1976 Soviet Cup final explained

1976 Soviet Cup Final
Event:1976 Soviet Cup
Team1score:3
Team2:Ararat Yerevan
Team2score:0
Date:3 September 1976
Stadium:Lenin's Central Stadium
City:Moscow
Referee:Pavel Kazakov (Moscow)
Attendance:45,000
Previous:1975
Next:1977

The 1976 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on 3 September 1976. The match was the 35th soviet cup final and was contested between Dinamo Tbilisi and Ararat Yerevan. Ararat were current cup holders winning it in 1975. Dinamo defeated the opponent 3–0 and won the cup for the first time.

Road to Final

width=50% valign=topDinamo Tbilisi
Round 1Metalurh Zaporizhya1–1 aet
4–5 pen.
Dinamo Tbilisi
Round 2Dinamo Tbilisi3–0FC Zenit Leningrad
Quarter-finalDinamo Tbilisi2–1Karpaty Lviv
Semi-finalShakhtar Donetsk0–2Dinamo Tbilisi
width=50% valign=topArarat Yerevan
Round 1SKA Rostov-on-Don0–1Ararat Yerevan
Round 2Lokomotiv MoscowArarat Yerevan
Quarter-finalArarat Yerevan2–1CSKA Moscow
Semi-finalArarat Yerevan2–1Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Previous encounters

Previously these two teams met each other three times in the competition.[1] Dinamo knocked–out opponents two times, while Ararat have done it once. The club from Tbilisi progressed in 1937, winning the game 4–1 and in 1971 competition 0–0, 2–1, while the club from Yerevan eliminated the opponent in 1975 winning the game 3–1.

Match details

Dinamo Tbilisi:
GK David Gogia
DF
DF
DF Shota Khinchagashvili
DF
DF
MF Manuchar Machaidze (c)
MF
MF
MF
FW
Substitutes:
FW
Manager:
Nodar Akhalkatsi
Ararat Yerevan:
GK Avetis Hovsepyan
DF
DF Armenak Sargsyan (c)
DF
DF Norayr Mesropyan
MF
MF
MF
FW
MF
FW
Substitutes:
FW
MF
Manager:
Eduard Markarov

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See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: USSR Cup, Dynamo (Tbilisi) – Ararat (Yerevan). wildstat.com. 2 January 2017.