2012 Ukrainian Cup final

Football match
2012 Ukrainian Cup Final
Event2011–12 Ukrainian Cup
Metalurh Donetsk Shakhtar Donetsk
1 2
Date6 May 2012
VenueOlimpiysky NSC, Kyiv
RefereeAnatoliy Abdula (Kharkiv)
Attendance47,314
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The 2012 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that was played at the Olimpiysky NSC, Kyiv, on 6 May 2012. The match was the 21st Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Metalurh Donetsk and Shakhtar Donetsk. This was the first time since 2007 that the Cup final had returned to Kyiv. Since Shakhtar had qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, Metalurh would qualify for the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. In the draw, Metalurh was selected as the home team.

Road to Kyiv

As Ukrainian Premier League members, Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalurh Donetsk did not have to go through the qualification phase of the competition.

Metalurh Donetsk

Round 1 Metalurh Donetsk 2–0 Tavriya Simferopol
Round 2 Metalurh Donetsk 4–0 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
Quarter-final Zorya Luhansk 0–1 aet Metalurh Donetsk
Semi-final Metalurh Donetsk 0–0 aet
7–6 pen.
Karpaty Lviv

Shakhtar Donetsk

Round 1 Shakhtar Sverdlovsk 0–2 Shakhtar Donetsk
Round 2 Dynamo Kyiv 2–3 Shakhtar Donetsk
Quarter-final Metalurh Zaporizhia 0–1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Semi-final Volyn Lutsk 3–4 Shakhtar Donetsk

Previous encounters

This was the first Ukrainian Cup final between the two teams. The two teams had also met in a semi-final in 2009–10 and in the Round of 16 in 1997–98 season in which Metalurh was able to overcome Shakhtar.

Metalurh had appeared only once in a Cup final without winning any trophies and their opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 11 Cup finals, winning seven.

Television

The match was broadcast on ICTV in Ukraine.[1]

Match

Details

Metalurh Donetsk1 – 2 (aet)Shakhtar Donetsk
Morozyuk 69' Report Teixeira 23'
Kucher 104'
Attendance: 47,314
Referee: Anatoliy Abdula (Kharkiv)
Metalurh Donetsk
Shakhtar Donetsk
Metalurh Donetsk:
GK 12 Ukraine Oleksandr Bandura
DF 5 Ukraine Vyacheslav Checher (c)
MF 6 Armenia Karlen Mkrtchyan Yellow card 23'
MF 7 Ukraine Mykola Morozyuk 69'
MF 9 Serbia Đorđe Lazić
FW 10 Armenia Gevorg Ghazaryan Yellow card 25' downward-facing red arrow 73'
DF 14 Ukraine Oleksandr Volovyk
FW 15 Mali Dramane Traoré
MF 17 Brazil Zé Soares Yellow card 80' downward-facing red arrow 114'
MF 18 Bulgaria Velizar Dimitrov downward-facing red arrow 90'
MF 20 Portugal China
Substitutes:
GK 31 Ukraine Dmytro Vorobyov
DF 2 Ukraine Artem Baranovskyi
MF 8 Netherlands Gregory Nelson upward-facing green arrow 73'
MF 8 Belgium Danilo upward-facing green arrow 90'
FW 23 Ukraine Oleh Mishchenko upward-facing green arrow 114'
MF 28 Portugal Mário Sérgio
FW 84 Ukraine Denys Holaydo
Manager:
Ukraine Volodymyr Pyatenko
Shakhtar Donetsk:
GK 30 Ukraine Andriy Pyatov
DF 5 Ukraine Oleksandr Kucher 104'
MF 7 Brazil Fernandinho Yellow card 90+4'
MF 9 Brazil Luiz Adriano downward-facing red arrow 106'
FW 10 Brazil Willian
MF 19 Ukraine Oleksiy Gai downward-facing red arrow 107'
MF 22 Armenia Henrikh Mkhitaryan Yellow card 18' downward-facing red arrow 62'
DF 26 Romania Răzvan Raț
MF 29 Brazil Alex Teixeira 23'
DF 33 Croatia Darijo Srna (c)
DF 44 Ukraine Yaroslav Rakitskiy
Substitutes:
GK 23 Ukraine Bohdan Shust
MF 14 Ukraine Vasyl Kobin
MF 15 Ukraine Taras Stepanenko upward-facing green arrow 107'
FW 17 Ukraine Yevhen Seleznyov upward-facing green arrow 106'
FW 20 Brazil Douglas Costa upward-facing green arrow 62'
FW 31 Brazil Dentinho
DF 36 Ukraine Oleksandr Chyzhov
Manager:
Romania Mircea Lucescu

MAN OF THE MATCH

MATCH OFFICIALS[1]

  • Assistant referees:
  • Fourth official:

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.

Post-match

On account of Shakhtar's victory and Metalurh's defeat in the Ukrainian Cup final, and with both team finishing as "good as they could" in the 2011–12 Ukrainian Premier League, the 2012 Ukrainian Super Cup will feature Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Sytnyk, Serhiy (6 May 2012). Кубок Украины. "Металлург" – "Шахтер". Анонс матча [Cup Final. Metalurh – Shakhtar. Match preview]. ua.football (in Russian).
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