2007–08 Belarusian Cup

2007–08 Belarusian Cup

Tournament details
Country	Belarus
Teams	48
Final positions
Champions	MTZ-RIPO Minsk (2nd title)
Runner-up	Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Tournament statistics
Matches played	59
Goals scored	151 (2.56 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Valery Strypeykis (7 goals)
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

The 2007–08 Belarusian Cup was the 17th edition of the football knock-out competition in Belarus.

Contrary to the league season, the competition has been conducted in a fall-spring rhythm. The first games were played on 28 July 2007 and the final on 18 May 2008. MTZ-RIPO Minsk won the Cup.

First round

12 teams from the First League (out of 14, excluding Belshina Bobruisk and Lokomotiv Minsk who relegated from the Premier League after 2006 season), 13 teams from the Second League (out of 16, excluding three teams which were reserve squads for Premier and First League teams) and 7 amateur clubs started in this round. The games were played on 28 and 30 July 2007.

Khimik Grodno (A) v Vedrich-97 Rechitsa (II)

28 July 2007	Khimik Grodno (A)	1 – 4	Vedrich-97 Rechitsa (II)	Grodno
	Savonyako 65' (pen.)		Krawchanka 4' Kotsur 40' Tsimashenka 44' V.Krot 84' (o.g.)

Polesye Kozenki (III) v Lida (III)

28 July 2007	Polesye Kozenki (III)	0 – 2	Lida (III)	Kozenki
			Grinyuk 45+1', 87'

DUSSh Kirovsk (A) v Veras Nesvizh (II)

28 July 2007	DUSSh Kirovsk (A)	0 – 4	Veras Nesvizh (II)	Kirovsk
			Rylinski 31' Sarasek 40' Kiriyevich 43' Aharodnik 59' (pen.)

Livadiya Dzerzhinsk (III) v Vertikal Kalinkovichi

(III)

28 July 2007	Livadiya Dzerzhinsk (III)	0 – 3	Vertikal Kalinkovichi (III)	Dzerzhinsk
			Vasilevskiy 22' Goptarevsky 72' Sivkov 82'

Gorodeya (A) v Mozyr (II)

28 July 2007	Gorodeya
			Korotkevich 72' (pen.) Novak 83'

PMK-7 Gantsevichi (A) v Polotsk (II)

28 July 2007	PMK-7 Gantsevichi (A)	3 – 1	Gantsevichi
	Gomza 31', 47' Lesyuk 53'		Poteryakhin 81'

Kobrin (A) v Savit Mogilev (II)

28 July 2007	Kobrin
			Volkaw 28' Ryzhankov 44', 51', 71', 89' Shakaw 63', 82', 86' Gavryutin 69'

Osipovichi (III) v Kommunalnik Slonim (II)

28 July 2007	Osipovichi
			Luzhankov 81'

Neman Mosty (III) v Kommunalnik Zhlobin (III)

28 July 2007	Neman Mosty (III)	1 – 4	Kommunalnik Zhlobin (III)	Mosty
	Baleyko 53'		Yefremov 3' Aniskevich 18', 70' Prokopyuk 35'

Granit-Mikashevichi

(II)

28 July 2007	Granit-Mikashevichi (II)	Vitebsk
	Ushinsky 12', 82'		A.Bakhno 90' (pen.)

Orsha (III) v Dinamo-Belcard Grodno (II)

28 July 2007	Orsha (III)	0 – 3	Dinamo-Belcard Grodno (II)	Orsha
			Leshanyuk 21' Balyuk 18', 70' Prokopyuk 35'

Bereza (III) v Volna Pinsk (II)

28 July 2007	Bereza
			Balanovich 79'

Molodechno (III) v Baranovichi

(II)

28 July 2007	Molodechno
	Stetskiy 17'		Shumeyko 3', 4', 7', 61' Kukhley 66'

Spartak Shklov (III) v PMC Postavy (III)

28 July 2007	Shklov
	Baltrushevich 53' (pen.) Prontishev 57' Bubelev 82'		Plechistik 72'

Neftyanik Rechitsa (A) v

Zvezda-BGU Minsk

(II)

30 July 2007	Neftyanik Rechitsa (A)	0 – 1	Rechitsa
			Sugako 70' (pen.)

Round of 32

16 winners of previous round were joined by 14 clubs from Premier League and two First League clubs which relegated from the Premier League after 2006 season. The games were played in August and September 2007.

