1988 Soviet Cup final

The 1988 Soviet Cup final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total and second in five years. For Torpedo it was their 13th Cup Final and the seventh 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 Metalist and Torpedo both qualified for the competition automatically.

+ Torpedo MoscowRound 1 (1st leg)Torpedo1–1FK AtlantasRound 1 (2nd leg)FK Atlantas0–1Torpedo (Torpedo won 2–1 on aggregate)Round 2 (1st leg)CSKA1–0TorpedoRound 2 (2nd leg)Torpedo4–0CSKA (Torpedo won 4–1 on aggregate)Quarter-finalTorpedo1–0SpartakSemi-finalTorpedo1–0 Dnipro

+ Metalist KharkivRound 1 (1st leg)Metalist3–1Krasnaya PresniaRound 1 (2nd leg)Krasnaya Presnia1–1Metalist (Metalist won 4–2 on aggregate)Round 2 (1st leg)Metalist0–1Dynamo S.Round 2 (2nd leg)Dynamo S.1–1Metalist (Metalist won 2–1 on aggregate)Quarter-finalMetalist1–0RotorSemi-finalZalgiris1–2Metalist

Previous Encounters Previously they only met six times with Torpedo winning four and Metalist once, the goals were 6 to 2 respectively. The very first time they met each other on July 26, 1936, at the Round of 16 when Torpedo (then - ZiS) playing home was victorious 2:0 (Metalist was called as KhPZ). The last encounter was three seasons ago when in the first round Torpedo once again defeated Metalist in overtime playing at home.

Match details

FC Torpedo Moscow:GK Valeri SarychevDF Aleksandr PolukarovDF Valentin KovachDF Sergei PrigodaDF Vadim RogovskoyMF Aleksei Yeryomenko FW Vladimir Kobzev MF Andrei Rudakov MF Nikolai Savichev FW Oleg ShirinbekovFW Sergey AgashkovSubstitutes:FW Nikolai Pisarev DF MF MF Sergei Zhukov DF Gennadi Grishin DF MF Manager: Valentin Ivanov

FC Metalist Kharkiv:GK Ihor KutepovXX Ruslan Kolokolov XX Nikolay RomanchukDF Ivan PanchyshynXX Oleh DerevinskyiXX Oleksandr Ivanov MF Leonid BuryakMF Viktor Vashchenko MF Ihor YakubovskyFW Yuri Tarasov FW Guram AdzhoyevSubstitutes:FW Viktor Yalovsky DF Roman Khagba MF Oleksandr Baranov GK DF DF MF Manager: Yevhen Lemeshko

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: V.Zhuk (Minsk) A.Khokhryakov (Yoshkar-Ola) 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.

Soviet Cup 1988 Winners Metalist KharkivFirst title

1988 Soviet Cup final

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