Ukrainian Cup

Ukrainian Cup

Founded	1992
Region	Ukraine
Number of teams	45
Qualifier for	UEFA Europa League (UEFA Cup Winners' Cup before 1999)
Domestic cup(s)	Ukrainian Super Cup
Current champions	Dynamo Kyiv (13th title)
Most successful club(s)	Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk (13 titles each)
Website	Official website
2023–24 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.

Current format and eligibility criteria

For the competition are eligible first teams of all Ukrainian professional clubs. Beside professional clubs, to the competition is also invited both finalists of the Ukrainian Amateur Cup preceding season. If both finalists obtained professional status (admitted to the Second League (tier 3)), then two better performers of the amateur competition are invited. Beside the initial draw, all the draws are conducted the next day after all the matches of the round is played.

The format of this competition consists of two phases: a qualification phase with two rounds followed by the competition proper (four rounds and the final game) when all Premier League (tier 1) clubs enter the competition.^[2] The Ukrainian Association of Football organizes the draw in qualification phase by geographic principles, so to accommodate "smaller" clubs (in lower tiers) by reducing their travel time. Often times the very first qualification round involves matches between the amateur teams and either the newly admitted professional clubs or clubs that struggled in prior season. For the next couple of qualification rounds enter clubs of the Second League (tier 3) and First League (tier 2). The final is usually taken place at the Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, however due reconstruction of the stadium to prepare to the UEFA Euro 2012, the final had been played at other venues temporarily. After that this tradition has ceased.

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).

History

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

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,

• 18– Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv
• 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 –
  Zaporizhia
• 1 –
  Roman Shukhevych Ternopil city stadium, Ternopil
• 1 – Avanhard Stadium, Rivne

Finals

Source:^[8][9]

Year	Venue	Winner	Score	Runner-up
Final	31 May 1992 19:00 ( Republican Stadium Attendance: 12,000	Ilia Tsymbalar 107'	1 – 0 (0 – 0) ( a.e.t. )	Metalist Kharkiv
Final	30 May 1993 ? ( Republican Stadium Attendance: 47,000	Victor Leonenko 23' Dmytro Topchiyev 64'	2 – 1 (1 – 0)	Karpaty Lviv Ihor Plotko 89' (pen.)
Final	29 May 1994 17:00 ( Republican Stadium Attendance: 5,000	Chornomorets Odesa	0 – 0 (0 – 0) ( a.e.t.) (5–3 p )	Tavriya Simferopol
Final	28 May 1995 ? ( Republican Stadium Attendance: 42,500	Shakhtar Donetsk Ihor Petrov 78'	1 – 1 (0 – 1) ( a.e.t.) (7–6 p )	Aleksandr Zakharov 23'
Final	26 May 1996 ? ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 47,000	Yuri Maximov 59'	2 – 0 (1 – 0)	Nyva Vinnytsia
Final	25 May 1997 ? ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 26,000	Shakhtar Donetsk Serhiy Atelkin 36'	1 – 0 (1 – 0)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Final	31 May 1998 ? ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 43,500	Dynamo Kyiv Andriy Shevchenko 1', 30'	2 – 1 (2 – 0)	Vasyl Novokhatskyi 54'
Final	30 May 1999 ? ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 71,000	Valentin Belkevich 19'	3 – 0 (2 – 0)	Karpaty Lviv
Final	27 May 2000 ? ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 45,500	Aliaksandr Khatskevich 45'	1 – 0 (1 – 0)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
Final	27 May 2001 17:00 ( 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'
Final	26 May 2002 19:00 ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 81,000	Andriy Vorobei 99'	3 – 2 (1 – 1; 2 – 2) ( a.e.t. )	Valentin Belkevich 31' Maksim Shatskikh 50'
Final	25 May 2003 17:00 ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 71,000	Aliaksandr Khatskevich 56' Diogo Rincón 90+'	2 – 1 (0 – 1)	Andriy Vorobei 18'
Final	30 May 2004 17:00 ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 60,000	Shakhtar Donetsk Oleksiy Byelik 1' Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 90+'	2 – 0 (1 – 0)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Final	29 May 2005 17:00 ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 68,000	Dynamo Kyiv Diogo Rincón 11' (pen.)	1 – 0 (1 – 0)	Shakhtar Donetsk
Final	2 May 2006 17:00 ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 25,000	Kléber 47'	1 – 0 (0 – 0)	Metalurh Zaporizhya
Final	28 May 2007 19:00 ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 64,500	Oleh Husyev 80'	2 – 1 (0 – 0)	Shakhtar Donetsk Elano 89'
Final	7 May 2008 19:00 ( OSC "Metalist" Attendance: 28,000	Oleksandr Hladkyy 44' Oleksiy Hai 78'	2 – 0 (1 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
Final	31 May 2009 17:00 ( Dnipro Arena Attendance: 25,700	Vorskla Poltava Vasyl Sachko 50'	1 – 0 (0 – 0)	Shakhtar Donetsk
Final	16 May 2010 17:00 ( OSC "Metalist" Attendance: 21,000	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'
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
Final	6 May 2012 19:30 ( 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'
Final	22 May 2013 19:45 ( OSC "Metalist" Attendance: 40,003	Shakhtar Donetsk Fernandinho 41' Alex Teixeira 53' Taison 73'	3 – 0 (1 – 0)	Chornomorets Odesa
Final	15 May 2014 20:00 ( 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'
Final	4 June 2015 21:00 ( NSC "Olimpiyskiy" Attendance: 53,455	Dynamo Kyiv	0 – 0 (0 – 0) ( a.e.t.) (5–4 p )	Shakhtar Donetsk
Final	21 May 2016 17:00 ( EEST) Lviv – Arena Lviv Attendance: 21,720	Oleksandr Hladkyy 42', 57'	2 – 0 (1 – 0)	Zorya Luhansk
Final	17 May 2017 21:00 ( OSC "Metalist" Attendance: 25,000	Shakhtar Donetsk Marlos 81'	1 – 0 (0 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
Final	9 May 2018 20:30 ( Dnipro Arena Attendance: 28,155	Yaroslav Rakytskyi 61'	2 – 0 (0 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
Final	15 May 2019 21:00 ( Slavutych Arena Attendance: 11,100	Shakhtar Donetsk Tetê 28', 39' Júnior Moraes 45+2' Manor Solomon 65'	4 – 0 (3 – 0)	Inhulets Petrove
Final	8 July 2020 21:30 ( OSC "Metalist" Attendance:0	Dynamo Kyiv Benjamin Verbič 28'	1 – 1 (1 – 1) ( a.e.t.) (8–7 p )	Vorskla Poltava Ruslan Stepanyuk 11'
Final	13 May 2021 19:00 ( Roman Shukhevych Ternopil city stadium Attendance: 3,000	Dynamo Kyiv Viktor Tsyhankov 98'	1 – 0 (0 – 0) ( a.e.t. )	Zorya Luhansk
2021–22	11 May 2022 (the final was scheduled)	interrupted at quarterfinals due to war
2022–23	no competition due to war
2023–24 Final	15 May 2024 Rivne – Stadium "Avanhard" Attendance:	Shakhtar Donetsk	v	Vorskla Poltava

