# 2024–25 Ukrainian Cup

The 2024–25 Ukrainian Cup is the 33rd annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition. The competition started on 3 August 2024 and will be concluded on 14 May 2025 with the final. Champions qualify for the Second qualifying round 2025-26 UEFA Europa League.
All competition rounds consisted of a single game with a home field advantage granted to a team from lower league. Draw for all the rounds was blind.

## Team allocation and schedule

The competition includes all professional first teams from the Premier League (16/16 teams of the league), First League (18/18), Second League (13/20) and 2 best performer from the previous year's Amateur Cup. Seven clubs' second teams all from the Second League are not eligible for the tournament.
Distribution :
| | | Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from previous round |
| First preliminary round (32 teams) | First preliminary round (32 teams) | 17 entrants from the First League 13 entrants of the Second League 2 entrants of the 2023–24 Amateur Cup | |
| Second preliminary round (18 teams) | Second preliminary round (18 teams) | 2 entrants from the mini tournament finals | 16 winners from the First preliminary round |
| Third preliminary round (16 teams) | Third preliminary round (16 teams) | 7 entrants from the Premier League | 9 winners from the Second preliminary round |
| Round of 16 (16 teams) | Round of 16 (16 teams) | 8 entrants from the Premier League | 8 winners from the Third preliminary round |

### Rounds schedule

| Phase | Round | Number of fixtures | Clubs remaining | Draw date | Game date |
| Preliminary | First round | 16 | 32 → 16 | 26 July 2024 | 3 and 4 August 2024 |
| Preliminary | Second round | 9 | 18 → 9 | 5 August 2024 | 11-13 August 2024 |
| Preliminary | Third round | 8 | 16 → 8 | 14 August 2024 | 21-22 August 2024 |
| Main event | Round of 16 | 8 | 16 → 8 | 28 August 2024 | 30 October 2024 |
| Main event | Quarter-finals | 4 | 8 → 4 | 8 November 2024 | 2 April 2025 |
| Main event | Semi-finals | 2 | 4 → 2 | April 2025 | 23 April 2025 |
| Main event | Final | 1 | 2 → 1 | April 2025 | 14 May 2025 |

### Teams

| Enter in First Round | Enter in First Round | Enter in Second Round | Enter in Third Round | Enter in Fourth Round |
| AAFU 2 teams | PFL League 1/League 2 17 teams/13 teams | "Mini tournament final" 2 teams | UPL 7 teams | UPL 8 teams |
| FC Mykolaiv Olympia Savyntsi | PFL League 1 Ahrobiznes Volochysk Bukovyna Chernivtsi Dinaz Vyshhorod Epitsentr Kamianets-Podilskyi FC Khust Kremin Kremenchuk FC Kudrivka FSC Mariupol Metalist Kharkiv Metalist 1925 Kharkiv Metalurh Zaporizhia Nyva Ternopil Podillya Khmelnytskyi SC Poltava Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk UCSA Tarasivka Viktoriya Sumy PFL League 2 Chaika Petropavlivska B FC Chernihiv Hirnyk-Sport FC Kulykiv Lokomotyv Kyiv Nyva Vinnytsia Probiy Horodenka Real Pharma Odesa Revera 1908 Ivano-Frankivsk Skala Stryi FC Trostianets FC Uzhhorod SC Vilkhivtsi | UPL Livyi Bereh Kyiv PFL League 1 FC Mynai | Chornomorets Odesa Inhulets Petrove Karpaty Lviv Kolos Kovalivka Obolon Kyiv Veres Rivne Zorya Luhansk | Dynamo Kyiv Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih LNZ Cherkasy FC Oleksandriya Polissya Zhytomyr Rukh Lviv Shakhtar Donetsk Vorskla Poltava |
Notes:
* Olympia Savyntsi qualified in place of Shturm Ivankiv (FC Mykolaiv – Shturm Ivankiv), which merged with Kolos Kovalivka as the latter one reserve team.
* Mini tournament was organized during the summer break due to abrupt withdrawal of SC Dnipro-1.

## Competition schedule

Legends: AM – AAFU (amateur) competitions (IV tier), 2L – Second League (III tier), 1L – First League (II tier), PL – Premier League (I tier)

### First preliminary round (1/64)

In this round, 17 clubs from the First League, 13 clubs from the Second League and 2 participants of the 2023–24 Amateur Cup.
The draw was held on 26 July 2024 with participation of Andriy Vorobey and Vitaliy Danylchenko.

#### Notes
### Second preliminary round (1/32)

In this round, a club from the Premier League and a club from the First League entered the competition and joined the 16 winners of the First preliminary round (9 clubs from First League, 5 clubs from Second League, 2 – amateurs).
The draw was held on 5 August 2024 with participation of Dmytro Mykhailenko and Serhiy Annenko.

### Third preliminary round (1/16)

In this round, another 7 out of remaining 15 clubs from the Premier League entered the competition and joined the 9 winners of the Second preliminary round (6 clubs from First League, a club from Second League, 2 – amateurs).
The draw was held on 14 August 2024 with participation of Vyacheslav Shevchuk and Aliaksandr Khatskevich.

### Round of 16 (1/8)

In this round, the remaining 8 clubs from the Premier League entered the competition and joined the 8 winners of the Third preliminary round (4 clubs from Premier League, 3 clubs from First League, a club from Second League).
The draw was held on 28 August 2024 with participation of Vladyslav Vashchuk and Oleh Luzhnyi.

### Quarter-finals (1/4)

This round includes 6 clubs from the Premier League and two teams from the First League.
The draw was held on 8 November 2024 with participation of Oleh Luzhny among notable football celebrities.
Notes:
* According to the draw, Bukovyna was selected as a host team in the Bukovyna–Viktoriya pair, in which both teams are from the second tier. At the same time Viktoriya was not able to play its home matches at its home stadium Yuvileinyi due to proximity to the frontlines (see Russo-Ukrainian War). The Ukrainian Association of Football regulations require that all quarterfinals hosting stadiums would correspond to the top tier (Ukrainian Premier League) league criteria for stadiums (best in the country). The stadium Bukovyna does not meet all the criteria for such stadium requirements due to lack of football field lighting and heating systems. The Chernivtsi club submitted request to UAF to make an exception for the club and allow hosting the match at the Bukovyna's home stadium, otherwise the game will have to be moved to Lviv or Ternopil.

### Semi-finals (1/2)

This round will include three clubs from the Premier League and a team from the First League.

### Final
## Top goalscorers

The competition's top three goalscorers including preliminary rounds.
    As of 30 October 2024
| Rank | Scorer | Team | Goals (Pen.) |
| 1 | Bohdan Orynchak | Probiy Horodenka | 4 |
| 2 | Roman Debelko | UCSA Tarasivka | 3 |
| 2 | Ari Moura | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 3 |
| 2 | Ihor Koshman | Olimpiya Savyntsi | 3 (1) |
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