The 1986 Soviet Cup final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 2, 1986. The match was the 45th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Shakhtar Donetsk. The Soviet Cup winner Torpedo won the cup for the sixth time. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the round of 16 of the competition by FC Spartak Moscow on penalties.
Road to Moscow All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Torpedo 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). Torpedo Moscow Round Shakhter Donetsk Opponent Result 1985–86 Soviet Cup Opponent Result Pakhtakor Tashkent (A) 3–2 First round Kuban Krasnodar (H) 5–1 SKA Khabarovsk (H) 2–0 Second round Kolos Nikopol (A) 1–0 Chernomorets Odessa (A) 2–0 Quarter-finals Daugava Riga (H) 2–1 Spartak Moscow (H) 3–2 Semi-finals Zenit Leningrad (A) 2–2
Match details
FC Torpedo Moscow:GK Valeri Sarychev Vladimir Sochnov Valentin Kovach Aleksandr Gostenin Sergei Prigoda (c) Sergey Shavlo Yuri Savichev Sergei Mushtruev Vladimir Grechnyov Aleksandr Polukarov Andrei Redkous Substitutes: Nikolai Savichev Valeriy Shaveika Vladimir Kobzev Manager: Valentin Ivanov
FC Shakhter Donetsk:GK Serhiy Zolotnytsky Oleksiy Varnavsky Oleksandr Sopko Valeriy Hoshkoderya Volodymyr Parkhomenko Valeriy Rudakov Serhiy Yashchenko Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (c) Yuriy Hulyayev Oleh Smolyaninov Viktor HrachovSubstitutes: Serhiy Morozov Serhiy Kravchenko Ihor Petrov Manager: Oleh Bazylevych
MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: A.Khokhryakov (Yoshkar-Ola) N.Zakharov (Vladimir) Fourth official: ( )
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.
Soviet Cup 1986 Winners Torpedo MoscowSixth title
See also Soviet Top League 1986 Soviet First League 1986 Soviet Second League 1986
References
External links The competition calendar