Soviet Super Cup

Soviet Super Cup
Founded	1977 (introduced)
Region	Soviet Union
Number of teams	2
Current champions	defunct
Most successful club(s)	Dynamo Kyiv; (3 titles)

The USSR Super Cup, or Season's Cup, featured the winners of the previous season's Soviet Top League and USSR Cup in a one or two legged playoff for the trophy.

The competition never became popular, as the game was only played seven times in the last 15 years of Soviet football. It was not until 1983 that the Super Cup was made a regular fixture in the Soviet football calendar. The scheduling was unusual as the Super Cup was made to take place during midseason and further complicated clubs' schedules.

In 1987, with Spartak Moscow winning league honors and Dynamo Kyiv winning the USSR Cup, the Super Cup match was schedules to take place in Chişinău, Moldova. However, the match never took place because of inadequate facilities in Chişinău. The last USSR Super Cup took place in Sochi, Russia, where the match was played in front of 1,500 fans.

Finals[edit]

1977 USSR Season's Cup

1977-11-20 ?:?	Dynamo Moscow	1 – 0	Dynamo Kyiv	Tbilisi, Lenin's Dinamo Stadium Attendance: 35,000 Referee: G.Bakanidze (Tbilisi)
	Minayev 54'	Report

1980 USSR Season's Cup

1981-03-10 ?:?	Dynamo Kyiv	1 – 1 5 – 4 (pen.)	Shakhtar Donetsk	Simferopol, Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: ? Referee: A.Mushkovets (Moscow)
	Boiko 41' Penalties: Yurchyshyn Blokhin Bezsonov Serhiy Baltacha Konkov	Report	Kravchenko 52' Penalties: Sokolovsky Bondarenko Horbunov Kravchenko Starukhin

1983 USSR Season's Cup, consisted out of two games

1984-07-05 ?:?	Shakhtar Donetsk	2 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Donetsk, Shakhtar Stadium Attendance: 32,840 Referee: V.Butenko (Moscow)
	Vyshnevskyi 54' (o.g.) Morozov 54'	Report	Lytovchenko 40'

1984-07-08 ?:?	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1 – 1	Shakhtar Donetsk	Dnipropetrovsk, Meteor Stadium Attendance: 29,500 Referee: V.Kuznetsov (Omsk)
	Fedorenko 70' Lytovchenko	Report	Sokolovsky 89' Pokidyn

Shakhtar won the Cup play-off 3-2

1984 USSR Season's Cup, consisted out of two games

1985-07-30 ?:?	Zenit Leningrad	2 – 1	Dynamo Moscow	Leningrad, Kirov Stadium Attendance: 31,000 Referee: V.Miminoshvili (Tbilisi)
	Pozdnyakov 33' (o.g.) Gerasimov 71'	Report	Ataulin 5'

1985-08-05 ?:?	Dynamo Moscow	0 – 1	Zenit Leningrad	Moscow, Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 12,200 Referee: M.Stupar (Ivano-Frankivsk)
		Report	Melnikov 20'

Zenit won the Cup play-off 3-1

List by year[edit]

Year	Location	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1977	Tbilisi, Georgian	Dynamo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)	1 – 0	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)
1980	Simferopol, Ukraine	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	1 – 1 (aet) 5 – 4 (penalties)	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as cup winner)
1983	Leg 1: Donetsk, Ukraine Leg 2: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as cup winner)	Leg 1: 2 – 1 Leg 2: 1 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (qualified as league winner)
1984	Leg 1: Leningrad, Russia Leg 2: Moscow, Russia	Zenit Leningrad (qualified as league winner)	Leg 1: 2 – 1 Leg 2: 1 – 0	Dynamo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)
1985	Kiev, Ukraine	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	2 – 2 (aet) 3 – 1 (penalties)	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as losing cup finalist)
1986	Moscow, Russia	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	1 – 1 (aet) 5 – 4 (penalties)	Torpedo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)
1987	Chisinau, Moldavia	Spartak Moscow (qualified as league winner)	ppd	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as cup winner)
1988	Sochi, Russia	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (qualified as league winner)	3 – 1 (aet)	Metalist Kharkiv (qualified as cup winner)

Performance by club[edit]

Club	Republic	Winners	Runners-Up	Years Won
Dynamo Kyiv	UKR	3	1	1980, 1985, 1986
Shakhtar Donetsk	UKR	1	2	1983
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	UKR	1	1	1988
Dynamo Moscow	RUS	1	1	1977
Zenit Leningrad	RUS	1	0	1984
Metalist Kharkiv	UKR	0	1
Torpedo Moscow	RUS	0	1