1972 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR

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1972 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
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The Ukrainian Cup 1972 was a football knockout competition conducting by the Football Federation of Ukrainian SSR and was known as the Ukrainian Cup .

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The Cup started with the preliminary round on November 4, 1972, and involved the republican level non-amateur clubs. The main event started from the round of 16 on November 8, 1972, when other clubs joined the competition such as Shakhtar, Chornomorets, Metalist, and others, while some of them represented by their second squad. Dynamo Kyiv has chosen not to participate in it since its last winning season in 1948. The competition concluded in just over two weeks in Kiev on November 19. Note that the tournament took place after the Soviet football season was over and was conducted in rather unsupported weather conditions as the cold period in Ukraine starts usually in September or October, depending on location.

Teams

Tournament distribution

The competition was conducted among 21 Ukrainian clubs of the 1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1 and all 5 Ukrainian clubs of the 1972 Soviet First League and FC Khimik Zhytomyr. Three more Ukrainian clubs of the Second League Lokomotyv Donetsk, Khimik Severodonetsk and Mayak Kharkiv did not participate.

First round
(22 teams)
Second round
(16 teams)
  • 11 winners from the first round

Other professional teams

The four Ukrainian professional teams in the Soviet Top League did not take part in the competition.

Competition schedule

First elimination round

November 4, 1972

Team 1 Score Team 2
Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 2–2 (a.e.t.) Lokomotyv Vinnytsia
Bukovyna Chernivtsi 3–1 Hoverla Uzhhorod
SC Lutsk 0–1 Tavriya Simferopol
Avanhard Sevastopol 2–1 Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv
Shakhtar Horlivka 5–3 Shakhtar Makiivka
Dynamo Khmelnytsky 1–3 Budivelnyk Ternopil
Zirka Kirovohrad 1–2 Metalurh Zhdanov
Frunzenets Sumy 3–1 Shakhtar Kadiivka
Budivelnyk Poltava 1–0Khimik Zhytomyr
SC Chernihiv 4–3 Lokomotyv Kherson
Avanhard Rivne 1–3 Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
Replay (November 5)
Team 1 Score Team 2
Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk 0–1 Lokomotyv Vinnytsia

Second elimination round

November 8, 1972

Team 1 Score Team 2
Lokomotyv Vinnytsia 3–0 Bukovyna Chernivtsi
Tavriya Simferopol 2–0 Avanhard Sevastopol
Shakhtar Horlivka 3–4 Shakhtar Donetsk
Budivelnyk Ternopil 0–3 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
Frunzenets Sumy 5–0 Metalist Kharkiv
Budivelnyk Poltava 2–0 Metalurh Zaporizhia
Avtomobilist Zhytomyr 2–1 (a.e.t.) SC Chernihiv
Metalurh Zhdanov 0–1 Chornomorets Odessa

Quarterfinals

November 12, 1972

Team 1 Score Team 2
Shakhtar Donetsk 5–2 Tavriya Simferopol
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 0–1 Lokomotyv Vinnytsia
Avtomobilist Zhytomyr 1–0 Budivelnyk Poltava
Chornomorets Odessa 1–1 (a.e.t.) Frunzenets Sumy
Replay (November 13)
Team 1 Score Team 2
Chornomorets Odessa 2–1 Frunzenets Sumy

Semifinals

Team 1 Score Team 2
Lokomotyv Vinnytsia 0–3 Shakhtar Donetsk
Chornomorets Odessa 1–2 Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
Lokomotyv Vinnytsia 0–3 Shakhtar Donetsk
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Safonov
Chornomorets Odesa 1–2 Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
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Final

Team 1 Score Team 2
Avtomobilist Zhytomyr 1–0 (a.e.t.) Shakhtar Donetsk


Avtomobilist: Zhurba, Kozynets, Bilyi, Kravchuk, Horbach, Pestrykov, Pinchuk, Sladkovskyi (Solovyov, 55), Vasiutyn, Nesmeyan (Kotov, 73), Zelenskyi
Head coach: Lifshits
Shakhtar: Chanov, Yaremchenko, Kurhanov (Horbunov, 74), Belousov, Hubych, Kashchey, Vasin, Konkov, Prokopenko (Shevchuk, 68), Dudynskyi (Kliuchyk, 70), Safonov
Head coach: Bazylevych

Top goalscorers

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Ukrainian Cup 1972 Winners

FC Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
First title

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