2016 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2016 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that was played on 21 May 2016 in Lviv. For the first time the cup final was held in Lviv. The match was the 25th Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Zorya Luhansk and Shakhtar Donetsk.

2016 Ukrainian Cup Final

Event	2015–16 Ukrainian Cup
Zorya Luhansk Shakhtar Donetsk 0 2
Date	21 May 2016
Venue	Arena Lviv, Lviv
Referee	Yevhen Aranovsky
Attendance	21,720
Weather	+20°, Light rain

Road to Lviv

Main article: 2015–16 Ukrainian Cup

All fourteen Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition (Ukrainian Cup), so Zorya and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.

Zorya Luhansk Round 1 Krystal Kherson 0 – 5 Zorya Luhansk Round 2 (1st leg) Helios Kharkiv 0 – 2 Zorya Luhansk Round 2 (2nd leg) Zorya Luhansk 3 – 1 Helios Kharkiv   (Zorya won 5–1 on aggregate) Quarter-final (1st leg) Volyn Lutsk 1 – 1 Zorya Luhansk Quarter-final (2nd leg) Zorya Luhansk 5 – 0 Volyn Lutsk   (Zorya won 6–1 on aggregate) Semi-final (1st leg) Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 – 0 Zorya Luhansk Semi-final (2nd leg) Zorya Luhansk 2 – 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk   (Zorya won 2–1 on aggregate)

Shakhtar Donetsk Round 1 Arsenal-Kyiv 0 – 3 Shakhtar Donetsk Round 2 (1st leg) FC Ternopil 0 – 5 Shakhtar Donetsk Round 2 (2nd leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 4 – 0 FC Ternopil   (Shakhtar won 9–0 on aggregate) Quarter-final (1st leg) Vorskla Poltava 0 – 4 Shakhtar Donetsk Quarter-final (2nd leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 1 – 2 Vorskla Poltava   (Shakhtar won 5–2 on aggregate) Semi-final (1st leg) FC Oleksandriya 1 – 1 Shakhtar Donetsk Semi-final (2nd leg) Shakhtar Donetsk 2 – 0 FC Oleksandriya   (Shakhtar won 3–1 on aggregate)

Previous encounters

This was not only the first Ukrainian Cup Final between the two teams, but also the first time they meet in this competition. Previously Zorya and Shakhtar met in the Soviet Cup in total of six game (the record was two wins for Zorya and four wins for Shakhtar with Zorya scoring six goals and Shakhtar scoring seven).

It was first Cup Final appearance for Zorya, while their opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 15 Cup Finals winning nine.

Match

Details

21 May 2016

17:00

Zorya Luhansk	0–2	Shakhtar Donetsk
	Report	Hladkyy 42', 57'

Arena Lviv, Lviv

Attendance: 21,720

Referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi

Zorya Luhansk

Shakhtar Donetsk

Zorya Luhansk: GK 30 Mykyta Shevchenko RB 39 Yevhen Opanasenko  64' CB 3 Mikhail Sivakow  64' CB 12 Rafael Forster  12' LB 6 Mykyta Kamenyuka (c) DM 4 Ihor Chaykovskyi  64' DM 5 Artem Hordiyenko  57' RW 20 Oleksandr Karavayev CM 22 Željko Ljubenović LW 34 Ivan Petryak  46' CF 28 Pylyp Budkivskyi Substitutes: GK 91 Ihor Levchenko DF 2 Artem Sukhotskyi FW 10 Jaba Lipartia  57' FW 11 Paulinho DF 16 Hryhoriy Yarmash  64'  70' MF 24 Dmytro Hrechyshkin MF 29 Andriy Totovytskyi  46' Manager: Yuriy Vernydub

Shakhtar Donetsk: GK 32 Anton Kanibolotskiy RB 33 Darijo Srna (c) CB 5 Oleksandr Kucher CB 44 Yaroslav Rakitskiy LB 31 Ismaily DM 6 Taras Stepanenko DM 17 Maksym Malyshev RW 11 Marlos AM 74 Viktor Kovalenko  59' LW 28 Taison  81' CF 21 Oleksandr Hladkyy  74' Substitutes: GK 30 Andriy Pyatov DF 18 Ivan Ordets DF 38 Serhiy Kryvtsov MF 7 Wellington Nem  74' MF 58 Andriy Korobenko FW 22 Eduardo da Silva  59' FW 19 Facundo Ferreyra  81' Manager: Mircea Lucescu

MAN OF THE MATCH MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Serhiy Bekker (Kharkiv) Natalya Rachynska (Kiev) Fourth official: Kostiantyn Trukhanov

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.

See also

• 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League