2023–24 Russian Cup

The 2023–24 Russian Cup is the 32nd season of the Russian football knockout tournament since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The competition started on 25 July 2023 and will conclude on 2 June 2024.

The winner of the cup would normally gain entry into the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League; however, on 28 February 2022, Russian football clubs were suspended from FIFA & UEFA international competitions until further notice due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Representation of clubs by league

 * Russian Premier League (1): 16 clubs
 * Russian First League (2): 18 clubs
 * Division A of Russian Second League (3): 18 clubs (without 2 farm teams)
 * Division B of Russian Second League (4): 42 clubs (without 16 farm teams and 2 Crimean teams)
 * Amateur leagues:
 * Third division (5): 8 clubs
 * Fourth division (regional leagues) (6): 2 clubs
 * Media amateur clubs (7): 3 clubs
 * Total: 107 clubs.

Distribution
The teams of Premier League and the other teams will qualify to knockout phase in two different paths. Premier league teams will play in the RPL path group stage with a double round-robin tournament, divided into 4 groups with 4 teams in each group, while the other teams will play in the regions path qualification, starting with 1/256 round until 1/8 round with 1 match in each stage.

Round dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows:

Qualifying round (regions path)
The draw for qualifying stage rounds 1 and 2 was held on 17 July 2023.

Round 1
Date of matches was determined on 21 July 2023.

Entered clubs: Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
 * 13 clubs from Amateur leagues
 * 21 lowest clubs from Russian Second League Division B

Round 2
Entered clubs:
 * 17 winners of Round 1
 * 21 highest clubs from Russian Second League Division B, including FC Irkutsk
 * 18 clubs from Russian Second League Division A

Date of matches was determined on 15 August 2023.

Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Round 3
The draw for round 3 defining home and away team was held on 25 August 2023.

Entered clubs:
 * 28 winners of Round 2

Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Round 4
The draw was held on 15 September 2023 at 12:00 MSK. Entered clubs:
 * 14 winners of Round 3
 * 18 clubs from Russian First League

On 12 September draw procedure was released, that consisted of 2 phases. On the first phase 2 random balls with First League team from pot 2 was relocated to pot 1, then on the second phase usual draw procedure started. The teams from pot 1 played their matches in round 4 at home.

The team from pot 2 that was replocated to pot 1 is written in italics. The team was unknown until it will be drawn from pot 1.

Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Round 5
The draw was held on 29 September 2023 at 13:00 MSK. Entered clubs:
 * 16 winners of Round 4

Round 6
The draw was held on 20 October 2023 at 12:00 MSK. Entered clubs:
 * 8 winners of Round 5

Group stage (RPL path)
The draw for group stage was held on 24 June 2023 live on TV-channel «Match TV».

16 teams of the Russian Premier League (RPL) will start the tournament from the group stage (4 teams in each group). The teams will play 6 matches in the group stage:
 * 1st day — 25–27 July;
 * 2nd day — 8–10 August;
 * 3rd day — 29–30 August;
 * 4th day — 19–21 September;
 * 5th day — 3–5 October;
 * 6th day — 31 October – 2 November.

Composition of the pots is based on results of the 2022–23 Russian Premier League and 2022–23 Russian First League. In the same group there can't be more than 2 teams from Moscow, also FC Krasnodar, FC Rostov and Fakel Voronezh can't be in the same group due to logistics restrictions in this cities.

Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, as in the qualification, the teams will be divided into 2 paths (brackets).

The teams in RPL path (upper bracket) will play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis. The teams that will lose after 2 legs in RPL path, except for the path final, will have the second chance in the regions path.

The teams in the regions path (lower bracket) will play against each other in 1 match. Each round, except the path final, consists of 2 phases. In the quarter-finals first phase teams from the regions path qualification will play against the third placed team of RPL path group stage, then on the second stage they will play against RPL path quarter-finals loser. In the semi-finals first phase the teams play with winners of the previous round of the regions path, the second phase is the same as in quarter-finals.

Unlike the previous season, the team that loses in the final of the upper bracket is eliminated from the tournament and will not play in the final of the lower bracket, so the final of Regions path consists of only 1 stage.

The winners of both paths will play in super final.

Quarter-finals
The draw was held on 3 November 2023 at 12:00 MSK live on TV-channel «Match TV».

In the quarter-final matches of RPL path teams from same group can't play with each other. Runners-up of group stage will play first matches at home. Winners of regions path round 6 will play stage 1 matches of regions path at home as well.

Times are MSK (UTC+3), as listed by RFU (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Semi-finals
The RPL path semi-final draw was held on 15 March 2024 live on Match TV TV-channel.

Regions path
The region path stage 1 draw was held on 4 April 2024.

The region path stage 2 draw and the draw to determine the host in the RPL final was held on 17 April 2024.

Regions path
The host was determined by a draw on 2 May 2024.