1965–66 Soviet Cup

The 1965–66 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The organization of the competition was confusing and some teams that were eliminated in qualification rounds still proceeded to the Final round which was taking place in 1966.
The winner of the competition, Dinamo Kiev qualified for the continental tournament.

Participating teams

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The underlined are marked teams that entered the competition in 1966 for the second time, but initially in 1965 they competed as part of the 1965 Soviet Class B qualification stage within the RSFSR zones.

Competition schedule

Preliminary stage

Group 1 (Russian Federation)

Preliminary round

Avangard Kolomna 2-3 SERP I MOLOT Moskva

First round

Baltika Kaliningrad 0-1 SATURN Rybinsk
DINAMO Bryansk 1-0 TekMash Kostroma
Granitas Klaipeda 0-0 Avtomobilist Leningrad
KHIMIK Novomoskovsk 2-0 Khimik Klin
Lokomotiv Kaluga 2-3 METALLURG Tula
METALLURG Cherepovets 2-0 Iskra Smolensk
ZVEJNIEKS Liepaja 1-0 Sever Murmansk
ZVEZDA Serpukhov 1-0 Serp i Molot Moskva

First round replays

GRANITAS Klaipeda 3-0 Avtomobilist Leningrad

Quarterfinals

KHIMIK Novomoskovsk 1-0 Metallurg Tula
METALLURG Cherepovets 1-0 Saturn Rybinsk
Zvejnieks Liepaja 1-2 GRANITAS Klaipeda
ZVEZDA Serpukhov 3-2 Dinamo Bryansk

Semifinals

GRANITAS Klaipeda 2-0 Metallurg Cherepovets
Khimik Novomoskovsk 0-4 ZVEZDA Serpukhov

Final

GRANITAS Klaipeda 1-0 Zvezda Serpukhov

Group 2 (Russian Federation)

Preliminary round

Progress Zelyonodolsk 1-1 Dinamo Kirov

Preliminary round replays

PROGRESS Zelyonodolsk 1-0 Dinamo Kirov

First round

KHIMIK Dzerzhinsk 2-0 Salyut Kamensk-Uralskiy
KOVROVETS Kovrov 1-0 Neftyanik Tyumen
PROGRESS Zelyonodolsk 2-0 Spartak Yoshkar-Ola
SPARTAK Ryazan 2-0 Zenit Izhevsk
TORPEDO Pavlovo 2-1 Uralets Nizhniy Tagil
Traktor Vladimir 0-2 RUBIN Kazan
Znamya Noginsk 1-2 ZVEZDA Perm
ZNAMYA TRUDA Orekhovo-Zuyevo 3-0 Khimik Berezniki

Quarterfinals

PROGRESS Zelyonodolsk 1-0 Khimik Dzerzhinsk
RUBIN Kazan 2-0 Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo
TORPEDO Pavlovo 1-0 Kovrovets Kovrov
Zvezda Perm 1-2 Spartak Ryazan

Semifinals

Progress Zelyonodolsk 1-2 TORPEDO Pavlovo
RUBIN Kazan 3-2 Spartak Ryazan

Final

TORPEDO Pavlovo w/o Rubin Kazan

Group 3 (Russian Federation)

Preliminary round

ENERGIYA Volzhskiy 1-0 Spartak Oryol
Volgar Astrakhan 0-0 Energiya Novocherkassk

Preliminary round replays

Volgar Astrakhan 0-1 ENERGIYA Novocherkassk

First round

PROGRESS Kamensk 2-0 Energiya Novocherkassk
SHAKHTYOR Shakhty 2-1 Trud Togliatti
Torpedo Armavir 1-2 SPARTAK Saransk
Torpedo Lipetsk 1-1 Spartak Belgorod
TORPEDO Taganrog 2-1 Spartak Tambov
Trud Penza 0-2 METALLURG Kuibyshev
Trudoviye Rezervy Kursk 0-3 ENERGIYA Volzhskiy
Volga Ulyanovsk 1-2 NEFTYANIK Syzran

First round replays

Torpedo Lipetsk 1-2 SPARTAK Belgorod

Quarterfinals

METALLURG Kuibyshev 1-0 Neftyanik Syzran
Progress Kamensk 1-2 SHAKHTYOR Shakhty
SPARTAK Belgorod 1-0 Energiya Volzhskiy
Spartak Saransk 1-2 TORPEDO Taganrog

