2020 Ukrainian Cup Final
# 2020 Ukrainian Cup Final

The 2020 Ukrainian Cup Final decided the winner of the 2019–20 Ukrainian Cup, the 29th season of the annual Ukrainian football cup competition. It was played on 8 July 2020 at the OSC Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv between Dynamo Kyiv and Vorskla Poltava. This was the fifth time the cup final would be held in Kharkiv after 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2017 finals.

Originally planned to be held on 13 May 2020 at Ternopilsky Misky Stadion in Ternopil, the final was later postponed to 8 July due to COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine and first moved to Arena Lviv in Lviv, and then, considering the better epidemiological situation, to Kharkiv. Ternopil was granted the right to host the 2021 edition of the final instead. The match was played behind closed doors.

The winner Dynamo initially qualified to participate in the group stage of 2020–21 UEFA Europa League, however, it later qualified for 2020–21 UEFA Champions League after finishing as the league runners-up. The winner Dynamo Kyiv also qualified for the 2020 Ukrainian Super Cup, where it will face the champions of 2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League Shakhtar Donetsk.

## Road to the final

Both teams started their campaign in the Round of 16.

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

| Dynamo Kyiv | Dynamo Kyiv | Round | Vorskla Poltava | Vorskla Poltava |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Opponent | Result | 2019–20 Ukrainian Cup | Opponent | Result |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 2–1 (H) (a.e.t.) | Round of 16 | Kolos Kovalivka | 1–0 (A) |
| Oleksandriya | 1–0 (H) (a.e.t.) | Quarter-finals | Desna Chernihiv | 1–0 (A) |
| Mynai | 2–0 (A) | Semi-finals | Mariupol | 1–1 (A) (a.e.t.), (3–2 p) |

## Previous encounters

In overall, games among which started back in 1996, Dynamo Kyiv and Vorskla Poltava have previously met 53 times, from which 40 were won by Dynamo, 9 were drawn and 4 won by Vorskla. In the matches on the highest level the only previous meeting of the clubs was in the 2009 Ukrainian Super Cup, which was won by Dynamo in the penalty shoot-out 4–2 after 0–0 draw after the regular and extra time. It is going to be third meeting of the clubs in competitions of Ukrainian Cup where two previous played as part of the 2002–03 Ukrainian Cup was won by Dynamo (1–0, 4–0).

For Dynamo Kyiv, this final was the 17th overall, with 11 wins in the previous 16 final appearances. Vorskla played in their second Ukrainian Cup Final after 2009, when they defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 1–0 and won their only Ukrainian Cup to the date.

## Match

| Dynamo Kyiv | Vorskla Poltava |
| - | - |

Dynamo Kyiv: :

| GK | 1 | Heorhiy Bushchan | |
| - | - | - | - |
| DF | 30 | Artem Shabanov | 80' | |
| DF | 34 | Oleksandr Syrota | 9' | |
| DF | 94 | Tomasz Kędziora | |
| MF | 5 | Serhiy Sydorchuk (c) | |
| MF | 7 | Benjamin Verbič | 113' | |
| MF | 8 | Volodymyr Shepelyev | | 117' |
| MF | 14 | Carlos de Pena | |
| MF | 16 | Vitalii Mykolenko | |
| MF | 29 | Vitaliy Buyalskyi | 89' | 99' |
| FW | 11 | Heorhiy Tsitaishvili | | 60' |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 71 | Denys Boyko | |
| MF | 6 | Abdul Mohammed Kadiri | |
| MF | 15 | Viktor Tsyhankov | | 60' |
| MF | 18 | Oleksandr Andriyevskyi | | 117' |
| MF | 70 | Nazariy Rusyn | |
| MF | 99 | Mikkel Duelund | |
| FW | 9 | Fran Sol | |
| FW | 10 | Mykola Shaparenko | | 99' |
| FW | 20 | Oleksandr Karavayev | |
| Coach: ||||
| Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko ||||

Vorskla Poltava: :

| GK | 31 | Dmytro Riznyk | |
| - | - | - | - |
| DF | 5 | Najeeb Yakubu | | 73' |
| DF | 17 | Volodymyr Chesnakov (c) | |
| DF | 23 | Vadym Sapay | |
| DF | 50 | Ibrahim Kane | |
| MF | 4 | Ihor Perduta | 105+1' |
| MF | 6 | Oleksandr Sklyar | 41' | 95' |
| MF | 28 | David Puclin | |
| MF | 92 | Pape-Alioune Ndiaye | |
| FW | 10 | Vladyslav Kulach | | 76' |
| FW | 11 | Ruslan Stepanyuk | | 115' |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 21 | Oleksandr Tkachenko | |
| GK | 51 | Pavlo Isenko | |
| DF | 27 | Volodymyr Bayenko | | 115' |
| MF | 7 | Luizão | | 76' |
| MF | 39 | Yevhen Opanasenko | | 73' |
| MF | 82 | Pavlo Rebenok | |
| FW | 9 | Edin Šehić | | 95' |
| FW | 14 | Danylo Kravchuk | |
| FW | 77 | Denys Vasin | |
| Coach: ||||
| Yuriy Maksymov ||||
| MAN OF THE MATCH MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Maryna Striletska (Sumy) Oleksandra Ardasheva (Kyiv) Fourth official: Anastasiya Romaniuk (Ivano-Frankivsk) Reserved assistant referee: S.Hrushko (Kyiv Oblast) Supervisor of refereeing: S.Zadiran (Dnipro) | Video assistant referee (VAR): V.Romanov (Dnipro) VAR assistant: V.Volodin (Kherson) VAR supervisor: V.Petrov (Kharkiv) UAF game delegate V.Foshchiy (Cherkasy) UAF security officer S.Bortnyk (Kharkiv). | MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Nine named substitutes. Maximum of 5 substitutions. |

* Note: position and roster number is per the Ukrainian Premier League (and Footboom)
