Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR

The participation was allowed to everybody whether it was a team of the Soviet Top League or a team of some education institution as long as none of the players competed in the Soviet Cup simultaneously. Early seasons of the cup tournament were called as a spring challenge, which allowed to consider them as a championship title competition rather than cup competition. However, older documents of the Ministry of Youth and Sports show that the spring challenge competitions were indeed considered as a football cup competition.[2]

In 1939, 1940 and since 1949 no teams from the Soviet Top League participated in the competition. In 1959 the competition among teams of masters was replaced with competition for amateur clubs (see Ukrainian Amateur Cup).

In 1972 it was revived again for the next five seasons and one more time in 1990, while competition for physical fitness clubs at that time discontinued. The last winner FC Temp Shepetivka of the Soviet Ukrainian Cup was allowed to join the Ukrainian Premier League in 1991.

During the World War II, the crystal trophy, cup of the Ukrainian SSR, was not evacuated and was stolen by one of employees of the All-Ukrainian Council of Physical Culture.[1] During the Nazi occupation of Kiev, the trophy appeared in a store of random things at Velyka Vasylkivska street and was spotted by Kiev footballers who stayed behind and played for a local team Rukh Kyiv.[1] The athletes informed the municipal department of education and culture which in turn on 19 May 1942 wrote a letter to the administration of the antique store with a request to return them the Cup and inform the name of individual who pawned it in the store.[1] It is unknown if the person who stole the trophy was ever found, but the Cup was returned.[1] In such way the athletes who later labeled as "traitors" by the Soviet regime saved the trophy for Ukrainian football of post war period.[1]

Finals

Year	Venue	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1929 Final	7 July 1929 17:30 (MST) Kiev – Chervonyi Stadium Attendance: ?	Dynamo Kharkiv Petro Mishchenko 58' Oleksandr Shpakovsky 82', 87'	3 – 1 (0 – 1)	Dynamo Kyiv Oleksandr Serdyuk 14'
1931 Final	12 June 1931 ?:? (MST) Kiev – Chervonyi Stadium Attendance: 12,000	Dynamo Kyiv Kazimierz Piontkowski ?', ?', ?'	3 – 0 (? – 0)	Dynamo Kharkiv
1932 Final	26 June 1932 ?:? (MST) Kharkiv – Metalist Stadium Attendance: ?	Dynamo Kharkiv Oleksandr Shpakovsky ?'	1 – 0 (1 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
1933 Final	12 June 1933 ?:? (MST) Kyiv – Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 18,000	Dynamo Kyiv Mykola Makhynia 67' Konstantin Schegotsky 88'	2 – 1 (0 – 0)	Dynamo Kharkiv Ivan Privalov 69'
1934 Final	8 September 1934 ?:? (MST) Kyiv – Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 10,000	Dynamo Kharkiv Volodymyr Kulykov 12' Kostyantyn Fomin 17' Mykola Fomin 34' Yan Yakubovych 65' Volodymyr Fomin 67'	5 – 0 (3 – 0)	Dynamo Kyiv
1935 Final	26 October 1935 13:00 (MST) Kyiv – Balytskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 40,000	Dynamo Kyiv Mykola Makhynia 1' Ivan Kuzmenko 55', 66'	3 – 1 (1 – 1)	Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk Petro Laiko 22'

• Cup of the Ukrainian SSR at footballfacts.ru
• The Bowl Contests of 80 years of age (Битви за Чашу восьмидесятилітньої давнини) Archived 2017-05-15 at the Wayback Machine. Ukrainian Premier League. 11 May 2017.

• «Динамо» — сила в русі. 1927.kiev.ua.
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