1978 Soviet Cup

The 1978 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Dinamo Kiev qualified for the continental tournament.

First round
[Mar 3, 7] Žalgiris Vilnius         0-0  0-1  TEREK Grozny [1. Att: 500 (in Sochi)] [2. Anzor Chikhladze. Att: 800 (in Adler)] [Mar 4, 8] SKA Rostov-na-Donu       1-0  0-0  Spartak Nalchik [1. Yuriy Bobkov 50. Att: 1,000 (in Sochi)] [2. Att: 1,000 (in Adler)] [Mar 4, 11] Dinamo Minsk             0-1  1-2  SPARTAK Orjonikidze [1. Gennadiy Kravchenko 49 pen. (in Sochi)] [2. Viktor Yanushevskiy 76 – Nugzar Chitauri 40, Igor Zazroyev 56. Att: 500 (in Sukhumi)] KRYLYA SOVETOV Kuibyshev 1-0  0-0  Yangiyer [1. Vladimir Kuznetsov. Att: 4,000 (in Samarkand)] [2. Att: 7,500] Kuban Krasnodar          0-1  0-1  SHINNIK Yaroslavl [1. Leonid Zyuzin. (in Adler)] [2. Yuriy Panteleyev (in Sochi)] Kuzbass Kemerovo         0-0  0-1  SKA Odessa [1. Att: 8,000 (in Sukhumi)] [2. Vladimir Maly 25. Att: 14,000] Metallurg Zaporozhye     0-1  0-0  KOLOS Nikopol [1. Viktor Bulba. Att: 7,000] [2. Att: 10,000] SHIRAK Leninakan         1-0  2-2  Kolhozchi Ashkhabad [1. Andranik Adamyan. Att: 15,000 (in Yerevan)] [2. Andranik Adamyan, Albert Akimyan – Anatoliy Bogdanov, Viktor Grachov. Att: 3,000] SKA Khabarovsk           0-0  0-2  NISTRU Kishinev [1. Att: 3,500 (in Drokia)] [2. Valeriy Pavlov, Gennadiy Ryutin (S) og. Att: 5,500] SPARTAK Ivano-Frankovsk  4-1  1-1  Alga Frunze [1. Nikolai Pristai, Yuriy Podpalyuk, Igor Dyriv, Yaroslav Kikot pen – Alexandr Kantsurov. Att: 9,000] [2. Vladimir Mukomelov – Alexandr Kantsurov. Att: 10,000 (in Osh)] Tavria Simferopol        1-1  1-2  SKA Kiev              [aet] [1. Yuriy Ajem 58 pen – Anatoliy Kudya 38. Att: 18,000] [2. Andrei Cheremisin 27 – Viktor Nastashevskiy 43, Yuriy Smirnov 102. Att: 3,000 (in Uzhgorod)] Torpedo Kutaisi          2-0  0-2  URALMASH Sverdlovsk   [pen 3-5] [1. Revaz Burkadze-2. Att: 15,000] [2. Nikolai Aboburko, Vladimir Kalashnikov. Att: 500 (in Fergana)] [Mar 4, 14] Daugava Riga             1-3  1-1  PAMIR Dushanbe [1. Yuriy Sidorenko – Valeriy Tursunov, Edgar Gess, Alexandr Tarbayev. Att: 2,500 (in Sevastopol)] [2. Mikhail Smorodin – Valeriy Tursunov. Att: 6,000] [Mar 5, 11] Spartak Semipalatinsk    0-0  1-2  SPARTAK Ryazan [1. Att: 50 (in Tashkent Region)] [2. Andrei Pinchukov – Anatoliy Andreyev, Alexandr Korobkov. Att: 100 (in Tashkent Region)] [Mar 5, 12] FAKEL Voronezh           0-0  1-1  Iskra Smolensk [1. Att: 1,500 (in Sochi)] [2. Viktor Proskurin 85 – Vyacheslav Murashkintsev 37. Att: 3,000 (in Sevastopol)] [Mar 10, 14] Dinamo Leningrad         0-1  0-3  KARPATY Lvov [1. Vladimir Danilyuk. Att: 2,000] [2. Fyodor Chorba, Stepan Yurchishin, Vladimir Danilyuk. Att: 15,000]

