# 2007–08 Ukrainian Cup

The 2007–08 Ukrainian Cup was the 17th annual edition of Ukraine's football knockout competition, the Ukrainian Cup.
The Cup started with the round of 32, but it also had couple of preliminaries. In the Ukrainian Second League, neither FC Arsenal Bila Tserkva nor FC Nyva-Svitanok Vinnytsia submitted their licenses to take part in this year's competition.

## Team allocation

Fifty-four teams entered the competition

### Distribution

| | | Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from previous round |
| First qualifying round (14 teams) | First qualifying round (14 teams) | 13 participants of the Second League (lower seeded) 1 participant of the Amateur Cup winner (Halychyna Lviv) | |
| Second qualifying round (28 teams) | Second qualifying round (28 teams) | 17 participants of the First League (lower seeded) 4 participants of the Second League (higher seeded) | 7 winners from the first qualifying round |
| Tournament proper (32 teams) | Tournament proper (32 teams) | 16 participants of the Premier League 2 participants of the First League (higher seeded) | 14 winners from the second qualifying round |

### Round and draw dates

All draws held at FFU headquarters (Building of Football) in Kyiv unless stated otherwise.
| Phase | Round | Draw date | Game date | Game date |
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
| Qualifying | First qualifying round | ? | 20 July 2007 | 20 July 2007 |
| Qualifying | Second qualifying round | 25 July 2007 | 5,8 August 2007 | 5,8 August 2007 |
| Main event | Round of 32 | ? | 24–26 September 2007 | 24–26 September 2007 |
| Main event | Round of 16 | ? | 31 October 2007 | 31 October 2007 |
| Main event | Quarter-finals | ? | December 2007 | December 2007 |
| Main event | Semi-finals | ? | 19 March 2008 | 16 April 2008 |
| Main event | Final | 7 May 2008 at Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv | 7 May 2008 at Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv | 7 May 2008 at Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv |

## Competition schedule
### First preliminary round

The matches of the First Preliminary Round took place on July 20, 2007.
| "Nafkom"(Brovary) | 5:0 | "Olimpik"(Kirovohrad) |
| Halychyna (Lviv) | 3:2 | "Enerhiya"(Yuzhnoukrainsk) | aet |
| "Kremin"(Kremenchuk) | 1:0 | "Podillya-Khmelnytskyi"(Khmelnytskyi) | |
| "Olimpik"(Donetsk) | 3:2 | "Shakhtar"(Sverdlovsk) | aet |
| "Khimik"(Krasnoperekopsk) | 0:2 | "OLKOM"(Melitopol) |
| "Arsenal"(Kharkiv) | 4:0 | "Komunalnyk"(Luhansk) | |
| Hirnyk-Sport(Komsomolsk) | 4:0 | "Hazovyk-KHV"(Kharkiv) | |

### Second preliminary round

The matches of the Second Preliminary Round took place on August 8, 2007, except the match of FC Halychyna Lviv and PFC Olexandria which took place on August 5.
The teams FC Stal Alchevsk and FC Illychivets Mariupol made it straight to the First Elimination Round, because the Alchevsk and Mariupol clubs rank the highest among the other First League participants.
| Halychyna (Lviv) | 0:1 | "Oleksandria" |
| "Dnister"(Ovidiopol) | 1:1 | "Krymteplytsia"(Molodizhne) | aet, pk 3:1 |
| "Titan"(Armyansk) | 2:1 | "CSKA"(Kyiv) | |
| "Kniazha"(Schaslyve) | 1:0 | "OLKOM"(Melitopol) |
| "Nyva"(Ternopil) | 2:0 | "Feniks-Illychivets"(Kalynine) |
| "Nafkom"(Brovary) | 0:2 | "Sevastopol" | |
| Lviv | 3:0 | "Prykarpattia"(Ivano-Frankivsk) | |
| "Helios"(Kharkiv) | 2:2 | "Stal"(Dniprodzerzhynsk) | aet, pk 3:0 |
| "Enerhetyk"(Burshtyn) | 4:2 | "Volyn"(Lutsk) | aet |
| "Olimpik"(Donetsk) | 2:1 | "Hirnyk-Sport"(Komsomolsk) | aet |
| "Yednist"(Plysky) | 3:3 | "Kremin"(Kremenchuk) | aet, pk 3:2 |
| "Desna"(Chernihiv) | 0:0 | "Dnipro"(Cherkasy) | aet, pk 6:5 |
| "Ihroservis"(Simferopol) | 3:1 | "Obolon"(Kyiv) | |
| "Arsenal"(Kharkiv) | 1:2 | "Mykolaiv" |

