The 1989 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on June 25, 1989. The match was the 48th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Dnipro qualified for the Champions Cup for winning the champion's title, while the finalist Torpedo was allowed to compete at the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending champions Metalist Kharkiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Torpedo Moscow (1:1, 1:2). For Dnipro this was their first final. For Torpedo it was their 14th Cup Final and the eighth loss at this stage.

1989 Soviet Cup Final
Event1988-89 Soviet Cup
Date25 June 1989
VenueLenin's Central Stadium, Moscow
RefereeVadim Zhuk (Minsk)
Attendance30,000
Weather27°C
1988
1990

Road to Moscow

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All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dnepr and Torpedo both qualified for the competition automatically.

Torpedo Moscow

Round 1 (1st leg) Torpedo 2–0 KUZBASS
Round 1 (2nd leg) KUZBASS 1–1 Torpedo
  (Torpedo won 3–1 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg) Metalist 1–1 Torpedo
Round 2 (2nd leg) Torpedo 2–1 Metalist
  (Torpedo won 3–2 on aggregate)
Quarter-final Torpedo 4–3 Shakhtar
Semi-final Torpedo 2–0 Dynamo K.

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Round 1 (1st leg) Dnipro 5–0 Shinnik
Round 1 (2nd leg) Shinnik 2–0 Dnipro
  (Dnipro won 7–0 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg) Zenit 0–1 Dnipro
Round 2 (2nd leg) Dnipro 1–1 Zenit
  (Dnipro won 2–1 on aggregate)
Quarter-final Dnipro 1–0 Dinamo Minsk
Semi-final Dynamo Tb. 1–2 Dnipro

Previous Encounters

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Previously they only met seven times with Torpedo winning four and Dnipro 3, the goals were 7 to 5 respectively. The very first time they met each other on March 12, 1972, at the Round of 16 when Torpedo playing home was victorious 2:0. The last encounter was during the last season when in the semifinals Torpedo once again defeated Dnipro in overtime playing at home.

Match details

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Torpedo Moscow0 – 1Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Report Shokh   34'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Minsk)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FC Torpedo Moscow
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
FC Torpedo Moscow:
GK   Valeri Sarychev
DF   Sergei Makeyev
DF   Valentin Kovach
MF   Sergei Zhukov   75'
DF   Vadim Rogovskoy
DF   Gennadi Grishin   72'
MF   Yuriy Savichev (c)
MF   Andrei Rudakov
MF   Nikolai Savichev
FW   Oleg Shirinbekov   62'
FW   Sergey Agashkov
Substitutes:
FW   Renat Ataulin   75'
DF   Aleksandr Gitselov   72'
MF   Vladimir Grechnyov   67'
GK
DF
DF
MF
Manager:
  Valentin Ivanov
FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk:
GK   Serhiy Krakovskyi
DF   Andriy Yudin   88'
DF   Ivan Vyshnevskyi
MF   Andriy Sydelnykov   53'   83'
DF   Vadym Tyshchenko
DF   Mykola Kudrytsky   67'
MF   Volodymyr Bahmut
MF   Oleksiy Cherednyk
MF   Anton Shokh (c)
FW   Eduard Son
FW   Yevhen Shakhov
Substitutes:
FW   Oleksandr Chervonyi   88'
DF   Volodymyr Lyutyi   83'
MF   Evgeny Yarovenko   67'
GK
DF
DF
MF
Manager:
  Yevhen Kucherevsky

MATCH OFFICIALS

  • Assistant referees:
    • V.Chekhoev (Ordjonikidze)
    • V.Medvedtsky (Volzhskiy)
  • Fourth official: ( )

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.

Soviet Cup 1989 Winners
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
First title

See also

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References

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