1946 Soviet Cup

The 1946 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The whole competition was played in Moscow.

1946 Cup of USSR in Football

Кубок СССР
Tournament details
Country	Soviet Union
Dates	October 6–20
Teams	16
Defending champions	CDKA Moscow
Final positions
Champions	Spartak Moscow
Runner-up	Dinamo Tbilisi

Participating teams

Enter in First Round
Pervaya Grouppa 12/12 teams	Additional 4 teams
Y CDKA Moscow Y Dynamo Moscow Y Dynamo Tbilisi Y Torpedo Moscow Y Dynamo Leningrad Y Spartak Moscow Y Krylia Sovetov Moscow Y Traktor Stalingrad Y Zenit Leningrad Y Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev Y Dynamo Minsk Y Dynamo Kiev	Vtoraya Grouppa winners Y VVS Moscow (Southern Zone) Y Pischevik Moscow (Eastern Zone) Tretia Grouppa winners Y Dinamo Riga (RSFSR championship) Y Spartak Uzhgorod (USSR championship)

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Notes

Competition schedule

First round

[Oct 6]
CDKA Moskva                  4-1  Zenit Leningrad 
  [Ivan Shcherbakov 6, Valentin Nikolayev 54, Alexei Grinin 84 pen, Vsevolod Bobrov 90 – Ivan Komarov 49] 
TORPEDO Moskva               3-0  Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 
  [Vasiliy Zharkov 23, 48, Vasiliy Panfilov 87] 
[Oct 7] 
DINAMO Moskva                4-0  Pishchevik Moskva 
  [Konstantin Beskov 32, Vasiliy Trofimov 43, 68, Alexandr Malyavkin 85] 
Dinamo Tbilisi               0-0  Dinamo Minsk 
[Oct 8] 
SPARTAK Moskva               6-2  VVS Moskva 
  [Alexei Sokolov-2, Ivan Konov, Georgiy Glazkov, Boris Kulagin (V) og, Alexandr Afonkin (V) og – Nikolai Gulyayev (S) og, Viktor Ponomaryov] 
SPARTAK Uzhgorod             4-3  Dinamo Leningrad         [aet] 
  [Dezideriy Tovt 17, R.Aikhert 62, A.Zdor 67, I.Fabian 93 – Yevgeniy Arkhangelskiy 4, Vasiliy Lotkov 21, Anatoliy Viktorov ?] 
[Oct 9] 
DINAMO Kiev                  3-0  Dinamo Riga 
  [Anatoliy Gorokhov 22, Oleg Zhukov 37, Pavel Vinkovatov 52] 
KRYLYA SOVETOV Moskva        2-1  Traktor Stalingrad 
  [Nikita Simonyan, Ruperto Sagasti – Viktor Matveyev]

First round replays

[Oct 8] 
DINAMO Tbilisi               2-0  Dinamo Minsk 
  [Viktor Berezhnoi ?, Avtandil Gogoberidze 90]

Quarterfinals

[Oct 11] 
Dinamo Moskva                1-2  DINAMO Tbilisi 
  [Vasiliy Kartsev 75 – Boris Paichadze 14, Viktor Berezhnoi 60] 
TORPEDO Moskva               4-0  CDKA Moskva              [aet] 
  [Vasiliy Zharkov 91, Alexandr Ponomaryov 109, 116, Pyotr Petrov 118] 
[Oct 13] 
Krylya Sovetov Moskva        1-2  DINAMO Kiev              [aet] 
  [Pyotr Dementyev 54 – Oleg Zhukov 75, Viktor Rogozyanskiy 91] 
SPARTAK Moskva               5-0  Spartak Uzhgorod  
  [Georgiy Glazkov 6, 69, Nikolai Dementyev 11, Alexei Sokolov 79, Nikolai Klimov 86]

Semifinals

[Oct 15] 
Torpedo Moskva               1-2  DINAMO Tbilisi 
  [Pyotr Petrov 80 – Viktor Panyukov 6, Viktor Berezhnoi 60] 
[Oct 16] 
SPARTAK Moskva               3-1  Dinamo Kiev 
  [Oleg Timakov 25, Boris Smyslov 75, Ivan Konov 88 – Anatoliy Gorokhov 67]

Final

20 October 1946

Spartak Moscow	3 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Dinamo Tbilisi
Konov 9' Glazkov 38' Timakov 99'	[ Report]	Gogoberidze 15' Antadze 22'

Moscow

External links

• Complete calendar. helmsoccer.narod.ru
• 1946 Soviet Cup. Footballfacts.ru
• 1946 Soviet football season. RSSSF