The 2016 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match that was played on 21 May 2016 in Lviv. For the first time the cup final was held in Lviv. The match was the 25th Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Zorya Luhansk and Shakhtar Donetsk.
Road to Lviv
All fourteen Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition (Ukrainian Cup), so Zorya and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.
Zorya Luhansk Round 1Krystal Kherson0 – 5Zorya LuhanskRound 2 (1st leg)Helios Kharkiv0 – 2Zorya LuhanskRound 2 (2nd leg)Zorya Luhansk3 – 1 Helios Kharkiv (Zorya won 5–1 on aggregate)Quarter-final (1st leg)Volyn Lutsk1 – 1Zorya LuhanskQuarter-final (2nd leg)Zorya Luhansk5 – 0Volyn Lutsk (Zorya won 6–1 on aggregate)Semi-final (1st leg)Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk1 – 0Zorya LuhanskSemi-final (2nd leg)Zorya Luhansk2 – 0Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Zorya won 2–1 on aggregate)Shakhtar Donetsk Round 1Arsenal-Kyiv0 – 3Shakhtar DonetskRound 2 (1st leg)FC Ternopil0 – 5Shakhtar DonetskRound 2 (2nd leg)Shakhtar Donetsk4 – 0 FC Ternopil (Shakhtar won 9–0 on aggregate)Quarter-final (1st leg)Vorskla Poltava0 – 4Shakhtar DonetskQuarter-final (2nd leg)Shakhtar Donetsk1 – 2Vorskla Poltava (Shakhtar won 5–2 on aggregate)Semi-final (1st leg)FC Oleksandriya1 – 1Shakhtar DonetskSemi-final (2nd leg)Shakhtar Donetsk2 – 0FC Oleksandriya (Shakhtar won 3–1 on aggregate) Previous encounters
This was not only the first Ukrainian Cup Final between the two teams, but also the first time they meet in this competition.Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016 Previously Zorya and Shakhtar met in the Soviet Cup in total of six game (the record was two wins for Zorya and four wins for Shakhtar with Zorya scoring six goals and Shakhtar scoring seven).Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016
It was first Cup Final appearance for Zorya, while their opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 15 Cup Finals winning nine.
Match
Details
Zorya Luhansk: GK 30 Mykyta Shevchenko RB 39 Yevhen Opanasenko CB 3 Mikhail Sivakow CB 12 Rafael Forster LB 6 Mykyta Kamenyuka (c) DM 4 Ihor Chaykovskyi DM 5 Artem Hordiyenko RW 20 Oleksandr Karavayev CM 22 Željko Ljubenović LW 34 Ivan Petryak CF 28 Pylyp Budkivskyi Substitutes:GK 91 Ihor Levchenko DF 2 Artem Sukhotskyi FW 10 Jaba Lipartia FW 11 Paulinho DF 16 Hryhoriy Yarmash MF 24 Dmytro HrechyshkinMF 29 Andriy Totovytskyi Manager: Yuriy VernydubShakhtar Donetsk: GK 32 Anton Kanibolotskiy RB 33 Darijo Srna (c) CB 5 Oleksandr Kucher CB 44 Yaroslav Rakitskiy LB 31 IsmailyDM 6 Taras StepanenkoDM 17 Maksym Malyshev RW 11 MarlosAM 74 Viktor Kovalenko LW 28 Taison CF 21 Oleksandr Hladkyy Substitutes:GK 30 Andriy PyatovDF 18 Ivan OrdetsDF 38 Serhiy Kryvtsov MF 7 Wellington Nem MF 58 Andriy Korobenko FW 22 Eduardo da Silva FW 19 Facundo Ferreyra Manager: Mircea Lucescu
MAN OF THE MATCH
MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Serhiy Bekker (Kharkiv)Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016 Natalya Rachynska (Kyiv)Zorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016 Fourth official: Kostiantyn TrukhanovZorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of 3 substitutions.
See also 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League
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