Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR

The participation was allowed to everybody whether it was a team of the Soviet Top League or a team of some education institution as long as none of the players competed in the Soviet Cup simultaneously. Early seasons of the cup tournament were called as a spring challenge, which allowed to consider them as a championship title competition rather than cup competition. However, older documents of the Ministry of Youth and Sports show that the spring challenge competitions were indeed considered as a football cup competition^{[citation needed]}.

In 1938, the Ukrainian Cup qualification stage was included into the 1938 Soviet Cup qualification for the first time, while in both later stages of the 1938 tournaments were conducted parallel to each other. It also was the first time when the Ukrainian Spring Championship was referred to as the Ukrainian Cup. Following that season, participation of the better Ukrainian teams in the Ukrainian Cup was disrupted and the 1939 season of the Ukrainian Cup did not include teams of masters that competed only in the Soviet Cup. In 1940 season had a similar organization as the previous 1939, but the 1940 Soviet Cup failed to take place due to scheduling issues and no Ukrainian teams of masters participated in any cup competition that season. The competition was interrupted in 1941–1943 due to the World War II.

In 1944 the Ukrainian Cup was renewed and played after the 1944 Soviet Cup. It also included all three better Ukrainian teams (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Stalino) that competed in the Soviet Cup. In 1945 both the 1945 Ukrainian Cup and the 1945 Soviet Cup included better Ukrainian teams such as Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk (Stakhanovets Stalino at that time) and others. The both tournaments were conducted in the same timeframe during the autumn of 1945. The 1946 Soviet Cup was shortened and only two (2) teams from Ukraine competed in it (Dynamo Kyiv and Spartak Uzhhorod), while the 1946 Ukrainian Cup was conducted in full. In 1947, the 1947 Soviet Cup was conducted in the summer and included only teams from Pervaya Grouppa and Vtoraya Grouppa involving all Ukrainian teams of those "Grouppas", while the 1947 Ukrainian Cup was conducted in the fall and also included all Ukrainian teams of those "Grouppas" as well as other teams. The 1948 Soviet Cup was once again shortened and only two (2) Ukrainian teams (Dynamo Kyiv and Lokomotyv Kharkiv) competed in it, while the 1948 Ukrainian Cup involved participation of most of the Ukrainian teams.

In 1949, there was a big reform of the Soviet Cup, all participants of the Soviet Pervaya and Vtoraya "Grouppas" were excused from participation in their republican cup tournaments and had to competed only in the Soviet Cup, while winners of the republican cup tournaments were awarded a guaranteed place in the 1949 Soviet Cup. It revived the tournament organization of the 1939 Soviet Cup. Since then, the Ukrainian Cup was completely degraded as a regional level qualification stage of the Soviet Cup.

In 1957 all republican level cup competitions were removed from qualification for the Soviet Cup and winners (later better teams) of them were qualifying for the Soviet Amateur Cup, while the Soviet Cup was made exclusive predominantly for the league teams. Since then, the Ukrainian Cup was officially regarded as the competition of the collective of physical culture (KFK), a Soviet term for the amateur sports.

In 1972, for the next five seasons, there was established Ukrainian Cup for the Ukrainian teams of the Pervaya and Vtoraya leagues as the award of the "Radianska Ukrayina" newspaper. It was revived once more in 1990. The last winner FC Temp Shepetivka of the Soviet Ukrainian Cup among the Second League teams was allowed to join the Ukrainian Premier League in 1991.

Following dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Cup was re-established as a normal competition which involves participation of all professional football clubs. Later in 1996, the Football Federation of Ukraine reorganized the Ukrainian Cup by introducing the Ukrainian Amateur Cup and limiting participation of the non-League clubs in the national cup competition.

During the World War II, the crystal trophy, cup of the Ukrainian SSR, was not evacuated and was stolen by one of employees of the All-Ukrainian Council of Physical Culture.^[1] During the Nazi occupation of Kiev, the trophy appeared in a store of random things at Velyka Vasylkivska street and was spotted by Kiev footballers who stayed behind and played for a local team Rukh Kyiv.^[1] The athletes informed the municipal department of education and culture which in turn on 19 May 1942 wrote a letter to the administration of the antique store with a request to return them the Cup and inform the name of individual who pawned it in the store.^[1] It is unknown if the person who stole the trophy was ever found, but the Cup was returned.^[1] In such way the athletes who later labeled as "traitors" by the Soviet regime saved the trophy for Ukrainian football of post war period.^[1]

Since 1957, the Ukrainian Cup, as the prize of the "Radyanska Ukrayina" newspaper,^[2] became a preliminary competition for the Soviet Amateur Cup. In 1970s, there was an attempt to organize a parallel competition for the "teams of masters" (Soviet professional status) which did not last for long.

