1981 Cup of USSR in Football

Кубок СССР
Tournament details
Country	Soviet Union
Teams	48
Defending champions	Shakhter Donetsk
Final positions
Champions	SKA Rostov
Runner-up	Spartak Moscow
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The 1981 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, SKA Rostov qualified for the continental tournament.

Participating teams

Source:

Notes

• Spartak Moscow and Dinamo Tbilisi received byes through the Round of 16.

Competition schedule

Group stage

Games took place between February 20 – March 5, 1981.

Group 1

1.Dinamo Kiev                  5   4  1  0   9- 1   9  Qualified 
2.Kayrat Alma-Ata              5   3  0  2   8- 4   6  Qualified 
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3.Karpaty Lvov                 5   2  2  1   8- 4   6 
4.Prikarpatye Ivano-Frankovsk  5   1  3  1   1- 1   5 
5.Nistru Kishinev              5   1  2  2   3- 6   4 
6.Khimik Grodno                5   0  0  5   1-14   0

Group 2

1.Shakhtar Donetsk            4   3  1  0   6- 2   7  Qualified 
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2.Metallurg Zaporozhye         4   2  1  1   6- 2   5  
3.Kuzbass Kemerovo             4   2  1  1   2- 2   5 
4.Kuban Krasnodar              4   1  1  2   4- 5   3 
5.Lokomotiv Samtredia          4   0  0  4   0- 7   0

Group 3

1.Zenit Leningrad              5   3  1  1  18- 9   7  Qualified 
2.Iskra Smolensk               5   3  1  1   9- 5   7  Qualified 
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3.Neftchi Baku                 5   2  2  1   9- 8   6 
4.Torpedo Kutaisi              5   1  3  1   5-11   5 
5.Zarya Voroshilovgrad         5   1  2  2   6- 7   4 
6.SKA Khabarovsk               5   0  1  4   3-10   1

Group 4

1.Dinamo Minsk                 4   2  2  0   4- 1   6  Qualified 
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2.Spartak Orjonikidze          4   1  3  0   4- 2   5  
3. Guria Lanchkhuti             4   0  4  0   4- 4   4 
4.Dinamo Stavropol             4   0  3  1   2- 3   3 
5.Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk         4   0  2  2   3- 7   2

Group 5

1.Dinamo Moskva                5   4  1  0   9- 2   9  Qualified 
2.CSKA Moskva                  5   4  0  1  13- 4   8  Qualified 
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3.Žalgiris Vilnius             5   3  1  1  10- 7   7 
4.Shinnik Yaroslavl            5   2  0  3   7- 6   4 
5.Torpedo Togliatti            5   1  0  4   4-12   2 
6.SKA Kiev                     5   0  0  5   1-13   0

Group 6

1.Pamir Dushanbe               5   4  1  0   8- 1   9  Qualified 
2.SKA Rostov-na-Donu           5   3  0  2   4- 4   6  Qualified 
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3.Pahtakor Tashkent            5   2  2  1   3- 2   6 
4.Dinamo Samarkand             5   1  2  2   4- 6   4 
5.Buston Jizak                 5   1  1  3   2- 5   3 
6.Traktor Pavlodar             5   1  0  4   4- 7   2

Group 7

1.Chernomorets Odessa          5   4  0  1  10- 5   8  Qualified
2.Lokomotiv Moskva             5   3  1  1   9- 5   7  Qualified  
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3.Tavria Simferopol            5   3  0  2   8- 5   6 
4.Kolos Nikopol                5   3  0  2   9- 7   6 
5.Fakel Voronezh               5   1  1  3   5- 9   3 
6.Dinamo Barnaul               5   0  0  5   4-14   0

Group 8

1.Metallist Kharkov            5   4  0  1   8- 2   8  Qualified 
2.Ararat Yerevan               5   3  1  1   9- 5   7  Qualified 
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3.SKA Odessa                   5   3  0  2   6- 6   6 
4.Torpedo Moskva               5   2  1  2   6- 5   5 
5.Spartak Kostroma             5   1  0  4   1- 5   2 
6.Rotor Volgograd              5   1  0  4   4-11   2

Play-off stage

Round of 16

 
ARARAT Yerevan          2-1  Dinamo Tbilisi       
  Andranik Khachatryan 2, Ashot Saakyan 95 – Ramaz Shengelia 22. Att: 37,000 
CHERNOMORETS Odessa     1-0  CSKA Moskva 
  Vasiliy Ishchak 39. Att: 18,000 
DINAMO Kiev             3-0  Kayrat Alma-Ata     in Uzhgorod 
  Vladimir Bessonov 17, Oleg Blokhin 37 pen, Alexandr Kokorev (K) 80 og. Att: 5,500 
DINAMO Minsk            1-0  Pamir Dushanbe      in Leningrad 
  Yuriy Kurnenin 24 pen. Att: 2,000 
SKA Rostov-na-Donu      3-1  Iskra Smolensk 
  Alexandr Vorobyov 53, Alexandr Zavarov 57, Viktor Kuznetsov 64 – 
   Vladimir Nikonov 7. Att: 10,000 
SPARTAK Moskva          1-0  Shakhtyor Donetsk 
  Sergei Shvetsov 61. Att: 25,000 
Zenit Leningrad         0-2  DINAMO Moskva 
  Alexandr Minayev 62, Nikolai Latysh 64 
Mar 13 
Lokomotiv Moskva        2-2  METALLIST Kharkov   pen 0-3 
  Vladimir Mukhanov 20, Yevgeniy Drozzhin 107 – Stanislav Bernikov 79, 
   Vladimir Linke 93. Att: 5,000

Quarterfinalsedit

Mar 21 
DINAMO Moskva           1-1  Chernomorets Odessa  pen 4-2 
  Nikolai Latysh 48 – Vladimir Ustimchik 41. Att: 10,000 
METALLIST Kharkov       1-0  Dinamo Minsk         aet 
  Stanislav Bernikov 94. Att: 36,000 
SKA Rostov-na-Donu      2-1  Ararat Yerevan       aet 
  Viktor Kuznetsov 80, Igor Gamula 104 – Samvel Kasaboglyan 84. Att: 25,000 
Mar 22 
SPARTAK Moskva          3-0  Dinamo Kiev 
  Fyodor Cherenkov 22, Yevgeniy Sidorov 28, 36. Att: 35,000

Semifinalsedit

All games played on April 27
Dinamo Moskva           0-1  SKA Rostov-na-Donu 
  Igor Gamula 8. Att: 5,200 
Metallist Kharkov       0-0  SPARTAK Moskva      pen 2-4 
  Att: 37,000

Finaledit

9 May 1981

Spartak Moscow	0 – 1	SKA Rostov-on-Don
	Report	Andreyev 84'

Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 81,250

Referee: Myroslav Stupar (Stanislav)

External linksedit

• Complete calendar. helmsoccer.narod.ru
• 1981 Soviet Cup. Footballfacts.ru
• 1981 Soviet football season. RSSSF