The 2024–25

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is the 33rd annual season of

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knockout competition. The competition started on 3 August 2024 and will be concluded on 14 May 2025 with the

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. Champions qualify for the First qualifying round 2025-26 UEFA Europa League. All competition rounds consisted of a single game with a home field advantage granted to a team from lower league. Draw for all the rounds was blind.

Team allocation and schedule

The competition includes all professional first teams from the

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(16/16 teams of the league), First League (18/18), Second League (13/20) and 2 best performer from the previous year's Amateur Cup. Seven clubs' second teams all from the Second League are not eligible for the tournament.

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). * For the AAFU qualification, there were eligible Mykolaiv and Shturm Ivankiv. However, Shturm Ivankiv merged with

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as the latter's reserve team. The place of Shturm was filled by one of semifinalists Olympia Savyntsi. * Seven reserve teams from the PFL League 2 were not eligible to participate. * Mini tournament was organized during the summer break due to abrupt withdrawal of

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Bracket

The following is the bracket which demonstrates the last four rounds of the Ukrainian Cup including the final match. 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, 17 clubs from the First League, 13 clubs from the Second League and 2 participants of the 2023–24 Amateur Cup. The draw was held on 26 July 2024 with participation of

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and Vitaliy Danylchenko. ;Notes

Second preliminary round (1/32)

In this round, a club from the

and a club from the First League entered the competition and joined the 16 winners of the First preliminary round (9 clubs from First League, 5 clubs from Second League, 2 – amateurs). The draw was held on 5 August 2024 with participation of

Dmytro Mykhailenko Dmytro Stanislavovych Mykhaylenko (; born 13 July 1973) is a Ukrainian football manager and former player. He played as a defensive midfielder. His son Ivan is also a player, a forward; his older brother Oleksandr played for FC Zirka Kirovohra ...

and Serhiy Annenko.

Third preliminary round (1/16)

In this round, another 7 out of remaining 15 clubs from the

entered the competition and joined the 9 winners of the Second preliminary round (6 clubs from First League, a club from Second League, 2 – amateurs). The draw was held on 14 August 2024 with participation of Vyacheslav Shevchuk and Aliaksandr Khatskevich.

Round of 16 (1/8)

In this round, the remaining 8 clubs from the

entered the competition and joined the 8 winners of the Third preliminary round (4 clubs from Premier League, 3 clubs from First League, a club from Second League). The draw was held on 28 August 2024 with participation of

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and

Oleh Luzhnyi Oleh Romanovych Luzhnyi (; born 5 August 1968) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Club career Luzhnyi is a product of the Karpaty sports school (coached by Yuriy Hdanskyi and Yuriy Dyachuk-Stavytskyi) an ...

Quarter-finals (1/4)

This round includes 6 clubs from the Premier League and two teams from the First League. The draw was held on 8 November 2024 with participation of

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among notable football celebrities.

Semi-finals (1/2)

This round will include three clubs from the Premier League and a team from the First League.

Final

Top goalscorers

The competition's top three goalscorers including preliminary rounds. Scorers
FootBoom. ''Notes:''

References

External links

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