2008 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2008 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Metalist Stadium on May 7, 2008.^[1] The match was the 17th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. The 2008 Ukrainian Cup Final was the first to be held outside of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Shakhtar won the match 2–0 through goals from Oleksandr Gladkiy and Oleksiy Gai.

2008 Ukrainian Cup Final

Event	2007–08 Ukrainian Cup
Shakhtar Donetsk Dynamo Kyiv 2 0
Date	7 May 2008
Venue	Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv
Attendance	38 000
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The match had five red cards issued, two to Dynamo players and three to Shakhtar players. The match also had six yellow cards (Gladkiy received two), four of which were given to Shakhtar players and two to Dynamo players. This was in part because of players' violent behavior and also because referee Victor Shvetsov made several misjudgments.^[2]

Road to Kharkiv

Main article: 2007–08 Ukrainian Cup

All 16 Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition; Dynamo and Shakhtar therefore both qualified for the competition automatically.

Dynamo had a lot of instability en route to the final. At the beginning of the season, manager Anatoliy Demyanenko resigned after рoor results to start the season.^[3] He was replaced by former Dynamo player and coach Yozhef Sabo, who later resigned from his post afterwards due to personal health problems. In November 2007, Dynamo appointed assistant coach Oleh Luzhnyi as interim coach, who was in charge until 8 December and managed to get Dynamo through the quarter-finals. Finally, in December 2008, the club appointed former Russia national team manager Yuriy Semin.^[4]

Dynamo Kyiv Round 1 Dynamo Kyiv 2–0 Dnipro Round 2 Ihroservice 1–4 Dynamo Kyiv Quarter-final (1st leg) Tavriya Simferopol 2–0 Dynamo Kyiv Quarter-final (2nd leg) Dynamo Kyiv 3–0 Tavriya Simferopol   (Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate) Semi-final (1st leg) Dynamo Kyiv 2–1 Metalurh Donetsk Semi-final (2nd leg) Metalurh Donetsk 0–1 Dynamo Kyiv   (Dynamo won 3–1 on aggregate)

Shakhtar Donetsk Round 1 MFK Mykolaiv 0–1 Shakhtar Donetsk Round 2 Shakhtar Donetsk 4–1 Arsenal Kyiv Quarter-final (1st leg) Vorskla Poltava 0–3 Shakhtar Donetsk Quarter-final (2nd leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 1–1 Vorskla Poltava   (Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–1 on aggregate) Semi-final (1st leg) Chornomorets 1–2 Shakhtar Donetsk Semi-final (2nd leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 3–0 Chornomorets   (Shakhtar Donetsk won 5–1 on aggregate)

Match details

7 May 2008

19:00 LST

Shakhtar Donetsk	2–0	Dynamo Kyiv
Hladkyy 44' Hai 78'	(Report)

Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv

Attendance: 28,000^[5]

Referee: Viktor Shvetsov (FIFA)^[6]

Shakhtar Donetsk

Dynamo Kyiv

Shaktar Donetsk: GK 30 Andriy Pyatov MF 23 Darijo Srna (c) DF 37 Dmytro Chyhrynskyi DF 5 Oleksandr Kucher  32'  46' DF 26 Răzvan Raț  56' MF 7 Fernandinho DF 11 Ilsinho  86' DF 3 Tomáš Hübschman MF 4 Igor Duljaj  75' FW 25 Brandão  64' FW 21 Oleksandr Hladkyi 44'  57'  87' Substitutes: GK 1 Bohdan Shust MF 8 Jádson FW 17 Luiz Adriano MF 22 Willian  86' MF 19 Oleksiy Hai  75' 78' DF 18 Mariusz Lewandowski DF 55 Volodymyr Yezerskyi  46'  80' Manager: Mircea Lucescu

Dynamo Kyiv: GK 1 Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (c) DF 3 Pape Diakhaté  73' MF 4 Tiberiu Ghioane MF 7 Corrêa MF 8 Oleksandr Aliyev  68'  83' FW 22 Artem Kravets DF 29 Vitaliy Mandzyuk  17' DF 30 Badr El Kaddouri MF 37 Ayila Yussuf FW 10 Ismaël Bangoura  80' DF 81 Marjan Marković  46' Substitutes: GK 21 Taras Lutsenko FW 16 Maksim Shatskikh FW 25 Artem Milevskyi  83' DF 26 Andriy Nesmachnyi DF 27 Vladyslav Vashchuk MF 36 Miloš Ninković  46' MF 17 Mykola Morozyuk Manager: Yuriy Semin

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Oleh Pluzhnyk (Kharkiv) Vitaliy Ponomaryov (Lviv) Fourth official: Andriy Shandor (Lviv)

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.

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Ukrainian Cup 2008 Winners
Shakhtar Donetsk Sixth title

Match statistics

	Shakhtar Donetsk	Dynamo Kyiv
Total shots	9	13
Shots on target	3	3
Ball possession	?%	?%
Corner kicks	8	9
Fouls committed	?	?
Offsides	10	1
Yellow cards	4	2
Red cards	3	2

See also

• 2007–08 Ukrainian Cup