Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian: Кубок УРСР з футболу, romanized: Kubok URSR z futbolu, Russian: Кубок УССР по футболу, romanized: Kubok USSR po futbolu) was a playoff republican competitions in association football that were taken place in Ukrainian SSR in 1936–1991 and were predecessors of the Ukrainian Cup.[1] The competition was originally called as a Football championship of UkrSSR among the best teams of sports societies in 1936 and 1937.[1] The first cup was awarded in 1937 and starting since 1938, the competition was renamed as Football cup competitions of the Ukrainian SSR[1] as it was commemorated on the Soviet envelope.
History
The participation was allowed to 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 allowed to 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.[2]
In 1939, 1940 and since 1949 no teams from the Soviet Top League participated in the competition. In 1959 the competition among teams of masters was replaced with competition for amateur clubs (see Ukrainian Amateur Cup).
In 1972 it was revived again for the next five seasons and one more time in 1990, while competition for physical fitness clubs at that time discontinued. The last winner FC Temp Shepetivka of the Soviet Ukrainian Cup was allowed to join the Ukrainian Premier League in 1991.
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.[1] 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.[1] 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.[1] It is unknown if the person who stole the trophy was ever found, but the Cup was returned.[1] In such way the athletes who later labeled as "traitors" by the Soviet regime saved the trophy for Ukrainian football of post war period.[1]
Championship of the Proletarian Sports Society Dynamo
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.[3] 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. The tournament was also known as the Dynamiada of Ukraine. There existed some degree of confusion due to great number of tournaments at that time.[4]
| Season | Champion | Runner-up | 3rd Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929[lower-alpha 1] | Dynamo Kharkiv | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk Dynamo Stalino | |
| 1931[lower-alpha 2] | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Kharkiv | Dynamo Odesa Dynamo Stalino | |
| 1932[lower-alpha 3] | Dynamo Kharkiv | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Odesa Dynamo Stalino | |
| 1933[lower-alpha 4] | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Kharkiv | Dynamo Odesa Dynamo Stalino | |
| 1934[lower-alpha 3] | Dynamo Kharkiv | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Stalino Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk | |
| 1935[lower-alpha 3] | Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk | Dynamo Kharkiv | |
Finals
| Year | Venue | Winner | Score | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 Final |
7 July 1929 17:30 (MST) Kiev – Chervonyi Stadium Attendance: ? |
Dynamo Kharkiv Petro Mishchenko  58'Oleksandr Shpakovsky 82', 87' |
3 – 1 (0 – 1) |
Dynamo Kyiv Oleksandr Serdyuk 14' |
| 1931 Final |
12 June 1931 ?:? (MST) Kiev – Chervonyi Stadium Attendance: 12,000 |
Dynamo Kyiv Kazimierz Piontkowski ?', ?', ?' |
3 – 0 (? – 0) |
Dynamo Kharkiv |
| 1932 Final |
26 June 1932 ?:? (MST) Kharkiv – Metalist Stadium Attendance: ? |
