Soviet Super Cup

Soviet Super Cup
Founded1977 (introduced)
Abolished1989
RegionSoviet Union
Teams2
Last championsDnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Most championshipsDynamo Kyiv
(3 titles)

The Soviet Super Cup,[a] also known as the Season's Cup,[b] was an unofficial exhibition game (or game series) not sanctioned by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union and that featured the winners of the previous season's Soviet Top League and Soviet Cup in a one- or two-legged playoff for the trophy.

History

The mini-tournament was conducted on the initiative of the Komsomolskaya Pravda editor's administration out of Moscow. The tournament was unofficial and never was part of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. It was played seven times in the last 15 years of Soviet football. It was not until 1983 that the Super Cup was played every year. The Super Cup was made to take place during midseason and further complicated clubs' schedules.

In 1987, with Spartak Moscow winning league honors and Dynamo Kyiv winning the Soviet Cup, the Super Cup match was scheduled to take place in Chişinău, Moldova. However, the match never took place because of inadequate facilities in Chişinău. The last Soviet Super Cup took place in Sochi, Russia, where the match was played in front of 1,500 fans.

Finals by year

1977 Season's Cup

Dinamo Moscow1–0Dynamo Kyiv
Minayev 54' Report
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Georgiy Bakanidze (Tbilisi)

1981 Season's Cup

Dynamo Kyiv1 – 1
5 – 4 (pen.) (a.e.t.)		Shaktar Donetsk
Boiko 41' Report Kravchenko 52'
Penalties
Yurchishin football with check mark
Blokhin football with check mark
Bessonov football with check mark
Baltacha football with check mark
Konkov football with check mark		 5–4 football with check mark Sokolovsky
football with check mark Bondarenko
football with check mark Gorbunov
football with check mark Kravchenko
football with red X Starukhin
Attendance: unknown
Referee: Aleksandr Mushkovets (Moscow)

1984 Season's Cup, consisted of two games

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk1–1Shakhtar Donetsk
Fedorenko 70' Report Sokolovsky 89'
Attendance: 29,500
Referee: Vladimir Kuznetsov (Omsk)

Shakhtar won the Cup play-off 3–2

1985 Season's Cup, consisted of two games

Zenit Leningrad2–1Dinamo Moscow
Pozdnyakov red-colored football 33' (o.g.)
Gerasimov 71'		 Report Ataulin 5'
Attendance: 31,000
Referee: Velodi Miminoshvili (Tbilisi)

Zenit won the Cup play-off 3-1

1986 Soviet Super Cup

Dynamo Kyiv2–2 (a.e.t.)Shakhtar Donetsk
Shcherbakov 73'
Yevtushenko 118'		 Report Sokolovsky 54'
Kravchenko 117'
Penalties
 3–1
Attendance: 65,300

1987 Soviet Super Cup

1988 Soviet Super Cup

1989 Soviet Super Cup

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk3–1 (a.e.t.)Metallist Kharkov
Shakhov 64' (pen.)
Son 97'
Lyuty 103'		 Report Adzhoyev 62'
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Aleksandr Kirillov (Moscow)

Winners by year

Year Location Winner Score Runner-up
1977 Tbilisi, Georgia Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dynamo Moscow
(qualified as cup winner)		 1 – 0 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dynamo Kyiv
(qualified as league winner)
1981 Simferopol, Ukraine Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dynamo Kyiv
(qualified as league winner)		 1 – 1 (aet)
5 – 4 (penalties)		 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Shakhtar Donetsk
(qualified as cup winner)
1984 Leg 1: Donetsk, Ukraine
Leg 2: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine		 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Shakhtar Donetsk
(qualified as cup winner)		 Leg 1: 2 – 1
Leg 2: 1 – 1		 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
(qualified as league winner)
1985 Leg 1: Leningrad, Russia
Leg 2: Moscow, Russia		 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Zenit Leningrad
(qualified as league winner)		 Leg 1: 2 – 1
Leg 2: 1 – 0		 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dynamo Moscow
(qualified as cup winner)
1986 Kiev, Ukraine Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dynamo Kyiv
(qualified as league winner)		 2 – 2 (aet)
3 – 1 (penalties)		 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Shakhtar Donetsk
(qualified as losing cup finalist)
1987 Moscow, Russia Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dynamo Kyiv
(qualified as league winner)		 1 – 1 (aet)
5 – 4 (penalties)		 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Torpedo Moscow
(qualified as cup winner)
1988 Chișinău, Moldavia ppd
1989 Sochi, Russia Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
(qualified as league winner)		 3 – 1 (aet) Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Metalist Kharkiv
(qualified as cup winner)

Performance by club

Club Republic Winners Runners-up Years won
Dynamo Kyiv UKR 3 1 1981, 1986, 1987
Shakhtar Donetsk UKR 1 2 1984
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk UKR 1 1 1988
Dynamo Moscow RUS 1 1 1977
Zenit Leningrad RUS 1 0 1985
Metalist Kharkiv UKR 0 1
Torpedo Moscow RUS 0 1
Total 7 7

Performance by republic

Republic Winners Runners-up Winning clubs
Ukrainian SSR 5 5 Dynamo Kyiv (3), Shakhtar Donetsk (1), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (1)
Russian SFSR 2 2 Dynamo Moscow (1), Zenit Leningrad (1)
Total 7 7

See also

National super cups of former Soviet republics:

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Russian: Суперкубок СССР, romanized: Superkubok SSSR, Azerbaijani: Futbol üzrə SSRİ Superkuboku, Georgian: საბჭოთა კავშირის სუპერთასი, Lithuanian: TSRS Futbolo Supertaurė, Romanian: Supercupa URSS, Ukrainian: Суперкубок СРСР, romanized: Superkubok SRSR
  2. ↑ Russian: Кубок сезона, romanized: Kubok sezona, Ukrainian: Кубок сезону, romanized: Kubok sezonu
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