# 2008 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2008 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Metalist Stadium on May 7, 2008. The match was the 17th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. The 2008 Ukrainian Cup Final was the first to be held outside of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Shakhtar won the match 2–0 through goals from Oleksandr Gladkiy and Oleksiy Gai.
The match had five red cards issued, two to Dynamo players and three to Shakhtar players. The match also had six yellow cards (Gladkiy received two), four of which were given to Shakhtar players and two to Dynamo players. This was in part because of players' violent behavior and also because referee Victor Shvetsov made several misjudgments.

## Road to Kharkiv

All 16 Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition; Dynamo and Shakhtar therefore both qualified for the competition automatically.
Dynamo had a lot of instability en route to the final. At the beginning of the season, manager Anatoliy Demyanenko resigned after рoor results to start the season. He was replaced by former Dynamo player and coach Yozhef Sabo, who later resigned from his post afterwards due to personal health problems. In November 2007, Dynamo appointed assistant coach Oleh Luzhnyi as interim coach, who was in charge until 8 December and managed to get Dynamo through the quarter-finals. Finally, in December 2008, the club appointed former Russia national team manager Yuriy Semin.
| Round 1 | Dynamo Kyiv | 2–0 | Dnipro |
| Round 2 | Ihroservice | 1–4 | Dynamo Kyiv |
| Quarter-final (1st leg) | Tavriya Simferopol | 2–0 | Dynamo Kyiv |
| Quarter-final (2nd leg) | Dynamo Kyiv | 3–0 | Tavriya Simferopol |
| | (Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate) | (Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate) | (Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate) |
| Semi-final (1st leg) | Dynamo Kyiv | 2–1 | Metalurh Donetsk |
| Semi-final (2nd leg) | Metalurh Donetsk | 0–1 | Dynamo Kyiv |
| | (Dynamo won 3–1 on aggregate) | (Dynamo won 3–1 on aggregate) | (Dynamo won 3–1 on aggregate) |
| Round 1 | MFK Mykolaiv | 0–1 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Round 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 4–1 | Arsenal Kyiv |
| Quarter-final (1st leg) | Vorskla Poltava | 0–3 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Quarter-final (2nd leg) | Shakhtar Donetsk | 1–1 | Vorskla Poltava |
| | (Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–1 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–1 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–1 on aggregate) |
| Semi-final (1st leg) | Chornomorets | 1–2 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Semi-final (2nd leg) | Shakhtar Donetsk | 3–0 | Chornomorets |
| | (Shakhtar Donetsk won 5–1 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar Donetsk won 5–1 on aggregate) | (Shakhtar Donetsk won 5–1 on aggregate) |

## Match details

| Shakhtar Donetsk | Dynamo Kyiv |
Shaktar Donetsk: :
| GK | 30 | Andriy Pyatov |
| MF | 23 | Darijo Srna (c) |
| DF | 37 | Dmytro Chyhrynskyi |
| DF | 5 | Oleksandr Kucher | 32' | 46' |
| DF | 26 | Răzvan Raț | 56' |
| MF | 7 | Fernandinho |
| DF | 11 | Ilsinho | 86' |
| DF | 3 | Tomáš Hübschman |
| MF | 4 | Igor Duljaj | 75' |
| FW | 25 | Brandão | 64' |
| FW | 21 | Oleksandr Hladkyi | 44' | 57' 87' |
| Substitutes: ||||
| GK | 1 | Bohdan Shust |
| MF | 8 | Jádson |
| FW | 17 | Luiz Adriano |
| MF | 22 | Willian | 86' |
| MF | 19 | Oleksiy Hai | 75' | 78' |
| DF | 18 | Mariusz Lewandowski |
| DF | 55 | Volodymyr Yezerskyi | 46' | 80' |
| Manager: ||||
| Mircea Lucescu ||||
Dynamo Kyiv: :
| GK | 1 | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (c) |
| DF | 3 | Pape Diakhaté | 73' |
| MF | 4 | Tiberiu Ghioane |
| MF | 7 | Corrêa |
| MF | 8 | Oleksandr Aliyev | 68' | 83' |
| FW | 22 | Artem Kravets |
| DF | 29 | Vitaliy Mandzyuk | 17' |
| DF | 30 | Badr El Kaddouri |
| MF | 37 | Ayila Yussuf |
| FW | 10 | Ismaël Bangoura | 80' |
| DF | 81 | Marjan Marković | 46' |
| Substitutes: ||||
| GK | 21 | Taras Lutsenko |
| FW | 16 | Maksim Shatskikh |
| FW | 25 | Artem Milevskyi | 83' |
| DF | 26 | Andriy Nesmachnyi |
| DF | 27 | Vladyslav Vashchuk |
| MF | 36 | Miloš Ninković | 46' |
| MF | 17 | Mykola Morozyuk |
| Manager: ||||
| Yuriy Semin ||||
| MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Oleh Pluzhnyk (Kharkiv) Vitaliy Ponomaryov (Lviv) Fourth official: Andriy Shandor (Lviv) | 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 2008 Winners
* Shakhtar Donetsk Sixth title

## Match statistics

| | Shakhtar Donetsk | Dynamo Kyiv |
| Total shots | 9 | 13 |
| Shots on target | 3 | 3 |
| Ball possession | ?% | ?% |
| Corner kicks | 8 | 9 |
| Fouls committed | ? | ? |
| Offsides | 10 | 1 |
| Yellow cards | 4 | 2 |
| Red cards | 3 | 2 |