# 2020 Ukrainian Super Cup

The 2020 Ukrainian Super Cup was the 17th edition of Ukrainian Super Cup, an annual season opener football match contested by the previous season's Ukrainian Premier League champions Shakhtar Donetsk and Ukrainian Cup winners Dynamo Kyiv.
The game was scheduled to be played later than usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also while traditionally being held in Odesa, this season it was scheduled to take place in Kyiv at the Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex on 25 August 2020. The game was played after Round 1 of the 2020–21 Ukrainian Premier League.

## Preparations and other background events

For this game the official sponsor was announced TM Waissburg, the official football for the ninth time became the Danish "Select" (Select Sport) and as a television broadcasting partner became Ukrainian television channels "TRK Ukraína" and "Futbol 1/2/3" (both part of Media Group Ukraína).
This game is the first, in which Mircea Lucescu who spent in Shakhtar Donetsk a dozen of years and one of the two original head coaches who participated in the tournament back in 2004 will be leading the chief opponents of the Donetsk club. Anatoliy Demianenko commenting on the game stated that the main intrigue is Lucescu versus Shakhtar. The former players of Shakhtar Artem Fedetskyi and Oleksiy Hai commenting on the game agree that it is unusual game, but Shakhtar shall still win. The head coach of Shakhtar Luís Castro is eager to win the Super Cup which slipped away the last season. Castro is sure that both clubs will field their best squads for the game and Lucescu will be requesting the maximum from his. Another Ukrainian head coach Myron Markevych thinks that the game does not matter and the main task for the teams is to qualify for the European competitions.
The game started the next day after the national holiday Independence Day of Ukraine.
The refereeing team led by Romanov partially preserved from the last year was supervised by Luciano Luci, while VAR operations was supervised by Serhiy Lysenchuk.

## Previous encounters

Before this game both teams met in the Ukrainian Super Cup twelve (12) times, the first being back in 2004. Before this game out of the previous twelve Dynamo won 4 games and Shakhtar won 3, five more games were tied and led to penalty shootout three of which were won by Dynamo and two were won by Shakhtar.

### Comparison table

| Team | Qualification | Previous appearances (bold indicates winners) |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 2019–20 UPL champions | 15 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 2019–20 Cup winners | 13 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) |

## Match
### Details

| Shakhtar Donetsk | Dynamo Kyiv |
Shakhtar Donetsk :
| GK | 30 | Andriy Pyatov (c) |
| DF | 2 | Dodô |
| DF | 4 | Serhiy Kryvtsov | 83' |
| DF | 77 | Valeriy Bondar | 69' |
| DF | 22 | Mykola Matviyenko |
| MF | 6 | Taras Stepanenko |
| MF | 21 | Alan Patrick | |
| MF | 8 | Marcos Antônio | 46' |
| MF | 14 | Tetê | 61' |
| FW | 7 | Taison |
| FW | 10 | Júnior Moraes | 37' |
| Substitutes |||
| GK | 81 | Anatoliy Trubin |
| MF | 50 | Serhiy Bolbat |
| DF | 5 | Davit Khocholava |
| MF | 19 | Manor Solomon | 61' |
| MF | 70 | Yevhen Konoplyanka | 69' |
| MF | 11 | Marlos | 46' |
| MF | 27 | Maycon | |
| MF | 99 | Fernando | 83' |
| MF | 20 | Viktor Kovalenko | |
| Head coach ||||
| Luís Castro ||||
| Dynamo Kyiv ||
| GK | 1 | Heorhiy Bushchan | |
| MF | 5 | Serhiy Sydorchuk (c) | | |
| MF | 10 | Mykola Shaparenko | 52' | |
| MF | 14 | Carlos de Pena | | 20' | 74' |
| MF | 20 | Oleksandr Karavayev | 59' | |
| MF | 22 | Gerson Rodrigues | | 31' |
| DF | 24 | Oleksandr Tymchyk | |
| MF | 29 | Vitaliy Buyalskyi | | 82' |
| DF | 34 | Oleksandr Syrota |
| FW | 89 | Vladyslav Supriaha | | 61' |
| DF | 94 | Tomasz Kędziora | |
| Substitutes ||
| GK | 71 | Denys Boyko |
| FW | 9 | Fran Sol | | 61' | 83' |
| FW | 11 | Heorhiy Tsitaishvili | | |
| MF | 15 | Viktor Tsyhankov |
| MF | 17 | Bohdan Lyednyev | | 82' |
| MF | 18 | Oleksandr Andriyevskyi | | 74' |
| DF | 55 | Kostyantyn Vivcharenko | | |
| DF | 25 | Illya Zabarnyi | | |
| MF | 99 | Mikkel Duelund | | |
| Head coach ||
| Mircea Lucescu ||
| Assistant referees: Andriy Skrypka (Kropyvnytskyi) Volodymyr Volodin (Kherson) Fourth referee: Anatoliy Abdula (Kharkiv) Reserve assistant referee: Dimitry Zaporozhenko Video assistant referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi (Kyiv) Assistant video assistant referee: Semen Shlonchak (Cherkasy) | Match rules 90 minutes of regulation. No extra time of regulation if score is level. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used in three opportunities, excluding substitutions made at half-time. No more than 9 foreign players on a field at one time for each team. |