The 1990 Soviet Cup final was a football match that took place at Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on 2 May 1990. The match was the 49th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dynamo Kyiv (I tier) and FC Lokomotiv Moscow (II tier). The Soviet Cup winner Dynamo qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The defending champions from the previous year, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, were eliminated in the first round of the competition (1/16 of final) by PFC CSKA Moscow on away goal rule (1:1, 2:2). Dynamo played their 10th Cup Final winning on 9 occasions including this one. For Lokomotiv, it was only their third Cup Final and their only loss at this stage.
Road to Moscow
All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dynamo and Lokomotiv both qualified for the competition automatically.
Lokomotiv Moscow Round 1 (1st leg)Kryvbas1–3LokomotivRound 1 (2nd leg)Lokomotiv5–0Kryvbas (Lokomotiv won 8–1 on aggregate)Round 2 (1st leg)Žalgiris1–1LokomotivRound 2 (2nd leg)Lokomotiv3–0Žalgiris (Lokomotiv won 4–1 on aggregate)Quarter-finalLokomotiv2–0TorpedoSemi-finalDynamo M.0–0 aet 2–4 pen. LokomotivDynamo Kyiv Round 1 (1st leg)Kairat0–1DynamoRound 1 (2nd leg)Dynamo3–1Kairat (Dynamo won 4–1 on aggregate)Round 2 (1st leg)Dynamo1–0Dynamo Tb.Round 2 (2nd leg)Iberia–:+Dynamo (Dynamo got technical win as Tbilisi withdrew)Quarter-finalMetalist0–1DynamoSemi-finalDynamo4–2CSKA
Previous encounters
Previously, these two teams had never met each other in such late stages of the competition. However, they did meet about five times in the Soviet Cup, usually in the early rounds. They first played each other in the Soviet Cup back in 1938.
Match details
FC Lokomotiv Moscow:GK Khasanbi BidzhiyevDF Pavel Nesterov DF Yevgeny Mileshkin (c) MF Aleksey ArifullinDF Andrey Solovtsov DF Dmitry Gorkov MF Kirill Rybakov MF Rashid Gallakberov MF Oleg Samatov FW Sergey Sukhov FW Igor Chugaynov Substitutes:FW Mikhail Pronichev (Rybakov)DF Valery Plotnikov MF Andrey Fedin GK DF DF MF Manager: Yuriy SiominFC Dynamo Kyiv:1 Viktor Chanov2 Serhiy Shmatovalenko 8 Anatoliy Demyanenko (c) 4 Oleh Kuznetsov 3 Akhrik Tsveyba5 Vasyl Rats 11 Oleksiy Mykhailychenko 7 Hennadiy Lytovchenko6 Serhiy Zayets 10 Oleh Protasov 9 Oleg SalenkoSubstitutes:12 Oleh Luzhnyi (Demyanenko)13 Andriy Bal 14 Serhiy Kovalets GK DF DF MF Manager: Valeriy Lobanovsky MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Vladimir Markin (Rostov/Don) Yevgeniy Aleksandrov (Yaroslavl) Fourth official: ( )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 Soviet Top League 1989
References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FLCDi9lBo
External links The competition calendar Report referring to Soviet Sport The competition calendar Media about final 1990