four rounds and the final game).[2] The competition involves all professional clubs plus the two finalists of the Ukrainian Amateur Cup (since 2011).

Past variations of the competition involved a home-away type of elimination, but the Ukrainian Cup has since changed to a single game per round format. In recent years, a conditional replay game was introduced to avoid penalty shootouts. Cup draws may be conducted for two consecutive rounds, but usually occur before each following round. The lower division teams are usually awarded the home-field advantage (or the first leg at home in case of a two-leg round).

Organization

Ukrainian Football Amateur Association

The modern Ukrainian Cup competition is primarily limited to professional level clubs. Prior to 1996, however, the Cup was open to cup winners of all Ukrainian regional teams. In 1996, amateur clubs were omitted from participation in the Ukrainian Cup. In 1997 and 1998, only winners of the Ukrainian Amateur Cup were allowed to participate. In 1999, a new tournament, the Ukrainian Second League Cup, was established; with that change, amateur clubs were excluded from the Ukrainian Cup competition. In 2006, amateur clubs once again were allowed to compete by qualifying as the winner of the Amateur Cup. Since 2011, both finalists have qualified for the Ukrainian Cup.

Professional clubs

From the Round of 32, which is officially considered to be the first round of competition, the tournament is administrated by the Ukrainian Premier League (PFL, created in 2008). Earlier rounds are under the administration of the PFL Ukraine. Until the organization of the PFL in 1996, the tournament and league competitions were both administered by the Football Federation of Ukraine.

History

First Ukrainian SSR Cup on cover of the Soviet Union

Ukrainian Cup competitions have been conducted since at least 1936.[3] The first of season in 1936 was officially known as Spring Championship, the decision about which was adopted by the All-Ukrainian football Section.[3] Initially called also as the Spring Championship, sometime during the 1937 season the tournament was renamed by mass media as the Cup of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian: Кубок УРСР, Kubok URSR).[3] The official change was adopted by the Republican Football Conference only in April 1938.[3] To commemorate the event, in 1979 the Soviet Ministry of Communication released an envelope with depiction of the trophy (see the picture).[3] The streamer on top of a picture reads in Russian language "The first Cup of Ukraine in football" (Russian: Первый кубок Украины по футболу, Pervyi kubok Ukrainy po futbolu), while the same thing is written at the picture's footer in Ukrainian language (Ukrainian: Перший кубок України з футболу, Perhyi kubok Ukrayiny z futbolu).

In 1944 as compensation for the canceled republican championship there was conducted next tournament in September.[3] The decision to conduct the tournament was adopted on 6 September 1944 by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.[3] The tournament was also known as Ukrainian Cup[4] or Ukrainian Bowl (Ukrainian: Келих УРСР, Kelykh URSR).[3] After World War II, subsequent editions of the national Cup were downgraded to a republican cup competition that was limited to lower league clubs and teams participating in the KFK competitions (amateurs). The timeframe of the tournament also shifted from spring time to fall (end of calendar year).[3] Already in 1948 FC Lokomotyv Kharkiv as one of the Soviet Top League clubs from Ukraine chose not to participate in the Ukrainian Cup competition.[3] In 1959 the tournament was cancelled completely and replaced with Football Cup among collective of physical culture (a predecessor to Ukrainian Amateur Cup).

In 1970s the Ukrainian Cup competitions were revived and conducted parallel to Ukrainian Amateur Cup for several seasons. In second half of 1970 the tournament was discontinued once again until 1990.

The first Cup competition in independent Ukraine had an unlikely winner, similar to the championship of 1992. The main contender, Dynamo Kyiv, settled for a draw in its first game at home against a team that was an amateur club in Soviet times, Skala Stryi. In the following quarter-finals round, the team faced defeat by Torpedo Zaporizhia. Eventually that competition was won by Chornomorets Odesa.

In 2008, the Football Federation of Ukraine signed a contract with the company Datagroup,[5] naming the company as the main sponsor of the tournament for the next four years. Datagroup introduced its new version of the cup trophy,[6] the first winner of which became Shakhtar Donetsk.[7] In 2010, there was an attempt to launch an independent website for the competition, which was active for only a couple of months.