Starting from 1960, all quarterfinalists (there were 5 of them) qualified to the Soviet Amateur Cup beside the finalists.

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Year	Winner		Runner-up		Score	Soviet Amateur Cup
1957	SKVO Odesa			Kolhospnyk Rivne	2 – 0 (a.e.t.)	SKVO Odesa
1958	Torpedo Kharkiv			Avanhard Ternopil	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Torpedo Kharkiv
1959	Shakhtar Korostyshiv[3]			Avanhard Zhovti Vody	2 – 1	Shakhtar Korostyshiv
1960	Start Chuhuiv			Avanhard Shostka[4]	0 – 0, 3 – 1	Start Chuhuiv Avanhard Shostka Bilshovyk Kyiv Metalurh Nikopol Khimik Kalush
1961	Start Chuhuiv			Shakhtar Smolianka[5]	1 – 0	Start Chuhuiv (2) Shakhta No.11 Stalino Avanhard Ordzhonikidze Shakhtar Korostyshiv (2) Avanhard Chernivtsi
1962	Avanhard Dnipropetrovsk			Ekran Shostka[4]	2 – 0	Avanhard Dnipropetrovsk Ekran Shostka (2) Burevisnyk Melitopol Kolhospnyk Berezhany Temp Kyiv
1963	Meteor Dnipropetrovsk[6]			Torpedo Mykolaiv	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Meteor Dnipropetrovsk Torpedo Mykolaiv Start Chuhuiv (3) Taksomotor Odesa Bilshovyk Kyiv (2)
1964	Bilshovyk Kyiv			Avanhard Dnipropetrovsk	1 – 0	Bilshovyk Kyiv (3) Avanhard Dnipropetrovsk (2) Zirka Kotovsk Tytan Zaporizhia Avanhard Kremenchuk (Kryukiv)
1965	Tytan Zaporizhzhia[7]			VPU Lviv	2 – 1	Tytan Zaporizhzhia (2) Avanhard Ordzhonikidze (2) LVVPU Lviv Start Chuhuiv (4) Avanhard Rovenky
1966	VPU Lviv			Suputnyk Poltava[8]	2 – 0	LVVPU Lviv (2) Suputnyk Poltava Bilshovyk Kyiv (4) Metalist Sevastopol Shakhtar Donetsk (reserves)
1967	Bilshovyk Kyiv			Avanhard Vilnohirsk[9]	2 – 1	Bilshovyk Kyiv (5) Avanhard Vilnohirsk Sokil Lviv Gorlovuglestroi Horlivka Donets Izyum
1968	VPU Lviv			Zoria Artemivsk[10]	3 – 0	LVVPU Lviv (3) Zoria Artemivsk Avanhard Vilnohirsk (2) Donets Izyum (2) Bilshovyk Kyiv (6)
1969	Shakhtar Makiivka			Sokil Lviv	1 – 0	Shakhtar Makiivka Sokil Lviv (2) Zirka Poltava Tytan Zaporizhia (3) Mebelnyk Berehove
1970	Avanhard Simferopol[11]			Avanhard Kryvyi Rih[12]	2 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Avanhard Simferopol Avanhard Kryvyi Rih Bilshovyk Kyiv (7) Shakhtar Makiivka (2) Tsementnyk Mykolaiv
1971	Kolormet Artemivsk[13]			Metal Dnipropetrovsk[14]	2 – 0	Tsvetmet Artemivsk ZKL Dnipropetrovsk Bilshovyk Kyiv (8) Khimik Novyi Rozdil Prohres Berdychiv
1972	Hirnyk Dniprorudne[15]			Khimik Kalush	2 – 0	Hirnyk Dniprorudne Khimik Kalush (2) Bilshovyk Kyiv (9) Enerhia Nova Kakhovka Avtomobilist Chernihiv
1973	Sokil Lviv			Shakhtar Sverdlovsk	2 – 0	Sokil Lviv (3) Shakhtar Sverdlovsk Shakhtar Oleksandria Hranyt Cherkasy Hirnyk Dniprorudne (2)
1974	Sokil Lviv			Shakhtar Oleksandria	0 – 0, 1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Sokil Lviv (4) Shakhtar Oleksandria (2) Zirka Lviv Monolit Donetsk Promin Poltava
1975	Vykhor Dnipropetrovsk			Lokomotyv Smila	0 – 0, 1 – 1 (pen. 7 – 6)	Lokomotyv Smila Vykhor Dnipropetrovsk (3) Zirka Lviv (2) Hvardiyets Odesa Sokil Lviv (5)
1976	Elektron Ivano-Frankivsk			Tytan Armyansk	2 – 1	Elektron Ivano-Frankivsk Tytan Armyansk Bilshovyk Kyiv (10) Vykhor Dnipropetrovsk (4) Sokil Lviv (6)
1977	Tytan Armyansk			Elektron Ivano-Frankivsk	1 – 0	Tytan Armyansk (2) Elektron Ivano-Frankivsk (2) Bilshovyk Kyiv (11) Kirovets Makiivka Sokil Lviv (7)
1978	Bilshovyk Kyiv			Mayak Kharkiv	2 – 0	Bilshovyk Kyiv (12) Mayak Kharkiv Sokil Lviv (8) Enerhia Nova Kakhovka (2) Transformator Zaporizhia
1979	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka			Tsementnyk Mykolaiv	3 – 1, 0 – 0	Enerhia Nova Kakhovka (3) Tsementnyk Mykolaiv (2) Voskhod Kyiv Shakhtar Stakhanov Bilshovyk Kyiv (13)
1980	Nyva Pidhaitsi			Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	3 – 0	no competition
1981	Sluch Berezne			Shakhtar Dzerzhynsk	0 – 0, 1 – 1
1982	Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka			Sluch Berezne	2 – 0, 2 – 1
1983	Skhid Kyiv[16]			Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka	1 – 0, 2 – 2
1984	Torpedo Zaporizhzhia			Karpaty Dubove	5 – 1, 0 – 0
1985	Avtomobilist Lviv[17]			Tytan Armyansk	2 – 0, 3 – 3
1986	Mashbud Borodianka			Zirka Berdychiv	1 – 1, 2 – 1 (a.e.t.)
1987	Pivdenstal Yenakieve			Avanhard Drohobych	0 – 2, 3 – 0 (a.e.t.)
1988	Avanhard Lozova			Zirka Berdychiv	1 – 1, 2 – 2
1989	Prohres Berdychiv			Avanhard Lozova	4 – 2, 0 – 0	Avanhard Lozova Stakhanovets Stakhanov (2) Dynamo Odesa SKA Kyiv
1990	—					Prohres Berdychiv (2) Avanhard Lozova (2) Mayak Ochakiv Krystal Chortkiv
1991	—					Hirnyk Khartsyzk Avanhard Lozova (3) Myrhorod Orbita Zaporizhia

