The 2025 Russian Cup final (formally 'Superfinal' due to the competition structure) was the 33rd Russian Cup Final, the final match of the 2024–25 Russian Cup. It was played at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, on 1 June 2025, contested by Rostov and CSKA Moscow.
CSKA Moscow won the match 4–3 on penalties following a 0–0 draw after regular time. As winners, they earned the right to play against the winners of the 2024–25 Russian Premier League, Krasnodar, in the 2025 Russian Super Cup.
Club competition history CSKA won the Soviet Cup 5 times and the Russian Cup 8 times previously, in 1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1990–91, 2001–02, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13 and 2022–23.
Rostov won the Russian Cup once before, in the 2013–14 season.
Path to the final
Rostov finished the group stage of the cup in second place in group B. Rostov then eliminated Spartak Moscow in the RPL path quarterfinal and lost to Zenit St. Petersburg in the RPL path semi-final. It then (according to the double-elimination competition structure of the cup) transferred into the Regions path, where they eliminated Lokomotiv Moscow and then Spartak Moscow for the second time to reach the final.
CSKA won Group C at the group stage, then eliminated Rubin Kazan, Dynamo Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg (the latter in the penalty shoot-out) to reach the final. Gallery
Match Details The formal host was determined by a draw on 15 May 2025. The host club chose the dressing room, the reserves bench, the uniform color and the times for warm-up and pre-game press conference.
GK 1 Rustam YatimovRB 40 Ilya Vakhaniya CB 3 Oumar Sako CB 4 Viktor Melyokhin LB 55 Maksim OsipenkoCM 10 Kirill Shchetinin CM 58 Daniil ShantalyCM 18 Konstantin Kuchayev RF 7 RonaldoCF 27 Nikolay Komlichenko (c)LF 69 Yegor Golenkov Substitutes:GK 13 Hidajet HankićGK 71 Daniil OdoyevskyDF 5 Nikolai PoyarkovDF 39 Maksim RadchenkoDF 57 Ilya ZhbanovDF 67 German IgnatovDF 87 Andrei Langovich MF 11 Aleksei Sutormin MF 34 Khoren Bayramyan MF 51 Aleksey KoltakovMF 62 Ivan Komarov FW 91 Anton ShamoninManager: Jonatan Alba GK 35 Igor Akinfeev (c)RB 22 Milan GajićCB 78 Igor DiveyevCB 4 Willyan RochaLB 27 MoisésDM 31 Matvey KislyakCM 10 Ivan OblyakovCM 25 Kristijan Bistrović AM 11 Miralem PjanićCF 20 Sékou Koïta CF 9 Saúl Guarirapa Substitutes:GK 49 Vladislav ToropDF 3 Danil KrugovoyDF 13 KhellvenDF 51 Dzhamalutdin AbdulkadyrovDF 90 Matvey LukinMF 6 Maksim MukhinMF 17 Kirill Glebov MF 19 Rifat ZhemaletdinovMF 21 Abbosbek Fayzullaev FW 7 AlerrandroFW 8 Artyom ShumanskyFW 11 Tamerlan Musayev Manager: Marko Nikolić
Assistant referees: Dmitry Ermakov (St. Petersburg) Andrey Vereteshkin (St. Petersburg) Fourth official: Aleksey Sukhoi (Lyubertsy) Reserve assistant: Rustam Mukhtarov (Petrozavodsk) Inspector: Sergey Zuev (Moscow) VAR: Vitali Meshkov (Dmitrov) AVAR: Andrey Fisenko (Vladivostok)Match rules 90 minutes No extra time Penalty shoot-out if scores level Twelve named substitutes Maximum of five substitutions
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