1991 Soviet Cup final

The 1991 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on 23 June 1991. The match was the jubilee 50th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner CSKA qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. CSKA played their 7th Cup Final winning on 5 occasions including this one. For Torpedo it was their 15th Cup Final and for the ninth time they were defeated at this stage.

1991 Soviet Cup Final

Event	1990–91 Soviet Cup
CSKA Moscow Torpedo Moscow 3 2
Date	23 June 1991
City	Moscow
Referee	Valeriy Butenko (Moscow)
Attendance	37,000
Weather	27 °C

This match was the final match played by CSKA and USSR national team goalkeeper Mikhail Yeriomin. Yeriomin was in a serious car accident the evening after the final and died at a hospital on 30 June 1991 from his injuries.

Road to Moscow

Main article: 1990–91 Soviet Cup

All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so CSKA and Torpedo both qualified for the competition automatically. The last year defending champions Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated administratively in the first round of the competition (1/16 final) by FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin after winning their home game 7–1 (later changed to -:+).

CSKA Moscow

Round 1 (1st leg)	Neftianik F.	0–2	CSKA
Round 1 (2nd leg)	CSKA	3–1	Neftianik F.
	(CSKA won 5–1 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)	CSKA	4–1	Dnipro
Round 2 (2nd leg)	Dnipro	2–2	CSKA
	(CSKA won 6–3 on aggregate)
Quarter-final	CSKA	4–1	Dinamo Minsk
Semi-final	Lokomotiv Moscow	0–3	CSKA

Torpedo Moscow

Round 1 (1st leg)	Zenit	1–2	Torpedo
Round 1 (2nd leg)	Torpedo	2–0	Zenit
	(Torpedo won 4–1 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)	Torpedo	2–0	Karpaty
Round 2 (2nd leg)	Karpaty	1–3	Torpedo
	(Torpedo won 5–1 on aggregate)
Quarter-final	Torpedo	0–0 aet 3–1 pen.	Spartak
Semi-final	Torpedo	0–0 aet 7–6 pen.	Ararat

Previous encounters

Previously these two teams met each other in the early editions of the competition on several occasions. However this was their first time and the last that they met in the finals of the Soviet Cup. Previously their contested each other four times in semifinals of this competition since 1944.

Match summary

1991-06-23

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CSKA Moscow	3 – 2	Torpedo Moscow
Igor Korneyev 45', 67' Oleg Sergeyev 80'	Report	Yuriy Tishkov 43', 75'

Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 37,000

Referee: Valeriy Butenko (Moscow)

PFC CSKA Moscow

FC Torpedo Moscow

PFC CSKA Moscow:
GK	Mikhail Yeriomin
DF	Dmitriy Kuznetsov (c)
DF	Sergei Kolotovkin
MF	Dmitriy Bystrov
DF	Sergey Fokin  70'
DF	Mikhail Kolesnikov
MF	Igor Korneyev
MF	Valeriy Broshyn  83'
MF	Oleg Sergeyev
FW	Vladimir Tatarchuk
FW	Valeriy Masalitin  72'
Substitutes:
FW	Sergey Dmitriyev  70'
DF	Oleg Malyukov  72'
MF	Viktor Yanushevsky  83'
GK
DF
DF
MF
Manager:
Pavel Sadyrin

FC Torpedo Moscow:
GK	Valeriy Sarychev
DF	Aleksandr Polukarov (c)
DF	Andrey Kalaichev
MF	Andrey Afanasyev
DF	Aleksei Yushkov
DF	Sergey Shustikov  70'
MF	Igor Chugainov
MF	Yuriy Tishkov
MF	Nikolai Savichev  46'
FW	Oleg Shyrinbekov
FW	Sergey Agashkov
Substitutes:
FW	Yuriy Matveyev  70'
DF	Gennadiy Grishyn  46'
MF
GK
DF
DF
MF
Manager:
Valentin Ivanov

MATCH OFFICIALS

• Assistant referees:
  • Andrei Butenko (Moscow)
  • Anatoliy Maliarov (Moscow)
• 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.

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Soviet Cup 1991 winners
CSKA Moscow Fifth title

See also

• Soviet Top League 1990

External links

• The competition calendar