1991 Soviet Cup Final

1991 Soviet Cup Final
Event 1990–91 Soviet Cup
Date 23 June 1991
City Moscow
Referee Valeriy Butenko (Moscow)
Attendance 37,000
Weather 27 °C

The 1991 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on 23 June 1991. The match was the jubilee 50th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner CSKA qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. CSKA played their 7th Cup Final winning on 5 occasions including this one. For Torpedo it was their 15th Cup Final and for the ninth time they were defeated at this stage.

This match was the final match played by CSKA and USSR national team goalkeeper Mikhail Yeriomin. Yeriomin was in a serious car accident the evening after the final and died at a hospital on 30 June 1991 from his injuries.[1]

Road to Moscow

Main article: 1990–91 Soviet Cup

All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so CSKA and Torpedo both qualified for the competition automatically. The last year defending champions Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated administratively in the first round of the competition (1/16 final) by FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin after winning their home game 7–1 (later changed to -:+).[2]

CSKA Moscow
Round 1 (1st leg)Neftianik F.02CSKA
Round 1 (2nd leg)CSKA31Neftianik F.
 (CSKA won 51 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)CSKA41Dnipro
Round 2 (2nd leg)Dnipro22CSKA
 (CSKA won 63 on aggregate)
Quarter-finalCSKA41 Dinamo Minsk
Semi-finalLokomotiv Moscow03 CSKA

Torpedo Moscow
Round 1 (1st leg)Zenit12Torpedo
Round 1 (2nd leg)Torpedo20Zenit
 (Torpedo won 41 on aggregate)
Round 2 (1st leg)Torpedo20Karpaty
Round 2 (2nd leg)Karpaty13Torpedo
 (Torpedo won 51 on aggregate)
Quarter-finalTorpedo00 aet
31 pen.
Spartak
Semi-finalTorpedo00 aet
76 pen.
Ararat

Previous encounters

Previously these two teams met each other in the early editions of the competition on several occasions. However this was their first time and the last that they met in the finals of the Soviet Cup. Previously their contested each other four times in semifinals of this competition since 1944.

Match summary

1991-06-23
?:? LST
CSKA Moscow 3 2 Torpedo Moscow
Igor Korneyev  45', 67'
Oleg Sergeyev  80'
Report Yuriy Tishkov  43', 75'
Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow
Attendance: 37,000
Referee: Valeriy Butenko (Moscow)

PFC CSKA Moscow

FC Torpedo Moscow

MATCH OFFICIALS

  • Assistant referees:
  • 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.


Soviet Cup 1991 winners
CSKA Moscow
Fifth title

See also

References

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