2007 Ukrainian Cup final

2007 Ukrainian Cup final

Event	2006–07 Ukrainian Cup
Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk 2 1
Date	27 May 2007
Venue	NSC Olimpiyskiy, Kyiv
Attendance	64,500
Weather	25°C
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The 2007 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match that took place at the Olympic NSC on 27 May 2007. The match was the 16th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. The Olympic stadium is the traditional arena for the Cup final.

Road to Kyiv

Main article: 2006–07 Ukrainian Cup

All 16 Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dynamo and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.

Dynamo Kyiv Round 1 Olkom Melitopol 0–4 Dynamo Kyiv Round 2 Kharkiv 0–2 Dynamo Kyiv Quarter-final (1st leg) Dynamo Kyiv 1–1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Quarter-final (2nd leg) Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1–2 aet Dynamo Kyiv   (Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate) Semi-final (1st leg) Metalist Kharkiv 0–1 Dynamo Kyiv Semi-final (2nd leg) Dynamo Kyiv 4–2 Metalist Kharkiv   (Dynamo won 5–2 on aggregate)

Shakhtar Donetsk Round 1 Yavir Krasnopillia 1–6 Shakhtar Donetsk Round 2 Borysfen Boryspil 0–2 Shakhtar Donetsk Quarter-final (1st leg) Sevastopol 0–1 Shakhtar Donetsk Quarter-final (2nd leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 6–1 Sevastopol   (Shakhtar won 7–1 on aggregate) Semi-final (1st leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 0–0 Tavriya Simferopol Semi-final (2nd leg) Tavriya Simferopol 2–2 Shakhtar Donetsk   (Shakhtar won 2–2 on away goal)

Previous encounters

Prior to the 2007 Cup Final, Dynamo and Shakhtar had met three times in previous Ukrainian Cup finals. Dynamo had defeated Shakhtar two times, since losing their very first meeting. In both of those meetings Dynamo was victorious 2–1. Shakhtar's best performance against Dynamo was back in the 2002 final, when the Miners were able to down the legendary Dynamo team in extra time 3–2. It was the first meeting between the team managers in this competition.

Match details

2007-05-27

19:00 LST

Dynamo Kyiv	2 – 1	Shakhtar Donetsk
Kléber 58' Husyev 80'	Report [1]	Elano 89'

NSC Olimpiyskiy, Kyiv

Attendance: 64,500

Referee: Andriy Shandor (Lviv)

Dynamo Kyiv

Shakhtar Donetsk

Dynamo Kyiv: GK 1 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi MF 4 Tiberiu Ghioane MF 7 Corrêa  67'  74' FW 9 Kléber  52'  84' MF 15 Diogo Rincón  66' DF 17 Taras Mykhalyk MF 20 Oleh Husyev DF 26 Andriy Nesmachny DF 27 Vladyslav Vashchuk (c) MF 36 Miloš Ninković DF 44 Rodrigo  27'  71' Substitutes: GK 21 Taras Lutsenko FW 11 Demba Touré MF 14 Ruslan Rotan DF 81 Marjan Marković FW 16 Maksim Shatskikh  84' DF 29 Vitaliy Mandziuk  74' MF 8 Valyantsin Byalkevich  66' Manager: Anatoliy Demyanenko

Shaktar Donetsk: GK 1 Bohdan Shust DF 33 Darijo Srna  86' DF 27 Dmytro Chyhrynskyi (c)  41' MF 26 Răzvan Raț  50'  52' DF 18 Mariusz Lewandowski MF 4 Igor Duljaj MF 7 Fernandinho FW 11 Andriy Vorobey  53' DF 3 Tomáš Hübschman  53' MF 8 Jádson  51' FW 25 Brandão  56' Substitutes: GK 12 Dmytro Shutkov MF 19 Oleksiy Hai  52'  90+2' DF 5 Oleksandr Kucher FW 29 Ciprian Marica  53' MF 36 Elano  51' FW 20 Oleksiy Byelik MF 28 Oleksiy Poliansky Manager: Mircea Lucescu

MATCH OFFICIALS [2] Assistant referees: Andriy Valenko (Lviv) Eduard Valenko (Lviv) Fourth official: Yuriy Moseychuk (Chernivtsi)

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.

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Ukrainian Cup 2007 Winners
Dynamo Kyiv Ninth title

See also

• 2006–07 Ukrainian Cup
• 2006–07 Ukrainian Premier League

References

1. "Official Match Report". uafootball.net.ua (in Russian). 2007-05-27. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
2. "Кубок Украины. Финал. "Ворскла" - "Шахтер". Анонс матча (Ukrainian Cup. Final. Vorskla - Shakhtar. Match announcement)". ua.футбол (in Russian). 2009-05-31. Archived from the original on 2009-06-11. Retrieved 2009-05-31.