Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR

Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR (

Ukrainian SSR in 1936–1991 and were predecessors of the Ukrainian Cup.^[1] The competition was originally called as a Football championship of UkrSSR among the best teams of sports societies in 1936 and 1937.^[1] The first cup was awarded in 1937 and starting since 1938, the competition was renamed as Football cup competitions of the Ukrainian SSR^[1]

as it was commemorated on the Soviet envelope.

History

The participation was allowed to everybody whether it was a team of the Soviet Top League or a team of some education institution as long as none of the players competed in the Soviet Cup simultaneously. Early seasons of the cup tournament were called as a spring challenge, which allowed to consider them as a championship title competition rather than cup competition. However, older documents of the Ministry of Youth and Sports show that the spring challenge competitions were indeed considered as a football cup competition^[citation needed].

In 1939, 1940 and since 1949 no teams from the Soviet Top League participated in the competition. In 1959 the competition among teams of masters was replaced with competition for amateur clubs (see Ukrainian Amateur Cup).

In 1972 it was revived again for the next five seasons and one more time in 1990, while competition for physical fitness clubs at that time discontinued. The last winner FC Temp Shepetivka of the Soviet Ukrainian Cup was allowed to join the Ukrainian Premier League in 1991.

During the

Soviet regime saved the trophy for Ukrainian football of post war period.^[1]

Championship of the Proletarian Sports Society Dynamo

Parallel to the championship of cities there also existed separate tournament that was played among teams of Dynamo society (Proletarian Sports Society (PST) Dynamo) located throughout the Ukrainian SSR. The first tournament was conducted as part of the All-Ukrainian Dynamo Festival which was organized on the orders of the top OGPU official in Ukraine Vsevolod Balitsky.

Season	Champion	Runner-up	3rd Position

1929^[a]	Dynamo Kharkiv	Dynamo Kyiv	Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk Dynamo Stalino

1931^[b]	Dynamo Kyiv	Dynamo Kharkiv	Dynamo Odesa Dynamo Stalino

1932^[c]	Dynamo Kharkiv	Dynamo Kyiv	Dynamo Odesa Dynamo Stalino

1933^[d]	Dynamo Kyiv	Dynamo Kharkiv	Dynamo Odesa Dynamo Stalino

1934^[c]	Dynamo Kharkiv	Dynamo Kyiv	Dynamo Stalino Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk

1935^[c]	Dynamo Kyiv	Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk	Dynamo Kharkiv

Finals

Year	Venue	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1929 Final	7 July 1929 17:30 ( Kiev – Chervonyi Stadium Attendance: ?	Dynamo Kharkiv Petro Mishchenko 58' Oleksandr Shpakovsky 82', 87'	3 – 1 (0 – 1)	Dynamo Kyiv Oleksandr Serdyuk 14'
1931 Final	12 June 1931 ?:? ( Kiev – Chervonyi Stadium Attendance: 12,000	Dynamo Kyiv Kazimierz Piontkowski ?', ?', ?'	3 – 0 (? – 0)	Dynamo Kharkiv
1932 Final	26 June 1932 ?:? ( Metalist Stadium Attendance: ?	Dynamo Kharkiv Oleksandr Shpakovsky ?'	1 – 0 (1 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
1933 Final	12 June 1933 ?:? ( Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 18,000	Dynamo Kyiv Mykola Makhynia 67' Konstantin Schegotsky 88'	2 – 1 (0 – 0)	Dynamo Kharkiv Ivan Privalov 69'
1934 Final	8 September 1934 ?:? ( Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 10,000	Dynamo Kharkiv Volodymyr Kulykov 12' Kostyantyn Fomin 17' Mykola Fomin 34' Yan Yakubovych 65' Volodymyr Fomin 67'	5 – 0 (3 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
1935 Final	26 October 1935 13:00 ( Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 40,000	Dynamo Kyiv Mykola Makhynia 1' Ivan Kuzmenko 55', 66'	3 – 1 (1 – 1)	Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk Petro Laiko 22'

