The 2006
Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup (russian: Кубок чемпионов Содружества, Кубок Содружества, Кубок чемпионов содружества стран СНГ и Балтии) is a defunct ann ...
was the fourteenth edition of the competition between the champions of former republics of
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
. It was won by
Neftchi Baku for the first time.
Participants
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1 CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow (russian: ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet era, it was a central piece of the big So ...
were represented by reserve players.
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2 Shakhtar Donetsk
Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк , short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, the club was f ...
were represented by
Shakhtar-2 players.
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3 FBK Kaunas
Kauno futbolo ir beisbolo klubas, commonly known as FBK Kaunas, was a Lithuanian football club from the city of Kaunas.
History
Banga Kaunas (1960–1993)
Originally the team was founded in 1960 as Banga Kaunas and played its first three years ...
replaced
Ekranas Panevėžys (
2005 Lithuanian champions) who refused to participate.
Group stage
Group A
Results
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Group B
Results
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Group C
* 3-way tie-breaker between tied teams:
Results
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Group D
*Unofficial table
*Official table
Results
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Final rounds
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
1 Neftchi were awarded a win after
Pyunik refused to play against Azerbaijani club for safety concerns (related to ongoing
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians, and seven surrounding districts, inhabited mostly by Azerbaij ...
).
Pyunik refused to play against Neftchi
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Finals
Top scorers
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Commonwealth
2006
2006 in Russian football
2005–06 in Ukrainian football
2005–06 in European football
January 2006 sports events in Russia
2006 in Moscow