The 2017 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match played on May 17, 2017 in Kharkiv between Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. The culmination of the 2016–17 Ukrainian Cup season, this was the fourth time the cup final was held in Kharkiv. The match was the 26th Ukrainian Cup Final since fall of the Soviet Union.
Regular season
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away). FC Shakhtar DonetskRoundFC Dynamo KyivOpponentResult2016–17 Ukrainian CupOpponentResultFC Oleksandriya2−1 (H)Round of 16Zorya Luhansk5–2 (H) (aet)FC Poltavaw/o (A)Quarter-finalsNaftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka1–0 (A)FC Dnipro1–0 (H)Semi-finalsMFC Mykolaiv4–0 (A)
Previous encounters
The game between Shakhtar and Dynamo has become the main fixture of every season and received the nickname of Klasychne which means Classic. Before this game both teams met in a final of Ukrainian Cup eight times, the first being back in 2002. Before this final out of the previous eight, Shakhtar won 3 games and Dynamo won 4, one more game Dynamo won on penalty kicks. Games between the two clubs are known to be very intense and out of the eight previous meetings in the final, only one in 2003 did not have red cards shown to players.
Match
Details
Shakhtar Donetsk: GK 30 Andriy Pyatov RB 33 Darijo Srna (c) CB 5 Oleksandr Kucher CB 44 Yaroslav Rakitskiy LB 31 IsmailyDM 6 Taras StepanenkoDM 74 Viktor Kovalenko RW 11 MarlosAW 28 Taison LM 10 Bernard CF 19 Facundo Ferreyra Substitutes:GK 26 Mykyta Shevchenko DF 18 Ivan Ordets DF 2 Bohdan Butko DM 17 Maksym Malyshev MF 59 Oleksandr Zubkov FW 9 DentinhoFW 99 Gustavo Blanco Leschuk Manager: Paulo FonsecaDynamo Kyiv: GK 35 Maksym Koval RB 9 Mykola Morozyuk CB 4 Aleksandar PantićCB 24 Domagoj Vida CB 44 Tamás Kádár LB 5 Vitorino Antunes MF 8 Volodymyr Shepelyev MF 16 Serhiy Sydorchuk MR 10 Andriy Yarmolenko (c) ML 19 Denys Harmash CF 41 Artem Besyedin Substitutes:GK 72 Artur Rudko DF 14 Zurab Ochigava MF 15 Viktor Tsyhankov MF 17 Serhiy Rybalka MF 25 Derlis González DF 26 Mykyta BurdaMF 29 Vitaliy BuyalskyiManager: Serhii Rebrov
MAN OF THE MATCH
MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Oleksandr VoityukZorya-Shakhtar. Game announcement. UA-Football. 21 May 2016 Oleh Pluzhnyk Fourth official: Yuriy MozharovskyiMATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores are still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of 3 substitutions.
See also 2016–17 Ukrainian Premier League
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