Super Cup of Ukraine

Founded	2004
Region	Ukraine
Number of teams	2
Current champions	Shakhtar Donetsk (9th title)
Most successful club(s)	Dynamo Kyiv Shakhtar Donetsk (9 titles each)
2021 Ukrainian Super Cup

The Ukrainian Super Cup (Ukrainian: Суперкубок України) is an association football game of the Ukrainian Premier League in traditional super cup format that acts as the grand-opening for every new football competition season in Ukraine. Originally it was set as a contest between the winners of the previous season's Ukrainian Championship and Ukrainian Cup. From 2008 through 2014, it was branded as the Inter Super Cup of Ukraine, in 2017^[1] – Super Cup Fokstrot.

Following the 2022 Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the competition is currently suspended.

History and overview

The competition and its trophy was presented on 1 July 2007 in hotel "Ekspres". In the event participated president of the Professional Football League of Ukraine (PFL) Ravil Safiullin, general director of Info-sport Marketing Serhiy Kharchenko, representative of the game general sponsor "Olimp". At the press conference Mr.Safiullin informed several details about the new tournament among which was the money prize fund that consisted of 75,000 "conditional units", a lottery for fans winner of which would receive a car, the game opening show was planned to be hosted by Ukrainian singer Kateryna Buzhynska (uk). It was also informed that there will be no extra time and series of penalty kicks would follow right after the regular time.

The president of PFL refused to disclose the amount of money that was paid to create the Super Cup trophy. He noted that the trophy will be given away for eternal keeping to the team that would win it five times.

The drawing for the trophy was created by Mykhailo Cheburakhin ("Dialan-M" company), for which he received a reward of 1,000 "conditional units".

The prize money fund for the second edition in 2005 was established at ₴375,000.^[2]

In 2022, the competition was cancelled for the first time in its history due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, and has not been held again since.^[3] The decision to end the games was motivated by the abandonment of the Ukrainian Premier League's 2021-22 season and the Ukrainian Cup's 2021-22 season.^[4] Odesa, the games' usual host city, has been continually struck by Russian cruise missiles since the beginning of the war, making it infeasible for the games to be held safely.^[3]

Format

The Ukrainian Super Cup usually features one representative of the Ukrainian Premier League and another the Ukrainian Cup. In event when both tournaments were won by one club, participation in the game is granted to the cup finalist (until 2014) or the league runner-up (since 2015).

On some occasions when the national cup was won by a national champion, it was challenged by the league runner-up or the cup finalist.

Venues

Traditionally playing in Odesa at the Chornomorets Stadium, the season's opening match did not initially have a "fixed" venue. The decision on conducting the match in Odesa in 2005 was adopted by the PFL Bureau three days before the game and on petition of both Dynamo and Shakhtar.^[5] Due to the preparation for UEFA Euro 2012, however, the newly established tradition changed and for the 2008 rendition it has been moved to Poltava's Oleksiy Butovsky Vorskla Stadium. In 2009, the cup venue changed once again to the Sumy's Yuvileiny Stadium which stood relatively underutilized since the main city football club went bankrupt. The 2009 edition featured Vorskla, which became the first team outside of the Ukrainian derby (Dynamo and Shakhtar) to participate. In 2007 and 2008, the Cup played-off between the first and second placed teams as one of the team won both the Cup and the Premier League.

Sponsors

The 2008 rendition was officially known as Inter Super Cup of Ukraine and sponsored by the TV channel Inter. In 2009, the contract was extended for another three years^[6] and later again to 2014.^[7] The very first Super Cup was handed over by Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.

In 2016, the tournament received another sponsor, an American construction company UDP (Urban Development + Partners).

The prize money fund in 2014 and 2015 consisted of ₴1 million.^[8] The winner was to receive 650,000 and the other finalist 350,000.

History

2004 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2004-07-10

17:00 EET

Dynamo Kyiv (as League champions)	1–1 6–5 (pen.)	Shakhtar Donetsk (as Cup winners)
Husyev 21' Penalties: Diogo Rincón Khatskevich Shatskikh Bidnenko Byalkevich Husyev Gavrančić Kaddouri Dmytrulin Shovkovskyi	Report (in Ukrainian)	Lewandowski 77' Penalties: Vorobey Tymoshchuk Marica Lewandowski Stoican Raț Bakharev Matuzalém Batista Barcauan

Odesa, Central Stadium of the BSS Co.

Attendance: 17,600

Referee: Vitaliy Hodulian (Odesa)

2005 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2005-07-09

20:45 EET

Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)	1–1 4–3 (pen.)	Dynamo Kyiv (as Cup winners)
Elano 5' Penalties: Jádson Raț Tymoshchuk Stoican Srna	Report (in Ukrainian)	Byalkevich 32' Penalties: Aliev Sablić Gavrančić Husyev Shatskikh

Odesa, Central Stadium of the BSS Co.

Attendance: 34,400

Referee: Ihor Podushkin (Kharkiv)

2006 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2006-07-16

20:30 EET

Dynamo Kyiv (as Cup winners)	2–0	Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)
Marković 10' Milevskyi 87'	Report (in Ukrainian)

Odesa, Central Stadium of the BSS Co.

