The 2011 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match that was played at the Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy, on 25 May 2011. The match was the 20th Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk. This was the first time a Ukrainian Cup final was played in Sumy.
Since this match was between two teams that had qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League, the sixth-placed team in the 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League season would qualify for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League. In the draw, Dynamo was selected as the home team. After a goalless first half, Shakhtar's superiority prevailed and they won the match 2–0, enabling them to win the Ukrainian treble of the Ukrainian Super Cup, the Premier League and the Ukrainian Cup.
Road to Sumy
As Ukrainian Premier League members Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv did not have to go through the qualification round to get into the competition.
+ Dynamo KyivRound 1Krymteplitsia Molodizhne0–1 Dynamo KyivRound 2PFC Sevastopol1–2Dynamo KyivQuarter-finalStal Alchevsk2–3Dynamo KyivSemi-finalDynamo Kyiv2–0 Arsenal Kyiv
+ Shakhtar DonetskRound 1Shakhtar Donetsk6–0Kryvbas Kryvyi RihRound 2Poltava0–2Shakhtar DonetskQuarter-finalShakhtar Donetsk1–0Metalurh ZaporizhyaSemi-finalShakhtar Donetsk2–1Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Previous encounters This was the sixth Ukrainian Cup final between the two teams. Dynamo had defeated Shakhtar three times out of the five Cup Finals. In the last final, however, in 2008, Shakhtar was victorious. The two teams also met in a semi final in 2008–09 and in the quarter-final in 2009–10 in which Shakhtar was victorious in both games.
Dynamo had appeared in 11 finals, winning 9, while opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 10 finals, winning 6.
Television The match was broadcast on ICTV in Ukraine.
Match Details
Dynamo: GK 1 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (c)DF 2 Danilo Silva DF 5 Ognjen VukojevićDF 6 Goran Popov FW 7 Andriy ShevchenkoFW 9 Andriy YarmolenkoMF 10 Artem Milevskyi MF 20 Oleh HusyevMF 23 Roman Eremenko MF 34 Yevhen KhacheridiDF 37 Ayila Yussuf Substitutes:GK 71 Denys BoykoDF 3 Betão MF 8 Oleksandr Aliyev MF 19 Denys HarmashFW 22 Artem KravetsDF 30 Badr El KaddouriFW 49 Roman ZozulyaManager: Yuriy Semin
Shakhtar Donetsk: GK 30 Andriy PyatovDF 3 Tomáš HübschmanDF 5 Oleksandr KucherMF 7 Fernandinho MF 8 Jádson MF 9 Luiz Adriano FW 11 Eduardo MF 13 Vyacheslav ShevchukFW 19 Willian DF 33 Darijo Srna (c) DF 44 Yaroslav RakitskiySubstitutes:GK 12 Rustam KhudzhamovMF 19 Oleksiy GaiMF 26 Răzvan RațFW 20 Douglas Costa MF 22 Henrikh Mkhitaryan MF 29 Alex Teixeira DF 32 Mykola IschenkoManager: Mircea Lucescu
MAN OF THE MATCH Fernandinho (Shakhtar Donetsk)
MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Vitaliy Demyanenko (Mukachevo) Mykola Vasyuta (Rivne) Fourth official: Ihor Pokyd'ko (Poltava)
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.
Post-match On account of Shakhtar's victory and Dynamo's defeat in the final, and with both team finishing as the top two teams in the 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League, the 2011 Ukrainian Super Cup would feature both teams.
See also 2010–11 Ukrainian Premier League
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