1984 Soviet Cup final explained

1984 Soviet Cup Final
Event:1984 Soviet Cup
Team1score:2
Team2:Zenit Leningrad
Team2score:0
Date:24 June 1984
Stadium:Tsentralny Stadion imeni Lenina
City:Moscow
Referee:Romualdas Juška (Vilnius)
Attendance:43,500
Previous:1983
Next:1985

The 1984 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on June 24, 1984. The match was the 43rd Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Zenit Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). The Soviet Cup winner Dinamo won the cup for the sixth time. The last year defending holders Shakhter Donetsk were eliminated in the round of 16 of the competition by Chernomorets Odessa.

Road to Moscow

All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dinamo and Zenit both qualified for the competition automatically.

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

Dinamo MoscowRoundZenit Leningrad
OpponentResult1984–85 Soviet CupOpponentResult
Nistru Kishinev (H)1–0Round of 32Daugava Riga (A)3–0
Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk (A)2–1Round of 16Ararat Yerevan (H)3–3
Chernomorets Odessa (H)3–1 Quarter-finalsTorpedo Moscow (A)0–0
Dinamo Minsk (A)4–0Semi-finalsFakel Voronezh (H)1–0

Match details

Dinamo Moscow:
GK Aleksei Prudnikov
Igor Bulanov
Aleksandr Novikov (c)
Vladimir Fomichyov
Substitutes:
Manager:
Aleksandr Sevidov
Zenit Leningrad:
GK Mikhail Biriukov (c)
Anatoli Davydov
Alexei Stepanov
Boris Chukhlov
Substitutes:
Manager:
Pavel Sadyrin
MATCH OFFICIALS

MATCH RULES

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