1972 Soviet Cup

1972 Cup of USSR in Football
Кубок СССР
Tournament details
Country	Soviet Union
Dates	February 20 – August 13
Teams	36
Defending champions	Spartak Moscow
Final positions
Champions	Torpedo Moscow
Runner-up	Spartak Moscow
	← 1971 1973 →

The 1972 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Torpedo Moscow qualified for the continental tournament.

Participating teams

Enter in First round		Enter in Qualification round
Vysshaya Liga 16/16 teams	Pervaya Liga 12/20 teams	Pervaya Liga 8/20 teams
Y Zaria Voroshilovgrad Y Dinamo Kiev Y Dinamo Tbilisi Y Ararat Yerevan Y CSKA Moscow Y Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Y Zenit Leningrad Y Dinamo Minsk Y Torpedo Moscow Y Dinamo Moscow Y Spartak Moscow Y SKA Rostov-na-Donu Y Kairat Alma-Ata Y Karpaty Lvov Y Lokomotiv Moscow Y Neftchi Baku	Y Pakhtakor Tashkent Y Shakhter Donetsk Y Chernomorets Odessa Y Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev Y Torpedo Kutaisi Y Spartak Ordzhonikidze Y Shakhter Karaganda Y Tekstilschik Ivanovo Y Metallurg Zaporozhye Y Metallist Kharkov Y Uralmash Sverdlovsk Y Dinamo Leningrad	Y Stroitel Ashkhabad Y Shinnik Yaroslavl Y Pamir Dushanbe Y Alga Frunze Y Nistru Kishinev Y Zvezda Perm Y Avtomobilist Nalchik Y Krivbass Krivoi Rog

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Notes

Competition schedule

Preliminary round

[Feb 21, 25] 
ALGA Frunze                1-0  1-0  Stroitel Ashkhabad 
Krivbass Krivoi Rog        1-2  1-3  AVTOMOBILIST Nalchik 
PAMIR Dushanbe             2-1  1-0  Nistru Kishinev 
SHINNIK Yaroslavl          4-1  0-0  Zvezda Perm

First round

[Feb 26, Mar 5] 
TORPEDO Moskva             2-1  1-0  Torpedo Kutaisi         [both legs in Sochi] 
  [1. Viktor Filippov, Vadim Nikonov – Shota Okropirashvili. Att: 4,000] 
  [2. Yuriy Smirnov 20. Att: 6,000] 
[Feb 28, Mar 3] 
DINAMO Moskva              3-1  0-0  Shakhtyor Donetsk 
  [1. Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 25, Andrei Yakubik 60, Anatoliy Baidachny 79 – Yuriy Gubich 88. Att: 8,000 (in Sochi)] 
  [2. Att: 20,000] 
[Feb 28, Mar 4] 
Dinamo Minsk               1-1  0-1  SHAKHTYOR Karaganda 
  [1. Eduard Malofeyev 85 pen – Anatoliy Novikov 65. Att: 8,000 (in Sukhumi)] 
  [2. Anatoliy Novikov 36. Att: 20,000] 
[Feb 29, Mar 4] 
KARPATY Lvov               1-0  3-1  Pamir Dushanbe 
  [1. Eduard Kozinkevich 78. Att: 30,000] 
  [2. ? - Rudik Yegiazaryan] 
Neftchi Baku               1-0  0-3  METALLURG Zaporozhye 
Shinnik Yaroslavl          0-1  w/o  KAYRAT Alma-Ata 
  [1. Nikolai Osyanin 64] 
SKA Rostov-na-Donu         0-0  1-0  Avtomobilist Nalchik 
  [1. (in Adler)] 
  [2. Viktor Churkin 15] 
SPARTAK Moskva             5-1  0-0  UralMash Sverdlovsk     [both legs in Sochi] 
  [1. Viktor Papayev 6, Gennadiy Logofet 11, ?, Vladimir Redin ?, Vyacheslav Yegorovich 67 – Alexandr Zhuravlyov ?. Att: 5,000] 
  [2. Att: 3,000] 
Zarya Voroshilovgrad       0-0  0-0  CHERNOMORETS Odessa     [pen 3-5] 
  [1. Att: 5,000 (in Sukhumi)] 
  [2. Att: 15,000] 
[Mar 1, 5] 
Ararat Yerevan             0-2  1-0  DINAMO Leningrad 
DINAMO Kiev                2-1  1-1  Textilshchik Ivanovo    [both legs in Sochi]
  [1. Vitaliy Shevchenko 62, Vladimir Veremeyev 87 pen – Mikhail Potapov 86. Att: 3,000] 
  [2. Vitaliy Shevchenko 42 – Stanislav Lyubavin 22 pen. Att: 4,500] 
[Mar 1, 7] 
Alga Frunze                0-1  0-4  ZENIT Leningrad 
  [1. Georgiy Vyun 33. Att: 2,000 (in Hosta)] 
  [2. Georgiy Khromchenkov 6, Mikhail Fokin 34, Boris Kokh 38, Vyacheslav Bulavin 55. Att: 100 (in Sochi)] 
[Mar 2, 6] 
CSKA Moskva                1-0  1-1  Avtomobilist Orjonikidze 
  [1. Vladimir Dudarenko 35. (in Sochi)] 
  [2. Vladimir Polikarpov – Vladimir Titov] 
DNEPR Dnepropetrovsk       2-1  2-3  Pahtakor Tashkent 
  [1. Viktor Romanyuk-2 – Berador Abduraimov] 
  [2. Viktor Nazarov, ? (P) og - Berador Abduraimov, Tulyagan Isakov, Bohadyr Ibragimov] 
[Mar 4, 8] 
Metallist Kharkov          2-0  1-4  DINAMO Tbilisi 
  [1. Anatoliy Ignatenko 77, Zorbeg Ebralidze (D) 81 og] 
  [2. Levan Nodia 3, 44, 71 pen, Georgiy Gavasheli 89 – Vladimir Chaplygin 9] 
[Mar 4, 12] 
LOKOMOTIV Moskva           1-1  3-0  Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 
  [1. Yuriy Chesnokov 57 – Ravil Aryapov 90. Att: 1,500 (in Hosta)] 
  [2. Nikolai Zudin ?, Yuriy Chesnokov ?, Nikolai Timofeyev 89. (in Sochi)]

