FC Dynamo Kyiv will start their 2024/25 Ukrainian Cup campaign with the round of 16. At this stage the White-Blues will face FC Vorskla Poltava.
The game will take place on Wednesday, October 30, at the Vorskla Stadium named after O. Butovskyi in Poltava.
This will be the fourth Cup tie between Dynamo and Vorskla ever.
The first time they faced each other in the competition in the 2002/03 quarterfinals that included two legs back then.
Ukrainian Cup 2002/03
Quarterfinal. 1st leg
Dynamo – Vorskla – 1:0
17.11.2002. Kyiv. Dynamo Stadium named after Valerii Lobanovskyi. 1 500 spectators
Goal: Shatskikh (72).
A week later Dynamo succeeded away lopsidedly.
Ukrainian Cup 2002/03
Quarterfinal. 2nd leg
Vorskla – Dynamo – 0:4
24.11.2002. Poltava. Vorskla Stadium. 9 000 spectators
Goals: Dmytrulin (20), Shatskikh (56), Melashchenko (62), Diogo Rincon (63).
That season Dynamo won the Ukrainian Cup.
In 2009 Vorskla won their first national Cup ever and thus got the right to perform in the Ukrainian Super Cup against Dynamo.
Poltava side didn’t concede and things were settled in a penalty shootout where the White-Blues succeeded.
Ukrainian Super Cup 2009
Dynamo – Vorskla – 0:0, 4:2 on penalties
1.07.2009. Sumy. Yuvileinyi Stadium. 18 500 spectators
Penalty shootout: Ninkovic – 1:0, Curri – 1:1, Kravchenko – 2:1, Markoski – 2:2, Yeremenko – 3:2, Despotovski – 3:2, Yarmolenko – 4:2, Dallku – 4:2
The following Cup tie between Dynamo and Vorskla happened in the 2019/20 final.
After 1:1 draw in a regular time, the penalty shootout happened again.
Ukrainian Cup 2019/20. Final
Dynamo – Vorskla – 1:1, 8:7 on penalties
08.07.2020. Kharkiv. Metalist Stadium
Penalty shootout: 0:1 – Putslin, 1:1 – Verbic, 1:2 – Kane, 2:2 – Tsyhankov, 2:3 – Luizao, 3:3 – Kedziora, 3:4 – Opanasenko, 4:4 – de Pena, 4:5 – Ndiaye, 5:5 – Andriyevskyi, 5:6 – Chesnakov, 6:6 – Sydorchuk, 6:7 – Perduta, 7:7 – Shaparenko, 7:7 – Sapai, 7:7 – Mykolenko, 7:7 – Bayenko, 7:8 – Shabanov.
