1992 Soviet Cup final

1992 Soviet Cup Final
Event	1991–92 Soviet Cup
Date	10 May 1992
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow
Referee	Andrei Butenko (Moscow)
Attendance	42,000
Weather	18 °C
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The 1992 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, on 10 May 1992. The Soviet Union was in the process of being dismantled with all organizations such as the Football Federation of USSR abandoned. Therefore, the game was administered by the Russian Football Union.

The match was the 51st Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Spartak Moscow and PFC CSKA Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Spartak qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Russian Federation. Spartak played their 15th Cup Final winning on 10 occasions including this one. CSKA came to the final as the defending champions and it was their eighth Cup Final and for the third time they were defeated at this stage.

Road to Moscow edit

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

Spartak Moscow

Round 1 (1st leg)	Gastello	2–4	Spartak
Round 1 (2nd leg)	Spartak	2–1	Gastello
	(Spartak won 6–3 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)	Köpetdag	0–0	Spartak
Round 2 (2nd leg)	Spartak	2–1	Köpetdag
	(Spartak won 2–1 on aggregate)
Quarter-final	Krylya Sovetov	0–1 aet	Spartak
Semi-final	Lokomotiv Moscow	0–2	Spartak

CSKA Moscow

Round 1 (1st leg)	Asmaral	0–2	CSKA
Round 1 (2nd leg)	CSKA	3–2	Asmaral
	(CSKA won 5–2 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)	Pakhtakor	1–1	CSKA
Round 2 (2nd leg)	CSKA	3–2	Pakhtakor
	(CSKA won 4–3 on aggregate)
Quarter-final	CSKA	+ - –	Chornomorets
Semi-final	CSKA	2–0	Pamir

Previous encounters edit

Previously these two teams met each other in the early editions of the competition on several occasions. However this was their first time and the last that they met in the finals of the Soviet Cup.

Match details edit

1992-05-10

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Spartak Moscow	2 – 0	CSKA Moscow
Vladimir Bestschastnykh 20', 35'	Report	Dmitriy Kharine missed penalty 45'

Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 42,000

Referee: Andrei Butenko (Moscow)

FC Spartak Moscow

PFC CSKA Moscow


FC Spartak Moscow:
1	Stanislav Cherchesov (c)
3	Dmitriy Khlestov
4	Andrei Ivanov
6	Dmitriy Popov
2	Kakhaber Tskhadadze
5	Viktor Onopko
11	Andrei Chernyshov
10	Valeriy Karpin 80'
8	Andrei Piatnitski 73'
7	Igor Lediakhov
9	Vladimir Bestschastnykh 88'
Substitutes:
14	Dmitriy Radchenko 80'
15	Rashid Rakhimov 73'
16	Aleksandr Tatarkin 88'
Manager:
Oleg Romantsev


PFC CSKA Moscow:
1	Dmitriy Kharine
2	Valeriy Minko
3	Sergei Kolotovkin
4	Dmitriy Bystrov
5	Oleg Malyukov
6	Mikhail Kolesnikov (c) 46'
7	Denis Mashkarin 50'
8	Aleksei Poddubskiy
9	Oleg Sergeyev
10	Sergey Krutov
11	Lev Matveyev 25'
Substitutes:
13	Vasili Ivanov 46'
14	Ilshat Faizulin 25'
15	Aleksandr Grishin 50'
Manager:
Pavel Sadyrin

MATCH OFFICIALS

Assistant referees:
- Viktor Filippov (Moscow)
- Sergei Khusainov (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.

Soviet Cup 1992 winners
Spartak Moscow Tenth title

References edit

External links edit

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