2012 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2012 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that was played at the Olimpiysky NSC, Kyiv, on 6 May 2012. The match was the 21st Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Metalurh Donetsk and Shakhtar Donetsk. This was the first time since 2007 that the Cup final had returned to Kyiv. Since Shakhtar had qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, Metalurh would qualify for the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. In the draw, Metalurh was selected as the home team.

2012 Ukrainian Cup Final

Event	2011–12 Ukrainian Cup
Metalurh Donetsk Shakhtar Donetsk 1 2
Date	6 May 2012
Venue	Olimpiysky NSC, Kyiv
Referee	Anatoliy Abdula (Kharkiv)
Attendance	47,314

Road to Kyiv

Main article: 2011–12 Ukrainian Cup

As Ukrainian Premier League members, Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalurh Donetsk did not have to go through the qualification phase of the competition.

Metalurh Donetsk Round 1 Metalurh Donetsk 2–0 Tavriya Simferopol Round 2 Metalurh Donetsk 4–0 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Quarter-final Zorya Luhansk 0–1 aet Metalurh Donetsk Semi-final Metalurh Donetsk 0–0 aet 7–6 pen. Karpaty Lviv

Shakhtar Donetsk Round 1 Shakhtar Sverdlovsk 0–2 Shakhtar Donetsk Round 2 Dynamo Kyiv 2–3 Shakhtar Donetsk Quarter-final Metalurh Zaporizhia 0–1 Shakhtar Donetsk Semi-final Volyn Lutsk 3–4 Shakhtar Donetsk

Previous encounters

This was the first Ukrainian Cup final between the two teams. The two teams had also met in a semi-final in 2009–10 and in the Round of 16 in 1997–98 season in which Metalurh was able to overcome Shakhtar.

Metalurh had appeared only once in a Cup final without winning any trophies and their opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 11 Cup finals, winning seven.

Television

The match was broadcast on ICTV in Ukraine.

Match

Details

6 May 2012

19:30 EEST

Metalurh Donetsk	1 – 2 (aet)	Shakhtar Donetsk
Morozyuk 69'	Report	Teixeira 23' Kucher 104'

Olimpiysky NSC, Kyiv

Attendance: 47,314

Referee: Anatoliy Abdula (Kharkiv)

Metalurh Donetsk

Shakhtar Donetsk

Metalurh Donetsk: GK 12 Oleksandr Bandura DF 5 Vyacheslav Checher (c) MF 6 Karlen Mkrtchyan  23' MF 7 Mykola Morozyuk 69' MF 9 Đorđe Lazić FW 10 Gevorg Ghazaryan  25'  73' DF 14 Oleksandr Volovyk FW 15 Dramane Traoré MF 17 Zé Soares  80'  114' MF 18 Velizar Dimitrov  90' MF 20 China Substitutes: GK 31 Dmytro Vorobyov DF 2 Artem Baranovskyi MF 8 Gregory Nelson  73' MF 8 Danilo  90' FW 23 Oleh Mishchenko  114' MF 28 Mário Sérgio FW 84 Denys Holaydo Manager: Volodymyr Pyatenko

Shakhtar Donetsk: GK 30 Andriy Pyatov DF 5 Oleksandr Kucher 104' MF 7 Fernandinho  90+4' MF 9 Luiz Adriano  106' FW 10 Willian MF 19 Oleksiy Gai  107' MF 22 Henrikh Mkhitaryan  18'  62' DF 26 Răzvan Raț MF 29 Alex Teixeira 23' DF 33 Darijo Srna (c) DF 44 Yaroslav Rakitskiy Substitutes: GK 23 Bohdan Shust MF 14 Vasyl Kobin MF 15 Taras Stepanenko  107' FW 17 Yevhen Seleznyov  106' FW 20 Douglas Costa  62' FW 31 Dentinho DF 36 Oleksandr Chyzhov Manager: Mircea Lucescu

MAN OF THE MATCH MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Oleksandr Korniyenko (Myrhorod) Natalya Rachynska (Kyiv) Fourth official: Dmytro Kulakov (Brovary)

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.

Post-match

On account of Shakhtar's victory and Metalurh's defeat in the Ukrainian Cup final, and with both team finishing as "good as they could" in the 2011–12 Ukrainian Premier League, the 2012 Ukrainian Super Cup will feature Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv.

See also

• 2011–12 Ukrainian Premier League