Covers of the SU - First Ukrainian SSR Cup 1938

Football Cup of the Ukrainian SSR ( uk, Кубок УРСР з футболу, Kubok URSR z futbolu, russian: Кубок УССР по футболу, Kubok USSR po futbolu) was a playoff republican competitions in

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

that were taken place in

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

in 1936–1991 and were predecessors of the

Ukrainian Cup The Ukrainian Cup ( uk, Кубок України) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs. Since the 2003� ...

.Kolomiyets, A.
Did you know that Ukrainian cup competitions will soon turn 80 years of age? (А чи знаєте ви, що розіграшу Кубка України скоро виповниться 80 років?)
'. Kiev Oblast Football Federation. The competition was originally called as a Football championship of UkrSSR among the best teams of sports societies in 1936 and 1937. The first cup was awarded in 1937 and starting since 1938, the competition was renamed as Football cup competitions of the Ukrainian SSR as it was commemorated on the Soviet envelope.

History

The participation was allowed to everybody whether it was a team of the Soviet Top League or a team of some education institution as long as none of the players competed in the Soviet Cup simultaneously. Early seasons of the cup tournament were called as a spring challenge, which allowed to consider them as a championship title competition rather than cup competition. However, older documents of the Ministry of Youth and Sports show that the spring challenge competitions were indeed considered as a football cup competition. In 1939, 1940 and since 1949 no teams from the

Soviet Top League The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The professional top level ...

participated in the competition. In 1959 the competition among teams of masters was replaced with competition for amateur clubs (see

Ukrainian Amateur Cup The Ukrainian Amateur Cup ( uk, Кубок України з футболу серед аматорських команд) or AAFU Cup ( uk, Кубок ААФУ) is a national cup competition in Ukraine for amateur clubs. The nationwide competitio ...

). In 1972 it was revived again for the next five seasons and one more time in 1990, while competition for physical fitness clubs at that time discontinued. The last winner

FC Temp Shepetivka FC Temp Shepetivka was a Ukrainian football club from Shepetivka. In the winter of 1996 the club was dissolved and replaced with "artificial" team based on the Kamianets-Podilskyi sports school to finish the season. History The club was situate ...

of the Soviet Ukrainian Cup was allowed to join the

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in 1991. During the

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, the crystal trophy, cup of the Ukrainian SSR, was not evacuated and was stolen by one of employees of the All-Ukrainian Council of Physical Culture. During the Nazi occupation of Kiev, the trophy appeared in a store of random things at Velyka Vasylkivska street and was spotted by Kiev footballers who stayed behind and played for a local team Rukh Kyiv. The athletes informed the municipal department of education and culture which in turn on 19 May 1942 wrote a letter to the administration of the antique store with a request to return them the Cup and inform the name of individual who pawned it in the store. It is unknown if the person who stole the trophy was ever found, but the Cup was returned. In such way the athletes who later labeled as "traitors" by the

Soviet regime The political system of the Soviet Union took place in a federal single-party soviet socialist republic framework which was characterized by the superior role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the only party permitted by the Co ...

saved the trophy for Ukrainian football of post war period.

Championship of the Proletarian Sports Society Dynamo

Parallel to the championship of cities there also existed separate tournament that was played among teams of Dynamo society (Proletarian Sports Society (PST) Dynamo) located throughout the

. The first tournament was conducted as part of the All-Ukrainian Dynamo Festival which was organized on the orders of the top

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official in Ukraine

Vsevolod Balitsky Vsevolod Apollonovych Balytsky ( uk, Всеволод Аполлонович Балицький; russian: Всеволод Аполлонович Балицкий; 27 November 1892 – 27 November 1937) was a Soviet official, Commissar of Sta ...

. The tournament was also known as the Dynamiada of Ukraine. There existed some degree of confusion due to great number of tournaments at that time.Banyas, V.
"... it would be logical to merge in organization cup and championship competitions..." («…Логічно об’єднати в розіграші Кубка й чемпіонату…»)
''.

. 9 February 2018

Finals

Performances

External links

Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
at footballfacts.ru
The Bowl Contests of 80 years of age (Битви за Чашу восьмидесятилітньої давнини)
.

. 11 May 2017.

Notes

References

External links

«Динамо» — сила в русі
1927.kiev.ua.

{{Football in Ukraine Football cup competitions in Ukraine

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