# 1999–2000 Ukrainian Second League Cup

The Ukrainian Second League Cup 1999–00 was the first edition of Second League Cup competition designated exclusively for clubs of the Second League. It was organized as a qualification tournament for the Ukrainian Cup with only the finalist advancing to the national cup competition.
The Cup started with a qualification round on August 18, 1999, and consisted of 11 pairs. The winner of that round was identified by a single game and advancing to the first round of competition. The first round started on September 1. From the first round and all the way to the final teams played a home-away elimination type tournament. The best two teams faced off after qualifying for the main event. Both Borysfen and Kherson were eliminated in the second round of the Ukrainian Cup with a big margin on March 29, 2000. Later they met each other for the final of the Second League Cup on May 6, 2000, although the last semifinal game of that tournament took place on November 16, 1999. In the final that took place at the Dinamo Stadium in Kyiv Borysfen beat Kherson earning itself the first trophy of the competition.

## Competition schedule
### Qualification round

| Karpaty-2 (Lviv) | 0:1 | Dynamo (Lviv) | in Yavoriv |
| Nyva (Vinnytsia) | +:– | Veres (Rivne) | Veres did not appear |
| Enerhetyk (Burshtyn) | 1:0 | Kalush | |
| Halychyna (Drohobych) | 1:0 | Prykarpattia-2 | |
| Ryhonda (Bila Tserkva) | 0:0 | Obolon-PVO-2 (Kyiv) | aet, pk 3:1 |
| Zirka-2 (Kirovohrad) | 0:1 | Olimpiya AES | |
| Tytan (Armyansk) | +:– | Chornomorets (Sevastopol) | Chornomorets quit |
| Viktor (Zaporizhzhia) | 4:1 | Torpedo (Melitopol) | |
| Metalurh-2 (Zaporizhzhia) | –:+ | Dnipro-2 (Dnipropetrovsk) | Metalurh Zaporizhzhia decided not to field its second team |
| Arsenal (Kharkiv) | 1:0 | Mashbud (Druzhkivka) | |
| Adoms (Kremenchuk) | 5:1 | Myrhorod | aet |
| Shakhtar (Horlivka) | 2:0 | Avanhard (Rovenky) | aet |

### First round (of 32)

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Portovyk Illichivsk | w/o | FC Tytan Armyansk | –:+ | w/d |
| FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 7–4 | FC Tsementnyk-Khorda Mykolaiv | 3–2 | 4–2 |
| FC Hazovyk Komarno | 1–1 (a) | FC Dynamo Lviv | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| FC Nyva Vinnytsia | 1–2 | FC Papirnyk Malyn | 0–0 | 1–2 |
| FC Enerhetyk Burshtyn | 2–3 | FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 2–2 | 0–1 |
| FC Naftovyk Dolyna | 3–2 | FC Halychyna Drohobych | 3–2 | 0–0 |
| FC Systema-Boreks Borodianka | 2–1 | FC Ryhonda Bila Tserkva | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Olimpia FC AES Yuzhnoukrainsk | w/o | FC Borysfen Boryspil | 0–5 | w/d |
| FC Desna Chernihiv | 2–5 | FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv | 2–4 | 0–1 |
| FC Vorskla-2 Poltava | 1–5 | FC Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk | 0–3 | 1–2 |
| FC Krystal Kherson | 6–1 | FC Viktor Zaporizhzhia | 4–1 | 2–0 |
| FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk | 3–2 | FC Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| FC Elektron Romny | w/o | FC Arsenal Kharkiv | 2–0 | w/d |
| FC Kremin Kremenchuk | 3–1 | FC Adoms Kremenchuk | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| FC Shakhtar Horlivka | 1–3 | FC Zorya Luhansk | 0–0 | 1–3 |
| FC Oskil Kupyansk | 0–3 | FC Metalist-2 Kharkiv | 0–1 | 0–2 |

### Second round (of 16)

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Dynamo Lviv | 1–1 (a) | FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| FC Papirnyk Malyn | 3–5 | FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 3–2 | 0–3 |
| FC Systema-Boreks Borodianka | 0–3 | FC Naftovyk Dolyna | 0–0 | 0–3 |
| FC Borysfen Boryspil | 6–0 | FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv | 4–0 | 2–0 |
| FC Tytan Armyansk | 2–2 (a) | FC Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk | 1–2 | 1–0 |
| FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk | 1–1 (a) | FC Krystal Kherson | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| FC Arsenal Kharkiv | 2–1 | FC Kremin Kremenchuk | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| FC Zorya Luhansk | 2–2 (a) | FC Metalist-2 Kharkiv | 2–2 | 0–0 |

### Quarterfinals (1/4)

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 5–3 | FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi | 2–0 | 3–3 |
| FC Borysfen Boryspil | 7–1 | FC Naftovyk Dolyna | 2–0 | 5–1 |
| FC Krystal Kherson | 2–1 | FC Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| FC Metalist-2 Kharkiv | 2–1 | FC Arsenal Kharkiv | 1–0 | 1–1 |

### Semifinals (1/2)

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Borysfen Boryspil | 6–2 | FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 2–0 | 4–2 (a.e.t.) |
| FC Metalist-2 Kharkiv | 0–2 | FC Krystal Kherson | 0–1 | 0–1 |

### Final

The final was held at the Dynamo Stadium on May 6, 2000, in Kyiv.
| FC Borysfen Boryspil | 2:0 Report | SC Kherson |

## Top goalscorers

| Scorer | Goals | Team |
* Ukrainian Second League Cup 1999-00 Winners
* FC Borysfen Boryspil First title