1985 Soviet Cup final

1985 Soviet Cup final

Event	1984-85 Soviet Cup
Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk 2 1
Date	23 June 1985
Venue	Tsentralny Stadion imeni Lenina, Moscow
Referee	Valeriy Butenko (Moscow)
Attendance	53,200

The 1985 Soviet Cup final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on June 23, 1985. The match was the 44th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Shakhtar Donetsk. The Soviet Cup winner Dinamo won the cup for the seventh time. The last year defending holders Dinamo Moscow were eliminated in the round of 16 of the competition by Dinamo Kiev on penalties.

It was fourth and the last all-Ukrainian Soviet Cup final.

See also: Klasychne

Road to Moscow

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

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

FC Dynamo Kyiv		Round	FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Opponent	Result	1984–85 Soviet Cup	Opponent	Result
Nistru Kishinev (A)	4–2	First round	Kotaik Abovyan (A)	3–1
Dinamo Moscow (H)	1–1 (a.e.t.) (6–5 p)	Second round	Ararat Yerevan (H)	2–1
Kairat Alma-Ata (H)	2–1	Quarter-finals	FC Dnipro (H)	2–1
Iskra Smolensk (H)	3–0	Semi-finals	Zenit Leningrad (H)	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p)

Previous Finals

Teams at the competition's finals

Team	Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners)
Shakhtar Donetsk	6 (1961, 1962, 1963, 1978, 1980, 1983)
Dynamo Kyiv	7 (1954, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1982)

Match details

1985-06-23

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FC Dynamo Kyiv	2 – 1	FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Demianenko 56' Blokhin 58'	Report	Morozov 68'

Tsentralny Stadion imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 53,200

Referee: Valeri Butenko (Moscow)

Dinamo Kyiv:
GK	Mykhaylo Mykhaylov
	Volodymyr Bezsonov
	Serhiy Baltacha (c)
	Oleh Kuznetsov
	Anatoliy Demyanenko
	Vasyl Rats
	Pavlo Yakovenko	88'
	Andriy Bal
	Oleksandr Zavarov	88'
	Ihor Belanov	55'
	Oleh Blokhin
Substitutes:
	Ivan Yaremchuk	55'
	Vadym Yevtushenko	88'
	Vasyl Yevseyev	88'
Manager:
Valeriy Lobanovskyi

Shakhter Donetsk:
GK	Valentyn Yelinskas
	Oleksiy Varnavskyi
	Oleksandr Sopko
	Serhiy Pokydin
	Serhiy Zhuravlyov	61'
	Valeriy Rudakov
	Serhiy Yashchenko
	Mykhaylo Sokolovskyi (c)	58'
	Serhiy Akymenko
	Valeriy Hoshkoderya	46'
	Viktor Hrachov
Substitutes:
	Serhiy Morozov	61'
	Serhiy Kravchenko	46'
	Ihor Petrov	58'
Manager:
Viktor Nosov

MATCH OFFICIALS

• Assistant referees:
  • Yu.Savchenko (Moscow)
  • A.Mushkovets (Moscow)
• 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.

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Soviet Cup 1985 Winners
Dynamo Kyiv Seventh title

See also

• 1985 Soviet Top League
• 1985 Soviet First League
• 1985 Soviet Second League

External links

• The competition calendar