| Cup of USSR in Football | |
| Year: | 1972 |
| Dates: | February 20 – August 13 |
| Other Titles: | Кубок СССР |
| Num Teams: | 36 |
| Defending Champions: | Spartak Moscow |
| Winners: | Torpedo Moscow |
| Second: | Spartak Moscow |
| Prev Season: | 1971 |
| Next Season: | 1973 |
The 1972 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Torpedo Moscow qualified for the continental tournament.
| Enter in First round | Enter in Qualification round | ||
| Vysshaya Liga 16/16 teams | Pervaya Liga 12/20 teams | Pervaya Liga 8/20 teams | |
| Zaria Voroshilovgrad Dinamo Kiev Dinamo Tbilisi Ararat Yerevan CSKA Moscow Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Zenit Leningrad Dinamo Minsk Torpedo Moscow Dinamo Moscow Spartak Moscow SKA Rostov-na-Donu Kairat Alma-Ata Karpaty Lvov Lokomotiv Moscow Neftchi Baku | Pakhtakor Tashkent Shakhter Donetsk Chernomorets Odessa Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev Torpedo Kutaisi Spartak Ordzhonikidze Shakhter Karaganda Tekstilschik Ivanovo Metallurg Zaporozhye Metallist Kharkov Uralmash Sverdlovsk Dinamo Leningrad | Stroitel Ashkhabad Shinnik Yaroslavl Pamir Dushanbe Alga Frunze Nistru Kishinev Zvezda Perm Avtomobilist Nalchik Krivbass Krivoi Rog | |
[Feb 21, 25] ALGA Frunze 1-0 1-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad Krivbass Krivoi Rog 1-2 1-3 AVTOMOBILIST Nalchik PAMIR Dushanbe 2-1 1-0 Nistru Kishinev SHINNIK Yaroslavl 4-1 0-0 Zvezda Perm
[Feb 26, Mar 5] TORPEDO Moskva 2-1 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi [both legs in Sochi] [1. Viktor Filippov, Vadim Nikonov – Shota Okropirashvili. Att: 4,000] [2. Yuriy Smirnov 20. Att: 6,000] [Feb 28, Mar 3] DINAMO Moskva 3-1 0-0 Shakhtyor Donetsk [1. Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 25, Andrei Yakubik 60, Anatoliy Baidachny 79 – Yuriy Gubich 88. Att: 8,000 (in Sochi)] [2. Att: 20,000] [Feb 28, Mar 4] Dinamo Minsk 1-1 0-1 SHAKHTYOR Karaganda [1. Eduard Malofeyev 85 pen – Anatoliy Novikov 65. Att: 8,000 (in Sukhumi)] [2. Anatoliy Novikov 36. Att: 20,000] [Feb 29, Mar 4] KARPATY Lvov 1-0 3-1 Pamir Dushanbe [1. Eduard Kozinkevich 78. Att: 30,000] [2. ? - Rudik Yegiazaryan] Neftchi Baku 1-0 0-3 METALLURG Zaporozhye Shinnik Yaroslavl 0-1 w/o KAYRAT Alma-Ata [1. Nikolai Osyanin 64] SKA Rostov-na-Donu 0-0 1-0 Avtomobilist Nalchik [1. (in Adler)] [2. Viktor Churkin 15] SPARTAK Moskva 5-1 0-0 UralMash Sverdlovsk [both legs in Sochi] [1. Viktor Papayev 6, Gennadiy Logofet 11, ?, Vladimir Redin ?, Vyacheslav Yegorovich 67 – Alexandr Zhuravlyov ?. Att: 5,000] [2. Att: 3,000] Zarya Voroshilovgrad 0-0 0-0 CHERNOMORETS Odessa [pen 3-5] [1. Att: 5,000 (in Sukhumi)] [2. Att: 15,000] [Mar 1, 5] Ararat Yerevan 0-2 1-0 DINAMO Leningrad DINAMO Kiev 2-1 1-1 Textilshchik Ivanovo [both legs in Sochi] [1. Vitaliy Shevchenko 62, Vladimir Veremeyev 87 pen – Mikhail Potapov 86. Att: 3,000] [2. Vitaliy Shevchenko 42 – Stanislav Lyubavin 22 pen. Att: 4,500] [Mar 1, 7] Alga Frunze 0-1 0-4 ZENIT Leningrad [1. Georgiy Vyun 33. Att: 2,000 (in Hosta)] [2. Georgiy Khromchenkov 6, Mikhail Fokin 