The 1937 Soviet Cup final was a football match that took place at the Dynamo Stadium, Moscow on July 16, 1937. The match was the second Soviet Cup final and it was contested by Dynamo Moscow and last year finalist Dinamo Tbilisi.
Road to Final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away). Dynamo MoscowRoundDinamo TbilisiOpponentResult1937 Soviet CupOpponentResultDynamo Minsk1–4 (A)Round 1Zenit Taganrog1–9 (A)Krasnoye Znamya Yegoryevsk0–3 (A)Round 2Spartak Yerevan4–1 (H)Torpedo Gorkiy5–2 (H)Round 3Neftyanik Baku3–0 (H)GOLIFK Leningrad3–2 (H)Round 4Lokomotiv Tbilisi4–0 (H)Dinamo Kazan5–1 (H)Quarter-finalsDynamo Kiev2–1 (H)Lokomotiv Moscow4–1 (H)Semi-finalsCDKA Moskva0–1 (A)
Previous encounters Both teams were meeting each other for the first time in this competition.
Teams at the competition's finals TeamPrevious finals appearances (bold indicates winners)Dynamo Moscow0 (debut)Dinamo Tbilisi1 (1936)
Match details
Dynamo Moscow: GK Yevgeni Fokin DF Viktor Teterin DF Arkady ChernyshevMF Aleksey LapshynMF Gavriil KachalinMF Aleksandr Ryomin FW Mikhail Semichastny FW Mikhail Yakushin FW Vasily SmirnovMF Yevgeni Yeliseyev FW Sergey Ilyin (c)Substitutes:FW Aleksey Ponomaryov Manager: Viktor DubininDinamo Tbilisi:GK Aleksandr DorokhovDF Shota Shavgulidze (c) DF Georgiy ChumburidzeMF Grigoriy GaguaMF Mikhail MinayevMF Vladimir Dzhorbenadze FW Tengiz Gavasheli MF Mikhail BerdzenishviliFW Boris PaichadzeFW Vladimir Berdzenishvili FW Mikhail AslamazovSubstitutes:? Manager: Aleksey Sokolov
Soviet Cup 1937 Winners Dynamo MoscowFirst title
Game overview At the beginning of the game, both teams attacked mainly with the central trio, since the sides were reliably “covered” by the midfielders. Gradually, the entire five forwards began to join the attack on both sides, and in the 19th minute, the first goal ended up in the goal of the Muscovites. It was scored by V. Berdzenishvili, who finished the attack started by Paichadze and continued by Gavasheli. However, the advantage of the Tbilisi team in the score did not last long. Two minutes later, V. Smirnov converted an 11-meter penalty kick, a minute later M. Semichastny scored the second goal, and when 10 minutes remained until the end of the first half, he scored the third. In the second half of the match, the Tbilisi team scored another goal (M. Berdzenishvili from an 11-meter penalty kick), and the Muscovites (M. Semichastny and S. Ilyin) scored two more, and the Dynamo team from the capital became the winners of the honorary prize.
For the first time, the cup was presented to the winners directly at the stadium immediately after the game, and for the first time, a lap of honor was performed. Although not an individual one, but a collective one. Here is how the newspaper "Krasny Sport" wrote about it:
See also 1937 Soviet Top League
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