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.

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.Last Prayer Goalkeeper

Road to Moscow

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 -:+).Dynamo-Textilshchyk game report.

+ CSKA MoscowRound 1 (1st leg)Neftianik F.0–2CSKARound 1 (2nd leg)CSKA3–1Neftianik F. (CSKA won 5–1 on aggregate)Round 2 (1st leg)CSKA4–1DniproRound 2 (2nd leg)Dnipro2–2CSKA (CSKA won 6–3 on aggregate)Quarter-finalCSKA4–1 Dinamo MinskSemi-finalLokomotiv Moscow0–3 CSKA

+ Torpedo MoscowRound 1 (1st leg)Zenit1–2TorpedoRound 1 (2nd leg)Torpedo2–0Zenit (Torpedo won 4–1 on aggregate)Round 2 (1st leg)Torpedo2–0KarpatyRound 2 (2nd leg)Karpaty1–3Torpedo (Torpedo won 5–1 on aggregate)Quarter-finalTorpedo0–0 aet 3–1 pen.SpartakSemi-finalTorpedo0–0 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

PFC CSKA Moscow:GK Mikhail YeriominDF Dmitriy Kuznetsov (c)DF Sergei KolotovkinMF Dmitriy BystrovDF Sergey Fokin DF Mikhail KolesnikovMF Igor KorneyevMF Valeriy Broshyn MF Oleg SergeyevFW Vladimir TatarchukFW Valeriy Masalitin Substitutes:FW Sergey Dmitriyev DF Oleg Malyukov MF Viktor Yanushevsky GK DF DF MF Manager: Pavel Sadyrin

FC Torpedo Moscow:GK Valeriy SarychevDF Aleksandr Polukarov (c)DF Andrey KalaichevMF Andrey Afanasyev DF Aleksei YushkovDF Sergey Shustikov MF Igor ChugainovMF Yuriy TishkovMF Nikolai Savichev FW Oleg ShyrinbekovFW Sergey AgashkovSubstitutes:FW Yuriy Matveyev DF Gennadiy Grishyn 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.

Soviet Cup 1991 winners CSKA MoscowFifth title

1991 Soviet Cup final

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