2017–18 Ukrainian Cup
The 2017–18 Ukrainian Cup was the 27th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition.
The competition was planned to be started on 9 July 2017 and concluded on 9 May 2018.
| Tournament details | |
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| Country |  Ukraine |
| Dates | 9 July 2017 – 9 May 2018 9 July 2017 – 20 September 2017 (qualification rounds) 25 October 2017 – 9 May 2018 (main event) |
| Teams | 52 |
| Defending champions | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Runner-up | Dynamo Kyiv |
| Semifinalists | |
| UEFA Europa League | none |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 51 |
| Goals scored | 147 (2.88 per match) |
| Attendance | 141,451 (2,774 per match) |
| Top goal scorer(s) | 5 – Serhiy Kyslenko (FC Lviv) |
| All statistics correct as of 9 May 2018. | |
This season the competition's administration was passed on to the Football Federation of Ukraine that previously was conducted by both the Premier League and Professional Football League. The number of participants has increased to 52 and is the biggest in the last five years. The FFU also promised to introduce a system of bonuses for this season's competition, yet did not disclosed them.
All competition rounds consisted of a single game with a home field advantage granted to a team from lower league. Qualification for the competition is granted to all professional clubs and finalists of the Ukrainian Amateur Cup as long as those clubs will be able to pass the season's attestation (licensing).
FC Shakhtar Donetsk was the defending winner for the last two seasons. The Donetsk club has reached the competition finals in the last seven years winning five of them. There were around 300 clubs over the history of competition and it is a debut season for seven of them, Dnipro-1, Ahrobiznes, Metalist 1925, Polissya, Tavriya Simferopol, Sudnobudivnyk, and Prykarpattia. Both qualified amateur clubs have already participated in the competition before. It should be mentioned that only 10 clubs participated in every season of the tournament.
Team allocation and schedule
Distribution
| First round (26 teams) |
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| Second round (28 teams) |
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| Third round (20 teams) |
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| Round of 16 (16 teams) |
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Rounds schedule
| Phase | Round | Fractional | Draw date | Game date |
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| Preliminary | Round 1 | 1⁄64 finals | 30 June 2017 | 9 July 2017 |
| Round 2 | 1⁄32 finals | 13 July 2017 | 26 July 2017 | |
| Round 3 | 1⁄16 finals | 4 August 2017 | 20 September 2017 | |
| Main event | Round of 16 | 1⁄8 finals | 27 September 2017 | 25 October 2017 |
| Quarter-finals | 1⁄4 finals | 31 October 2017 | 29 November 2017 | |
| Semi-finals | 1⁄2 finals | 2 March 2018 | 18 April 2018 | |
| Final | 9 May 2018 | |||
Competition schedule
First Preliminary round (1/64)
In this round entered three representatives from the First League, 21 clubs from the Second League, two representatives from the Amateur Cup. The draw for this round that took place 30 June 2017 at the House of Football in Kyiv was announced on 27 June 2017. The round matches were played on 9 July 2017. The archive of Ukrainian Association of Football "Footpass" shows the Premier League club NK Veres Rivne playing at the first preliminary round instead of FC Lviv (please, see Veres – Lviv swap). The clubs' "swap" occurred only next season, while the archive has been updated to show something that is completely wrong.
