2013 Ukrainian Cup final

2013 Ukrainian Cup Final
Event	2012–13 Ukrainian Cup
Date	22 May 2013
Venue	OSK "Metalist", Kharkiv
Referee	Yevhen Aranovsky (Kyiv)
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The 2013 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that was played at the Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, on 22 May 2013. The match was the 22nd Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by the champions of Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk and Chornomorets Odesa. This was the third time that the final match had returned to Kharkiv.

Since Shakhtar had qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League, Chornomorets would then qualify for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. During the draw for the semi-finals, the matchup Shakhtar Donetsk–Sevastopol was identified as the home team for the final.

Road to Kharkiv edit

As Ukrainian Premier League members Shakhtar Donetsk and Chornomorets Odesa did not have to go through the qualification phase of the competition.

Shakhtar Donetsk

Round 1	Shakhtar Donetsk	4 – 1	Dynamo Kyiv
Round 2	Hoverla Uzhhorod	1 – 4	Shakhtar Donetsk
Quarter-final	Shakhtar Donetsk	2 – 1	Karpaty Lviv
Semi-final	Sevastopol	2 – 4	Shakhtar Donetsk

Chornomorets Odesa

Round 1	Chornomorets Odesa	2 – 0	Metalurh Donetsk
Round 2	UkrAhroKom Pryiutivka	1 – 2	Chornomorets Odesa
Quarter-final	Arsenal Kyiv	1 – 2	Chornomorets Odesa
Semi-final	Chornomorets Odesa	2 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Previous encounters edit

This was the first Ukrainian Cup final between the two teams. The two teams also met in the semi-finals in 2007–08, 2003–04 and 1994–95. On all three occasions, Shakhtar was victorious.

Chornomorets had appeared only twice in a Cup final winning on both occasions and their opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 12 Cup finals, winning eight of them.

Television edit

As last year, the match was broadcast on ICTV in Ukraine.^[1]

Match edit

Details edit

22 May 2013

19:45^[2] EEST

Shakhtar Donetsk	3 – 0	Chornomorets Odesa
Fernandinho 41' Teixeira 53' Taison 73'	Report

OSK "Metalist", Kharkiv

Attendance: 40,003

Referee: Yevhen Aranovsky (Kyiv)

Shakhtar Donetsk

Chornomorets Odesa


Shakhtar Donetsk:
GK	32	Anton Kanibolotskiy
RB	33	Darijo Srna (c)	90+1'
CB	5	Oleksandr Kucher
CB	44	Yaroslav Rakitskiy
LB	13	Vyacheslav Shevchuk	57'
DM	3	Tomáš Hübschman	78'
DM	7	Fernandinho	41' 67'
RW	29	Alex Teixeira	53'
AM	22	Henrikh Mkhitaryan
LW	28	Taison	73'
CF	9	Luiz Adriano	78'
Substitutes:
GK	30	Andriy Pyatov
MF	6	Taras Stepanenko	78'
FW	11	Eduardo	78'
MF	14	Vasyl Kobin
MF	19	Oleksiy Gai
MF	20	Douglas Costa	67' 90'
DF	38	Serhiy Kryvtsov
Manager:
Mircea Lucescu


Chornomorets Odesa:
GK	12	Dmytro Bezotosnyi (c)
DF	4	Markus Berger
MF	6	Léo Matos	83'
MF	8	Kyrylo Kovalchuk
FW	19	Elis Bakaj	73'
FW	20	Lucian Burdujan	66'
FW	23	Franck Dja Djédjé	67'
DF	29	Pablo Fontanello
DF	32	Kristi Vangjeli
MF	39	Artem Starhorodskyi	46'
MF	42	Yevhen Zubeyko
Substitutes:
GK	1	Yevhen Past
DF	2	Petro Kovalchuk
FW	9	Anatoliy Didenko	46' 68'
GK	13	Yuriy Martyshchuk
FW	16	Maksim Shatskikh
DF	33	Andriy Slinkin	83'
FW	99	Sito Riera	67'
Manager:
Roman Hryhorchuk