34, Boris Kokh 38, Vyacheslav Bulavin 55. Att: 100 (in Sochi)] [Mar 2, 6] CSKA Moskva 1-0 1-1 Avtomobilist Orjonikidze [1. Vladimir Dudarenko 35. (in Sochi)] [2. Vladimir Polikarpov – Vladimir Titov] DNEPR Dnepropetrovsk 2-1 2-3 Pahtakor Tashkent [1. Viktor Romanyuk-2 – Berador Abduraimov] [2. Viktor Nazarov, ? (P) og - Berador Abduraimov, Tulyagan Isakov, Bohadyr Ibragimov] [Mar 4, 8] Metallist Kharkov 2-0 1-4 DINAMO Tbilisi [1. Anatoliy Ignatenko 77, Zorbeg Ebralidze (D) 81 og] [2. Levan Nodia 3, 44, 71 pen, Georgiy Gavasheli 89 – Vladimir Chaplygin 9] [Mar 4, 12] LOKOMOTIV Moskva 1-1 3-0 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [1. Yuriy Chesnokov 57 – Ravil Aryapov 90. Att: 1,500 (in Hosta)] [2. Nikolai Zudin ?, Yuriy Chesnokov ?, Nikolai Timofeyev 89. (in Sochi)]
[Mar 11, 15] ZENIT Leningrad 2-0 2-0 Dinamo Leningrad [1. Boris Kokh 22, Pavel Sadyrin 44 pen. Att: 2,000 (in Sochi)] [2. Pavel Sadyrin 63 pen, Vladimir Ivanov 83. Att: 1,000 (in Gagra)] [Mar 11, 16] SPARTAK Moskva 1-0 1-2 Metallurg Zaporozhye [1. Galimzyan Husainov 48. Att: 5,000 (in Sochi)] [2. Nikolai Kiselyov 80 – Oleg Novikov 5, Viktor Kutin 55. Att: 20,000] [Mar 12, 15] TORPEDO Moskva 2-0 1-0 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk [1. Alexandr Grebnev 5, Yuriy Smirnov 44. Att: 5,000 (in Sochi)] [2. Yuriy Smirnov 3. Att: 30,000] [Mar 12, 16] Chernomorets Odessa 1-0 0-3 KARPATY Lvov [1. Sergei Zvenigorodskiy 86. Att: 10,000] [2. Roman Khizhak 47, Bogdan Greshchak 56, Eduard Kozinkevich 64. Att: 32,000] Dinamo Kiev 1-0 0-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [pen 8-9] [1. Vladimir Muntyan 30 pen. Att: 15,000 (in Simferopol)] [2. Anzor Chikhladze 30. Att: 26,000] DINAMO Tbilisi 3-0 0-0 Shakhtyor Karaganda [1. Givi Nodia 9, 31, 65] [2. Att: 10,000] [Mar 13, 17] CSKA Moskva 1-0 0-0 Dinamo Moskva [1. Vladimir Zhigunov 88. Att: 5,500 (in Sochi)] [2. Att: 25,000 (in Tashkent)] [Mar 15, 18] Kayrat Alma-Ata 1-1 1-2 LOKOMOTIV Moskva [1. Nikolai Osyanin 16 – Nikolai Timofeyev 13. Att: 2,000 (in Sochi)] [2. Vladislav Markin 88 – Viktor Davydov 17, Valentin Spiridonov 84. Att: 1,800 (in Hosta)]
[Mar 21, 25] KARPATY Lvov 0-0 1-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [1. Att: 32,000] [2. Lev Brovarskiy 66 – Givi Nodia 50. Att: 50,000] SKA Rostov-na-Donu 1-1 0-3 CSKA Moskva [1. Viktor Churkin 36 – Vladimir Dorofeyev 58. Att: 30,000] [2. Boris Kopeikin 5, 29, 58. Att: 7,000 (in Sochi)] TORPEDO Moskva 0-0 2-0 Zenit Leningrad [both legs in Sochi] [1. Att: 5,000] [2. Yuriy Smirnov 36, 80. Att: 7,000] [Mar 22, 25] SPARTAK Moskva 2-1 2-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [1. Viktor Papayev 70, Vasiliy Kalinov 87 – Nikolai Zudin 52. Att: 4,000 (in Sochi)] [2. Vyacheslav Yegorovich 40, 53 – Anatoliy Kozlov 8. Att: 1,500 (in Hosta)]
[Jul 2, 28] SPARTAK Moskva 2-0 2-0 Karpaty Lvov [1. Alexandr Piskaryov 40, Galimzyan Husainov 50. Att: 55,000] [2. Mikhail Bulgakov 41, Valeriy Andreyev 56. Att: 25,000] TORPEDO Moskva 0-0 4-1 CSKA Moskva [2. Anatoliy Degtyaryov 16, 22, 44, Anatoliy Fetisov ? – Vladimir Polikarpov 31]