Soviet Super Cup

The USSR Super Cup,^[a] also known as the Season's Cup,^[b] was an unofficial exhibition game (or game series) not sanctioned by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union and that featured the winners of the previous season's Soviet Top League and USSR Cup in a one- or two-legged playoff for the trophy.

Soviet Super Cup

Founded	1977 (introduced)
Abolished	1989
Region	Soviet Union
Number of teams	2
Last champions	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Most successful club(s)	Dynamo Kyiv (3 titles)

History

The mini-tournament was conducted on the initiative of the Komsomolskaya Pravda editor's administration out of Moscow. The tournament was unofficial and never was part of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. It was played seven times in the last 15 years of Soviet football. It was not until 1983 that the Super Cup was played every year. The Super Cup was made to take place during midseason and further complicated clubs' schedules.^{[citation needed]}

In 1987, with Spartak Moscow winning league honors and Dynamo Kyiv winning the USSR Cup, the Super Cup match was scheduled to take place in Chişinău, Moldova. However, the match never took place because of inadequate facilities in Chişinău. The last USSR Super Cup took place in Sochi, Russia, where the match was played in front of 1,500 fans.^{[citation needed]}

Finals by year

1977 Season's Cup

1977-11-20

Dinamo Moscow	1 – 0	Dynamo Kyiv
Minayev 54'	Report

Tbilisi, Lenin's Dinamo Stadium

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: G.Bakanidze (Tbilisi)

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1981 Season's Cup

1981-03-10

Dynamo Kyiv	1 – 1 5 – 4 (pen.) (a.e.t.)	Shakhter Donetsk
Boiko 41' Penalties: Yurchishin Blokhin Bessonov Baltacha Konkov	Report	Kravchenko 52' Penalties: Sokolovsky Bondarenko Gorbunov Kravchenko Starukhin

Simferopol, Lokomotiv Stadium

Attendance: unknown

Referee: A.Mushkovets (Moscow)

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1984 Season's Cup, consisted out of two games

1984-07-05

Shakhter Donetsk	2 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Vyshnevsky 54' (o.g.) Morozov 54'	Report	Litovchenko 40'

Donetsk, Shakhtar Stadium

Attendance: 32,840

Referee: V.Butenko (Moscow)

1984-07-08

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1 – 1	Shakhter Donetsk
Fedorenko 70' Litovchenko	Report	Sokolovsky 89' Pokidin

Dnipropetrovsk, Meteor Stadium

Attendance: 29,500

Referee: V.Kuznetsov [ru] (Omsk)

Shakhtar won the Cup play-off 3-2

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1985 Season's Cup, consisted out of two games

1985-07-30

Zenit Leningrad	2 – 1	Dinamo Moscow
Pozdnyakov 33' (o.g.) Gerasimov 71'	Report	Ataulin 5'

Leningrad, Kirov Stadium

Attendance: 31,000

Referee: V.Miminoshvili (Tbilisi)

1985-08-05

Dinamo Moscow	0 – 1	Zenit Leningrad
	Report	Melnikov 20'

Moscow, Dynamo Stadium

Attendance: 12,200

Referee: M.Stupar (Ivano-Frankivsk)

Zenit won the Cup play-off 3-1

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1986 USSR Super Cup

1986-4-11

Dynamo Kyiv	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Shakhter Donetsk
Shcherbakov 73' Yevtushenko 118'	Report	Sokolovsky 54' Kravchenko 117'
Penalties
Demyanenko Baltacha Yevtushenko Yakovenko	3–1	Morozov Varnavsky Kravchenko Grachev

Kyiv, Republican Stadium

Attendance: 65,300

Referee: A.Spirin (Moscow)

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1987 USSR Super Cup

1987-5-18

Torpedo Moscow	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Dynamo Kyiv
Shirinbekov 47'	Report	Belanov 81'
Penalties
Kharine Polukarov Kobzev Shirinbekov Agashkov	4–5	Belanov Demyanenko Baltacha Blokhin Bessonov

Moscow, Lenin's Central Stadium

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Ivan Timoshenko (Rostov-na-Donu)

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1988 USSR Super Cup

1988-3-1

Spartak Moscow	suspended	Dynamo Kyiv
	[ Report]

Chișinău, Republican Stadium

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1989 USSR Super Cup

1989-3-1

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	3 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Metallist Kharkov
Shakhov 64' (pen.) Son 97' Lyuty 103'	Report	Adzhoyev 62'

Sochi, Central Stadium

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: A.Kirillov (Moscow)

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Winners by year

Year	Location	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1977	Tbilisi, Georgia	Dynamo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)	1 – 0	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)
1981	Simferopol, Ukraine	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	1 – 1 (aet) 5 – 4 (penalties)	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as cup winner)
1984	Leg 1: Donetsk, Ukraine Leg 2: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as cup winner)	Leg 1: 2 – 1 Leg 2: 1 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (qualified as league winner)
1985	Leg 1: Leningrad, Russia Leg 2: Moscow, Russia	Zenit Leningrad (qualified as league winner)	Leg 1: 2 – 1 Leg 2: 1 – 0	Dynamo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)
1986	Kiev, Ukraine	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	2 – 2 (aet) 3 – 1 (penalties)	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as losing cup finalist)
1987	Moscow, Russia	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	1 – 1 (aet) 5 – 4 (penalties)	Torpedo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)
1988	Chișinău, Moldavia		ppd
1989	Sochi, Russia	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (qualified as league winner)	3 – 1 (aet)	Metalist Kharkiv (qualified as cup winner)

Performance by club

Club	Republic	Winners	Runners-up	Years won
Dynamo Kyiv	UKR	3	1	1981, 1986, 1987
Shakhtar Donetsk	UKR	1	2	1984
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	UKR	1	1	1988
Dynamo Moscow	RUS	1	1	1977
Zenit Leningrad	RUS	1	0	1985
Metalist Kharkiv	UKR	0	1
Torpedo Moscow	RUS	0	1
Total		7	7

Performance by republic

Republic	Winners	Runners-up	Winning clubs
Ukrainian SSR	5	5	Dynamo Kyiv (3), Shakhtar Donetsk (1), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (1)
Russian SFSR	2	2	Dynamo Moscow (1), Zenit Leningrad (1)
Total	7	7

See also

National super cups of former Soviet republics:

• Armenian Supercup
• Azerbaijan Supercup
• Belarusian Super Cup
• Estonian Supercup
• Georgian Super Cup
• Kazakhstan Super Cup
• Latvian Supercup
• Lithuanian Supercup
• Moldovan Super Cup
• Russian Super Cup
• Ukrainian Super Cup
• Super Cup of Champions

References

• USSR (Soviet Union) - List of Super Cup Finals, rsssf.com. Accessed on June 9, 2006.
• Well Forgotten Past, nevskoevremya.spb.ru. Accessed on June 9, 2006.^{[dead link]}

Notes

1. Russian: Суперкубок СССР, romanized: Superkubok SSSR, Azerbaijani: Futbol üzrə SSRİ Superkuboku, Georgian: საბჭოთა კავშირის სუპერთასი, Lithuanian: TSRS Futbolo Supertaurė, Romanian: Supercupa URSS, Ukrainian: Суперкубок СРСР, romanized: Superkubok SRSR
2. Russian: Кубок сезона, romanized: Kubok sezona, Ukrainian: Кубок сезону, romanized: Kubok sezonu