2017–18 Belarusian Cup Explained

Belarusian Cup
Year:2017–18
Country:Belarus
Num Teams:52
Champions:Dinamo Brest
Runner-Up:BATE Borisov
Matches:55
Goals:170
Prevseason:2016–17
Nextseason:2018–19

2017–18 Belarusian Cup was the 27th season of the Belarusian annual cup competition. Contrary to the league season, it was conducted in a fall-spring rhythm. The tournament started in May 2017 and concluded with the final match on 19 May 2018. Dinamo Brest defeated BATE Borisov 3–2 in the final, winning the Cup and qualifying for the second qualifying round of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League.

Participating clubs

The following teams took part in the competition:

2017 Belarusian Premier League
all 16 teams
2017 Belarusian First League
all 16 teams
2017 Belarusian Second League
all 14 teams
Winners of regional cups
6 teams

First round

In this round 4 amateur clubs were drawn against 4 Second League clubs. The draw was performed on 6 May 2017. The matches were played on 17 May 2017.[1]

Another 2 amateur clubs and 10 Second League clubs were given a bye to the Second Round.

Second round

In this round 4 winners of the First Round with 12 clubs that received a bye were drawn against 16 First League. The draw was performed on 22 May 2017. The matches were played on 14 June 2017.[2]

Round of 32

In this round 16 winners of the Second Round were drawn against 16 Premier League clubs. The matches were played between 5 and 9 July 2017.

Round of 16

Most of the matches were played on 22 and 23 July 2017.

Quarter-finals

The draw was made on 28 July 2017. The matches were played in March 2018.

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Second leg

Semi-finals

The draw was made on 19 March 2018. The matches will be played in April and May 2018.

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Second leg

Final

The final was played on 19 May 2018 at Spartak Stadium in Mogilev.


BATE:
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GK 48 Denis Scherbitskiy
RB 4
CB 5 Yevgeniy Yablonskiy
CB 23 Zakhar Volkov
LB 42 Maksim Volodko
DM 25 Dzmitry Baha
DM 21 Stanislaw Drahun
RM 22 Ihar Stasevich (c)
CAM 11 Alexander Hleb
LM 10 Mirko Ivanić
FW 13 Mikalay Signevich
Substitutes:
GK 35 Anton Chichkan
DF 6 Nikola Vasiljević
MF 7
FW 15 Maksim Skavysh
DF 34 Artem Shkurdyuk
DF 44 Vladislav Malkevich
FW 45 Vladislav Mukhamedov
Manager:
Oleg Dulub

DINAMO:
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GK 30 Alyaksandr Hutar
RB 21 Aleh Veratsila
CB 16 Giannis Kargas
CB 4 Alyaksey Hawrylovich (c)
LB 13 Maksim Vitus
DM 99
DM 17
RM 88
CAM 7
LM 33
FW 9 Sandro Gotal
Substitutes:
GK 35 Pavel Pavlyuchenko
DF 5 Andrey Lebedzew
FW 10
FW 20
FW 25
MF 31 Andrey Zaleski
MF 55
Manager:
Sergey Kovalchuk

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://football.by/news/99283.html Belarusian Cup First Round draw
  2. http://football.by/news/99983.html Belarusian Cup Second Round draw