1961 Soviet Cup

The 1961 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union.

Participating teams
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Semifinals
METALLURG Cherepovets        2-1  Onezhets Petrozavodsk SHINNIK Yaroslavl            4-2  Sputnik Kaluga Trud Tula                    1-2  DINAMO Bryansk VOLGA Kalinin                5-0  Dinamo Leningrad

Final
Dinamo Bryansk               0-1  METALLURG Cherepovets SPARTAK Leningrad            3-1  Tralflotovets Murmansk Textilshchik Kostroma        0-2  SHAKHTYOR Stalinogorsk Volga Kalinin                0-0  Shinnik Yaroslavl

Final replays
VOLGA Kalinin                3-2  Shinnik Yaroslavl             [aet]

Semifinals
Baltika Kaliningrad          1-1  Torpedo Gorkiy DINAMO Kirov                 5-2  Znamya Truda Orekhovo-Zuyevo  [aet] ISKRA Kazan                  2-0  Spartak Smolensk ZENIT Izhevsk                3-0  Textilshchik Ivanovo

Semifinals replays
BALTIKA Kaliningrad          2-0  Torpedo Gorkiy

Final
BALTIKA Kaliningrad          3-0  Dinamo Kirov ISKRA Kazan                  2-0  Zenit Izhevsk MVO Serpukhov                2-1  Trud Noginsk                  [aet] RAKETA Gorkiy                2-0  Traktor Vladimir

Semifinals
ENERGIYA Volzhskiy           4-2  Lokomotiv Oryol Neftyanik Syzran             1-2  TRAKTOR Stalingrad SPARTAK Ryazan               2-0  Torpedo Lipetsk Spartak Ulyanovsk            1-1  Sokol Saratov Zarya Penza                  0-7  KRYLYA SOVETOV Kuibyshev

Semifinals replays
SPARTAK Ulyanovsk            4-2  Sokol Saratov

Final
ENERGIYA Volzhskiy           3-1  Spartak Ulyanovsk KRYLYA SOVETOV Kuibyshev     5-0  Spartak Tambov TRAKTOR Stalingrad           3-1  Spartak Ryazan TRUDOVIYE REZERVY Kursk      3-2  Cementnik Belgorod

Semifinals
SPARTAK Orjonikidze          2-0  Cement Novorossiysk Spartak Stavropol            1-1  Torpedo Armavir TORPEDO Taganrog             2-0  Terek Grozny VOLGAR Astrakhan             2-0  Trudoviye Rezervy Kislovodsk

Semifinals replays
Spartak Stavropol            0-1  TORPEDO Armavir

Final
SHAKHTYOR Shakhty            4-1  RostSelMash Rostov-na-Donu SPARTAK Nalchik              1-0  Dinamo Makhachkala Spartak Orjonikidze          0-1  TORPEDO Armavir TORPEDO Taganrog             1-0  Volgar Astrakhan

Semifinals
GEOLOG Tyumen                3-1  Stroitel Saransk IRTYSH Omsk                  1-0  UralMash Sverdlovsk LOKOMOTIV Orenburg           3-1  Metallurg Magnitogorsk STROITEL Ufa                 2-0  Metallurg Nizhniy Tagil ZVEZDA Perm                  2-0  Stroitel Kurgan

Final
IRTYSH Omsk                  2-0  Geolog Tyumen                 [aet] KHIMIK Berezniki             2-1  Lokomotiv Chelyabinsk TORPEDO Pavlovo              2-0  Lokomotiv Orenburg Zvezda Perm                  3-5  STROITEL Ufa                  [aet]

Semifinals
AMUR Blagoveshchensk         4-2  Avangard Komsomolsk-na-Amure  [aet] SKA Khabarovsk               1-1  SKA Novosibirsk TEMP Barnaul                 1-0  Baykal Ulan-Ude TOMICH Tomsk                 3-1  Angara Irkutsk Zabaikalets Chita            1-1  Khimik Kemerovo

Semifinals replays
SKA Khabarovsk               2-0  SKA Novosibirsk Zabaikalets Chita            0-0  Khimik Kemerovo ZABAIKALETS Chita            3-2  Khimik Kemerovo

