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 the Soviet Union 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
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)Gastello2–4SpartakRound 1 (2nd leg)Spartak2–1Gastello (Spartak won 6–3 on aggregate)Round 2 (1st leg)Köpetdag0–0SpartakRound 2 (2nd leg)Spartak2–1Köpetdag (Spartak won 2–1 on aggregate)Quarter-finalKrylya Sovetov0–1 aetSpartakSemi-finalLokomotiv Moscow0–2 SpartakCSKA Moscow Round 1 (1st leg)Asmaral0–2CSKARound 1 (2nd leg)CSKA3–2Asmaral (CSKA won 5–2 on aggregate)Round 2 (1st leg)Pakhtakor1–1CSKARound 2 (2nd leg)CSKA3–2Pakhtakor (CSKA won 4–3 on aggregate)Quarter-finalCSKA+ - –ChornomoretsSemi-finalCSKA2–0Pamir
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
FC Spartak Moscow: 1 Stanislav Cherchesov (c) 3 Dmitriy Khlestov4 Andrei Ivanov6 Dmitriy Popov2 Kakhaber Tskhadadze5 Viktor Onopko 11 Andrei Chernyshov 10 Valeriy Karpin 8 Andrei Piatnitski 7 Igor Lediakhov9 Vladimir Bestschastnykh Substitutes:14 Dmitriy Radchenko 15 Rashid Rakhimov 16 Aleksandr Tatarkin Manager: Oleg RomantsevPFC CSKA Moscow:1 Dmitriy Kharine2 Valeriy Minko 3 Sergei Kolotovkin4 Dmitriy Bystrov5 Oleg Malyukov6 Mikhail Kolesnikov (c) 7 Denis Mashkarin 8 Aleksei Poddubskiy9 Oleg Sergeyev10 Sergey Krutov 11 Lev Matveyev Substitutes:13 Vasili Ivanov 14 Ilshat Faizulin 15 Aleksandr Grishin 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.
Soviet Cup 1992 winners Spartak MoscowTenth title
See also Soviet Top League 1991 Main Moscow derby
References
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