The Ukrainian Super Cup () is an association football game of the Ukrainian Premier League in traditional super cup format that acts as the grand-opening for every new football competition season in Ukraine. Originally it was set as a contest between the winners of the previous season's Ukrainian Championship and Ukrainian Cup. From 2008 through 2014, it was branded as the Inter Super Cup of Ukraine, in 2017Fokstrot is the official sponsor of the Ukrainian Super Cup (Фокстрот – официальный спонсор Суперкубка Украины). UA-Football. 5 July 2017 – Super Cup Fokstrot.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the competition has been suspended.
History and overview The competition and its trophy was presented on 1 July 2007 in hotel "Ekspres". In the event participated president of the Professional Football League of Ukraine (PFL) Ravil Safiullin, general director of Info-sport Marketing Serhiy Kharchenko, representative of the game general sponsor "Olimp". At the press conference Mr.Safiullin informed several details about the new tournament among which was the money prize fund that consisted of 75,000 "conditional units", a lottery for fans winner of which would receive a car, the game opening show was planned to be hosted by Ukrainian singer Kateryna Buzhynska (uk). It was also informed that there will be no extra time and series of penalty kicks would follow right after the regular time.
The president of PFL refused to disclose the amount of money that was paid to create the Super Cup trophy. He noted that the trophy will be given away for eternal keeping to the team that would win it five times.
The drawing for the trophy was created by Mykhailo Cheburakhin ("Dialan-M" company), for which he received a reward of 1,000 "conditional units".
The prize money fund for the second edition in 2005 was established at ₴375,000.At the game for Super Cup for fans of Shakhtar were made available 11,000 tickets, and for Dynamo – 9,000 (На матч за Суперкубок для болельщиков "Шахтера" выделено 11 тысяч билетов, а для "Динамо" – 9 тысяч). UA-Football. 6 July 2005
In 2022, the match was cancelled for the first time in its history due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, and has not been held again since. The decision to end the game was motivated by the abandonment of the Ukrainian Premier League's 2021–22 season and the Ukrainian Cup's 2021–22 season. Odesa, the game's usual host city, has been continually struck by Russian cruise missiles since the beginning of the war, making it infeasible for the game to be held safely.
Format The Ukrainian Super Cup usually features one representative of the Ukrainian Premier League and another of the Ukrainian Cup. In event when both tournaments were won by one club, participation in the game is granted to the cup finalist (until 2014) or the league runner-up (since 2015).
On some occasions when the national cup was won by a national champion, it was challenged by the league runner-up or the cup finalist.
Venues
Traditionally played in Odesa at the Chornomorets Stadium, the season's opening match did not initially have a "fixed" venue. The decision to conduct the match in Odesa in 2005 was adopted by the PFL Bureau three days before the game and on petition of both Dynamo and Shakhtar.Super Cup will be played in Odesa again (Суперкубок снова разыграют в Одессе). UA-Football. 6 July 2005 Due to the preparation for UEFA Euro 2012, however, the newly established tradition changed and for the 2008 rendition it was moved to Poltava's Oleksiy Butovsky Vorskla Stadium. In 2009, the cup venue changed once again to the Sumy's Yuvileiny Stadium which stood relatively underutilized since the main city football club went bankrupt. The 2009 edition featured Vorskla, which became the first team outside of the Ukrainian derby (Dynamo and Shakhtar) to participate. In 2007 and 2008, the Super Cup was held between the first- and second-placed teams, as one of the teams won both the Cup and the Premier League.
Sponsors The 2008 rendition was officially known as Inter Super Cup of Ukraine and sponsored by the TV channel Inter. In 2009, the contract was extended for another three years and later again to 2014. The very first Super Cup was handed over by Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.
In 2016, the tournament received another sponsor, an American construction company UDP (Urban Development + Partners).
The prize money fund in 2014 and 2015 consisted of ₴1 million.Odesa waits on the return of football (Одеса чекає повернення футболу). Ukrainian Premier League. 7 July 2015 The winner was to receive 650,000 and the other finalist 350,000.
