1975 Soviet Cup

The 1975 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Ararat Yerevan qualified for the continental tournament.

Preliminary round
[Mar 16] ALGA Frunze               2-1  Kuban Krasnodar [Almaz Chokmorov 6, Vladimir Melnichenko ? - Alexandr Chugunov 16. Att: 10,000] Kuzbass Kemerovo          0-1  ZVEZDA Perm [Vladimir Murin. Att: 200 (in Eshera)] METALLURG Zaporozhye      2-1  Spartak Ivano-Frankovsk    [aet] [Viktor Kolodin 85, Alexandr Smirnov 94 - Vladimir Mukomelov 42] NEFTCHI Baku              1-0  Torpedo Kutaisi PAMIR Dushanbe            2-0  Spartak Nalchik [Alexandr Pogorelov ?, Shuhrat Azamov 42. Att: 11,000] Spartak Orjonikidze       1-2  METALLIST Kharkov [Georgiy Kaishauri – Oleg Kramarenko, Sergei Malko. Att: 4,000 (in Sukhumi)] TAVRIA Simferopol         3-0  Rubin Kazan [Nikolai Klimov 15, 21, Andrei Cheremisin 41. Att: 10,000] UralMash Sverdlovsk       1-2  SHINNIK Yaroslavl [Alexandr Zhuravlyov 18 pen – Alexandr Smirnov 36 pen, Valeriy Sheludko 40. Att: 1,000 (in Adler)]

First round
[Mar 22] Shakhtyor Donetsk         0-1  ZVEZDA Perm [Anatoliy Malyarov 86. Att: 500 (in Sochi)] [Mar 23] ARARAT Yerevan            4-1  Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev [Nikolai Kazaryan 55, 75, Arkadiy Andriasyan 71, 77 - Alexandr Kupriyanov 49. Att: 28,000] Chernomorets Odessa       1-2  SHINNIK Yaroslavl [Nikolai Mikhailov 15 – Yuriy Panteleyev 11, Dmitriy Dimitriadi 25. Att: 500 (in Adler)] CSKA Moskva               3-2  Tavria Simferopol [Vladimir Dorofeyev 23, 37, Boris Kopeikin 62 – Nikolai Klimov 55, Ivan Avdeyev 80. Att: 4,000 (in Sochi)] DINAMO Moskva             w/o  Alga Frunze DINAMO Tbilisi            2-1  Metallurg Zaporozhye [Manuchar Machaidze 53, 54 - Nikolai Penzin 13. Att: 15,000] Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk      1-2  PAMIR Dushanbe [Anatoliy Rodionov (P) 83 og – Vladimir Gulyamhaydarov 44, Viktor Maslov (D) 82 og] KARPATY Lvov              4-0  Neftchi Baku [Gennadiy Likhachov 22, 82, Yaroslav Kikot 28, 79. Att: 10,000] KAYRAT Alma-Ata           3-0  Torpedo Moskva [Boris Yevdokimov 11, 69, Anatoliy Ionkin 57. Att: 20,000 (in Chimkent)] Metallist Kharkov         1-4  PAHTAKOR Tashkent [Iosif Bordash 30 pen – Vassilis Hatzipanagis 14, Vladimir Fyodorov 53, Mikhail An 67 pen, Yevgeniy Zhukov 87. Att: 15,000] Nistru Kishinev           0-1  LOKOMOTIV Moskva           [aet] [Vladimir Malinin 118. Att: 20,000] ZARYA Voroshilovgrad      1-0  SKA Rostov-na-Donu [Viktor Kuznetsov 28] ZENIT Leningrad           1-0  Dinamo Minsk [Anatoliy Zinchenko 4. Att: 7,000 (in Sukhumi)]

Second round
[Apr 5] Zvezda Perm               0-0  KAYRAT Alma-Ata       [pen 2-4] [Att: 1,000 (in Sochi)] [Apr 6] ARARAT Yerevan            1-0  Karpaty Lvov          [aet] [Levon Ishtoyan 118 pen. Att: 25,000] LOKOMOTIV Moskva          2-1  Dinamo Moskva         [aet] [Vladimir Utkin 76, Sergei Kamzulin 103 – Anatoliy Shepel 67. Att: 30,000] PAHTAKOR Tashkent         1-1  Spartak Moskva        [pen 5-4] [Yuriy Belov 51 – Alexandr Piskaryov 37. Att: 25,000] Pamir Dushanbe            0-0  ZARYA Voroshilovgrad  [pen 2-3] [Att: 20,000] Shinnik Yaroslavl         0-1  CSKA Moskva [Boris Kopeikin 61. Att: 1,000 (in Adler)] Zenit Leningrad           0-0  DINAMO Tbilisi        [pen 2-4] [Att: 12,000 (in Sochi)]

Quarterfinals
[Jul 2] DINAMO Tbilisi         2-1  Dinamo Kiev           [aet] [Vakhtang Koridze 94, David Kipiani 110 – Viktor Kolotov 109. Att: 35,000] Lokomotiv Moskva       1-1  ARARAT Yerevan        [pen 3-5] [Viktor Davydov 50 – Arkadiy Andriasyan 57 pen. Att: 22,000] Pahtakor Tashkent      0-0  ZARYA Voroshilovgrad  [pen 2-4] [Att: 30,000] [Jul 3] CSKA Moskva            3-0  Kayrat Alma-Ata [Boris Kopeikin 5, 71, Sergei Shlapak 54. Att: 15,000]

Semifinals
[Jul 16] ARARAT Yerevan         3-1  Dinamo Tbilisi [Eduard Markarov 47, Sergei Pogosov 58, Nazar Petrosyan 64 – Vakhtang Koridze 78. Att: 68,600] ZARYA Voroshilovgrad   2-1  CSKA Moskva              [aet] [Anatoliy Kuksov 26, Vladimir Belousov 110 – Nikolai Hudiyev 69. Att: 30,000]