| SC Dnipro-1 (2L) | 5 – 0 | (2L) Bukovyna Chernivtsi | |
| FC Ternopil (2L) | 1 – 1 (a.e.t.), (3–5 p) | (2L) Ahrobiznes Volochysk | |
| Arsenal-Kyivshchyna Bila Tserkva (2L) | 0 – 3 | (2L) Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | |
| Chaika Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion (AM) | 0 – 2 | (1L) Rukh Vynnyky | |
| Tavriya Simferopol (2L) | +:- (3:0) | (2L) Skala Stryi | |
| FC Nikopol (2L) | 1 – 0 (a.e.t.) | (2L) Myr Hornostayivka | |
| SCC Demnya (AM) | 2 – 1 (a.e.t.) | (2L) FC Dnipro | |
| FC Lviv (2L) | 2 – 0 | (1L) Kremin Kremenchuk | |
| Real Pharma Odesa (2L) | 1 – 3 | (2L) Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka | |
| Metalist 1925 Kharkiv (2L) | 2 – 2 (a.e.t.), (3–4 p) | (2L) Nyva Ternopil | |
| Podillya Khmelnytskyi (2L) | 1 – 3 | (2L) Nyva-V Vinnytsia | |
| Metalurh Zaporizhya (2L) | 0 – 2 | (2L) Polissya Zhytomyr | |
| Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv (2L) | 0 – 2 | (1L) Balkany Zorya |
Notes:
- On 5 July 2017 the club director of Skala Stryi confirmed that the club will not show up for the cup game against Tavriya. On 24 July 2017 it was announced that the FFU Control and Disciplinary Committee awarded a technical loss to Skala (0:3) and fined it for 5,000 hryvnias.
- On 5 July 2017 it was announced that Metalist 1925 answered to the call of Nyva Ternopil and agreed to play the game in Kharkiv. Related documents were sent up to the Football Federation of Ukraine. On 7 July 2017 the arrangement was approved and Metalist 1925 will host Nyva at Sonyachny Training Center.
- On 6 July 2017 number of clubs announced that they have various major issues in taking part of the competition, among which are FC Arsenal-Kyivshchyna Bila Tserkva, FC Metalurh Zaporizhia, FC Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv (the last two, because of problems with their stadiums). On the other hand, both FC Ternopil and FC Lviv confirmed that they are ready for the competition. FC Lviv announced that it will play its first game of Ukrainian Cup competition in Rava-Ruska. On 7 July 2017 the Football Federation of Ukraine approved to conduct the game between Metalurh and Polissya at Kolos Stadium in Chkalove, Nikopol Raion as well as the game between Sudnobudivnyk and Balkany that took place on 10 July 2017 at Ivan Stadium in Odesa.
Second Preliminary round (1/32)
In this round will include 15 more representatives from the First League in addition to the two that advanced from the previous round as well as 10 clubs from the Second League and one representatives from the Amateur Cup. The draw for this round that took place on 13 July 2017 at the House of Football in Kyiv was announced on 11 July 2017. The round matches will be played on 26 July 2017, while the game between Tavriya and Nyva-V might take place later as Tavriya shares home stadium with Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka. Later (21 July 2017) it was confirmed that the date for the game Tavriya – Nyva-V is 27 July 2017.
| Avanhard Kramatorsk (1L) | 1 – 0 | (1L) MFC Mykolaiv | |
| Helios Kharkiv (1L) | 0 – 0 (a.e.t.), (3–1 p) | (1L) Obolon-Brovar Kyiv | |
| Inhulets Petrove (1L) | 3 – 1 | (1L) FC Poltava | |
| Nyva Ternopil (2L) | 0 – 2 | (2L) Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | |
| Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka (2L) | 1 – 4 | (1L) Zhemchuzhyna Odesa | |
| Rukh Vynnyky (1L) | 1 – 3 (a.e.t.) | (1L) Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni | |
| Desna Chernihiv (1L) | 4 – 0 | (1L) Balkany Zorya | |
| Ahrobiznes Volochysk (2L) | 2 – 2 (a.e.t.), (5–4 p) | (1L) Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka | |
| Kolos Kovalivka (1L) | 3 – 2 | (1L) Cherkaskyi Dnipro | |
| Tavriya Simferopol (2L) | 2 – 1 (a.e.t.) | (2L) Nyva-V Vinnytsia | |
| SCC Demnya (AM) | 1 – 0 | (2L) Polissya Zhytomyr | |
| FC Nikopol (2L) | 0 – 1 | (1L) Arsenal Kyiv | |
| FC Lviv (2L) | 3 – 0 | (1L) Volyn Lutsk | |
| SC Dnipro-1 (2L) | 2 – 0 | (1L) PFC Sumy |
Third Preliminary round (1/16)
In this round the first 6 representatives from the Premier League will enter the competition along with the 14 teams that advanced from the previous round including 8 clubs from the First League, 5 clubs from the Second League, and one representatives from the Amateur Cup. The draw for this round was held on 4 August 2017 at the House of Football in Kyiv and was announced on 1 August 2017. The round matches were played on 20 September 2017.
