| 1988 Soviet Cup Final | |
| Event: | 1987-88 Soviet Cup |
| Team1score: | 0 |
| Team2: | Metalist Kharkiv |
| Team2score: | 2 |
| Date: | 28 May 1988 |
| Stadium: | Dynamo Stadium |
| City: | Moscow |
| Referee: | I.Timoshenko (Rostov-na-Donu) |
| Attendance: | 30,000 |
| Previous: | 1987 |
| Next: | 1989 |
The 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total and second in five years. For Torpedo it was their 13th Cup Final and the seventh loss at this stage.
See main article: article and 1987–88 Soviet Cup.
All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Metalist and Torpedo both qualified for the competition automatically.
| Round 1 (1st leg) | Torpedo | 1 - 1 | FK Atlantas | |
| Round 1 (2nd leg) | FK Atlantas | 0 - 1 | Torpedo | |
| (Torpedo won 2 - 1 on aggregate) | ||||
| Round 2 (1st leg) | CSKA | 1 - 0 | Torpedo | |
| Round 2 (2nd leg) | Torpedo | 4 - 0 | CSKA | |
| (Torpedo won 4 - 1 on aggregate) | ||||
| Quarter-final | Torpedo | 1 - 0 | Spartak | |
| Semi-final | Torpedo | 1 - 0 | Dnipro |
| Round 1 (1st leg) | Metalist | 3 - 1 | Krasnaya Presnia | |
| Round 1 (2nd leg) | Krasnaya Presnia | 1 - 1 | Metalist | |
| (Metalist won 4 - 2 on aggregate) | ||||
| Round 2 (1st leg) | Metalist | 0 - 1 | Dynamo S. | |
| Round 2 (2nd leg) | Dynamo S. | 1 - 1 | Metalist | |
| (Metalist won 2 - 1 on aggregate) | ||||
| Quarter-final | Metalist | 1 - 0 | Rotor | |
| Semi-final | Zalgiris | 1 - 2 | Metalist |
Previously they only met six times with Torpedo winning four and Metalist once, the goals were 6 to 2 respectively. The very first time they met each other on July 26, 1936, at the Round of 16 when Torpedo (then - ZiS) playing home was victorious 2:0 (Metalist was called as KhPZ). The last encounter was three seasons ago when in the first round Torpedo once again defeated Metalist in overtime playing at home.
| FC Torpedo Moscow: | |||
| GK | Valeri Sarychev | ||
| DF | Aleksandr Polukarov | ||
| DF | Valentin Kovach | ||
| DF | Sergei Prigoda | ||
| DF | Vadim Rogovskoy | ||
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| FW | Oleg Shirinbekov | ||
| FW | Sergey Agashkov | ||
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| Manager: | |||
| Valentin Ivanov | |||
| FC Metalist Kharkiv: | |||
| GK | Ihor Kutepov | ||
| XX | |||
| XX | Nikolay Romanchuk | ||
| DF | Ivan Panchyshyn | ||
| XX | Oleh Derevinskyi | ||
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| MF | Leonid Buryak | ||
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| MF | Ihor Yakubovsky | ||
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| FW | Guram Adzhoyev | ||
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| Manager: | |||
| Yevhen Lemeshko | |||
MATCH RULES
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