Ukrainian Super Cup

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 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the competition is currently suspended.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning years
Shakhtar Donetsk	9	8	2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021
Dynamo Kyiv	9	6	2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020
Vorskla Poltava	—	1
Tavriya Simferopol	—	1
Metalurh Donetsk	—	1
Chornomorets Odesa	—	1
Total	18	18

Competition	Winners	Runners-up
Premier League champions	11	7
Premier League runners-up (since 2015)	4	1
Ukrainian Cup winners	2	6
Ukrainian Cup runners-up (2004–2014)	1	4
Total	18	18

Number	Name	Location	Years	Winning clubs
10	Chornomorets Stadium (Central Stadium ChMP)	Odesa	2004–2007, 2013, 2015–2019	Shakhtar (4), Dynamo (6)
2	Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex	Kyiv	2020, 2021	Dynamo, Shakhtar
2	Oleksiy Butovsky Vorskla Stadium	Poltava	2008, 2011	Shakhtar, Dynamo
1	Yuvileiny Stadium	Sumy	2009	Dynamo
1	Slavutych-Arena	Zaporizhzhia	2010	Shakhtar
1	Avanhard Stadium	Luhansk	2012	Shakhtar
1	Arena Lviv	Lviv	2014	Shakhtar

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

Rank	Manager	Club(s)	Winner	Runner-up
1	Mircea Lucescu	Shakhtar Donetsk (7) Dynamo Kyiv (1)	8	4
2	Alyaksandr Khatskevich	Dynamo Kyiv	2	1
3	Anatoliy Demyanenko	Dynamo Kyiv	2	—
4	Serhii Rebrov	Dynamo Kyiv	1	2
	Paulo Fonseca	Shakhtar Donetsk	1	2
6	Yuri Semin	Dynamo Kyiv	1	1
7	Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko	Dynamo Kyiv	1	—
	Roberto De Zerbi	Shakhtar Donetsk	1	—
	Valery Gazzaev	Dynamo Kyiv	1	—

The first winning coach is Oleksiy Mykhailychenko, the first winning coach who previously won the cup as a player is Serhii Rebrov.

In bold are players that are still active in the current season

Rank	Player	Club(s)	Wins[26]
1	Darijo Srna	Shakhtar Donetsk	8
2	Taras Stepanenko	Shakhtar Donetsk	6
	Yaroslav Rakitskiy	Shakhtar Donetsk
4	Oleksandr Shovkovskyi	Dynamo Kyiv	5
	Oleksandr Kucher	Shakhtar Donetsk
6	10 players		4

There were 35 scorers with 49 goals.^[27][26]

Rank	Player	Club(s)	Goals[27]
1	Oleksandr Hladkyy	Shakhtar Donetsk	4
2	Luiz Adriano	Shakhtar Donetsk	3
	Artem Milevskyi	Dynamo Kyiv
	Fred	Shakhtar Donetsk
5	Oleh Husyev	Dynamo Kyiv	2
	Taras Mykhalyk	Dynamo Kyiv
	Facundo Ferreyra	Shakhtar Donetsk
	Alan Patrick	Shakhtar Donetsk
	Lassina Traoré	Shakhtar Donetsk
10	26 players		1

Rank	Player	Club(s)	Appearances[26][27]
1	Darijo Srna	Shakhtar Donetsk	12
2	Taras Stepanenko	Shakhtar Donetsk	10
3	Oleksandr Shovkovskyi	Dynamo Kyiv	9
	Andriy Pyatov	Shakhtar Donetsk
5	Yaroslav Rakitskiy	Shakhtar Donetsk	8

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning years
Dynamo Kyiv	8	3	1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003
Shakhtar Donetsk	2	3	2001, 2002
Chornomorets Odesa	2	—	1992, 1994
Karpaty Lviv	—	2
Tavriya Simferopol	—	1
Nyva Vinnytsia	—	1
CSKA Kyiv	—	1
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	—	1
Total	12	12

• Soviet Super Cup
• Ukrainian Premier League

• "Black Sea Stadium". 2odessa.com. Retrieved 30 July 2006.
• Ukraine saw the Super Cup (Украина увидела Суперкубок). UA-Football. 1 July 2004.