Cup of the Ukrainian SSR

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First Ukrainian SSR Cup on cover of the Soviet Union

Cup of the Ukrainian SSR was a playoff competitions that were taken place in Ukrainian SSR in 1936–1991 and were predecessors of the Ukrainian Cup.

Unlike its replacement the Ukrainian Cup, the Cup of Ukrainian SSR involved participation of up to 40,000 clubs of different levels that strife for the republican accolades. 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.

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.

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.

Winners

Year	Winner	Runner-up	Score	Venue
1937	Dynamo Kyiv	Dynamo Odessa	4 – 2 aet	Kiev
1938	Dynamo Kyiv	Lokomotyv Kyiv	3 – 1	Kiev
1939	Avanhard Kramatorsk	Kharchovyk Odessa	2 – 0	Kramatorsk
1940	Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk	Lokomotyv Odessa	2 – 2, 6 – 2	Dnipropetrovsk
1944	Dynamo Kyiv	Lokomotyv Kharkiv	Group standing	Kiev
1945	Lokomotyv Kharkiv	Dynamo Kyiv	1 – 0	Kiev
1946	Dynamo Kyiv	Lokomotyv Kharkiv	2 – 0	Kiev
1947	Dynamo Kyiv	Kharchovyk Odessa	5 – 1	Kiev
1948	Dynamo Kyiv	Bilshovyk Mukacheve	4 – 1	Kiev
1949	VPS Kharkiv	Vodnyk Odessa	5 – 1	Kharkiv
1950	Spartak Uzhhorod	Metalurh Zaporizhia	4 – 2	Kiev
1951	Metalurh Zaporizhia	BO Lviv	4 – 0	Kiev
1952	Metalurh Zaporizhia	BO Lviv	6 – 3	Zaporizhia
1953	Torpedo Kirovohrad	Lokomotyv Poltava	3 – 1	Kirovohrad
1954	Mashbud Kyiv	OBO Kyiv	1 – 0, 3 – 1	Kiev
1955	Mashbud Kyiv	Lokomotyv Artemivsk	2 – 1	Kiev
1956	Kolhospnyk Poltava	Mashbud Zaporizhia	4 – 0	Kiev
1957	SKMD Odessa	Kolhospnyk Rivne	2 – 0	Kiev
1958	Torpedo Kharkiv	Avanhard Ternopil	2 – 1 aet	Ternopil
There were no competitions from 1959 till 1971.
1972	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr	Shakhtar Donetsk	1 – 0, aet	Kiev
1973	Zirka Kirovohrad	Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	1 – 0	Kiev
1974	Tavriya Simferopol	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr	2 – 0, 2 – 1	home/away basis
1975	Zirka Kirovohrad	Tavriya Simferopol	2 – 0, 1 – 2	home/away basis
1976	SKA Kyiv	Shakhtar Horlivka	2 – 0	Horlivka
There were no competitions from 1977 till 1989.
1990	Polissya Zhytomyr	Naftovyk Okhtyrka	4 – 0, 1 – 3	home/away basis
1991	Temp Shepetivka	Veres Rivne	1 – 1, 2 – 1	home/away basis

External links

• Cup of the Ukrainian SSR at footballfacts.ru