2005 Ukrainian Cup Final
# 2005 Ukrainian Cup Final

The 2005 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the NSC Olimpiyskiy on 29 May 2005. The match was the 14th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. The Olympic stadium is the traditional arena for the Cup final. The game was remembered for involving the most foreign players in the Ukrainian Cup finals: out of 36 players on both teams' rosters, 28 were from outside of Ukraine. Of the starting line-ups, there were five Brazilians, four Ukrainians, four Romanians, and others. Refereeing the match was a Norwegian team of referees.

## Road to Kyiv

All 16 Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition; Dynamo and Shakhtar therefore both qualified for the competition automatically.

## Match details

| Dynamo Kyiv | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| - | - |

Dynamo Kyiv: :

| GK | 1 | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (c) |
| - | - | - |
| DF | 4 | Rodolfo | 20' |
| MF | 10 | Florin Cernat | 54' |
| MF | 15 | Diogo Rincón | 11' (pen.) | 51' |
| FW | 16 | Maxim Shatskikh | 53' | 71' |
| DF | 20 | Oleh Husyev | |
| FW | 23 | Māris Verpakovskis | 17' |
| DF | 26 | Andriy Nesmachniy |
| MF | 32 | Goran Gavrančić | 46' |
| FW | 37 | Ayila Yussuf | 29' | |
| DF | 44 | Rodrigo | 4' |
| Substitutes: ||||
| GK | 33 | Vitaliy Reva |
| DF | 3 | Serhiy Fedorov | 46' |
| MF | 7 | Jerko Leko | 54' |
| MF | 8 | Valiatsin Bialkevich | 71' |
| MF | 11 | Georgi Peev |
| FW | 25 | Artem Milevskyi | |
| MF | 36 | Miloš Ninković |
| Manager: ||||
| Yozhef Sabo ||||

Shakhtar Donetsk: :

| GK | 16 | Jan Laštůvka |
| - | - | - |
| DF | 2 | Cosmin Bărcăuan | 90' |
| MF | 4 | Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (c) |
| MF | 6 | Igor Duljaj | 80' |
| MF | 9 | Matuzalém | |
| MF | 10 | Zvonimir Vukić | 42' | 58' |
| DF | 18 | Mariusz Lewandowski | |
| FW | 25 | Brandão | |
| DF | 26 | Răzvan Raț | |
| FW | 29 | Ciprian Marica | 29' |
| DF | 33 | Darijo Srna | 83' |
| Substitutes: ||||
| GK | 1 | Stipe Pletikosa |
| DF | 3 | Tomáš Hübschman | |
| FW | 11 | Andriy Vorobey | 80' |
| DF | 14 | Flavius Stoican | 83' |
| FW | 20 | Oleksiy Bielik | |
| MF | 36 | Elano |
| MF | 38 | Jádson | 58' |
| Manager: ||||
| Mircea Lucescu ||||
| MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Golvik Steiner (Norway) Borgan Ole Germann (Norway) Fourth official: Brage Sandmon (Norway) | 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. |

* Ukrainian Cup 2005 Winners
* Dynamo Kyiv Seventh title
