The 2022–23 Russian Cup is the 31st season of the Russian football knockout tournament since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The competition started on 16 August 2022 and concluded on 11 June 2023.
The winner of the cup would normally gain entry into the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League; however, on 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs were suspended from FIFA & UEFA international competitions until further notice due to the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Representation of clubs by league Russian Premier League (1): 16 clubs Russian First League (2): 17 clubs (without 1 farm team) Russian Second League (3): 59 clubs (without 13 farm teams) Amateur leagues: Third division (4): 5 Fourth division (regional leagues) (5): 4 Media amateur clubs (6): 2 Total: 103 clubs.
Distribution The teams of Premier League and the other teams will qualify to knockout phase in two different paths. Premier league teams will play in the RPL path group stage with a double round-robin tournament, divided into 4 groups with 4 teams in each group, while the other teams will play in the regions path qualification, starting with 1/256 round until 1/8 round with 1 match in each stage.
Round dates The schedule of the competition is as follows:«МАТЧ ТВ» СТАЛИ ИЗВЕСТНЫ СРОКИ ПРОВЕДЕНИЯ КУБКА РОССИИ ПО ФУТБОЛУ В НОВОМ ФОРМАТЕ
PhaseRoundMatch dateQualifying rounds (Match 2)Round 116–18 August 2022Round 230 August – 1 September 2022Round 313–15 September 2022Round 44–5 October 2022Round 51–2 November 2022Round 615–16 November 2022Group stage (Match 1)Matchday 130–31 August 2022Matchday 213–15 September 2022Matchday 328–30 September 2022Matchday 418–20 October 2022Matchday 516, 22–23 November 2022Matchday 626–27 November 2022Knockout stageQuarter-finalsRPL pathMatch 122–23 February 2023Match 227 February – 1 March 2023Regions pathStage 125–27 February 2023Stage 214–16 March 2023Semi-finalsRPL pathMatch 114–15 March 2023Match 24–5 April 2023Regions pathStage 14, 6 April 2023Stage 219 April 2023Path finalsRPL pathMatch 119 April 2023Match 23 May 2023Regions pathStage 13 May 2023Stage 217 May 2023Final11 June 2023
Qualifying round (regions path) Round 1 The draw for rounds 1, 2 and 3 was held on 11 August 2022, 18:00. Entered clubs: 10 clubs from Amateur leagues 14 lowest clubs from Russian Second League Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Round 2 The draw for round 2 defining home and away team was held on 19 August 2022. Date of matches was determined on 24 August 2022. Entered clubs: 12 winners of round 1 1 club from Amateur leagues 43 remaining clubs from Russian Second League (except Rotor Volgograd and Metallurg Lipetsk) Times are (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Round 3 The draw for round 3 defining home and away team was held on 2 September 2022. Date of matches was determined on 24 August 2022. Entered clubs: 28 winners of round 2 2 highest clubs from Russian Second League (Rotor Volgograd and Metallurg Lipetsk) Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Round 4 The draw was held on 18 September 2022 at 13:00 MSK live on TV-channel «Match! Premier». Date of matches was determined on 27 September 2022.
Entered clubs: 15 winners of round 3 17 clubs from Russian First League
On 16 September draw procedure was released, that consisted of 2 phases. On the first phase 1 random ball with First League team from pot 2 was relocated to pot 1, then on the second phase usual draw procedure started. The teams from pot 1 played their matches in round 4 at home.
Pot 1 Pot 2 Avangard Kursk (3) Chernomorets Novorossiysk (3) Dynamo Bryansk (3) Dynamo Saint Petersburg (3) Dynamo Vladivostok (3) Kosmos Dolgoprudny (3) Kuban-Holding Pavlovskaya (3) Peresvet Domodedovo (3) Rotor Volgograd (3) StavropolAgroSoyuz Nevinnomyssk (5) Tekstilshchik Ivanovo (3) Torpedo Vladimir (3) Tyumen (3) Zenit-Izhevsk (3) Zvezda Saint Petersburg (3) Volga Ulyanovsk (2) Akron Tolyatti (2) Alania Vladikavkaz (2) Arsenal Tula (2) Baltika Kaliningrad (2) Dynamo Makhachkala (2) KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny (2) Kuban Krasnodar (2) Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk (2) Rodina Moscow (2) Rubin Kazan (2) Shinnik Yaroslavl (2) SKA-Khabarovsk (2) Ufa (2) Veles Moscow (2) Volga Ulyanovsk (2) → Pot 1 Volgar Astrakhan (2) Yenisey Krasnoyarsk (2) The team from pot 2 that was replocated to pot 1 is written in italics. The team was unknown until it will be drawn from pot 1.
Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Round 5 The draw was held on 7 October 2022 at 20:00 MSK live on TV-channel «Match! Premier». Date of matches was determined on 24 October 2022. Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Round 6 The draw was held on 2 November 2022 at 21:00 MSK live on TV-channel «Match! Premier». Date of matches was determined on 8 November 2022. Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Group stage (RPL path) The draw for group stage was held on 17 August 2022 in 20:30 MSK (UTC+3) live on TV-channel «Match TV».«Зенит» и «Спартак» сыграют в одной группе в ФОНБЕТ Кубке России
16 teams of the Russian Premier League (RPL) will start the tournament from the group stage (4 teams in each group). The teams will play 6 matches in the group stage: 1st day – 30–31 August; 2nd day – 13–14 September; 3rd day – 28–29 September; 4th day – 18–20 October; 5th day – 16, 22–23 November; 6th day – 26–27 November.Определено время начала матчей 1-го тура группового этапа ФОНБЕТ Кубка России On 12 August released composition of the pots. It is based on results of the 2021–22 Russian Premier League and 2021–22 Russian Football National League. In the same group there can't be more than 2 teams from Moscow and Moscow oblast, also FC Krasnodar, FC Rostov and Fakel Voronezh can't be in the same group due to logistics restrictions in this cities.Стал известен состав корзин при жеребьевке группового этапа Пути РПЛ Кубка России сезона-2022/23 Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Zenit Saint Petersburg Sochi Dynamo Moscow Krasnodar CSKA Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow Akhmat Grozny Krylia Sovetov Samara Rostov Spartak Moscow Pari Nizhny Novgorod Ural Yekaterinburg Khimki Torpedo Moscow Fakel Voronezh Orenburg
Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout phase In the knockout phase, as in the qualification, the teams will be divided into 2 paths (brackets).
The teams in RPL path (upper bracket) will play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis. The teams that will lose after 2 legs in RPL path will have the second chance in the regions path.
The teams in the regions path (lower bracket) will play against each other in 1 match. Each round consists of 2 phases. In the quarter-finals first phase teams from the regions path qualification will play against the third placed team of RPL path group stage, then on the second stage they will play against RPL path quarter-finals loser. In the semi-finals and finals first phases the teams play with winners of the previous round of the regions path, the second phase is the same as in quarter-finals.
The winners of both paths will play in super final in June 2023 at Luzhniki stadium.
Quarter-finals The draw was held on 3 December 2022 at 16:30 MSK live on TV-channel «Match TV».
In the quarter-final matches of RPL path teams from same group can't play with each other. Runners-up of group stage will play first matches at home. Winners of regions path round 6 will play stage 1 matches of regions path at home as well.
+ RPL path Pot 1 Pot 2 Dynamo Moscow (1) Krasnodar (1) Spartak Moscow (1) Ural Yekaterinburg (1) CSKA Moscow (1) Krylia Sovetov Samara (1) Lokomotiv Moscow (1) Rostov (1)+ Regions path Pot 1 Pot 2 Akron Tolyatti (2) Ufa (2) Volga Ulyanovsk (2) Akhmat Grozny (1)
Torpedo Moscow (1)
Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses). RPL path
Regions path Stage 1
Stage 2 The draw was held on 2 March 2023 at 14:25 MSK live on TV-channel «Match TV».
Pot 1 Pot 2 Akhmat Grozny (1) Akron Tolyatti (2)
Dynamo Moscow (1) Krasnodar (1) Lokomotiv Moscow (1) Rostov (1)
Semi-finals RPL path The draw was held on 2 March 2023 at 14:25 MSK live on TV-channel «Match TV».
Regions path The draw was held on 17 March 2023 at 13:35 MSK live on TV-channel «Match TV». Stage 1
Stage 2 The draw was held on 6 April 2023 at 22:40 MSK live on TV-channel «Match! Premier».
Pot 1 Pot 2 Akron Tolyatti (2) Krasnodar (1) Krylia Sovetov Samara (1) Spartak Moscow (1)
Path finals RPL path The draw was held on 6 April 2023 at 22:40 MSK live on TV-channel «Match! Premier».
Regions path Stage 1 The draw that determines home team was held on 19 April 2023 at 21:00 MSK live on TV-channel «Match! Premier».
Stage 2
Final
References
External links Official page Page on Russian Football Union website