The 2017–18

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was the 27th annual season of

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knockout competition. The competition started on 9 July 2017 and concluded on 9 May 2018. This season the competition's administration was passed on to the

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that previously was conducted by both the Premier League and Professional Football League. The number of participants has increased to 52 and is the biggest in the last five years. The FFU also promised to introduce a system of bonuses for this season's competition, yet did not disclosed them. All competition rounds consisted of a single game with a home field advantage granted to a team from lower league. Qualification for the competition is granted to all professional clubs and finalists of the

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as long as those clubs were able to pass the season's attestation (licensing).

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was the defending winner for the last two seasons. The Donetsk club has reached the competition finals in the last seven years winning five of them. There were around 300 clubs over the history of competition and it is a debut season for seven of them, Dnipro-1, Ahrobiznes, Metalist 1925, Polissya, Tavriya Simferopol, Sudnobudivnyk, and Prykarpattia. Both qualified amateur clubs have already participated in the competition before. It should be mentioned that only 10 clubs participated in every season of the tournament.

Team allocation and schedule

The competition included all professional first teams from the

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(12/12 teams of the league), First League (18/18), Second League (21/23) and two best teams from the previous year's Amateur Cup.

Distribution

Rounds schedule

Teams

;''Notes'' * With the asterisk (*) are noted the Second League teams that were recently admitted to the league from amateurs and the AAFU (amateur) team(s) that qualified in place of the Amateur Cup finalist(s). * Due to the FIFA sanctions,

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, that last season was representing the Premier League, was forced to start the season as a member of the Second League. At the same time to the Second League was admitted the newly created club

SC Dnipro-1 SC Dnipro-1 () was a professional Ukrainian football club from Dnipro. While not officially a successor of FC Dnipro, SC Dnipro-1 took over all of the infrastructure of the former club including its academy. Founded in November 2015, SC Dnipr ...

that according to SC Dnipro-1 founders had no relationship to FC Dnipro although did inherit their football academy. * Two reserve teams from the Second League did not compete: Mykolaiv-2, Inhulets-2. * Only few days before the start of the competition, on 6 July 2017 number of clubs announced that they have various major issues in taking part of the competition, among which are

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FC Metalurh Zaporizhia The Sports club "Metalurh Zaporizhzhia" (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Zaporizhzhia. Reestablished in 2017, it is a " phoenix club" of the original Soviet factory "team of masters" Metalurh that existed in 1935–2016 o ...

, FC Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv (the last two, because of problems with their stadiums). On the other hand, both

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and

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confirmed that they are ready for the competition. *FC Lviv announced that it will play its first game of Ukrainian Cup competition in

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. Earlier on 5 July 2017 it was announced that Metalist 1925 answered to the call of Nyva Ternopil to switch the draw arrangement and agreed to play the game in Kharkiv. Nyva was not able to find consensus to play at the Ternopil city stadium (Miskyi) as FC Ternopil was scheduled to play at the stadium that day as well. Related documents were sent up to the

. On 7 July 2017 the

approved to conduct the game between Metalurh and Polissya at Kolos Stadium in Chkalove,

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as well as the game between Sudnobudivnyk and Balkany that took place on 10 July 2017 at Ivan Stadium in Odesa. Also the match arrangements between Metalist 1925 and Nyva to play in Kharkiv instead of Ternopil was approved and Metalist 1925 hosted Nyva at Sonyachny Training Center.

Bracket

The following is the bracket which the Ukrainian Cup resembled. Numbers in parentheses next to the match score represent the results of a

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Competition schedule

Legends: AM – AAFU (amateur) competitions (IV tier), 2L – Second League (III tier), 1L – First League (II tier), PL – Premier League (I tier)

First Preliminary round (1/64)

In this round entered three representatives from the First League, 21 clubs from the Second League, two representatives from the Amateur Cup. The draw for this round that took place 30 June 2017 at the House of Football in Kyiv was announced on 27 June 2017. The round matches were played on 9 July 2017. ''Notes:'' * On 5 July 2017 the club director of Skala Stryi confirmed that the club will not show up for the cup game against Tavriya as they pressed for time to gather a team. On 24 July 2017 it was announced that the FFU Control and Disciplinary Committee awarded a technical loss to Skala (0:3) and fined it for 5,000

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Second Preliminary round (1/32)

In this round will include 15 more representatives from the First League in addition to the two that advanced from the previous round as well as 10 clubs from the Second League and one representatives from the Amateur Cup. The draw for this round that took place on 13 July 2017 at the House of Football in Kyiv was announced on 11 July 2017. Later (21 July 2017) it was confirmed that the date for the game Tavriya – Nyva-V should be 27 July 2017.

Third Preliminary round (1/16)

In this round the first 6 representatives from the

will enter the competition along with the 14 teams that advanced from the previous round including 8 clubs from the First League, 5 clubs from the Second League, and one representatives from the Amateur Cup. The draw for this round was held on 4 August 2017 at the House of Football in Kyiv and was announced on 1 August 2017. The round matches were played on 20 September 2017.

Round of 16 (1/8)

In this round the final 6 representatives from the

will enter the competition along with the 10 teams that advanced from the previous round including 4 teams from the Premier League, 2 teams from the First League and 4 teams from the Second League. The draw was without seeds and was held on 27 September 2017.Ukrainian Cup. How it was (Кубок Украины. Как это было)
UA-Football. 20 September 2017 The round matches were played on 25 October 2017.

Quarterfinals (1/4)

In this round advanced 5 representatives from the Premier League, a team from the First League and 2 teams from the Second League. The draw was without seeds and was held on 31 October 2017 in the

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.Quarterfinals draw of the Ukrainian Cup will take place on 31 October 2017 (Жеребьевка четвертьфинала Кубка Украины состоится 31 октября)
Sport Arena. 26 October 2017 The round matches were played on 29 November 2017.

Semifinals (1/2)

In this round advanced 3 representatives from the Premier League and a team from the Second League. The draw was without seeds and was held on 2 March 2018.

will play its semifinal game at home as being from the lowest league. The round matches are scheduled to be played on 18 April 2018.

Final

Top goalscorers

The competition's top ten goalscorers including qualification rounds.
''Notes:'' * there were 2 own goals scored during the first round, 2 own goals during the second round, one in the third round.

Notes

References

External links

The competition's provisions

. Approved on 7 July 2017
2017–18 Season regulations
Professional Football League of Ukraine and Football Federation of Ukraine
Official results of the First preliminary round

. 9 July 2017 (including the game played on 10 July) * Valerko, A.
Starting round of the Ukrainian Cup. How it's been (Стартовый раунд Кубка Украины. Как это было)
. Sport Arena. 11 July 2017 {{DEFAULTSORT:2017-18 Ukrainian Cup

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