The 2013 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match that was played at the Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, on 22 May 2013. The match was the 22nd Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by the champions of Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk and Chornomorets Odesa. This was the third time that the final match had returned to Kharkiv.
Since Shakhtar had qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League, Chornomorets would then qualify for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. During the draw for the semi-finals, the matchup Shakhtar Donetsk–Sevastopol was identified as the home team for the final.
Road to Kharkiv
As Ukrainian Premier League members Shakhtar Donetsk and Chornomorets Odesa did not have to go through the qualification phase of the competition.
Shakhtar Donetsk Round 1Shakhtar Donetsk 4 – 1 Dynamo KyivRound 2Hoverla Uzhhorod 1 – 4 Shakhtar DonetskQuarter-finalShakhtar Donetsk 2 – 1 Karpaty LvivSemi-finalSevastopol 2 – 4 Shakhtar DonetskChornomorets Odesa Round 1Chornomorets Odesa 2 – 0 Metalurh DonetskRound 2UkrAhroKom Pryiutivka 1 – 2 Chornomorets OdesaQuarter-finalArsenal Kyiv 1 – 2 Chornomorets OdesaSemi-finalChornomorets Odesa 2 – 1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Previous encounters This was the first Ukrainian Cup final between the two teams. The two teams also met in the semi-finals in 2007–08, 2003–04 and 1994–95. On all three occasions, Shakhtar was victorious.
Chornomorets had appeared only twice in a Cup final winning on both occasions and their opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 12 Cup finals, winning eight of them.
Television As last year, the match was broadcast on ICTV in Ukraine.
Match
Details
Shakhtar Donetsk: GK 32 Anton Kanibolotskiy RB 33 Darijo Srna (c) CB 5 Oleksandr Kucher CB 44 Yaroslav RakitskiyLB 13 Vyacheslav Shevchuk DM 3 Tomáš HübschmanDM 7 Fernandinho RW 29 Alex TeixeiraAM 22 Henrikh Mkhitaryan LW 28 Taison CF 9 Luiz Adriano Substitutes:GK 30 Andriy PyatovMF 6 Taras StepanenkoFW 11 EduardoMF 14 Vasyl KobinMF 19 Oleksiy Gai MF 20 Douglas Costa DF 38 Serhiy Kryvtsov Manager: Mircea LucescuChornomorets Odesa: GK 12 Dmytro Bezotosnyi (c) DF 4 Markus Berger MF6 Léo Matos MF8 Kyrylo Kovalchuk FW19 Elis Bakaj FW20 Lucian Burdujan FW23 Franck Dja Djédjé DF29 Pablo Fontanello DF32 Kristi Vangjeli MF39 Artem Starhorodskyi MF42 Yevhen Zubeyko Substitutes:GK1 Yevhen Past DF2 Petro Kovalchuk FW9 Anatoliy Didenko GK13 Yuriy Martyshchuk FW16 Maksim Shatskikh DF33 Andriy Slinkin FW99 Sito Riera Manager: Roman Hryhorchuk
MAN OF THE MATCH
MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Oleksandr Voitiuk (Zaporizhya) Oleh Pluzhyk (Kharkiv) Fourth official: Serhiy Bekker (Kharkiv)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.
Match statistics Shakhtar Donetsk Chornomorets OdesaTotal shots 16 5Shots on target 8 2Ball possession ?% ?%Corner kicks 8 2Fouls committed ? ?Offsides 0 2Yellow cards 3 3Red cards 0 0
See also 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League
References
External links Krikunov, A. Shakhtar wins the Ukrainian Cup! cup.sport.ua. May 22, 2013.