2017–18 Belarusian Cup was the 27th season of the Belarusian annual cup competition. Contrary to the league season, it was conducted in a fall-spring rhythm. The tournament started in May 2017 and concluded with the final match on 19 May 2018. Dinamo Brest defeated BATE Borisov 3–2 in the final, winning the Cup and qualifying for the second qualifying round of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League.
Participating clubs The following teams took part in the competition: 2017 Belarusian Premier Leagueall 16 teams 2017 Belarusian First Leagueall 16 teams 2017 Belarusian Second Leagueall 14 teams Winners of regional cups6 teams BATE Borisov Shakhtyor Soligorsk Dinamo Minsk Minsk Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Vitebsk Isloch Minsk Raion Dinamo Brest Gorodeya Slavia Mozyr Krumkachy Minsk Slutsk Naftan Novopolotsk Neman Grodno Gomel Dnepr Mogilev Belshina Bobruisk Granit Mikashevichi Lokomotiv Gomel Luch Minsk Smorgon Lida Orsha Smolevichi-STI Torpedo Minsk Energetik-BGU Minsk Slonim-2017 Khimik Svetlogorsk Baranovichi Volna Pinsk Osipovichi Neman-Agro Stolbtsy Oshmyany Kletsk Molodechno-DYuSSh-4 Chist Viktoriya Maryina Gorka Sputnik Rechitsa UAS-DYuSSh-Zhitkovichi Uzda Lyuban Energetik-BGATU Minsk Sbornaya TF Gomel SDYuShOR-3 Pinsk SDYuShOR-8 Gomel SMIautotrans Smolevichi Ivatsevichi(Brest Oblast) Batski Gomel(Gomel Oblast) FSK Grodnenskiy(Grodno Oblast) DYuSSh-MTZ-Syabar Minsk(Minsk) Livadiya-Yuni Dzerzhinsk(Minsk Oblast) Kommunalnik Senno(Vitebsk Oblast)
First round In this round 4 amateur clubs were drawn against 4 Second League clubs. The draw was performed on 6 May 2017. The matches were played on 17 May 2017.Belarusian Cup First Round draw
Another 2 amateur clubs and 10 Second League clubs were given a bye to the Second Round.
Second round In this round 4 winners of the First Round with 12 clubs that received a bye were drawn against 16 First League. The draw was performed on 22 May 2017. The matches were played on 14 June 2017.Belarusian Cup Second Round draw
Round of 32 In this round 16 winners of the Second Round were drawn against 16 Premier League clubs. The matches were played between 5 and 9 July 2017.
Round of 16 Most of the matches were played on 22 and 23 July 2017.
Quarter-finals The draw was made on 28 July 2017. The matches were played in March 2018.
First leg
Second leg
Semi-finals The draw was made on 19 March 2018. The matches will be played in April and May 2018.
First leg
Second leg
Final The final was played on 19 May 2018 at Spartak Stadium in Mogilev.
BATE: GK 48 Denis ScherbitskiyRB 4 Aleksandar Filipović CB 5 Yevgeniy YablonskiyCB 23 Zakhar VolkovLB 42 Maksim Volodko DM 25 Dzmitry BahaDM 21 Stanislaw DrahunRM 22 Ihar Stasevich (c)CAM 11 Alexander Hleb LM 10 Mirko IvanićFW 13 Mikalay SignevichSubstitutes:GK 35 Anton ChichkanDF 6 Nikola VasiljevićMF 7 Yevgeniy Berezkin FW 15 Maksim Skavysh DF 34 Artem ShkurdyukDF 44 Vladislav MalkevichFW 45 Vladislav MukhamedovManager: Oleg Dulub DINAMO: GK 30 Alyaksandr HutarRB 21 Aleh VeratsilaCB 16 Giannis KargasCB 4 Alyaksey Hawrylovich (c)LB 13 Maksim VitusDM 99 Chidi Osuchukwu DM 17 Pavel Sedko RM 88 Pavel Savitski CAM 7 Artem Milevskyi LM 33 Pavel Nyakhaychyk FW 9 Sandro Gotal Substitutes:GK 35 Pavel PavlyuchenkoDF 5 Andrey LebedzewFW 10 Raman Vasilyuk FW 20 Joel Fameyeh FW 25 Kirill Kirilenko MF 31 Andrey ZaleskiMF 55 Željko Filipović Manager: Sergey Kovalchuk
References
External links Football.by Soccerway