The 2018–19

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was the 28th annual season of

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knockout competition. The competition started on 18 July 2018 and concluded on 15 May 2019.There became known preliminary schedule of Ukrainian Cup for the next season (Стало известно предварительное расписание Кубка Украины на следующий сезон)
UA-Football. 23 May 2018 All competition rounds consist 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 eight years winning six of them.The 2017–18 Ukrainian Cup: ten facts about the tournament (Кубок Украины-2017/18. Десять фактов о турнире)
UA-Football. 8 July 2017 There were around 300 clubs over the history of competition.

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 (16/16), Second League (20/20) and two best teams from the previous year's Amateur Cup.

Distribution

Rounds schedule

;''Notes:''

* Main date, when most of the games scheduled to play; an auxiliary date might be granted in case of emergencies

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). * Following the Veres Rivne – FC Lviv "swap", the last season Second League member FC Lviv were drawn as a member of the Premier League this season. * Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka withdrew just before the season start but were drawn for the cup competitions, before the club announced its final decision. * Kobra Kharkiv, that "administratively" replaced Helios Kharkiv, was drawn for the competition. * One of the Second League teams (reserves) were not drawn for the competition: Mykolaiv-2.

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 sixteen clubs from the Second League and both finalists of the

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played. The draw for this round was held on 10 July 2018 at the House of Football in Kyiv. The round matches were played on 18 July 2018. ;''Notes:''

* Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih received a bye to the next round after Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka was expelled from the PFL prior to the start of the competition.

Second Preliminary round (1/32)

In this round all the 16 clubs will enter from the First League, two other recently relegated clubs of the Second League, nine winners of the previous round and one team which received a bye. The draw for this round was held 20 July 2018 at the House of Football in Kyiv. The round matches were played on 22 August 2018. ;''Notes:''

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. * Match postponed and was played 19 September due to unavailability of

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with other future planned matches taking precedence.

Third Preliminary round (1/16)

In this round lower placed 6 clubs from the

will enter along with 14 winners of the previous round including 7 clubs from the First League and 7 clubs from the Second League. The draw for this round was held 31 August 2018 at the House of Football in Kyiv. The round matches were played on 26 September 2018.The 2018–19 Ukrainian Cup. Games of the third preliminary stage (renewing) (Кубок України-2018/2019. Матчі третього попереднього етапу (оновлюється))
.

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. 25 September 2018 ;''Notes:''

Round of 16

In this round the other 6 clubs from the

will enter along with 10 winners of the previous round including 4 more clubs from the

, 2 clubs from the First League and 4 clubs from the Second League. The draw for this round was held 28 September 2018 at the House of Football in Kyiv. The round matches was played on 31 October 2018. ;''Notes:''

* Match moved to the oblast centre of Cherkasy to accommodate a larger attendance

Quarterfinals

In this round advanced 6 representatives from the Premier League and 2 teams from the First League. The draw for this round was held on 2 November 2018 at the House of Football in Kyiv. The round matches will be played on 3 April 2019. Due to the

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, quarterfinal games of tournament were changed to 7 April 2019.

Semifinals

In this round advanced 2 representatives from the Premier League and 2 teams from the First League. The draw for this round was held on 8 April 2019 at the House of Football in Kyiv.There became known semifinal pairs of the Ukrainian Cup (Стали известны полуфинальные пары Кубка Украины)
UA-Football. 8 April 2019 The round matches were originally expected to be played on 24 April 2019, but due to the

, were scheduled to 17 April 2019.FFU identified dates to conduct semifinal games
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Final

Top goalscorers

The competition's top ten goalscorers including qualification rounds. ''Notes:''

Notes

References

External links

Draw results of the first preliminary stage of the 2018–19 Ukrainian Cup (Результати жеребкування першого попереднього етапу Кубку України-2018/19)

. 10 July 2018
Ukrainian Cup: official protocols of games of the first preliminary stage of the competitions (Кубок України: офіційні протоколи матчів першого попереднього етапу змагань)

. 19 July 2018 {{DEFAULTSORT:2018-19 Ukrainian Cup

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Ukrainian Cup seasons