2009 Ukrainian Cup final

2009 Ukrainian Cup Final
Event	2008–09 Ukrainian Cup
Date	31 May 2009
Venue	Dnipro Stadium, Dnipropetrovsk
Attendance	25,700
Weather	27 C
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The 2009 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Dnipro Stadium on May 31, 2009. The match was the 18th Ukrainian Cup final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Vorskla Poltava. The 2009 final was the first time a Ukrainian Cup final was held in Dnipropetrovsk.^[1] Vorskla Poltava, as Ukrainian Cup winners, qualified for the UEFA Europa League play-off round.

Road to Dnipropetrovsk

All sixteen Ukrainian Premier League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Vorskla and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.

Vorskla Poltava

Round 1	Zirka Kirovohrad	0–1	Vorskla Poltava
Round 2	Obolon Kyiv	1–4	Vorskla Poltava
Quarter-final	Metalurh Donetsk	0–1	Vorskla Poltava
Semi-final	Metalist Kharkiv	0–0	Vorskla Poltava
Semi-final (Replay)	Vorskla Poltava	2–0	Metalist Kharkiv

Shakhtar Donetsk

Round 1	Illichivets Mariupol	0–3	Shakhtar Donetsk
Round 2	Zakarpattia Uzhhorod	1–4	Shakhtar Donetsk
Quarter-final	PFC Oleksandria	1–2	Shakhtar Donetsk
Semi-final	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	Dynamo Kyiv

Previous encounters

Prior to the final, Vorskla and Shakhtar had met six times in previous Ukrainian Cup competitions. Vorskla had never defeated Shakhtar, with its best performance being a 1–1 draw in the second leg of the quarter-finals in the 2007–08 edition. Shakhtar's best performance against Vorskla was in a second round encounter in the 1994–95 edition, an 8–0 drubbing.^[1]

Match details

2009-05-31

17:00 LST

Vorskla Poltava	1–0	Shakhtar Donetsk
Sachko 50'	Report^[2]

Dnipro Stadium, Dnipropetrovsk

Attendance: 25,700

Referee: Vitaliy Hodulyan (Odesa)

Vorskla Poltava

Shakhtar Donetsk


Vorskla Poltava:
GK	1	Serhiy Dolhansky (c)
MF	3	Filip Despotovski
DF	4	Armend Dallku
MF	5	Oleh Krasnoperov
MF	7	Jovan Markoski
FW	8	Denys Kulakov	81'
FW	17	Vasyl Sachko	50'	71'
DF	20	Debatik Curri
MF	37	Hryhoriy Yarmash
DF	48	Volodymyr Chesnakov	90+2'
MF	70	Dmytro Esin	89'
Substitutes:
GK	12	Serhiy Velychko
FW	11	Denis Glavina	81'
MF	23	Yevheniy Peskov
FW	27	Ahmed Yanuzi	71'
FW	31	Oleksiy Chychykov
DF	33	Andriy Boyko
MF	40	Roman Loktionov	89'
Manager:
Mykola Pavlov


Shaktar Donetsk:
GK	30	Andriy Pyatov
DF	33	Darijo Srna (c)
DF	27	Dmytro Chyhrynskyi
DF	5	Oleksandr Kucher
DF	13	Vyacheslav Shevchuk
FW	17	Luiz Adriano
MF	7	Fernandinho	57'
MF	19	Oleksiy Hai	55'
DF	3	Tomáš Hübschman
MF	8	Jádson	75'
FW	21	Oleksandr Hladky	64'
Substitutes:
GK	12	Rustam Khudzhamov
MF	4	Igor Duljaj
MF	26	Răzvan Raț
MF	22	Willian	55'
FW	10	Evhen Seleznyov	64'
DF	18	Mariusz Lewandowski	75'
DF	36	Oleksandr Chyzhov
Manager:
Mircea Lucescu