# 2011–12 Russian Cup

The 2011–12 Russian Cup, known as the 2011–12 Pirelli–Russian Football Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the twentieth season of the Russian football knockout tournament since the dissolution of Soviet Union. The competition started on 20 April 2011 and finished with the final held on 9 May 2012. The cup winner was won a spot in the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League group stage.

## First round

This round featured 6 Second Division teams. The game was played on 22 April and 30 April 2011.

### Section South

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Olimpia Gelendzhik (III) | 2–2 (a.e.t.) (2–1 p) | Slavyansky Slavyansk-na-Kubani (III) |
| Biolog-Novokubansk Progress (III) | 5–1 | FC Taganrog (III) |

### Section East

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Amur-2010 Blagoveshchensk (III) | 4–2 (a.e.t.) | Yakutiya Yakutsk (III) |

## Second round

In this round entered 3 winners from the first round, 48 Second Division teams and 3 amateur teams. The matches were played between 22 April and 11 May 2011.

## Third round

In this round entered 27 winners from the second round and the remaining 21 Second Division teams. The matches were played between 10 and 23 May 2011.

## Fourth round

In this round entered 24 winners the third round. The matches were played between 4 and 16 June 2011.

## Fifth round

The 12 winners from the fourth round and the 20 FNL teams entered this round. The matches were played on 4 and 5 July 2011.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| FC Istra | 2–1 | Volga Tver |
| Shinnik Yaroslavl (II) | 2–1 | Baltika Kaliningrad (II) |
| Rusichi Oryol | 1–3 | Torpedo Vladimir (II) |
| Tekstilshchik Ivanovo | 0–1 | FC Nizhny Novgorod (II) |
| Vityaz Podolsk | 0–2 | FC Khimki (II) |
| Dynamo Bryansk (II) | 2–0 | Torpedo Moscow (II) |
| KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny (II) | 1–2 | Mordovia Saransk (II) |
| Volga Ulyanovsk | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (8–7 p) | Gazovik Orenburg (II) |
| Alania Vladikavkaz (II) | 0–1 | Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan (II) |
| FAYUR Beslan | 1–2 | Fakel Voronezh (II) |
| Metallurg-Oskol Stary Oskol | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p) | Chernomorets Novorossiysk (II) |
| Torpedo Armavir | 3–4 | Zhemchuzhina Sochi (II) |
| Sibir Novosibirsk (II) | 0–1 | Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast (II) |
| Metallurg–Kuzbass Novokuznetsk | 2–0 | FC Chelyabinsk |
| Yenisey Krasnoyarsk (II) | 1–0 | SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk (II) |
| Radian-Baikal Irkutsk | 1–2 | Luch-Energiya Vladivostok (II) |

## Round of 32

The 16 winners from the fifth round hosted the Russian Premier League teams in this round. The matches were played on 17 July 2011.

## Round of 16

In this round the 16 winners from the round of 32 round enter. The matches was played on 20 and 21 September 2011.

## Final

| Dynamo | Rubin |
Anton Shunin :
| DF | 4 | Igor Shitov | 63' |
| DF | 6 | Leandro Fernández |
| DF | 13 | Vladimir Granat |
| DF | 33 | Vladimir Rykov |
| MF | 7 | Balázs Dzsudzsák | |
| MF | 8 | Zvjezdan Misimović | 82' |
| MF | 19 | Aleksandr Samedov | |
| MF | 21 | Igor Semshov | 38' |
| FW | 10 | Andriy Voronin (c) |
| FW | 22 | Kevin Kurányi |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 16 | Yevgeni Frolov |
| DF | 5 | Alexandru Epureanu | 63' |
| MF | 12 | Pavel Nyakhaychyk |
| MF | 26 | Christian Noboa |
| MF | 41 | Aleksandr Sapeta |
| FW | 9 | Aleksandr Kokorin | 82' |
| FW | 27 | Fyodor Smolov | |
| Manager: |||
| Sergei Silkin Assistant referees: Igor Lapidus (Elista) Oleg Polgazov (Yoshkar-Ola) ||||
Sergey Ryzhikov :
| DF | 2 | Oleg Kuzmin |
| DF | 3 | Cristian Ansaldi |
| DF | 4 | César Navas | 45' |
| DF | 76 | Roman Sharonov | 44' |
| MF | 8 | Aleksandr Ryazantsev |
| MF | 23 | Roman Eremenko | 78' |
| MF | 61 | Gökdeniz Karadeniz | 90+' |
| MF | 66 | Bibras Natcho |
| FW | 18 | Nelson Haedo Valdez | 90' |
| FW | 25 | Vladimir Dyadyun | 87' |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 88 | Alireza Haghighi |
| DF | 19 | Vitali Kaleshin |
| DF | 27 | Salvatore Bocchetti | 87' |
| MF | 7 | Pyotr Bystrov | 90+' |
| MF | 9 | Pyotr Nemov |
| MF | 77 | Nikita Bocharov |
| FW | 28 | Sergei Davydov | 90' |
| Manager: |||
| Kurban Berdyev ||||
Played in the earlier stages, but were not on the final game squad:
FC Dynamo Moscow: Marko Lomić (DF), Luke Wilkshire (DF), Andrei Karyaka (MF), Artur Yusupov (MF).
FC Rubin Kazan: Solomon Kvirkvelia (DF), Jonatan Valle (MF), Alisher Dzhalilov (MF), Aleksei Eremenko (MF), Alan Kasaev (MF), Syarhey Kislyak (MF), Ruslan Makhmutov (MF), Christian Noboa (MF), Alexandru Antoniuc (FW), Igor Lebedenko (FW), Obafemi Martins (FW), Aleksei Medvedev (FW).