Final
AMUR Blagoveshchensk         2-1  Zabaikalets Chita LUCH Vladivostok             3-0  Lokomotiv Krasnoyarsk METALLURG Stalinsk           5-0  Temp Barnaul SKA Khabarovsk               2-0  Tomich Tomsk

Semifinals
[Jun 8] ZVEZDA Kirovograd            2-1  Avangard Chernovtsy [Jun 10] CHERNOMORETS Odessa          3-2  Kolhospnik Rovno [Jun 11] Avangard Ternopol            1-2  SPARTAK Stanislav DESNA Chernigov              4-3  Neftyanik Drogobych KOLHOSPNIK Cherkassy         3-2  Sudostroitel Nikolayev Polesye Zhitomir             1-1  Dinamo Khmelnitskiy SKA Lvov                     2-0  Arsenal Kiev VERKHOVINA Uzhgorod          3-1  Volyn Lutsk

Semifinals replays
[Jun 12] Polesye Zhitomir             0-2  DINAMO Khmelnitskiy

Final
[May 9] LOKOMOTIV Vinnitsa           2-1  Mayak Kherson [Jun 21] Zvezda Kirovograd            2-3  CHERNOMORETS Odessa [Jun 30] SKA Lvov                     3-4  DINAMO Khmelnitskiy [Jul 2] KOLGOSPNIK Cherkassy         2-1  Verkhovina Uzhgorod Spartak Stanislav            0-0  Desna Chernigov

Final replays
SPARTAK Stanislav            1-0  Desna Chernigov

Semifinals
[Jun 10] Avangard Krivoi Rog          2-2  Avangard Sumy AZOVSTAL Zhdanov             1-0  Metallurg Zaporozhye SKF Sevastopol               3-0  SKA Kiev [Jun 11] AVANGARD Simferopol          2-0  Shakhtyor Kadiyevka Kolgospnik Poltava           1-2  AVANGARD Kramatorsk Metallurg Dnepropetrovsk     1-2  LOKOMOTIV Stalino SKA Odessa                   0-1  AVANGARD Zholtyye Vody TORPEDO Kharkov              2-0  Shakhtyor Gorlovka

Semifinals replays
Avangard Krivoi Rog          2-3  AVANGARD Sumy

Final
[Jun 10] KHIMIK Severodonetsk         3-0  Khimik Dneprodzerzhinsk [Jun 18] SKF Sevastopol               1-0  Avangard Sumy [Jul 2] AVANGARD Kramatorsk          1-0  AzovStal Zhdanov              [aet] AVANGARD Simferopol          2-0  Torpedo Kharkov [Jul 4] Lokomotiv Stalino            0-1  AVANGARD Zholtyye Vody

Semifinals
Khimik Mogilyov              0-4  SPARTAK Brest Lokomotiv Gomel              0-3  LOKOMOTIV Tbilisi

Final
Krasnoye Znamya Vitebsk      2-2  Dinamo Batumi LOKOMOTIV Tbilisi            w/o  REZ Riga SelMash Liepaja              0-1  NISTRUL Bendery SPARTAK Brest                w/o  Ritsa Sukhumi

Final replays
Krasnoye Znamya Vitebsk      1-1  Dinamo Batumi Krasnoye Znamya Vitebsk      3-6  DINAMO Batumi

Semifinals
START Tashkent               2-0  Dinamo Samarkand TEXTILSHCHIK Kirovabad       w/o  Metallurg Chimkent TORPEDO Kutaisi              3-0  Spartak Baku

Final
ENERGETIK Stalinabad         4-1  Kopet-Dag Ashkhabad Metallurg Rustavi            1-3  TORPEDO Kutaisi SPARTAK Fergana              1-0  Temp Sumgait START Tashkent               w/o  Textilshchik Kirovabad

