Country Ukraine Dates 22 Jul 2015 – 21 May 2016 Goals scored 129 | Teams 45 Matches played 45 | |
Similar 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier L, 2015–16 Maltese Premier L, 2015–16 Slovenian PrvaLiga, 2014–15 Ukrainian Premier L |
The 2015–16 Ukrainian Cup ias the 25th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition. The decision on a schedule of competitions for clubs from the First and Second League in the composition was confirmed on 3 July 2015 at a session of Central Council of the Professional Football League of Ukraine
Contents
Format
Starting with Round of 32 teams were divided equally on seeded and unseeded in relation to the current rating of teams before the start of each stage. Seeded teams are teams that are located in the upper half of the rating, unseeded–in the lower.
Round of 16, quarterfinals and semifinals consist of two legs.
Starting with the Round of 16 and to semifinals, the host teams in the first leg is unseeded team, while in the second leg–seeded.
Preliminary round (1/32)
In this round entered 10 clubs from the First League, 14 clubs from the Second League and two representatives from the 2014 Ukrainian Amateur Cup. The round matches were played on 22 July 2015.
Round of 32
In this round all 14 teams from the 2014–15 Ukrainian Premier League, 5 highest ranking clubs from 2014–15 Ukrainian First League and 13 winners from the Preliminary round enter this stage of the competition which also includes 8 teams from the 2014–15 Ukrainian First League, 4 teams from the 2014–15 Ukrainian Second League and last season's Ukrainian Amateur Cup quarter-finalist. The draw for this round was held on 29 July 2015 at the House of Football in Kiev.
Round of 16
Ten teams from the Ukrainian Premier League and six teams from the Ukrainian First League qualified for the round. The draw for this round was held on 28 August 2015 at the House of Football in Kiev. The round matches were played on 23 September and 27, 28 October 2015.
First Leg
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Second Leg
The dates for the second leg matches were announced on October 13.
Shakhtar won 9–0 on aggregate.
Zorya won 5–1 on aggregate.
Dynamo won 7–0 on aggregate.
Vorskla won 1–0 on aggregate.
Stal won 3–2 on aggregate.
Volyn won 7–0 on aggregate.
FC Oleksandriya won 3–1 on aggregate.
Dnipro won 5–2 on aggregate.
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Quarter finals
Eight teams from the Ukrainian Premier League qualified for the round. The draw for this round was held on 30 October 2015 at the Premier-Liha office. Originally the First Leg matches were scheduled for 3 December but the Premier League rescheduled the matches to be played in the spring (2016).
Second Leg
The dates for the second leg matches were announced on March 18.
Shakhtar won 5–2 on aggregate.
Zorya won 6–1 on aggregate.
Oleksandriya won 2–1 on aggregate.
Dnipro won 7–1 on aggregate.
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Semi finals
All four teams that qualified for the round are from the Ukrainian Premier League. The draw for this round was held on 8 April 2016 at the House of Football. During the draw there was identified a host for the final whom will be the winner of Dnipro-Zorya pair.
Second Leg
Zorya won 2–1 on aggregate.
Shakhtar won 3–1 on aggregate.
Top goalscorers
The competition's top ten goalscorers including qualification rounds.
As of 11 May 2016