1992 Soviet Cup final explained

1992 Soviet Cup Final
Event:1991–92 Soviet Cup
Team1score:2
Team2:CSKA Moscow
Team2score:0
Date:10 May 1992
Stadium:Luzhniki Stadium
City:Moscow
Referee:Andrei Butenko (Moscow)
Attendance:42,000
Weather:18 °C
Previous:1991
Next:1993

The 1992 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, on 10 May 1992. The Soviet Union was in the process of being dismantled with all organizations such as the Football Federation of USSR abandoned. Therefore, the game was administered by the Russian Football Union.

The match was the 51st Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Spartak Moscow and PFC CSKA Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Spartak qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Russian Federation. Spartak played their 15th Cup Final winning on 10 occasions including this one. CSKA came to the final as the defending champions and it was their eighth Cup Final and for the third time they were defeated at this stage.

Road to Moscow

See main article: 1991–92 Soviet Cup.

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

width=50% valign=topSpartak Moscow
Round 1 (1st leg)Gastello2 - 4Spartak
Round 1 (2nd leg)Spartak2 - 1Gastello
 (Spartak won 6 - 3 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)Köpetdag0 - 0Spartak
Round 2 (2nd leg)Spartak2 - 1Köpetdag
 (Spartak won 2 - 1 on aggregate)
Quarter-finalKrylya Sovetov0 - 1 aetSpartak
Semi-finalLokomotiv Moscow0 - 2Spartak
width=50% valign=topCSKA Moscow
Round 1 (1st leg)Asmaral0 - 2CSKA
Round 1 (2nd leg)CSKA3 - 2Asmaral
 (CSKA won 5 - 2 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)Pakhtakor1 - 1CSKA
Round 2 (2nd leg)CSKA3 - 2Pakhtakor
 (CSKA won 4 - 3 on aggregate)
Quarter-finalCSKA+ -  - Chornomorets
Semi-finalCSKA2 - 0Pamir

Previous encounters

Previously these two teams met each other in the early editions of the competition on several occasions. However this was their first time and the last that they met in the finals of the Soviet Cup.

Match details

FC Spartak Moscow:
1 Stanislav Cherchesov (c)
3 Dmitriy Khlestov
4 Andrei Ivanov
6 Dmitriy Popov
2 Kakhaber Tskhadadze
5
11
10
8
7 Igor Lediakhov
9
Substitutes:
14
15
16
Manager:
Oleg Romantsev
PFC CSKA Moscow:
1 Dmitriy Kharine
2
3 Sergei Kolotovkin
4 Dmitriy Bystrov
5 Oleg Malyukov
6 Mikhail Kolesnikov (c)
7
8 Aleksei Poddubskiy
9 Oleg Sergeyev
10
11
Substitutes:
13
14
15
Manager:
Pavel Sadyrin
width=50% valign=topMATCH OFFICIALS width=50% valign=topMATCH RULES
  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Seven named substitutes
  • Maximum of 3 substitutions.
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