2016 Russian Cup Final
# 2016 Russian Cup Final

The 2015 Russian Cup Final decided the winner of the 2015–16 Russian Cup, the 24th season of Russia's main football cup. It was played on 2 May 2016 at the Kazan Arena in Kazan, between CSKA Moscow and Zenit Saint Petersburg.

After being level 1—1 at halftime, Zenit scored three second half goals to emerge victorious with a 4-1 win.

As winners, Zenit qualified for the group stage of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League and also faced off against CSKA in a rematch of the cup final in the Russian Super Cup held on 23 July 2016.

## Match details

Igor Akinfeev (c) :

| DF | 2 | Mário Fernandes |
| - | - | - |
| DF | 24 | Vasiliy Berezutski | 62' |
| DF | 4 | Sergei Ignashevich |
| DF | 6 | Aleksei Berezutski | 18' | 60' |
| MF | 66 | Bibras Natkho |
| MF | 10 | Alan Dzagoev |
| MF | 60 | Aleksandr Golovin |
| MF | 18 | Ahmed Musa |
| MF | 25 | Roman Eremenko | 53' | 66' |
| FW | 99 | Aaron Samuel | | 39' |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 1 | Sergei Chepchugov |
| DF | 5 | Viktor Vasin | | 66' |
| DF | 15 | Taras Mykhalyk |
| DF | 14 | Kirill Nababkin |
| MF | 42 | Georgi Shchennikov |
| MF | 17 | Sergei Tkachyov | | 60' |
| FW | 8 | Kirill Panchenko | | 39' | 68' |
| FW | 7 | Zoran Tošić |
| Manager: |||
| Leonid Slutsky |||

Mikhail Kerzhakov :

| DF | 4 | Domenico Criscito (c) |
| - | - | - |
| DF | 24 | Ezequiel Garay |
| DF | 13 | Luís Neto |
| DF | 19 | Igor Smolnikov |
| MF | 21 | Javi García |
| MF | 14 | Artur Yusupov |
| MF | 17 | Oleg Shatov | 75' |
| MF | 7 | Hulk | 78' | 83' |
| MF | 28 | Axel Witsel | | 82' |
| FW | 9 | Aleksandr Kokorin | | 74' |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 51 | Maksim Rudakov |
| GK | 1 | Yuri Lodygin |
| DF | 6 | Nicolas Lombaerts |
| DF | 52 | Andrei Ivanov |
| DF | 8 | Maurício | | 82' |
| DF | 81 | Yuri Zhirkov | | 83' |
| MF | 70 | Dmitry Bogayev |
| MF | 10 | Danny |
| FW | 22 | Artem Dzyuba | | 74' |
| FW | 92 | Pavel Dolgov |
| Manager: |||
| André Villas-Boas |||

* Match rules
* 90 minutes.
* 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary.
* Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
* Seven named substitutes.
* Maximum of three substitutions.