Dynamo Kharkiv Oleksandr Shpakovsky ?' |
1 – 0 (1 – 0) |
Dynamo Kyiv |
| 1933 Final |
12 June 1933 ?:? (MST) Kyiv – Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 18,000 |
Dynamo Kyiv Mykola Makhynia 67'Konstantin Schegotsky 88' |
2 – 1 (0 – 0) |
Dynamo Kharkiv Ivan Privalov 69' |
| 1934 Final |
8 September 1934 ?:? (MST) Kyiv – Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 10,000 |
Dynamo Kharkiv Volodymyr Kulykov 12'Kostyantyn Fomin 17'Mykola Fomin 34'Yan Yakubovych 65'Volodymyr Fomin 67' |
5 – 0 (3 – 0) |
Dynamo Kyiv |
| 1935 Final |
26 October 1935 13:00 (MST) Kyiv – Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 40,000 |
Dynamo Kyiv Mykola Makhynia 1'Ivan Kuzmenko 55', 66' |
3 – 1 (1 – 1) |
Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk Petro Laiko 22' |
Finals
| Year | Venue | Winner | Score | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 Final |
24 June 1936 18:00 (MST) Kiev – Balytskyi Stadium Attendance: 35,000 |
Dynamo Kyiv Viktor Shylovsky 7', 23', 53'Konstantin Shchegotsky 56'Mykola Korotkykh ?' |
6 – 0 (2 – 0) |
Dynamo Odessa Volodymyr Tokar ?' (own) |
| 1937 Final |
18 May 1937 18:00 (MST) Kiev – Balytskyi Stadium Attendance: 25,000 |
Dynamo Kyiv Oleksiy Klymenko 35' (own)Makar Honcharenko 53'Viktor Shylovsky 68'Mykola Makhynia 94', 103' |
4 – 2 (0 – 1) |
Dynamo Odessa Leonid Oriekhov 65' (pen.) |
| 1938 Final |
15 October 1938 16:00 (MST) Kiev – Yezhov Stadium Attendance: 15,000 |
Dynamo Kyiv Petro Laiko 27', 76'Viktor Shylovsky 84' |
3 – 1 (1 – 0) |
Lokomotyv Kyiv Oleksandr Shatskyi 73' |
| among amateur teams | ||||
| 1939 | Kramatorsk | Avanhard Kramatorsk | 2 – 0 | Kharchovyk Odessa |
| 1940 | Dnipropetrovsk | Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk | 2 – 2 (6 – 2 replay) | Lokomotyv Odessa |
| After World War II reestablished as all-Ukrainian competition | ||||
| 1944 Final | Kiev | Dynamo Kyiv won the Final Group | ||
| 1945 Final |
8 November 1945 ?:? (MST) Kiev – Dynamo Stadium Attendance: ? |
Lokomotyv Kharkiv Anatoliy Horokhov ?' |
1 – 0 (0 – 0) |
Dynamo Kyiv |
| 1946 Final |
12 November 1946 14:30 (MST) Kiev – Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 20,000 |
Dynamo Kyiv Pavlo Vinkovatyi 42', 45' |
2 – 0 (2 – 0) |
Lokomotyv Kharkiv |
| 1947 Final |
9 November 1947 14:00 (MST) Kiev – Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 12,000 |
Dynamo Kyiv Mykhailo Chaplyhin 7', 10'Fedir Dashkov 20'Pavlo Vinkovatyi 47'Pyotr Dementiev 49' |
5 – 1 (3 – 1) |
Kharchovyk Odesa Mykola Potapov 34' |
| 1948 Final |
26 October 1948 15:00 (MST) Kiev – Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 7,000 |
Dynamo Kyiv Viktor Zhylin 16', 44'Heorhiy Ponomariov 46'Pavlo Vinkovatyi 78' |
4 – 1 (2 – 0) |
Bilshovyk Mukacheve József Egervári 83' (pen.) |
| among amateur teams | ||||
| 1949 | Kharkiv | VPS Kharkiv | 5 – 1 | Vodnyk Odessa |
| 1950 | Kiev | Spartak Uzhhorod | 4 – 2 | Metalurh Zaporizhia |
| 1951 | Kiev | Metalurh Zaporizhia | 4 – 0 | BO Lviv |
| 1952 | Zaporizhia | Metalurh Zaporizhia | 6 – 3 | BO Lviv |
| 1953 | Kirovohrad | Torpedo Kirovohrad | 3 – 1 | Lokomotyv Poltava |
| 1954 | Kiev | Mashbud Kyiv | 1 – 0, 3 – 1 | OBO Kyiv |
| 1955 | Kiev | Mashbud Kyiv | 2 – 1 | Lokomotyv Artemivsk |
| 1956 | Kiev | Kolhospnyk Poltava | 4 – 0 | Mashbud Zaporizhia |
| 1957 | Kiev | SKMD Odessa | 2 – 0 | Kolhospnyk Rivne |
