2016 Ukrainian Cup final explained

2016 Ukrainian Cup Final
Event:2015–16 Ukrainian Cup
Team1score:0
Team1:Zorya Luhansk
Team2:Shakhtar Donetsk
Team2score:2
Date:21 May 2016
City:Lviv
Attendance:21,720
Referee:Yevhen Aranovsky
Weather:+20°, Light rain[1]
Previous:2015
Next:2017

The 2016 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that was played on 21 May 2016 in Lviv.[2] For the first time the cup final was held in Lviv. The match was the 25th Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Zorya Luhansk and Shakhtar Donetsk.

Road to Lviv

See main article: 2015–16 Ukrainian Cup.

All fourteen Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition (Ukrainian Cup), so Zorya and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.

width=50% valign=topZorya Luhansk
Round 1Krystal Kherson0  - 5Zorya Luhansk
Round 2 (1st leg)Helios Kharkiv0  - 2Zorya Luhansk
Round 2 (2nd leg)Zorya Luhansk3  - 1 Helios Kharkiv
 (Zorya won 5 - 1 on aggregate)
Quarter-final (1st leg)Volyn Lutsk1  - 1Zorya Luhansk
Quarter-final (2nd leg)Zorya Luhansk5  - 0Volyn Lutsk
 (Zorya won 6 - 1 on aggregate)
Semi-final (1st leg)Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk1  - 0Zorya Luhansk
Semi-final (2nd leg)Zorya Luhansk2  - 0Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
 (Zorya won 2 - 1 on aggregate)
width=50% valign=topShakhtar Donetsk
Round 1Arsenal-Kyiv0  - 3Shakhtar Donetsk
Round 2 (1st leg)FC Ternopil0  - 5Shakhtar Donetsk
Round 2 (2nd leg)Shakhtar Donetsk4  - 0 FC Ternopil
 (Shakhtar won 9 - 0 on aggregate)
Quarter-final (1st leg)Vorskla Poltava0  - 4Shakhtar Donetsk
Quarter-final (2nd leg)Shakhtar Donetsk1  - 2Vorskla Poltava
 (Shakhtar won 5 - 2 on aggregate)
Semi-final (1st leg)FC Oleksandriya1  - 1Shakhtar Donetsk
Semi-final (2nd leg)Shakhtar Donetsk2  - 0FC Oleksandriya
 (Shakhtar won 3 - 1 on aggregate)

Previous encounters

This was not only the first Ukrainian Cup Final between the two teams, but also the first time they meet in this competition.[3] Previously Zorya and Shakhtar met in the Soviet Cup in total of six game (the record was two wins for Zorya and four wins for Shakhtar with Zorya scoring six goals and Shakhtar scoring seven).[4]

It was first Cup Final appearance for Zorya, while their opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 15 Cup Finals winning nine.

Match

Details

Zorya Luhansk:
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GK 30
RB 39 Yevhen Opanasenko
CB 3
CB 12
LB 6 Mykyta Kamenyuka (c)
DM 4
DM 5
RW 20
CM 22
LW 34
CF 28
Substitutes:
GK 91
DF 2 Artem Sukhotskyi
FW 10 Jaba Lipartia
FW 11 Paulinho
DF 16
MF 24 Dmytro Hrechyshkin
MF 29 Andriy Totovytskyi
Manager:
Yuriy Vernydub
Shakhtar Donetsk:
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GK 32
RB 33 Darijo Srna (c)
CB 5
CB 44 Yaroslav Rakitskiy
LB 31 Ismaily
DM 6 Taras Stepanenko
DM 17
RW 11 Marlos
AM 74 Viktor Kovalenko
LW 28 Taison
CF 21 Oleksandr Hladkyy
Substitutes:
GK 30 Andriy Pyatov
DF 18 Ivan Ordets
DF 38
MF 7 Wellington Nem
MF 58 Andriy Korobenko
FW 22 Eduardo da Silva
FW 19 Facundo Ferreyra
Manager:
Mircea Lucescu
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MATCH OFFICIALS

  • Assistant referees:
    • Serhiy Bekker (Kharkiv)[5]
    • Natalya Rachynska (Kyiv)[6]
  • Fourth official:
    • Kostiantyn Trukhanov[7] <
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  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Seven named substitutes.
  • Maximum of 3 substitutions.

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20160522055806/http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/cup/1463741550-zarya-shahter-anons-matcha.html Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement
  2. Web site: http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/cup/1432204163-segodnya-v-kassy-postupili-bilety-na-final-kubka-ukrainy.html. ua-football.com. ru:Сегодня в кассы поступили билеты на финал Кубка Украины. The tickets for the Cup Final arrived today. 21 May 2015. 1 June 2014. ru.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20160522055806/http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/cup/1463741550-zarya-shahter-anons-matcha.html Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20160522055806/http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/cup/1463741550-zarya-shahter-anons-matcha.html Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20160522055806/http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/cup/1463741550-zarya-shahter-anons-matcha.html Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20160522055806/http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/cup/1463741550-zarya-shahter-anons-matcha.html Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20160522055806/http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/cup/1463741550-zarya-shahter-anons-matcha.html Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement