1976 Soviet Cup

1976 Cup of USSR in Football

Кубок СССР
Tournament details
Country	Soviet Union
Dates	March 21 – September 3
Defending champions	Ararat Yerevan
Final positions
Champions	Dinamo Tbilisi
Runner-up	Ararat Yerevan

The 1976 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Dinamo Tbilisi qualified for the continental tournament.

Participating teams

Enter in Second round	Enter in First round
Vysshaya Liga 16/16 teams	Pervaya Liga 20/20 teams	Vtoraya Liga 6/111 teams
Y Shakhter Donetsk Y Dinamo Moscow Y Torpedo Moscow Y Ararat Yerevan Y Karpaty Lvov Y Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Y Dinamo Tbilisi Y Zaria Voroshilovgrad Y Spartak Moscow Y Lokomotiv Moscow Y Chernomorets Odessa Y CSKA Moscow Y Zenit Leningrad Y Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev Y Dinamo Minsk Y Dinamo Kiev	Y Pakhtakor Tashkent Y SKA Rostov-na-Donu Y Torpedo Kutaisi Y Kairat Alma-Ata Y Neftchi Baku Y Nistru Kishinev Y Tavriya Simferopol Y Shinnik Yaroslavl Y Spartak Ordzhonikidze Y Pamir Dushanbe Y Rubin Kazan Y Spartak Ivano-Frankovsk Y Metallurg Zaporozhye Y Spartak Nalchik Y Kuzbass Kemerovo Y Kuban Krasnodar Y Zvezda Perm Y Daugava Riga Y Terek Grozny Y Kolkhozchi Ashgabat	Y Yangier Y Uralets Nizhniy Tagil Y Amur Blagoveschensk Y Krivbass Krivoi Rog Y Dinamo Makhachkala Y Žalgiris Vilnius

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Notes

• Instead of the second round, Dinamo Kiev started at quarterfinals.

Competition schedule

First round

[Mar 21] 
AMUR Blagoveshchensk       1-0  Kuzbass Kemerovo 
  [N.Ostrovskiy. Att: 10,000] 
Daugava Riga               0-1  SKA Rostov-na-Donu       [in Sochi] 
  [Alexandr Rasputin 18 pen. Att: 2,000] 
KAYRAT Alma-Ata            1-0  Spartak Orjonikidze      [in Chimkent] 
  [Sergei Rozhkov 12] 
Krivbass Krivoi Rog        0-1  METALLURG Zaporozhye     [in Yalta] 
  [Yuriy Petrov 56. Att: 2,000] 
NEFTCHI Baku               2-1  Kolhozchi Ashkhabad      [aet] 
  [Nikolai Smolnikov, Bayram Durdyyev (K) og - Nuretdin Aliyev. Att: 10,000] 
NISTRU Kishinev            2-1  Rubin Kazan 
  [Igor Nadein pen, Yevgeniy Piunovskiy pen – Murat Zadikashvili. Att: 14,000] 
PAHTAKOR Tashkent          4-0  Dinamo Makhachkala 
  [Tulyagan Isakov, Viktor Churkin, Yevgeniy Zhukov, Boris Serostanov. Att: 20,000] 
Pamir Dushanbe             1-2  TORPEDO Kutaisi 
  [Valeriy Tursunov – Levan Nodia, Vladimir Shelia. Att: 13,000] 
SPARTAK Ivano-Frankovsk    2-0  Kuban Krasnodar 
  [Viktor Kozin 73, Mikhail Palamarchuk 78. Att: 6,000] 
TAVRIA Simferopol          3-0  Spartak Nalchik 
  [Valentin Prilepskiy 30, Nikolai Klimov 56, Nikolai Pinchuk 66. Att: 12,000] 
Terek Grozny               1-1  YANGIYER     [pen 4-5]   [in Mukachevo] 
  [Anatoliy Mikheyev – I.Budantsev. Att: 1,000] 
Uralets Nizhniy Tagil      1-2  SHINNIK Yaroslavl        [in Chkalovsk] 
  [V.Zamotayev – Nikolai Smirnov pen, Viktor Sanin. Att: 1,000] 
ZVEZDA Perm                3-1  Žalgiris Vilnius 
  [Vladimir Aleksandrov 20, Vladimir Solovyov 52 pen, Anatoliy Komkov ? – Kestutis Latoza 30 pen. Att: 12,000]

Second round

[Mar 27] 
DINAMO Moskva              1-0  Kayrat Alma-Ata          [in Nikolayev] 
  [Andrei Yakubik 39. Att: 12,000] 
DNEPR Dnepropetrovsk       2-0  Zvezda Perm              [in Simferopol] 
  [Sergei Malko 13, Pyotr Yakovlev 78. Att: 2,500] 
KARPATY Lvov               1-0  Pahtakor Tashkent 
  [Vladimir Dolbonosov (P) 74 og. Att: 10,000] 
Metallurg Zaporozhye       1-1  DINAMO Tbilisi           [pen 4-5] 
  [Gennadiy Degtyaryov 65 – David Kipiani 56 pen. Att: 25,000] 
Nistru Kishinev            0-1  TORPEDO Moskva 
  [Anatoliy Degtyaryov 40. Att: 18,000] 
Shinnik Yaroslavl          0-2  LOKOMOTIV Moskva         [in Andizhan] 
  [Alexandr Kozlovskikh 2, Alexei Ovchinnikov 89 pen. Att: 1,000] 
SKA Rostov-na-Donu         0-1  ARARAT Yerevan 
  [Khoren Oganesyan 79. Att: 10,000] 
Spartak Moskva             3-4  TAVRIA Simferopol        [aet]      [in Sochi] 
  [Valeriy Gladilin 21, 54, 75 pen – Vladimir Grigoryev 20, Yevgeniy Korol 73, 98, Valentin Prilepskiy 76. Att: 5,000] 
Torpedo Kutaisi            0-1  CSKA Moskva 
  [Alexandr Kolpovskiy 12. Att: 35,000] 
Yangiyer                   0-1  CHERNOMORETS Odessa 
  [Alexandr Pogorelov 60. Att: 10,000] 
ZENIT Leningrad            1-1  Spartak Ivano-Frankovsk  [pen 3-2]  [in Sochi] 
  [Georgiy Khromchenkov 15 – Stepan Chopei 1. Att: 5,000] 
[Mar 28] 
KRYLYA SOVETOV Kuibyshev   3-1  Dinamo Minsk             [in Sochi] 
  [Nikolai Pavlov 43, Viktor Filippov 58, Valeryan Panfilov 74 – Alexandr Prokopenko 48 pen. Att: 2,000] 
ZARYA Voroshilovgrad       2-1  Amur Blagoveshchensk 
  [Nikolai Pinchuk 51, Vyacheslav Semyonov 66 – R.Mkrtychev 17] 
[Mar 29] 
SHAKHTYOR Donetsk          1-0  Neftchi Baku     [aet]   [in Zhdanov] 
  [Vitaliy Starukhin 110. Att: 6,000]

Third round

[May 5] 
DINAMO Tbilisi             3-0  Zenit Leningrad 
  [Vakhtang Koridze 48, Alexandr Chivadze 49, David Kipiani 74. Att: 9,000] 
KARPATY Lvov               1-0  Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 
  [Yaroslav Kikot 27. Att: 22,000] 
Lokomotiv Moskva           0-1  ARARAT Yerevan           [aet] 
  [Nikolai Kazaryan 102. Att: 10,000] 
Zarya Voroshilovgrad       0-1  SHAKHTYOR Donetsk        [aet] 
  [Vyacheslav Golovin 93. Att: 15,000] 
[May 6] 
Tavria Simferopol          0-1  DNEPR Dnepropetrovsk 
  [Viktor Romanyuk 90. Att: 25,000] 
[May 12] 
CSKA Moskva                2-1  Torpedo Moskva 
  [Yuriy Saukh 76, Boris Kopeikin 90 - Vladimir Buturlakin 25. Att: 18,000] 
[May 27] 
Chernomorets Odessa        2-3  DINAMO Moskva            [aet] 
  [Vladimir Makarov 31, 118 pen – Andrei Yakubik 90, 108 pen, Alexandr Makhovikov 91. Att: 25,000]

Quarterfinals

[Jun 4] 
DNEPR Dnepropetrovsk    2-1  Dinamo Kiev 
  [Pyotr Yakovlev 24, 80 – Viktor Zvyagintsev 34. Att: 30,000] 
[Jun 12] 
DINAMO Tbilisi          2-1  Karpaty Lvov 
  [David Kipiani 43, Vakhtang Koridze 52 pen – Vladimir Danilyuk 17. Att: 35,000] 
[Jul 3] 
ARARAT Yerevan          2-1  CSKA Moskva 
  [Nikolai Kazaryan 27, Nazar Petrosyan 47 – Sergei Morozov 79. Att: 27,000] 
Dinamo Moskva           0-0  SHAKHTYOR Donetsk     [pen 2-3] 
  [Att: 25,000]

Semifinals

[Aug 30] 
ARARAT Yerevan          2-1  Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 
  [Khoren Oganesyan 14, Arutyun Minasyan 19 – Sergei Malko 81. Att: 17,000] 
Shakhtyor Donetsk       0-2  DINAMO Tbilisi 
  [David Kipiani 13, Vladimir Gutsayev 73. Att: 40,000]

Final

Main article: 1976 Soviet Cup Final

3 September 1976

Dinamo Tbilisi	3 – 0	Ararat Yerevan
Kipiani 27' Kanteladze 64' (pen.) Chelebadze 68'	Report

Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Pavel Kazakov (Moscow)

External links

• Complete calendar. helmsoccer.narod.ru
• 1976 Soviet Cup. Footballfacts.ru
• 1976 Soviet football season. RSSSF