The 2005 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match that took place at the NSC Olimpiyskiy on 29 May 2005. The match was the 14th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. The Olympic stadium is the traditional arena for the Cup final. The game was remembered for involving the most foreign players in the Ukrainian Cup finals: out of 36 players on both teams' rosters, 28 were from outside of Ukraine. Of the starting line-ups, there were five Brazilians, four Ukrainians, four Romanians, and others. Refereeing the match was a Norwegian team of referees.
Road to Kyiv
All 16 Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition; Dynamo and Shakhtar therefore both qualified for the competition automatically.
Previous Encounters
Match details
Dynamo Kyiv: GK 1 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (c)DF 4 Rodolfo MF 10 Florin Cernat MF 15 Diogo Rincón FW 16 Maxim Shatskikh DF 20 Oleh Husyev FW 23 Māris Verpakovskis DF 26 Andriy NesmachniyMF 32 Goran Gavrančić FW 37 Ayila Yussuf DF 44 Rodrigo Substitutes:GK 33 Vitaliy RevaDF 3 Serhiy Fedorov MF 7 Jerko Leko MF 8 Valiatsin Bialkevich MF 11 Georgi PeevFW 25 Artem Milevskyi MF 36 Miloš NinkovićManager: Yozhef SaboShakhtar Donetsk: GK 16 Jan LaštůvkaDF 2 Cosmin Bărcăuan MF 4 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (c)MF 6 Igor Duljaj MF 9 Matuzalém MF 10 Zvonimir Vukić DF 18 Mariusz Lewandowski FW 25 Brandão DF 26 Răzvan Raț FW 29 Ciprian Marica DF 33 Darijo Srna Substitutes:GK 1 Stipe PletikosaDF 3 Tomáš Hübschman FW 11 Andriy Vorobey DF 14 Flavius Stoican FW 20 Oleksiy Bielik MF 36 ElanoMF 38 Jádson Manager: Mircea Lucescu MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Golvik Steiner (Norway) Borgan Ole Germann (Norway) Fourth official: Brage Sandmon (Norway)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 2005 WinnersDynamo KyivSeventh title
Match statistics
See also 2004–05 Ukrainian Cup 2004–05 Ukrainian Premier League
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