1985 Soviet Cup final explained

1985 Soviet Cup Final
Event:1984-85 Soviet Cup
Team1score:2
Team2:Shakhter Donetsk
Team2score:1
Date:23 June 1985
Stadium:Tsentralny Stadion imeni Lenina
City:Moscow
Referee:Valeriy Butenko (Moscow)
Attendance:53,200
Previous:1984
Next:1986

The 1985 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on June 23, 1985. The match was the 44th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Shakhtar Donetsk. The Soviet Cup winner Dinamo won the cup for the seventh time. The last year defending holders Dinamo Moscow were eliminated in the round of 16 of the competition by Dinamo Kiev on penalties.

It was fourth and the last all-Ukrainian Soviet Cup final.

Road to Moscow

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

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

Dinamo KievRoundShakhter Donetsk
OpponentResult1984–85 Soviet CupOpponentResult
Nistru Kishinev (A)4–2First roundKotaik Abovyan (A)3–1
Dinamo Moscow (H)1–1 Second roundArarat Yerevan (H)2–1
Kairat Alma-Ata (H)2–1Quarter-finalsDnepr Dnepropetrovsk (H)2–1
Iskra Smolensk (H)3–0Semi-finalsZenit Leningrad (H)0–0

Match details

Dinamo Kiev:
GK Mykhaylo Mykhaylov
Volodymyr Bezsonov
Serhiy Baltacha (c)
Oleh Kuznetsov
Anatoliy Demyanenko
Andriy Bal
Substitutes:
Manager:
Valeriy Lobanovskyi
Shakhter Donetsk:
GK Valentyn Yelinskas
Oleksiy Varnavskyi
Oleksandr Sopko
Serhiy Yashchenko
Mykhaylo Sokolovskyi (c)
Serhiy Akymenko
Viktor Hrachov
Substitutes:
Manager:
Viktor Nosov
MATCH OFFICIALS

MATCH RULES

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