2008–09 Russian Cup

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.

2008–09 Russian Cup

Tournament details
Country	Russia
Final positions
Champions	CSKA Moscow
Runners-up	Rubin Kazan
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Preliminary round

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

Section West Team 1  Score  Team 2 Pskov-747 Pskov (III) 1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–5 p) Sever Murmansk (III) Volga Tver (III) 2–0 FC Dmitrov (III) FC Istra (III) 1–3 FC Zelenograd (III) MVD Rossii Moscow (III) 2–0 Avangard Podolsk (IV) FC Rybinsk (IV) 0–4 Dynamo Vologda (III) Section Center Team 1  Score  Team 2 Zvezda Serpukhov (III) 4–0 Nika Moscow (III) Saturn-2 Moscow Oblast (III) 1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p) Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo (III)

Section South Team 1  Score  Team 2 Zhemchuzhina Sochi (III) 0–1 FC Krasnodar (III) Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan (III) 1–0 Dagdizel Kaspiysk (III) Section Ural-Povolzhye Team 1  Score  Team 2 Khimik Dzerzhinsk (III) 1–0 Energetik Uren (III) Rubin-2 Kazan (III) 3–1 FC Nizhny Novgorod (III)

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.

Section West Team 1  Score  Team 2 Sever Murmansk 1–2 (a.e.t.) Dynamo Saint Petersburg Volochanin-Ratmir Vyshny Volochyok 2–1 Zenit-2 Saint Petersburg FC Zelenograd 1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p) Volga Tver Nara-ShBFR Naro-Fominsk 0–3 MVD Rossii Moscow Spartak Shchyolkovo 3–1 FC Reutov Torpedo Vladimir 3–1 Torpedo-RG Moscow Dynamo Vologda 1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p) Sheksna Cherepovets Spartak Kostroma 2–0 Tekstilshchik Ivanovo Section Center Team 1  Score  Team 2 FC Lukhovitsy 2–1 Zvezda Serpukhov FC Ryazan 1–2 (a.e.t.) Saturn-2 Moscow Oblast Zenit Penza 0–1 (a.e.t.) Mordovia Saransk Spartak Tambov 1–2 Metallurg Lipetsk Avangard Kursk 1–0 (a.e.t.) Rusichi Oryol FC Yelets 1–1 (a.e.t.) (7–8 p) FC Gubkin FCS-73 Voronez 1–1 (a.e.t.) (7–8 p) Dynamo Voronezh Zodiak Stary Oskol 0–2 Lokomotiv Liski

Section South Team 1  Score  Team 2 FC Krasnodar 2–0 Sochi-04 Energiya Volzhsky 2–3 Olimpia Volgograd Krasnodar-2000 1–0 Spartak-UGP Anapa Druzhba Maykop 2–3 FC Taganrog FC Bataysk-2007 2–0 Nika Krasny Sulin Rotor Volgograd 1–0 Kavkaztransgaz-2005 Ryzdvyany Avtodor Vladikavkaz 1–0 Dynamo Stavropol FC Astrakhan 1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–6 p) Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan Section Ural-Povolzhye Team 1  Score  Team 2 Volga Nizhny Novgorod 3–1 Rubin-2 Kazan Dynamo Kirov 2–0 Khimik Dzerzinsk Sokol-Saratov 0–1 FC Togliatti Lada Togliatti 2–0 Yunit Samara Alnas Almetyevsk 0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p) Academia Dimitrovgrad SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk 1–1 (a.e.t.) (6–5 p) Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk Gazovik Orenburg 3–0 Gornyak Uchaly FC Tyumen 1–4 Zenit Chelyabinsk Section East Team 1  Score  Team 2 Sibir-2 Novosibirsk 1–0 KUZBASS Kemerovo Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 0–0 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p) Okean Nakhodka

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.

Section West Team 1  Score  Team 2 Dynamo Saint Petersburg 1–2 (a.e.t.) Volochanin-Ratmir Vyshny Volochyok MVD Rossii Moscow 0–1 (a.e.t.) Volga Tver Spartak Shchyolkovo 0–2 Torpedo Vladimir Sheksna Cherepovets 0–3 Spartak Kostroma Section Center Team 1  Score  Team 2 Saturn-2 Moscow Oblast 0–3 FC Lukhovitsy Mordovia Saransk 0–3 Metallurg Lipetsk FC Gubkin 1–2 Avangard Kursk Dynamo Voronezh 1–0 Lokomotiv Liski Section South Team 1  Score  Team 2 FC Krasnodar 3–1 FC Krasnodar-2000 FC Taganrog 4–2 FC Bataysk-2007 Olimpia Volgograd 0–1 Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan Rotor Volgograd 3–2 (a.e.t.) Avtodor Vladikavkaz

Section Ural-Povolzhye Team 1  Score  Team 2 Volga Nizhny Novgorod 3–1 Dynamo Kirov FC Togliatti 1–1 (a.e.t.) (2–3 p) Lada Togliatti Alnas Almetyevsk 2–1 SOYUZ-Gazprom Izhevsk Zenit Chelyabinsk 0–1 Gazovik Orenburg Section East Team 1  Score  Team 2 Irtysh-1946 Omsk 0–3 Sibir-2 Novosibirsk Metallurg Krasnoyarsk 1–0 Sibiryak Bratsk FC Chita 1–1 (a.e.t.) (2–4 p) Amur Blagoveshchensk Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure 4–1 Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Third round

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

Section West Team 1  Score  Team 2 Spartak Kostroma 0–1 Torpedo Vladimir Volga Tver 2–1 (a.e.t.) Volochanin-Ratmir Vyshny Volochyok Section Center Team 1  Score  Team 2 Metallurg Lipetsk 2–0 FC Lukhovitsy Dynamo Voronezh 0–2 Avangard Kursk Section South Team 1  Score  Team 2 FC Taganrog 4–1 FC Krasnodar Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan 2–1 (a.e.t.) Rotor Volgograd

Section Ural-Povolzhye Team 1  Score  Team 2 Lada Togliatti 1–5 Volga Nizhny Novgorod Gazovik Orenburg 3–0 Alnas Almetyevsk Section East Team 1  Score  Team 2 Sibir-2 Novosibirsk 1–2 (a.e.t.) Metallurg Krasnoyarsk Amur Blagoveshchensk 0–1 Smena Komsomolsk-na-Amure

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.

