# 1984 Soviet Cup

The 1984 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Dinamo Moscow qualified for the continental tournament.

## Competition overview

Competitions for the Soviet Cup in 1984 were held on a knockout system with the participation of 48 teams (18 Top league teams, 21 First and 9 Second league teams).
In the Cup tournament bracket, all 48 teams were seeded by lot draw.
On February 18, 32 teams began competitions including 21 of 22 teams of the First league (Shinnik Yaroslavl did not participate in the Cup due to a sanction for failure to appear to a game last season), 2 teams that received the right to play in the Top league (promotion), 6 zone winners of the Second league and 3 teams relegated from the First league at the end of last year (Dnepr Mogilev, Tekstilschik Ivanovo, Dinamo Kirov).
16 Top league teams started in the Round of 32.
If in the 1/32 finals the teams won on their home turf, then in the next round they played on the opponents’ turfs, and those teams that won the first round away played on their home turfs. To determine the location of subsequent meetings, a record of the number of visiting and hosting of teams has been kept. In case of equality of visiting and hosting, the home team was determined by lot.
If the game, including the final, would end in a draw, extra time was assigned (two periods of 15 minutes each). If extra time did not reveal the strongest, the winner would have been determined by penalty kicks in accordance with FIFA Regulations. In games for the Soviet Cup, no more than three players are allowed to be substituted during the game. The final is held on June 24 in Moscow, at the Central Stadium named after V.I. Lenin.

## Participating teams

| Enter in 2nd Preliminary | Enter in First Preliminary Round | Enter in First Preliminary Round | Enter in First Preliminary Round | Enter in First Preliminary Round | Enter in First Preliminary Round |
| 1984 Vysshaya Liga 16/18 teams | 1984 Vysshaya Liga 2/18 teams | 1984 Pervaya Liga 21/22 teams | 1984 Vtoraya Liga 9/162 teams | 1984 Vtoraya Liga 9/162 teams | 1984 Vtoraya Liga 9/162 teams |
| Y Zenit Leningrad Y Spartak Moscow Y Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Y Chernomorets Odessa Y Dinamo Minsk Y Torpedo Moscow Y Iberia Tbilisi Y Zalgiris Vilnius Y Dinamo Kiev Y Ararat Erevan Y Metallist Kharkov Y Shakhter Donetsk Y Neftchi Baku Y Dinamo Moscow Y CSKA Moscow Y Pakhtakor Tashkent | Y Kairat Alma-Ata Y SKA Rostov-na-Donu | Y Fakel Voronezh Y FC Torpedo Kutaisi Y SKA Karpaty Lvov Y Kuban Krasnodar Y Metallurg Zaporozhye Y Lokomotiv Moscow Y Daugava Riga Y Pamir Dushanbe Y Kuzbass Kemerovo Y Guria Lanchkhuti Y Dinamo Batumi Y Iskra Smolensk Y Zvezda Dzhizak Y SKA Khabarovsk Y Rotor Volgograd Y Spartak Ordzhonikidze Y Nistru Kishenev Y Kolos Nikopol Y Zaria Voroshilovgrad Y Tavria Simferopol Y Irtysh Omsk | Y Tekstilschik Ivanovo Y Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo | Y Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev Y Dinamo Kirov | none |
| Y Zenit Leningrad Y Spartak Moscow Y Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Y Chernomorets Odessa Y Dinamo Minsk Y Torpedo Moscow Y Iberia Tbilisi Y Zalgiris Vilnius Y Dinamo Kiev Y Ararat Erevan Y Metallist Kharkov Y Shakhter Donetsk Y Neftchi Baku Y Dinamo Moscow Y CSKA Moscow Y Pakhtakor Tashkent | Y Kairat Alma-Ata Y SKA Rostov-na-Donu | Y Fakel Voronezh Y FC Torpedo Kutaisi Y SKA Karpaty Lvov Y Kuban Krasnodar Y Metallurg Zaporozhye Y Lokomotiv Moscow Y Daugava Riga Y Pamir Dushanbe Y Kuzbass Kemerovo Y Guria Lanchkhuti Y Dinamo Batumi Y Iskra Smolensk Y Zvezda Dzhizak Y SKA Khabarovsk Y Rotor Volgograd Y Spartak Ordzhonikidze Y Nistru Kishenev Y Kolos Nikopol Y Zaria Voroshilovgrad Y Tavria Simferopol Y Irtysh Omsk | none | Y Dnepr Mogilev Y Metallurg Lipetsk | Y SKA Kiev |
| Y Zenit Leningrad Y Spartak Moscow Y Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Y Chernomorets Odessa Y Dinamo Minsk Y Torpedo Moscow Y Iberia Tbilisi Y Zalgiris Vilnius Y Dinamo Kiev Y Ararat Erevan Y Metallist Kharkov Y Shakhter Donetsk Y Neftchi Baku Y Dinamo Moscow Y CSKA Moscow Y Pakhtakor Tashkent | Y Kairat Alma-Ata Y SKA Rostov-na-Donu | Y Fakel Voronezh Y FC Torpedo Kutaisi Y SKA Karpaty Lvov Y Kuban Krasnodar Y Metallurg Zaporozhye Y Lokomotiv Moscow Y Daugava Riga Y Pamir Dushanbe Y Kuzbass Kemerovo Y Guria Lanchkhuti Y Dinamo Batumi Y Iskra Smolensk Y Zvezda Dzhizak Y SKA Khabarovsk Y Rotor Volgograd Y Spartak Ordzhonikidze Y Nistru Kishenev Y Kolos Nikopol Y Zaria Voroshilovgrad Y Tavria Simferopol Y Irtysh Omsk | Y Neftyanik Fergana | Y Shakhter Karaganda | none |
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### Notes

* Shinnik Yaroslavl (II) was barred from competing for failure to arrive to a game last season.