Semifinals

METALLURG Kuibyshev 3-1 Spartak Belgorod
Shakhtyor Shakhty 1-2 TORPEDO Taganrog

Final

TORPEDO Taganrog 2-1 Metallurg Kuibyshev

Group 4 (Russian Federation)

Preliminary round

DINAMO Kirovabad 3-1 Dinamo Baku
LORI Kirovakan w/o Sevan Oktemberyan
Metallurg Rustavi 0-2 MESHAKHTE Tkibuli
SHIRAK Leninakan 1-0 Alazani Gurjaani

First round

DINAMO Batumi 1-0 Dinamo Stavropol
Dinamo Kirovabad w/o LORI Kirovakan
Dinamo Makhachkala 0-0 Polad Sumgait
Dinamo Sukhumi 1-1 Cement Novorossiysk
KOLKHIDA Poti 2-1 Inguri Zugdidi
Shirak Leninakan 1-3 MESHAKHTE Tkibuli
SPARTAK Nalchik 1-0 Urozhai Maykop
SPARTAK Orjonikidze 3-2 Trudoviye Rezervy Kislovodsk

First round replays

DINAMO Makhachkala w/o Polad Sumgait
DINAMO Sukhumi 4-2 Cement Novorossiysk

Quarterfinals

KOLKHIDA Poti 2-0 Dinamo Batumi
LORI Kirovakan 2-1 Spartak Nalchik
MESHAKHTE Tkibuli 3-1 Dinamo Sukhumi
SPARTAK Orjonikidze 4-0 Dinamo Makhachkala

Semifinals

Lori Kirovakan 0-3 SPARTAK Orjonikidze
Meshakhte Tkibuli 1-1 Kolkhida Poti

Semifinals replays

MESHAKHTE Tkibuli w/o Kolkhida Poti

Final

Spartak Orjonikidze 1-1 Meshakhte Tkibuli

Final replays

Spartak Orjonikidze 1-1 Meshakhte Tkibuli

SPARTAK Orjonikidze 2-1 Meshakhte Tkibuli

Group 5 (Russian Federation)

Preliminary round

KHIMIK Chirchik 1-0 Spartak Andizhan
METALLIST Jambul 2-0 Khimik Salavat
METALLURG Chimkent 2-1 Dinamo Tselinograd
Sverdlovets Tashkent Region 0-6 IRTYSH Omsk

First round

KHIMIK Chirchik 2-0 Metallist Jambul
METALLURG Chimkent 3-2 Irtysh Omsk
METALLURG Magnitogorsk 2-1 Zahmet Charjou
NEFTYANIK Fergana 2-0 Torpedo Miass
PAMIR Leninabad 3-0 Metallurg Zlatoust
Shakhtyor Osh 1-1 Trud Kurgan
SPARTAK Samarkand 2-0 Lokomotiv Orenburg
STROITEL Ufa 1-0 Zarafshan Navoi

First round replays

Shakhtyor Osh 1-5 TRUD Kurgan

Quarterfinals

METALLURG Magnitogorsk 1-0 Spartak Samarkand
PAMIR Leninabad w/o Metallurg Chimkent
STROITEL Ufa 2-1 Khimik Chirchik
TRUD Kurgan 2-1 Neftyanik Fergana

Semifinals

STROITEL Ufa 5-2 Metallurg Magnitogorsk
TRUD Kurgan 1-0 Pamir Leninabad

Final

TRUD Kurgan 2-1 Stroitel Ufa

Group 6 (Russian Federation)

Preliminary round

ARMEYETS Ulan-Ude 2-1 Torpedo Tomsk
SIBSELMASH Novosibirsk w/o Metallurg Novokuznetsk
ZABAIKALETS Chita w/o Shakhtyor Prokopyevsk

First round

AMUR Blagoveshchensk 1-0 SKA Khabarovsk
Armeyets Ulan-Ude 1-1 Zabaikalets Chita
CEMENTNIK Semipalatinsk 1-0 Irtysh Pavlodar
LOKOMOTIV Krasnoyarsk 2-0 Khimik Kemerovo
Luch Vladivostok 0-0 Avangard Komsomolsk-na-Amure
Temp Barnaul 0-0 Angara Irkutsk
TORPEDO Rubtsovsk 4-1 SibSelMash Novosibirsk
VOSTOK Ust-Kamenogorsk 2-0 Start Angarsk