| 20 September 2017 | Helios Kharkiv (1L) | 1–2 | (1L) Desna Chernihiv | Kharkiv |
| 15:00 | Abyelyentsev  13' | Report | Kartushov 11', 74' | Stadium: Helios Arena Attendance: 200 Referee: Vitaliy Malyar |
| 20 September 2017 | FC Kolos Kovalivka (1L) | 1–2 | (PL) FC Mariupol | Kovalivka, Vasylkiv Raion |
| 16:00 | Lysenko 50' | Report | Kozhanov 45' Kisil 53' | Stadium: Kolos Stadium Attendance: 800 Referee: Dmytro Panchyshyn |
| 20 September 2017 | Zhemchuzhyna Odesa (1L) | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (1–4 p) | (PL) Stal Kamianske | Odesa |
| 16:00 | Dolynskyi 44' | Report | Mytsyk 65' | Stadium: Spartak Stadium Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Oleksandr Pavlyuk |
| 20 September 2017 | SC Tavriya Simferopol (2L) | 3–2 (a.e.t.) | (PL) Zirka Kropyvnytskyi | Beryslav |
| 16:00 | Lohvynenko 7' (pen.) Yeloyev 15'Voronchenko 108' | Report | Rassadkin 10' Panfilov 18' | Stadium: Mashynobudivnyk Stadium Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Yevhen Petrenko |
| 20 September 2017 | Ahrobiznes Volochysk (2L) | 1–2 (a.e.t.) | (PL) Veres Rivne | Volochysk |
| 16:00 | Dumanyuk 118' | Report | Morozenko 101' Skotarenko 111' | Stadium: Yunist Stadium Attendance: 3,750 Referee: Yevhen Yakovlev |
| 20 September 2017 | Inhulets Petrove (1L) | 0–0 (a.e.t.) (5–6 p) | (1L) Arsenal Kyiv | Petrove |
| 17:30 | Report | Stadium: Inhulets Stadium Attendance: 500 Referee: Ihor Debenko |
| 20 September 2017 | Avanhard Kramatorsk (1L) | 0–2 | (PL) Vorskla Poltava | Kramatorsk |
| 18:00 | Report | Kadymyan 74' Kolomoyets 89' | Stadium: Avanhard Stadium Attendance: 3,600 Referee: Dmytro Kryvushkin |
| 20 September 2017 | Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk (2L) | 2 – 1 | (PL) Karpaty Lviv | Ivano-Frankivsk |
| 18:00 | Boryshkevych 41' Derbakh 65' | Report | Memeshev 90+3' | Stadium: Rukh Stadium Attendance: 9,860 Referee: Oleksandr Solovyan |
| 20 September 2017 | SCC Demnya (AM) | 1–2 | (2L) FC Lviv | Lviv |
| 19:00 | Boryk 44' | Report | Kyslenko 40' Omelchenko 90+2' | Stadium: Skif Stadium Attendance: 2,100 Referee: Vadym Zaprutnyak |
| 20 September 2017 | SC Dnipro-1 (2L) | 1–0 | (1L) Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni | Dnipro |
| 19:00 | Sula 20' | Report | Stadium: Dnipro Arena Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Oleksandr Afanasyev |
Round of 16 (1/8)
In this round the final 6 representatives from the Premier League will enter the competition along with the 10 teams that advanced from the previous round including 4 teams from the Premier League, 2 teams from the First League and 4 teams from the Second League. The draw was without seeds and was held on 27 September 2017. The round matches were played on 25 October 2017.
