1973 Soviet Cup

The 1973 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Ararat Yerevan qualified for the continental tournament.

Participating teams
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Preliminary round
[Mar 4, 10] Kuzbass Kemerovo          0-0  1-2  METALLIST Kharkov Metallurg Lipetsk         1-1  0-2  SPARTAK Nalchik METALLURG Zaporozhye      3-0  1-0  Stroitel Ashkhabad TEXTILSHCHIK Ivanovo      3-2  1-0  Spartak Ivano-Frankovsk

First round
[Mar 14, Apr 1] SPARTAK Moskva            0-0  2-1  Nistru Kishinev [1. Att: 2,000 (in Sochi)] [2. Alexandr Piskaryov 17, 39 - Valeriy Zhuravlyov 80. Att: 18,000] [Mar 15, Apr 1] DINAMO Minsk              1-0  0-0  Zvezda Perm [1. Anatoliy Vasilyev 43. Att: 3,000 (in Pyatigorsk)] [2. Att: 2,000 (in Sochi)] DINAMO Tbilisi            2-0  0-0  Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [1. Givi Nodia 30, Kakhi Asatiani 85 pen. Att: 25,000] [2. Att: 16,000 (in Stavropol)] DNEPR Dnepropetrovsk      1-1  1-0  Lokomotiv Moskva [1. Yuriy Solovyov 65 – Anatoliy Piskunov 40. Att: 20,000] [2. Alexei Khristyan 76. Att: 2,000 (in Hosta)] Metallist Kharkov         0-3  0-3  DINAMO Kiev [1. Viktor Kolotov 60, Oleg Blokhin 67, Anatoliy Puzach 71. Att: 10,000 (in Sevastopol)] [2. Anatoliy Puzach 4, Vladimir Muntyan 77, Oleg Blokhin 84. Att: 20,000] Shinnik Yaroslavl         0-0  0-2  DINAMO Moskva              [aet] [1. Att: 1,000 (in Adler)] [2. Gennadiy Yevryuzhikhin 91 pen, Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 108. Att: 10,000 (in Samarkand)] Textilshchik Ivanovo      0-0  0-1  PAHTAKOR Tashkent [1. (in Sochi)] [2. Vassilis Hatzipanagis 85] Torpedo Moskva            1-1  0-0  SHAKHTYOR Karaganda [1. Yuriy Smirnov 35 – Anatoliy Novikov 50. Att: 3,000 (in Sochi)] [2. Att: 10,000 (in Leninabad)] [Mar 16, Apr 1] ARARAT Yerevan            1-0  1-0  Alga Frunze CHERNOMORETS Odessa       2-0  2-2  SKA Rostov-na-Donu [1. Grigoriy Sapozhnikov 74, Vladimir Nechayev 85 pen. Att: 25,000] [2. Leonid Baranovskiy 70, Anatoliy Shepel 71 – Alexei Yeskov 45 pen, 89. Att: 30,000] Karpaty Lvov              1-1  0-0  NEFTCHI Baku [1. Lev Brovarskiy 7 - ?] Pamir Dushanbe            0-2  1-1  KAYRAT Alma-Ata [1. Vladimir Chebotaryov 7, Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 44] [2. Shuhrat Azamov ? – Yevgeniy Piunovskiy 13] Torpedo Kutaisi           0-3  1-2  CSKA Moskva [1. Vladimir Fedotov 24, 41, Boris Kopeikin 80] [2. Merab Chakhunashvili 4 – Vladimir Dorofeyev 75, 79 (in Simferopol)] ZENIT Leningrad           1-1  2-0  Spartak Nalchik [1. Georgiy Khromchenkov 61 – Nugzar Chitauri 86. Att: 3,000 (in Sochi)] [2. Yuriy Zagumennykh 50, Georgiy Vyun 81. Att: 18,000] [Mar 17, Apr 1] ZARYA Voroshilovgrad      2-1  1-0  Spartak Orjonikidze [1. Yuriy Vasenin 5, Alexandr Zhuravlyov 56 - Nodar Papelishvili 8. Att: 300 (in Sochi)] [2. Vladimir Belousov 20. Att: 10,000] [Mar 31, Apr 3] SHAKHTYOR Donetsk         2-0  2-3  Metallurg Zaporozhye [1. Vitaliy Starukhin 3, 26] [2. Vitaliy Starukhin, Alexandr Vasin - ?]

