1988 Soviet Cup Final

Event

1987-88 Soviet Cup

Torpedo Moscow	Metalist Kharkiv

0	2

Date

28 May 1988

Venue

Dynamo Stadium, Moscow

Referee

I.Timoshenko (Rostov-na-Donu)

Attendance

30,000

The 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total and second in five years. For Torpedo it was their 13th Cup Final and the seventh loss at this stage.

Road to Moscow

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

Torpedo Moscow
Round 1 (1st leg)	Torpedo	1–1	Atlantas
Round 1 (2nd leg)	Atlantas	0–1	Torpedo
	(Torpedo won 2–1 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)	CSKA	1–0	Torpedo
Round 2 (2nd leg)	Torpedo	4–0	CSKA
	(Torpedo won 4–1 on aggregate)
Quarter-final	Torpedo	1–0	Spartak
Semi-final	Torpedo	1–0	Dnipro

Metalist Kharkiv
Round 1 (1st leg)	Metalist	3–1	Krasnaya Presnia
Round 1 (2nd leg)	Krasnaya Presnia	1–1	Metalist
	(Metalist won 4–2 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)	Metalist	0–1	Dynamo S.
Round 2 (2nd leg)	Dynamo S.	1–1	Metalist
	(Metalist won 2–1 on aggregate)
Quarter-final	Metalist	1–0	Rotor
Semi-final	Zalgiris	1–2	Metalist

Previous Encounters

Previously they only met six times with Torpedo winning four and Metalist once, the goals were 6 to 2 respectively. The very first time they met each other on July 26, 1936 at the Round of 16 when Torpedo (then - ZiS) playing home was victorious 2:0 (Metalist was called as KhPZ). The last encounter was three seasons ago when in the first round Torpedo once again defeated Metalist in overtime playing at home.

Match details

Torpedo Moscow v Metalist Kharkiv

1988-05-28
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Torpedo Moscow	0 – 2	Metalist Kharkiv
	Report	Adzhoyev 42' (pen) Baranov 61'

Dynamo Stadium, Moscow
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: I.Timoshenko (Rostov-na-Donu)

FC Torpedo Moscow

FC Metalist Kharkiv


FC Torpedo Moscow:
GK	Valeri Sarychev
DF	Aleksandr Polukarov
DF	Valentin Kovach
DF	Sergei Prigoda
DF	Vadim Rogovskoy
MF	Aleksei Yeryomenko	48'
FW	Vladimir Kobzev
MF	Andrei Rudakov	38'
MF	Nikolai Savichev	63'
FW	Oleg Shirinbekov
FW	Sergey Agashkov
Substitutes:
FW	Nikolai Pisarev	38'
DF
MF
MF	Sergei Zhukov	63'
DF	Gennadi Grishin	48'
DF
MF
Manager: Valentin Ivanov


FC Metalist Kharkiv:
GK	Ihor Kutepov
XX	Ruslan Kolokolov	88'
XX	Mykola Romanchuk
DF	Ivan Panchyshyn
XX	Oleh Derevinskyi
XX	Oleksandr Ivanov	79'
MF	Leonid Buryak
MF	Viktor Vashchenko	46'
MF	Ihor Yakubovsky
FW	Yuri Tarasov	?'
FW	Guram Adzhoyev
Substitutes:
FW	Viktor Yalovsky	51'
DF	Roman Khahba	79'
MF	Oleksandr Baranov	46'
GK
DF
DF
MF
Manager: Yevhen Lemeshko

MATCH OFFICIALS

Assistant referees:
- V.Zhuk (Minsk)
- A.Khokhryakov (Yoshkar-Ola)
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 1988 Winners
Metalist Kharkiv First title

References

External links

Soviet Cup

Seasons	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940–43 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1959–60 1961 1962 1963 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1977–68 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 (as Russian Cup)

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