Soviet Cup

Soviet Cup
Organising body	Football Federation of the USSR
Founded	1936
Abolished	1992
Region	Soviet Union (UEFA)
Number of teams	32
Last champions	Spartak Moscow (10th title)
Most successful club(s)	Spartak Moscow (10 titles)

The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (Russian: Кубок СССР),^[a] was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union conducted by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. As a knockout tournament it was conducted parallel to the All-Union league competitions in double round-robin format.

The winner of the competition was awarded a qualification to the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, unless it already qualified for the European Cup, in turn passed the qualification to the finalist. In case if a team would win the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and not win its national league cup titles next year, it qualified to the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup along with the new cup holder. The first participation in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup took place in 1965–66 when Dynamo Kyiv qualified for the European competition for winning the 1964 Soviet Cup.

Format[]

Format of competitions was constantly changing. Until 1984 the Soviet Cup corresponded to the Soviet Top League calendar "spring"-"fall", however after that it changed to "fall"-"spring" calendar which is now the most popular in Europe. In 1959-1960 the competition was conducted for two years. From 1965 to 1968 seasons were overlapping each other. The 1992 Soviet Cup Final took place after the fall of the Soviet Union in the independent Russia.

All tournaments final were played in a single game in Moscow, but until introduction of penalty kicks as a tie-breaker some finals that ended in tie were replayed. Until 1955 the tournament finals were played at Central Stadium "Dynamo", after being transferred to Central Stadium of Lenin (today Luzhniki Stadium).

Finals[]

Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1936	Lokomotiv Moscow	2–0	Dinamo Tbilisi
1937	Dynamo Moscow		Dinamo Tbilisi
1938	Spartak Moscow		Elektrik Leningrad
1939	Spartak Moscow		Stalinets Leningrad
1940^[1]	not finished, see Soviet Amateur Cup
no tournament in 1941–1943
1944	Zenit Leningrad		CDKA Moscow
1945	CDKA Moscow		Dynamo Moscow
1946	Spartak Moscow		Dinamo Tbilisi
1947	Spartak Moscow		Torpedo Moscow
1948	CDKA Moscow		Spartak Moscow
1949	Torpedo Moscow		Dynamo Moscow
1950	Spartak Moscow		Dynamo Moscow
1951	CDSA Moscow		Kalinin FC
1952	Torpedo Moscow		Spartak Moscow
1953	Dynamo Moscow		Zenit Kuybyshev
1954	Dynamo Kyiv		Spartak Yerevan
1955	CDSA Moscow		Dynamo Moscow
no tournament in 1956
1957	Lokomotiv Moscow		Spartak Moscow
1958	Spartak Moscow		Torpedo Moscow
change of format and no final in 1959
1959–60	Torpedo Moscow		Dinamo Tbilisi
1961	Shakhtyor Stalino		Torpedo Moscow
1962	Shakhtyor Stalino		Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo
1963	Spartak Moscow		Shakhtar Donetsk
1964	Dynamo Kyiv		Krylya Sovetov Kuybyshev
1965	Spartak Moscow		Dynamo Minsk
1965–66	Dynamo Kyiv		Torpedo Moscow
1966–67	Dynamo Moscow		CSKA Moscow
1967–68	Torpedo Moscow		Pakhtakor Tashkent
1969	Karpaty Lviv		SKA Rostov-on-Don
1970	Dynamo Moscow		Dinamo Tbilisi
1971	Spartak Moscow		SKA Rostov-on-Don
1972	Torpedo Moscow		Spartak Moscow
1973	Ararat Yerevan		Dynamo Kyiv
1974	Dynamo Kyiv		Zorya Voroshilovgrad
1975	Ararat Yerevan		Zorya Voroshilovgrad
1976	Dinamo Tbilisi	3–0	Ararat Yerevan
1977	Dynamo Moscow		Torpedo Moscow
1978	Dynamo Kyiv		Shakhtar Donetsk
1979	Dinamo Tbilisi	0–0 (aet) (5–4 pen)	Dynamo Moscow
1980	Shakhtar Donetsk		Dinamo Tbilisi
1981	SKA Rostov-on-Don		Spartak Moscow
1982	Dynamo Kyiv		Torpedo Moscow
1983	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	Metalist Kharkiv
1984	Dynamo Moscow	2–0	Zenit Leningrad
1984–85	Dynamo Kyiv	2–1	Shakhtar Donetsk
1985–86	Torpedo Moscow	1–0	Shakhtar Donetsk
1986–87	Dynamo Kyiv	3–3 (aet) (4–2 pen)	Dynamo Minsk
1987–88	Metalist Kharkiv	2–0	Torpedo Moscow
1988–89	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1–0	Torpedo Moscow
1989–90	Dynamo Kyiv	6–1	Lokomotiv Moscow
1990–91	CSKA Moscow	3–2	Torpedo Moscow
1991–92	Spartak Moscow	2–0	CSKA Moscow
due to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the last season was renamed to Soviet–CIS Cup

Overall statistics[]

Performance by club[]

