# 1990 Soviet Cup final

The 1990 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on 2 May 1990. The match was the 49th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dynamo Kyiv (I tier) and FC Lokomotiv Moscow (II tier). The Soviet Cup winner Dynamo qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending champions Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk were eliminated in the first round of the competition (1/16 of final) by PFC CSKA Moscow on away goal rule (1:1, 2:2). Dynamo played their 10th Cup Final winning on 9 occasions including this one. For Lokomotiv it was their only third Cup Final and the only loss at this stage.

## Road to Moscow

All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dynamo and Lokomotiv both qualified for the competition automatically.
| Round 1 (1st leg) | Kryvbas | 1–3 | Lokomotiv |
| Round 1 (2nd leg) | Lokomotiv | 5–0 | Kryvbas |
| | (Lokomotiv won 8–1 on aggregate) | (Lokomotiv won 8–1 on aggregate) | (Lokomotiv won 8–1 on aggregate) |
| Round 2 (1st leg) | Žalgiris | 1–1 | Lokomotiv |
| Round 2 (2nd leg) | Lokomotiv | 3–0 | Žalgiris |
| | (Lokomotiv won 4–1 on aggregate) | (Lokomotiv won 4–1 on aggregate) | (Lokomotiv won 4–1 on aggregate) |
| Quarter-final | Lokomotiv | 2–0 | Torpedo |
| Semi-final | Dynamo M. | 0–0 aet 2–4 pen. | Lokomotiv |
| Round 1 (1st leg) | Kairat | 0–1 | Dynamo |
| Round 1 (2nd leg) | Dynamo | 3–1 | Kairat |
| | (Dynamo won 4–1 on aggregate) | (Dynamo won 4–1 on aggregate) | (Dynamo won 4–1 on aggregate) |
| Round 2 (1st leg) | Dynamo | 1–0 | Dynamo Tb. |
| Round 2 (2nd leg) | Iberia | –:+ | Dynamo |
| | (Dynamo got technical win as Tbilisi withdrew) | (Dynamo got technical win as Tbilisi withdrew) | (Dynamo got technical win as Tbilisi withdrew) |
| Quarter-final | Metalist | 0–1 | Dynamo |
| Semi-final | Dynamo | 4–2 | CSKA |

## Previous encounters

Previously these two teams never met each other in the such a late stages of the competition. However they did meet about five times in the Soviet Cup, usually in the first rounds. They first played each other in the Soviet Cup back in 1938.

## Match details

| Lokomotiv Moscow | Dynamo Kyiv |
FC Lokomotiv Moscow: :
| GK | Khasanbi Bidzhiyev |
| DF | Pavel Nesterov |
| DF | Yevgeny Mileshkin (c) |
| MF | Aleksey Arifullin |
| DF | Andrey Solovtsov |
| DF | Dmitry Gorkov |
| MF | Kirill Rybakov 60' |
| MF | Rashid Gallakberov |
| MF | Oleg Samatov 60' |
| FW | Sergey Sukhov 82' |
| FW | Igor Chugaynov |
| Substitutes: |||
| FW | Mikhail Pronichev 60' (Rybakov) |
| DF | Valery Plotnikov 60' |
| MF | Andrey Fedin 82' |
| GK | |
| DF | |
| DF | |
| MF | |
| Manager: |||
| Yuriy Siomin |||
FC Dynamo Kyiv: :
| 1 | Viktor Chanov |
| 2 | Serhiy Shmatovalenko |
| 8 | Anatoliy Demyanenko (c) 83' |
| 4 | Oleh Kuznetsov |
| 3 | Akhrik Tsveyba |
| 5 | Vasyl Rats |
| 11 | Oleksiy Mykhailychenko 83' |
| 7 | Hennadiy Lytovchenko |
| 6 | Serhiy Zayets 52' |
| 10 | Oleh Protasov |
| 9 | Oleg Salenko |
| Substitutes: |||
| 12 | Oleh Luzhnyi 83' (Demyanenko) |
| 13 | Andriy Bal 83' |
| 14 | Serhiy Kovalets 52' |
| GK | |
| DF | |
| DF | |
| MF | |
| Manager: |||
| Valeriy Lobanovsky |||
| MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Vladimir Markin (Rostov/Don) Yevgeniy Aleksandrov (Yaroslavl) Fourth official: ( ) | 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. |