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Vitaliy Hodulian (Odesa)

2007 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2007-07-10

20:45 EET

Dynamo Kyiv (as League champions)	2–2 4–2 (pen.)	Shakhtar Donetsk (as Cup runners-up)
Mykhalyk 27', 30' Penalties: Aliyev Ninković Dedechko Marković Moroziuk	Report (in Ukrainian)	Hladkyy 14' Tkachenko 55' Penalties: Brandão Fernandinho Jádson Raț

Odesa, Central Stadium of the BSS Co.

Attendance: 32,000

Referee: Pieter Vink (Holland)

2008 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2008-07-15

20:45 EET

Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)	1–1 5–3 (pen.)	Dynamo Kyiv (as Cup runners-up)
Chyhrynskyi 38' Penalties: Srna Chyhrynskyi Raț Fernandinho Brandão	Report (in Ukrainian)	Milevskyi 6' Penalties: Diakhaté Ninković Aliyev Yarmolenko

Poltava, Oleksiy Butovsky Vorskla Stadium

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

2009 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2010 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2010-07-04

20:45 EET

Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)	7–1	Tavriya Simferopol (as Cup winners)
Hladkyy 2', 51' Jádson 35' Willian 67' Luiz Adriano 78', 85' Raț 90'	Report (in Ukrainian)	Feschuk 32'

Zaporizhzhia, Slavutych-Arena

Attendance: 10,500

Referee: Andriy Shandor (Lviv)

2011 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2011-07-05

21:00 EET

Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)	1–3	Dynamo Kyiv (as Cup runners-up)
Fernandinho 14'	Report (in Ukrainian)	Husyev 5' (pen) Diakhaté 31' Milevskyi 83'

Poltava, Oleksiy Butovsky Vorskla Stadium

Attendance: 24,750

Referee: Yuriy Vaks (Simferopol)

2012 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2012-07-10

21:00 EET

Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)	2–0	Metalurh Donetsk (as Cup runners-up)
Luiz Adriano 5' Douglas Costa 35'	Report (in Ukrainian)

Luhansk, Avanhard Stadium

Attendance: 21,050

Referee: Anatoliy Abdula (Kharkiv)

2013 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2013-07-10

21:00 EET

Chornomorets Odesa (as Cup runners-up)	1–3	Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)
Antonov 45+1'	Report (in Ukrainian)	Fred 17', 33' Taison 67' (pen.)

Odesa, Chornomorets Stadium

Attendance: 32,400

Referee: Serhiy Boiko (Kyiv Oblast)

2014 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2014-07-22

21:00 EET

Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)	2–0	Dynamo Kyiv (as Cup winners)
Hladkyy 75' Marlos 90+3'	Report (in Ukrainian)

Lviv, Arena Lviv

Attendance: 34,347

Referee: Yuriy Morzharovskyi (Lviv)

2015 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2015-07-14

21:00 EET

Dynamo Kyiv (as League champions)	0–2	Shakhtar Donetsk (as League runners-up)
	Report	Srna 90+2' (pen.) Bernard 90+4'

Odesa, Chornomorets Stadium

Attendance: 34,164

Referee: Anatoliy Zhabchenko (Khmelnytskyi)

2016 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2016-07-16

21:00 EET

Shakhtar Donetsk (as Cup winners)	1–1 3–4 (pen.)	Dynamo Kyiv (as League champions)
Fred 58' Penalties: Srna Bernard Ismaily Fred Seleznyov	Report (in Ukrainian)	Vida 79' Penalties: Antunes Morozyuk Harmash Khacheridi Moraes

Odesa, Chornomorets Stadium

Attendance: 26,109

Referee: Anatoliy Abdula (Kharkiv)

2017 Ukrainian Super Cup

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2017-07-15

21:00 EET

Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)	2–0	Dynamo Kyiv (as League runners-up)
Ferreyra 8', 56'	Report (in Ukrainian)

Chornomorets Stadium, Odesa

Attendance: 34,146

Referee: Anatoliy Zhabchenko (Khmelnytskyi)

2018 Ukrainian Super Cup

2018-07-21 ^[24]

21:00 EEST

Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)	0–1	Dynamo Kyiv (as League runners-up)
	Report	Buyalskyi 18'

Chornomorets Stadium, Odesa

Attendance: 27,400

Referee: Kostiantyn Trukhanov

2019 Ukrainian Super Cup

2019-07-28 ^[25]

21:00 EEST

Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)	1–2	Dynamo Kyiv (as League runners-up)
Patrick 45+3'	Report	Burda 80' Harmash 83'

Chornomorets Stadium, Odesa

Attendance: 27,400

Referee: Vitaliy Romanov (Dnipro)

2020 Ukrainian Super Cup

2020-08-25

21:00 EEST

Shakhtar Donetsk (as League champions)	1–3	Dynamo Kyiv (as Cup winners)
Moraes 37'	Report	de Pena 20' Rodrigues 31' Sol 83'

Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv

Attendance: 0

Referee: Vitaliy Romanov (Dnipro)

2021 Ukrainian Super Cup

2021-09-22

21:00 EEST

Shakhtar Donetsk (as League runners-up)	3–0	Dynamo Kyiv (as League champions)
Traoré 30', 54' Patrick 61'	Report

Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kyiv

Attendance: 27,553

Referee: Andriy Kovalenko (Poltava)

Note:

All fixtures are played till the end of regulation time. If the score is tied, no extra time is played with penalty kicks immediately taken to determine the victory.

Performance

Performance by clubedit

Performance by qualificationedit

Venuesedit

Winning managersedit

In bold are managers that still active in the current season. In parentheses are cups for the respective team.