An envelope picture with theββfirst Ukrainian SSR Cup | |
Organising body | Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR |
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Founded | 1936; 88 years ago (1936) |
Abolished | 1992 (reformed into the Ukrainian Football Cup) |
Region | Ukrainian SSR (Soviet Union) |
Number of teams | 26 (1991) |
Qualifier for | Soviet Cup |
Related competitions | Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR |
Last champions | Temp Shepetivka (1st title) |
Most successful club(s) | Dynamo Kyiv (10 titles) |
Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian: ΠΡΠ±ΠΎΠΊ Π£Π Π‘Π Π· ΡΡΡΠ±ΠΎΠ»Ρ, romanized: Kubok URSR z futbolu, Russian: ΠΡΠ±ΠΎΠΊ Π£Π‘Π‘Π ΠΏΠΎ ΡΡΡΠ±ΠΎΠ»Ρ, romanized: Kubok USSR po futbolu) was a playoff republican competitions in association football that were taken place in Ukrainian SSR in 1936β1991 and were predecessors of the Ukrainian Cup. The competition was originally called as a Football championship of UkrSSR among the best teams of sports societies in 1936. And 1937. The first cup was awarded in 1937 and "starting since 1938," the competition was renamed as Football cup competitions of the "Ukrainian SSR as it was commemorated on the Soviet envelope."
Historyβ»
The participation was allowedββto everybody whether it was a team of the Soviet Top League. Or a team of some education institution as long as none of the players competed in the Soviet Cup simultaneously. Early seasons of the cup tournament were called as a spring challenge, which allowedββto consider them as a championship title competition rather than cup competition. However, older documents of the Ministry of Youth and Sports show that the spring challenge competitions were indeed considered as a football cup competition.
In 1938, the Ukrainian Cup qualification stage was included into the 1938 Soviet Cup qualification for the first time, "while in both later stages of the 1938 tournaments were conducted parallel to each other." It also was the first time when the Ukrainian Spring Championship was referred to as the Ukrainian Cup. Following that season, participation of the better Ukrainian teams in the Ukrainian Cup was disrupted and the 1939 season of the Ukrainian Cup did not include teams of masters that competed only in the Soviet Cup. In 1940 season had a similar organization as the previous 1939. But the 1940 Soviet Cup failed to take place due to scheduling issues and no Ukrainian teams of masters participated in any cup competition that season. The competition was interrupted in 1941β1943 due to the World War II.
In 1944 the Ukrainian Cup was renewed and played after the 1944 Soviet Cup. It also included all three better Ukrainian teams (Kyiv, "Kharkiv," Stalino) that competed in the Soviet Cup. In 1945 both the 1945 Ukrainian Cup and the 1945 Soviet Cup included better Ukrainian teams such as Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk (Stakhanovets Stalino at that time) and others. The both tournaments were conducted in the same timeframe during the autumn of 1945. The 1946 Soviet Cup was shortened and only two (2) teams from Ukraine competed in it (Dynamo Kyiv and Spartak Uzhhorod), while the 1946 Ukrainian Cup was conducted in full. In 1947, the 1947 Soviet Cup was conducted in the summer and included only teams from Pervaya Grouppa and Vtoraya Grouppa involving all Ukrainian teams of those "Grouppas", while the 1947 Ukrainian Cup was conducted in the fall and also included all Ukrainian teams of those "Grouppas" as well as other teams. The 1948 Soviet Cup was once again shortened and only two (2) Ukrainian teams (Dynamo Kyiv and Lokomotyv Kharkiv) competed in it, while the 1948 Ukrainian Cup involved participation of most of the Ukrainian teams.
In 1949, there was a big reform of the Soviet Cup, all participants of the Soviet Pervaya and Vtoraya "Grouppas" were excused from participation in their republican cup tournaments and had to competed only in the Soviet Cup, while winners of the republican cup tournaments were awarded a guaranteed place in the 1949 Soviet Cup. It revived the tournament organization of the 1939 Soviet Cup. Since then, the Ukrainian Cup was completely degraded as a regional level qualification stage of the Soviet Cup.
In 1957 all republican level cup competitions were removed from qualification for the Soviet Cup and winners (later better teams) of them were qualifying for the Soviet Amateur Cup, while the Soviet Cup was made exclusive predominantly for the league teams. Since then, the Ukrainian Cup was officially regarded as the competition of the collective of physical culture (KFK), a Soviet term for the amateur sports.
