2009 Ukrainian Super Cup

2009 Ukrainian Super Cup
Dynamo Kyiv won 4–2 on penalties
Date11 July 2009 (2009-07-11)
VenueYuvileiny Stadium, Sumy
RefereeYevhen Herenda (Kalush)
Attendance18,500

The 2009 Ukrainian Super Cup became the sixth edition of Ukrainian Super Cup, which is an annual football exhibition game contested by the winners of the previous season's Ukrainian Top League and Ukrainian Cup competitions.

The match was played on 11 July 2009 in Sumy at Yuvileiny Stadium[1] which recently lost its main tenant FC Spartak Sumy that dissolved earlier. Dynamo were protesting to play in Sumy.[2] On 17 June 2009 it was picked as a nominal host.[3] On 30 June 2009 the television channel "Inter" made a press-release announcing that it signed a contract with the Ukrainian Premier League about exclusive rights on broadcasting of the event.[4]

This year the Super Cup was contested by league winner Dynamo Kyiv and cup winner Vorskla Poltava. Dynamo won it 4–2 on penalties.

Match

Details

Dynamo Kyiv0–0Vorskla Poltava
Report
Penalties
4–2
Attendance: 18,500
Dynamo Kyiv
Vorskla Poltava
GK 1 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi
DF 3 Betão
DF 30 Badr El Kaddouri  48'
DF 34 Yevhen Khacheridi
MF 4 Tiberiu Ghioane  17'  62'
MF 5 Ognjen Vukojević
MF 8 Oleksandr Aliyev  62'
MF 11 Roman Eremenko
MF 20 Oleh Husyev
MF 70 Andriy Yarmolenko  81'
CF 25 Artem Milevskyi (c)  81'
Substitutes:
GK 55 Oleksandr Rybka
MF 7 Carlos Corrêa
MF 14 Serhiy Kravchenko
CF 33 Emmanuel Okoduwa
MF 49 Roman Zozulya
CF 77 Guilherme
MF 36 Miloš Ninković
Manager :
Valeriy Gazzaev
GK 1 Serhiy Dolhanskyi (c)
DF 4 Armend Dallku  86'
DF 20 Debatik Curri
DF 37 Hryhoriy Yarmash
DF 48 Volodymyr Chesnakov
MF 3 Filip Despotovski
MF 5 Oleh Krasnopyorov
MF 7 Jovan Markoski  46'
MF 8 Denys Kulakov  71'
MF 70 Dmitriy Yesin
CF 17 Vasyl Sachko  71'
Substitutes:
GK 30 Serhiy Velychko
CF 9 Roman Bezus
CF 18 Oleksiy Chychykov
DF 23 Yevhen Pyeskov  71'
DF 25 Hennadiy Medvedyev
CF 27 Ahmed Yanuzi  71'
CF 40 Roman Loktionov  46'
Manager :
Mykola Pavlov

Assistant referees:

Vitaliy Demianenko[5] (Uzhhorod)
Mykola Vasiuta[5] (Rivne)


Fourth referee:

Yuriy Mozharovskyi[5] (Lviv)

Match rules

  • 90 minutes of regulation.
  • No extra time of regulation if score is level.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Seven named substitutes, of which up to three may be used.
  • No more than 9 foreign players on a field at one time for each team.

Post-game commentaries

The Vorskla's head coack Mykola Pavlov stated that his team lost due to mistakes of his players who in penalty shoot out did not perform well, as well as wonderful play of the Dynamo's keeper Oleksandr Shovkovskyi.[6] Shovkovskyi deflected one of last kicks, while another a player of Vorskla sent over a goal.

Five of eight players who participated in penalty shootout were from the Balkans and only two were from Ukraine.

References