### Bracket

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| MFK Mykolaiv | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 1 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | | | | | | |
| Helios Kharkiv | 0 | Arsenal Kyiv | 1 | | | | | | |
| Arsenal Kyiv | 2 | | | Vorskla Poltava | 1 | | | | |
| Dniester Ovidiopol | 2 | | | Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | | | | |
| Enerhetyk Burshtyn | 0 | Dniester Ovidiopol | 0 | | | | | | |
| Vorskla Poltava | 2 | Vorskla Poltava | 1 | | | | | | |
| FC Kharkiv | 0 | | | | | Chornomorets | 1 | | |
| Tytan Armyansk | 0 | | | | | Shakhtar Donetsk | 5 | | |
| Chornomorets | 3 | Chornomorets(p) | 2 | | | | | | |
| PFC Sevastopol | 1 | Metalist Kharkiv | 2 | | | | | | |
| Metalist Kharkiv | 3 | | | Illichivets Mariupol | 2 | | | | |
| Knyazha Schaslyve | 0 | | | Chornomorets | 5 | | | | |
| Illichivets Mariupol | 1 | FC Lviv | 1 | | | | | | |
| FC Lviv | 2 | Illichivets Mariupol | 2 | | | | | | |
| Zakarpattia Uzhhorod | 1 | | | | | | | Shakhtar Donetsk | 2 |
| Olimpik Donetsk | 1 | | | | | | | Dynamo Kyiv | 0 |
| Desna Chernihiv | 2 | Desna Chernihiv | 1 | | | | | | |
| Naftovyk Okhtyrka | 2 | Naftovyk Okhtyrka(p) | 1 | | | | | | |
| Zorya Luhansk | 1 | | | Naftovyk Okhtyrka | 2 | | | | |
| Yednist' Plysky | 0 | | | Metalurh Donetsk | 4 | | | | |
| Stal Alchevsk | 3 | Stal Alchevsk | 1 | | | | | | |
| PFC Oleksandria | 1 | Metalurh Donetsk | 2 | | | | | | |
| Metalurh Donetsk | 2 | | | | | Dynamo Kyiv | 3 | | |
| Metalurh Zaporizhia | 0 | | | | | Metalurh Donetsk | 1 | | |
| Tavriya Simferopol | 1 | Nyva Ternopil | 0 | | | | | | |
| Nyva Ternopil | 1 | Tavriya Simferopol(p) | 0 | | | | | | |
| Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 0 | | | Tavriya Simferopol | 2 | | | | |
| Ihroservice | 1 | | | Dynamo Kyiv | 3 | | | | |
| Karpaty Lviv | 0 | Ihroservice | 1 | | | | | | |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 2 | Dynamo Kyiv | 4 | | | | | | |
| Dnipro | 0 | | | | | | | | |

### Round of 32

In this round entered all 16 teams from Premier League. They were drawn against the 16 winners from the previous round, who played home in this round. The matches were played on September 24–26, 2007.

### Round of 16

The Second Elimination Round of the Ukrainian Cup consisted of 16 competitors and took place on October 31, 2007.

### Quarterfinals

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Naftovyk Okhtyrka | 2–4 | FC Metalurh Donetsk | 2–3 | 0–1 |
| SC Tavriya Simferopol | 2–3 | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 2–0 | 0–3 |
| FC Vorskla Poltava | 1–4 | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | 0–3 | 1–1 |
| FC Illichivets Mariupol | 2–5 | FC Chornomorets Odesa | 2–1 | 0–4 |

#### First leg

The Quarterfinals consist of two matches per pair of club. The games took place from November 17 to January 15, 2007.

#### Second leg

Metalurh Donetsk won 4–2 on aggregate.
Dynamo Kyiv won 3–2 on aggregate.
Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–1 on aggregate.
Chornomorets Odesa won 5–2 on aggregate.

### Semifinals (1/2)

The Semifinals took place on March 19 and April 16, 2008.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| FC Chornomorets Odesa | 1–5 | FC Shakhtar Donetsk | 1–2 | 0–3 |
| FC Dynamo Kyiv | 3–1 | FC Metalurh Donetsk | 2–1 | 1–0 |

#### Second leg

Shakhtar Donetsk won 5–1 on aggregate.
Dynamo Kyiv won 3–1 on aggregate.

## Top goalscorers

The top scorers in the 2007–08 Ukrainian Cup are as follows:
| Scorer | Goals | Team |
| Uladzimir Karytska | 5 | Chornomorets Odesa |
| Oleksandr Kosyrin | 3 | Metalurh Donetsk |
| Ismaël Bangoura | 3 | Dynamo Kyiv |
| Maksim Shatskikh | 3 | Dynamo Kyiv |
| Viktor Arefyev | 3 | FC Olimpik Donetsk |
| Hryhoriy Baranets | 3 | FC Lviv |