1989 Soviet Cup final

The 1989 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on June 25, 1989. The match was the 48th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Dnipro qualified for the Champions Cup for winning the champion's title, while the finalist Torpedo was allowed to compete at the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending champions Metalist Kharkiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Torpedo Moscow (1:1, 1:2). For Dnipro this was their first final. For Torpedo it was their 14th Cup Final and the eighth loss at this stage.

1989 Soviet Cup Final

Event	1988-89 Soviet Cup
Torpedo Moscow Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 0 1
Date	25 June 1989
Venue	Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow
Referee	Vadim Zhuk (Minsk)
Attendance	30,000
Weather	27°C

Road to Moscow

Main article: 1988–89 Soviet Cup

All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dnepr and Torpedo both qualified for the competition automatically.

Torpedo Moscow Round 1 (1st leg) Torpedo 2–0 KUZBASS Round 1 (2nd leg) KUZBASS 1–1 Torpedo   (Torpedo won 3–1 on aggregate) Round 2 (1st leg) Metalist 1–1 Torpedo Round 2 (2nd leg) Torpedo 2–1 Metalist   (Torpedo won 3–2 on aggregate) Quarter-final Torpedo 4–3 Shakhtar Semi-final Torpedo 2–0 Dynamo K.

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Round 1 (1st leg) Dnipro 5–0 Shinnik Round 1 (2nd leg) Shinnik 2–0 Dnipro   (Dnipro won 7–0 on aggregate) Round 2 (1st leg) Zenit 0–1 Dnipro Round 2 (2nd leg) Dnipro 1–1 Zenit   (Dnipro won 2–1 on aggregate) Quarter-final Dnipro 1–0 Dinamo Minsk Semi-final Dynamo Tb. 1–2 Dnipro

Previous Encounters

Previously they only met seven times with Torpedo winning four and Dnipro 3, the goals were 7 to 5 respectively. The very first time they met each other on March 12, 1972, at the Round of 16 when Torpedo playing home was victorious 2:0. The last encounter was during the last season when in the semifinals Torpedo once again defeated Dnipro in overtime playing at home.

Match details

1989-06-25

18:00 LST

Torpedo Moscow	0 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
	Report	Shokh 34'

Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Minsk)

FC Torpedo Moscow

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

FC Torpedo Moscow: GK Valeri Sarychev DF Sergei Makeyev DF Valentin Kovach MF Sergei Zhukov  75' DF Vadim Rogovskoy DF Gennadi Grishin  72' MF Yuriy Savichev (c) MF Andrei Rudakov MF Nikolai Savichev FW Oleg Shirinbekov  62' FW Sergey Agashkov Substitutes: FW Renat Ataulin  75' DF Aleksandr Gitselov  72' MF Vladimir Grechnyov  67' GK DF DF MF Manager: Valentin Ivanov

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk: GK Serhiy Krakovskyi DF Andriy Yudin  88' DF Ivan Vyshnevskyi MF Andriy Sydelnykov  53'  83' DF Vadym Tyshchenko DF Mykola Kudrytsky  67' MF Volodymyr Bahmut MF Oleksiy Cherednyk MF Anton Shokh (c) FW Eduard Son FW Yevhen Shakhov Substitutes: FW Oleksandr Chervonyi  88' DF Volodymyr Lyutyi  83' MF Evgeny Yarovenko  67' GK DF DF MF Manager: Yevhen Kucherevsky

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: V.Chekhoev (Ordjonikidze) V.Medvedtsky (Volzhskiy) Fourth official: ( )

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes Maximum of 3 substitutions.

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Soviet Cup 1989 Winners
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk First title

See also

• Soviet Top League 1988

External links

• Torpedo Moscow unofficial website
• Report (in Russian)
• The competition calendar (in Russian)