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In 1936 to 1950

The number of participants per season and a comprehensive list per region. Until 1938, the teams from the Crimean ASSR represented the Russian Federation.

Parallel to the championship of cities there also existed separate tournament that was played among teams of Dynamo society (Proletarian Sports Society (PST) Dynamo) located throughout the Ukrainian SSR. The first tournament was conducted as part of the All-Ukrainian Dynamo Festival which was organized on the orders of the top OGPU official in Ukraine Vsevolod Balitsky.

List of finals

More information Year, Venue ...

Year	Venue	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1929 Final	7 July 1929 17:30 (MST) Kiev – Chervonyi Stadium Attendance: ?	Dynamo Kharkiv Petro Mishchenko 58' Oleksandr Shpakovsky 82', 87'	3 – 1 (0 – 1)	Dynamo Kyiv Oleksandr Serdyuk 14'
1931 Final	12 June 1931 ?:? (MST) Kiev – Chervonyi Stadium Attendance: 12,000	Dynamo Kyiv Kazimierz Piontkowski ?', ?', ?'	3 – 0 (? – 0)	Dynamo Kharkiv
1932 Final	26 June 1932 ?:? (MST) Kharkiv – Metalist Stadium Attendance: ?	Dynamo Kharkiv Oleksandr Shpakovsky ?'	1 – 0 (1 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
1933 Final	12 June 1933 ?:? (MST) Kyiv – Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 18,000	Dynamo Kyiv Mykola Makhynia 67' Konstantin Schegotsky 88'	2 – 1 (0 – 0)	Dynamo Kharkiv Ivan Privalov 69'
1934 Final	8 September 1934 ?:? (MST) Kyiv – Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 10,000	Dynamo Kharkiv Volodymyr Kulykov 12' Kostyantyn Fomin 17' Mykola Fomin 34' Yan Yakubovych 65' Volodymyr Fomin 67'	5 – 0 (3 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
1935 Final	26 October 1935 13:00 (MST) Kyiv – Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 40,000	Dynamo Kyiv Mykola Makhynia 1' Ivan Kuzmenko 55', 66'	3 – 1 (1 – 1)	Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk Petro Laiko 22'

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