1981 Cup of USSR in Football
Кубок СССР
Tournament details
Country Soviet Union
Defending championsShakhter Donetsk
Final positions
ChampionsSKA Rostov
Runner-upSpartak Moscow

The 1981 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, SKA Rostov qualified for the continental tournament.

Participating teams

Enter in Grouped stage
1981 Vysshaya Liga
16/18 teams
1981 Pervaya Liga
24/24 teams
1981 Vtoraya Liga
6/161 teams

Green tick Dinamo Kiev
Green tick Dinamo Moscow
Green tick Torpedo Moscow
Green tick CSKA Moscow
Green tick Shakhter Donetsk
Green tick Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk
Green tick Dinamo Minsk
Green tick Neftchi Baku
Green tick Chernomorets Odessa
Green tick Kairat Alma-Ata
Green tick Kuban Krasnodar
Green tick Ararat Erevan
Green tick Zenit Leningrad
Green tick SKA Rostov-na-Donu
Green tick Tavria Simferopol
Green tick Pakhtakor Tashkent

Green tick Metallist Kharkov
Green tick FC Torpedo Kutaisi
Green tick Lokomotiv Moscow
Green tick Shinnik Yaroslavl
Green tick Kolos Nikopol
Green tick Zalgiris Vilnius
Green tick Iskra Smolensk
Green tick Nistru Kishenev
Green tick Pamir Dushambe
Green tick Fakel Voronezh
Green tick Karpaty Lvov
Green tick Spartak Kostroma
Green tick Metallurg Zaporozhye
Green tick Guria Lanchkhuti
Green tick Zaria Voroshilovgrad
Green tick SKA Odessa
Green tick SKA Kiev
Green tick Buston Dzhizak
Green tick SKA Khabarovsk
Green tick Prikarpatie Ivano-Frankovsk
Green tick Spartak Ordzhonikidze
Green tick Kuzbass Kemerovo
Green tick Dinamo Stavropol
Green tick Traktor Pavlodar

Green tick Khimik Grodno
Green tick Lokomotiv Samtredia
Green tick Torpedo Togliatti
Green tick Dinamo Samarkand
Green tick Dinamo Barnaul
Green tick Rotor Volgograd

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Notes
  • Spartak Moscow and Dinamo Tbilisi received byes through the Round of 16.

Competition schedule

Group stage

Games took place between February 20 – March 5, 1981.

Group 1

[Uzhgorod, Mukachevo]
1.Dinamo Kiev                  5   4  1  0   9- 1   9  Qualified 
2.Kayrat Alma-Ata              5   3  0  2   8- 4   6  Qualified 
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3.Karpaty Lvov                 5   2  2  1   8- 4   6 
4.Prikarpatye Ivano-Frankovsk  5   1  3  1   1- 1   5 
5.Nistru Kishinev              5   1  2  2   3- 6   4 
6.Khimik Grodno                5   0  0  5   1-14   0

Group 2

[Sochi, Adler]
1.Shakhtar Donetsk            4   3  1  0   6- 2   7  Qualified 
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2.Metallurg Zaporozhye         4   2  1  1   6- 2   5  
3.Kuzbass Kemerovo             4   2  1  1   2- 2   5 
4.Kuban Krasnodar              4   1  1  2   4- 5   3 
5.Lokomotiv Samtredia          4   0  0  4   0- 7   0

Group 3

[Leningrad]
1.Zenit Leningrad              5   3  1  1  18- 9   7  Qualified 
2.Iskra Smolensk               5   3  1  1   9- 5   7  Qualified 
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3.Neftchi Baku                 5   2  2  1   9- 8   6 
4.Torpedo Kutaisi              5   1  3  1   5-11   5 
5.Zarya Voroshilovgrad         5   1  2  2   6- 7   4 
6.SKA Khabarovsk               5   0  1  4   3-10   1

Group 4

[Kislovodsk, Lermontov]
1.Dinamo Minsk                 4   2  2  0   4- 1   6  Qualified 
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2.Spartak Orjonikidze          4   1  3  0   4- 2   5  
3. Guria Lanchkhuti             4   0  4  0   4- 4   4 
4.Dinamo Stavropol             4   0  3  1   2- 3   3 
5.Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk         4   0  2  2   3- 7   2

Group 5

[Moskva]
1.Dinamo Moskva                5   4  1  0   9- 2   9  Qualified 
2.CSKA Moskva                  5   4  0  1  13- 4   8  Qualified 
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3.Žalgiris Vilnius             5   3  1  1  10- 7   7 
4.Shinnik Yaroslavl            5   2  0  3   7- 6   4 
5.Torpedo Togliatti            5   1  0  4   4-12   2 
6.SKA Kiev                     5   0  0  5   1-13   0