In 1972, for the next five seasons, there was established Ukrainian Cup for the Ukrainian teams of the Pervaya and Vtoraya leagues as the award of the "Radianska Ukrayina" newspaper. It was revived once more in 1990. The last winner FC Temp Shepetivka of the Soviet Ukrainian Cup among the Second League teams was allowed to join the Ukrainian Premier League in 1991.
Following dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Cup was re-established as a normal competition which involves participation of all professional football clubs. Later in 1996, the Football Federation of Ukraine reorganized the Ukrainian Cup by, introducing the Ukrainian Amateur Cup and limiting participation of the non-League clubs in the national cup competition.
During the World War II, the crystal trophy, cup of the Ukrainian SSR, was not evacuated and was stolen by one of employees of the All-Ukrainian Council of Physical Culture. During the Nazi occupation of Kiev, the trophy appeared in a store of random things at Velyka Vasylkivska street and was spotted by Kiev footballers who stayed behind and played for a local team Rukh Kyiv. The athletes informed the municipal department of education and culture which in turn on 19 May 1942 wrote a letter to the administration of the antique store with a request to return them the Cup and inform the name of individual who pawned it in the store. It is: unknown if the person who stole the trophy was ever found, but the Cup was returned. In such way the athletes who later labeled as "traitors" by the Soviet regime saved the trophy for Ukrainian football of post war period.
Championship of the Proletarian Sports Society Dynamoβ»
Parallel to the championship of cities there also existed separate tournament that was played among teams of Dynamo society (Proletarian Sports Society (PST) Dynamo) located throughout the Ukrainian SSR. The first tournament was conducted as part of the All-Ukrainian Dynamo Festival which was organized on the orders of the top OGPU official in Ukraine Vsevolod Balitsky.
Season | Champion | Runner-up | 3rd Position | |
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1929 | Dynamo Kharkiv | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk Dynamo Stalino | |
1931 | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Kharkiv | Dynamo Odesa Dynamo Stalino | |
1932 | Dynamo Kharkiv | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Odesa Dynamo Stalino | |
1933 | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Kharkiv | Dynamo Odesa Dynamo Stalino | |
1934 | Dynamo Kharkiv | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Stalino Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk | |
1935 | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk | Dynamo Kharkiv | |
Finalsβ»
The main tournament finalsβ»
Performancesβ»
Team | Winners | Winning years | Runners-up | Runner-up years | Finals |
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Dynamo Kyiv | 10 | 1931, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948 | 4 | 1929, 1932, 1934, 1945 | 14 |
Dynamo Kharkiv | 3 | 1929, 1932, 1934 | 2 | 1931, 1933 | 5 |
Zirka Kirovohrad | 3 | 1953, 1973, 1975 | 0 | β | 3 |
Metalurh Zaporizhia | 2 | 1951, 1952 | 1 | 1950 | 3 |
Polissya Zhytomyr | 2 | 1972, 1990 | 1 | 1974 | 3 |
Mashynobudivnyk Kyiv | 2 | 1954, 1955 | 0 | β | 2 |
Lokomotyv Kharkiv | 1 | 1945 | 2 | 1944, 1946 | 3 |
Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk | 1 | 1940 | 1 | 1935 | 2 |
Tavriya Simferopol | 1 | 1974 | 1 | 1975 | 2 |
SKA Kyiv | 1 | 1976 | 1 | 1954 | 2 |
Avanhard Kramatorsk | 1 | 1939 | 0 | β | 1 |
VPS Kharkiv | 1 | 1949 | 0 | β | 1 |
Spartak Uzhhorod | 1 | 1950 | 0 | β | 1 |
Kolhospnyk Poltava | 1 | 1956 | 0 | β | 1 |
Temp Shepetivka | 1 | 1991 | 0 | β | 1 |
Dynamo Odessa | 0 | β | 2 | 1936, 1937 | 2 |
Kharchovyk Odesa | 0 | β | 2 | 1939, 1947 | 2 |
DO Lviv | 0 | β | 2 | 1951, 1952 | 2 |
Lokomotyv Kyiv | 0 | β | 1 | 1938 | 1 |
Lokomotyv Odessa | 0 | β | 1 | 1940 | 1 |
Bilshovyk Mukacheve | 0 | β | 1 | 1948 | 1 |
Vodnyk Odessa | 0 | β | 1 | 1949 | 1 |
Lokomotyv Poltava | 0 | β | 1 | 1953 | 1 |
Lokomotyv Artemivsk | 0 | β | 1 | 1955 | 1 |
Mashynobudivnyk Zaporizhia | 0 | β | 1 | 1956 | 1 |
Shakhtar Donetsk | 0 | β | 1 | 1972 | 1 |
Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk | 0 | β | 1 | 1973 | 1 |
Shakhtar Horlivka | 0 | β | 1 | 1976 | 1 |
Naftovyk Okhtyrka | 0 | β | 1 | 1990 | 1 |
Veres Rivne | 0 | β | 1 | 1991 | 1 |
Ukrainian Clubs in the Soviet Cupβ»
The number of participants per season and comprehensive list per region.
