1976 Soviet Cup final

The 1976 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on 3 September 1976. The match was the 35th soviet cup final and was contested between Dinamo Tbilisi and Ararat Yerevan. Ararat were current cup holders winning it in 1975. Dinamo defeated the opponent 3–0 and won the cup for the first time.

1976 Soviet Cup Final

Event	1976 Soviet Cup
Dinamo Tbilisi Ararat Yerevan 3 0
Date	3 September 1976
Venue	Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow
Referee	Pavel Kazakov (Moscow)
Attendance	45,000

Road to Final

Dinamo Tbilisi Round 1 Metalurh Zaporizhya 1–1 aet 4–5 pen. Dinamo Tbilisi Round 2 Dinamo Tbilisi 3–0 FC Zenit Leningrad Quarter-final Dinamo Tbilisi 2–1 Karpaty Lviv Semi-final Shakhtar Donetsk 0–2 Dinamo Tbilisi

Ararat Yerevan Round 1 SKA Rostov-on-Don 0–1 Ararat Yerevan Round 2 Lokomotiv Moscow 0–1 aet Ararat Yerevan Quarter-final Ararat Yerevan 2–1 CSKA Moscow Semi-final Ararat Yerevan 2–1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Previous encounters

Previously these two teams met each other three times in the competition. Dinamo knocked–out opponents two times, while Ararat have done it once. The club from Tbilisi progressed in 1937, winning the game 4–1 and in 1971 competition 0–0, 2–1, while the club from Yerevan eliminated the opponent in 1975 winning the game 3–1.

Match details

3 September 1976

Dinamo Tbilisi	3–0	Ararat Yerevan
Kipiani 27' Kanteladze 64' (pen.) Chelebadze 68'	Report

Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Pavel Kazakov (Moscow)

Dinamo Tbilisi: GK David Gogia DF Nodar Khizanishvili DF Piruz Kanteladze DF Shota Khinchagashvili DF Zorbeg Ebralidze DF Aleksandre Chivadze MF Manuchar Machaidze (c) MF Revaz Chelebadze MF Vladimir Gutsaev MF David Kipiani  75' FW Vakhtang Kopaleishvili Substitutes: FW Zurab Tsereteli  75' Manager: Nodar Akhalkatsi

Ararat Yerevan: GK Avetis Hovsepyan DF Sanasar Gevorgyan DF Armenak Sargsyan (c) DF Alexander Mirzoyan DF Norayr Mesropyan MF Samvel Petrosyan MF Artyom Parsadanyan MF Khoren Oganesian  89' FW Alexander Keropyan MF Nazar Petrosyan FW Robert Halaydzhyan  46' Substitutes: FW Nikolay Ghazaryan  46' MF Armen Azaryan  89' Manager: Eduard Markarov

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Soviet Cup 1976 Winners
Dinamo Tbilisi First title

See also

• 1976 Soviet Top League

External links

• The competition calendar 1
• The competition calendar 2