The 2020 Ukrainian Super Cup was the 17th edition of Ukrainian Super Cup, an annual season opener football match contested by the previous season's Ukrainian Premier League champions Shakhtar Donetsk and Ukrainian Cup winners Dynamo Kyiv.
The game was scheduled to be played later than usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also while traditionally being held in Odesa, this season it was scheduled to take place in Kyiv at the Olimpiyskiy National Sports ComplexArtur Malkin. There was determined nominal host for the Ukrainian Super Cup game (Визначився номінальний господар матчу за Суперкубок України) Footboom. 10 August 2020 on 25 August 2020. The game was played after Round 1 of the 2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League.
Preparations and other background events For this game the official sponsor was announced TM Waissburg, the official football for the ninth time became the Danish "Select" (Select Sport) and as a television broadcasting partner became Ukrainian television channels "TRK Ukraína" and "Futbol 1/2/3" (both part of Media Group Ukraína).Artur Malkin. Waissburg and Select became the official brands of the Super Cup "Classico" which for the first time will take place at "Olimpiyskiy" (Waissburg та Select стали офіційними брендами суперкубкового "класико", яке вперше відбудеться на "Олімпійському"). Footboom. 18 August 2020
This game is the first, in which Mircea Lucescu who spent in Shakhtar Donetsk a dozen of years and one of the two original head coaches who participated in the tournament back in 2004 will be leading the chief opponents of the Donetsk club. Anatoliy Demianenko commenting on the game stated that the main intrigue is Lucescu versus Shakhtar.Oleg Semenchenko. Anatoliy Demianenko, "The main intrigue of the match for the Super Cup is Lucescu against "Shakhtar" (Анатолий Демьяненко: "Главная интрига поединка за Суперкубок – Луческу против "Шахтера"). Footboom. 24 August 2020 The former players of Shakhtar Artem Fedetskyi and Oleksiy Hai commenting on the game agree that it is unusual game, but Shakhtar shall still win.Oleg Semenchenko. Artem Fedetskyi and Oleksiy Hai about the Ukrainian Super Cup, "There was no such a game, but Shakhtar will still win (Артем Федецкий и Алексей Гай - о Суперкубке Украины: "Такого матча еще не было, но победит "Шахтер"). Footboom. 24 August 2020 The head coach of Shakhtar Luís Castro is eager to win the Super Cup which slipped away the last season.Luís Castro, "We want to win the Super Cup very much that slipped out of our hands the last year (Луиш Каштру: "Очень сильно хотим завоевать Суперкубок, который ускользнул из наших рук в прошлом году"). Footboom. 24 August 2020 Castro is sure that both clubs will field their best squads for the game and Lucescu will be requesting the maximum from his.Aleksandr Oleinik. Castro, "Lucescu will show his style and will be requesting the maximum from his team (Каштру: «Луческу покажет свой стиль и будет требовать максимума от своей команды»). Sport Arena. 24 August 2020 Another Ukrainian head coach Myron Markevych thinks that the game does not matter and the main task for the teams is to qualify for the European competitions.Myron Markevych, "The main is how the teams will qualify for Euro cups, and the Super Cup victory does not play any role (Мирон Маркевич: "Головне, як команди пройдуть в єврокубки, а перемога в Суперкубку ролі не грає"). Footboom. 24 August 2020
The game started the next day after the national holiday Independence Day of Ukraine.
The refereeing team led by Romanov partially preserved from the last year was supervised by Luciano Luci, while VAR operations was supervised by Serhiy Lysenchuk.
Previous encounters
Before this game both teams met in the Ukrainian Super Cup twelve (12) times, the first being back in 2004. Before this game out of the previous twelve Dynamo won 4 games and Shakhtar won 3, five more games were tied and led to penalty shootout three of which were won by Dynamo and two were won by Shakhtar.
Comparison table Team Qualification Previous appearances (bold indicates winners) Shakhtar Donetsk 2019–20 UPL champions 15 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) Dynamo Kyiv 2019–20 Cup winners 13 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Match
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Shakhtar Donetsk GK 30 Andriy Pyatov (c)DF 2 Dodô DF 4 Serhiy Kryvtsov DF 77 Valeriy Bondar DF 22 Mykola Matviyenko MF 6 Taras StepanenkoMF 21 Alan Patrick MF 8 Marcos Antônio MF 14 Tetê FW 7 TaisonFW 10 Júnior Moraes SubstitutesGK 81 Anatoliy TrubinMF 50 Serhiy BolbatDF 5 Davit KhocholavaMF 19 Manor Solomon MF 70 Yevhen Konoplyanka MF 11 Marlos MF 27 Maycon MF 99 Fernando MF 20 Viktor Kovalenko Head coach Luís Castro Dynamo Kyiv GK 1 Heorhiy Bushchan MF 5 Serhiy Sydorchuk (c) MF 10 Mykola Shaparenko MF 14 Carlos de Pena MF 20 Oleksandr Karavayev MF 22 Gerson Rodrigues DF 24 Oleksandr Tymchyk MF 29 Vitaliy Buyalskyi DF 34 Oleksandr SyrotaFW 89 Vladyslav Supriaha DF 94 Tomasz Kędziora SubstitutesGK 71 Denys BoykoFW 9 Fran Sol FW 11 Heorhiy Tsitaishvili MF 15 Viktor TsyhankovMF 17 Bohdan Lyednyev MF 18 Oleksandr Andriyevskyi DF 55 Kostyantyn Vivcharenko DF 25 Illya Zabarnyi MF 99 Mikkel Duelund Head coach Mircea Lucescu
Assistant referees: Andriy Skrypka (Kropyvnytskyi) Volodymyr Volodin (Kherson) Fourth referee: Anatoliy Abdula (Kharkiv) Reserve assistant referee: Dimitry Zaporozhenko Video assistant referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi (Kyiv) Assistant video assistant referee: Semen Shlonchak (Cherkasy)Match rules 90 minutes of regulation. No extra time of regulation if score is level. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used in three opportunities, excluding substitutions made at half-time. No more than 9 foreign players on a field at one time for each team.
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References
External links The official pamphlet of the 2020 Ukrainian Super Cup (Офіційна програма Суперкубка України 2020). Ukrainian Premier League. 25 August 2020. (32 pages)