Venues

Olimpiyskiy

Metalist

Dnipro

Lviv

most used arenas

The Ukrainian Cup finals are played most often at the main countries association football venue, Olympiyskiy National Sports Complex. Since 2008 and establishing of the Ukrainian Premier League, the final games started to be conducted at alternative stadiums among which most often was used the Metalist Oblast Sports Complex and the Dnipro Arena.

• 18– Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kiev
• 5 – Metalist Oblast Sports Complex, Kharkiv
• 2 – Dnipro-Arena, Dnipro
• 2 – Arena Lviv, Lviv
• 1 – Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy
• 1 – Oleksiy Butovsky Vorskla Stadium, Poltava
• 1 – Slavutych Arena, Zaporizhia

Finals

Source:[8][9]

Year	Venue	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1992 Final	31 May 1992 19:00 (EEST) Kiev – Republican Stadium Attendance: 12,000	Chornomorets Odesa Ilia Tsymbalar  107'	1 – 0 (0 – 0) (a.e.t.)	Metalist Kharkiv
1992–93 Final	30 May 1993 ? (EEST) Kiev – Republican Stadium Attendance: 47,000	Dynamo Kyiv Victor Leonenko  23' Dmytro Topchiyev  64'	2 – 1 (1 – 0)	Karpaty Lviv Ihor Plotko  89' (pen.)
1993–94 Final	29 May 1994 17:00 (EEST) Kiev – Republican Stadium Attendance: 5,000	Chornomorets Odesa	0 – 0 (a.e.t.) (5–3 p)	Tavriya Simferopol
1994–95 Final	28 May 1995 ? (EEST) Kiev – Republican Stadium Attendance: 42,500	Shakhtar Donetsk Ihor Petrov  78'	1 – 1 (0 – 1) (a.e.t.) (7–6 p)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Aleksandr Zakharov  23'
1995–96 Final	26 May 1996 ? (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 47,000	Dynamo Kyiv Serhiy Rebrov  27' Yuri Maximov  59'	2 – 0 (1 – 0)	Nyva Vinnytsia
1996–97 Final	25 May 1997 ? (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 26,000	Shakhtar Donetsk Serhiy Atelkin  36'	1 – 0 (1 – 0)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
1997–98 Final	31 May 1998 ? (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 43,500	Dynamo Kyiv Andriy Shevchenko  1', 30'	2 – 1 (2 – 0)	CSKA Kyiv Vasyl Novokhatskyi  54'
1998–99 Final	30 May 1999 ? (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 71,000	Dynamo Kyiv Andriy Shevchenko  18', 67' Valentin Belkevich  19'	3 – 0 (2 – 0)	Karpaty Lviv
1999–00 Final	27 May 2000 ? (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 45,500	Dynamo Kyiv Aliaksandr Khatskevich  45'	1 – 0 (1 – 0)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
2000–01 Final	27 May 2001 17:00 (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 55,000	Shakhtar Donetsk Serhiy Atelkin  78', 119'	2 – 1 (0 – 1; 1 – 1) (a.e.t.)	CSKA Kyiv Ruslan Kostyshyn  7'
2001–02 Final	26 May 2002 19:00 (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 81,000	Shakhtar Donetsk Serhiy Popov  10' Serhiy Atelkin  81' Andriy Vorobei  99'	3 – 2 (1 – 1; 2 – 2) (a.e.t.)	Dynamo Kyiv Valentin Belkevich  31' Maksim Shatskikh  50'
2002–03 Final	25 May 2003 17:00 (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 71,000	Dynamo Kyiv Aliaksandr Khatskevich  56' Diogo Rincón  90+'	2 – 1 (0 – 1)	Shakhtar Donetsk Andriy Vorobei  18'
2003–04 Final	30 May 2004 17:00 (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 60,000	Shakhtar Donetsk Oleksiy Byelik  1' Anatoliy Tymoshchuk  90+'	2 – 0 (1 – 0)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