Zvezda-BGU Minsk (II) v Lokomotiv Minsk

(II)

16 August 2007

UTC+3

Kuzmenko 90+1'

Shmigero 66' Markhel 112' (pen.)

Stadium: RCOP-BGU Stadium Attendance: 100 Referee: Antuan Mayorov (Minsk)

Vertikal Kalinkovichi (III) v Darida Minsk Raion

16 August 2007

UTC+3

Vagner 86'

Stadium: Yunost Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Vyacheslav Kolochinsky (Mogilev)

Lida (III) v Dnepr Mogilev

16 August 2007

UTC+3

Romanovskiy 55'

Hawrushka 66', 90+3'

Stadium: Smolevichi )

PMK-7 Gantsevichi (A) v MTZ-RIPO Minsk

16 August 2007

PMK-7 Gantsevichi (A)

2 – 3

UTC+3

Simonovich 56', 75'

Kontsevoy 30' Strakhanovich 66' (pen.) Mamić 79'

Stadium: City Stadium Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Valeriy Yazevich (Lida)

Khimik Svetlogorsk (II) v Naftan Novopolotsk

16 August 2007

UTC+3

Zhdanovich 69'

Stadium: Bumazhnik Stadium Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Andrey Soroka ( Smolevichi )

Kommunalnik Slonim (III) v Gomel

16 August 2007

UTC+3

Strypeykis 25', 33', 54', 55' Vasilyuk 90+3'

Stadium: Yunost Stadium Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Dmitry Yevnevich (Minsk)

Baranovichi (II) v Neman Grodno

16 August 2007

UTC+3

Kryvobok 82', 84', 89'

Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Anatoly Sednev (Mogilev)

Kommunalnik Zhlobin (III) v Smorgon

16 August 2007

UTC+3

Simonenko 35'

Bobovych 9'

Stadium: DYuSSh Stadium Attendance: 700 Referee: Dmitry Abushkevich (Mogilev)

Dinamo Brest

16 August 2007

UTC+3

Trotsyuk 64'

Stadium: Volna Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Viktor Chernik (Mosty)

Vedrich-97 Rechitsa (II) v Minsk

16 August 2007

UTC+3

Krawchanka 59' (o.g.)

Stadium: Central Stadium Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Aleksandr Skrob (Stolbtsy)

Dinamo-Belcard Grodno (II) v Vitebsk

16 August 2007

UTC+3

Mikhalyuk 90+2'

Usaw 15' Sitko 53'

Stadium: Neman Stadium Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Nikita Pyreyev (Minsk)

Veras Nesvizh (II) v Belshina Bobruisk (II)

16 August 2007

UTC+3

Rylinski 71' (pen.) Yatskevich 84'

Stadium: Urozhay Stadium Attendance: 1,150 Referee: Valery Vyalichka (Minsk)

Spartak Shklov (III) v BATE Borisov

19 August 2007

UTC+3

Bliznyuk 32' Sivakow 61'

Stadium: Spartak Stadium Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Vitaly Sevostyanik (Grodno)

Savit Mogilev (II) v Shakhtyor Soligorsk

5 September 2007

UTC+3

Krot 22' Nikifarenka 60'

Stadium: Torpedo Stadium Attendance: 2,800 Referee: Vitaly Sevostyanik (Grodno)

Myasokombinat Vitebsk (III) v Torpedo Zhodino

6 September 2007

UTC+3

Putkin 33' Sigov 55'

Stadium: Kobrin )

Mozyr (II) v Dinamo Minsk

11 September 2007

UTC+3

Korotkevich 45+1'

Edu 71' Putsila 73'

Stadium: Osipovichi )

Round of 16

The first legs were played on 15 and 16 March 2008. The second legs were played on 21 and 22 March 2008.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lokomotiv Minsk	1–2	Dinamo Minsk	0–2	1–0
Dinamo Brest	2–3	Gomel	0–2	2–1
Minsk (II)	2–4	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	0–1	2–3
Dnepr Mogilev	2–0	Vitebsk	1–0	1–0
Darida Minsk Raion	2–0	Neman Grodno	1–0	1–0
Khimik Svetlogorsk (II)	2–0	Myasokombinat Vitebsk (III)	1–0	1–0
BATE Borisov	2–0	Veras Nesvizh (II)	1–0	1–0
Kommunalnik Zhlobin (III)	w/o1	MTZ-RIPO Minsk

¹ Kommunalnik Zhlobin withdrew from the Cup due to bankruptcy.

