1990 Soviet Cup final

The 1990 Soviet Cup final was a football match that took place at Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on 2 May 1990. The match was the 49th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Lokomotiv Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Dynamo qualified for the 1990–91 [European Cup Winners' Cup#First round|Cup Winners' Cup] first round for the Soviet Union. The defending champions from last year Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, were eliminated in the first round of the competition by PFC CSKA Moscow on away goal rule. Dynamo played their 10th Cup Final winning on 9 occasions including this one. For Lokomotiv, it was their only third Cup Final and their only loss at this stage.

Road to Moscow

All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dynamo and Lokomotiv both qualified for the competition automatically.

Previous encounters

Previously, these two teams had never met each other in the such late stages of the competition. However, they did meet about five times in the Soviet Cup, usually in the early rounds. They first played each other in the Soviet Cup back in 1938.