| Cup of USSR in Football | |
| Year: | 1981 |
| Other Titles: | Кубок СССР |
| Num Teams: | 48 |
| Defending Champions: | Shakhter Donetsk |
| Winners: | SKA Rostov |
| Second: | Spartak Moscow |
| Prev Season: | 1980 |
| Next Season: | 1982 |
The 1981 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, SKA Rostov qualified for the continental tournament.
| Enter in Grouped stage | |||
| 1981 Vysshaya Liga 16/18 teams | 1981 Pervaya Liga 24/24 teams | 1981 Vtoraya Liga 6/161 teams | |
| Dinamo Dinamo Torpedo CSKA Shakhter Dnepr Dinamo Neftchi Chernomorets Kairat Kuban Ararat Zenit SKA Tavria Pakhtakor | Metallist FC Torpedo Lokomotiv Shinnik Kolos Zalgiris Iskra Nistru Pamir Fakel Karpaty Spartak Metallurg Guria Zaria SKA SKA Buston SKA Prikarpatie Spartak Kuzbass Dinamo Traktor | Khimik Lokomotiv Torpedo Dinamo Dinamo Rotor | |
Games took place between February 20 – March 5, 1981.
[Uzhgorod, Mukachevo] 1.Dinamo Kiev 5 4 1 0 9- 1 9 Qualified 2.Kayrat Alma-Ata 5 3 0 2 8- 4 6 Qualified ----------------------------------------------------- 3.Karpaty Lvov 5 2 2 1 8- 4 6 4.Prikarpatye Ivano-Frankovsk 5 1 3 1 1- 1 5 5.Nistru Kishinev 5 1 2 2 3- 6 4 6.Khimik Grodno 5 0 0 5 1-14 0
[Sochi, Adler] 1.Shakhtar Donetsk 4 3 1 0 6- 2 7 Qualified ----------------------------------------------------- 2.Metallurg Zaporozhye 4 2 1 1 6- 2 5 3.Kuzbass Kemerovo 4 2 1 1 2- 2 5 4.Kuban Krasnodar 4 1 1 2 4- 5 3 5.Lokomotiv Samtredia 4 0 0 4 0- 7 0
[Leningrad] 1.Zenit Leningrad 5 3 1 1 18- 9 7 Qualified 2.Iskra Smolensk 5 3 1 1 9- 5 7 Qualified ----------------------------------------------------- 3.Neftchi Baku 5 2 2 1 9- 8 6 4.Torpedo Kutaisi 5 1 3 1 5-11 5 5.Zarya Voroshilovgrad 5 1 2 2 6- 7 4 6.SKA Khabarovsk 5 0 1 4 3-10 1
[Kislovodsk, Lermontov] 1.Dinamo Minsk 4 2 2 0 4- 1 6 Qualified ----------------------------------------------------- 2.Spartak Orjonikidze 4 1 3 0 4- 2 5 3. Guria Lanchkhuti 4 0 4 0 4- 4 4 4.Dinamo Stavropol 4 0 3 1 2- 3 3 5.Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 4 0 2 2 3- 7 2
[Moskva] 1.Dinamo Moskva 5 4 1 0 9- 2 9 Qualified 2.CSKA Moskva 5 4 0 1 13- 4 8 Qualified ----------------------------------------------------- 3.Žalgiris Vilnius 5 3 1 1 10- 7 7 4.Shinnik Yaroslavl 5 2 0 3 7- 6 4 5.Torpedo Togliatti 5 1 0 4 4-12 2 6.SKA Kiev 5 0 0 5 1-13 0
[Dushanbe, Nurek, Kurgan-Tyube] 1.Pamir Dushanbe 5 4 1 0 8- 1 9 Qualified 2.SKA Rostov-na-Donu 5 3 0 2 4- 4 6 Qualified ----------------------------------------------------- 3.Pahtakor Tashkent 5 2 2 1 3- 2 6 4.Dinamo Samarkand 5 1 2 2 4- 6 4 5.Buston Jizak 5 1 1 3 2- 5 3 6.Traktor Pavlodar 5 1 0 4 4- 7 2
[Sevastopol, Yalta] 1.Chernomorets Odessa 5 4 0 1 10- 5 8 Qualified 2.Lokomotiv Moskva 5 3 1 1 9- 5 7 Qualified ----------------------------------------------------- 3.Tavria Simferopol 5 3 0 2 8- 5 6 4.Kolos Nikopol 5 3 0 2 9- 7 6 5.Fakel Voronezh 5 1 1 3 5- 9 3 6.Dinamo Barnaul 5 0 0 5 4-14 0
[Yerevan, Oktemberyan] 1.Metallist Kharkov 5 4 0 1 8- 2 8 Qualified 2.Ararat Yerevan 5 3 1 1 9- 5 7 Qualified ----------------------------------------------------- 3.SKA Odessa 5 3 0 2 6- 6 6 4.Torpedo Moskva 5 2 1 2 6- 5 5 5.Spartak Kostroma 5 1 0 4 1- 5 2 6.Rotor Volgograd 5 1 0 4 4-11 2
[Mar 12] ARARAT Yerevan 2-1 Dinamo Tbilisi [aet] [Andranik Khachatryan 2, Ashot Saakyan 95 – Ramaz Shengelia 22. Att: 37,000] CHERNOMORETS Odessa 1-0 CSKA Moskva [Vasiliy Ishchak 39. Att: 18,000] DINAMO Kiev 3-0 Kayrat Alma-Ata [in Uzhgorod] [Vladimir Bessonov 17, Oleg Blokhin 37 pen, Alexandr Kokorev (K) 80 og. Att: 5,500] DINAMO Minsk 1-0 Pamir Dushanbe [in Leningrad] [Yuriy Kurnenin 24 pen. Att: 2,000] SKA Rostov-na-Donu 3-1 Iskra Smolensk [Alexandr Vorobyov 53, Alexandr Zavarov 57, Viktor Kuznetsov 64 – Vladimir Nikonov 7. Att: 10,000] SPARTAK Moskva 1-0 Shakhtyor Donetsk [Sergei Shvetsov 61. Att: 25,000] Zenit Leningrad 0-2 DINAMO Moskva [Alexandr Minayev 62, Nikolai Latysh 64] [Mar 13] Lokomotiv Moskva 2-2 METALLIST Kharkov [pen 0-3] [Vladimir Mukhanov 20, Yevgeniy Drozzhin 107 – Stanislav Bernikov 79, Vladimir Linke 93. Att: 5,000]
[Mar 21] DINAMO Moskva 1-1 Chernomorets Odessa [pen 4-2] [Nikolai Latysh 48 – Vladimir Ustimchik 41. Att: 10,000] METALLIST Kharkov 1-0 Dinamo Minsk [aet] [Stanislav Bernikov 94. Att: 36,000] SKA Rostov-na-Donu 2-1 Ararat Yerevan [aet] [Viktor Kuznetsov 80, Igor Gamula 104 – Samvel Kasaboglyan 84. Att: 25,000] [Mar 22] SPARTAK Moskva 3-0 Dinamo Kiev [Fyodor Cherenkov 22, Yevgeniy Sidorov 28, 36. Att: 35,000]
All games played on April 27 Dinamo Moskva 0-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Igor Gamula 8. Att: 5,200] Metallist Kharkov 0-0 SPARTAK Moskva [pen 2-4] [Att: 37,000]