First round
[Jun 21] Luch Vladivostok             1-2  DINAMO Moskva [G.Yepishin 7 – Genrikh Fedosov 9, Valeriy Korolenkov 82 pen] [Jun 23] ENERGETIK Stalinabad         5-1  Daugava Riga [E.Astvatsaturov-3, B.Semyonov, V.Gurko - ?] [Jun 28] Chernomorets Odessa          1-2  DINAMO Kiev [Nikolai Molochkov 15 – Valentin Troyanovskiy 9 pen, Yozhef Sabo 32] [Jun 30] Khimik Berezniki             1-2  SPARTAK Fergana Nistrul Bendery              0-4  KRYLYA SOVETOV Kuibyshev SPARTAK Leningrad            2-0  CSKA Moskva [Makeyev 18, Vasilenko ?] Traktor Stalingrad           0-3  DINAMO Tbilisi [Vladimir Barkaia, Shota Yamanidze, Ilya Datunashvili] [Jul 2] Lokomotiv Vinnitsa           0-1  SPARTAK Yerevan [Jul 15] AVANGARD Kramatorsk          1-0  Avangard Simferopol [Dotsenko pen] Irtysh Omsk                  0-1  NEFTYANIK Baku RAKETA Gorkiy                1-0  Moldova Kishinev TORPEDO Armavir              1-0  Avangard Zholtyye Vody Torpedo Kutaisi              0-1  KOLHOSPNIK Cherkassy [Vulfovich] TORPEDO Pavlovo              2-1  Dinamo Batumi Volga Kalinin                2-3  KALEV Tallinn [Jul 19] Metallurg Cherepovets        2-3  BELARUS Minsk [? – Mikhail Mustygin, Vladimir Terekhov, Ivan Mozer] [Jul 22] Torpedo Taganrog             1-2  TORPEDO Moskva [V.Fisenko – Gennadiy Gusarov-2] [Jul 23] Spartak Nalchik              0-2  SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Vladimir Streshniy-2] [Jul 28] SKF Sevastopol               1-0  Spartak Vilnius [Skripka] [Jul 30] Dinamo Khmelnitskiy          0-2  SHAKHTYOR Stalino [Valentin Sapronov ?, Vitaliy Savelyev 68] [Aug 3] TRUDOVIYE REZERVY Kursk      3-1  Spartak Brest [Val.Batin-2, S.Rybkin – V.Statsyuk] [Aug 4] ISKRA Kazan                  2-0  Trud Voronezh [Anatoliy Kashurin, Leonid Dardymov] [Aug 9] SKA Khabarovsk               1-2  AVANGARD Kharkov [V.Myazin – Nikolai Korolyov, Yuriy Nesterov] [Aug 15] Amur Blagoveshchensk         0-6  PAHTAKOR Tashkent Lokomotiv Tbilisi            0-1  LOKOMOTIV Moskva [Viktor Voroshilov 25] METALLURG Stalinsk           1-0  Kayrat Alma-Ata               [aet] MVO Serpukhov                1-0  Baltika Kaliningrad Shakhtyor Shakhty            1-4  ADMIRALTEYETS Leningrad SHAKHTYOR Stalinogorsk       1-0  Khimik Severodonetsk Spartak Stanislav            0-1  ENERGIYA Volzhskiy [Suchilin] [Aug 19] Start Tashkent               0-0  Spartak Moskva [Aug 23] Stroitel Ufa                 0-2  ZENIT Leningrad [Stanislav Zavidonov 19, Lev Burchalkin 87]

First round replays
[Aug 20] Start Tashkent               0-2  SPARTAK Moskva [Galimzyan Husainov 15, Yuriy Sevidov 58]

Second round
[Aug 10] Energetik Stalinabad         1-2  SHAKHTYOR Stalinogorsk [Khlebnikov – Buda-2] Spartak Fergana              0-3  SHAKHTYOR Stalino [Yuriy Zakharov 38, 53, Valentin Sapronov ?] [Aug 14] Dinamo Moskva                0-0  Iskra Kazan KRYLYA SOVETOV Kuibyshev     1-0  Belarus Minsk [Anatoliy Kazakov] [Aug 20] Admiralteyets Leningrad      2-2  MVO Serpukhov [? – Silkin-2] Energiya Volzhskiy           1-5  LOKOMOTIV Moskva [Chirkov – Viktor Sokolov-3, Vyacheslav Spiridonov, Ivan Abramov] Spartak Yerevan              1-3  SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Georgiy Shaginyan – A.Volchenkov-2, Vladimir Andriyenko] [Aug 23] SPARTAK Moskva               4-0  SKF Sevastopol [Yuriy Sevidov-2, Galimzyan Husainov, Leonard Adamov] [Aug 26] TORPEDO Moskva               8-0  Trudoviye Rezervy Kursk [Valentin Ivanov-3, Gennadiy Gusarov-3, Valentin Denisov, Oleg Sergeyev] [Sep 9] Kolhospnik Cherkassy         0-1  ZENIT Leningrad [Vyacheslav Krotkov 18] METALLURG Stalinsk           3-0  Pahtakor Tashkent NEFTYANIK Baku               2-1  Kalev Tallinn [Robert Chanchaleishvili, Vyacheslav Semiglazov – Arvo Tamkirv] SPARTAK Leningrad            6-0  Torpedo Armavir TORPEDO Pavlovo              3-0  Raketa Gorkiy [Sep 11] DINAMO Kiev                  3-2  Avangard Kramatorsk           [aet] [Oleg Bazilevich 75, ?, Vasiliy Turyanchik 87 – Dotsenko 45, Drygala 83] [Sep 23] DINAMO Tbilisi               2-1  Avangard Kharkov [Tengiz Melashvili 73, Mikhail Meskhi 80 – Yuriy Nesterov 88]

