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match that was played at the
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,
Lviv Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...
on June 21, 1992. The match was the 1st league's final and was contested by both groups leaders
Tavriya Simferopol Sports Club Tavriya () was a Ukrainian football club from Simferopol. Tavriya was a member of the Ukrainian Premier League from its founding and won the first Ukrainian Premier League 1992, Ukrainian Premier League making them one of three team ...
and
Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society ...
. Winning the game allowed Tavriya to qualify for its first
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competition in the club's history, while the surprising loss of Dynamo send the club to the 1992-93 UEFA Cup.


Road to Lviv

The following tables show round by round standing of both clubs in their respective groups, each of which consisted of 10 clubs.


Group A


Group B


Previous encounters

This was the first Vyshcha Liha Final between the two teams. Previously the two teams met only once in a league format during the Soviet competitions back in 1981 ( 1981 Soviet Top League). In 1981 Tavriya managed to tie at home 0:0, but lost its away game 1:3 placing second to last, while Dynamo became the champions.


Match

It was decided to conduct the season final at
Ukraina Stadium Ukraina Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Lviv, Ukraine. It is currently used mostly for association football matches, and is the home of FC Karpaty Lviv. "Ukraina" is also an alternative stadium for the Ukraine national football team whe ...
(formerly - Druzhba) in
Lviv Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...
. Before the game both teams had some problems with their squad for various reasons. Dynamo was missing
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who still was participating at the
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. The club's main striker
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was serving few months-long disqualification by
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, while another Kiev's leader
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was missing due to injury. Tavriya on the other hand was missing disqualified
Ihor Volkov Ihor Mykolayovych Volkov (; born 13 March 1965) is a Ukrainian football manager and former footballer. Early life Volkov is a native of Simferopol, Crimea Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Career In 1989, Volkov returned to Ukrainian side Tavriya Simfe ...
and
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and in addition there was injured Talyat Sheikhametov and the season's top scorer Yuriy Hudymenko did not feel well. The vast majority of 38,000 fans who filled stands of "Ukraina" supported the capital's team. However, on that hot day the latter was not helped neither by the "12th player", nor early arrival to the city of Leo. All attempts of
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's wards establish collective actions were shattered against cool-headed and balanced actions of Simferopolians. Defending with bigger forces, Tavriya was not forgetting about counterattacks. More than often it was simply luring its opponent onto own half of the field, and then, after intercepting a ball, organized sharp and dangerous raids. Tactics that were picked by
Anatoliy Zayaev Anatoliy Zayaev (October 27, 1931 – December 18, 2012) was a Soviet Union, Soviet football player and a Ukraine, Ukrainian coach. Merited Coach of Ukraine. Biography Zayaev was born in Simferopol in a big Assyrian people, Assyrian family. P ...
and his assistant Andriy Cheremysin worked and counter arguments against them were not found by Dynamo's players. The scales were ultimately turned towards Crimeans by the most active performer in their squad. The Tavriya's captain Sergei Shevchenko managed not only ruin attacks of Kievans, but quite often bothered the goalkeeper
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with far "shots". With 15 minutes before end of the match responding to the serve of Andriy Oparin from a corner kick, the 32-year-old halfback playing to forestall with a soft header, volleyed the ball into goal. "I knew that I will score, after all it was our standardized combination. How many I already laid as such!" – smiled after the hero of the match. Organization of the final assault during the time that was left for the Dynamo's players was not successful. After the game the former president of FFU
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awarded the winners with the champion's cup, and personally Shevchenko with the best players of the season award. Beside that Sergei and Kievan
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were awarded embroidered shirts as the most valuable footballers for both teams. After that there was a circle of honor and spectators' applause who at end of the game ardently supported the Crimean club.


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See also

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1992 Vyshcha Liha The 1992 Vyshcha Liha () was the first football championship organized by the reformed Football Federation of Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Football Federation of Ukraine, when organizing the competition, decided to shift ...


References


External links

* Patkevych, K.
The gold for all times (Золото на всі часи)
'. "From Sian to Don".
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website. 24 May 2010
How "Tavriya entered the history (Як «Таврія» увійшла в історію)
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