First leg

Lokomotiv Minsk v Dinamo Minsk

15 March 2008

UTC+3

Kislyak 63' Hihevich 65'

Stadium: KFP Minsk Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Valery Vyalichka (Minsk)

Dinamo Brest v Gomel

15 March 2008

UTC+3

Kobets 33' Drahun 65'

Stadium: Dinamo Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Sergey Sakharevich (Grodno )

Minsk (II) v Shakhtyor Soligorsk

15 March 2008

UTC+3

Hukayla 37'

Stadium: KFP Minsk Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Vitaly Sevostyanik (Grodno)

Dnepr Mogilev v Vitebsk

16 March 2008

UTC+3

Hawrushka 62'

Stadium: Football Manege Attendance: 600 Referee: Sergey Shmolik (Brest)

Darida Minsk Raion v Neman Grodno

16 March 2008

UTC+3

Yatskevich 46'

Stadium: RCOP-BGU Stadium Attendance: 300 Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Gomel)

Khimik Svetlogorsk (II) v Myasokombinat Vitebsk

(III)

16 March 2008

UTC+3

Novitskiy 62'

Stadium: Bumazhnik Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Osipovichi )

BATE Borisov v Veras Nesvizh (II)

16 March 2008

UTC+3

Rodionov 56'

Stadium: Football Manege Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Yuriy Maistrov (Fanipol)

Second leg

Veras Nesvizh (II) v BATE Borisov

21 March 2008

UTC+3

Bliznyuk 23'

Stadium: KFP Minsk Attendance: 400 Referee: Aleksandr Chebykin (Minsk)

Vitebsk v Dnepr Mogilev

21 March 2008

UTC+3

Hawrushka 60'

Stadium: CSK Vitebsky Attendance: 1,400 Referee: Andrey Zhukov (Minsk)

Dinamo Minsk v Lokomotiv Minsk

21 March 2008

UTC+3

Shvydakow 43'

Stadium: KFP Minsk Attendance: 700 Referee: Georgiy Verbitsky (Slonim)

Khimik Svetlogorsk

(II)

22 March 2008

UTC+3

Gavrilovich 90+1'

Stadium: Molodechno )

Dinamo Brest

22 March 2008

UTC+3

Živković 7'

Kozak 43' Ryzhevski 65'

Stadium: Central Stadium Attendance: 5,100 Referee: Nikita Pyreyev (Minsk)

Shakhtyor Soligorsk v Minsk (II)

22 March 2008

UTC+3

Zhukowski 14' Gatiyev 31' (pen.) Bychanok 70'

Asipenka 11' Pyatrawskas 69'

Stadium: Stroitel Stadium Attendance: 1,730 Referee: Sergey Shmolik (Brest)

Neman Grodno v Darida Minsk Raion

22 March 2008

UTC+3

Shapyatowski 2'

Stadium: GrGU Stadium Attendance: 2,300 Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Gomel)

Quarterfinals

The first legs were played on 29 March 2008. The second legs were played on 2 April 2008.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dnepr Mogilev	0–1	Dinamo Minsk	0–0	0–1 ( aet )
Darida Minsk Raion	1–3	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	1–2	0–1
Khimik Svetlogorsk (II)	1–3	BATE Borisov	1–3	0–0
MTZ-RIPO Minsk	4–2	Gomel	4–0	0–2

First leg

Dnepr Mogilev v Dinamo Minsk

29 March 2008

UTC+3

Stadium: CSK Vitebsky Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Sergey Sakharevich (Grodno)

Darida Minsk Raion v Shakhtyor Soligorsk

29 March 2008

UTC+3

Shapyatowski 60'

Strypeykis 46', 77'

Stadium: KFP Minsk Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Aleksandr Chebykin (Minsk)

