2024 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2024 Ukrainian Cup Final was the 31st final match of the annual Ukrainian football cup competition. It was played on 15 May 2024 at the Avanhard Stadium in Rivne.^[2] This is the first time the cup final would be held in Rivne.^[3]

2024 Ukrainian Cup Final

The final match venue
Event	2023–24 Ukrainian Cup
Vorskla Poltava Shakhtar Donetsk 1 2
Date	15 May 2024
Venue	Avanhard Stadium[1], Rivne
Referee	Vitaliy Romanov (Dnipro)
Attendance	3,500
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With still ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, this final was the first one since the start of the invasion in February of 2022 and the 9th since the start of the war in 2014.

Road to the final

Main article: 2023–24 Ukrainian Cup

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

Vorskla Poltava		Round	Shakhtar Donetsk
Opponent	Result	2023–24 Ukrainian Cup	Opponent	Result
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv	3–0 (N)	Round of 16	Veres Rivne	3–0 (A)
Obolon Kyiv	3–0 (A)	Quarter-finals	Viktoriya Sumy	3–0 (N)
Polissia Zhytomyr	1–0 (A)	Semi-finals	Chornomorets Odesa	4–1 (N)

Vorskla Poltava

As a Premier League team, Vorskla Poltava started in the Round of 16, notionally away at Ukrainian Premier League side Metalist 1925 Kharkiv. At the Livyi Bereh Arena near Kyiv, Vorskla Poltava won 3–0 with a series of goals from Ibrahim Kane, Ruslan Stepanyuk, and Ivan Nesterenko.^[4] In the quarter-finals, they were drawn away at Ukrainian Premier League team Obolon Kyiv and won 3–0 at the Obolon Arena in Kyiv due to goals from Stepanyuk, Kane, and Andriy Batsula.^[5][6] In the semi-finals at away Zhytomyr Tsentralnyi Stadion, they played fellow Ukrainian Premier League Polissia Zhytomyr and reached their third final with a 1–0 win with a Serhiy Myakushko goal.^[7]

Shakhtar Donetsk

As a Premier League team, Shakhtar Donetsk started in the Round of 16, they were drawn away to Veres Rivne and won 3-0 at the Avanhard Stadium in Rivne thanks to goals from Kashchuk, Bondarenko and Ocheretko. In the Quarter-finals, they were drawn against Viktoriya Sumy and won 3-0 at the Livyi Bereh in Hnidyn with goals from Nazaryna, Zubkov and Rakitskyi. In the Semi-Finals, they were drawn to Chornomorets Odesa and won 4-1 at Arena Lviv thanks to goals from Sikan, Bondarenko (penalty) and a brace from Sudakov.

Previous encounters

Both clubs exist since the Soviet times, but they never played each other in official games (domestic league, national cup) with Shakhtar playing at the top tier and Vorskla (earlier as Kolos) at the third tier of the All-Union football competitions.

Following dissolution of the Soviet Union, a matchup of these teams became more regular. While Vorskla is recognized as an obvious underdog, it is considered as not an easy opponent for the miners. Within the Ukrainian Cup, both teams met 9 times with 6 matches played at quarterfinals stage.^[8] Vorskla was victorious twice, while Shakhtar has 5 wins. However, this is their second final and in the last one between them, in 2009, Vorskla gained its only national trophy thus far.

This was also the second final for the Vorskla's manager Serhiy Dolhanskyi who in 2009 as a captain and goalkeeper of Vorskla won the cup already in the role of a player in the Vorskla–Shakhtar final.

Teams at the competition's finals

Team	Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners)
Vorskla Poltava	2 (2009, 2020)
Shakhtar Donetsk	19 (1995, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)

Match

15 May 2024

19:00

Vorskla Poltava (PL)	1–2	(PL) Shakhtar Donetsk
Kovtalyuk 85'	Report (ua) Report (en)	Sikan 40' Konoplya 55'

Avanhard, Rivne

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Vitaliy Romanov (Dnipro)

«Vorskla» Poltava

«Shakhtar» Donetsk

«Vorskla»: GK 7 Pavlo Isenko DF 27 Illya Krupskyi DF 18 Yevhen Pavlyuk DF 44 Danylo Khrypchuk  90+1' DF 4 Ihor Perduta (c) MF 5 Najeeb Yakubu  58' MF 6 Oleksandr Sklyar  68' MF 33 Serhiy Myakushko  58' MF 15 Ibrahim Kane MF 11 Ruslan Stepanyuk  68' FW 92 Sambou Sissoko  85' Substitutions: DF 95 Felipe Rodrigues  85' MF 38 Artem Chelyadin  68' MF 30 Ivan Nesterenko  58' FW 22 Mykola Kovtalyuk  68' DF 29 Andriy Batsula  58'  87' Head coach: Serhiy Dolhanskyi

«Shakhtar»: GK 31 Dmytro Riznyk  90+3' DF 16 Irakli Azarovi DF 22 Mykola Matviyenko DF 5 Valeriy Bondar DF 26 Yukhym Konoplya MF 6 Taras Stepanenko (c)  74' MF 8 Dmytro Kryskiv  90+1' MF 27 Kevin MF 21 Artem Bondarenko FW 11 Oleksandr Zubkov  81' FW 14 Danylo Sikan  81' Substitutions: GK 1 Artur Rudko DF 23 Pedrinho MF 13 Giorgi Gocholeishvili MF 44 Yaroslav Rakitskyi DF 29 Yehor Nazaryna MF 9 Maryan Shved  81' MF 39 Newerton MF 2 Lassina Traoré  81'  90+1' MF 30 Marlon Gomes  74' Head coach: Marino Pusic

Match officials Referee assistants: Semen Shlonchak (Cherkasy) Volodymyr Vysotskyi (Zaporizhia) Fourth referee: Andriy Shandor (Lviv) Additional referee assistant: Maryna Striletska (Sumy) Refereeing supervisor: Viktor Derdo (Chornomorsk). VAR referee — Oleksiy Derevinskyi (Khmelnytskyi) VAR assistant — Ruslan Yermolenko (Chernihiv) VAR supervisor — Mykhailo Ovchar (Kalush). UAF delegate — Vasyl Babiy (Zhytomyr).

Regulation highlightes 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if needed. Penalty kicks if needed. Nine players for substitution. Maximum 5 substitution per match (+1 in case of extra time).

See also

• 2023–24 Ukrainian Premier League

Notes