# 1972 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR

The Ukrainian Cup 1972 was a football knockout competition conducting by the Football Federation of Ukrainian SSR and was known as the Ukrainian Cup.
The Football Cup started with the preliminary round on November 4, 1972, and involved the republican level non-amateur clubs. The competition started soon after the conclusion of the 1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1 on 31 October 1972. The Round of 16 that started on November 8, 1972 had several Soviet First League teams joining the competition, among which were Shakhtar, Chornomorets, Metalist, and others. Some of them were represented by their second (reserve) squads. Teams from the Soviet Top League did not participate.
The competition concluded in just over two weeks in Kyiv on November 19.

## Teams
### Tournament distribution

The competition was conducted among 21 Ukrainian clubs of the 1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1 and all 5 Ukrainian clubs of the 1972 Soviet First League and FC Khimik Zhytomyr. Three more Ukrainian clubs of the Second League Lokomotyv Donetsk, Khimik Severodonetsk and Mayak Kharkiv did not participate.
| First round (22 teams) | First round (22 teams) | 21 entrants from the Second League (Zone 1) FC Khimik Zhytomyr | |
| Second round (16 teams) | Second round (16 teams) | 5 entrants from the First League | 11 winners from the first round |

### Other professional teams

The four Ukrainian professional teams in the Soviet Top League did not take part in the competition.
* 1972 Soviet Top League (4): FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC Karpaty Lviv, FC Zorya Voroshylovhrad

## Competition schedule
### First elimination round

November 4, 1972
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk | 2–2 (a.e.t.) | Lokomotyv Vinnytsia |
| Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 3–1 | Hoverla Uzhhorod |
| SC Lutsk | 0–1 | Tavriya Simferopol |
| Avanhard Sevastopol | 2–1 | Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv |
| Shakhtar Horlivka | 5–3 | Shakhtar Makiivka |
| Dynamo Khmelnytsky | 1–3 | Budivelnyk Ternopil |
| Zirka Kirovohrad | 1–2 | Metalurh Zhdanov |
| Frunzenets Sumy | 3–1 | Shakhtar Kadiivka |
| Budivelnyk Poltava | 1–0 | Khimik Zhytomyr |
| SC Chernihiv | 4–3 | Lokomotyv Kherson |
| Avanhard Rivne | 1–3 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr |

#### Replay (November 5)

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk | 0–1 | Lokomotyv Vinnytsia |

### Second elimination round

November 8, 1972
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Lokomotyv Vinnytsia | 3–0 | Bukovyna Chernivtsi |
| Tavriya Simferopol | 2–0 | Avanhard Sevastopol |
| Shakhtar Horlivka | 3–4 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Budivelnyk Ternopil | 0–3 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih |
| Frunzenets Sumy | 5–0 | Metalist Kharkiv |
| Budivelnyk Poltava | 2–0 | Metalurh Zaporizhia |
| Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | 2–1 (a.e.t.) | SC Chernihiv |
| Metalurh Zhdanov | 0–1 | Chornomorets Odessa |

### Quarterfinals

November 12, 1972
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 5–2 | Tavriya Simferopol |
| Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 0–1 | Lokomotyv Vinnytsia |
| Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | 1–0 | Budivelnyk Poltava |
| Chornomorets Odessa | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | Frunzenets Sumy |

#### Replay (November 13)

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Chornomorets Odessa | 2–1 | Frunzenets Sumy |

### Semifinals

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Lokomotyv Vinnytsia | 0–3 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Chornomorets Odessa | 1–2 | Avtomobilist Zhytomyr |

### Final

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Avtomobilist Zhytomyr | 1–0 (a.e.t.) | Shakhtar Donetsk |
Avtomobilist: Zhurba, Kozynets, Bilyi, Kravchuk, Horbach, Pestrykov, Pinchuk, Sladkovskyi (Solovyov, 55), Vasiutyn, Nesmiyan (Kotov, 73), Zelenskyi
Head coach: Lifshits Shakhtar: Chanov, Yaremchenko, Kurhanov (Horbunov, 74), Belousov, Hubych, Kashchey, Vasin, Konkov, Prokopenko (Shevchuk, 68), Dudynskyi (Kliuchyk, 70), Safonov
Head coach: Bazylevych

## Top goalscorers

| Scorer | Goals | Team |
* Ukrainian Cup 1972 Winners
* FC Avtomobilist Zhytomyr First title