The 2010 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match that was played place at the Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, on 16 May 2010. The match was the 19th Ukrainian Cup final and was contested by Metalurh Donetsk and Tavriya Simferopol. The final was the second time a Ukrainian Cup final was held in Kharkiv. The Ukrainian Cup winners qualified for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League play-off round. Tavriya played in their second cup final after last appearing in 1994, where the side lost to Chornomorets Odesa on penalty kicks (5–3) after the matched finished 0–0 after extra time. Metalurh Donetsk were playing in their first cup final.
Road to Kharkiv
All 16 Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition; Tavriya and Metalurh therefore both qualified automatically for the competition.
Tavriya Simferopol Round 1Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk0–4 Tavriya SimferopolRound 2Tavriya Simferopol4–2Illichivets MariupolQuarter-finalTavriya Simferopol4–0Obolon KyivSemi-finalVolyn Lutsk1–2 Tavriya Simferopol Metalurh Donetsk Round 1Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka1–1 aet2–4 pen. Metalurh DonetskRound 2Metalurh Donetsk2–1Karpaty LvivQuarter-finalDnipro Dnipropetrovsk1–2 aet Metalurh DonetskSemi-finalMetalurh Donetsk2–1Shakhtar Donetsk
Previous encounters Tavriya had met Metalurh Donetsk previously in the Ukrainian Cup competition in the quarter-Final of the 2003–04 edition. In that match, Tavriya advanced on penalty kicks 10–9 after the score finished 1–1 after extra time.
Match details
Tavriya Simferopol: GK 1 Maksym Startsev DF 4 Slobodan Marković DF 5 Sasha Juričić MF 8 Andriy Kornev FW 9 Oleksandr Kovpak (c) DF 11 Anton Monakhov MF 15 Yevhen Lutsenko DF 19 Ilya Galiuza MF 22 Željko Ljubenović MF 27 Denys HolaydoMF 28 Maksym Feschuk Substitutes:MF 10 Lucky Idahor FW 18 Ivan Matyazh FW 20 Vasil Gigiadze MF 21 Maksym SyrotaFW 24 Ruslan PlatonGK 12 Dmytro StoykoFW 44 Mamadi SangareManager: Serhiy PuchkovMetalurh Donetsk: GK 66 Vladimir DišljenkovićDF 4 Vyacheslav Checher (c)FW 7 Musawengosi Mguni DF 14 Oleksandr VolovykMF 18 Velizar DimitrovFW 22 Henrikh Mkhitaryan DF 23 Oleksiy HodinDF 28 Mário Sérgio MF 44 Vasyl Pryima MF 39 Sunny Kingsley DF 88 William Boaventura Substitutes:MF 9 Đorđe LazićMF 10 Chavdar Yankov FW 15 Ciprian Tănasă MF 17 Zé Soares DF 27 ChinaGK 31 Dmytro VorobeyevFW 46 Vitaliy IvankoManager: Nikolay Kostov
MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Stanislav Boklazhko Serhiy Tsymbal Fourth official: Serhiy Dankovsky 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.
See also 2009–10 Ukrainian Premier League
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