2020 Ukrainian Super Cup

2020 Ukrainian Super Cup

Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kyiv 1 3
Date	25 August 2020 (2020-08-25)
Venue	Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv
Referee	Vitaliy Romanov (Dnipro)
Attendance	0 [lower-alpha 1]
Weather	Light rain, +20°C
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The 2020 Ukrainian Super Cup was the 17th edition of Ukrainian Super Cup, an annual season opener football match contested by the previous season's Ukrainian Premier League champions Shakhtar Donetsk and Ukrainian Cup winners Dynamo Kyiv.

The game was scheduled to be played later than usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also while traditionally being held in Odesa, this season it was scheduled to take place in Kyiv at the Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex ^[1] on 25 August 2020. The game was played after Round 1 of the 2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League.

Preparations and other background events

For this game the official sponsor was announced TM Waissburg, the official football for the ninth time became the Danish "Select" (Select Sport) and as a television broadcasting partner became Ukrainian television channels "TRK Ukraína" and "Futbol 1/2/3" (both part of Media Group Ukraína). ^[2]

Luís Castro in 2019

Mircea Lucescu in 2017

This game is the first, in which Mircea Lucescu who spent in Shakhtar Donetsk a dozen of years and one of the two original head coaches who participated in the tournament back in 2004 will be leading the chief opponents of the Donetsk club. Anatoliy Demianenko commenting on the game stated that the main intrigue is Lucescu versus Shakhtar. ^[3] The former players of Shakhtar Artem Fedetskyi and Oleksiy Hai commenting on the game agree that it is unusual game, but Shakhtar shall still win. ^[4] The head coach of Shakhtar Luís Castro is eager to win the Super Cup which slipped away the last season. ^[5] Castro is sure that both clubs will field their best squads for the game and Lucescu will be requesting the maximum from his. ^[6] Another Ukrainian head coach Myron Markevych thinks that the game does not matter and the main task for the teams is to qualify for the European competitions. ^[7]

The game is expected to kick off the next day after the national holiday Independence Day of Ukraine.

The refereeing team led by Romanov partially preserved from the last year will be supervised by Luciano Luci, while VAR operations will be supervised by Serhiy Lysenchuk.

Previous encounters

See also: Klasychne derby

Before this game both teams met in the Ukrainian Super Cup twelve (12) times, the first being back in 2004. Before this game out of the previous twelve Dynamo won 4 games and Shakhtar won 3, five more games were tied and led to penalty shootout three of which were won by Dynamo and two were won by Shakhtar.

Comparison table

Team	Qualification	Previous appearances (bold indicates winners)
Shakhtar Donetsk	2019–20 UPL champions	15 (2004, 2005 , 2006, 2007, 2008 , 2010 , 2011, 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016, 2017 , 2018, 2019)
Dynamo Kyiv TH	2019–20 Cup winners	13 ( 2004 , 2005, 2006 , 2007 , 2008, 2009 , 2011 , 2014, 2015, 2016 , 2017, 2018 , 2019 )

Match

Details

25 August 2020 (2020-08-25)

21:00 ^{[8] [9]} EEST

Shakhtar Donetsk	1–3	Dynamo Kyiv
Moraes 37'	Report	De Pena 20' Rodrigues 31' Sol 83'

Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv

Attendance: 0 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}

Referee: Vitaliy Romanov ^[10] (Dnipro)

Shakhtar Donetsk

Dynamo Kyiv

Shakhtar Donetsk GK 30 Andriy Pyatov (c) DF 2 Dodô DF 4 Serhiy Kryvtsov  83' DF 77 Valeriy Bondar  69' DF 22 Mykola Matviyenko MF 6 Taras Stepanenko MF 21 Alan Patrick MF 8 Marcos Antônio  46' MF 14 Tetê  61' FW 7 Taison FW 10 Júnior Moraes 37' Substitutes GK 81 Anatoliy Trubin MF 50 Serhiy Bolbat DF 5 Davit Khocholava MF 19 Manor Solomon  61' MF 70 Yevhen Konoplyanka  69' MF 11 Marlos  46' MF 27 Maycon MF 99 Fernando  83' MF 20 Viktor Kovalenko Head coach Luís Castro

