# 2007 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2007 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Olympic NSC on 27 May 2007. The match was the 16th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. The Olympic stadium is the traditional arena for the Cup final.

## Road to Kyiv

All 16 Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dynamo and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.
| Round 1 | Olkom Melitopol | 0–4 | Dynamo Kyiv |
| Round 2 | Kharkiv | 0–2 | Dynamo Kyiv |
| Quarter-final (1st leg) | Dynamo Kyiv | 1–1 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk |
| Quarter-final (2nd leg) | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 1–2 aet | Dynamo Kyiv |
| | (Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate) | (Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate) | (Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate) |
| Semi-final (1st leg) | Metalist Kharkiv | 0–1 | Dynamo Kyiv |
| Semi-final (2nd leg) | Dynamo Kyiv | 4–2 | Metalist Kharkiv |
| | (Dynamo won 5–2 on aggregate) | (Dynamo won 5–2 on aggregate) | (Dynamo won 5–2 on aggregate) |
| Round 1 | Yavir Krasnopillia | 1–6 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Round 2 | Borysfen Boryspil | 0–2 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Quarter-final (1st leg) | Sevastopol | 0–1 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Quarter-final (2nd leg) | Shakhtar Donetsk | 6–1 | Sevastopol |
| | (Shakhtar won 7–1 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar won 7–1 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar won 7–1 on aggregate) |
| Semi-final (1st leg) | Shakhtar Donetsk | 0–0 | Tavriya Simferopol |
| Semi-final (2nd leg) | Tavriya Simferopol | 2–2 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| | (Shakhtar won 2–2 on away goal) | (Shakhtar won 2–2 on away goal) | (Shakhtar won 2–2 on away goal) |

## Previous encounters

Prior to the 2007 Cup Final, Dynamo and Shakhtar had met three times in previous Ukrainian Cup finals. Dynamo had defeated Shakhtar two times, since losing their very first meeting. In both of those meetings Dynamo was victorious 2–1. Shakhtar's best performance against Dynamo was back in the 2002 final, when the Miners were able to down the legendary Dynamo team in extra time 3–2. It was the first meeting between the team managers in this competition.

## Match details

| Dynamo Kyiv | Shakhtar Donetsk |
Dynamo Kyiv: :
| GK | 1 | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi |
| MF | 4 | Tiberiu Ghioane |
| MF | 7 | Corrêa | 67' | 74' |
| FW | 9 | Kléber | 52' | 84' |
| MF | 15 | Diogo Rincón | 66' |
| DF | 17 | Taras Mykhalyk | |
| MF | 20 | Oleh Husyev | |
| DF | 26 | Andriy Nesmachny |
| DF | 27 | Vladyslav Vashchuk (c) |
| MF | 36 | Miloš Ninković |
| DF | 44 | Rodrigo | 27' 71' |
| Substitutes: ||||
| GK | 21 | Taras Lutsenko |
| FW | 11 | Demba Touré |
| MF | 14 | Ruslan Rotan |
| DF | 81 | Marjan Marković |
| FW | 16 | Maksim Shatskikh | 84' |
| DF | 29 | Vitaliy Mandziuk | 74' |
| MF | 8 | Valyantsin Byalkevich | 66' |
| Manager: ||||
| Anatoliy Demyanenko ||||
Shaktar Donetsk: :
| GK | 1 | Bohdan Shust |
| DF | 33 | Darijo Srna | 86' |
| DF | 27 | Dmytro Chyhrynskyi (c) | 41' |
| MF | 26 | Răzvan Raț | 50' | 52' |
| DF | 18 | Mariusz Lewandowski | |
| MF | 4 | Igor Duljaj |
| MF | 7 | Fernandinho | |
| FW | 11 | Andriy Vorobey | 53' |
| DF | 3 | Tomáš Hübschman | 53' |
| MF | 8 | Jádson | 51' |
| FW | 25 | Brandão | 56' |
| Substitutes: ||||
| GK | 12 | Dmytro Shutkov |
| MF | 19 | Oleksiy Hai | 52' | 90+2' |
| DF | 5 | Oleksandr Kucher |
| FW | 29 | Ciprian Marica | 53' |
| MF | 36 | Elano | 51' |
| FW | 20 | Oleksiy Byelik | |
| MF | 28 | Oleksiy Poliansky |
| Manager: ||||
| Mircea Lucescu ||||
| MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Andriy Valenko (Lviv) Eduard Valenko (Lviv) Fourth official: Yuriy Moseychuk (Chernivtsi) | 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. |
* Ukrainian Cup 2007 Winners
* Dynamo Kyiv Ninth title