The 2007 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match that took place at the Olympic NSC on 27 May 2007. The match was the 16th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. The Olympic stadium is the traditional arena for the Cup final.
Road to Kyiv
All 16 Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dynamo and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.
Dynamo Kyiv Round 1Olkom Melitopol0–4Dynamo KyivRound 2Kharkiv0–2Dynamo KyivQuarter-final (1st leg)Dynamo Kyiv1–1Dnipro DnipropetrovskQuarter-final (2nd leg)Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk1–2 aetDynamo Kyiv (Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate)Semi-final (1st leg)Metalist Kharkiv0–1Dynamo KyivSemi-final (2nd leg)Dynamo Kyiv4–2Metalist Kharkiv (Dynamo won 5–2 on aggregate)Shakhtar Donetsk Round 1Yavir Krasnopillia1–6Shakhtar DonetskRound 2Borysfen Boryspil0–2Shakhtar DonetskQuarter-final (1st leg)Sevastopol0–1Shakhtar DonetskQuarter-final (2nd leg)Shakhtar Donetsk6–1Sevastopol (Shakhtar won 7–1 on aggregate)Semi-final (1st leg)Shakhtar Donetsk0–0Tavriya SimferopolSemi-final (2nd leg)Tavriya Simferopol2–2Shakhtar Donetsk (Shakhtar won 2–2 on away goal)
Previous encounters Prior to the 2007 Cup Final, Dynamo and Shakhtar had met three times in previous Ukrainian Cup finals. Dynamo had defeated Shakhtar two times, since losing their very first meeting. In both of those meetings Dynamo was victorious 2–1. Shakhtar's best performance against Dynamo was back in the 2002 final, when the Miners were able to down the legendary Dynamo team in extra time 3–2. It was the first meeting between the team managers in this competition.
Match details
Dynamo Kyiv: GK 1 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi MF 4 Tiberiu GhioaneMF 7 Corrêa FW 9 Kléber MF 15 Diogo Rincón DF 17 Taras Mykhalyk MF 20 Oleh Husyev DF 26 Andriy Nesmachny DF 27 Vladyslav Vashchuk (c)MF 36 Miloš NinkovićDF 44 Rodrigo Substitutes:GK 21 Taras LutsenkoFW 11 Demba TouréMF 14 Ruslan RotanDF 81 Marjan MarkovićFW 16 Maksim Shatskikh DF 29 Vitaliy Mandziuk MF 8 Valyantsin Byalkevich Manager: Anatoliy DemyanenkoShaktar Donetsk: GK 1 Bohdan ShustDF 33 Darijo Srna DF 27 Dmytro Chyhrynskyi (c) MF 26 Răzvan Raț DF 18 Mariusz Lewandowski MF 4 Igor Duljaj MF 7 Fernandinho FW 11 Andriy Vorobey DF 3 Tomáš Hübschman MF 8 Jádson FW 25 Brandão Substitutes:GK 12 Dmytro ShutkovMF 19 Oleksiy Hai DF 5 Oleksandr Kucher FW 29 Ciprian Marica MF 36 Elano FW 20 Oleksiy Byelik MF 28 Oleksiy Poliansky Manager: Mircea Lucescu MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Andriy Valenko (Lviv) Eduard Valenko (Lviv) Fourth official: Yuriy Moseychuk (Chernivtsi)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.
Ukrainian Cup 2007 WinnersDynamo KyivNinth title
See also 2006–07 Ukrainian Cup 2006–07 Ukrainian Premier League
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