2013 Ukrainian Cup final

2013 Ukrainian Cup Final

Event	2012–13 Ukrainian Cup
Shakhtar Donetsk Chornomorets Odesa 3 0
Date	22 May 2013
Venue	OSK "Metalist", Kharkiv
Referee	Yevhen Aranovsky (Kyiv)

The 2013 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that was played at the Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, on 22 May 2013. The match was the 22nd Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by the champions of Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk and Chornomorets Odesa. This was the third time that the final match had returned to Kharkiv.

Since Shakhtar had qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League, Chornomorets would then qualify for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. During the draw for the semi-finals, the matchup Shakhtar Donetsk–Sevastopol was identified as the home team for the final.

Road to Kharkiv

Main article: 2012–13 Ukrainian Cup

As Ukrainian Premier League members Shakhtar Donetsk and Chornomorets Odesa did not have to go through the qualification phase of the competition.

Shakhtar Donetsk Round 1 Shakhtar Donetsk 4 – 1 Dynamo Kyiv Round 2 Hoverla Uzhhorod 1 – 4 Shakhtar Donetsk Quarter-final Shakhtar Donetsk 2 – 1 Karpaty Lviv Semi-final Sevastopol 2 – 4 Shakhtar Donetsk

Chornomorets Odesa Round 1 Chornomorets Odesa 2 – 0 Metalurh Donetsk Round 2 UkrAhroKom Pryiutivka 1 – 2 Chornomorets Odesa Quarter-final Arsenal Kyiv 1 – 2 Chornomorets Odesa Semi-final Chornomorets Odesa 2 – 1 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk

Previous encounters

This was the first Ukrainian Cup final between the two teams. The two teams also met in the semi-finals in 2007–08, 2003–04 and 1994–95. On all three occasions, Shakhtar was victorious.

Chornomorets had appeared only twice in a Cup final winning on both occasions and their opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 12 Cup finals, winning eight of them.

Television

As last year, the match was broadcast on ICTV in Ukraine.

Match

Details

22 May 2013

19:45 EEST

Shakhtar Donetsk	3 – 0	Chornomorets Odesa
Fernandinho 41' Teixeira 53' Taison 73'	Report

OSK "Metalist", Kharkiv

Attendance: 40,003

Referee: Yevhen Aranovsky (Kyiv)

Shakhtar Donetsk

Chornomorets Odesa

Shakhtar Donetsk: GK 32 Anton Kanibolotskiy RB 33 Darijo Srna (c)  90+1' CB 5 Oleksandr Kucher CB 44 Yaroslav Rakitskiy LB 13 Vyacheslav Shevchuk  57' DM 3 Tomáš Hübschman  78' DM 7 Fernandinho 41'  67' RW 29 Alex Teixeira 53' AM 22 Henrikh Mkhitaryan LW 28 Taison 73' CF 9 Luiz Adriano  78' Substitutes: GK 30 Andriy Pyatov MF 6 Taras Stepanenko  78' FW 11 Eduardo  78' MF 14 Vasyl Kobin MF 19 Oleksiy Gai MF 20 Douglas Costa  67'  90' DF 38 Serhiy Kryvtsov Manager: Mircea Lucescu

Chornomorets Odesa: GK 12 Dmytro Bezotosnyi (c) DF 4 Markus Berger MF 6 Léo Matos  83' MF 8 Kyrylo Kovalchuk FW 19 Elis Bakaj  73' FW 20 Lucian Burdujan  66' FW 23 Franck Dja Djédjé  67' DF 29 Pablo Fontanello DF 32 Kristi Vangjeli MF 39 Artem Starhorodskyi  46' MF 42 Yevhen Zubeyko Substitutes: GK 1 Yevhen Past DF 2 Petro Kovalchuk FW 9 Anatoliy Didenko  46'  68' GK 13 Yuriy Martyshchuk FW 16 Maksim Shatskikh DF 33 Andriy Slinkin  83' FW 99 Sito Riera  67' Manager: Roman Hryhorchuk

MAN OF THE MATCH MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Oleksandr Voitiuk (Zaporizhya) Oleh Pluzhyk (Kharkiv) Fourth official: Serhiy Bekker (Kharkiv)

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.

Match statistics

	Shakhtar Donetsk	Chornomorets Odesa
Total shots	16	5
Shots on target	8	2
Ball possession	?%	?%
Corner kicks	8	2
Fouls committed	?	?
Offsides	0	2
Yellow cards	3	3
Red cards	0	0

See also

• 2012–13 Ukrainian Premier League

External links

• Krikunov, A. Shakhtar wins the Ukrainian Cup! cup.sport.ua. May 22, 2013.