1953 Soviet Cup

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1953 Cup of USSR in Football
Кубок СССР
Tournament details
CountryFlag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
DatesSeptember 2 – October 10
Teams56
Defending champions Torpedo Moscow
Final positions
Champions Dinamo Moscow
Runner-up Zenit Kuybyshev
  1952
1954  

The 1953 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union.

Contents

No teams representing the Soviet Armed Forces participated in the tournament due to the death of Stalin and changes in the Soviet government. That was the second year in the row for CSKA Moscow being barred from the competition.

Participating teams

Enter in First round
Class A 11/11 teamsClass B 27/27 teamsRepublican 18 teams

Green check.svg Spartak Moscow
Green check.svg Dinamo Tbilisi
Green check.svg Torpedo Moscow
Green check.svg Dinamo Moscow
Green check.svg Zenit Leningrad
Green check.svg Lokomotiv Moscow
Green check.svg Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev
Green check.svg Dinamo Kiev
Green check.svg Lokomotiv Kharkov
Green check.svg Dinamo Leningrad
Green check.svg Spartak Vilnius

Green check.svg Dynamo Minsk
Green check.svg Torpedo Gorkiy
Green check.svg Shakhter Stalino
Green check.svg Znamia Ivanovo
Green check.svg Dinamo Yerevan
Green check.svg Spartak Tbilisi
Green check.svg Metallurg Odessa
Green check.svg Torpedo Rostov-na-Donu
Green check.svg Metallurg Zaporozhye
Green check.svg Zenit Moscow
Green check.svg Neftianik Baku
Green check.svg Torpedo Stalingrad
Green check.svg Daugava Riga

Green check.svg Avangard (Dzerzhinets) Chelyabinsk
Green check.svg Dinamo Alma-Ata
Green check.svg Burevestnik Kishenev
Green check.svg Molotov
Green check.svg Spartak Ashkhabad
Green check.svg Avangard Sverdlovsk
Green check.svg Kalev Tallinn
Green check.svg Spartak Tashkent
Green check.svg Metallurg Dnepropetrovsk
Green check.svg Spartak Kalinin
Green check.svg Iskra Frunze
Green check.svg Khimik Moscow
Green check.svg Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk
Green check.svg Leninabad

Green check.svg Dinamo Petrozavodsk (Karelia)
Green check.svg Dinamo Tallinn (Estonia)
Green check.svg Krasny Metallurg Liyepaya (Latvia)
Green check.svg Lima Kaunas (Lithuania)
Green check.svg Spartak Minsk (Belarus)
Green check.svg Torpedo Kirovograd (Ukraine)
Green check.svg Dinamo Kishenev (Moldova)
Green check.svg Dinamo Kutaisi (Georgia)
Green check.svg Khimik Kirovakan (Armenia)
Green check.svg Dinamo Baku (Azerbaijan)
Green check.svg Dinamo Chimkent (Kazakhstan)
Green check.svg Khimik Chirchik (Uzbekistan)
Green check.svg Dinamo Frunze (Kirgizia)
Green check.svg Dinamo Stalinabad (Tajikistan)
Green check.svg Lokomotyv Mary (Turkmenia)
Green check.svg Torpedo Vladimir (RSFSR)
Green check.svg Dinamo-2 Moscow
Green check.svg Dinamo-2 Leningrad

