2008–09 Russian Cup

2008–09 Russian Cup

Tournament details
Country	Russia
Final positions
Champions	CSKA Moscow
Runner-up	Rubin Kazan
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The 2008–09 Russian Cup was the seventeenth season of the Russian football knockout tournament since the dissolution of Soviet Union. The competition started on 16 April 2008 and finished with the final held on 31 May 2009.^[1][2][3] The defending champions were CSKA Moscow.

Preliminary round

This round featured 20 Second Division teams and 2 amateur teams. The games were played between 16 and 27 April 2008.

Note: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participate in during the 2008 season.

First round

In this round entered 11 winners from the previous round as well as 57 other Second Division teams, what made every team competing in this round Second Division one. The matches were played between 29 April and 18 May 2008.

Second round

In this round entered 34 winners from the First Round and the 6 remaining Second Division teams. The matches were played between 21 and 29 May 2008.

Third round

The winners from the previous round entered this round. The matches were played between 7 and 13 June 2008.

Fourth round

In this round entered winners from the previous round as well as 22 First Division teams. The matches were played on 30 June and 1 July 2008.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Metallurg Krasnoyarsk (III)	2–3	Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure (III)
Torpedo Vladimir (III)	4–0	Torpedo Moscow (II)
Volga Tver (III)	1–3	Baltika Kaliningrad (II)
Metallurg Lipetsk (III)	3–0	Volga Ulyanovsk (II)
Vityaz Podolsk (II)	3–1	Sportakademklub Moscow (II)
Avangard Kursk (III)	0–1	Dynamo Bryansk (II)
Salyut-Energia Belgorod (II)	3–0	FC Rostov (II)
Chernomorets Novorossiysk (II)	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Kuban Krasnodar (II)
FC Taganrog (III)	0–3	SKA Rostov-on-Don (II)
Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan (III)	2–3	Alania Vladikavkaz (II)
Anzhi Makhachkala (II)	3–0	Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk (II)
Volga Nizhny Novgorod (III)	0–0 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Nosta Novotroitsk (II)
KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny (II)	2–1	Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast (II)
Sibir Novosibirsk (II)	4–1	Dynamo Barnaul (II)
Gazovik Orenburg (III)	1–0	Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk (II)
SKA-Energia Khabarovsk (II)	4–0	Zvezda Irkutsk (II)

Note: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participated in during the 2008 season.

Fifth round

All 16 Premier League teams entered the competition in this round together with 16 winners from the previous round. The matches were played on 5 and 6 August 2008.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure (III)	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–5 p)	Rubin Kazan
Torpedo Vladimir (III)	1–4	CSKA Moscow
Baltika Kaliningrad (II)	3–0	Luch-Energiya Vladivostok
Metallurg Lipetsk (III)	0–2	Lokomotiv Moscow
Vityaz Podolsk (II)	2–1	Spartak Nalchik
Dynamo Bryansk (II)	1–2	Spartak Moscow
Salyut-Energia Belgorod (II)	0–1	Shinnik Yaroslavl
Kuban Krasnodar (II)	0–1	Dynamo Moscow
SKA Rostov-on-Don (II)	3–2 (a.e.t.)	FC Khimki
Alania Vladikavkaz (II)	1–3	FC Moscow
Anzhi Makhachkala (II)	2–3	Terek Grozny
Volga Nizhny Novgorod (III)	1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)	Saturn Moscow Oblast
KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny (II)	1–5	Tom Tomsk
Sibir Novosibirsk (II)	1–0	Zenit Saint Petersburg
Gazovik Orenburg (III)	2–2 (a.e.t.) (3–5 p)	Krylia Sovetov Samara
SKA-Energia Khabarovsk (II)	1–1 (a.e.t.) (1–4 p)	Amkar Perm

Note: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participated in during the 2008 season.

Sixth round

The winners from the previous round entered the Sixth Round. The matches were played on 23 and 24 September 2008.

Note: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participated in during the 2008 season.

Quarter-finals

The matches were played on 15 and 22 April 2009.

Note: Roman numerals in brackets denote the league tier the clubs participated in during the 2009 season.

Semi-finals

The matches were played on 6 and 13 May 2009.

Final

The final was played on 31 May 2009.

Rubin Kazan

CSKA

FC Rubin Kazan: GK 77 Sergey Ryzhikov DF 3 Cristian Ansaldi DF 4 César Navas  82' DF 76 Roman Sharonov (c)  86' MF 6 MacBeth Sibaya MF 15 Aleksandr Ryazantsev  22'  77' MF 16 Christian Noboa  36' MF 23 Yevgeni Balyaikin  59' MF 61 Gökdeniz Karadeniz  78' FW 10 Alejandro Damián Domínguez FW 99 Hasan Kabze  86' Substitutes: GK 1 Sergei Kozko DF 2 Stjepan Tomas DF 22 Aleksandr Orekhov MF 5 Pyotr Bystrov  86' MF 14 Serhii Rebrov FW 11 Aleksandr Bukharov  77' FW 21 Roman Adamov Manager: Kurban Berdyev Assistant referees: Oleg Tselovalnikov (Astrakhan) Sergei Panteleyev (Tula)

PFC CSKA Moscow: GK 35 Igor Akinfeev (c) DF 2 Deividas Šemberas DF 4 Sergei Ignashevich DF 24 Vasili Berezutski DF 42 Georgi Schennikov MF 11 Pavel Mamayev  13' MF 18 Yuri Zhirkov  90' MF 22 Evgeni Aldonin  56' FW 7 Daniel Carvalho  90' FW 9 Vágner Love FW 12 Ouwo Moussa Maazou  72' Substitutes: GK 33 Yevgeny Pomazan DF 6 Aleksei Berezutski  90' DF 15 Chidi Odiah MF 10 Alan Dzagoev MF 17 Miloš Krasić  72' MF 88 Caner Erkin FW 89 Tomáš Necid Manager: Zico

Played in the earlier stages, but were not on the final game squad:

FC Rubin Kazan: Gabriel (DF), Jefthon (DF), Vitali Kaleshin (DF), Dato Kvirkvelia (DF), Igor Klimov (DF), Mikhail Mischenko (DF), Aleksei Popov (DF), Lasha Salukvadze (DF), Andrei Fyodorov (DF), Vadim Afonin (MF), Vagiz Galiullin (MF), Andrei Gorbanets (MF), Andrei Kobenko (MF), Aleksei Kotlyarov (MF), Sergei Semak (MF), Ildar Bikchantayev (FW), Savo Milošević (FW), Davron Mirzayev (FW), Ruslan Nagayev (FW), Igor Portnyagin (FW).

PFC CSKA Moscow: Anton Grigoryev (DF), Luboš Kalouda (MF), Elvir Rahimić (MF), Ricardo Jesus (FW), Dmitri Ryzhov (FW), Dawid Janczyk (FW).

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