# 2016 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2016 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that was played on 21 May 2016 in Lviv. For the first time the cup final was held in Lviv. The match was the 25th Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Zorya Luhansk and Shakhtar Donetsk.

## Road to Lviv

All fourteen Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition (Ukrainian Cup), so Zorya and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.
| Round 1 | Krystal Kherson | 0 – 5 | Zorya Luhansk |
| Round 2 (1st leg) | Helios Kharkiv | 0 – 2 | Zorya Luhansk |
| Round 2 (2nd leg) | Zorya Luhansk | 3 – 1 | Helios Kharkiv |
| | (Zorya won 5–1 on aggregate) | (Zorya won 5–1 on aggregate) | (Zorya won 5–1 on aggregate) |
| Quarter-final (1st leg) | Volyn Lutsk | 1 – 1 | Zorya Luhansk |
| Quarter-final (2nd leg) | Zorya Luhansk | 5 – 0 | Volyn Lutsk |
| | (Zorya won 6–1 on aggregate) | (Zorya won 6–1 on aggregate) | (Zorya won 6–1 on aggregate) |
| Semi-final (1st leg) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 1 – 0 | Zorya Luhansk |
| Semi-final (2nd leg) | Zorya Luhansk | 2 – 0 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
| | (Zorya won 2–1 on aggregate) | (Zorya won 2–1 on aggregate) | (Zorya won 2–1 on aggregate) |
| Round 1 | Arsenal-Kyiv | 0 – 3 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Round 2 (1st leg) | FC Ternopil | 0 – 5 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Round 2 (2nd leg) | Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 – 0 | FC Ternopil |
| | (Shakhtar won 9–0 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar won 9–0 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar won 9–0 on aggregate) |
| Quarter-final (1st leg) | Vorskla Poltava | 0 – 4 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Quarter-final (2nd leg) | Shakhtar Donetsk | 1 – 2 | Vorskla Poltava |
| | (Shakhtar won 5–2 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar won 5–2 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar won 5–2 on aggregate) |
| Semi-final (1st leg) | FC Oleksandriya | 1 – 1 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Semi-final (2nd leg) | Shakhtar Donetsk | 2 – 0 | FC Oleksandriya |
| | (Shakhtar won 3–1 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar won 3–1 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar won 3–1 on aggregate) |

## Previous encounters

This was not only the first Ukrainian Cup Final between the two teams, but also the first time they meet in this competition. Previously Zorya and Shakhtar met in the Soviet Cup in total of six game (the record was two wins for Zorya and four wins for Shakhtar with Zorya scoring six goals and Shakhtar scoring seven).
It was first Cup Final appearance for Zorya, while their opponents Shakhtar had appeared in 15 Cup Finals winning nine.

## Match
### Details

| Zorya Luhansk | Shakhtar Donetsk |
Zorya Luhansk: :
| GK | 30 | Mykyta Shevchenko | |
| RB | 39 | Yevhen Opanasenko | 64' |
| CB | 3 | Mikhail Sivakow | 64' |
| CB | 12 | Rafael Forster | 12' |
| LB | 6 | Mykyta Kamenyuka (c) | |
| DM | 4 | Ihor Chaykovskyi | 64' |
| DM | 5 | Artem Hordiyenko | 57' |
| RW | 20 | Oleksandr Karavayev | |
| CM | 22 | Željko Ljubenović | |
| LW | 34 | Ivan Petryak | 46' |
| CF | 28 | Pylyp Budkivskyi | |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 91 | Ihor Levchenko | |
| DF | 2 | Artem Sukhotskyi | |
| FW | 10 | Jaba Lipartia | 57' |
| FW | 11 | Paulinho | |
| DF | 16 | Hryhoriy Yarmash | 64' 70' |
| MF | 24 | Dmytro Hrechyshkin | |
| MF | 29 | Andriy Totovytskyi | 46' |
| Manager: ||||
| Yuriy Vernydub ||||
Shakhtar Donetsk: :
| GK | 32 | Anton Kanibolotskiy | |
| RB | 33 | Darijo Srna (c) | |
| CB | 5 | Oleksandr Kucher | |
| CB | 44 | Yaroslav Rakitskiy | |
| LB | 31 | Ismaily | |
| DM | 6 | Taras Stepanenko | |
| DM | 17 | Maksym Malyshev | |
| RW | 11 | Marlos | |
| AM | 74 | Viktor Kovalenko | 59' |
| LW | 28 | Taison | 81' |
| CF | 21 | Oleksandr Hladkyy | 74' |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 30 | Andriy Pyatov |
| DF | 18 | Ivan Ordets | |
| DF | 38 | Serhiy Kryvtsov | |
| MF | 7 | Wellington Nem | 74' |
| MF | 58 | Andriy Korobenko | |
| FW | 22 | Eduardo da Silva | 59' |
| FW | 19 | Facundo Ferreyra | 81' |
| Manager: ||||
| Mircea Lucescu ||||
| MAN OF THE MATCH MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Serhiy Bekker (Kharkiv) Natalya Rachynska (Kyiv) Fourth official: Kostiantyn Trukhanov | 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. |