| 25 October 2017 | Arsenal Kyiv (1L) | 0–1 | (PL) Veres Rivne | Shchaslyve |
| 13:00 | Report | Morozenko 19' | Stadium: Arsenal-Arena Attendance: 600 Referee: Yuriy Hrysyo (Lviv) |
| 25 October 2017 | Tavriya Simferopol (2L) | 0–5 | (PL) FC Mariupol | Beryslav |
| 14:00 | Report | Boryachuk 36', 90' Tankovskyi 53'Korobenko 73', 83' | Stadium: Mashynobudivnyk Stadium Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Maksym Kozyryatskyi (Zaporizhia) |
| 25 October 2017 | Vorskla Poltava (PL) | 2–0 (a.e.t.) | (PL) Olimpik Donetsk | Poltava |
| 17:00 | Sharpar 104' Kulach 109' | Report | Stadium: Vorskla Stadium Attendance: 758 Referee: Oleksandr Derdo (Odesa) |
| 25 October 2017 | Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk (2L) | 0–2 | (1L) Desna Chernihiv | Ivano-Frankivsk |
| 18:00 | Report | Oliynyk 16' Volkov 24' | Stadium: Rukh Stadium Attendance: 6,650 Referee: Volodymyr Milanych (Mykolaiv) |
| 25 October 2017 | SC Dnipro-1 (2L) | 0–0 (a.e.t.) (8–7 p) | (PL) Chornomorets Odesa | Dnipro |
| 19:00 | Report | Stadium: Dnipro Arena Attendance: 2,520 Referee: Oleksandr Shandor (Lviv) |
| 25 October 2017 | FC Lviv (2L) | 1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–3 p) | (PL) Stal Kamianske | Lviv |
| 19:00 | Kyslenko 69' | Report | Klymchuk 11' | Stadium: Skif Stadium Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Volodymyr Novokhatniy (Kyiv) |
| 25 October 2017 | Zorya Luhansk (PL) | 3–4 (a.e.t.) | (PL) Shakhtar Donetsk | Zaporizhia |
| 19:00 | Lunyov 12' Hordiyenko 51'Kharatin 106' | Report | Ferreyra 72', 90' Kovalenko 99'Blanco Leschuk 117' | Stadium: Slavutych-Arena Attendance: 5,511 Referee: Anatoliy Abdula (Kharkiv) |
| 25 October 2017 | FC Oleksandriya (PL) | 2–3 (a.e.t.) | (PL) Dynamo Kyiv | Oleksandriia |
| 19:30 | Starenkyi 77' Hrytsuk 120' (pen.) | Report | Kravets 36', 116' Besyedin 107' | Stadium: CSC Nika Stadium Attendance: 1,802 Referee: Yuriy Mozharovskyi (Lviv) |
Quarterfinals (1/4)
In this round advanced 5 representatives from the Premier League, a team from the First League and 2 teams from the Second League. The draw was without seeds and was held on 31 October 2017 in the House of Football, Kyiv. The round matches were played on 29 November 2017.
