The 1997 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match that took place at the NSC Olimpiyskiy on 25 May 1997. The match was the 6th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by FC Shakhtar Donetsk and FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. The 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final was the fifth to be held in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Shakhtar won by a single goal netted by Serhiy Atelkin in the 36th minute.
There also were a couple of yellow cards issued at this game, both of them to Shakhtar players: Potskhveria and Hennadiy Orbu.
Road to Kyiv
Both teams started from the first round of the competition (1/16). Shakhtar, if not considering their first game in Mariupol, had some difficulties along the way meeting resistance from every team. Especially surprising was the face-off with Vorskla Poltava which almost revenged the miners for the face-slap from two years previously. In the semi-final Shakhtar defeated the Armymen which, alas, managed to show no teeth in their second game. Dnipro impressed when it easily defeated the two-time winners of the tournament, Chornomorets Odesa.
Shakhtar Round 1Metalurh M.1–3ShakhtarRound 2Zirka-NIBAS0–1ShakhtarQuarter-final (1st leg)Vorskla0–0ShakhtarQuarter-final (2nd leg)Shakhtar2–1Vorskla (Shakhtar won 2–1 on aggregate)Semi-final (1st leg)Shakhtar2–1CSKASemi-final (2nd leg)CSKA0–3Shakhtar (Shakhtar won 5–1 on aggregate)Dnipro Round 1Lviv2–3DniproRound 2Dnipro2–0TorpedoQuarter-final (1st leg)Chornomorets0–1DniproQuarter-final (2nd leg)Dnipro3–0Chornomorets (Dnipro won 4–0 on aggregate)Semi-final (1st leg)Dnipro3–0Metalurh Z.Semi-final (2nd leg)Metalurh Z.2–0Dnipro (Dnipro won 3–2 on aggregate)
Match details
Shakhtar Donetsk: GK ? Dmytro ShutkovMF ? Ihor LeonovDF ? Mikhail Potskhveria DF ? Oleksandr BabiyDF ? Oleksandr Koval MF ? Oleh Matveyev DF ? Hennadiy Orbu DF ? Serhiy Kovalyov MF ? Hennadiy Zubov FW ? Valeriy KriventsovFW ? Serhiy AtelkinSubstitutes:DF ? Oleh Shelayev MF ? Serhiy Kochvar MF ? Oleksandr Spivak Manager: Valeriy YaremchenkoDnipro Dnipropetrovsk: GK ? Illya BlyznyukDF ? Oleksandr PoklonskyiMF ? Kostyantyn SosenkoMF ? Hennadiy KozarMF ? Ivan PavlyukhFW ? Ihor KharkivshchenkoDF ? Volodymyr Sharan DF ? Serhiy NahornyakMF ? Gia Kilasonia FW ? Hennadiy MorozDF ? Varlam Kilasonia Substitutes:DF ? Oleksandr Kovalenko FW ? Viktor Byelkin FW ? Volodymyr Lyutyi Manager: Vyacheslav Hroznyi MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Anatoliy Oliynyk (Simferopol) Vitaliy Zviahitsev (Odesa) Fourth official: Vasyl Menychuk (Simferopol)MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes 3 substitutions, plus two more in extra time.
Ukrainian Cup 1997 WinnersFC Shakhtar DonetskSecond title
Match statistics Shakhtar DniproTotal shots ? ?Shots on target ? ?Ball possession ?% ?%Corner kicks ? ?Fouls committed ? ?Offsides ? ?Yellow cards ? ?Red cards ? ?
See also Ukrainian Cup 1996-97
References
External links Calendar of Matches - Schedule of the 1996-97 Ukrainian Cup on the Ukrainian Soccer History web-site (ukrsoccerhistory.com).