Finals

Year	Venue	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1936 Final	24 June 1936 18:00 ( Balytskyi Stadium Attendance: 35,000	Konstantin Shchegotsky 56' Mykola Korotkykh ?'	6 – 0 (2 – 0)	Dynamo Odessa Volodymyr Tokar ?' (own)
1937 Final	18 May 1937 18:00 ( Balytskyi Stadium Attendance: 25,000	Viktor Shylovsky 68' Mykola Makhynia 94', 103'	4 – 2 (0 – 1)	Dynamo Odessa Leonid Oriekhov 65' (pen. )
1938 Final	15 October 1938 16:00 ( Yezhov Stadium Attendance: 15,000	Viktor Shylovsky 84'	3 – 1 (1 – 0)	Lokomotyv Kyiv Oleksandr Shatskyi 73'
among amateur teams
1939	Kramatorsk	Avanhard Kramatorsk	2 – 0	Kharchovyk Odessa
1940	Dnipropetrovsk	Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk	2 – 2 (6 – 2 replay)	Lokomotyv Odessa
After World War II reestablished as all-Ukrainian competition
1944 Final	Kiev	Dynamo Kyiv won the Final Group
1945 Final	8 November 1945 ?:? ( Dynamo Stadium Attendance: ?	Lokomotyv Kharkiv Anatoliy Horokhov ?'	1 – 0 (0 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
1946 Final	12 November 1946 14:30 ( Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 20,000	Pavlo Vinkovatyi 42', 45'	2 – 0 (2 – 0)	Lokomotyv Kharkiv
1947 Final	9 November 1947 14:00 ( Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 12,000	Pavlo Vinkovatyi 47' Pyotr Dementiev 49'	5 – 1 (3 – 1)	Kharchovyk Odesa Mykola Potapov 34'
1948 Final	26 October 1948 15:00 ( Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 7,000	Pavlo Vinkovatyi 78'	4 – 1 (2 – 0)	Bilshovyk Mukacheve József Egervári 83' (pen. )
among amateur teams
1949	Kharkiv	VPS Kharkiv	5 – 1	Vodnyk Odessa
1950	Kiev	Spartak Uzhhorod	4 – 2	Metalurh Zaporizhia
1951	Kiev	Metalurh Zaporizhia	4 – 0	BO Lviv
1952	Zaporizhia	Metalurh Zaporizhia	6 – 3	BO Lviv
1953	Kirovohrad	Torpedo Kirovohrad	3 – 1	Lokomotyv Poltava
1954	Kiev	Mashbud Kyiv	1 – 0, 3 – 1	OBO Kyiv
1955	Kiev	Mashbud Kyiv	2 – 1	Lokomotyv Artemivsk
1956	Kiev	Kolhospnyk Poltava	4 – 0	Mashbud Zaporizhia
Qualifiers for the Soviet Amateur Cup
1957	Kiev	SKMD Odessa	2 – 0	Kolhospnyk Rivne
1958	Ternopil	Torpedo Kharkiv	2 – 1 aet	Avanhard Ternopil
There were no competitions from 1959 till 1971. Ukrainian Amateur Cup established as a feeder of the Soviet Amateur Cup.
1972	Kiev	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr	1 – 0, aet	Shakhtar Donetsk
1973	Kiev	Zirka Kirovohrad	1 – 0	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
1974	home/away basis	Tavriya Simferopol	2 – 0, 2 – 1	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
1975	home/away basis	Zirka Kirovohrad	2 – 0, 1 – 2	Tavriya Simferopol
1976	Horlivka	SKA Kyiv	2 – 0	Shakhtar Horlivka
There were no competitions from 1977 till 1989.
1990	home/away basis	Polissya Zhytomyr	4 – 0, 1 – 3	Naftovyk Okhtyrka
1991	home/away basis	Temp Shepetivka	1 – 1, 2 – 1	Veres Rivne

