1944 Soviet Cup

The 1944 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union.

1944 Cup of USSR in Football

Кубок СССР
Tournament details
Country	Soviet Union
Dates	July 30 – August 27
Teams	24
Defending champions	Spartak Moscow
Final positions
Champions	Zenit Leningrad
Runners-up	CDKA Moscow
← 1939 1945 →

On June 19, 1944, the chairman of the All-Union Committee on Physical Culture and Sports Vasiliy Snegov appealed to Kliment Voroshilov to conduct a cup competition.^[1][2]

The competition consisted of 24 teams, 13 of which were Class A teams, and 11 others were picked randomly.

Participating teams

Enter in Second Round		Enter in First Round
8 teams		16 teams
Y Spartak Moscow Y Dinamo Kiev Y Krylya Sovetov Moscow Y Torpedo Moscow	Y Lokomotiv Kharkov Y Aviauchilische Moscow Y Dinamo Ivanovo Y Torpedo Gorkiy	Y CDKA Moscow Y Traktor Stalingrad Y Dinamo Tbilisi Y Stakhanovets Stalino Y Lokomotiv Moscow Y Zenit Leningrad Y Dinamo Moscow Y Dinamo Leningrad	Y Dinamo Baku Y Zenit Taganrog Y Dinamo Yerevan Y Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev Y Dinamo-2 Moscow Y Traktor Chelyabinsk Y DKA Novosibirsk Y Zenit Sverdlovsk

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Notes

Competition schedule

First round

[Jul 30] 
CDKA Moskva                  5-0  Traktor Stalingrad 
  [Pyotr Shcherbatenko-2, Vladimir Dyomin, Dyachenko, ?] 
DINAMO Baku                  5-1  Zenit Taganrog           [in Rostov-na-Donu] 
DINAMO Tbilisi               w/o  Dinamo Yerevan 
Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev     1-5  LOKOMOTIV Moskva 
Stakhanovets Stalino         1-5  DINAMO-2 Moskva 
  [Vasiliy Bryushin 33- Konstantin Balyasov 18, ??...] 
ZENIT Leningrad              3-1  Dinamo Moskva 
  [Viktor Bodrov 20 pen, Alexei Yablochkin 63, Boris Levin-Kogan 75 – Konstantin Beskov 86] 
[Aug 2] 
Traktor Chelyabinsk          4-6  DKA Novosibirsk 
Zenit Sverdlovsk             2-11 DINAMO Leningrad

Second round

[Aug 6] 
CDKA Moskva                  5-0  Lokomotiv Moskva 
  [Vladimir Dyomin, Valentin Nikolayev, Dyachenko, Pyotr Shcherbatenko, Alexei Grinin] 
DINAMO Baku                  2-1  Dinamo Tbilisi 
  [Artash Amirjanov 34, Korolyov 50 – Gayoz jejelava 75] 
Dinamo Ivanovo               0-6  KRYLYA SOVETOV Moskva 
Dinamo Kiev                  1-2  SPARTAK Moskva           [aet] 
  [Konstantin Kalach 61 – Nikolai Klimov 18, 117] 
DINAMO Leningrad             5-1  DKA Novosibirsk          [in Chelyabinsk]  
Dinamo-2 Moskva              0-0  Zenit Leningrad 
Lokomotiv Kharkov            2-3  AVIAUCHILISHCHE Moskva 
  [Valentin Putsenko, Boris Gurkin – Nikolai Tsutskov-2, Alexandr Striganov pen] 
Torpedo Gorkiy               2-3  TORPEDO Moskva 
  [Vasiliy Panfilov, Alexei Salakov – A.Ryomin, Anton Yakovlev, Georgiy Zharkov]

Second round replays

[Aug 7] 
Dinamo-2 Moskva              0-1  ZENIT Leningrad 
  [Alexei Larionov 39]

Quarterfinals

[Aug 13] 
Dinamo Leningrad             1-4  CDKA Moskva 
  [Oleg Oshenkov – Valentin Nikolayev-3, Grigoriy Fedotov] 
SPARTAK Moskva               1-0  AviaUchilishche Moskva 
  [Alexei Sokolov 49] 
TORPEDO Moskva               2-1  Krylya Sovetov Moskva 
  [Vasiliy Zharkov 15, Anton Yakovlev 27 – Alexandr Sevidov 82] 
ZENIT Leningrad              1-0  Dinamo Baku 
  [Sergei Salnikov 55]

Semifinals

[Aug 20] 
CDKA Moskva                  3-2  Torpedo Moskva 
  [Grigoriy Fedotov 12, Pyotr Shcherbatenko 22, Alexei Grinin 55 – Alexandr Ponomaryov 4, 75] 
[Aug 22] 
Spartak Moskva               2-2  Zenit Leningrad 
  [Nikolai Klimov 68, Georgiy Glazkov 72 – Sergei Salnikov 65, Nikolai Smirnov 78]

Semifinals replays

[Aug 23] 
Spartak Moskva               0-1  ZENIT Leningrad          [aet]
  [Boris Chuchelov 97]

Final

27 August 1944

CDKA Moscow	1 – 2	Zenit Leningrad
Grinin 35'	[ Report]	Chuchelov 58' Salnikov 68'

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