# 1997–98 Ukrainian Cup

The 1997–98 Ukrainian Cup was the seventh annual edition of Ukraine's football knockout competition since the country's independence.
This edition of the Cup started with a preliminary round of few pairs and three qualification knockout rounds before the first round of the competition. Two legs rounds were extended to the main portion of competition as well as some qualification rounds. Amateur clubs were represented by the winner of Ukrainian Amateur Cup only.
The cup holder Shakhtar Donetsk was eliminated on away goal rule by Metalurh Donetsk in Round of 16.

## Qualification into European Competitions for the 1998–1999 season

The winner of this competition qualified as Ukraine's Cup Winner representative in the Cup Winners' Cup and was allowed to enter the competition in the first round.

## Competition schedule
### Preliminary round

At this stage in the competition, 20 teams from the Druha Liha and Ukrainian Football Amateur Association entered the competition.
| Paperovyk Malyn(2L) | 1–2 AET | (2L)Dynamo-3 Kyiv |
| Tsementnyk Mykolaiv(2L) | 3–1 | (2L)Naftovyk Dolyna |
| Pivdenstal Yenakieve(2L) | 3–1 | (2L)Metalurh Komsomolske |
| Hazovyk Komarne(2L) | 3–1 | (2L)Karpaty-2 Lviv |
| Fortuna Sharhorod(2L) | 1–0 | (2L)SKA-LOTTO Odesa |
| Chornomorets Sevastopol(2L) | -:+ | (2L)Dynamo Odesa |
| Domobudivnyk Chernihiv(Am) | 1–1 AET, 7–6 (Pen.) | (2L)Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk |
| Avers Bakhmach(2L) | 1–0 | (2L)Slovyanets Konotop |
| Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih(2L) | 1–2 AET | (2L)Zirka-NIBAS-2 Kirovohrad |
| Borysfen Boryspil(2L) | 3–0 | (2L)Ryhonda Bila Tserkva |

### First qualification round

At this stage in the competition, the rest clubs of the Druha Lihaentered the competition.
| Dynamo-3 Kyiv(D2) | 3–1 | Obolon-PPO Kyiv(D2) |
| Cementnyk Mykolaiv(D2) | 1–0 AET | Systema-BOREKS Borodianka(D2) |
| Pivdenstal Yenekieve(D2) | 1–0 | Shakhtar Stakhanov(D2) |
| Nerefa Slavutych(D2) | -:+ | Karpaty Mukacheve(D2) |
| Hazovyk Komarne(D2) | 1–0 | Halychyna Drohobych(D2) |
| Krystal Kherson(D2) | 3–1 | Olimpiya-AES Yuzhnoukrainsk(D2) |
| Fortuna Sharhorod(D2) | 2–1 | Lokomotyv Smila(D2) |
| Pokuttia Kolomyia(D2) | -:+ | Kalush(D2) |
| Haray Zhovkva(D2) | 2–1 | Nyva Bershad(D2) |
| Dynamo Odesa(D2) | +:- | Portovyk Illichivsk(D2) |
| Viktor Zaporizhzhia(D2) | 1–2 AET | Torpedo Melitopol |
| Domobudivnyk Chernihiv(Am) | +:- | Vorskla-2 Poltava(D2) |
| Shakhtar-2 Donetsk(D2) | 3–0 | Metalist-2 Kharkiv(D2) |
| Avers Bakhmach(Am) | 1–0 | Elektron Romny(D2) |
| Zirka-NIBAS-2 Kirovohrad(D2) | 3–2 | Metalurh-2 Donetsk(D2) |
| Borysfen Boryspil(D2) | 0–0 AET, 3–4 (Pen.) | Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk(D2) |

### Second qualification round

At this stage in the competition, teams play two games, at home and away. Also, clubs of the First League has entered the competition.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv | 7–1 | FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 4–0 | 3–1 |
| FC Desna Chernihiv | (a) 4–4 | FC Tsementnyk Mykolaiv | 3–0 | 1–4 |
| FC Zorya Luhansk | 5–1 | FC Pivdenstal Yenakieve | 1–0 | 4–1 |
| FC Karpaty Mukacheve | (a) 4–4 | FC Veres Rivne | 2–1 | 2–3 |
| FC Hazovyk Komarno | 0–1 | FC Krystal Chortkiv | 0–0 | 0–1 |
| FC Cherkasy | 5–5 (a) | FC Krystal Kherson | 2–4 | 3–1 |
| FC Fortuna Sharhorod | w/o | FC Fakel Varva | +:– | |
| FC Tysmenytsia | 1–2 | FC Kalush | 0–2 | 1–0 |
| FC Haray Zhovkva | 3–5 | FC Polissya Zhytomyr | 1–2 | 2–3 |
| SC Odesa | 4–2 | FC Dynamo Odesa | 3–0 | 1–2 |
| FC Torpedo Melitopol | 3–4 | FC Tytan Armyansk | 2–2 | 1–2 |
| FC CSKA-2 Kyiv | 3–1 | FC Domobudivnyk Chernihiv | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk | 2–4 | FC Oskil Kupyansk | 1–2 | 1–2 |
| FC Petrivtsi Myrhorod | 1–2 | FC Avers Bakhmach | 0–2 | 1–0 |
| FC Zirka-NIBAS-2 Kirovohrad | 1–5 | FC Avanhard–Industriya Rovenky | 0–3 | 1–2 |
| FC Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk | 1–2 | FC Metalurh Novomoskovsk | 0–1 | 1–1 |