2004–05 Final	29 May 2005 17:00 (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 68,000	Dynamo Kyiv Diogo Rincón  11' (pen.)	1 – 0 (1 – 0)	Shakhtar Donetsk
2005–06 Final	2 May 2006 17:00 (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 25,000	Dynamo Kyiv Kléber  47'	1 – 0 (0 – 0)	Metalurh Zaporizhya
2006–07 Final	28 May 2007 19:00 (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 64,500	Dynamo Kyiv Kléber  58' Oleh Husyev  80'	2 – 1 (0 – 0)	Shakhtar Donetsk Elano  89'
2007–08 Final	7 May 2008 19:00 (EEST) Kharkiv – OSC "Metalist" Attendance: 28,000	Shakhtar Donetsk Oleksandr Hladkyy  44' Oleksiy Hai  78'	2 – 0 (1 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
2008–09 Final	31 May 2009 17:00 (EEST) Dnipropetrovsk – Dnipro Arena Attendance: 25,700	Vorskla Poltava Vasyl Sachko  50'	1 – 0 (0 – 0)	Shakhtar Donetsk
2009–10 Final	16 May 2010 17:00 (EEST) Kharkiv – OSC "Metalist" Attendance: 21,000	Tavriya Simferopol Maksym Feschuk  2' Oleksandr Kovpak  40' (pen.) Lucky Idahor  96'	3 – 2 (2 – 0; 2 – 2) (a.e.t.)	Metalurh Donetsk Henrikh Mkhitaryan  51' Mário Sérgio  74'
2010–11 Final	25 May 2011 20:15 (EEST) Sumy – Stadium "Yuvileiny" Attendance: 27,800	Shakhtar Donetsk Eduardo da Silva  64' Luiz Adriano  87'	2 – 0 (0 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
2011–12 Final	6 May 2012 19:30 (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 47,314	Shakhtar Donetsk Alex Teixeira  23' Oleksandr Kucher  104'	2 – 1 (1 – 0; 1 – 1) (a.e.t.)	Metalurh Donetsk Mykola Morozyuk  68'
2012–13 Final	22 May 2013 19:45 (EEST) Kharkiv – OSC "Metalist" Attendance: 40,003	Shakhtar Donetsk Fernandinho  41' Alex Teixeira  53' Taison  73'	3 – 0 (1 – 0)	Chornomorets Odesa
2013–14 Final	15 May 2014 20:00 (EEST) Poltava – Stadium "Vorskla" Butovskoho Attendance: 9,700	Dynamo Kyiv Oleksandr Kucher  40' (o.g.) Domagoj Vida  43'	2 – 1[10] (2 – 0)	Shakhtar Donetsk Douglas Costa  57'
2014–15 Final	4 June 2015 21:00 (EEST) Kiev – NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 53,455	Dynamo Kyiv	0 – 0 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Shakhtar Donetsk
2015–16 Final	21 May 2016 17:00 (EEST) Lviv – Arena Lviv Attendance: 21,720	Shakhtar Donetsk Oleksandr Hladkyy  42', 57'	2 – 0 (1 – 0)	Zorya Luhansk
2016–17 Final	17 May 2017 21:00 (EEST) Kharkiv – OSC "Metalist" Attendance: 25,000	Shakhtar Donetsk Marlos  81'	1 – 0 (0 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
2017–18 Final	9 May 2018 20:30 (EEST) Dnipro – Dnipro Arena Attendance: 28,155	Shakhtar Donetsk Facundo Ferreyra  48' Yaroslav Rakytskyi  61'	2 – 0 (0 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
2018–19 Final	15 May 2019 21:00 (EEST) Zaporizhia – Slavutych Arena Attendance: 11,100	Shakhtar Donetsk Tetê  28', 39' Júnior Moraes  45+2' Manor Solomon  65'	4 – 0 (3 – 0)	Inhulets Petrove
2019–20 Final	8 July 2020 21:30 (EEST) Kharkiv – OSC "Metalist" Attendance:0	Dynamo Kyiv Benjamin Verbič  28'	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (8–7 p)	Vorskla Poltava Ruslan Stepanyuk  11'

Top scorers of finals

No	Name	Club(s)	Goals
1	Andriy Shevchenko	Dynamo Kyiv	4
	Serhiy Atelkin	Shakhtar Donetsk
3	Oleksandr Hladkyy	Shakhtar Donetsk	3
4	Valiantsin Bialkevich^†	Dynamo Kyiv	2
	Aliaksandr Khatskevich	Dynamo Kyiv
	Andriy Vorobei	Shakhtar Donetsk
	Diogo Rincón	Dynamo Kyiv
	Kléber	Dynamo Kyiv
	Alex Teixeira	Shakhtar Donetsk
	Tetê	Shakhtar Donetsk
10	32 players		1

