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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[1]
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The 2016 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that was played on 21 May 2016 in Lviv.[2] 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.[3] 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).[4]

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

MAN OF THE MATCH

MATCH OFFICIALS

  • Assistant referees:
    • Serhiy Bekker (Kharkiv)[7]
    • Natalya Rachynska (Kyiv)[8]
  • Fourth official:
    • Kostiantyn Trukhanov[9]

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