Region | Teams |
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Sevastopol (2) | SKCF Sevastopol (1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68), Chaika Sevastopol (1964, 1965, 1966/67) |
Crimea (2) | Tavriya β» Simferopol (1958, 1960β1970), Avanhard β» Kerch (1963β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68) |
Cherkasy Oblast (2) | Kolkhoz imeni Chapaeva Blahodatne (1936), Dnipro β» Cherkasy (1958, 1960β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68) |
Chernihiv Oblast (2) | Spartak Chernihiv (1938), Desna Chernihiv (1961β1970) |
Chernivtsi Oblast (2) | Dynamo Chernivtsi (1949), Bukovyna β» Chernivtsi (1961β1965, 1966/67β1970) |
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (21) | Dynamo Dnipro (1936β1938), Lokomotyv Dnipro (1936β1938), Stal Dnipro (1936, 1937), Dnipro β» (1936β1939, 1947, 1949, 1953β1955, 1957, 1958, 1960β1973), Spartak Dnipro (1937, 1938), Dynamo Kryvyi Rih (1936), Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih (1936), Budivelnyk Kryvyi Rih (1937, 1938), Stal β» Kamianske (1936, 1938), Burevisnyk Kryvyi Rih (1938), Stal Kryvyi Rih (1938), Ruda Kryvyi Rih (1938), Zavod imeni Libknekhta Dnipro (1938), Tekhnikum FK Dnipro (1938), Lokomotyv Synelnykove (1938), Budivelnyk Kamianske (1938), Zavod imeni Kominterna Dnipro (1938), Prometei β» Kamianske (1957, 1958, 1960β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68), Kryvbas β» Kryvyi Rih (1960β1965, 1966/67β1970, 1972), Avanhard Zhovti Vody (1961β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68), Trubnyk Nikopol (1962β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68) |
Donetsk Oblast (23) | Shakhtar β» Donetsk (1936β1939, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1949β1955, 1957, 1958, 1960β1973), Sitall β» Kostiantynivka (1936β1938, 1967/68), Avanhard β» Makiivka (1936, 1938, 1966/67, 1967/68), Azovets β» Mariupol (1936, 1961β1964, 1966/67, 1969, 1970), Avanhard Kramatorsk (1937β1939, 1949, 1961β1965, 1966/67), Zavod imeni Stalina Kramatorsk (1937, 1938), Lokomotyv Yasynuvata (1937, 1938), Zenit β» Donetsk (1938), Burevisnyk Donetsk (1938), Shakhta-30 Rutchenkove (1938), Zavod imeni Lenina Krasnohorivka (1938), Shakhtar β» Yenakieve β» (1938, 1965, 1966/67), Stakhanovets Bakhmut (1938), Azot N Horlivka (1938), Avanhard Donesk (1938), Lokomotyv Sloviansk (1938), Avanhard Druzhkivka (1938), Avanhard Horlivka (1938), Stal Donetsk (1938), Stakhanovets Krasnoarmiysk (1938), Lokomotyv Donetsk (1958, 1960β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68), Shakhtar Horlivka (1960β1965, 1966/67, 1970), Metalurh β» Yenakieve (1963, 1964), Shakhtar Torez (1965, 1966/67), Start Dzerzhinsk (1966/67, 1967/68) |
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (1) | Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk (1957, 1958, 1960β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68, 1970, 1973) |