Second round

[Mar 11, 15] 
ZENIT Leningrad            2-0  2-0  Dinamo Leningrad 
  [1. Boris Kokh 22, Pavel Sadyrin 44 pen. Att: 2,000 (in Sochi)] 
  [2. Pavel Sadyrin 63 pen, Vladimir Ivanov 83. Att: 1,000 (in Gagra)] 
[Mar 11, 16] 
SPARTAK Moskva             1-0  1-2  Metallurg Zaporozhye 
  [1. Galimzyan Husainov 48. Att: 5,000 (in Sochi)] 
  [2. Nikolai Kiselyov 80 – Oleg Novikov 5, Viktor Kutin 55. Att: 20,000] 
[Mar 12, 15] 
TORPEDO Moskva             2-0  1-0  Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk 
  [1. Alexandr Grebnev 5, Yuriy Smirnov 44. Att: 5,000 (in Sochi)] 
  [2. Yuriy Smirnov 3. Att: 30,000] 
[Mar 12, 16] 
Chernomorets Odessa        1-0  0-3  KARPATY Lvov 
  [1. Sergei Zvenigorodskiy 86. Att: 10,000] 
  [2. Roman Khizhak 47, Bogdan Greshchak 56, Eduard Kozinkevich 64. Att: 32,000] 
Dinamo Kiev                1-0  0-1  SKA Rostov-na-Donu      [pen 8-9] 
  [1. Vladimir Muntyan 30 pen. Att: 15,000 (in Simferopol)] 
  [2. Anzor Chikhladze 30. Att: 26,000] 
DINAMO Tbilisi             3-0  0-0  Shakhtyor Karaganda 
  [1. Givi Nodia 9, 31, 65] 
  [2. Att: 10,000] 
[Mar 13, 17] 
CSKA Moskva                1-0  0-0  Dinamo Moskva 
  [1. Vladimir Zhigunov 88. Att: 5,500 (in Sochi)] 
  [2. Att: 25,000 (in Tashkent)] 
[Mar 15, 18] 
Kayrat Alma-Ata            1-1  1-2  LOKOMOTIV Moskva 
  [1. Nikolai Osyanin 16 – Nikolai Timofeyev 13. Att: 2,000 (in Sochi)] 
  [2. Vladislav Markin 88 – Viktor Davydov 17, Valentin Spiridonov 84. Att: 1,800 (in Hosta)]

Quarterfinals

[Mar 21, 25] 
KARPATY Lvov               0-0  1-1  Dinamo Tbilisi 
  [1. Att: 32,000] 
  [2. Lev Brovarskiy 66 – Givi Nodia 50. Att: 50,000] 
SKA Rostov-na-Donu         1-1  0-3  CSKA Moskva 
  [1. Viktor Churkin 36 – Vladimir Dorofeyev 58. Att: 30,000] 
  [2. Boris Kopeikin 5, 29, 58. Att: 7,000 (in Sochi)] 
TORPEDO Moskva             0-0  2-0  Zenit Leningrad         [both legs in Sochi]
  [1. Att: 5,000] 
  [2. Yuriy Smirnov 36, 80. Att: 7,000] 
[Mar 22, 25] 
SPARTAK Moskva             2-1  2-1  Lokomotiv Moskva 
  [1. Viktor Papayev 70, Vasiliy Kalinov 87 – Nikolai Zudin 52. Att: 4,000 (in Sochi)] 
  [2. Vyacheslav Yegorovich 40, 53 – Anatoliy Kozlov 8. Att: 1,500 (in Hosta)]

Semifinals

[Jul 2, 28] 
SPARTAK Moskva             2-0  2-0  Karpaty Lvov 
  [1. Alexandr Piskaryov 40, Galimzyan Husainov 50. Att: 55,000] 
  [2. Mikhail Bulgakov 41, Valeriy Andreyev 56. Att: 25,000] 
TORPEDO Moskva             0-0  4-1  CSKA Moskva 
  [2. Anatoliy Degtyaryov 16, 22, 44, Anatoliy Fetisov ? – Vladimir Polikarpov 31]