2007 Ukrainian Cup final

2007 Ukrainian Cup Final
Event	2006–07 Ukrainian Cup
Date	27 May 2007
Venue	NSC Olimpiyskiy, Kyiv
Attendance	64,500
Weather	25°C
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The 2007 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Olympic NSC on 27 May 2007. The match was the 16th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. The Olympic stadium is the traditional arena for the Cup final.

Road to Kyiv

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

Dynamo Kyiv

Round 1	Olkom Melitopol	0–4	Dynamo Kyiv
Round 2	Kharkiv	0–2	Dynamo Kyiv
Quarter-final (1st leg)	Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Quarter-final (2nd leg)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1–2 aet	Dynamo Kyiv
	(Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate)
Semi-final (1st leg)	Metalist Kharkiv	0–1	Dynamo Kyiv
Semi-final (2nd leg)	Dynamo Kyiv	4–2	Metalist Kharkiv
	(Dynamo won 5–2 on aggregate)

Shakhtar Donetsk

Round 1	Yavir Krasnopillia	1–6	Shakhtar Donetsk
Round 2	Borysfen Boryspil	0–2	Shakhtar Donetsk
Quarter-final (1st leg)	Sevastopol	0–1	Shakhtar Donetsk
Quarter-final (2nd leg)	Shakhtar Donetsk	6–1	Sevastopol
	(Shakhtar won 7–1 on aggregate)
Semi-final (1st leg)	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–0	Tavriya Simferopol
Semi-final (2nd leg)	Tavriya Simferopol	2–2	Shakhtar Donetsk
	(Shakhtar won 2–2 on away goal)

Previous encounters

Prior to the 2007 Cup Final, Dynamo and Shakhtar had met three times in previous Ukrainian Cup finals. Dynamo had defeated Shakhtar two times, since losing their very first meeting. In both of those meetings Dynamo was victorious 2–1. Shakhtar's best performance against Dynamo was back in the 2002 final, when the Miners were able to down the legendary Dynamo team in extra time 3–2. It was the first meeting between the team managers in this competition.

Match details

2007-05-27

19:00 LST

Dynamo Kyiv	2 – 1	Shakhtar Donetsk
Kléber 58' Husyev 80'	Report^[1]	Elano 89'

NSC Olimpiyskiy, Kyiv

Attendance: 64,500

Referee: Andriy Shandor (Lviv)

Dynamo Kyiv

Shakhtar Donetsk


Dynamo Kyiv:
GK	1	Oleksandr Shovkovskyi
MF	4	Tiberiu Ghioane
MF	7	Corrêa	67'	74'
FW	9	Kléber	52'	84'
MF	15	Diogo Rincón	66'
DF	17	Taras Mykhalyk
MF	20	Oleh Husyev
DF	26	Andriy Nesmachny
DF	27	Vladyslav Vashchuk (c)
MF	36	Miloš Ninković
DF	44	Rodrigo	27' 71'
Substitutes:
GK	21	Taras Lutsenko
FW	11	Demba Touré
MF	14	Ruslan Rotan
DF	81	Marjan Marković
FW	16	Maksim Shatskikh	84'
DF	29	Vitaliy Mandziuk	74'
MF	8	Valyantsin Byalkevich	66'
Manager:
Anatoliy Demyanenko


Shaktar Donetsk:
GK	1	Bohdan Shust
DF	33	Darijo Srna	86'
DF	27	Dmytro Chyhrynskyi (c)	41'
MF	26	Răzvan Raț	50'	52'
DF	18	Mariusz Lewandowski
MF	4	Igor Duljaj
MF	7	Fernandinho
FW	11	Andriy Vorobey	53'
DF	3	Tomáš Hübschman	53'
MF	8	Jádson	51'
FW	25	Brandão	56'
Substitutes:
GK	12	Dmytro Shutkov
MF	19	Oleksiy Hai	52'	90+2'
DF	5	Oleksandr Kucher
FW	29	Ciprian Marica	53'
MF	36	Elano	51'
FW	20	Oleksiy Byelik
MF	28	Oleksiy Poliansky
Manager:
Mircea Lucescu