2020 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2020 Ukrainian Cup final decided the winner of the 2019–20 Ukrainian Cup, the 29th season of the annual Ukrainian football cup competition. It was played on 8 July 2020 at the OSC Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv between Dynamo Kyiv and Vorskla Poltava. This was the fifth time the cup final would be held in Kharkiv after 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2017 finals.^[3]

2020 Ukrainian Cup Final

Event	2019–20 Ukrainian Cup
Dynamo Kyiv Vorskla Poltava 1 1
After extra time Dynamo Kyiv won 8–7 on penalties
Date	8 July 2020
Venue	OSC Metalist[1], Kharkiv
Referee	Kateryna Monzul[2]
Attendance	0[note 1]
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Originally planned to be held on 13 May 2020 at Ternopilsky Misky Stadion in Ternopil, the final was later postponed to 8 July due to COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine and first moved to Arena Lviv in Lviv,^[4] and then, considering the better epidemiological situation, to Kharkiv.^[1] Ternopil was granted the right to host the 2021 edition of the final instead. The match was played behind closed doors.^[4]

The winner Dynamo initially qualified to participate in the group stage of 2020–21 UEFA Europa League, however, it later qualified for 2020–21 UEFA Champions League after finishing as the league runners-up. The winner Dynamo Kyiv also qualified for the 2020 Ukrainian Super Cup, where it faced the champions of 2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League Shakhtar Donetsk.^[5]

Road to the final

Main article: 2019–20 Ukrainian Cup

Both teams started their campaign in the Round of 16.

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

Dynamo Kyiv		Round	Vorskla Poltava
Opponent	Result	2019–20 Ukrainian Cup	Opponent	Result
Shakhtar Donetsk	2–1 (H) (a.e.t.)	Round of 16	Kolos Kovalivka	1–0 (A)
Oleksandriya	1–0 (H) (a.e.t.)	Quarter-finals	Desna Chernihiv	1–0 (A)
Mynai	2–0 (A)	Semi-finals	Mariupol	1–1 (A) (a.e.t.), (3–2 p)

Previous encounters

In overall, games among which started back in 1996, Dynamo Kyiv and Vorskla Poltava have previously met 53 times, from which 40 were won by Dynamo, 9 were drawn and 4 won by Vorskla.^[6][7][8] In the matches on the highest level the only previous meeting of the clubs was in the 2009 Ukrainian Super Cup, which was won by Dynamo in the penalty shoot-out 4–2 after 0–0 draw after the regular and extra time. It is going to be third meeting of the clubs in competitions of Ukrainian Cup where two previous played as part of the 2002–03 Ukrainian Cup was won by Dynamo (1–0, 4–0).^[9]

For Dynamo Kyiv, this final was the 17th overall, with 11 wins in the previous 16 final appearances. Vorskla played in their second Ukrainian Cup Final after 2009, when they defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 1–0 and won their only Ukrainian Cup to the date.

Match

8 July 2020

21:30

Dynamo Kyiv	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Vorskla Poltava
Verbič 28'	Report	Stepanyuk 11'
Penalties
Verbič Tsyhankov Kędziora de Pena Andriyevskyi Sydorchuk Shaparenko Mykolenko Shabanov	8–7	Puclin Kane Luizão Opanasenko Ndiaye Chesnakov Perduta Sapay Bayenko

OSC Metalist, Kharkiv

Attendance: 0^{[note 1]}

Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Kharkiv)

Dynamo Kyiv

Vorskla Poltava

Dynamo Kyiv: GK 1 Heorhiy Bushchan DF 30 Artem Shabanov  80' DF 34 Oleksandr Syrota  9' DF 94 Tomasz Kędziora MF 5 Serhiy Sydorchuk (c) MF 7 Benjamin Verbič  113' MF 8 Volodymyr Shepelyev  117' MF 14 Carlos de Pena MF 16 Vitalii Mykolenko MF 29 Vitaliy Buyalskyi  89'  99' FW 11 Heorhiy Tsitaishvili  60' Substitutes: GK 71 Denys Boyko MF 6 Abdul Mohammed Kadiri MF 15 Viktor Tsyhankov  60' MF 18 Oleksandr Andriyevskyi  117' MF 70 Nazariy Rusyn MF 99 Mikkel Duelund FW 9 Fran Sol FW 10 Mykola Shaparenko  99' FW 20 Oleksandr Karavayev Coach: Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko

Vorskla Poltava: GK 31 Dmytro Riznyk DF 5 Najeeb Yakubu  73' DF 17 Volodymyr Chesnakov (c) DF 23 Vadym Sapay DF 50 Ibrahim Kane MF 4 Ihor Perduta  105+1' MF 6 Oleksandr Sklyar  41'  95' MF 28 David Puclin MF 92 Pape-Alioune Ndiaye FW 10 Vladyslav Kulach  76' FW 11 Ruslan Stepanyuk  115' Substitutes: GK 21 Oleksandr Tkachenko GK 51 Pavlo Isenko DF 27 Volodymyr Bayenko  115' MF 7 Luizão  76' MF 39 Yevhen Opanasenko  73' MF 82 Pavlo Rebenok FW 9 Edin Šehić  95' FW 14 Danylo Kravchuk FW 77 Denys Vasin Coach: Yuriy Maksymov

MAN OF THE MATCH MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Maryna Striletska (Sumy) Oleksandra Ardasheva (Kyiv) Fourth official: Anastasiya Romaniuk (Ivano-Frankivsk) Reserved assistant referee: S.Hrushko (Kyiv Oblast) Supervisor of refereeing: S.Zadiran (Dnipro)

Video assistant referee (VAR): V.Romanov (Dnipro) VAR assistant: V.Volodin (Kherson) VAR supervisor: V.Petrov (Kharkiv) UAF game delegate V.Foshchiy (Cherkasy) UAF security officer S.Bortnyk (Kharkiv).

MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Nine named substitutes. Maximum of 5 substitutions.

• Note: position and roster number is per the Ukrainian Premier League (and Footboom)

See also

• 2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League

Notes

1. The final was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.