Second round
[Mar 16, Apr 1] TORPEDO Moskva           0-0  1-0  UralMash Sverdlovsk [1. (in Adler)] [2. Vladimir Yurin 72. Att: 7,000 (in Fergana)] [Mar 18, 24] ARARAT Yerevan           5-0  0-1  Spartak Orjonikidze [1. Robert Khalaijan 5, 41, Armen Azaryan 6, Andranik Khachatryan 55, Edik Arutyunyan 69] [2. Givi Kerashvili 65. Att: 18,000] KAYRAT Alma-Ata          0-0  1-1  Fakel Voronezh [1. Att: 15,000 (in Chimkent)] [2. Alexandr A.Vasin 80 – Anatoliy Ionkin 26. Att: 1,000 (in Sochi)] Kolos Nikopol            1-1  1-2  DINAMO Tbilisi [1. Pyotr Naida 36 pen – David Kipiani 32. Att: 20,000] [2. Valentin Prilepskiy 47 – Alexandr Chivadze 64, 86] Krylya Sovetov Kuibyshev 1-2  0-2  SHAKHTYOR Donetsk [1. Nikolai Pavlov 36 – Nikolai Latysh 70 pen, Vitaliy Starukhin 76. (in Sochi)] [2. Vladimir Rogovskiy 14, Nikolai Latysh 49. Att: 15,000] LOKOMOTIV Moskva         3-0  1-0  Terek Grozny [1. Valeriy Petrakov 36, Grigoriy Sapozhnikov 72, Vladimir Shevchuk 74. (in Sochi)] [2. Valeriy Gazzayev 73] NEFTCHI Baku             1-0  1-0  Shinnik Yaroslavl [1. Anatoliy Banishevskiy 73] [2. Asif Aliyev 24. (in Adler)] ZARYA Voroshilovgrad     0-0  2-0  Shirak Leninakan [2. Alexandr Polukarov 8, Yuriy Rabochiy 67. Att: 13,000] ZENIT Leningrad          1-1  1-0  Karpaty Lvov [1. Vladimir Klementyev 16 – Grigoriy Batich 69. Att: 2,000] [2. Andrei Redkous 57. Att: 32,000] [Mar 18, 25] CHERNOMORETS Odessa      2-0  0-2  SKA Rostov-na-Donu    [pen 4-3] [1. Teimuraz Esebua 5, Vyacheslav Leshchuk 75] [2. Valeriy Berezin 3, Vladimir Goncharov 44. Att: 8,000] Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk     1-1  1-2  SKA Odessa [1. Nikolai Samoilenko 87 – Vladimir Maly 49] [2. Vladimir Troshkin 80 – Igor Ivanenko 8, Leonid Maly 64 pen. Att: 18,000] Nistru Kishinev          0-1  0-2  SPARTAK Moskva [1. Valeriy Gladilin 48. Att: 20,000] [2. Vadim Pavlenko 28, Yuriy Gavrilov 29. Att: 3,000 (in Sochi)] [Mar 18, 26] CSKA Moskva              1-1  2-0  Spartak Ivano-Frankovsk [1. Leonid Nikolayenko 54 – Igor Dyriv 58. (in Sukhumi)] [2. Alexandr Pogorelov 11, Alexandr Kolpovskiy 72. Att: 11,000] [Mar 18, Apr 3] Pamir Dushanbe           0-2  0-0  DINAMO Moskva [1. Andrei Yakubik 39, Alexandr Maksimenkov 68. Att: 15,000] [2. Att: 15,000 (in Sochi)] [Mar 19, 24] Spartak Ryazan           0-3  1-3  DINAMO Kiev [1. Oleg Blokhin 24, Vladimir Onishchenko 49, Leonid Buryak 57. Att: 2,500 (in Sochi)] [2. Anatoliy Andreyev 30 – Alexandr Hapsalis 10, Yuriy Tsymbalyuk 34, Alexandr Boiko 89. Att: 5,000 (in Simferopol)] [Mar 27, 30] PAHTAKOR Tashkent        2-0  3-2  SKA Kiev      [both legs in Tashkent] [1. Vladimir Fyodorov 27, Konstantin Bakanov 83. Att: 22,000] [2. Viktor Churkin 22, Konstantin Bakanov 42, Vladimir Makarov 89 pen – Mikhail Palamarchuk 7, Vladimir Nastashevskiy 71. Att: 14,000]

