1997 Ukrainian Cup final explained

1997 Ukrainian Cup Final
Event:	Ukrainian Cup 1996-97
Team1:	Shakhtar Donetsk
Team1score:	1
Team2:	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Team2score:	0
Date:	25 May 1997
Stadium:	NSC Olimpiyskyi
City:	Kyiv
Referee:	Serhiy Tatulian (Kyiv)
Attendance:	26,000
Weather:	12 °C
Previous:	1996
Next:	1998

The 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that took place at the NSC Olimpiyskiy on May 25, 1997. The match was the 6th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by FC Shakhtar Donetsk and FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. The 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final was the fifth to be held in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Shakhtar won by a single goal netted by Serhiy Atelkin in the 36th minute.

There also were a couple of yellow cards issued at this game, both of them to Shakhtar players: Potskhveria and Hennadiy Orbu.

Road to Kyiv

See main article: Ukrainian Cup 1996-97.

Both teams started from the first round of the competition (1/16). Shakhtar, if not considering their first game in Mariupol, had some difficulties along the way meeting resistance from every team. Especially surprising was the face-off with Vorskla Poltava which almost revenged the miners for the face-slap from two years previously. In the semi-final Shakhtar defeated the Armymen which, alas, managed to show no teeth in their second game. Dnipro impressed when it easily defeated the two-time winners of the tournament, Chornomorets Odesa.

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Shakhtar Round 1 Metalurh M. 1–3 Shakhtar Round 2 Zirka-NIBAS 0–1 Shakhtar Quarter-final (1st leg) Vorskla 0–0 Shakhtar Quarter-final (2nd leg) Shakhtar 2–1 Vorskla   (Shakhtar won 2–1 on aggregate) Semi-final (1st leg) Shakhtar 2–1 CSKA Semi-final (2nd leg) CSKA 0–3 Shakhtar   (Shakhtar won 5–1 on aggregate)

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Dnipro Round 1 Lviv 2–3 Dnipro Round 2 Dnipro 2–0 Torpedo Quarter-final (1st leg) Chornomorets 0–1 Dnipro Quarter-final (2nd leg) Dnipro 3–0 Chornomorets   (Dnipro won 4–0 on aggregate) Semi-final (1st leg) Dnipro 3–0 Metalurh Z. Semi-final (2nd leg) Metalurh Z. 2–0 Dnipro   (Dnipro won 3–2 on aggregate)

Match details

Shakhtar Donetsk: GK ? Dmytro Shutkov MF ? Ihor Leonov DF ? DF ? Oleksandr Babiy DF ? MF ? DF ? DF ? MF ? FW ? Valeriy Kriventsov FW ? Serhiy Atelkin Substitutes: DF ? MF ? MF ? Manager: Valeriy Yaremchenko

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk: GK ? Illya Blyznyuk DF ? Oleksandr Poklonskyi MF ? Kostyantyn Sosenko MF ? Hennadiy Kozar MF ? Ivan Pavlyukh FW ? Ihor Kharkivshchenko DF ? DF ? Serhiy Nahornyak MF ? FW ? Hennadiy Moroz DF ? Substitutes: DF ? FW ? FW ? Manager: Vyacheslav Hroznyi

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Anatoliy Oliynyk (Simferopol) Vitaliy Zviahitsev (Odesa) Fourth official: Vasyl Menychuk (Simferopol)

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes 3 substitutions, plus two more in extra time.

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See also

• Ukrainian Cup 1996-97

External links

• Calendar of Matches - Schedule of the 1996-97 Ukrainian Cup on the Ukrainian Soccer History web-site (ukrsoccerhistory.com).