Second round replays
[Aug 15] DINAMO Moskva                8-0  Iskra Kazan [Igor Chislenko 15, Valeriy Fadeyev 22, Viktor Anichkin 29, 63, Valeriy Korolenkov 52, 83, Kazhurin (I) 57 og, Arkadiy Nikolayev 87] [Aug 21] ADMIRALTEYETS Leningrad      3-2  MVO Serpukhov [Yuriy Varlamov-2, Sergei Sogomonyants – Feflov, Oreshnikov]

Third round
[Aug 20] SHAKHTYOR Stalinogorsk       2-0  Dinamo Moskva [Plekhanov 41, Lopukhin 67] [Aug 25] LOKOMOTIV Moskva             4-0  Metallurg Stalinsk [Ivan Abramov 5, Vyacheslav Simeoshin 23, Viktor Sokolov 51, 70] [Sep 12] TORPEDO Moskva               3-0  Spartak Leningrad [Valentin Ivanov-2, Slava Metreveli] [Sep 23] ADMIRALTEYETS Leningrad      2-1  Dinamo Kiev [Vladimir Vinogradov 25, Eduard Belkin 63 – Vladimir Levchenko 69] [Oct 3] ZENIT Leningrad              3-0  Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Vadim Khrapovitskiy 31, 49, Nikolai Ryazanov 33] [Oct 8] SHAKHTYOR Stalino            3-2  Dinamo Tbilisi [Yuriy Zakharov 33, 76, Yuriy Ananchenko 54 – Zaur Kaloyev 10, Mikhail Meskhi 53] SKA Rostov-na-Donu           2-2  Spartak Moskva [Gennadiy Matveyev 9, Vladimir Streshniy 88 – Leonard Adamov 47, Galimzyan Husainov 57 pen] Torpedo Pavlovo              0-0  Neftyanik Baku

Third round replays
[Oct 9] SKA Rostov-na-Donu           2-0  Spartak Moskva [Yuriy Mosalyov 17, 73] Torpedo Pavlovo              1-3  NEFTYANIK Baku [Belov – Adamas Golodets, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Kyamil Eynullayev]

Quarterfinals
[Oct 9] Lokomotiv Moskva             0-1  ADMIRALTEYETS Leningrad [Valentin Gusev 31] [Oct 14] SKA Rostov-na-Donu           2-3  TORPEDO Moskva [Viktor Ponedelnik 73, Gennadiy Matveyev 85 – Gennadiy Gusarov 12, Valentin Ivanov 32, Valentin Denisov 66] [Oct 17] ZENIT Leningrad              2-1  Neftyanik Baku                [aet] [Vasiliy Danilov, Nikolai Ryazanov (ot) – Yuriy Kuznetsov] [Oct 18] SHAKHTYOR Stalino            3-1 Shakhtyor Stalinogorsk [Yuriy Ananchenko 26, 90, Valentin Sapronov 69 – V.Plekhanov 80 pen]

Semifinals
[Oct 25, Moskva] SHAKHTYOR Stalino            3-0  Admiralteyets Leningrad [Oleg Kolosov 34, Yuriy Zakharov 68, 73] [Oct 26] TORPEDO Moskva               2-0  Zenit Leningrad [Valentin Ivanov 6, Slava Metreveli 63]