The 2009 Ukrainian Cup final was a football match that took place at the Dnipro Stadium on May 31, 2009. The match was the 18th Ukrainian Cup final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Vorskla Poltava. The 2009 final was the first time a Ukrainian Cup final was held in Dnipropetrovsk. Vorskla Poltava, as Ukrainian Cup winners, qualified for the UEFA Europa League play-off round.
Road to Dnipropetrovsk
All sixteen Ukrainian Premier League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Vorskla and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.
Vorskla Poltava Round 1Zirka Kirovohrad0–1Vorskla PoltavaRound 2Obolon Kyiv1–4Vorskla PoltavaQuarter-finalMetalurh Donetsk0–1Vorskla PoltavaSemi-finalMetalist Kharkiv0–0Vorskla PoltavaSemi-final (Replay) Vorskla Poltava2–0Metalist KharkivShakhtar Donetsk Round 1Illichivets Mariupol0–3Shakhtar DonetskRound 2Zakarpattia Uzhhorod1–4Shakhtar DonetskQuarter-finalPFC Oleksandria1–2Shakhtar DonetskSemi-finalShakhtar Donetsk1–0Dynamo Kyiv
Previous encounters Prior to the final, Vorskla and Shakhtar had met six times in previous Ukrainian Cup competitions. Vorskla had never defeated Shakhtar, with its best performance being a 1–1 draw in the second leg of the quarter-finals in the 2007–08 edition. Shakhtar's best performance against Vorskla was in a second round encounter in the 1994–95 edition, an 8–0 drubbing.
Match details
Vorskla Poltava: GK 1 Serhiy Dolhanskyi (c) MF 3 Filip DespotovskiDF 4 Armend Dallku MF 5 Oleh KrasnopyorovMF 7 Jovan Markoski FW 8 Denys Kulakov FW 17 Vasyl Sachko DF 20 Debatik Curri MF 37 Hryhoriy YarmashDF 48 Volodymyr Chesnakov MF 70 Dmytro Yesin Substitutes:GK 12 Serhiy VelychkoFW 11 Denis Glavina MF 23 Yevhen PyeskovFW 27 Ahmed Januzi FW 31 Oleksiy Chychykov DF 33 Andriy Boyko MF 40 Roman Loktionov Manager: Mykola PavlovShaktar Donetsk: GK 30 Andriy PyatovDF 33 Darijo Srna (c) DF 27 Dmytro ChyhrynskyiDF 5 Oleksandr Kucher DF 13 Vyacheslav Shevchuk FW 17 Luiz Adriano MF 7 Fernandinho MF 19 Oleksiy Hai DF 3 Tomáš HübschmanMF 8 Jádson FW 21 Oleksandr Hladkyi Substitutes:GK 12 Rustam KhudzhamovMF 4 Igor Duljaj MF 26 Răzvan Raț MF 22 Willian FW 10 Yevhen Seleznyov DF 18 Mariusz Lewandowski DF 36 Oleksandr Chyzhov Manager: Mircea Lucescu MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Serhiy Tsymbal (Kyiv) Oleksandr Shamych (Kyiv) Fourth official: Ihor Ischenko (Kyiv)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.
Ukrainian Cup 2009 WinnersVorskla PoltavaFirst title
See also 2008–09 Ukrainian Cup 2008–09 Ukrainian Premier League
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