| 1958 | Ternopil | Torpedo Kharkiv | 2 – 1 aet | Avanhard Ternopil |
| There were no competitions from 1959 till 1971. Ukrainian Amateur Cup established | ||||
| 1972 | Kiev | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | 1 – 0, aet | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| 1973 | Kiev | Zirka Kirovohrad | 1 – 0 | Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk |
| 1974 | home/away basis | Tavriya Simferopol | 2 – 0, 2 – 1 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr |
| 1975 | home/away basis | Zirka Kirovohrad | 2 – 0, 1 – 2 | Tavriya Simferopol |
| 1976 | Horlivka | SKA Kyiv | 2 – 0 | Shakhtar Horlivka |
| There were no competitions from 1977 till 1989. | ||||
| 1990 | home/away basis | Polissya Zhytomyr | 4 – 0, 1 – 3 | Naftovyk Okhtyrka |
| 1991 | home/away basis | Temp Shepetivka | 1 – 1, 2 – 1 | Veres Rivne |
Performances
| Team | Winners | Winning years | Runners-up | Runner-up years | Finals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | – | 3 |
| Metalurh Zaporizhia | 2 | 1951, 1952 | 1 | 1950 | 3 |
| Polissya Zhytomyr | 2 | 1972, 1990 | 1 | 1974 | 3 |
| Mashynobudivnyk Kyiv | 2 | 1954, 1955 | 0 | – | 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 | – | 1 |
| VPS Kharkiv | 1 | 1949 | 0 | – | 1 |
| Spartak Uzhhorod | 1 | 1950 | 0 | – | 1 |
| Kolhospnyk Poltava | 1 | 1956 | 0 | – | 1 |
| SKVO Odessa | 1 | 1957 | 0 | – | 1 |
| Torpedo Kharkiv | 1 | 1958 | 0 | – | 1 |
| Temp Shepetivka | 1 | 1991 | 0 | – | 1 |
| Dynamo Odessa | 0 | – | 2 | 1936, 1937 | 2 |
| Kharchovyk Odesa | 0 | – | 2 | 1939, 1947 | 2 |
| DO Lviv | 0 | – | 2 | 1951, 1952 | 2 |
| Veres Rivne | 0 | – | 2 | 1957, 1991 | 2 |
| Lokomotyv Kyiv | 0 | – | 1 | 1938 | 1 |
| Lokomotyv Odessa | 0 | – | 1 | 1940 | 1 |
| Bilshovyk Mukacheve | 0 | – | 1 | 1948 | 1 |
| Vodnyk Odessa | 0 | – | 1 | 1949 | 1 |
| Lokomotyv Poltava | 0 | – | 1 | 1953 | 1 |
| Lokomotyv Artemivsk | 0 | – | 1 | 1955 | 1 |
| Mashynobudivnyk Zaporizhia | 0 | – | 1 | 1956 | 1 |
| Avanhard Ternopil | 0 | – | 1 | 1958 | 1 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 0 | – | 1 | 1972 | 1 |
| Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk | 0 | – | 1 | 1973 | 1 |
| Shakhtar Horlivka | 0 | – | 1 | 1976 | 1 |
| Naftovyk Okhtyrka | 0 | – | 1 | 1990 | 1 |
External links
- Cup of the Ukrainian SSR at footballfacts.ru
- The Bowl Contests of 80 years of age (Битви за Чашу восьмидесятилітньої давнини) Archived 2017-05-15 at the Wayback Machine. Ukrainian Premier League. 11 May 2017.
Notes
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Kolomiyets, A. Did you know that Ukrainian cup competitions will soon turn 80 years of age? (А чи знаєте ви, що розіграшу Кубка України скоро виповниться 80 років?). Kiev Oblast Football Federation.
- ↑ Korniyv, Andriy (2018), Раритетні футбольні документи з архівних установ Києва (слайди) [Rare football documents from the archive institutions of Kyiv (slides)] (PDF) (in Russian)
- ↑ Banyas, V. "Dynamo" is a power in movement («Динамо» — сила в русі). Ukrainian Premier League. 13 November 2017
- ↑ Banyas, V. "... it would be logical to merge in organization cup and championship competitions..." («…Логічно об’єднати в розіграші Кубка й чемпіонату…») Archived 2018-09-13 at the Wayback Machine. Ukrainian Premier League. 9 February 2018
External links
- «Динамо» — сила в русі. 1927.kiev.ua.
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