1989 Soviet Cup final

Football match

1989 Soviet Cup Final

Event

1988-89 Soviet Cup

Torpedo Moscow	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

0	1

Date

25 June 1989

Venue

Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow

Referee

Vadim Zhuk (Minsk)

Attendance

30,000

Weather

27°C

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The 1989 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on June 25, 1989. The match was the 48th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Dnipro qualified for the Champions Cup for winning the champion's title, while the finalist Torpedo was allowed to compete at the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending champions Metalist Kharkiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Torpedo Moscow (1:1, 1:2). For Dnipro this was their first final. For Torpedo it was their 14th Cup Final and the eighth loss at this stage.

Road to Moscow

All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dnepr and Torpedo both qualified for the competition automatically.

Torpedo Moscow

Round 1 (1st leg)	Torpedo	2–0	KUZBASS
Round 1 (2nd leg)	KUZBASS	1–1	Torpedo
	(Torpedo won 3–1 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)	Metalist	1–1	Torpedo
Round 2 (2nd leg)	Torpedo	2–1	Metalist
	(Torpedo won 3–2 on aggregate)
Quarter-final	Torpedo	4–3	Shakhtar
Semi-final	Torpedo	2–0	Dynamo K.

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Round 1 (1st leg)	Dnipro	5–0	Shinnik
Round 1 (2nd leg)	Shinnik	2–0	Dnipro
	(Dnipro won 7–0 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)	Zenit	0–1	Dnipro
Round 2 (2nd leg)	Dnipro	1–1	Zenit
	(Dnipro won 2–1 on aggregate)
Quarter-final	Dnipro	1–0	Dinamo Minsk
Semi-final	Dynamo Tb.	1–2	Dnipro

Previous Encounters

Previously they only met seven times with Torpedo winning four and Dnipro 3, the goals were 7 to 5 respectively. The very first time they met each other on March 12, 1972, at the Round of 16 when Torpedo playing home was victorious 2:0. The last encounter was during the last season when in the semifinals Torpedo once again defeated Dnipro in overtime playing at home.

Match details

1989-06-25

18:00 LST

Torpedo Moscow	0 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
	Report	Shokh 34'

Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Minsk)

FC Torpedo Moscow

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk


FC Torpedo Moscow:
GK	Valeri Sarychev
DF	Sergei Makeyev
DF	Valentin Kovach
MF	Sergei Zhukov	75'
DF	Vadim Rogovskoy
DF	Gennadi Grishin	72'
MF	Yuriy Savichev (c)
MF	Andrei Rudakov
MF	Nikolai Savichev
FW	Oleg Shirinbekov	62'
FW	Sergey Agashkov
Substitutes:
FW	Renat Ataulin	75'
DF	Aleksandr Gitselov	72'
MF	Vladimir Grechnyov	67'
GK
DF
DF
MF
Manager:
Valentin Ivanov


FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk:
GK	Serhiy Krakovskyi
DF	Andriy Yudin	88'
DF	Ivan Vyshnevskyi
MF	Andriy Sydelnykov	53'	83'
DF	Vadym Tyshchenko
DF	Mykola Kudrytsky	67'
MF	Volodymyr Bahmut
MF	Oleksiy Cherednyk
MF	Anton Shokh (c)
FW	Eduard Son
FW	Yevhen Shakhov
Substitutes:
FW	Oleksandr Chervonyi	88'
DF	Volodymyr Lyutyi	83'
MF	Evgeny Yarovenko	67'
GK
DF
DF
MF
Manager:
Yevhen Kucherevsky