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Notes

Competition schedule

First round

[Jul 23]  SPARTAK Tashkent             1-0  Spartak Tbilisi    [Y.Golenbaum]  [Aug 30]  DINAMO Kutaisi               1-0  Torpedo Gorkiy    [G.Mekvabishvili]  Torpedo Kirovograd           1-2  AVANGARD Sverdlovsk    [Viktor Tretyakov – V.Listochkin, Kozhevnikov]  Torpedo Vladimir             1-2  DINAMO Alma-Ata               [aet]  Zenit Kaliningrad (M.R.)     0-1  TORPEDO Stalingrad    [Dubovitskiy]  [Sep 3]  Metallurg Chimkent           1-4  METALLURG Zaporozhye     [in Guryev]    [Golubev – Malakhov-2, K.Pavlov, P.Ponomaryov]  [Sep 4]  Dinamo Tallinn               1-2  KHIMIK Moskva    [Pillu 72 – Krutikov 52, Savin 56]  SPARTAK Ashkhabad            4-1  Metallurg Odessa    [S.Maduntsev 27, 28, M.Borkin 40, V.Yepikhin 77 – M.Cherkasskiy 70]  [Sep 5]  DINAMO-2 Leningrad           3-1  Kalev Tallinn    [S.Kornilov, D.Nikolin, Subbotin – Nell]  [Sep 6]  DINAMO Frunze                w/o  Krasnoye Znamya Ivanovo  DINAMO Kishinev              w/o  Dinamo Minsk  DINAMO Petrozavodsk          w/o  Dinamo Yerevan  Dinamo Stalinabad            3-3  Avangard Chelyabinsk    [F.Rukavishnikov, N.Dolzhnikov, K.Shakirov – Semyonov, Ivanov, Tufatulin]  KHIMIK Kirovakan             1-0  Spartak Kalinin    [A.Mkhoyan]  KRASNY METALLURG Liepaja     3-0  Krylya Sovetov Molotov  NEFTYANIK Baku               4-2  Krasnaya Zvezda Petrozavodsk    [Yuriy Kuznetsov-2, Timakov-2 – Nikiforov, Chumichov]

First round replays

[Sep 7]  Dinamo Stalinabad            1-3  AVANGARD Chelyabinsk    [N.Dolzhnikov – Zhenishek, Tufatulin, Ahmanayev]

Second round

[Aug 23]  Lima Kaunas                  0-4  METALLURG Dnepropetrovsk    [Shikov-2, Kozachenko, G.Ponomaryov]  Spartak Minsk                1-2  ISKRA Frunze    [Vorobyov - ?]  [Aug 24]  Lokomotiv Mary               0-9  SHAKHTYOR Stalino        [in Ashkhabad]    [Ivan Boboshko-2, A.Koloskov-2, Ivan Fedosov-2, V.Churikov-2, V.Samoilov]  [Aug 28]  Dinamo Baku                  2-5  TORPEDO Rostov-na-Donu    [Tsaritsyn, Dmitriyev – A.Grigoryev-2, V.Kruglov-2, G.Fursov]  [Sep 6]  Khimik Chirchik              0-3  DAUGAVA Riga    [Y.Balykin, B.Reingold, Alfons Jegers]  [Sep 7]  Spartak Tashkent             0-0  Dinamo Kutaisi  [Sep 10]  Dinamo Kishinev              1-1  Dinamo Alma-Ata    [Starostin – Mezhov]  [Sep 12]  BUREVESTNIK Kishinev         3-0  Dinamo-2 Leningrad    [Kornilov, Bakhmutov, Pyatkovskiy]  Neftyanik Baku               1-1  Khimik Moskva    [Abil-Zade 13 pen – Krutikov ?]  [Sep 13]  AVANGARD Chelyabinsk         w/o  Dinamo Yerevan        GORNYAK Leninabad            w/o  Avangard Sverdlovsk  METALLURG Zaporozhye         8-3  Khimik Kirovakan    [O.Kiknadze-2, K.Pavlov-2, P.Ponomaryov-2, B.Zozulya, I.Kostynchak – Kalashan pen, Suchkov (M) og, A.Arutyunyan]  SPARTAK Ashkhabad            2-1  Krasny Metallurg Liepaja    [Borkin 40, Bagirov 70 – G.Zviedris 81]  TORPEDO Stalingrad           w/o  Dinamo Frunze

Second round replays

[Sep 8]  SPARTAK Tashkent             4-2  Dinamo Kutaisi    [V.Undakov-2, V.Vitkalov, L.Maksudov – G.Mepisashvili, G.Kobzianidze]  [Sep 11]  Dinamo Kishinev              0-1  DINAMO Alma-Ata    [Sudomoyev]  [Sep 13]  NEFTYANIK Baku               4-1  Khimik Moskva    [Timakov-2, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Mikuchadze – Biryulin]

