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1988 Soviet Cup final

Field	Value
title	1988 Soviet Cup final
event	1987-88 Soviet Cup
team1	Torpedo Moscow
team1score	0
team2	Metalist Kharkiv
team2score	2
date	28 May 1988
stadium	Dynamo Stadium
city	Moscow
referee	I.Timoshenko (Rostov-na-Donu)
attendance	30,000
previous	1987
next	1989

The 1988 Soviet Cup final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total and second in five years. For Torpedo it was their 13th Cup Final and the seventh loss at this stage.

Road to Moscow

Main article: 1987–88 Soviet Cup

All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Metalist and Torpedo both qualified for the competition automatically.

Semi-final	Torpedo	1–0	Dnipro

Semi-final	Zalgiris	1–2	Metalist

Previous Encounters

Previously they only met six times with Torpedo winning four and Metalist once, the goals were 6 to 2 respectively. The very first time they met each other on July 26, 1936, at the Round of 16 when Torpedo (then - ZiS) playing home was victorious 2:0 (Metalist was called as KhPZ). The last encounter was three seasons ago when in the first round Torpedo once again defeated Metalist in overtime playing at home.

Match details

Baranov

Russian SFSR Valentin Ivanov

Ukrainian SSR Yevhen Lemeshko

MATCH OFFICIALS

Assistant referees:
- V.Zhuk (Minsk)
- A.Khokhryakov (Yoshkar-Ola)
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 1988 Winners
Metalist Kharkiv
First title

References

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