Performances

Team	Winners	Winning years	Runners-up	Runner-up years	Finals
Dynamo Kyiv	10	1931, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948	4	1929, 1932, 1934, 1945	14
Dynamo Kharkiv	3	1929, 1932, 1934	2	1931, 1933	5
Zirka Kirovohrad	3	1953, 1973, 1975	0	–	3
Metalurh Zaporizhia	2	1951, 1952	1	1950	3
Polissya Zhytomyr	2	1972, 1990	1	1974	3
Mashynobudivnyk Kyiv	2	1954, 1955	0	–	2
Lokomotyv Kharkiv	1	1945	2	1944, 1946	3
Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk	1	1940	1	1935	2
Tavriya Simferopol	1	1974	1	1975	2
SKA Kyiv	1	1976	1	1954	2
Avanhard Kramatorsk	1	1939	0	–	1
VPS Kharkiv	1	1949	0	–	1
Spartak Uzhhorod	1	1950	0	–	1
Kolhospnyk Poltava	1	1956	0	–	1
SKVO Odessa	1	1957	0	–	1
Torpedo Kharkiv	1	1958	0	–	1
Temp Shepetivka	1	1991	0	–	1
Dynamo Odessa	0	–	2	1936, 1937	2
Kharchovyk Odesa	0	–	2	1939, 1947	2
DO Lviv	0	–	2	1951, 1952	2
Veres Rivne	0	–	2	1957, 1991	2
Lokomotyv Kyiv	0	–	1	1938	1
Lokomotyv Odessa	0	–	1	1940	1
Bilshovyk Mukacheve	0	–	1	1948	1
Vodnyk Odessa	0	–	1	1949	1
Lokomotyv Poltava	0	–	1	1953	1
Lokomotyv Artemivsk	0	–	1	1955	1
Mashynobudivnyk Zaporizhia	0	–	1	1956	1
Avanhard Ternopil	0	–	1	1958	1
Shakhtar Donetsk	0	–	1	1972	1
Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	0	–	1	1973	1
Shakhtar Horlivka	0	–	1	1976	1
Naftovyk Okhtyrka	0	–	1	1990	1

Notes

^ officially named as the All-Ukrainian Dynamo Festival
^ officially named as the Cup of the All-Ukrainian PST Dynamo
^ ^a ^b ^c officially named as the Challenge of the All-Ukrainian PST Dynamo
^ officially named as the All-Ukrainian Spartakiade of Dynamo

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Kolomiyets, A. Did you know that Ukrainian cup competitions will soon turn 80 years of age? (А чи знаєте ви, що розіграшу Кубка України скоро виповниться 80 років?). Kiev Oblast Football Federation.

External links

Cup of the Ukrainian SSR at footballfacts.ru

[2] y named as the All-Ukrainian Dynamo Festival

[3] y named as the Cup of the All-Ukrainian PST Dynamo

[Challenge-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c officially named as the Challenge of the All-Ukrainian PST Dynamo

[5] y named as the All-Ukrainian Spartakiade of Dynamo

[kolomiyets-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Kolomiyets, A. Did you know that Ukrainian cup competitions will soon turn 80 years of age? (А чи знаєте ви, що розіграшу Кубка України скоро виповниться 80 років?). Kiev Oblast Football Federation.

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v t e Ukrainian Cup
Records and statistics
Cup of the Ukrainian SSR	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941–1943: not held 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959–1971: not held 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977–1989: not held 1990 1991
Ukrainian Cup	1992 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23: not held 2023–24
Finals	1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022–2023: not held 2024
Winners	Shakhtar Donetsk (13) Dynamo Kyiv (13) Chornomorets Odesa (2) Tavriya Simferopol (1) Vorskla Poltava (1)
Ukrainian Super Cup Ukrainian Women's Cup Ukrainian Second League Cup Ukrainian Amateur Cup Ukrainian League Cup

v t e Soviet Cup
Seasons	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940–43 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959–60 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92
Finals	1936 1937 1938 1939 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1957 1958 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
Republican cups	Russia Ukraine Belarus Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia Estonia Latvia Lithuania Moldova Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Soviet Amateur Cup