Exactly 20 years ago — on May 26, 2002, the first final of the Cup of Ukraine was held, in which Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk were held. Until the end of the Football. ua guess the ups and downs of that fight.

On the cob of the " On the cob of the great resistance of the Ukrainian giants, you can count the duel on April 7, 2001, if at the relocated NSC " Zreshtoy, kiyani in that season, all the same, they won the champion medals, and the “girniks” sent only another place.

Ale reevaluate the symbolic significance of this victory, important. Hegemon buv throw viklik. Gained strength in the championship, starting to change, which became a fresh trend for Ukrainian football, which significantly boosted interest to a new level, after the monotonous 90s were enough.

Season 2001/2002 confirmed the tectonic changes in Ukrainian football. Shakhtar was no longer just throwing a tweet, but was fighting for the championship with Dynamo, leading in the championship for the first half of the season.

For Dynamo, the season has begun, like another season, the club has been rebudded – the team of Lobanovsky began to renew legionnaires (Laki Idahor, Harrison Omoko and Tiberiu Gioane were transferred before the start of the season, Laszlo Bodnar, Goran Gavranchich, Florin Chernat and Georgiy Pєєv added Kiev earlier) these young talents of Ukraine.

It’s a pity that Lobanovsky didn’t have a chance to complete the perebudov - on May 13, in Zaporizhzh, the heart of the legendary coach was ringing. Yakim bulo b Dynamo, yakbi Lobanovskiy zoom to bring tsyu perebudovu to the end, it’s too much to guess (on Football. ua in his own time came out material on this topic).

For Shakhtar tse buv season three coaches. In the season, the team won the match with Viktor Prokopenko, but already in 2001, after a decline in the game, the result of which became a fork from the UEFA Cup in the form of CSKA Sofia and the guest of Vorskla in the championship, having left the club. Before the winter, interrupt the team by finishing Valeriy Yaremchenko, and in the match Shakhtar won the Italian Nevio Skala (for the last time, there was no Ukrainian head coach in Shakhtar - more than twenty years).

Italian zoom quickly lead the team from the game crisis, although they didn’t play anything in the championship. So what else, before the final of the Dynamo Cup, it was in the status of the leader of the championship, Shakhtar was like a badass.

But the road to the final for both teams was radically different. Dynamo and Shakhtar started in the Cup from the 1/8 finals, and even though the players of their first super player Obolon did not win (3:0 in both matches), Shakhtar didn’t win much in the 1/8.

On July 20, 2001 the fate of the " At the start of the match, Shakhtar pov_v at the rahunka - penalty kick realized by Vitaliy Abramov. Just before the break, the gentlemen sang a rahunok - the own goal of the Slovene Vugdalicha.

In the other half, Stal had more doubles - Andriy Tsvik and Artem Fedorchenko scored. The goalkeeper of the Donetsk team Dmitriy Shutkov (with his hand behind the penalty box) got away with the red card with the same goals – he replaced Oleksiy Botvinyev at the goal, for whom the match became the only one in the main warehouse for this year (! ) near Shakhtari. It's a pity, but no video, and no photos from that match are available for public access.

In the match, the victories of the "

Ale, the difficulties in the Cup for the Shakhtar were no more mended. Unforgivable was the confrontation with the Carpathians in the quarterfinals. Then Shakhtar zoomed in to win 2:0, but the match against Lviv viyshov is tense - already on the 22nd quarter, the lions zoomed in on the rahunok and the win of " But the other Karpaty didn’t have to score - 1:0.

At the pivfinal, already under the leadership of Nevio Scali, the " At home, however, Shakhtar Zumiv will win over the necessary fire 2:0.

Like a pidbag - our three opponents in the Shakhtar Cup entered in one of the matches, but still they went to the final!

At Dynamo everything was much easier and more prosaic. Following the planned defeat of Obolon, the clubs easily passed Metalist (1:1 in Kharkiv, 5:0 in Kiev) and without any special difficulties the Donetsk Metalurh (1:1 in Donetsk.

All the way to the final of Dynamo passed with Valeriy Lobanovsky on choli. Unfortunately, Valeriy Vasilovich did not win the team for the final match.

The final of the Cup of Ukraine itself became the first official match of Dynamo after the death of Lobanovsky (on January 12, Dynamo played at home from Tavria (0:0) - Lobanovsky Buv in Zaporizhia likarni, but still alive). Well, this tragedy hung like a gloomy shadow over the final of the Cup of Ukraine 2002. It didn’t happen without roses about the suppression of the moral camp of the Kiev club.

In the game plan, Dynamo's main team was captain Oleksandr Golovko, who, after recovering from an injury the day before, Shakhtar entered the final without the main forward, Julius Agahovy, who went to the national championship of Nigeria.

Well, the match started from the end of the Movchannya in honor of Valery Lobanovsky. The first winter of winter passed in the guard rose, even while on the 9th winter of winter Sergiy Popov went one on one with Shovkovsky and outplayed the goalkeeper kiyan. The goalkeeper of "

Iogo replaced Dmitro Shutkov, who once fought the “dead animals” in a long duel and became one of the heroes in the duel (and was fully rehabilitated for the first match against Stall – this way you can start the tournament from failure and finish with an absolute triumph). In the middle of the first half, the dynamos, zusillis of Pєєva and Belkevich, played the rahunok, and on the cob of the other half, the zustrіchs of the Shatsky vivivs Dynamo forward - 2:1!

And then the hour of Atelkin came. Skala let go of the forward on the 73rd quarter and already for 9 minutes Sergiy, in his own style, with a header, closing the serve from the right flank - 2:2! Atelkin won the share of another Ukrainian Cup final! (About the first such finale, we predicted that). It seemed that this ball had morally broken the kiyan and Shakhtar was more than a factory of initiative. A few times, the bell towers fired at the frame of the Shovkovsky gate, until Andriy Vorobey did not score the third one on the 99th interval, the “top pole” ball was possible in his match.

Until now, this final is one of the best in the history of the Cup of Ukraine. At the post-match press conference Nevio Skala dedicating this victory to the memory of Valery Lobanovsky.

And already two days after that final, Shakhtar won over Dynamo in the championship match - 2:0, which allowed the “girniks” to reach the first place and win, for the first time in history to become the champions of Ukraine.

26. 05. 2002, Kiev, NSC "

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