1997 Ukrainian Cup final

1997 Ukrainian Cup final

Event	Ukrainian Cup 1996-97
Shakhtar Donetsk Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 0
Date	25 May 1997
Venue	NSC Olimpiyskyi, Kyiv
Referee	Serhiy Tatulian (Kyiv)
Attendance	26,000
Weather	12 °C

The 1997 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match that took place at the NSC Olimpiyskiy on 25 May 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

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.

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)

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

25 May 1997

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Shakhtar Donetsk	1 – 0	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Atelkin 36'	Report

NSC Olimpiyskyi, Kyiv

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: Serhiy Tatulian (Kyiv), (FIFA)

Shakhtar Donetsk

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Shakhtar Donetsk: GK ? Dmytro Shutkov MF ? Ihor Leonov DF ? Mikhail Potskhveria  63' DF ? Oleksandr Babiy DF ? Oleksandr Koval MF ? Oleh Matveyev  65' DF ? Hennadiy Orbu  87' DF ? Serhiy Kovalyov  57' MF ? Hennadiy Zubov  81' FW ? Valeriy Kriventsov FW ? Serhiy Atelkin Substitutes: DF ? Oleh Shelayev  65' MF ? Serhiy Kochvar  57' MF ? Oleksandr Spivak  81' Manager: Valeriy Yaremchenko

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk: GK ? Illya Blyznyuk DF ? Oleksandr Poklonskyi MF ? Kostyantyn Sosenko MF ? Hennadiy Kozar MF ? Ivan Pavlyukh FW ? Ihor Kharkivshchenko DF ? Volodymyr Sharan  89' DF ? Serhiy Nahornyak MF ? Gia Kilasonia  54' FW ? Hennadiy Moroz DF ? Varlam Kilasonia  60' Substitutes: DF ? Oleksandr Kovalenko  89' FW ? Viktor Byelkin  54' FW ? Volodymyr Lyutyi  60' 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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Ukrainian Cup 1997 Winners
FC Shakhtar Donetsk Second title

Match statistics

	Shakhtar	Dnipro
Total shots	?	?
Shots on target	?	?
Ball possession	?%	?%
Corner kicks	?	?
Fouls committed	?	?
Offsides	?	?
Yellow cards	?	?
Red cards	?	?

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). (in Ukrainian)