Dynamo Kyiv GK 1 Heorhiy Bushchan MF 5 Serhiy Sydorchuk (c) MF 10 Mykola Shaparenko  52' MF 14 Carlos de Pena 20'  74' MF 20 Oleksandr Karavayev  59' MF 22 Gerson Rodrigues 31' DF 24 Oleksandr Tymchyk MF 29 Vitaliy Buyalskyi  82' DF 34 Oleksandr Syrota FW 89 Vladyslav Supriaha  61' DF 94 Tomasz Kędziora Substitutes GK 71 Denys Boyko FW 9 Fran Sol  61' 83' FW 11 Heorhiy Tsitaishvili MF 15 Viktor Tsyhankov MF 17 Bohdan Lyednyev  82' MF 18 Oleksandr Andriyevskyi  74' DF 55 Kostyantyn Vivcharenko DF 25 Illya Zabarnyi MF 99 Mikkel Duelund Head coach Mircea Lucescu

Assistant referees: Andriy Skrypka (Kropyvnytskyi) Volodymyr Volodin (Kherson) Fourth referee : Anatoliy Abdula (Kharkiv) Reserve assistant referee : Dimitry Zaporozhenko Video assistant referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi (Kyiv) Assistant video assistant referee: Semen Shlonchak (Cherkasy)

Match rules 90 minutes of regulation. No extra time of regulation if score is level. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used in three opportunities, excluding substitutions made at half-time. No more than 9 foreign players on a field at one time for each team.

Notes

1. The match was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.

References

1. Artur Malkin. There was determined nominal host for the Ukrainian Super Cup game (Визначився номінальний господар матчу за Суперкубок України) Footboom. 10 August 2020
2. Artur Malkin. Waissburg and Select became the official brands of the Super Cup "Classico" which for the first time will take place at "Olimpiyskiy" (Waissburg та Select стали офіційними брендами суперкубкового "класико", яке вперше відбудеться на "Олімпійському") . Footboom. 18 August 2020
3. Oleg Semenchenko. Anatoliy Demianenko, "The main intrigue of the match for the Super Cup is Lucescu against "Shakhtar" (Анатолий Демьяненко: "Главная интрига поединка за Суперкубок – Луческу против "Шахтера") . Footboom. 24 August 2020
4. Oleg Semenchenko. Artem Fedetskyi and Oleksiy Hai about the Ukrainian Super Cup, "There was no such a game, but Shakhtar will still win (Артем Федецкий и Алексей Гай - о Суперкубке Украины: "Такого матча еще не было, но победит "Шахтер") . Footboom. 24 August 2020
5. Luís Castro, "We want to win the Super Cup very much that slipped out of our hands the last year (Луиш Каштру: "Очень сильно хотим завоевать Суперкубок, который ускользнул из наших рук в прошлом году"). Footboom. 24 August 2020
6. Aleksandr Oleinik. Castro, "Lucescu will show his style and will be requesting the maximum from his team (Каштру: «Луческу покажет свой стиль и будет требовать максимума от своей команды») . Sport Arena. 24 August 2020
7. Myron Markevych, "The main is how the teams will qualify for Euro cups, and the Super Cup victory does not play any role (Мирон Маркевич: "Головне, як команди пройдуть в єврокубки, а перемога в Суперкубку ролі не грає"). Footboom. 24 August 2020
8. The Ukrainian Super Cup game will start on 25 August at Olimpiyskiy NSC at 21:00 (Матч за Суперкубок України розпочнеться 25 серпня на НСК «Олімпійський» о 21.00). Ukrainian Association of Football. 18 August 2020
9. Game protocol. Ukrainian Premier League.
10. Artur Malkin. It became known who will be a referee for Shakhtar and Dynamo in the Ukrainian Super Cup (Стало известно, кто рассудит "Шахтер" и "Динамо" в Суперкубке Украины) . Footboom. 21 August 2020

External links

• The official pamphlet of the 2020 Ukrainian Super Cup (Офіційна програма Суперкубка України 2020). Ukrainian Premier League. 25 August 2020. (32 pages)