2007 Ukrainian Cup final

2007 Ukrainian Cup Final
Event2006–07 Ukrainian Cup
Date27 May 2007
VenueNSC Olimpiyskiy, Kyiv
Attendance64,500
Weather25°C

The 2007 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Olympic NSC on 27 May 2007. The match was the 16th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. The Olympic stadium is the traditional arena for the Cup final.

Road to Kyiv

All 16 Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dynamo and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.

Dynamo Kyiv

Round 1 Olkom Melitopol 0–4 Dynamo Kyiv
Round 2 Kharkiv 0–2 Dynamo Kyiv
Quarter-final (1st leg) Dynamo Kyiv 1–1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Quarter-final (2nd leg) Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1–2 aet Dynamo Kyiv
  (Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate)
Semi-final (1st leg) Metalist Kharkiv 0–1 Dynamo Kyiv
Semi-final (2nd leg) Dynamo Kyiv 4–2 Metalist Kharkiv
  (Dynamo won 5–2 on aggregate)

Shakhtar Donetsk

Round 1 Yavir Krasnopillia 1–6 Shakhtar Donetsk
Round 2 Borysfen Boryspil 0–2 Shakhtar Donetsk
Quarter-final (1st leg) Sevastopol 0–1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Quarter-final (2nd leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 6–1 Sevastopol
  (Shakhtar won 7–1 on aggregate)
Semi-final (1st leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 0–0 Tavriya Simferopol
Semi-final (2nd leg) Tavriya Simferopol 2–2 Shakhtar Donetsk
  (Shakhtar won 2–2 on away goal)

Previous encounters

Prior to the 2007 Cup Final, Dynamo and Shakhtar had met three times in previous Ukrainian Cup finals. Dynamo had defeated Shakhtar two times, since losing their very first meeting. In both of those meetings Dynamo was victorious 2–1. Shakhtar's best performance against Dynamo was back in the 2002 final, when the Miners were able to down the legendary Dynamo team in extra time 3–2. It was the first meeting between the team managers in this competition.

Match details

Dynamo Kyiv2 – 1Shakhtar Donetsk
Kléber 58'
Husyev 80'
Report[1] Elano 89'
Attendance: 64,500
Referee: Andriy Shandor (Lviv)
Dynamo Kyiv
Shakhtar Donetsk
Dynamo Kyiv:
GK 1 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi
MF 4 Tiberiu Ghioane
MF 7 Corrêa  67'  74'
FW 9 Kléber  52'  84'
MF 15 Diogo Rincón  66'
DF 17 Taras Mykhalyk
MF 20 Oleh Husyev
DF 26 Andriy Nesmachny
DF 27 Vladyslav Vashchuk (c)
MF 36 Miloš Ninković
DF 44 Rodrigo  27'  71'
Substitutes:
GK 21 Taras Lutsenko
FW 11 Demba Touré
MF 14 Ruslan Rotan
DF 81 Marjan Marković
FW 16 Maksim Shatskikh  84'
DF 29 Vitaliy Mandziuk  74'
MF 8 Valyantsin Byalkevich  66'
Manager:
Anatoliy Demyanenko
Shaktar Donetsk:
GK 1 Bohdan Shust
DF 33 Darijo Srna  86'
DF 27 Dmytro Chyhrynskyi (c)  41'
MF 26 Răzvan Raț  50'  52'
DF 18 Mariusz Lewandowski
MF 4 Igor Duljaj
MF 7 Fernandinho
FW 11 Andriy Vorobey  53'
DF 3 Tomáš Hübschman  53'
MF 8 Jádson  51'
FW 25 Brandão  56'
Substitutes:
GK 12 Dmytro Shutkov
MF 19 Oleksiy Hai  52'  90+2'
DF 5 Oleksandr Kucher
FW 29 Ciprian Marica  53'
MF 36 Elano  51'
FW 20 Oleksiy Byelik
MF 28 Oleksiy Poliansky
Manager:
Mircea Lucescu

MATCH OFFICIALS[2]

MATCH RULES

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Seven named substitutes
  • Maximum of 3 substitutions.

Ukrainian Cup 2007 Winners
Dynamo Kyiv
Ninth title

Match statistics

See also

References

  1. ^ "Official Match Report". uafootball.net.ua (in Russian). 2007-05-27. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
  2. ^ "Кубок Украины. Финал. "Ворскла" - "Шахтер". Анонс матча (Ukrainian Cup. Final. Vorskla - Shakhtar. Match announcement)". ua.футбол (in Russian). 2009-05-31. Archived from the original on 2009-06-11. Retrieved 2009-05-31.