### Third qualification round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv | 4–2 | FC Khimik Severodonetsk | 2–1 | 2–1 |
| FC Desna Chernihiv | 3–1 | FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| FC Metalist Kharkiv | 2–1 | FC Zorya Luhansk | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka | 6–1 | FC Karpaty Mukacheve | 4–0 | 2–1 |
| MFC Mykolaiv | 4–0 | FC Krystal Chortkiv | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| FC Krystal Kherson | (a) 3–3 | FC Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya | 1–0 | 2–3 |
| FC Kremin Kremenchuk | 1–2 | FC Fortuna Sharhorod | 1–0 | 0–2 |
| FC Shakhtar Makiivka | 4–1 | FC Kalush | 1–1 | 3–0 |
| FC Verkhovyna Uzhhorod | 2–6 | FC Polissya Zhytomyr | 2–2 | 0–4 |
| SC Odesa | 0–3 | FC Nyva Vinnytsia | 0–2 | 0–1 |
| FC Tytan Armyansk | 4–6 | FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 3–1 | 1–5 |
| FC CSKA-2 Kyiv | (a) 3–3 | FC Lviv | 0–0 | 3–3 |
| FC Metalurh Nikopol | w/o | FC Oskil Kupyansk | 4–2 | +:– |
| FC Avers Bakhmach | w/o | FC Stal Alchevsk | –:+ | |
| FC Volyn Lutsk | w/o | FC Avanhard–Industriya Rovenky | +:– | |
| FC Metalurh Novomoskovsk | w/o | FC Yavir Krasnopillia | 1–2 | –:+ |

### Round of 32

The Vyshcha Liha clubs entered the competition.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv | 3–10 | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 0–5 | 3–5 |
| FC Metalurh Mariupol | 7–6 | FC Desna Chernihiv | 5–3 | 2–3 |
| FC Metalist Kharkiv | 2–6 | FC Chornomorets Odesa | 2–2 | 0–4 |
| FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka | (a) 3–3 | FC Zirka–NIBAS Kirovohrad | 1–1 | 2–2 |
| FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | (a) 3–3 | MFC Mykolaiv | 2–0 | 1–3 (a.e.t.) |
| FC Krystal Kherson | 2–8 | FC Karpaty Lviv | 1–4 | 1–4 |
| FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia | 4–1 | FC Fortuna Sharhorod | 3–0 | 1–1 |
| FC Shakhtar Makiivka | 2–5 | FC Vorskla Poltava | 1–2 | 1–3 |
| FC Polissya Zhytomyr | 1–2 | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 1–0 | 0–2 |
| FC Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | 2–2 (2–4 p) | FC Nyva Vinnytsia | 2–0 | 0–2 (a.e.t.) |
| FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 0–3 | SC Tavriya Simferopol | 0–2 | 0–1 |
| FC CSKA-2 Kyiv | 4–5 | FC CSKA Kyiv | 2–4 | 2–1 |
| FC Nyva Ternopil | 5–1 | FC Metalurh Nikopol | 4–0 | 1–1 |
| FC Stal Alchevsk | 0–1 | FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 0–0 | 0–1 |
| FC Volyn Lutsk | 1–2 | FC Metalurh Donetsk | 0–0 | 1–2 |
| FC Yavir Krasnopillia | 3–6 | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | 3–3 | 0–3 |

### Round of 16

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka | 3–5 | FC Chornomorets Odesa | 3–0 | 0–5 |
| FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 2–2 (4–3 p) | FC Karpaty Lviv | 2–0 | 0–2 (a.e.t.) |
| FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia | 0–1 | FC Vorskla Poltava | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| FC Nyva Vinnytsia | 1–3 | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 1–1 | 0–2 |
| FC CSKA Kyiv | 2–1 | SC Tavriya Simferopol | 2–0 | 0–1 |
| FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | 3–4 | FC Nyva Ternopil | 2–1 | 1–3 |
| FC Metalurh Donetsk | (a) 3–3 | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | 2–0 | 1–3 |
| FC Dynamo Kyiv | 4–0 | FC Metalurh Mariupol | 3–0 | 1–0 |

#### Second leg

Chornomorets won 5–3 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate. Kryvbas won 4–3 on penalty kicks.
Vorskla won 1–0 on aggregate.

### Quarter-finals

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Dynamo Kyiv | 7–1 | FC Chornomorets Odesa | 3–0 | 4–1 |
| FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 2–1 | FC Vorskla Poltava | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 1–2 | FC CSKA Kyiv | 0–1 | 1–1 (a.e.t.) |
| FC Nyva Ternopil | 2–2 (a) | FC Metalurh Donetsk | 2–1 | 0–1 |

#### Second leg

Dynamo won 7–1 on aggregate.
Kryvbas won 2–1 on aggregate.
CSKA won 2–1 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate. Metalurh won on away goal rule.

### Semi-finals

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 2–5 | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 2–4 | 0–1 |
| FC CSKA Kyiv | 4–2 | FC Metalurh Donetsk | 1–1 | 3–1 |

#### Second leg

Dynamo won 5–2 on aggregate.
CSKA won 4–2 on aggregate.