## Competition schedule
### First preliminary round

All games took place on February 18, 1984.
| Fakel Voronezh | 2:1 | Tekstilschik Ivanovo | (in Sochi) |
| Guria Lanchkhuti | 1:2 | Daugava Riga | (in Alakhadze) |
| Kairat Alma-Ata | 1:1 | SKA Kiev | (a.e.t.), (4–5 p) (in Chimkent) |
| Kolos Nikopol | 0:1 | Znamya Truda Orekhovo Zuevo | (a.e.t.) |
| Kuban Krasnodar | 1:0 | Irtysh Omsk | (a.e.t.) |
| Kuzbass Kemerovo | 3:1 | Zvezda Jizak | (in Uzhgorod) |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | 0:2 | Iskra Smolensk | (in Khosta) |
| Metallurg Zaporozhie | 2:0 | Krylia Sovetov Kuibyshev | |
| Nistru Kishinev | 2:0 | Neftyanik Fergana | |
| Pamir Dushanbe | 1:1 | Dinamo Kirov | (a.e.t.), (4–2 p) (in Kurgan-Tyube) |
| Rotor Volgograd | 1:2 | Dnepr Mogilev | (in Adler) |
| SKA Khabarovsk | 2:1 | Zaria Voroshilovgrad | (a.e.t.) (in Moscow) |
| SKA Rostov-na-Donu | 1:0 | Shakhter Karaganda | (in Sochi) |
| SKA Karpaty Lvov | 1:0 | Spartak Ordzhonikidze | (a.e.t.) (in Moscow) |
| Tavria Simferopol | 3:1 | Dinamo Batumi | |
| Torpedo Kutaisi | 3:1 | Metallurg Lipetsk | |

### Second preliminary round

The base game day was February 22, 1984
| Dinamo Moscow | 1:0 | Nistru Kishinev | (February 21, 1984) |
| Chernomorets Odessa | 3:0 | Kuban Krasnodar | (in Izmail) |
| CSKA Moscow | 1:0 | Dnepr Mogilev | (in Sochi) |
| Dinamo Kiev | 3:1 | SKA-Karpaty Lvov | (a.e.t.) (in Sochi) |
| Dinamo Minsk | 2:1 | SKA Khabarovsk | (in Sukhumi) |
| Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk | 3:2 | Kuzbass Kemerovo | |
| Iskra Smolensk | 0:1 | Spartak Moscow | (in Sochi) |
| Metallist Kharkov | 2:0 | Metallurg Zaporozhie | |
| Neftchi Baku | 2:4 | SKA Rostov-na-Donu | |
| Pakhtakor Tashkent | 0:1 | Fakel Voronezh | |
| Shakhter Donetsk | 2:0 | Torpedo Kutaisi | (in Sochi) |
| SKA Kiev | 0:2 | Dinamo Tbilisi | |
| Torpedo Moscow | 3:0 | Tavria Simferopol | (in Adler) |
| Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuevo | 0:1 | Ararat Yerevan | |
| Zhalgiris Vilnius | 2:0 | Pamir Dushanbe | (a.e.t.) (in Adler) |
| Daugava Riga | 0:3 | Zenit Leningrad | (in Fergana, February 23, 1984) |

### Round of 16

The base game day was February 26, 1984
| Chernomorets Odessa | 1:0 | Shakhter Donetsk | |
| CSKA Moscow | 4:2 | Dinamo Kiev | (a.e.t.) |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | 0:1 | Dinamo Minsk | |
| Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk | 1:2 | Dinamo Moscow | |
| Metallist Kharkov | 1:2 | Torpedo Moscow | |
| Spartak Moscow | 1:0 | SKA Rostov-na-Donu | (in Sochi) |
| Zhalgiris Vilnius | 0:1 | Fakel Voronezh | (in Adler) |
| Zenit Leningrad | 3:3 | Ararat Yerevan | (a.e.t.), (4–3 p) (February 27, 1984) |

### Quarter-finals

The base game day was March 2, 1984
| Dinamo Minsk | 1:0 | CSKA Moscow | (in Sukhumi) |
| Dinamo Moscow | 3:1 | Chernomorets Odessa | (a.e.t.) |
| Torpedo Moscow | 0:0 | Zenit Leningrad | (a.e.t.), (6–7 p) (in Sochi, March 3, 1984) |
| Fakel Voronezh | 2:0 | Spartak Moscow (April 28, 1984) | |

### Semi-finals

| Zenit Leningrad | 1:0 | Fakel Voronezh | (a.e.t.) (June 6, 1984) |
| Dinamo Minsk | 0:4 | Dinamo Moscow | (June 7, 1984) |