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	33 players		1

Performances

Achievements of clubs since 1992^[11][12]

• Note: Defunct teams marked in Italics.

All-time table

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

Competition people

Managers

Winning managers

Manager	Club(s)	Wins	Winning years
Mircea Lucescu	Shakhtar Donetsk	7	2015–16
	Dynamo Kyiv		2020–21
Valery Lobanovsky		3	1999–2000
Viktor Prokopenko	Chonomorets Odesa		1993–94
	Shakhtar Donetsk		2000–01
Paulo Fonseca			2018–19
Yozhef Sabo	Dynamo Kyiv	2	2004–05
Anatoliy Demyanenko			2006–07
Serhii Rebrov			2014–15
Oleksiy Mykhaylichenko			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

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Leaders with the most games played

Rank	Player	Year(s)	Games per team(s)[a]	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	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	Serhii 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)[b]	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	Veres (4), Karpaty (5), Kryvbas (3), Metalist (3)	22
4	Andriy Shevchenko	1994 – 2012	Dynamo-2 (5), Dynamo (16)	21
5	Serhii 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	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	Dniester (4)	15
	Bohdan Yesyp	1996 – 2014	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]

Seasonal top scorers Year Top Scorer(s) Goals 1992 Torpedo ) 6 1993 Odesa ) 8 1994 Oleksiy Antiukhin (Tavria) Eduard Valenko (Lviv, Karpaty ) 5 1995 Andriy Shevchenko (Dynamo-2, Dynamo) 6 1996 Dnipro) Oleksandr Ihnatyev (Nyva M) Oleksandr Perenchuk (Nyva M ) 4 1997 Metalurh Z ) 5 1998 Andriy Shevchenko (Dynamo) 8 1999 Odesa ) 8 2000 Metalurh Z) Maksim Shatskikh (Dynamo ) 4 2001 Andriy Vorobei (Shakhtar D ) 6 2002 Andriy Vorobei (Shakhtar D) Maksim Shatskikh (Dynamo ) 5 2003 Andriy Vorobei (Shakhtar D) Maksim Shatskikh (Dynamo ) 5 2004 Oleksandr Kosyrin (Chornomorets) 5

Seasonal top scorers Year Top Scorer(s) Goals 2005 Diogo Rincón (Dynamo) 6 2006 Kléber (Dynamo ) 5 2007 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 Shakhtar ) 4 2014 Shakhtar ) 4 2015 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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ukrainian Cup.

• 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.Kyiv. 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