Dynamo Moscow v SKA Rostov-on-Don (II)

23 September 2008	Dynamo Moscow	2–0	SKA Rostov-on-Don (II)	Moscow
19:00	Kowalczyk 11' Kerzhakov 80'			Stadium: Dynamo Attendance: 5,500 Referee: Ildus Biglov (Ufa)

Tom Tomsk v Volga Nizhny Novgorod (III)

24 September 2008	Tom Tomsk	2–2 (a.e.t.) (4–1 p)	Volga Nizhny Novgorod (III)	Tomsk
15:00	Tarasov 13' Kornilenko 23'		Malakhov 45' Aydov 75' (pen.)	Stadium: Trud Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Sergei Matsyura (Komsomolsk-on-Amur)
	Penalties
	Klimov Kharitonov Jokić Radosavljević		Aydov Vasilyev Malakhov

FC Moscow v Terek Grozny

24 September 2008	FC Moscow	3–0	Terek Grozny	Moscow
18:00	Kuzmin 27' (pen.), 84' (pen.) Česnauskis 49'			Stadium: Eduard Streltsov Stadium Attendance: 683 Referee: Vladimir Kazmenko (Rostov-on-Don)

Lokomotiv Moscow v Vityaz Podolsk (II)

24 September 2008	Lokomotiv Moscow	1–0	Vityaz Podolsk (II)	Moscow
18:00	Traoré 59'			Stadium: Lokomotiv Attendance: 7,800 Referee: Aleksei Sergeyev (Moscow)

Krylia Sovetov Samara v Sibir Novosibirsk (II)

24 September 2008	Krylia Sovetov Samara	0–2	Sibir Novosibirsk (II)	Samara
18:00			Gorbanets 58' Medvedev 80'	Stadium: Metallurg Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Sergei Karasev (Moscow)

Shinnik Yaroslavl v Spartak Moscow

24 September 2008	Shinnik Yaroslavl	1–2	Spartak Moscow	Shinnik, Yaroslavl
18:30	Kudryashov 57'		Ryzhkov 45' Prudnikov 49'	Attendance: 11,200 Referee: Yuri Klyuchnikov (Rostov-on-Don)

Rubin Kazan v Amkar Perm

24 September 2008	Rubin Kazan	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–1 p)	Amkar Perm	Kazan
19:00				Stadium: Central Attendance: 8,500 Referee: Vyacheslav Kharlamov (Moscow)
	Penalties
	Milošević Ansaldi Adamov Kobenko		Sirakov Drinčić Cherenchikov

CSKA Moscow v Baltika Kaliningrad (II)

24 September 2008	CSKA Moscow	1–0	Baltika Kaliningrad (II)	Moscow
19:00	Dzagoev 90' (pen.)			Stadium: Luzhniki Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Aleksei Kovalev (Tambov)

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.

Rubin Kazan v Sibir Novosibirsk (II)

15 April 2009	Rubin Kazan	2–0	Sibir Novosibirsk (II)	Kazan
19:00	Adamov 33' Gorbanets 86'			Stadium: Central Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Vyacheslav Popov (Degtyarsk)

Spartak Moscow v Dynamo Moscow

15 April 2009	Spartak Moscow	0–3	Dynamo Moscow	Moscow
20:00			Kerzhakov 63' Khokhlov 77' Smolov 89'	Stadium: Luzhniki Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Aleksandr Kolobaev (Moscow)

Lokomotiv Moscow v CSKA Moscow

22 April 2009	Lokomotiv Moscow	0–1	CSKA Moscow	Moscow
19:00			Necid 57'	Stadium: Lokomotiv Attendance: 15,840 Referee: Maksim Layushkin (Moscow)

FC Moscow v Tom Tomsk

22 April 2009	FC Moscow	2–1	Tom Tomsk	Moscow
20:00	Epureanu 63' Bracamonte 75'		Michkov 58'	Stadium: Eduard Streltsov Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Igor Egorov (Nizhny Novgorod)

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.

FC Moscow v Rubin Kazan

6 May 2009	FC Moscow	0–1	Rubin Kazan	Moscow
18:30			Ryazantsev 49'	Stadium: Eduard Streltsov Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Nikolai Ivanov (Saint Petersburg)

Dynamo Moscow v CSKA Moscow

13 May 2009	Dynamo Moscow	2–2 (a.e.t.) (5–6 p)	CSKA Moscow	Khimki
19:30	Khokhlov 86' Kerzhakov 90+3' (pen.)		Vágner Love 40' (pen.) Zhirkov 53'	Stadium: Arena Khimki Attendance: 6,068 Referee: Almir Kayumov (Moscow)
	Penalties
	Kerzhakov D.Kombarov Kolodin Wilkshire Khokhlov Smolov Dimidko Kokorin		Daniel Carvalho Vágner Love Zhirkov Ignashevich Necid Schennikov Aldonin V.Berezutskiy

Final

The final was played on 31 May 2009.

31 May 2009

14:00

Rubin Kazan	0–1	CSKA Moscow
	Report	Aldonin 90+2'

Arena Khimki, Khimki

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Stanislav Sukhina (Malakhovka)

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).