First round replays

ARMEYETS Ulan-Ude 2-0 Zabaikalets Chita
Luch Vladivostok 0-1 AVANGARD Komsomolsk-na-Amure
TEMP Barnaul 2-1 Angara Irkutsk

Quarterfinals

Avangard Komsomolsk-na-Amure 0-0 Amur Blagoveshchensk
TEMP Barnaul 2-1 Armeyets Ulan-Ude
TORPEDO Rubtsovsk 3-1 Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk
VOSTOK Ust-Kamenogorsk 2-0 Cementnik Semipalatinsk

Quarterfinals replays

Avangard Komsomolsk-na-Amure 0-0 Amur Blagoveshchensk

AVANGARD Komsomolsk-na-Amure 2-1 Amur Blagoveshchensk

Semifinals

AVANGARD Komsomolsk-na-Amure 2-1 Temp Barnaul
VOSTOK Ust-Kamenogorsk 4-1 Torpedo Rubtsovsk

Final

AVANGARD Komsomolsk-na-Amure 2-0 Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk

Group Central Asia and Kazakhstan

Preliminary round

SHAKHTYOR Osh 6-0 Pahtakor Kurgan-Tyube
SPARTAK Andizhan 3-1 Zahmet Charjou
SPARTAK Samarkand 2-0 Metallurg Chimkent

First round

KHIMIK Chirchik 3-1 Pamir Leninabad
METALLIST Jambul 1-0 Zarafshan Navoi
METALLURG Almalyk 1-0 ADK Alma-Ata
METALLURG Temirtau 1-0 Dinamo Tselinograd
Spartak Andizhan 0-0 Shakhtyor Osh
SPARTAK Samarkand 1-0 Buhoro Buhara
SVERDLOVETS Tashkent Region 2-0 Dimitrovets Tashkent Region
VAKHSH Nurek 3-2 Pahtaaral Gulistan

First round replays

Spartak Andizhan 1-2 SHAKHTYOR Osh

Quarterfinals

KHIMIK Chirchik 2-0 Spartak Samarkand
METALLURG Almalyk 2-0 Metallurg Temirtau
SHAKHTYOR Osh 3-1 Metallist Jambul
VAKHSH Nurek 3-2 Sverdlovets Tashkent Region

Semifinals

KHIMIK Chirchik 4-1 Vakhsh Nurek
SHAKHTYOR Osh 3-0 Metallurg Almalyk

Final

KHIMIK Chirchik 1-0 Shakhtyor Osh

Final stage

Preliminary round

ALGA Frunze 3-0 Stroitel Ashkhabad
Desna Chernigov 0-1 AVYNTUL Kishinev
DNEPR Dnepropetrovsk 3-0 Baltika Kaliningrad
GRANITAS Klaipeda 2-1 Zvezda Kirovograd
KHIMIK Chirchik 2-0 Avangard Kharkov
LOKOMOTIV Vinnitsa 3-2 Tavria Simferopol
TEREK Grozny 1-0 Dinamo Batumi
Trud Voronezh 0-1 LOKOMOTIV Tbilisi

First round

Dinamo Stavropol 1-1 RostSelMash Rostov-na-Donu

AVANGARD Komsomolsk-na-Amure w/o Kuban Krasnodar
Avangard Ternopol 0-2 URALMASH Sverdlovsk

DINAMO Kirovabad 2-1 Sudostroitel Nikolayev

DINAMO Leningrad 1-0 SKA Novosibirsk
ENERGETIK Dushanbe 4-0 SKA Kiev

IRTYSH Omsk 2-0 Neftyanik Fergana

KARPATY Lvov 3-2 SKA Lvov
KUZBASS Kemerovo w/o Daugava Riga
LOKOMOTIV Chelyabinsk 7-1 Spartak Nalchik