Second round
[May 31, Jun 22] Shakhtyor Karaganda       0-2  1-3  CHERNOMORETS Odessa [1. Anatoliy Shepel 25, Viktor Tomashevskiy 33] [2. Nikolai Bushuyev 81 - Vladimir Nechayev 37 pen, Valeriy Kuzmin 77, Vitaliy Feidman 79] [Jun 5, 27] Dinamo Minsk              2-0  0-3  DNEPR Dnepropetrovsk  [aet] [1. Nikolai Litvinov 13, Vladimir Sakharov 36. Att: 15,000] [2. Viktor Romanyuk 17 pen, Valeriy Porkuyan 73, Yuriy Solovyov 119. Att: 20,000] Kayrat Alma-Ata           1-1  1-2  DINAMO Kiev [1. Vladislav Markin 73 – Anatoliy Puzach 8. Att: 10,000] [2. Valeriy Yerkovich 69 – Vladimir Muntyan 21 pen, Viktor Kolotov 63] Neftchi Baku              0-1  1-3  ARARAT Yerevan SPARTAK Moskva            2-1  1-1  Dinamo Tbilisi [1. Yevgeniy Lovchev 11, Alexandr Piskaryov 67 – Zurab Tsereteli 87. Att: 15,000] [2. Nikolai Kiselyov 72 – Vissarion Mchedlishvili 16. Att: 21,000] ZARYA Voroshilovgrad      2-0  0-1  Shakhtyor Donetsk [1. Vladimir Onishchenko 7, Viktor Kuznetsov 23. Att: 25,000] [2. Yuriy Gubich 12. Att: 20,000] Zenit Leningrad           1-1  1-1  DINAMO Moskva         [pen 3-5] [1. Anatoliy Zinchenko 57 – Vladimir Kozlov 27. Att: 20,000] [2. Pavel Sadyrin 13 – Mikhail Gershkovich 3. Att: 25,000] [Jun 6, 27] CSKA Moskva               3-1  1-1  Pahtakor Tashkent [1. Vladimir Dorofeyev 30, Wilhelm Tellinger 58 pen, Vladimir Fedotov 87 – Berador Abduraimov 71] [2. Vladimir Dorofeyev 22 – Yuriy Belov 55]

Quarterfinals
[Jul 11, 25] ARARAT Yerevan            2-0  0-1  Zarya Voroshilovgrad [1. Levon Ishtoyan ?, Eduard Markarov 33. Att: 41,300] [2. Nikolai Pinchuk 87. Att: 25,000] CSKA Moskva               0-2  0-3  DINAMO Kiev [1. Viktor Kolotov 67, Vladimir Veremeyev 88. Att: 25,000] [2. Vyacheslav Semyonov 7, Viktor Kolotov 44, Oleg Blokhin 49. Att: 30,000] DNEPR Dnepropetrovsk      0-0  2-1  Spartak Moskva [1. Att: 25,000] [2. Anatoliy Grinko 48, Valeriy Porkuyan 74 - Alexandr Kokorev 80. Att: 23,000] [Jul 12, 25] DINAMO Moskva             3-0  3-2  Chernomorets Odessa [1. Yuriy Pudyshev 19, 62, Vladimir Kozlov 61. Att: 31,000] [2. Anatoliy Kozhemyakin 9, 30, 85 – Anatoliy Shepel 39 pen, Igor Ivanenko 55. Att: 15,000]

Semifinals
[Aug 1, 15] Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk      0-1  0-1  ARARAT Yerevan [1. Eduard Markarov] [2. Eduard Markarov] [Aug 16, Sep 12] DINAMO Kiev               1-1  1-1  Dinamo Moskva         [pen 6-5] [1. Viktor Kolotov 66 pen – Gennadiy Yevryuzhikhin 14. Att: 40,000] [2. Oleg Blokhin 3 – Vladimir Kozlov 39. Att: 35,000]