| 1986 Soviet Cup Final | |
| Event: | 1985-86 Soviet Cup |
| Team1score: | 1 |
| Team2: | Shakhter Donetsk |
| Team2score: | 0 |
| Date: | 2 May 1986 |
| Stadium: | Lenin's Central Stadium |
| City: | Moscow |
| Referee: | Ivan Timoshenko (Rostov-on-Don) |
| Attendance: | 35,000 |
| Previous: | 1985 |
| Next: | 1987 |
The 1986 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 2, 1986. The match was the 45th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Shakhtar Donetsk. The Soviet Cup winner Torpedo won the cup for the sixth time. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the round of 16 of the competition by FC Spartak Moscow on penalties.
All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Torpedo 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).
| Torpedo Moscow | Round | Shakhter Donetsk | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opponent | Result | 1985–86 Soviet Cup | Opponent | Result | |
| Pakhtakor Tashkent (A) | 3–2 | First round | Kuban Krasnodar (H) | 5–1 | |
| SKA Khabarovsk (H) | 2–0 | Second round | Kolos Nikopol (A) | 1–0 | |
| Chernomorets Odessa (A) | 2–0 | Quarter-finals | Daugava Riga (H) | 2–1 | |
| Spartak Moscow (H) | 3–2 | Semi-finals | Zenit Leningrad (A) | 2–2 | |
| FC Torpedo Moscow: | |||
| GK | Valeri Sarychev | ||
| Vladimir Sochnov | |||
| Valentin Kovach | |||
| Aleksandr Gostenin | |||
| Sergei Prigoda (c) | |||
| Aleksandr Polukarov | |||
| Substitutes: | |||
| Manager: | |||
| Valentin Ivanov | |||
| FC Shakhter Donetsk: | |||
| GK | Serhiy Zolotnytsky | ||
| Oleksiy Varnavsky | |||
| Oleksandr Sopko | |||
| Serhiy Yashchenko | |||
| Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (c) | |||
| Yuriy Hulyayev | |||
| Viktor Hrachov | |||
| Substitutes: | |||
| Manager: | |||
| Oleh Bazylevych | |||
MATCH RULES
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