The 1984–85 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Dinamo Kiev qualified for the continental tournament.
Competition overview The competition was shifted to the European competition calendar (fall-spring) and was "desynchronized" with the rest of the Soviet Union football season (spring-fall). The shift in calendar and other changes of the tournament was announced in the main sports newspaper Sovetskiy Sport on June 20, 1984. 50 teams were allowed to participate: 18 from the Top league, 22 from the First and 10 from the Second. The weaker teams started out in July. The Top League began as usual from the Round of 32, but not all, only 14 of them. The rest, the privileged participants of the European cups (including Dnepr, Spartak, Dynamos Minsk and Moscow) were starting from the next stage, the Round of 16.
Participating teams Round of 16 Round of 32 2nd Preliminary Enter in 1st Preliminary Round 1984 Vysshaya Liga 1984 Pervaya Liga 1984 Vtoraya Liga4/18 teams14/18 teams8/22 teams14/22 teams10/162 teams Spartak Dnepr Dinamo Dinamo Zenit Chernomorets Torpedo Iberia Kairat Zalgiris Dinamo Ararat Metallist Shakhter SKA Neftchi CSKA (v) Pakhtakor (v) Fakel (^) FC Torpedo (^) Lokomotiv Pamir Kuzbass Dinamo Iskra Nistru SKA Karpaty Kuban Metallurg Daugava Guria Zvezda SKA Rotor Spartak Shinnik Kolos Zaria (v) Tavria (v) Irtysh (v) Svetotekhnika Metallurg Rostselmash Geolog Dnepr Niva Sudostroitel Dinamo Tselinnik Kotaik (^) Source: [] Notes The cup competition (fall–spring) was carried out of synchronization with the League season (spring–fall), markings next to teams (^, v) indicate promotions and relegations for the 1985 season.
Competition schedule First preliminary round All games took place on July 31, 1984.
Dinamo Samarkand4:1 Guria Lanchkhuti Dnepr Mogilev2:0 Daugava Riga Geolog Tyumen2:0 Zvezda Jizak Kotaik Abovyan3:2 Shinnik Yaroslavl Kuban Krasnodar1:1 Pamir Dushanbe, Metallurg Magnitogorsk3:0 Rotor Volgograd Niva Vinnitsa2:1 Metallurg Zaporozhie Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu3:2 Zaria Voroshilovgrad SKA Khabarovsk3:0 Irtysh Omsk Sudostroitel Nikolaev3:2 SKA Karpaty Lvov Svetotekhnika Saransk1:5 Spartak Ordzhonikidze Tselinnik Tselinograd2:1 Tavria Simferopol
Second preliminary round All games took place on August 10 (or 20), 1984. Dinamo Batumi1:0 Dnepr Mogilev Dinamo Samarkand3:1 Fakel Voronezh Iskra Smolensk3:0 Metallurg Magnitogorsk Geolog Tyumen0:0 Tselinnik Tselinograd , Kotaik Abovyan3:0 Kolos Nikopol Kuzbass Kemerovo1:0 Sudostroitel Nikolaev Nistru Kishinev2:1 Kuban Krasnodar Niva Vinnitsa3:0 Rostselmash Rostov-na-Donu SKA Khabarovsk6:1 Torpedo Kutaisi Spartak Ordzhonikidze2:0 Lokomotiv Moskva
Round of 32 The base game day was September 17, 1984 Chernomorets Odessa3:2 Neftchi Baku (September 16, 1984) Dinamo Batumi1:0 Pahtakor Tashkent (September 16, 1984) Dinamo Samarkand0:0 Zhalgiris Vilnius, (September 16, 1984) Kairat Alma-Aty3:1 Spartak Ordzhonikidze (September 16, 1984) Zenit Leningrad4:0 SKA Khabarovsk (September 16, 1984) Ararat Yerevan3:1 Kuzbass Kemerovo CSKA Moscow2:0 Geolog Tyumen Iskra Smolensk2:2 Dinamo Tbilisi, Kotaik Abovyan1:3 Shakhter Donetsk Metallist Kharkov0:1 Torpedo Moscow Nistru Kishinev2:4 Dinamo Kiev Niva Vinnitsa2:1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu
Round of 16 The base game day was October 28, 1984. CSKA Moscow3:0 Dinamo Batumi Dinamo Kiev1:1 Dinamo Moscow, Dinamo Minsk2:1 Chernomorets Odessa Shakhter Donetsk2:1 Ararat Yerevan Torpedo Moscow0:1 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Spartak Moscow0:3 Zenit Leningrad(October 29, 1984) Kairat Alma-Ata1:0 Niva Vinnitsa(November 12, 1984) Dinamo Samarkand0:1 Iskra Smolensk(November 14, 1984)
Quarter-finals The base game day was May 10, 1985 Dinamo Kiev2:1 Kairat Alma-Ata Iskra Smolensk1:0 Dinamo Minsk Shakhter Donetsk2:1 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Zenit Leningrad2:0 CSKA Moscow
Semi-finals Shakhter Donetsk0:0 Zenit Leningrad, (May 23, 1985) Dinamo Kiev3:0 Iskra Smolensk (May 24, 1985)
Final
References
External links Complete calendar. helmsoccer.narod.ru 1984–85 Soviet Cup. Footballfacts.ru 1984–85 Soviet football season. RSSSF