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The USSR Super Cup, also known as the Season's Cup, was an unofficial exhibition game (or game series) not sanctioned by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union and that featured the winners of the previous season's Soviet Top League and USSR Cup in a one- or two-legged playoff for the trophy.

History

The mini-tournament was conducted on the initiative of the Komsomolskaya Pravda editor's administration out of Moscow. The tournament was unofficial and never was part of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. It was played seven times in the last 15 years of Soviet football. It was not until 1983 that the Super Cup was played every year. The Super Cup was made to take place during midseason and further complicated clubs' schedules.

In 1987, with Spartak Moscow winning league honors and Dynamo Kyiv winning the USSR Cup, the Super Cup match was scheduled to take place in Chişinău, Moldova. However, the match never took place because of inadequate facilities in Chişinău. The last USSR Super Cup took place in Sochi, Russia, where the match was played in front of 1,500 fans.

Finals by year

1977 Season's Cup

Dinamo Moscow	1 – 0	Dynamo Kyiv
Minayev 54'	Report

1981 Season's Cup

Dynamo Kyiv	1 – 1 5 – 4 (pen.) (a.e.t.)	Shakhter Donetsk
Boiko 41' Penalties: Yurchishin Blokhin Bessonov Baltacha Konkov	Report	Kravchenko 52' Penalties: Sokolovsky Bondarenko Gorbunov Kravchenko Starukhin

1984 Season's Cup, consisted out of two games

Shakhter Donetsk	2 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Vyshnevsky 54' (o.g.) Morozov 54'	Report	Litovchenko 40'

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1 – 1	Shakhter Donetsk
Fedorenko 70' Litovchenko	Report	Sokolovsky 89' Pokidin

Shakhtar won the Cup play-off 3-2

1985 Season's Cup, consisted out of two games

Zenit Leningrad	2 – 1	Dinamo Moscow
Pozdnyakov 33' (o.g.) Gerasimov 71'	Report	Ataulin 5'

Dinamo Moscow	0 – 1	Zenit Leningrad
	Report	Melnikov 20'

Zenit won the Cup play-off 3-1

1986 USSR Super Cup

Dynamo Kyiv	2 – 2 (a.e.t.)	Shakhter Donetsk
Shcherbakov 73' Yevtushenko 118'	Report	Sokolovsky 54' Kravchenko 117'
Penalties
Demyanenko Baltacha Yevtushenko Yakovenko	3–1	Morozov Varnavsky Kravchenko Grachev

1987 USSR Super Cup

Torpedo Moscow	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Dynamo Kyiv
Shirinbekov 47'	Report	Belanov 81'
Penalties
Kharine Polukarov Kobzev Shirinbekov Agashkov	4–5	Belanov Demyanenko Baltacha Blokhin Bessonov

1988 USSR Super Cup

1989 USSR Super Cup

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	3 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Metallist Kharkov
Shakhov 64' (pen.) Son 97' Lyuty 103'	Report	Adzhoyev 62'

Winners by year

Year	Location	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1977	Tbilisi,  Georgia	Dynamo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)	1 – 0	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)
1981	Simferopol,  Ukraine	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	1 – 1 (aet) 5 – 4 (penalties)	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as cup winner)
1984	Leg 1: Donetsk,  Ukraine Leg 2: Dnipropetrovsk,  Ukraine	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as cup winner)	Leg 1: 2 – 1 Leg 2: 1 – 1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (qualified as league winner)
1985	Leg 1: Leningrad,  Russia Leg 2: Moscow,  Russia	Zenit Leningrad (qualified as league winner)	Leg 1: 2 – 1 Leg 2: 1 – 0	Dynamo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)
1986	Kiev,  Ukraine	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	2 – 2 (aet) 3 – 1 (penalties)	Shakhtar Donetsk (qualified as losing cup finalist)
1987	Moscow,  Russia	Dynamo Kyiv (qualified as league winner)	1 – 1 (aet) 5 – 4 (penalties)	Torpedo Moscow (qualified as cup winner)
1988	Chișinău,  Moldavia		ppd
1989	Sochi,  Russia	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (qualified as league winner)	3 – 1 (aet)	Metalist Kharkiv (qualified as cup winner)

Performance by club

Performance by republic

Republic	Winners	Runners-up	Winning clubs
Ukrainian SSR	5	5	Dynamo Kyiv (3), Shakhtar Donetsk (1), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (1)
Russian SFSR	2	2	Dynamo Moscow (1), Zenit Leningrad (1)
Total	7	7

See also

National super cups of former Soviet republics:

• Armenian Supercup
• Azerbaijan Supercup
• Belarusian Super Cup
• Estonian Supercup
• Georgian Super Cup
• Kazakhstan Super Cup
• Latvian Supercup
• Lithuanian Supercup
• Moldovan Super Cup
• Russian Super Cup
• Ukrainian Super Cup
• Super Cup of Champions

References

• USSR (Soviet Union) - List of Super Cup Finals, rsssf.com. Accessed on June 9, 2006.
• Well Forgotten Past, nevskoevremya.spb.ru. Accessed on June 9, 2006.

Notes

1. Russian: Суперкубок СССР, romanized: Superkubok SSSR, Azerbaijani: Futbol üzrə SSRİ Superkuboku, Georgian: საბჭოთა კავშირის სუპერთასი, Lithuanian: TSRS Futbolo Supertaurė, Romanian: Supercupa URSS, Ukrainian: Суперкубок СРСР, romanized: Superkubok SRSR
2. Russian: Кубок сезона, romanized: Kubok sezona, Ukrainian: Кубок сезону, romanized: Kubok sezonu

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