2023–24 Ukrainian Cup


The 2023–24 Ukrainian Cup was the 32nd annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition. The competition is began on 29 July 2023 and concluded on 15 May 2024 with the final. The competition has been resumed after being paused for a season due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and an attempt to resume league competitions. In the fall of the last year, there was information about possibility of resuming cup competitions in the spring, but the idea was never realized.
All competition rounds consisted of a single game with a home field advantage granted to a team from lower league. Draw for all the rounds was blind. Qualification for the competition was granted to all professional clubs and four better performers of 2 last amateur seasons the 2022–23 Ukrainian Amateur Cup and the 2021–22 Ukrainian Amateur Cup.

Team allocation and schedule

The competition includes all professional first teams from the Premier League, First League, Second League and four best performer from the previous year's Amateur Cup. Four second club teams from the Second League are not eligible for the tournament.

Teams

Notes:
  • With the asterisk are noted the Second League teams that were recently admitted to the league from amateurs and the AAFU team that qualified in place of the Amateur Cup finalist.
  • Since there was no competition held last season due to hostilities, for this season the Ukrainian Association of Football approved qualification of four teams from the Ukrainian Amateur Cup, two from 2021–22 season and two from 2022–23. Now, the 2021–22 season stopped at the semifinal stage. From 2021–22 season qualified Olympia Savyntsi and Mykolaiv, now since both finalists of the 2022–23 season qualified, the 2022–23 spot was filled with losing semifinalists Shturm Ivankiv and Fazenda Chernivtsi. Technically, none of the AAFU representatives qualified as the Amateur Cup finalists, although Olympiya Savyntsi reached a final, their awarded quota was for previous season when they stopped at semifinals.
  • Four reserve teams from the PFL League 2 were not eligible to participate.

Bracket

The following is the bracket which the main stage of the Ukrainian Cup resembles. Numbers in parentheses next to the match score represent the results of a penalty shoot-out.

Competition schedule

Legends: AM – AAFU competitions, 2L – Second League, 1L – First League, PL – Premier League

First preliminary round (1/128)

In this round, 2 clubs from the Second League and four clubs of the 2022–23 Ukrainian Amateur Cup and the 2021–22 Ukrainian Amateur Cup entered the competition.
The draw was held on 21 July 2023.
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Second preliminary round (1/64)

In this round, 9 clubs from the Second League and 20 clubs from the First League entered the competition and joined the 3 winners of the First preliminary round.

Third preliminary round (1/32)

In this round, the 16 winners of the Second preliminary round participate.
The draw was held on 4 August 2023.
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Fourth preliminary round (1/16)

In this round, 8 clubs from the Premier League will enter the competition and the 8 winners of the Third preliminary round.
  • Notes:
LNZ vs Viktoriya had been interrupted due to air alert.

Round of 16 (1/8)

In this round, 8 clubs from the Premier League will enter the competition and join the 8 winners of the Fourth preliminary round.
  • Notes:
Rukh vs Oleksandriya kick off time was delayed for 30 minutes due to air alert.

Quarter-finals (1/4)

This round includes one team from the First League and 7 clubs from the Premier League. Base date for the matches is 1 November 2023. The draw for the round took place at Epet Arena, Prague with active participation of Oleksandr Zinchenko and Ruslan Malinovskyi.
  • Notes:
Polissia vs Oleksandriya match had been interrupted in the 85th minute for 50 minutes due to air alert.

Semi-finals (1/2)

  • Notes:
Polissia vs Vorskla match had been interrupted in the 80th minute for 40 minutes due to air alert.

Top goalscorers

The competition's top three goalscorers including preliminary rounds.
RankScorerTeamGoals
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