Khimik Svetlogorsk (II) v BATE Borisov

29 March 2008

UTC+3

Gavrilovich 60'

Bliznyuk 4', 64' D.Platonaw 74'

Stadium: Bumazhnik Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Valery Vyalichka (Minsk)

MTZ-RIPO Minsk v Gomel

29 March 2008

UTC+3

V.Hleb 32' (pen.) Sashcheka 53' Ceolin 66' (pen.) Strakhanovich 89'

Stadium: Molodechno )

Second leg

Shakhtyor Soligorsk v Darida Minsk Raion

2 April 2008

UTC+3

Bychanok 80'

Stadium: Stroitel Stadium Attendance: 1,700 Referee: Andrey Zhukov (Minsk)

Dinamo Minsk v Dnepr Mogilev

2 April 2008

UTC+3

Lebedzew 103'

Stadium: Dinamo Stadium Attendance: 2,300 Referee: Yuriy Maistrov (Fanipol)

Gomel v MTZ-RIPO Minsk

2 April 2008

UTC+3

Bressan 85'

Stadium: Osipovichi )

Semifinals

The first legs were played on 16 April 2008. The second legs were played on 30 April 2008.

First leg

Shakhtyor Soligorsk v Dinamo Minsk

16 April 2008

UTC+3

Lyavonchyk 38'

Stadium: Stroitel Stadium Attendance: 2,580 Referee: Andrey Zhukov (Minsk)

BATE Borisov v MTZ-RIPO Minsk

16 April 2008

UTC+3

Nyakhaychyk 11' Likhtarovich 31'

Eramchuk 24', 90+4' Kontsevoy 37' V.Hleb 69'

Stadium: City Stadium Attendance: 2,200 Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Gomel)

Second leg

MTZ-RIPO Minsk v BATE Borisov

30 April 2008

UTC+3

Camara 29' V.Hleb 44'

Bliznyuk 81' (pen.)

Stadium: Traktor Stadium Attendance: 3,200 Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Gomel)

Dinamo Minsk v Shakhtyor Soligorsk

30 April 2008

UTC+3

Shkabara 56' Rák 61' (pen.)

Zhukowski 38' (pen.) Bychanok 48' Hukayla 54'

Stadium: Dinamo Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Andrey Zhukov (Minsk)

Final

18 May 2008

18:00

UTC+3

Shakhtyor Soligorsk	1 – 2	MTZ-RIPO Minsk
Strypeykis 82'	Report	V.Hleb 5' Strakhanovich 83'

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 8,500

Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Gomel)

SHAKHTYOR: GK 16 Uladzimir Haew DF 2 Alyaksandr Bylina DF 20 Syarhey Kavalchuk DF 30 Mikalay Branfilaw DF 12 Maksim Hukayla  45' MF 7 Andrey Lyavonchyk (c) MF 8 Mikita Bukatkin  46' MF 11 Mihail Martsinovich  52' MF 21 Syarhey Balanovich  74' MF 5 Valery Zhukowski  75' FW 10 Syarhey Nikifarenka Substitutes: GK 33 Ihar Hamlyak FW 15 Valery Strypeykis  74' MF 17 Alyaksey Ryas FW 18 Ihar Zyulew  52' DF 22 Alyaksandr Bychanok  46' FW 27 Syarhey Krot DF 29 Eduard Gatiyev Manager: Yury Vyarheychyk

MTZ-RIPO: GK 1 Alyaksandr Sulima (c) DF 3 Alyaksandr Stashchanyuk DF 4 Dilaver Zrnanović DF 16 Mikalay Asipovich DF 25 Mihail Eramchuk MF 6 Aboubacar Camara  31'  59' MF 11 Dzmitry Shchagrykovich  68' MF 8 Oleg Strakhanovich  54'  84' MF 10 Dzyanis Sashcheka  78' FW 9 Vyacheslav Hleb FW 7 Artem Kontsevoy Substitutes: GK 12 Yahor Hatkevich DF 2 Alyaksandr Skshynetski MF 13 Alyaksandr Talkanitsa  78' DF 14 Aleh Popel MF 17 Nicolas Ceolin  59' MF 19 Anton Bubnow  68' MF 23 Elmar Xeyirov Manager: Yuri Puntus

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