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2024 Ukrainian Cup final

Football match

2024 Ukrainian Cup Final

Event	2023–24 Ukrainian Cup
Vorskla Poltava Shakhtar Donetsk Premier League Premier League 1 2
Date	15 May 2024
Venue	Avanhard Stadium[1], Rivne
Referee	Vitaliy Romanov (Dnipro)
Attendance	3,500
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The 2024 Ukrainian Cup Final is the 31st final match of the annual Ukrainian football cup competition. It scheduled to be played on 15 May 2024 at the Avanhard StadiuminRivne.^[2] This is the first time the cup final would be held in Rivne.^[3]

With still ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the final is expected to be the first one since the start of the invasion in February of 2022 and the 9th since the start of the war in 2014.

Road to the final[edit]

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

Vorskla Poltava[edit]

As a Premier League team, Vorskla Poltava started in the Round of 16, notionally away at Ukrainian Premier League side Metalist 1925 Kharkiv. At the Livyi Bereh Arena near Kyiv, Vorskla Poltava won 3–0 with a series of goals from Ibrahim Kane, Ruslan Stepanyuk, and Ivan Nesterenko.^[4] In the quarter-finals, they were drawn away at Ukrainian Premier League team Obolon Kyiv and won 3–0 at the Obolon ArenainKyiv due to goals from Stepanyuk, Kane, and Andriy Batsula.^[5][6] In the semi-finals at away Zhytomyr Tsentralnyi Stadion, they played fellow Ukrainian Premier League Polissia Zhytomyr and reached their third final with a 1–0 win with a Serhiy Myakushko goal.^[7]

Shakhtar Donetsk[edit]

As a Premier League team, Shakhtar Donetsk started in the Round of 16, they were drawn away to Veres Rivne and won 3-0 at the Avanhard StadiuminRivne thanks to goals from Kashchuk, Bondarenko and Ocheretko. In the Quarter-finals, they were drawn against Viktoriya Sumy and won 3-0 at the Livyi Bereh in Hnidyn with goals from Nazaryna, Zubkov and Rakitskyi. In the Semi-Finals, they were drawn to Chornomorets Odesa and won 4-1 at Arena Lviv thanks to goals from Sikan, Bondarenko (penalty) and a brace from Sudakov.

Previous encounters[edit]

Both clubs exist since the Soviet times, but they never played each other in official games (domestic league, national cup) with Shakhtar playing at the top tier and Vorskla (earlier as Kolos) at the third tier of the All-Union football competitions.

Following dissolution of the Soviet Union, a matchup of these teams became more regular. While Vorskla is recognized as an obvious underdog, it is considered as not an easy opponent for the miners. Within the Ukrainian Cup, both teams met 9 times with 6 matches played at quarterfinals stage.^[8] Vorskla was victorious twice, while Shakhtar has 5 wins. However, this is their second final and in the last one between them, in 2009, Vorskla gained its only national trophy thus far.

This is also the second final for the Vorskla's manager Serhiy Dolhanskyi who in 2009 as a captain and goalkeeper of Vorskla won the cup already in the role of a player in the Vorskla–Shakhtar final.

Teams at the competition's finals[edit]

Match[edit]

Vorskla Poltava (PL)	1–2	(PL) Shakhtar Donetsk
Kovtalyuk 85'	Report (ua) Report (en)	Sikan 40' Konoplya 55'

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Vitaliy Romanov (Dnipro)

See also[edit]

• 2023–24 Ukrainian Premier League

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Ukrainian Cup. UEFA
• Official results. uaf.ua (in Ukrainian)
• 2023–24 Ukrainian Cup. Soccerway.
• Vorskla – Shakhtar H2H stats. Soccerway.
• Vorskla – Shakhtar H2H stats. wildstat.ru