# 2009 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2009 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Dnipro Stadium on May 31, 2009. The match was the 18th Ukrainian Cup final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Vorskla Poltava. The 2009 final was the first time a Ukrainian Cup final was held in Dnipropetrovsk. Vorskla Poltava, as Ukrainian Cup winners, qualified for the UEFA Europa League play-off round.

## Road to Dnipropetrovsk

All sixteen Ukrainian Premier League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Vorskla and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.
| Round 1 | Zirka Kirovohrad | 0–1 | Vorskla Poltava |
| Round 2 | Obolon Kyiv | 1–4 | Vorskla Poltava |
| Quarter-final | Metalurh Donetsk | 0–1 | Vorskla Poltava |
| Semi-final | Metalist Kharkiv | 0–0 | Vorskla Poltava |
| Semi-final (Replay) | Vorskla Poltava | 2–0 | Metalist Kharkiv |
| Round 1 | Illichivets Mariupol | 0–3 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Round 2 | Zakarpattia Uzhhorod | 1–4 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Quarter-final | PFC Oleksandria | 1–2 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Semi-final | Shakhtar Donetsk | 1–0 | Dynamo Kyiv |

## Previous encounters

Prior to the final, Vorskla and Shakhtar had met six times in previous Ukrainian Cup competitions. Vorskla had never defeated Shakhtar, with its best performance being a 1–1 draw in the second leg of the quarter-finals in the 2007–08 edition. Shakhtar's best performance against Vorskla was in a second round encounter in the 1994–95 edition, an 8–0 drubbing.

## Match details

| Vorskla Poltava | Shakhtar Donetsk |
Vorskla Poltava: :
| GK | 1 | Serhiy Dolhanskyi (c) |
| MF | 3 | Filip Despotovski |
| DF | 4 | Armend Dallku |
| MF | 5 | Oleh Krasnopyorov |
| MF | 7 | Jovan Markoski |
| FW | 8 | Denys Kulakov | 81' |
| FW | 17 | Vasyl Sachko | 50' | 71' |
| DF | 20 | Debatik Curri |
| MF | 37 | Hryhoriy Yarmash |
| DF | 48 | Volodymyr Chesnakov | 90+2' |
| MF | 70 | Dmytro Yesin | 89' |
| Substitutes: ||||
| GK | 12 | Serhiy Velychko |
| FW | 11 | Denis Glavina | 81' |
| MF | 23 | Yevhen Pyeskov |
| FW | 27 | Ahmed Januzi | 71' |
| FW | 31 | Oleksiy Chychykov |
| DF | 33 | Andriy Boyko |
| MF | 40 | Roman Loktionov | 89' |
| Manager: ||||
| Mykola Pavlov ||||
Shaktar Donetsk: :
| GK | 30 | Andriy Pyatov |
| DF | 33 | Darijo Srna (c) |
| DF | 27 | Dmytro Chyhrynskyi |
| DF | 5 | Oleksandr Kucher |
| DF | 13 | Vyacheslav Shevchuk |
| FW | 17 | Luiz Adriano |
| MF | 7 | Fernandinho | 57' |
| MF | 19 | Oleksiy Hai | 55' |
| DF | 3 | Tomáš Hübschman |
| MF | 8 | Jádson | 75' |
| FW | 21 | Oleksandr Hladkyi | 64' |
| Substitutes: ||||
| GK | 12 | Rustam Khudzhamov |
| MF | 4 | Igor Duljaj |
| MF | 26 | Răzvan Raț |
| MF | 22 | Willian | 55' |
| FW | 10 | Yevhen Seleznyov | 64' |
| DF | 18 | Mariusz Lewandowski | 75' |
| DF | 36 | Oleksandr Chyzhov |
| Manager: ||||
| Mircea Lucescu ||||
| MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Serhiy Tsymbal (Kyiv) Oleksandr Shamych (Kyiv) Fourth official: Ihor Ischenko (Kyiv) | 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 2009 Winners
* Vorskla Poltava First title