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1972 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR

Field	Value
tourney_name	Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
year	1972
other_titles	Football Cup among teams of masters
country	Soviet Union, Ukrainian SSR
dates	4 November – 19 November
num_teams	27
champion_other	Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
count	1
second_other	Shakhtar Donetsk
matches	28
goals	91
nextseason	1973

The Ukrainian Cup 1972 was a football knockout competition conducting by the Football Federation of Ukrainian SSR and was known as the Ukrainian Cup.

The Football Cup started with the preliminary round on November 4, 1972, and involved the republican level non-amateur clubs. The competition started soon after the conclusion of the 1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1 on 31 October 1972. The Round of 16 that started on November 8, 1972 had several Soviet First League teams joining the competition, among which were Shakhtar, Chornomorets, Metalist, and others. Some of them were represented by their second (reserve) squads. Teams from the Soviet Top League did not participate.

The competition concluded in just over two weeks in Kyiv on November 19.

Teams

Tournament distribution

The competition was conducted among 21 Ukrainian clubs of the 1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1 and all 5 Ukrainian clubs of the 1972 Soviet First League and FC Khimik Zhytomyr. Three more Ukrainian clubs of the Second League Lokomotyv Donetsk, Khimik Severodonetsk and Mayak Kharkiv did not participate.

First round
(22 teams)	Second round
(16 teams)

Other professional teams

The four Ukrainian professional teams in the Soviet Top League did not take part in the competition.

1972 Soviet Top League (4): FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC Karpaty Lviv, FC Zorya Voroshylovhrad

Competition schedule

First elimination round

November 4, 1972 |}

;Replay (November 5) |}

Second elimination round

November 8, 1972 |}

Nesmiyan
Vasyutin
Shakun

Quarterfinals

November 12, 1972 |}

;Replay (November 13) |}

Zelenskyi
Naydenov

Semifinals

Kashchey Safonov

Tomashevskyi
Pinchuk
Nesmiyan

Final

Main article: 1972 Ukrainian Cup Final

Avtomobilist: Zhurba, Kozynets, Bilyi, Kravchuk, Horbach, Pestrykov, Pinchuk, Sladkovskyi (Solovyov, 55), Vasiutyn, Nesmiyan (Kotov, 73), Zelenskyi

Head coach: Lifshits

Shakhtar: Chanov, Yaremchenko, Kurhanov (Horbunov, 74), Belousov, Hubych, Kashchey, Vasin, Konkov, Prokopenko (Shevchuk, 68), Dudynskyi (Kliuchyk, 70), Safonov

Head coach: Bazylevych

Top goalscorers

Scorer	Goals	Team
Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian Cup 1972 Winners

FC Avtomobilist Zhytomyr
First title

References

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