Group 6

[Dushanbe, Nurek, Kurgan-Tyube]
1.Pamir Dushanbe               5   4  1  0   8- 1   9  Qualified 
2.SKA Rostov-na-Donu           5   3  0  2   4- 4   6  Qualified 
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3.Pahtakor Tashkent            5   2  2  1   3- 2   6 
4.Dinamo Samarkand             5   1  2  2   4- 6   4 
5.Buston Jizak                 5   1  1  3   2- 5   3 
6.Traktor Pavlodar             5   1  0  4   4- 7   2

Group 7

[Sevastopol, Yalta]
1.Chernomorets Odessa          5   4  0  1  10- 5   8  Qualified
2.Lokomotiv Moskva             5   3  1  1   9- 5   7  Qualified  
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3.Tavria Simferopol            5   3  0  2   8- 5   6 
4.Kolos Nikopol                5   3  0  2   9- 7   6 
5.Fakel Voronezh               5   1  1  3   5- 9   3 
6.Dinamo Barnaul               5   0  0  5   4-14   0

Group 8

[Yerevan, Oktemberyan]
1.Metallist Kharkov            5   4  0  1   8- 2   8  Qualified 
2.Ararat Yerevan               5   3  1  1   9- 5   7  Qualified 
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3.SKA Odessa                   5   3  0  2   6- 6   6 
4.Torpedo Moskva               5   2  1  2   6- 5   5 
5.Spartak Kostroma             5   1  0  4   1- 5   2 
6.Rotor Volgograd              5   1  0  4   4-11   2

Play-off stage

Round of 16

[Mar 12] 
ARARAT Yerevan          2-1  Dinamo Tbilisi      [aet] 
  [Andranik Khachatryan 2, Ashot Saakyan 95 – Ramaz Shengelia 22. Att: 37,000] 
CHERNOMORETS Odessa     1-0  CSKA Moskva 
  [Vasiliy Ishchak 39. Att: 18,000] 
DINAMO Kiev             3-0  Kayrat Alma-Ata     [in Uzhgorod] 
  [Vladimir Bessonov 17, Oleg Blokhin 37 pen, Alexandr Kokorev (K) 80 og. Att: 5,500] 
DINAMO Minsk            1-0  Pamir Dushanbe      [in Leningrad] 
  [Yuriy Kurnenin 24 pen. Att: 2,000] 
SKA Rostov-na-Donu      3-1  Iskra Smolensk 
  [Alexandr Vorobyov 53, Alexandr Zavarov 57, Viktor Kuznetsov 64 – 
   Vladimir Nikonov 7. Att: 10,000] 
SPARTAK Moskva          1-0  Shakhtyor Donetsk 
  [Sergei Shvetsov 61. Att: 25,000] 
Zenit Leningrad         0-2  DINAMO Moskva 
  [Alexandr Minayev 62, Nikolai Latysh 64] 
[Mar 13] 
Lokomotiv Moskva        2-2  METALLIST Kharkov   [pen 0-3] 
  [Vladimir Mukhanov 20, Yevgeniy Drozzhin 107 – Stanislav Bernikov 79, 
   Vladimir Linke 93. Att: 5,000]

Quarterfinals

[Mar 21] 
DINAMO Moskva           1-1  Chernomorets Odessa  [pen 4-2] 
  [Nikolai Latysh 48 – Vladimir Ustimchik 41. Att: 10,000] 
METALLIST Kharkov       1-0  Dinamo Minsk         [aet] 
  [Stanislav Bernikov 94. Att: 36,000] 
SKA Rostov-na-Donu      2-1  Ararat Yerevan       [aet] 
  [Viktor Kuznetsov 80, Igor Gamula 104 – Samvel Kasaboglyan 84. Att: 25,000] 
[Mar 22] 
SPARTAK Moskva          3-0  Dinamo Kiev 
  [Fyodor Cherenkov 22, Yevgeniy Sidorov 28, 36. Att: 35,000]

Semifinals

All games played on April 27
Dinamo Moskva           0-1  SKA Rostov-na-Donu 
  [Igor Gamula 8. Att: 5,200] 
Metallist Kharkov       0-0  SPARTAK Moskva      [pen 2-4] 
  [Att: 37,000]

Final

Spartak Moscow0 1SKA Rostov-on-Don
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