1983 Soviet Cup final

1983 Soviet Cup final

Event	1983 Soviet Cup
Shakhter Donetsk Metallist Kharkov 1 0
Date	8 May 1983
Venue	Tsentralny Stadion imeni Lenina, Moscow
Referee	Valeri Butenko (Moscow)
Attendance	30,000
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The 1983 Soviet Cup final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 8, 1983. The match was the 42nd Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Shakhtar Donetsk and FC Metalist Kharkiv. The Soviet Cup winner Shakhter won the cup for the fourth time. The last year defending holders Dinamo Kiev were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the competition by Zenit Leningrad.

Road to Moscow

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

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

Shakhter Donetsk		Round	Metallist Kharkov
Opponent	Result	1984–85 Soviet Cup	Opponent	Result
Zalgiris Vilnius (H)	3–0	Round of 32	Kairat Alma-Ata (H)	0–0 (a.e.t.) (6–5 p)
Spartak Moscow (A)	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Round of 16	Ararat Yerevan (A)	4–2
Dinamo Moscow (N)	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Quarter-finals	Torpedo Kutaisi (H)	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)
Zenit Leningrad (H)	1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p)	Semi-finals	CSKA Moscow (A)	1–0 (a.e.t.)

Match details

1983-05-8

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Shakhter Donetsk	1 – 0	Metallist Kharkov
Yashchenko 23'	Report

Tsentralny Stadion imeni Lenina, Moscow

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Valeriy Butenko (Moscow)

Shakhter Donetsk: GK Valentyn Ielinskas Oleksiy Varnavskyi Oleksandr Sopko Ihor Simonov Volodymyr Parkhomenko Valeriy Rudakov Serhiy Yashchenko  74' Mykhailo Sokolovskyi (c) Serhiy Morozov  63' Ihor Yurchenko Viktor Hrachov Substitutes: Serhiy Akymenko  63' Ihor Petrov  74' Manager: Viktor Nosov

Metallist Kharkov: GK Yuriy Syvukha Viktor Kaplun Rostyslav Potochniak (c) Oleksandr Boiko  46' Viktor Kamarzaev Serhiy Kuznetsov Leonid Tkachenko Viktor Suslo  63' Volodymyr Linke Stanislav Bernikov  41' Yuri Tarasov Substitutes: Leonid Saakov  41' Oleksandr Horbyk  46' Serhiy Motuz  63' Manager: Yevhen Lemeshko

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Yu.Savchenko (Moscow) K.Doronin (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 1983 Winners
Shakhtar Donetsk Fourth title

See also

• 1983 Soviet Top League
• 1983 Soviet First League
• 1983 Soviet Second League

References

External links

• The competition calendar
• 1983. Украинский финал Кубка СССР «Шахтер» - «Металлист», старт «Днепра» в чемпионате. ua.tribuna.com
• Шахтер (Донецк) - Металлист (Харьков). metallurg.pp.ua
• И вновь о том, как Металлист в 1983 заставили сдать финал Кубка СССР Шахтёру. www.sports.ru