1992 Soviet Cup final

1992 Soviet Cup Final

Event	1991–92 Soviet Cup
Spartak Moscow CSKA Moscow 2 0
Date	10 May 1992
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow
Referee	Andrei Butenko (Moscow)
Attendance	42,000
Weather	18 °C

The 1992 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, on 10 May 1992. The Soviet Union was in the process of being dismantled with all organizations such as the Football Federation of USSR abandoned. Therefore, the game was administered by the Russian Football Union.

The match was the 51st Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Spartak Moscow and PFC CSKA Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Spartak qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Russian Federation. Spartak played their 15th Cup Final winning on 10 occasions including this one. CSKA came to the final as the defending champions and it was their eighth Cup Final and for the third time they were defeated at this stage.

Road to Moscow

Main article: 1991–92 Soviet Cup

All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Spartak and CSKA both qualified for the competition automatically.

Spartak Moscow Round 1 (1st leg) Gastello 2–4 Spartak Round 1 (2nd leg) Spartak 2–1 Gastello   (Spartak won 6–3 on aggregate) Round 2 (1st leg) Köpetdag 0–0 Spartak Round 2 (2nd leg) Spartak 2–1 Köpetdag   (Spartak won 2–1 on aggregate) Quarter-final Krylya Sovetov 0–1 aet Spartak Semi-final Lokomotiv Moscow 0–2 Spartak

CSKA Moscow Round 1 (1st leg) Asmaral 0–2 CSKA Round 1 (2nd leg) CSKA 3–2 Asmaral   (CSKA won 5–2 on aggregate) Round 2 (1st leg) Pakhtakor 1–1 CSKA Round 2 (2nd leg) CSKA 3–2 Pakhtakor   (CSKA won 4–3 on aggregate) Quarter-final CSKA + - – Chornomorets Semi-final CSKA 2–0 Pamir

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.

Match details

1992-05-10

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Spartak Moscow	2 – 0	CSKA Moscow
Vladimir Bestschastnykh 20', 35'	Report	Dmitriy Kharine missed penalty 45'

Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 42,000

Referee: Andrei Butenko (Moscow)

FC Spartak Moscow

PFC CSKA Moscow

FC Spartak Moscow: 1 Stanislav Cherchesov (c) 3 Dmitriy Khlestov 4 Andrei Ivanov 6 Dmitriy Popov 2 Kakhaber Tskhadadze 5 Viktor Onopko 11 Andrei Chernyshov 10 Valeriy Karpin  80' 8 Andrei Piatnitski  73' 7 Igor Lediakhov 9 Vladimir Bestschastnykh  88' Substitutes: 14 Dmitriy Radchenko  80' 15 Rashid Rakhimov  73' 16 Aleksandr Tatarkin  88' Manager: Oleg Romantsev

PFC CSKA Moscow: 1 Dmitriy Kharine 2 Valeriy Minko 3 Sergei Kolotovkin 4 Dmitriy Bystrov 5 Oleg Malyukov 6 Mikhail Kolesnikov (c)  46' 7 Denis Mashkarin  50' 8 Aleksei Poddubskiy 9 Oleg Sergeyev 10 Sergey Krutov 11 Lev Matveyev  25' Substitutes: 13 Vasili Ivanov  46' 14 Ilshat Faizulin  25' 15 Aleksandr Grishin  50' Manager: Pavel Sadyrin

MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Viktor Filippov (Moscow) Sergei Khusainov (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 1992 winners
Spartak Moscow Tenth title

See also

• Soviet Top League 1991
• Main Moscow derby

External links

• Report