1984 Soviet Cup Final
# 1984 Soviet Cup Final

The 1984 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on June 24, 1984. The match was the 43rd Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Zenit Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). The Soviet Cup winner Dinamo won the cup for the sixth time. The last year defending holders Shakhter Donetsk were eliminated in the round of 16 of the competition by Chernomorets Odessa.

## Road to Moscow

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

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

| Dinamo Moscow | Dinamo Moscow | Round | Zenit Leningrad | Zenit Leningrad |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Opponent | Result | 1984–85 Soviet Cup | Opponent | Result |
| Nistru Kishinev (H) | 1–0 | Round of 32 | Daugava Riga (A) | 3–0 |
| Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk (A) | 2–1 | Round of 16 | Ararat Yerevan (H) | 3–3 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p) |
| Chernomorets Odessa (H) | 3–1 (a.e.t.) | Quarter-finals | Torpedo Moscow (A) | 0–0 (a.e.t.) (7–6 p) |
| Dinamo Minsk (A) | 4–0 | Semi-finals | Fakel Voronezh (H) | 1–0 (a.e.t.) |

## Match details

Dinamo Moscow: :

| GK | Aleksei Prudnikov |
| - | - |
| | Igor Bulanov |
| | Aleksandr Novikov (c) | 87' |
| | Vladimir Fomichyov |
| | Aleksandr Golovnya | 100' |
| | Yuri Mentiukov | |
| | Renat Ataullin | |
| | Aleksandr Molodtsov | 46' |
| | Aleksandr Borodiuk | |
| | Vasili Karataev | 107' |
| | Valeriy Gazzaev | 117' |
| Substitutes: |||
| | Aleksandr Khapsalis | 46' |
| | Ievgeny Mileshkin | 107' |
| | Valeri Matiunin | 117' |
| Manager: |||
| Aleksandr Sevidov |||

Zenit Leningrad: :

| GK | Mikhail Biriukov (c) |
| - | - |
| | Anatoli Davydov |
| | Alexei Stepanov |
| | Sergei Kuznetsov | |
| | Sergei Vedeneev | |
| | Gennadi Timofeev | 27' |
| | Vladimir Dolgopolov | 46' |
| | Yuri Zheludkov | |
| | Boris Chukhlov |
| | Valeri Broshin | 110' |
| | Vladimir Klementiev | 91' |
| Substitutes: |||
| | Aleksandr Zakharikov | 46' |
| | Sergei Dmitriev | 91' | 109' |
| | Igor Komarov | 109' |
| Manager: |||
| Pavel Sadyrin |||

* Soviet Cup 1984 Winners
* Dynamo Moscow Sixth title
