2016 Ukrainian Cup final

2016 Ukrainian Cup Final
Event2015–16 Ukrainian Cup
Zorya Luhansk Shakhtar Donetsk
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Date21 May 2016
VenueArena Lviv, Lviv
RefereeYevhen Aranovsky
Attendance21,720
Weather+20°, Light rain
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The 2016 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that was played on 21 May 2016 in Lviv. For the first time the cup final was held in Lviv. The match was the 25th Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Zorya Luhansk and Shakhtar Donetsk.

Road to Lviv

Main article: 2015–16 Ukrainian Cup

All fourteen Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition (Ukrainian Cup), so Zorya and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.

Zorya Luhansk

Round 1 Krystal Kherson 0 – 5 Zorya Luhansk
Round 2 (1st leg) Helios Kharkiv 0 – 2 Zorya Luhansk
Round 2 (2nd leg) Zorya Luhansk 3 – 1 Helios Kharkiv
  (Zorya won 5–1 on aggregate)
Quarter-final (1st leg) Volyn Lutsk 1 – 1 Zorya Luhansk
Quarter-final (2nd leg) Zorya Luhansk 5 – 0 Volyn Lutsk
  (Zorya won 6–1 on aggregate)
Semi-final (1st leg) Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 – 0 Zorya Luhansk
Semi-final (2nd leg) Zorya Luhansk 2 – 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
  (Zorya won 2–1 on aggregate)

Shakhtar Donetsk

Round 1 Arsenal-Kyiv 0 – 3 Shakhtar Donetsk
Round 2 (1st leg) FC Ternopil 0 – 5 Shakhtar Donetsk
Round 2 (2nd leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 4 – 0 FC Ternopil
  (Shakhtar won 9–0 on aggregate)
Quarter-final (1st leg) Vorskla Poltava 0 – 4 Shakhtar Donetsk
Quarter-final (2nd leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 1 – 2 Vorskla Poltava
  (Shakhtar won 5–2 on aggregate)
Semi-final (1st leg) FC Oleksandriya 1 – 1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Semi-final (2nd leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 2 – 0 FC Oleksandriya
  (Shakhtar won 3–1 on aggregate)

Previous encounters

This was not only the first Ukrainian Cup Final between the two teams, but also the first time they meet in this competition. Previously Zorya and Shakhtar met in the Soviet Cup in total of six game (the record was two wins for Zorya and four wins for Shakhtar with Zorya scoring six goals and Shakhtar scoring seven).

It was first Cup Final appearance for Zorya, while their opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 15 Cup Finals winning nine.

Match

Details

Zorya Luhansk0–2Shakhtar Donetsk
Report Hladkyy 42', 57'
Attendance: 21,720
Referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi
Zorya Luhansk
Shakhtar Donetsk
Zorya Luhansk:
GK 30 Mykyta Shevchenko
RB 39 Yevhen Opanasenko  64'
CB 3 Mikhail Sivakow  64'
CB 12 Rafael Forster  12'
LB 6 Mykyta Kamenyuka (c)
DM 4 Ihor Chaykovskyi  64'
DM 5 Artem Hordiyenko  57'
RW 20 Oleksandr Karavayev
CM 22 Željko Ljubenović
LW 34 Ivan Petryak  46'
CF 28 Pylyp Budkivskyi
Substitutes:
GK 91 Ihor Levchenko
DF 2 Artem Sukhotskyi
FW 10 Jaba Lipartia  57'
FW 11 Paulinho
DF 16 Hryhoriy Yarmash  64'  70'
MF 24 Dmytro Hrechyshkin
MF 29 Andriy Totovytskyi  46'
Manager:
Yuriy Vernydub
Shakhtar Donetsk:
GK 32 Anton Kanibolotskiy
RB 33 Darijo Srna (c)
CB 5 Oleksandr Kucher
CB 44 Yaroslav Rakitskiy
LB 31 Ismaily
DM 6 Taras Stepanenko
DM 17 Maksym Malyshev
RW 11 Marlos
AM 74 Viktor Kovalenko  59'
LW 28 Taison  81'
CF 21 Oleksandr Hladkyy  74'
Substitutes:
GK 30 Andriy Pyatov
DF 18 Ivan Ordets
DF 38 Serhiy Kryvtsov
MF 7 Wellington Nem  74'
MF 58 Andriy Korobenko
FW 22 Eduardo da Silva  59'
FW 19 Facundo Ferreyra  81'
Manager:
Mircea Lucescu

MAN OF THE MATCH

MATCH OFFICIALS

  • Assistant referees:
    • Serhiy Bekker (Kharkiv)
    • Natalya Rachynska (Kyiv)
  • Fourth official:
    • Kostiantyn Trukhanov

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.

See also

References

  1. ^ Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016
  2. ^ Сегодня в кассы поступили билеты на финал Кубка Украины [The tickets for the Cup Final arrived today] (in Russian). ua-football.com. 21 May 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  3. ^ Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016
  4. ^ Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016
  5. ^ "FIFA Referees News: Ukraine : 2016 Ukrainian Cup Final". 21 May 2016.
  6. ^ Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016
  7. ^ Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016
  8. ^ Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016
  9. ^ Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016