Club	Winners	Runners-Up	Semi-finalists	Years Won
Spartak Moscow	10	5	7	1938, 1939, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1958, 1963, 1965, 1971, 1992
Dinamo Kiev	9	1	4	1954, 1964, 1966, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1990
Torpedo Moscow	6	9	5	1949, 1952, 1960, 1968, 1972, 1986
Dinamo Moscow	6	5	10	1937, 1953, 1967, 1970, 1977, 1984
CSKA Moscow	5	3	11	1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1991
Shakhter Donetsk	4	4	6	1961, 1962, 1980, 1983
Dinamo Tbilisi	2	6	7	1976, 1979
Ararat Yerevan	2	2	2	1973, 1975
Lokomotiv Moscow	2	1	7	1936, 1957
Zenit Leningrad	1	2	7	1944
SKA Rostov-na-Donu	1	2	0	1981
Metallist Kharkov	1	1	1	1988
Karpaty Lvov	1	0	2	1969
Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk	1	0	5	1989
Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev	0	2	2
Dinamo Minsk	0	2	2
Zaria Voroshilovgrad	0	2	1
Elektrik Leningrad	0	1	1
Kalinin city team	0	1	0
Znamia Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo	0	1	0
Pakhtakor Tashkent	0	1	1
Neftianik Baku	0	0	4
Dinamo Leningrad	0	0	3
Rotor Volgograd	0	0	1
VSS Moscow	0	0	1
SKA Kiev	0	0	1
SKA Odessa	0	0	1
	0	0	1
Qairat Almaty	0	0	1
Chernomorets Odessa	0	0	1
Sokol Saratov	0	0	1
Sudostroitel Nikolayev	0	0	1
Iskra Smolensk	0	0	1
Tavriya Simferopol	0	0	1
Žalgiris Vilnius	0	0	1
Pamir Dushanbe	0	0	1
Fakel Voronezh	0	0	1
Total	51	51	102

Performance by republic[]

Republic	Winners	Runners-Up	Semi-finals	Winning Clubs
Russian SFSR	31	32	59	Spartak Moscow (10), Dinamo Moscow (6), Torpedo Moscow (6), CSKA Moscow (5), Lokomotiv Moscow (2), Zenit Leningrad (1), SKA Rostov-na-Donu (1)
Ukrainian SSR	16	8	24	Dinamo Kiev (9), Shakhter Donetsk (4), Metallist Kharkov (1), Karpaty Lvov (1), Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk (1)
Georgian SSR	2	6	7	Dinamo Tbilisi (2)
Armenian SSR	2	2	2	Ararat Yerevan (2)
Byelorussian SSR	0	2	2
Uzbek SSR	0	1	1
Azerbaijan SSR	0	0	4
Kazakh SSR	0	0	1
Lithuanian SSR	0	0	1
Tajik SSR	0	0	1
Total	51	51	102

Best coaches[]

Valeriy Lobanovsky (1939-2002).

Boris Arkadiev (1899-1986).

Nikita Simonyan (1926).

Valentin Ivanov (1934-2011).


Place	Name	Medals		Champion clubs
Place	Name	gold	silver	Champion clubs
1	Viktor Maslov	6	3	Torpedo Moscow (3), Dynamo Kyiv (2), Ararat Yerevan (1)
2	Valeriy Lobanovsky	6	-	Dynamo Kyiv
3	Boris Arkadiev	4	1	CDKA Moscow (3), Lokomotiv Moscow (1)
3	Nikita Simonyan	4	1	Spartak Moscow (3), Ararat Yerevan (1)
5	Oleg Oshenkov	3	1	Shakhtar Donetsk (2), Dynamo Kyiv (1)
6	Valentin Ivanov	2	5	Torpedo Moscow
7	Aleksandr Sevidov	2	2	Dynamo Moscow
8-11	Nodar Akhalkatsi	2	1	Dinamo Tbilisi
	Konstantin Beskov	2	1	Dynamo Moscow
	Konstantin Kvashnin	2	1	Spartak Moscow, Torpedo Moscow
	Viktor Nosov	2	1	Shakhtar Donetsk

Another coach Albert Vollrat won two cups in 1946 and 1947.

Notes[]

^ Ukrainian: Кубок СРСР, Belarusian: Кубак СССР, Uzbek: СССР Кубоги, Kazakh: КСРО Кубогы, Georgian: სსრკ თასი, Azerbaijani: ССРИ кубоку, Lithuanian: TSRS taurė, Romanian: Cupa URSS (Moldovan Cyrillic: Купа УРСС), Latvian: PSRS kauss, Armenian: ԽՍՀՄ Գավաթ, Estonian: NSVL Karikas.

References[]

^ ХПЗ, "Дзержинец", "Авангард" и "Металлист" – Вехи истории клуба!.

External links[]

USSR (Soviet Union) – List of Cup Finals, rsssf.com. Retrieved 16 May 2006.

[1] Ukrainian: Кубок СРСР, Belarusian: Кубак СССР, Uzbek: СССР Кубоги, Kazakh: КСРО Кубогы, Georgian: სსრკ თასი, Azerbaijani: ССРИ кубоку, Lithuanian: TSRS taurė, Romanian: Cupa URSS (Moldovan Cyrillic: Купа УРСС), Latvian: PSRS kauss, Armenian: ԽՍՀՄ Գավաթ, Estonian: NSVL Karikas.

[2] ХПЗ, "Дзержинец", "Авангард" и "Металлист" – Вехи истории клуба!.

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v t Soviet Cup
Seasons	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940–43 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959–60 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92
Finals	1936 1976 1979 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
Republican cups	Russia Ukraine Azerbaijan
Soviet Amateur Cup

v t UEFA members national football cups
Current	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Defunct	Czechoslovakia East Germany Serbia and Montenegro USSR Yugoslavia
Non-UEFA	Monaco Vatican City