Performances

Achievements of clubs since 1992[11][12]

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Winning years
Shakhtar Donetsk	13	6	1995, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Dynamo Kyiv	12	5	1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2020
Chornomorets Odesa	2	1	1992, 1994
Tavriya Simferopol	1	1	2010
Vorskla Poltava	1	1	2009
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	–	3	—
Karpaty Lviv	–	2	—
Metalurh Donetsk	–	2	—
CSKA Kyiv	–	2	—
Metalist Kharkiv	–	1	—
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	–	1	—
Metalurh Zaporizhya	–	1	—
Nyva Vinnytsia	–	1	—
Zorya Luhansk	–	1	—
Inhulets Petrove	–	1	—

All-time table

Top-10. All figures are correct through the 2017–18 season.[13]

PL	Team	Seasons	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts	Achievement
1	Shakhtar Donetsk	27	151	111	21	19	346	106	354	champion
2	Dynamo Kyiv	27	144	112	16	16	345	90	352	champion
3	FC Dnipro	27	117	68	17	32	188	105	221	finalist
4	Tavriya Simferopol	24	87	49	15	23	141	97	162	champion
5	Karpaty Lviv	27	89	45	12	32	130	96	147	finalist
6	Vorskla Poltava	27	84	44	12	28	113	97	144	champion
7	Chornomorets Odesa	27	92	44	12	36	148	99	144	champion
8	Volyn Lutsk	27	84	42	8	34	141	128	134	semi-finalist
9	Metalurh Zaporizhia	27	80	40	11	29	119	94	131	finalist
10	Metalurh Donetsk	20	70	37	10	23	107	91	121	finalist

Top 10 managers

As of 28 June 2020

Rating	Name	Club(s)	Holder	Finalist	Semifinalist
1	Mircea Lucescu	Shakhtar Donetsk	6	5	—
2	Valeriy Lobanovskyi^†	Dynamo Kyiv	3	1	—
3	Paulo Fonseca	Shakhtar Donetsk	3	—	—
	Viktor Prokopenko^†	Chornomorets Odesa (2) Shakhtar Donetsk (1)	3	—	—
5	Serhiy Rebrov	Dynamo Kyiv	2	1	—
6	Anatoliy Demyanenko	Dynamo Kyiv (2) Volyn Lutsk	2	—	1
	Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko	Dynamo Kyiv	2	—	1
8	Yozhef Sabo	Dynamo Kyiv	2	—	—
9	Valeriy Yaremchenko	Shakhtar Donetsk (1) Kremin Kremenchuk	1	1	2
10	Mykhaylo Fomenko	Dynamo Kyiv (1) CSKA Kyiv Tavriya Simferopol	1	1	1

This table shows the most successful managers in the Cup since its foundation in 1991.
The cup was also won by Nevio Scala (Shakhtar) and Serhiy Puchkov (Tavriya).
^† – Managers that have retired from the sport. Bold font denotes managers that are still active in the current season. In parentheses are cups for the respective team.

Players' statistics

All-time Ukrainian Cup scorers Rank Player Club(s) Goals Games Ratio 1 Andriy Vorobei Shakhtar, Dnipro, 25 53 0.472 2 Maksim Shatskikh Dynamo, Arsenal 23 46 0.5 3 Oleksandr Palyanytsia Dnipro, Veres, Karpaty, Metalist, Kryvbas 22 48 0.458 4 Andriy Shevchenko Dynamo-2, Dynamo 21 31 0.677 5 Serhiy Rebrov Shakhtar, Dynamo 20 51 0.392 6 Andriy Pokladok Karpaty, Metalurh D, Rava, Halychyna L 19 47 0.404 7 Oleh Matveyev Shakhtar, Metalurh Z 17 32 0.531 8 Oleksiy Antyukhin Metalurh Z, Tavria, Vorskla 16 34 0.471 9 Bohdan Yesyp Dynamo, Zirka, Zakarpattia, Naftovyk 15 37 0.405 10 Valentyn Poltavets Shakhtar Pavlohrad, Metalurh Z, Dnipro, Chornomorets, Dniester 15 48 0.313 Data through 21 August 2014.[14][15]