History
2004 Ukrainian Super Cup
2005 Ukrainian Super Cup
2006 Ukrainian Super Cup
2007 Ukrainian Super Cup
2008 Ukrainian Super Cup
2009 Ukrainian Super Cup
2010 Ukrainian Super Cup
2011 Ukrainian Super Cup
2012 Ukrainian Super Cup
Additional information for the 2012 competition
2013 Ukrainian Super Cup
2014 Ukrainian Super Cup
2015 Ukrainian Super Cup
2016 Ukrainian Super Cup
2017 Ukrainian Super Cup
2018 Ukrainian Super Cup
2019 Ukrainian Super Cup
2020 Ukrainian Super Cup
2021 Ukrainian Super Cup
Note:
All fixtures are played till the end of regulation time. If the score is tied, no extra time is played with penalty kicks immediately taken to determine the victory.
Performance
Performance by club Club Winners Runners-up Winning years Shakhtar Donetsk98 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021 Dynamo Kyiv96 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 Vorskla Poltava—1 Tavriya Simferopol—1 Metalurh Donetsk—1 Chornomorets Odesa—1 Total1818
Performance by qualification Competition Winners Runners-up Premier League champions117 Premier League runners-up 41 Ukrainian Cup winners26 Ukrainian Cup runners-up 14Total1818
Venues NumberNameLocationYearsWinning clubs10Chornomorets Stadium ()Odesa2004–2007, 2013, 2015–2019Shakhtar (4), Dynamo (6)2Olimpiyskiy National Sports ComplexKyiv2020, 2021Dynamo, Shakhtar2Oleksiy Butovsky Vorskla StadiumPoltava2008, 2011Shakhtar, Dynamo1Yuvileiny StadiumSumy2009Dynamo1Slavutych-ArenaZaporizhzhia2010Shakhtar1Avanhard StadiumLuhansk2012Shakhtar1Arena LvivLviv2014Shakhtar
Winning managers
In bold are managers that still active in the current season. In parentheses are cups for the respective team.
RankManagerClub(s)WinnerRunner-up1 Mircea LucescuShakhtar Donetsk (7)Dynamo Kyiv (1)842 Alyaksandr KhatskevichDynamo Kyiv213 Anatoliy DemyanenkoDynamo Kyiv2—4 Serhii RebrovDynamo Kyiv12 Paulo FonsecaShakhtar Donetsk126 Yuri SeminDynamo Kyiv117 Oleksiy MykhaylychenkoDynamo Kyiv1— Roberto De ZerbiShakhtar Donetsk1— Valery GazzaevDynamo Kyiv1—
The first winning coach is Oleksiy Mykhailychenko, the first winning coach who previously won the cup as a player is Serhii Rebrov.
Winning players In bold are players that are still active in the current season RankPlayerClub(s)WinsUkrainian Super Cup 2020 by the language of numbers and facts (Суперкубок України 2020 мовою чисел та фактів). Ukrainian Premier League. 26 August 202/ 1 Darijo Srna Shakhtar Donetsk 8 2 Taras Stepanenko Shakhtar Donetsk 6 Yaroslav Rakitskiy Shakhtar Donetsk 4 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi Dynamo Kyiv 5 Oleksandr Kucher Shakhtar Donetsk 610 players 4
All-time top scorers
There were 35 scorers with 49 goals. RankPlayerClub(s)Goals 1 Oleksandr Hladkyy Shakhtar Donetsk 4 2 Luiz Adriano Shakhtar Donetsk 3 Artem Milevskyi Dynamo Kyiv Fred Shakhtar Donetsk 5 Oleh Husyev Dynamo Kyiv 2 Taras Mykhalyk Dynamo Kyiv Facundo Ferreyra Shakhtar Donetsk Alan Patrick Shakhtar Donetsk Lassina Traoré Shakhtar Donetsk 1026 players 1
All-time appearances
RankPlayerClub(s)Appearances 1 Darijo Srna Shakhtar Donetsk 12 2 Taras Stepanenko Shakhtar Donetsk 10 3 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi Dynamo Kyiv 9 Andriy Pyatov Shakhtar Donetsk 5 Yaroslav Rakitskiy Shakhtar Donetsk 8
Performance by club Club Winners Runners-up Winning years Dynamo Kyiv83 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003 Shakhtar Donetsk23 2001, 2002 Chornomorets Odesa2— 1992, 1994 Karpaty Lviv—2 Tavriya Simferopol—1 Nyva Vinnytsia—1 CSKA Kyiv—1 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih—1 Total1212
See also Soviet Super Cup Ukrainian Premier League
References
External links
Ukraine saw the Super Cup (Украина увидела Суперкубок). UA-Football. 1 July 2004.