1985 Soviet Cup Final
# 1985 Soviet Cup Final

The 1985 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on June 23, 1985. The match was the 44th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Shakhtar Donetsk. The Soviet Cup winner Dinamo won the cup for the seventh time. The last year defending holders Dinamo Moscow were eliminated in the round of 16 of the competition by Dinamo Kiev on penalties.

It was fourth and the last all-Ukrainian Soviet Cup final.

## Road to Moscow

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

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

| Dinamo Kiev | Dinamo Kiev | Round | Shakhter Donetsk | Shakhter Donetsk |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Opponent | Result | 1984–85 Soviet Cup | Opponent | Result |
| Nistru Kishinev (A) | 4–2 | First round | Kotaik Abovyan (A) | 3–1 |
| Dinamo Moscow (H) | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (6–5 p) | Second round | Ararat Yerevan (H) | 2–1 |
| Kairat Alma-Ata (H) | 2–1 | Quarter-finals | Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk (H) | 2–1 |
| Iskra Smolensk (H) | 3–0 | Semi-finals | Zenit Leningrad (H) | 0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p) |

## Match details

Dinamo Kiev: :

| GK | Mykhaylo Mykhaylov |
| - | - |
| | Volodymyr Bezsonov |
| | Serhiy Baltacha (c) |
| | Oleh Kuznetsov |
| | Anatoliy Demyanenko |
| | Vasyl Rats | |
| | Pavlo Yakovenko | 88' |
| | Andriy Bal |
| | Oleksandr Zavarov | 88' |
| | Ihor Belanov | 55' |
| | Oleh Blokhin | |
| Substitutes: |||
| | Ivan Yaremchuk | 55' |
| | Vadym Yevtushenko | 88' |
| | Vasyl Yevseyev | 88' |
| Manager: |||
| Valeriy Lobanovskyi |||

Shakhter Donetsk: :

| GK | Valentyn Yelinskas |
| - | - |
| | Oleksiy Varnavskyi |
| | Oleksandr Sopko |
| | Serhiy Pokydin | |
| | Serhiy Zhuravlyov | 61' |
| | Valeriy Rudakov | |
| | Serhiy Yashchenko |
| | Mykhaylo Sokolovskyi (c) | 58' |
| | Serhiy Akymenko |
| | Valeriy Hoshkoderya | 46' |
| | Viktor Hrachov |
| Substitutes: |||
| | Serhiy Morozov | 61' |
| | Serhiy Kravchenko | 46' |
| | Ihor Petrov | 58' |
| Manager: |||
| Viktor Nosov |||

* Soviet Cup 1985 Winners
* Dynamo Kyiv Seventh title
