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| Event | 1990–91 Soviet Cup | ||||||
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| Date | 23 June 1991 | ||||||
| City | Moscow | ||||||
| Referee | Valeriy Butenko (Moscow) | ||||||
| Attendance | 37,000 | ||||||
| Weather | 27 °C | ||||||
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The1991 Soviet Cup Final was afootball match that took place at theLenin's Central Stadium,Moscow on 23 June 1991. The match was the jubilee50th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested byPFC CSKA Moscow andFC Torpedo Moscow. TheSoviet Cup winner CSKA qualified for theCup Winners' Cup first round for theSoviet Union. CSKA played their 7th Cup Final winning on 5 occasions including this one. For Torpedo it was their 15th Cup Final and for the ninth time they were defeated at this stage.
This match was the final match played by CSKA and USSR national team goalkeeperMikhail Yeriomin. Yeriomin was in a serious car accident the evening after the final and died at a hospital on 30 June 1991 from his injuries.[1]
All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so CSKA and Torpedo both qualified for the competition automatically. The last year defending championsDynamo Kyiv were eliminated administratively in the first round of the competition (1/16 final) byFC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin after winning their home game 7–1 (later changed to -:+).[2]
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Previously these two teams met each other in the early editions of the competition on several occasions. However this was their first time and the last that they met in the finals of theSoviet Cup. Previously their contested each other four times in semifinals of this competition since 1944.
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Igor Korneyev 45',67'Oleg Sergeyev 80' | Report | Yuriy Tishkov 43',75' |
         PFC CSKA Moscow |    FC Torpedo Moscow
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MATCH OFFICIALS | MATCH RULES
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| Soviet Cup 1991 winners |
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| CSKA Moscow Fifth title |
