2009 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2009 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Dnipro Stadium on May 31, 2009. The match was the 18th Ukrainian Cup final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Vorskla Poltava. The 2009 final was the first time a Ukrainian Cup final was held in Dnipropetrovsk.^[1] Vorskla Poltava, as Ukrainian Cup winners, qualified for the UEFA Europa League play-off round.

2009 Ukrainian Cup Final

Event	2008–09 Ukrainian Cup
Vorskla Poltava Shakhtar Donetsk 1 0
Date	31 May 2009
Venue	Dnipro Stadium, Dnipropetrovsk
Attendance	25,700
Weather	27 C
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Road to Dnipropetrovsk

Main article: 2008–09 Ukrainian Cup

All sixteen Ukrainian Premier League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Vorskla and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.

Vorskla Poltava Round 1 Zirka Kirovohrad 0–1 Vorskla Poltava Round 2 Obolon Kyiv 1–4 Vorskla Poltava Quarter-final Metalurh Donetsk 0–1 Vorskla Poltava Semi-final Metalist Kharkiv 0–0 Vorskla Poltava Semi-final (Replay) Vorskla Poltava 2–0 Metalist Kharkiv

Shakhtar Donetsk Round 1 Illichivets Mariupol 0–3 Shakhtar Donetsk Round 2 Zakarpattia Uzhhorod 1–4 Shakhtar Donetsk Quarter-final PFC Oleksandria 1–2 Shakhtar Donetsk Semi-final Shakhtar Donetsk 1–0 Dynamo Kyiv

Previous encounters

Prior to the final, Vorskla and Shakhtar had met six times in previous Ukrainian Cup competitions. Vorskla had never defeated Shakhtar, with its best performance being a 1–1 draw in the second leg of the quarter-finals in the 2007–08 edition. Shakhtar's best performance against Vorskla was in a second round encounter in the 1994–95 edition, an 8–0 drubbing.^[1]

Match details

31 May 2009

17:00 LST

Vorskla Poltava	1–0	Shakhtar Donetsk
Sachko 50'	Report[2]

Dnipro Stadium, Dnipropetrovsk

Attendance: 25,700

Referee: Vitaliy Hodulyan (Odesa)

Vorskla Poltava

Shakhtar Donetsk

Vorskla Poltava: GK 1 Serhiy Dolhanskyi (c) MF 3 Filip Despotovski DF 4 Armend Dallku MF 5 Oleh Krasnopyorov MF 7 Jovan Markoski FW 8 Denys Kulakov  81' FW 17 Vasyl Sachko 50'  71' DF 20 Debatik Curri MF 37 Hryhoriy Yarmash DF 48 Volodymyr Chesnakov  90+2' MF 70 Dmytro Yesin  89' Substitutes: GK 12 Serhiy Velychko FW 11 Denis Glavina  81' MF 23 Yevhen Pyeskov FW 27 Ahmed Januzi  71' FW 31 Oleksiy Chychykov DF 33 Andriy Boyko MF 40 Roman Loktionov  89' Manager: Mykola Pavlov

Shaktar Donetsk: GK 30 Andriy Pyatov DF 33 Darijo Srna (c) DF 27 Dmytro Chyhrynskyi DF 5 Oleksandr Kucher DF 13 Vyacheslav Shevchuk FW 17 Luiz Adriano MF 7 Fernandinho  57' MF 19 Oleksiy Hai  55' DF 3 Tomáš Hübschman MF 8 Jádson  75' FW 21 Oleksandr Hladkyi  64' Substitutes: GK 12 Rustam Khudzhamov MF 4 Igor Duljaj MF 26 Răzvan Raț MF 22 Willian  55' FW 10 Yevhen Seleznyov  64' DF 18 Mariusz Lewandowski  75' DF 36 Oleksandr Chyzhov Manager: Mircea Lucescu

MATCH OFFICIALS[1] Assistant referees: Serhiy Tsymbal (Kyiv) Oleksandr Shamych (Kyiv) Fourth official: Ihor Ischenko (Kyiv)

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 2009 Winners
Vorskla Poltava First title

Match statistics

See also

• 2008–09 Ukrainian Cup
• 2008–09 Ukrainian Premier League