Third round
[Apr 1, 16] Chernomorets Odessa      2-1  0-4  DINAMO Kiev [1. Teimuraz Esebua 20, Vladimir Ploskina 65 – Viktor Kolotov 75. Att: 15,000] [2. Leonid Buryak 4, 68 pen, Oleg Blokhin 42, Mikhail Fomenko 90. Att: 30,000] Kayrat Alma-Ata          1-1  0-0  ZENIT Leningrad [1. Vladimir Nikitenko 71 – Anatoliy Davydov 33. Att: 19,000] [2. Att: 2,000] NEFTCHI Baku             4-0  0-3  SKA Odessa [1. Anatoliy Banishevskiy 70, 73, Nikolai Smolnikov 89, Elbrus Abbasov 90. Att: 15,000] [2. Leonid Maly 35, Vladimir Maly 43, 57. Att: 14,000] SHAKHTYOR Donetsk        3-0  2-0  Ararat Yerevan [1. Vitaliy Starukhin 8, Valeriy Yaremchenko 39, Vladimir Safonov 80. Att: 40,000] [2. Mikhail Sokolovskiy 72, Yuriy Reznik 77. Att: 6,000] Spartak Moskva           0-0  0-1  LOKOMOTIV Moskva [1. Att: 3,500 (in Sochi)] [2. Valeriy Gazzayev 64. Att: 28,000] [Apr 2, 16] DINAMO Tbilisi           1-0  1-0  Pahtakor Tashkent [1. Revaz Chelebadze 62. Att: 50,000] [2. Ramaz Shengelia 24. Att: 20,000] [Apr 16, 19] DINAMO Moskva            2-1  1-1  CSKA Moskva    [both legs in Podolsk] [1. Alexandr Makhovikov 2, Zurab Tsereteli 7 – Yuriy Chesnokov 62. Att: 18,000] [2. Mikhail Gershkovich 7 – Yuriy Chesnokov 12 pen. Att: 20,000] [Apr 16, May 12] Zarya Voroshilovgrad     0-0  1-3  TORPEDO Moskva [1. Att: 13,000] [2. Anatoliy Olenev 51 – Yevgeniy Khrabrostin 17, Yuriy Vanyushkin 43 pen, Sergei Petrenko 57. Att: 6,000]

Quarterfinals
[Jun 6, 21] LOKOMOTIV Moskva       1-0  2-2  Dinamo Tbilisi [1. Valeriy Gazzayev 45. Att: 7,000] [2. Vladimir Shevchuk 74, Valeriy Gazzayev 84 – Vladimir Gutsayev 5, Vakhtang Koridze 72. Att: 25,000] [Jun 7, 21] DINAMO Kiev            3-2  0-0  Zenit Leningrad [1. Alexandr Berezhnoi 10, Leonid Buryak 31, Vladimir Onishchenko 52 – Yuriy Timofeyev 67, 73. Att: 15,000] [2. Att: 20,000] Dinamo Moskva          2-1  0-1  TORPEDO Moskva [1. Oleg Dolmatov 7, Nikolai Kolesov 63 – Sergei Grishin 71. Att: 15,000] [2. Yevgeniy Khrabrostin 27. Att: 10,000] SHAKHTYOR Donetsk      1-1  2-0  Neftchi Baku [1. Vitaliy Starukhin 26 – Asif Aliyev 19. Att: 25,000] [2. Vladimir Pyanykh 9, Yuriy Reznik 90. Att: 5,500]

Semifinals
[Jul 4, 18] Lokomotiv Moskva       0-2  0-1  SHAKHTYOR Donetsk [1. Mikhail Sokolovskiy 74, Nikolai Latysh 75. Att: 7,000] [2. Yuriy Dudinskiy 10. Att: 39,000] [Jul 5, 19] Torpedo Moskva         1-2  1-2  DINAMO Kiev [1. Yevgeniy Khrabrostin 31 – Vladimir Bessonov 9, 52. Att: 22,000] [2. Nikolai Vasilyev 4 – Alexandr Berezhnoi 15, Vladimir Onishchenko 66. Att: 10,000]