1997 Ukrainian Cup final

1997 Ukrainian Cup Final
Event	Ukrainian Cup 1996-97
Date	25 May 1997
Venue	NSC Olimpiyskyi, Kyiv
Referee	Serhiy Tatulian (Kyiv)
Attendance	26,000
Weather	12 °C
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The 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that took place at the NSC Olimpiyskiy on May 25, 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

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

1997-05-25

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Shakhtar Donetsk	1 – 0	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Atelkin 36'	Report

NSC Olimpiyskyi, Kyiv

Attendance: 26,000^[1]

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.

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	?	?

References

^ "Official protocol (in Russian)" (in Russian). FFU. 1999-05-31. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-03-15.

External links

Calendar of Matches - Schedule of the 1996-97 Ukrainian Cup on the Ukrainian Soccer History web-site (ukrsoccerhistory.com). (in Ukrainian)

[1] "Official protocol (in Russian)" (in Russian). FFU. 1999-05-31. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-03-15.

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