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
Founded1992
Region Ukraine
Number of teams45
Qualifier forUEFA Europa League
Domestic cup(s)Ukrainian Super Cup
Current championsDynamo Kyiv
(12th title)
Most successful club(s)Shakhtar Donetsk (13 titles)
WebsiteOfficial website
2020–21 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
Main article: Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
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.

Finals

Source:[8][9]

Year Venue Winner Score Runner-up
1992
Final		 31 May 1992 19:00 (EEST)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – Republican Stadium
Attendance: 5,000		 Chornomorets Odesa 0 – 0
(0 – 0)
(a.e.t.) (5–3 p)		 Tavriya Simferopol
1994–95
Final		 28 May 1995 ? (EEST)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – NSC "Olimpiyskiy"
Attendance: 26,000		 Shakhtar Donetsk
Serhiy Atelkin  36'		 1 – 0
(1 – 0)		 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
1997–98
Final		 31 May 1998 ? (EEST)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – NSC "Olimpiyskiy"
Attendance: 25,000		 Dynamo Kyiv
Kléber  47'		 1 – 0
(0 – 0)		 Metalurh Zaporizhya
2006–07
Final		 28 May 2007 19:00 (EEST)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – 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)
Kyiv – NSC "Olimpiyskiy"
Attendance: 53,455		 Dynamo Kyiv 0 – 0
(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
(1 – 1)
(a.e.t.) (8–7 p)		 Vorskla Poltava
Ruslan Stepanyuk  11'
2020–21
Final		 12 May 2021 xx:xx (EEST)
Ternopil – Miskyi Stadion
Attendance:		 TBD
 x – x
 TBD

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 Winning years Runners-up Runners years Finals
Shakhtar Donetsk 13 1995, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 6 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015 19
Dynamo Kyiv 12 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2020 5 2002, 2008, 2011, 2017, 2018 17
Chornomorets Odesa 2 1992, 1994 1 2013 3
Tavriya Simferopol 1 2010 1 1994 2
Vorskla Poltava 1 2009 1 2020 2
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk – — 3 1995, 1997, 2004 3
Karpaty Lviv – — 2 1993, 1999 2
CSKA Kyiv – — 2 1998, 2001 2
Metalurh Donetsk – — 2 2010, 2012 2
Metalist Kharkiv – — 1 1992 1
Nyva Vinnytsia – — 1 1996 1
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih – — 1 2000 1
Metalurh Zaporizhya – — 1 2006 1
Zorya Luhansk – — 1 2016 1
Inhulets Petrove – — 1 2019 1

All-time table

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

PLTeamSeasonsGPWDLGSGAPtsAchievement
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

Competition people

Managers
Winning managers
Manager Club(s) Wins Winning years
Mircea Lucescu Shakhtar Donetsk 6 2003–04, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2015–16
Valery Lobanovsky Dynamo Kyiv 3 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000
Viktor Prokopenko Chonomorets Odesa 1992, 1993–94
Shakhtar Donetsk 2000–01
Paulo Fonseca 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19
Yozhef Sabo Dynamo Kyiv 2 1995–96, 2004–05
Anatoliy Demyanenko 2005–06, 2006–07
Serhiy Rebrov 2013–14, 2014–15
Oleksiy Mykhaylichenko 2002–03, 2019–20
Mykhailo Fomenko Dynamo Kyiv 1 1992–93
Vladimir Salkov Shakhtar Donetsk 1994–95
Valeriy Yaremchenko 1996–97
Nevio Scala 2001–02
Mykola Pavlov Vorskla Poltava 2008–09
Serhiy Puchkov Tavriya Simferepol 2009–10