Third round

SHAKHTYOR Stalino            w/o  Avangard Chelyabinsk  [Sep 6]  METALLURG Dnepropetrovsk     1-0  Torpedo Rostov-na-Donu    [Shikov]  [Sep 10]  Iskra Frunze                 0-2  DAUGAVA Riga    [Viktor Zhilin 30, 35]  [Sep 15]  Burevestnik Kishinev         0-1  DINAMO Alma-Ata    [Vasin]  [Sep 16]  SPARTAK Ashkhabad            1-0  Spartak Tashkent    [Borkin]  [Sep 18]  DINAMO-2 Moskva              1-0  Dinamo Petrozavodsk  GORNYAK Leninabad            8-4  Neftyanik Baku    [Zaynutdinov-2, Korobov-2, Klimanov-2, Suetin, Yushnov – Yuriy Kuznetsov-2, Suleymanov, Timakov]  METALLURG Zaporozhye         4-1  Torpedo Stalingrad      [P.Ponomaryov-2, O.Kiknadze, I.Kostynchak – Dubovitskiy]

Fourth round

[Aug 30]  SHAKHTYOR Stalino            1-0  Dinamo-2 Moskva    [Leonid Savinov 46]  [Sep 17]  DAUGAVA Riga                 5-1  Metallurg Dnepropetrovsk    [Zhilin-2, Jegers-2, Balykin – Klochko]  [Sep 23]  DINAMO Alma-Ata              6-2  Gornyak Leninabad        [in Moskva]    [Mezhov-2, Bolotov-2, Vasin-2 – Klimanov, Yushnov]  METALLURG Zaporozhye         6-2  Spartak Ashkhabad        [in Moskva]    [I.Kostynchak-2, P.Ponomaryov-2, B.Zozulya, O.Kiknadze – Maduntsev, Yepikhin]

Fifth round

[Sep 18]  TORPEDO Moskva               3-1  Zenit Leningrad    [Vyacheslav Solovyov 7, Vitaliy Vatskevich ?, Boris Safronov ? – N.Gartvig 84]  [Sep 21]  Dinamo Moskva                2-2  Dinamo Leningrad    [Vladimir Shabrov 42, Sergei Korshunov 86 – Georgiy Grammatikopulo 2, Alexei Kolobov 3]  [Sep 22]  LOKOMOTIV Moskva             1-0  Lokomotiv Kharkov    [Yevgeniy Bologov]  [Sep 24]  Daugava Riga                 0-0  Spartak Vilnius  [Sep 27]  DINAMO Tbilisi               4-0  Dinamo Kiev              [in Moskva]    [Avtandil Gogoberidze 37, Zaur Kaloyev 57, Georgiy Antadze 73, Avtandil Chkuaseli 86]  SPARTAK Moskva               5-0  Metallurg Zaporozhye    [Nikolai Dementyev-3, Nikita Simonyan, Anatoliy Ilyin]  [Sep 28]  Shakhtyor Stalino            0-0  Dinamo Alma-Ata

Fifth round replays

[Sep 22]  DINAMO Moskva                3-0  Dinamo Leningrad    [Vladimir Shabrov 23, Konstantin Beskov 57, 68]  [Sep 25]  DAUGAVA Riga                 1-0  Spartak Vilnius    [Viktor Zhilin 13]  [Sep 29]  SHAKHTYOR Stalino            2-0  Dinamo Alma-Ata    [Valentin Sapronov, Leonid Savinov]

Quarterfinals

[Sep 23]  Torpedo Moskva               0-1  ZENIT Kuibyshev    [Fyodor Novikov 39]  [Oct 1]  DINAMO Moskva                1-0  Dinamo Tbilisi    [Konstantin Beskov 85]  [Oct 2]  SHAKHTYOR Stalino            2-1  Daugava Riga             [in Moskva]    [Valentin Sapronov, Koloskov – Janis Uzulis]  [Oct 3]  LOKOMOTIV Moskva             1-0  Spartak Moskva                [aet]    [Anatoliy Bashashkin (S) 103 og]

Semifinals

[Oct 5]  DINAMO Moskva                1-0  Shakhtyor Stalino    [Vladimir Shabrov 80]  [Oct 6]  Lokomotiv Moskva             0-2  ZENIT Kuibyshev    [Alexandr Gulevskiy 21, Grigoriy Gornostayev 72]

Final

Dinamo Moscow 1 0 Zenit Kuibyshev
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