1992 Soviet Cup Final

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 USSR abandoned. Therefore, the game was administered by the Russian Football Union.

1992 Soviet Cup Final
Event1991–92 Soviet Cup
Spartak Moscow CSKA Moscow
2 0
Date10 May 1992
VenueLuzhniki Stadium, Moscow
RefereeAndrei Butenko (Moscow)
Attendance42,000
Weather18 °C

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
Main article: 1991–92 Soviet Cup

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)Gastello2–4Spartak
Round 1 (2nd leg)Spartak2–1Gastello
 (Spartak won 6–3 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)Kopetdag0–0Spartak
Round 2 (2nd leg)Spartak2–1Kopetdag
 (Spartak won 2–1 on aggregate)
Quarter-finalKrylya Sovetov0–1 aetSpartak
Semi-finalLokomotiv Moscow0–2Spartak

CSKA Moscow

Round 1 (1st leg)Asmaral0–2CSKA
Round 1 (2nd leg)CSKA3–2Asmaral
 (CSKA won 5–2 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)Pakhtakor1–1CSKA
Round 2 (2nd leg)CSKA3–2Pakhtakor
 (CSKA won 4–3 on aggregate)
Quarter-finalCSKA+ - –Chornomorets
Semi-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
Spartak Moscow2 – 0CSKA Moscow
Vladimir Bestschastnykh  20', 35' Report Dmitriy Kharine missed penalty 45'
Attendance: 42,000
Referee: Andrei Butenko (Moscow)
FC Spartak Moscow
PFC CSKA Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow:
1 Stanislav Cherchesov (c)
3 Dmitriy Khlestov
4 Andrei Ivanov
6 Dmitriy Popov
2 Kakhaber Tskhadadze
5 Viktor Onopko
11 Andrei Chernyshov
10 Valeriy Karpin  80'
8 Andrei Piatnitski  73'
7 Igor Lediakhov
9 Vladimir Bestschastnykh  88'
Substitutes:
14 Dmitriy Radchenko  80'
15 Rashid Rakhimov  73'
16 Aleksandr Tatarkin  88'
Manager:
Oleg Romantsev
PFC CSKA Moscow:
1 Dmitriy Kharine
2 Valeriy Minko
3 Sergei Kolotovkin
4 Dmitriy Bystrov
5 Oleg Malyukov
6 Mikhail Kolesnikov (c)  46'
7 Denis Mashkarin  50'
8 Aleksei Poddubskiy
9 Oleg Sergeyev
10 Sergey Krutov
11 Lev Matveyev  25'
Substitutes:
13 Vasili Ivanov  46'
14 Ilshat Faizulin  25'
15 Aleksandr Grishin  50'
Manager:
Pavel Sadyrin

MATCH OFFICIALS

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 Moscow
Tenth title

See also
  • Soviet Top League 1991

References
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