Players
Leaders with the most games played
Rank Player Year(s) Games per team(s)[lower-alpha 1] Games total
1 Ruslan Kostyshyn 1995 – 2012 Advis (2), Podillia (2), CSKA/Arsenal (28), Dnipro (25), Kryvbas (6) 63
2 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi 1993 – 2015 Dynamo-3 (2), Dynamo (58) 60
3 Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi 1993 – 2009 Karpaty (32), Metalurh Z (7), Volyn (1), Tavriya (13), Zakarpattia (5) 58
4 Oleksandr Holovko 1992 – 2006 Tavriya (24), Dynamo (32) 56
Vitaliy Reva 1994 – 2010 Polihraftekhnika (4), CSKA/Arsenal (34), Dynamo (16), Tavriya (2) 56
Hennadiy Zubov 1994 – 2008 Stal A (3), Shakhtar (48), Illichivets (2), Metalurh D (1), Zoria (1), Komunalnyk (1) 56
Volodymyr Yezerskyi 1996 – 2014 Harai (6), Karpaty (7), Dynamo (2), Kryvbas (4), Dnipro (20), Shakhtar (12), Zoria (2), Tavriya (2), Hoverla (1) 56
8 Dmytro Shutkov 1992 – 2007 Shakhtar 54
Ruslan Rotan 2001 – 2018 Dnipro (42), Dynamo (12) 54
10 Andriy Vorobei 1996 – 2013 Shakhtar (4), Shakhtar (44), Dnipro (2), Arsenal (1), Metalist (2) 53
11 Serhiy Rebrov 1992 – 2010 Shakhtar (6), Dynamo (44), Irpin (1) 51
Mykhailo Starostiak 1994 – 2007 Prykarpattia (6), Shakhtar (42), Kryvbas (3) 51
13 Serhiy Mizin 1993 – 2008 Dynamo-2 (3), Dynamo (18), Dnipro (2), CSKA/Arsenal (5), Karpaty (11), Kryvbas (7), Metalist (4) 50
The table includes players who played over 50 games in the competition. Players who share number of tallies placed in order of seniority by years and then alphabetical order. Data is through winter of 2020–2021.[14]
All-time Ukrainian Cup scorers
Rank Player Year(s) Goals per team(s)[lower-alpha 2] Goals total
1 Andriy Vorobei 1996 – 2013 Shakhtar-2 (2), Shakhtar (22), Metalist (1) 25
2 Maksim Shatskikh 2000 – 2015 Dynamo (22), Arsenal (1), Hoverla (1) 24
3 Oleksandr Palianytsia 1992 – 2003 Dnipro (7), Veres (4), Karpaty (5), Kryvbas (3), Metalist (3) 22
4 Andriy Shevchenko 1994 – 2012 Dynamo-2 (5), Dynamo (16) 21
5 Serhiy Rebrov 1992 – 2010 Shakhtar (1), Dynamo (19) 20
6 Andriy Pokladok 1992 – 2008 Karpaty (15), Metalurh D (2), Rava (1), Halychyna L (1) 19
Andriy Yarmolenko 2007 – 2017 Dynamo 19
8 Oleh Matveyev 1992 – 2003 Shakhtar (16), Metalurh Z (1) 17
9 Oleksiy Antiukhin 1992 – 2001 Metalurh Z (1), Tavria (13), Vorskla (2) 16
Luiz Adriano 2007 – 2015 Shakhtar 16
11 Valentyn Poltavets 1993 – 2013 Shakhtar Pavlohrad (1), Metalurh Z (8), Dnipro (1), Chornomorets (1), Dniester (4) 15
Bohdan Yesyp 1996 – 2014 Dynamo-3 (4), Zirka (1), Zakarpattia (3), Naftovyk (7) 15
Oleh Husiev 2003 – 2016 Arsenal (1), Dynamo (14) 15
The table includes players who scored over 15 goals in the competition. Players who share number of tallies placed in order of seniority by years and then alphabetical order. Data is through winter of 2020–2021.[15]

See also

Notes
  1. teams are in chronological order of playing career; in 1990s in Ukrainian Cup competed also reserve teams out of lower leagues
  2. teams are in chronological order of playing career; in 1990s in Ukrainian Cup competed also reserve teams out of lower leagues

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. The Ruslan Kostyshyn's "Gvardiya" honours of the Cup (Гвардійська кубкова висота Руслана Костишина). Ukrainian Premier League. 21 December 2020. (in Ukrainian)
  15. Among the best top scorers of Ukrainian Cup is Hladkyy and Seleznyov (Серед найкращих кубкових бомбардирів – Гладкий та Селезньов). Ukrainian Premier League. 23 December 2020. (in Ukrainian)
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