RUBIN Kazan 5-1 Shirak Leninakan
SHINNIK Yaroslavl 1-0 Vostok Ust-Kamenogorsk

SPARTAK Orjonikidze 2-1 Volga Gorkiy

Stroitel Ufa 2-3 METALLURG Zaporozhye

TEMP Barnaul 2-0 Sokol Saratov

TEXTILSHCHIK Ivanovo 3-0 Zarya Lugansk

Torpedo Pavlovo 0-0 Zvezda Perm
Torpedo Taganrog 1-3 SHAKHTYOR Karaganda
TRAKTOR Volgograd 4-0 Politotdel Tashkent Region

TRUD Kurgan 2-0 Torpedo Tomsk
ŽALGIRIS Vilnius 4-0 Dinamo Tallinn

Spartak Gomel 0-4 VOLGA Kalinin

ALGA Frunze w/o Granitas Klaipeda
AVYNTUL Kishinev 6-0 Lokomotiv Vinnitsa
LOKOMOTIV Tbilisi 7-0 Khimik Chirchik

TEREK Grozny 1-0 Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk

First round replays

DINAMO Stavropol 3-0 RostSelMash Rostov-na-Donu

TORPEDO Pavlovo 2-0 Zvezda Perm

Second round

TRAKTOR Volgograd 4-1 Textilshchik Ivanovo

Spartak Orjonikidze 1-2 DINAMO Kirovabad

Avangard Komsomolsk-na-Amure 0-3 SHINNIK Yaroslavl

AVYNTUL Kishinev 2-0 Terek Grozny
DINAMO Leningrad 2-0 Žalgiris Vilnius
DINAMO Stavropol 2-0 Torpedo Pavlovo
KUZBASS Kemerovo 2-1 Trud Kurgan

LOKOMOTIV Chelyabinsk 6-1 Irtysh Omsk

LOKOMOTIV Tbilisi w/o Alga Frunze
Metallurg Zaporozhye 0-2 RUBIN Kazan
SHAKHTYOR Karaganda 2-0 Energetik Dushanbe
Temp Barnaul 1-3 KARPATY Lvov
Volga Kalinin 1-1 UralMash Sverdlovsk

Second round replays

Volga Kalinin 0-2 URALMASH Sverdlovsk

Third round

DINAMO Kirovabad 4-1 SKA Rostov-na-Donu

DINAMO Leningrad 1-0 Torpedo Kutaisi

Karpaty Lvov 1-1 Zenit Leningrad

Kuzbass Kemerovo 1-2 CHERNOMORETS Odessa

LOKOMOTIV Chelyabinsk 2-1 Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev

Lokomotiv Tbilisi 0-1 TORPEDO Moskva

Rubin Kazan 0-1 DINAMO Minsk

Shakhtyor Karaganda 1-2 DINAMO Moskva

SHINNIK Yaroslavl 3-1 Ararat Yerevan

TRAKTOR Volgograd 1-0 Neftyanik Baku

Avyntul Kishinev 0-1 SPARTAK Moskva

Dinamo Stavropol 0-1 DINAMO Kiev

SHAKHTYOR Donetsk 3-1 Dinamo Tbilisi

URALMASH Sverdlovsk 3-1 SKA Odessa

PAHTAKOR Tashkent 2-0 CSKA Moskva

KAYRAT Alma-Ata 2-1 Lokomotiv Moskva

Third round replays

Karpaty Lvov 1-2 ZENIT Leningrad

Fourth round

URALMASH Sverdlovsk 2-0 Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk

SPARTAK Moskva 2-0 Shakhtyor Donetsk

CHERNOMORETS Odessa 2-0 Pahtakor Tashkent

SHINNIK Yaroslavl 3-0 Dinamo Leningrad

DINAMO Kiev 3-0 Zenit Leningrad

DINAMO Minsk 2-1 Dinamo Moskva

KAYRAT Alma-Ata 2-1 Dinamo Kirovabad

TORPEDO Moskva 3-1 Traktor Volgograd

Quarterfinals

CHERNOMORETS Odessa 3-1 UralMash Sverdlovsk

TORPEDO Moskva 2-1 Kayrat Alma-Ata

DINAMO Minsk 1-0 Shinnik Yaroslavl

DINAMO Kiev 4-1 Spartak Moskva

Semifinals

TORPEDO Moskva 3-0 Chernomorets Odessa

DINAMO Kiev 1-0 Dinamo Minsk