| 29 November 2017 | Vorskla Poltava (PL) | 1–2 | (PL) FC Mariupol | Poltava |
| 17:00 | Kulach 13' | Report | Boryachuk 24' Totovytskyi 77' | Stadium: Vorskla Stadium Attendance: 600 Referee: Anatoliy Abdula |
| 29 November 2017 | Desna Chernihiv (1L) | 0–2 | (PL) Dynamo Kyiv | Chernihiv |
| 19:00 | Report | Harmash 6' Rusyn 90+3' | Stadium: Yuri Gagarin Stadium Attendance: 11,467 Referee: Yuriy Mozharovskyi |
| 29 November 2017 | FC Lviv (2L) | 1–2 (a.e.t.) | (2L) SC Dnipro-1 | Lviv |
| 19:00 | Kyslenko 23' | Report | Snizhko 75' Poplavka 119' | Stadium: Skif Stadium Attendance: 2,790 Referee: Mykola Kryvonosov |
| 29 November 2017 | Shakhtar Donetsk (PL) | 4–0 | (PL) Veres Rivne | Kharkiv |
| 19:30 | Ferreyra 7' Bernard 45'Marlos 63'Leschuk 83' | Report | Stadium: Metalist Stadium Attendance: 1,350 Referee: Vitaliy Romanov |
Semifinals (1/2)
In this round advanced 3 representatives from the Premier League and a team from the Second League. The draw was without seeds and was held on 2 March 2018. SC Dnipro-1 will play its semifinal game at home as being from the lowest league. The round matches are scheduled to be played on 18 April 2018.
| 18 April 2018 | SC Dnipro-1 (2L) | 1–4 | (PL) Dynamo Kyiv | Dnipro |
| 19:00 | Kravchenko 58' | Report | Tsyhankov 28' (pen.) Shepelyev 38'Besyedin 44'Verbič 66' | Stadium: Dnipro Arena Attendance: 12,214 Referee: Yaroslav Kozyk (Mukacheve) |
| 18 April 2018 | Shakhtar Donetsk (PL) | 5–1 | (PL) FC Mariupol | Kharkiv |
| 19:00 | Taison 8', 45+2' Marlos 38'Kayode 74'Petryak 81' | Report | Tyschenko 22' | Stadium: Metalist Stadium Attendance: 2,671 Referee: Yevhen Aranovskyi (Kyiv) |
Final
| 9 May 2018 | Dynamo Kyiv | 0–2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | Dnipro Arena, Dnipro |
| Report | Ferreyra 48' Rakytskyi 61' | Attendance: 28,155 Referee: Yuriy Mozharovskyi |
Bracket
The following is the bracket which the Ukrainian Cup resembled. Numbers in parentheses next to the match score represent the results of a penalty shoot-out.
| Round of 16 25 October 2017 | Quarter-finals 29 November 2017 | Semi-finals 18 April 2018 | Final 9 May 2018 | |||||||||||
| Arsenal–Kyiv | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Veres Rivne | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Veres Rivne | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Zorya Luhansk | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Shakhtar Donetsk (a.e.t.) | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 5 | |||||||||||||
| FC Mariupol | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Tavriya Simferopol | 0 | |||||||||||||
| FC Mariupol | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Vorskla Poltava | 1 | |||||||||||||
| FC Mariupol | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Vorskla Poltava (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Olimpik Donetsk | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Dynamo Kyiv | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Desna Chernihiv | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Desna Chernihiv | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Dynamo Kyiv | 2 | |||||||||||||
| FC Oleksandriya | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Dynamo Kyiv (a.e.t.) | 3 | |||||||||||||
| SC Dnipro-1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Dynamo Kyiv | 4 | |||||||||||||
| SC Dnipro-1 (p) | 0 (8) | |||||||||||||
| FC Chornomorets Odesa | 0 (7) | |||||||||||||
| FC Lviv | 1 | |||||||||||||
| SC Dnipro-1 (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| FC Lviv (p) | 1 (5) | |||||||||||||
| Stal Kamianske | 1 (3) | |||||||||||||
Top goalscorers
The competition's top ten goalscorers including qualification rounds.
As of 9 May 2018[update]
| Rank | Scorer | Team | Goals (Pen.) |
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| 1 | Serhiy Kyslenko | FC Lviv | 5 |
| 2 |  Facundo Ferreyra | Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 |
| 3 | Andriy Boryachuk | FC Mariupol | 3 |
| Andriy Shevchuk | Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni | 3 | |
| 5 | 14 players | 2 | |
| 19 | 99 players | 1 | |
Notes:
- there were 2 own goals scored during the first round, 2 own goals during the second round, one in the third round.
See also
Notes
References
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