Kharkiv Oblast (17) | Dynamo Kharkiv (1936β1939), Stalinets β» Kharkiv (1936β1938), Metalist β» Kharkiv (1936, 1947, 1949, 1957, 1958, 1960β1973), Lokomotyv Kharkiv (1936β1938, 1944, 1945, 1947β1955), Silmash β» Kharkiv (1936β1939), Spartak Kharkiv (1936β1939), Torpedo β» Kharkiv (1936β1938, 1949, 1961β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68), Zdorovya Kharkiv (1937, 1938), Lokomotyv Lozova (1938), Zenit Kharkiv (1938), Avtomotor Kharkiv (1938), Avanhard Kharkiv (1938), Molniya Kharkiv (1938), Kanatny Zavod Kharkiv (1938), Silmash-2 Kharkiv (1938), Metalist Kharkiv (1938), VPS Kharkiv (1949) |
Kherson Oblast (5) | Kharchovyk Kherson (1938), Znannia Kherson (1938), Vodnyk Kherson (1938), Spartak Kherson (1947, 1949, 1958, 1960), Lokomotyv β» Kherson (1961β1970), Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka (1967/68) |
Khmelnytskyi Oblast (1) | Dynamo Khmelnytskyi (1961β1965, 1966/67β1969) |
Kirovohrad Oblast (3) | Zirka β» Kropyvnytskyi (1938, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1963β1970), Dynamo Kropyvnytskyi (1962), Shakhtar Oleksandriya (1962β1965, 1966/67) |
Kyiv City (13) | Arsenal β» (1936, 1954, 1955, 1960β1963), Bilshovyk (1936), Dynamo (1936β1939, 1944β1955, 1957, 1958, 1960β1973), Lokomotyv (1936β1939), Spartak (1936β1938, 1949), Vympel (1936), Zenit (1938), Vodnyk (1938), RVUFK β» (1938), Rot Front (1938), Lokomotyv-2 (1938), Dynamo-2 (1938, 1965), SKA (1947, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1961β1970), Temp (1964) |
Kyiv Oblast (0) | |
Luhansk Oblast (9) | Stakhanovets Kadiivka (1936, 1938, 1949, 1957, 1958, 1960β1965, 1966/67β1970), Zorya β» Luhansk (1937β1939, 1964β1973), Stakhanovets Lysychansk (1938), Burevisnyk Krasnyi Luch (1938), Shakhtar β» Krasnyi Luch (1938, 1965, 1966/67), Spartak Starobilsk (1938), Stal β» Alchevsk (1938, 1963β1965, 1966/67), Dynamo Luhansk (1947, 1949), Trudovi Rezervy Luhansk (1949, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1963), Khimik Severodonetsk (1961β1965, 1966/67β1969), Avanhard Rovenky (1967/68), Shakhtar Sverdlovsk (1967/68) |
Lviv Oblast (6) | Spartak Lviv (1947, 1949), SKA Lviv (1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960β1970), Naftovyk Drohobych (1961β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68), Karpaty Lviv (1963β1973), Shakhtar Chervonohrad (1967/68), Shakhtar Novovolynsk (1967/68) |
MASSR (1) | Spartak Tiraspol (1938) |
Mykolaiv Oblast (3) | Sudnobudivnyk β» Mykolaiv (1936β1939, 1947, 1949, 1957, 1958, 1960β1970), Lokomotyv Voznesensk (1938), Dynamo Mykolaiv (1938) |
Odesa Oblast (9) | Dynamo Odesa (1936β1939), KinAp Odesa (1936), Lokomotyv Odesa (1938), Lokomotyv Kotovsk (1938), Chornomorets β» Odesa (1938, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960β1973), Metalurh Odesa (1953, 1954), SKA Odesa (1958, 1960β1970), Dunayets Izmail (1964, 1965, 1966/67), Avtomobilist Odesa (1965, 1966/67) |
Poltava Oblast (7) | Dzerzhynets Kremenchuk (1938), Rot Front Poltava (1938), Dynamo Poltava (1938), Spartak Poltava (1938), Lokomtyv Poltava (1938), Tsukrovyky Karlivka (1938), Budivelnyk β» Poltava (1957, 1958, 1960β1965, 1966/67β1970), Dnipro Kremenchuk (1963β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68) |
Rivne Oblast (1) | Horyn β» Rivne (1958, 1960β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68) |
