# 2017–18 Belarusian Cup

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 League all 16 teams | 2017 Belarusian First League all 16 teams | 2017 Belarusian Second League all 14 teams | Winners of regional cups 6 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.
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.

## 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.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Krumkachy Minsk | 0–6 | Neman Grodno | 0–3 | 0–3 |
| Shakhtyor Soligorsk | 3–3 (a) | Dnepr Mogilev | 3–1 | 0–2 |
| Dinamo Brest | 4–1 | Slutsk | 2–0 | 2–1 |
| Isloch Minsk Raion | 2–4 | BATE Borisov | 1–2 | 1–2 |

### Second leg

* ^ Krumkachy forfeited both matches against Neman. The club did not have enough players to field, after BFF imposed ban on registering the new players, as a punishment for repeated financial violations by the club in the recent seasons.

## Semi-finals

The draw was made on 19 March 2018. The matches will be played in April and May 2018.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| BATE Borisov | 2–0 | Neman Grodno | 2–0 | 0–0 |
| Dinamo Brest | 6–1 | Dnepr Mogilev | 2–0 | 4–1 |

### Second leg
## Final

The final was played on 19 May 2018 at Spartak Stadium in Mogilev.
BATE: :
| GK | 48 | Denis Scherbitskiy |
| RB | 4 | Aleksandar Filipović |
| CB | 5 | Yevgeniy Yablonskiy |
| CB | 23 | Zakhar Volkov |
| LB | 42 | Maksim Volodko | 90+5' |
| DM | 25 | Dzmitry Baha |
| DM | 21 | Stanislaw Drahun |
| RM | 22 | Ihar Stasevich (c) |
| CAM | 11 | Alexander Hleb | | 79' |
| LM | 10 | Mirko Ivanić |
| FW | 13 | Mikalay Signevich |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 35 | Anton Chichkan |
| DF | 6 | Nikola Vasiljević |
| MF | 7 | Yevgeniy Berezkin |
| FW | 15 | Maksim Skavysh | 86' | 79' |
| DF | 34 | Artem Shkurdyuk |
| DF | 44 | Vladislav Malkevich |
| FW | 45 | Vladislav Mukhamedov |
| Manager: |||
| Oleg Dulub ||||
DINAMO: :
| GK | 30 | Alyaksandr Hutar |
| RB | 21 | Aleh Veratsila |
| CB | 16 | Giannis Kargas |
| CB | 4 | Alyaksey Hawrylovich (c) |
| LB | 13 | Maksim Vitus |
| DM | 99 | Chidi Osuchukwu |
| DM | 17 | Pavel Sedko | | 71' |
| RM | 88 | Pavel Savitski |
| CAM | 7 | Artem Milevskyi | 90+5' |
| LM | 33 | Pavel Nyakhaychyk | 77' |
| FW | 9 | Sandro Gotal | | 71' |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 35 | Pavel Pavlyuchenko |
| DF | 5 | Andrey Lebedzew |
| FW | 10 | Raman Vasilyuk | | 90+3' |
| FW | 20 | Joel Fameyeh | | 71' 90+3' |
| FW | 25 | Kirill Kirilenko |
| MF | 31 | Andrey Zaleski |
| MF | 55 | Željko Filipović | | 71' |
| Manager: |||
| Sergey Kovalchuk ||||