Seasonal top scorers Year Top Scorer(s) Goals 1992 Oleksandr Zayets (Torpedo) 6 1993 Vitaliy Parakhnevych (Odessa) 8 1994 Oleksiy Antiukhin (Tavria) Eduard Valenko (Lviv, Karpaty) 5 1995 Andriy Shevchenko (Dynamo-2, Dynamo) 6 1996 Oleksandr Palyanytsia (Dnipro) Oleksandr Ihnatyev (Nyva M) Oleksandr Perenchuk (Nyva M) 4 1997 Yakiv Kripak (Metalurh Z) 5 1998 Andriy Shevchenko (Dynamo) 8 1999 Artem Lopatkin (Stal A) Vyacheslav Tereshchenko (Odessa) 8 2000 Valentyn Poltavets (Metalurh Z) Maksim Shatskikh (Dynamo) 4 2001 Andriy Vorobei (Shakhtar D) 6 2002 Yevhen Arbuzov (Tytan A) Andriy Vorobei (Shakhtar D) Maksim Shatskikh (Dynamo) 5 2003 Andriy Vorobei (Shakhtar D) Maksim Shatskikh (Dynamo) 5 2004 Oleksandr Kosyrin (Chornomorets) 5 2005 Diogo Rincón (Dynamo) 6 2006 Kléber (Dynamo) 5 2007 Ruslan Levyha (Illichivets) 6 2008 Wladzimir Karytska (Chornomorets) 5 2009 Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo) 5 2010 Oleksandr Kovpak (Tavriya) 5 2011 Andriy Oliynyk (Karpaty Ya.) 5 2012 Maicon (Volyn) 5 2013 Luiz Adriano & Alex Teixeira (Shakhtar) 4 2014 Eduardo (Shakhtar) 4 2015 Anton Kotlyar (Stal D) 5 2016 Oleksandr Karavayev (Zorya) Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo) 4 2017 Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo) 3 2018 Serhiy Kyslenko (Lviv) 5 Data through 2015–16 season.[14]

See also

• Football in Ukraine
• Ukrainian Premier League

Notes

References

1. "Football Federation of Ukraine". Football Federation of Ukraine. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
2. "Football Federation of Ukraine". Football Federation of Ukraine. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
3. Banyas, V. Forgotten tournaments (Забуті турніри). Ukrainian Premier League. 23 May 2017
4. Banyas, V. Simply Pasha (Просто Паша). Ukrainian Premier League. 4 August 2017
5. Cup of Ukraine got title sponsor (Datagroup website) (in English)
6. Trouphy presentation for the 2010 final (FFU website) (in Ukrainian)
7. Shakhtar won the 2008 Cup final. (in Ukrainian)
8. "RSSSF". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
9. "Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
10. 2014 Final of the Ukrainian Cup. Soccerway.
11. Five holders, 13 finalists and 26 semifinalists (П’ять володарів, 13 фіналістів і 26 півфіналістів). Ukrainian Premier League.
12. Statistics by season. Futbol from Dmitriy Troschiy.
13. http://wildstat.ru/p/2102/cht/211/stat/summary Кубок Украины (Суммарная таблица за все годы)
14. Players records (in Russian)
15. "Шацких обошел Шевченко, на очереди Воробей?". sport.ua. 21 August 2014.

External links

• Football Federation of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)
• Ukrainian Cup (in English)
• Ukraine - Cup Finals. RSSSF (in English)
• Comprehensive information on all official cup tournaments in Ukraine (1992-2007). ukrainianfootball. (in Russian)
• Ukrainian Cup. Ukrainian Football from Dmytro Troshchiy. (in Russian)
• How the FFU works: the Ukrainian Cup is already two years as broken (Как работает ФФУ: Кубок Украины уже два года как поломан). Dinamo.Kiev. 11 May 2018
• Banyas, V. It is logical to unite in one competition a cup and a championship («…Логічно об’єднати в розіграші Кубка й чемпіонату…»). Ukrainian Premier League. 9 February 2018