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1991 Soviet Cup final

Field	Value
title	1991 Soviet Cup final
image	Soviet Cup Final 1991.jpg
image_size	220
event	1990–91 Soviet Cup
team1	CSKA Moscow
team1score	3
team2	Torpedo Moscow
team2score	2
date	23 June 1991
stadium f	Lenin's Central Stadium
city	Moscow
referee	Valeriy Butenko (Moscow)
attendance	37,000
weather	27 °C
previous	1990
next	1992

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.

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 -:+).

Semi-final	Lokomotiv Moscow	0–3	CSKA

Semi-final	Torpedo	0–0 aet
7–6 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

Oleg Sergeyev

Russian SFSR Pavel Sadyrin

Russian SFSR Valentin Ivanov

MATCH OFFICIALS

Assistant referees:
- Andrei Butenko (Moscow)
- Anatoliy Maliarov (Moscow)
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

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105758/http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/159191 Last Prayer Goalkeeper]
[http://www.klisf.info/numeric/index.app?cmd=match&lang=en&id=091491045689544 Dynamo-Textilshchyk game report.]

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