2019 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2019 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that was played on 15 May 2019 in Zaporizhzhia between Shakhtar Donetsk and Inhulets Petrove.^[2] The match was the 28th Ukrainian Cup Final since the fall of the Soviet Union. It was the first time the cup final was held in Zaporizhzhia.

2019 Ukrainian Cup Final

Event	2018–19 Ukrainian Cup
Shakhtar Donetsk Inhulets Petrove 4 0
Date	15 May 2019
Venue	Slavutych Arena[1], Zaporizhzhia
Referee	Yevhen Aranovskyi
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Slavutych Arena, where the match was played, had previously hosted the 2010 Ukrainian Super Cup.^[1] It was the first final of the Ukrainian Cup competition that featuring a team from a second-tier division.^[2]

If Inhulets won the cup, they would have qualified for the group stage of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, because Shakhtar had already qualified for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League.^[2][3]

Road to the final

Main article: 2018–19 Ukrainian Cup

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

Shakhtar Donetsk		Round[2]	Inhulets Petrove
Opponent	Result	2018–19 Ukrainian Cup	Opponent	Result
bye		Preliminary round 2	Kolos Kovalivka	1–0 (H)
bye		Preliminary round 3	Myr Hornostayivka	3–0 (A)
Olimpik Donetsk	3–2 (H)	Round of 16	FC Mariupol	3–1 (H)
Dynamo Kyiv	1–1 (H) (a.e.t.), (4–3 p)	Quarter-finals	Karpaty Lviv	1–1 (H) (a.e.t.), (5–4 p)
SC Dnipro-1	2–0 (A)	Semi-finals	Zorya Luhansk	2–1 (H)

Previous encounters

The game between Shakhtar and Inhulets was the first between the two teams. It was the 19th Cup Final for Shakhtar,^[2] the record for any team reaching the final stage. It was Shakhtar's ninth consecutive final since 2011. It was Inhulets' first time reaching the final stage.^[2] In addition, Inhulets became the first team from a second tier (Persha Liha) to reach the finals.^[2]

Match

Shakhtar Donetsk	4–0	Inhulets Petrove
Tetê 27', 39' Moraes 45+1' Solomon 64'	Report

15 May 2019

21:00^[4] LST

Slavutych Arena,^[4] Zaporizhzhia

Attendance: 11,100 (press-release)^[5] (9,500 (info database))^[6]

Referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi^[4]

Shakhtar Donetsk

Inhulets Petrove

Shakhtar Donetsk: GK 1 Oleksiy Shevchenko DF 50 Serhiy Bolbat DF 4 Serhiy Kryvtsov DF 22 Mykola Matviyenko DF 31 Ismaily MF 21 Alan Patrick MF 88 Marcos Antônio MF 14 Tetê 27', 39'  72' MF 74 Viktor Kovalenko  47'  61' MF 7 Taison (c) FW 10 Júnior Moraes 45+1'  62' Substitutes: GK 30 Andriy Pyatov DF 5 Davit Khocholava MF 6 Taras Stepanenko MF 9 Dentinho MF 19 Manor Solomon  61' 64' MF 23 Wellington Nem  72'  89' FW 8 Olarenwaju Kayode  62' Coach: Paulo Fonseca

Inhulets Petrove: GK 1 Anton Sytnykov DF 39 Denys Balan DF 55 Maksym Kovalyov DF 28 Vitaliy Pavlov DF 89 Oleh Synyohub MF 80 Vladyslav Lupashko (c)  45+1' MF 13 Illya Kovalenko MF 8 Vladyslav Klymenko  57'  67' MF 5 Yevhen Zaporozhets MF 45 Artem Schedryi  83' FW 9 Oleksandr Mishurenko  34' Substitutes: GK 12 Bohdan Shukhman DF 23 Oleksandr Kucherenko  67' DF 17 Stanislav Peredystyi MF 25 Oleksandr Kozak  83' MF 7 Dmytro Sula MF 21 Oleksandr Akymenko FW 49 Nika Sichinava  34' Coach: Serhiy Lavrynenko

MAN OF THE MATCH MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: S.Prystupa (Kyiv)[4] Ye.Petrakov (Kyiv)[4] Fourth official: M.Kozyriatskyi (Zaporizhzhia)[4] Reserved assistant referee: V.Vysotskyi (Zaporizhzhia)[4] Supervisor of refereeing: A.Shandor (Lviv)[4]

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.

See also

• 2018–19 Ukrainian Premier League