Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

CIS Cup logo.
Organising body	Russian Football Union, FIFA
Founded	1993
Abolished	2016

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]

The tournament was initially established for

The competition was disestablished in 2016.[1]

History

The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup was planned to be the Champions' Cup of countries of CIS Commonwealth and Baltics. In July 1992 at a meeting of executive committee of the CIS Association of Football Federations adopted decision on launching the First Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

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, Neftçi PFK due to the lack of diplomatic relations between the two countries' governments at that time due to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. FC Pyunik defeated Ukrainian team FC Shakhtar Donetsk 3–1 in the quarter-final, earning a place in the semi-final against Neftçi. 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, Neftçi PFK were given a bye to the final, where they defeated the Lithuanian club FBK Kaunas 4–2.^[8]

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,^[9] and in 2007 its games were even visited by representatives from FIFA,^[10] but nevertheless, nothing came out from those talks and efforts.

In October 2009,

Finals

Competitions for U-21 national teams

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Venue
2016	Russia	4 – 2	Moldova	SCC Peterburgsky, Saint Petersburg
2015	South Africa	2 – 1	Finland	SCC Peterburgsky, Saint Petersburg
2014	Ukraine	4 – 0	Russia	SCC Peterburgsky, Saint Petersburg
2013	Russia	4 – 2	Ukraine	SCC Peterburgsky, Saint Petersburg
2012	Russia	2 – 0	Belarus	SCC Peterburgsky, Saint Petersburg

Club competitions

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

All-time top scorers

All-time top scorers in the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup^[12]

Rank	Player	Goals
1	FC Spartak Moskva)	20
2	FC Spartak Moskva)	18
3	FC Spartak Moskva)	17
*	Mikhail Mikholap (FC Skonto Rīga)	17
5	Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz)	14
*	FC Spartak Moskva)	14
7	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
*	FC Spartak Moskva)	11
*	Mihails Zemļinskis (FC Skonto Rīga)	11

Top scorers by year

Rank	Player	Goals
1993	Shota Arveladze (FC Dinamo Tbilisi)	5[13]
1994	FC Spartak Moskva)	10[14]
1995	FC Spartak Moskva)	6[15]
1996	Uladzimir Makowski (FC Dinamo Minsk)	5[16]
1997	Dynamo Kyiv)	6[17]
1998	Anatoliy Kanischev (Spartak Moscow)	8[18]
1999	Mihails Miholaps (Skonto Riga)	7[19]
2000	Skonto Riga) , Luis Robson (Spartak Moscow) , Yegor Titov (Spartak Moscow)	5[20]
2001	Marcão (Spartak Moscow) , Valery Strypeykis (FC Slavia Mozyr) , Raman Vasilyuk (FC Slavia Mozyr)	4[21]
2002	Vladimir Beschastnykh (Spartak Moscow)	7[22]
2003	Sheriff Tiraspol)	9[23]
2004	Vitaly Daraselia Jr. (FC Dinamo Tbilisi)	6[24]
2005	Neftchi Baku)	6[25]
2006	Evhen Seleznyov (FC Shakhtar Donetsk)	5[26]
2007	FC Pakhtakor Tashkent) , Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov)	4[27]
2008	Zenit Saint Petersburg)	4[28]
2009	Sheriff Tiraspol)	4[29]
2010	Emil Kenzhesariev (FC Aktobe)	6[30]
2011	FC Inter Baku)	6[31]
2012	Sardar Azmoun (Iran U20)	8[32]
2013	Andrei Panyukov (Russia U21)	6[33]
2014	Tajikistan U21)	5[34]
2015	Alexey Yevseyev (Russia U21)	5
2016	Mikhail Zhabkin (Russia U21)	3

Performances by team

Team	Titles	Runners-up
Spartak Moscow	6 ( 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001 )	3 ( 1998, 2002 )
Dynamo Kyiv	4 ( 1998, 2002 )	1 (1999)
Russia	3 (2012, 2013, 2016)	1 (2014)
Sheriff Tiraspol	2 ( 2009 )
Ukraine	1 (2014)	1 (2013)
Dinamo Tbilisi	1 (2004)	1 ( 1995 )
Neftçi	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

• The biggest victory ever in the tournament took place in the
  Vakhsh Qurghonteppa (Tajikistan) 19–0.^[12][18]
• The player holding a record of appearances in the tournament is Mihails Zemļinskis from FC Skonto Riga who appeared 46 times in the tournament.^[12]
• The record for most titles won by a player is four and it is held by
  Dynamo Kyiv and Dmitri Khlestov from Spartak Moscow.^[12]
• The biggest number for a team to win the cup in a row is three, and the teams who have done it where
  1996
  , 1997, 1998).

• United Tournament
• Channel One Cup
• Football at the Spartakiads of Peoples of the USSR

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Commonwealth of Independent States Cup.

• Official website
• Official Statistics and Information about the tournament on RSSSF
• A fan site, contains information only since 1999 (archived 22 January 2008)