The 2012 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match that was played at the Olimpiysky NSC, Kyiv, on 6 May 2012. The match was the 21st Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Metalurh Donetsk and Shakhtar Donetsk. This was the first time since 2007 that the Cup final had returned to Kyiv. Since Shakhtar had qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, Metalurh would qualify for the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. In the draw, Metalurh was selected as the home team.
Road to Kyiv
As Ukrainian Premier League members, Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalurh Donetsk did not have to go through the qualification phase of the competition.
Metalurh Donetsk Round 1Metalurh Donetsk2–0 Tavriya SimferopolRound 2Metalurh Donetsk4–0 Kryvbas Kryvyi RihQuarter-finalZorya Luhansk0–1 aet Metalurh DonetskSemi-finalMetalurh Donetsk0–0 aet7–6 pen. Karpaty LvivShakhtar Donetsk Round 1Shakhtar Sverdlovsk0–2Shakhtar DonetskRound 2Dynamo Kyiv2–3Shakhtar DonetskQuarter-finalMetalurh Zaporizhia0–1Shakhtar DonetskSemi-finalVolyn Lutsk3–4Shakhtar Donetsk
Previous encounters This was the first Ukrainian Cup final between the two teams. The two teams had also met in a semi-final in 2009–10 and in the Round of 16 in 1997–98 season in which Metalurh was able to overcome Shakhtar.
Metalurh had appeared only once in a Cup final without winning any trophies and their opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 11 Cup finals, winning seven.
Television The match was broadcast on ICTV in Ukraine.
Match
Details
Metalurh Donetsk: GK 12 Oleksandr Bandura DF 5 Vyacheslav Checher (c) MF 6 Karlen Mkrtchyan MF 7 Mykola Morozyuk MF 9 Đorđe LazićFW 10 Gevorg Ghazaryan DF 14 Oleksandr VolovykFW 15 Dramane TraoréMF 17 Zé Soares MF 18 Velizar Dimitrov MF 20 ChinaSubstitutes:GK 31 Dmytro VorobyovDF 2 Artem BaranovskyiMF 8 Gregory Nelson MF 8 Danilo FW 23 Oleh Mishchenko MF 28 Mário SérgioFW 84 Denys HolaydoManager: Volodymyr Pyatenko Shakhtar Donetsk: GK 30 Andriy PyatovDF 5 Oleksandr Kucher MF 7 Fernandinho MF 9 Luiz Adriano FW 10 Willian MF 19 Oleksiy Gai MF 22 Henrikh Mkhitaryan DF 26 Răzvan Raț MF 29 Alex Teixeira DF 33 Darijo Srna (c) DF 44 Yaroslav RakitskiySubstitutes:GK 23 Bohdan ShustMF 14 Vasyl KobinMF 15 Taras Stepanenko FW 17 Yevhen Seleznyov FW 20 Douglas Costa FW 31 Dentinho DF 36 Oleksandr ChyzhovManager: Mircea Lucescu
MAN OF THE MATCH
MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Oleksandr Korniyenko (Myrhorod) Natalya Rachynska (Kyiv) Fourth official: Dmytro Kulakov (Brovary)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 Metalurh's defeat in the Ukrainian Cup final, and with both team finishing as "good as they could" in the 2011–12 Ukrainian Premier League, the 2012 Ukrainian Super Cup will feature Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv.
See also 2011–12 Ukrainian Premier League
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