Soviet Super Cup

Soviet Super Cup
Founded	1977 (introduced)
Region	Soviet Union
Number of teams	2
Current champions	defunct
Most successful club(s)	Dynamo Kyiv (3 titles)

The USSR Super Cup, or Season's Cup, was an exhibition game (or game series) that featured the winners of the previous season's Soviet Top League and USSR Cup in a one- or two-legged playoff for the trophy.

The mini-tournament was conducted on the initiative of the Komsomolskaya Pravda editor's administration out of Moscow. The tournament was unofficial and never was part of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. It was played seven times in the last 15 years of Soviet football. It was not until 1983 that the Super Cup was played every year. The Super Cup was made to take place during midseason and further complicated clubs' schedules.

In 1987, with Spartak Moscow winning league honors and Dynamo Kyiv winning the USSR Cup, the Super Cup match was scheduled to take place in Chişinău, Moldova. However, the match never took place because of inadequate facilities in Chişinău. The last USSR Super Cup took place in Sochi, Russia, where the match was played in front of 1,500 fans.

Finals

1977 USSR Super Cup

Dynamo Moscow v Dynamo Kyiv

1977-11-20

Dynamo Moscow	1 – 0	Dynamo Kyiv
Minayev 54'	Report

Tbilisi, Lenin's Dinamo Stadium
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: G.Bakanidze (Tbilisi)

1981 USSR Super Cup

Dynamo Kyiv v Shakhtar Donetsk

1981-03-10

Dynamo Kyiv	1 – 1 5 – 4 (pen.)	Shakhtar Donetsk
Boiko 41' Penalties: Yurchyshyn Blokhin Bezsonov Serhiy Baltacha Konkov	Report	Kravchenko 52' Penalties: Sokolovsky Bondarenko Horbunov Kravchenko Starukhin

Simferopol, Lokomotiv Stadium
Attendance: ?
Referee: A.Mushkovets (Moscow)

1984 USSR Super Cup, consisted out of two games

1984-07-05

Shakhtar Donetsk	2 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Vyshnevskyi 54' (o.g.) Morozov 54'	Report	Lytovchenko 40'

Donetsk, Shakhtar Stadium
Attendance: 32,840
Referee: V.Butenko (Moscow)

1984-07-08

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1 – 1	Shakhtar Donetsk
Fedorenko 70' Lytovchenko	Report	Sokolovsky 89' Pokidyn

Dnipropetrovsk, Meteor Stadium
Attendance: 29,500
Referee: V.Kuznetsov (Omsk)

Shakhtar won the Cup play-off 3-2

1985 USSR Super Cup, consisted out of two games

Zenit Leningrad v Dynamo Moscow

1985-07-30

Zenit Leningrad	2 – 1	Dynamo Moscow
Pozdnyakov 33' (o.g.) Gerasimov 71'	Report	Ataulin 5'

Leningrad, Kirov Stadium
Attendance: 31,000
Referee: V.Miminoshvili (Tbilisi)

Dynamo Moscow v Zenit Leningrad

1985-08-05

Dynamo Moscow	0 – 1	Zenit Leningrad
	Report	Melnikov 20'

Moscow, Dynamo Stadium
Attendance: 12,200
Referee: M.Stupar (Ivano-Frankivsk)

Zenit won the Cup play-off 3-1

List by year

Year	Location	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1977	Tbilisi, Georgia	Dynamo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)	1 – 0	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)
1981	Simferopol, Ukraine	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	1 – 1 (aet) 5 – 4 (penalties)	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as cup winner)
1984	Leg 1: Donetsk, Ukraine Leg 2: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as cup winner)	Leg 1: 2 – 1 Leg 2: 1 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (qualified as league winner)
1985	Leg 1: Leningrad, Russia Leg 2: Moscow, Russia	Zenit Leningrad (qualified as league winner)	Leg 1: 2 – 1 Leg 2: 1 – 0	Dynamo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)
1986	Kiev, Ukraine	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	2 – 2 (aet) 3 – 1 (penalties)	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as losing cup finalist)
1987	Moscow, Russia	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	1 – 1 (aet) 5 – 4 (penalties)	Torpedo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)
1988	Chisinau, Moldavia		ppd
1989	Sochi, Russia	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (qualified as league winner)	3 – 1 (aet)	Metalist Kharkiv (qualified as cup winner)

Performance by club

Club	Republic	Winners	Runners-Up	Years Won
Dynamo Kyiv	UKR	3	1	1981, 1986, 1987
Shakhtar Donetsk	UKR	1	2	1984
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	UKR	1	1	1988
Dynamo Moscow	RUS	1	1	1977
Zenit Leningrad	RUS	1	0	1985
Metalist Kharkiv	UKR	0	1
Torpedo Moscow	RUS	0	1

Performance by republic

Republic	Winners	Runners-Up	Winning Clubs
Ukrainian SSR	5	5	Dynamo Kyiv (3), Shakhtar Donetsk (1), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (1)
Russian SFSR	2	2	Dynamo Moscow (1), Zenit Leningrad (1)

References

USSR (Soviet Union) - List of Super Cup Finals, rsssf.com. Accessed on June 9, 2006.
Well Forgotten Past, nevskoevremya.spb.ru. Accessed on June 9, 2006.

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Football in the Soviet Union

Football Federation of USSR

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Women	Women's National team

League system

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Women	Women's Championship

Youth	Youth Championship

Domestic cups

Men	Soviet Cup Super Cup Federation Cup Season Opener

Women	Women's National Cup

Others	Nedel Cup USSR 60th Anniversary Cup Valentin Granatkin Memorial Tournament Snowdrop Tournament Soviet Sport Prize

Awards

Soviet Footballer of the Year
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