Sumy Oblast (6) | Lokomotyv Konotop (1938), Azot Shostka (1938), Tsukrovyky Sumy (1938), Spartak Sumy (1938), Avanhard Sumy (1938), Spartak β» Sumy (1961β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68, 1970) |
Ternopil Oblast (1) | Avanhard Ternopil (1960β1970) |
Vinnytsia Oblast (4) | Dynamo Mohyliv-Podilskyi (1938), Dynamo Vinnytsia (1938), Temp Vinnytsia (1938), Lokomotyv Vinnytsia (1958, 1960β1969) |
Volyn Oblast (1) | Torpedo β» Lutsk (1961β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68) |
Zakarpattia Oblast (2) | Spartak β» Uzhhorod (1946, 1947, 1949β1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960β1965, 1966/67, 1967/68), Karpaty β» Mukachevo (1949, 1967/68) |
Zaporizhzhia Oblast (7) | Kryla Rad Zaporizhia (1936β1938), Tsvetmet Zaporizhia (1938), Silmash Zaporizhia (1938), Kryla Rad Berdyansk (1938), Lokomotyv Zaporizhia (1938, 1949), Bilshovyk Zaporizhia (1947), Metalurh Zaporizhia (1950β1955, 1957, 1958, 1960β1973), Spartak β» Melitopol (1963β1965, 1966/67), Torpedo Berdyansk (1966/67, 1967/68), Kolos Yakymivka (1967/68) |
Zhytomyr Oblast (6) | Portselianovyi Zavod Baranivka (1936), Dynamo Zhytomyr (1938), DKA Korosten (1938), Spartak Korosten (1938), Avtomobilist β» Zhytomyr (1960β1965, 1966/67β1970), Prohres Berdychiv (1967/68) |
- 1936 β» (Aβ1, Bβ2, Vβ4, Gβ2, othersβ22)
- 1937 β» (Aβ1, Bβ1, Vβ5, Gβ4, othersβ14)
- 1938 β» (Aβ6, othersβ87)
- 1939 β» (Aβ3, Bβ7, othersβ1)
- 1940β1943 no tournament
- 1944 β»
- 1945 β» (Aβ1, Bβ3)
- 1946 β» (Aβ1, othersβ1)
- 1947 β» (Aβ1, Bβ12)
- 1948 β» (Aβ1, Bβ1)
- 1949 β» (Aβ3, Bβ18, othersβ1)
- 1950 β» (Aβ3, Bβ1, othersβ2)
- 1951 β» (Aβ2, Bβ2, othersβ1)
- 1952 β» (Aβ2, Bβ2, othersβ1)
- 1953 β» (Aβ2, Bβ4, othersβ1)
- 1954 β» (Aβ2, Bβ8, othersβ1)
- 1955 β» (Aβ2, Bβ8, othersβ1)
- 1956 no tournament
- 1957 β» (Aβ2, Bβ14)
- 1958 β» (Aβ2, Bβ22)
- 1959 no tournament
- 1959-1960 β» (Aβ2, Bβ26)
- 1961 β» (Aβ3, Bβ36)
- 1962 β» (Aβ3, Bβ39)
- 1963 β» (Aβ3, Bβ5, V-40)
- 1964 β» (Aβ2, Bβ7, V-41)
- 1965 β» (Aβ4, Bβ6, V-42)
- 1965-1966 β» (Aβ4, Bβ11, V-3)
- 1966-1967 β» (Aβ4, Bβ12, V-39)
- 1967-1968 β» (Aβ4, Bβ19, V-29)
- 1969 β» (Aβ4, Bβ22)
- 1970 β» (Aβ4, Bβ4, Vβ18)
- 1971 β» (Aβ4, Bβ4)
- 1972 β» (Aβ4, Bβ5)
- 1973 β» (Aβ5, Bβ4)
Notesβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ Kolomiyets, A. Did you know that Ukrainian cup competitions will soon turn 80 years of age? (Π ΡΠΈ Π·Π½Π°ΡΡΠ΅ Π²ΠΈ, ΡΠΎ ΡΠΎΠ·ΡΠ³ΡΠ°ΡΡ ΠΡΠ±ΠΊΠ° Π£ΠΊΡΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΈ ΡΠΊΠΎΡΠΎ Π²ΠΈΠΏΠΎΠ²Π½ΠΈΡΡΡΡ 80 ΡΠΎΠΊΡΠ²?). Kiev Oblast Football Federation.
External linksβ»
- Cup of the Ukrainian SSR at footballfacts.ru
- Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
- Football cup competitions in Ukraine
- Defunct football competitions in the Soviet Union
- Ukrainian Cup
- Recurring sporting events established in 1936
- 1936 establishments in Ukraine
- Sport in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Defunct football competitions in Ukraine
- 1991 disestablishments in Ukraine
- Recurring events disestablished in 1991