2015 Russian Cup final

2015 Russian Cup final 250px| The Central Stadium hosted the final 2014–15 Russian Cup Lokomotiv Moscow 3 Kuban Krasnodar 1 After extra time 2015 05 21 y Central Stadium Astrakhan Vladislav Bezborodov 14,300 2014 2016 The 2015 Russian Cup final decided the winner of the 2014–15 Russian Cup, the 23rd season of Russia's main football cup. It was played on 21 May 2015 at the Central Stadium in Astrakhan, between Lokomotiv Moscow and Kuban Krasnodar. Lokomotiv came back from behind and emerged victorious with a 3-1 win in extra time.https://www.uefa.com/news/0221-0e90cf0ba013-71e36ad9c07b-1000--lokomotiv-comeback-seals-russian-cup/ Lokomotiv comeback seals Russian Cup UEFA 21 May 2015 The winner qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Europa League and also faced the champions of the 2014–15 Russian Premier League, Zenit Saint Petersburg in the Russian Super Cup on 12 July 2015. Venue The Russian Cup final was held for the first time ever at Central Stadium in Astrakhan. Kuban Stadium in Krasnodar and Otkrytie Arena in Moscow were touted to be other potential alternatives but ultimately the stadium was announced by the Russian Football Union as the venue of the final through an official statement on Twitter on 30 March 2015.http://rsport.ru/football/20150330/819145519.html Russian Football Union decides hosts for 2015 final rsport.ru 30 March 2015 Central Stadium is the home stadium of Volgar Astrakhan and it holds 17,500 people, all seated. The stadium was originally built in 1955 but it underwent a total reconstruction in the summer of 2013.http://volgar-fc.ru/club/stadium/ Stadium information Volgar Official Website 16 May 2015 16 May 2015 10 April 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190410025605/http://www.volgar-fc.ru/club/stadium dead The stadium has been earmarked as a training facility for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Background Lokomotiv played their 7th Russian Cup final, second only to CSKA's 10.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesr/ruscuphist.html Russian Cup Final winners RSSSF 17 May 2015 Prior to the 2015 final, they have won five, against the seven won by their cross town rivals. Their most recent appearance at the final was in 2007. Indeed, they faced the now-defunct FC Moscow and won the contest courtesy of a goal from Garry O'Connor in extra-time. As for Kuban, it was their first ever appearance at the Russian Cup final. Indeed, their best performance ever in the Russian Cup came in 2012–13 Russian Cup, when they were eliminated by Zenit on penalties in the quarter-finals. As a side note, Leonid Kuchuk, the current manager of Kuban, faced Lokomotiv in the final after he was sacked from the same position earlier this season following a disappointing start at the helm of the Muscovite club.https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-russia-lokomotiv/struggling-lokomotiv-moscow-sack-coach-kuchuk-idUKKBN0HD10G20140918 https://web.archive.org/web/20200714043407/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-russia-lokomotiv/struggling-lokomotiv-moscow-sack-coach-kuchuk-idUKKBN0HD10G20140918 dead July 14, 2020 Struggling Lokomotiv Moscow sack coach Kuchuk Reuters 18 September 2014 It was also the first time that the two clubs met in the Russian Cup final. Road to the final LokomotivRoundKubanOpponentResult2014–15 Russian CupOpponentResultSibir Novosibirsk3–1Round of 32Baltika Kaliningrad2–1FC Ufa1–0Round of 16FC Tosno3–0Rubin Kazan0–0 (4–2 pen)Quarter-finalsMordovia Saransk1–0Gazovik Orenburg1–1 (4–3 pen)Semi-finalsCSKA Moscow1–0 Match Details 21 May 2015 19:00 MSK (UTC+3) Lokomotiv Moscow 3–1 yes Summary Kuban Krasnodar Niasse 73 Boussoufa 104 Al. Miranchuk 111 Ignatyev 28 Central Stadium, Astrakhan 14,300 Vladislav Bezborodov (Saint Petersburg)http://rfs.ru/main/news/rfs_news/81598.html Bezborodov to referee the 2015 Russian Cup final The Russian Football Union 13 May 2015 17 May 2015 Vladislav Bezborodov _lokomotivm1415h _lokomotivm1415h _lokomotivm1415h _adidas_white _3_stripes_white FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 Lokomotiv Moscow _adidas yellow _adidas yellow _adidas yellow _adidas yellow _3_stripes_green FFDD00 FFDD00 FFDD00 019747 FFDD00 Kuban Krasnodar GK 1 BRA Guilherme (c)DF 5 SER Nemanja Pejčinović45DF 14 CRO Vedran Ćorluka90DF 15 RUS Arseny LogashovDF 29 UZB Vitaliy DenisovMF 3 RUS Alan Kasaev108MF 4 POR Manuel Fernandes71MF 11 MAR Mbark Boussoufa87MF 19 RUS Aleksandr Samedov82MF 49 RUS Roman ShishkinFW 9 RUS Roman Pavlyuchenko64Substitutes:GK 41 RUS Miroslav LobantsevDF 17 UKR Taras MykhalykDF 55 RUS Renat YanbayevMF 7 BRA Maicon108MF 59 RUS Aleksei Miranchuk71FW 21 SEN Baye Oumar Niasse64FW 25 SER Petar ŠkuletićManager:TJK Igor Cherevchenko GK 23 RUS Aleksandr Belenov (c)DF 2 MDA Igor ArmașDF 14 BIH Toni Šunjić72DF 22 RUS Anton SosninDF 43 RUS Roman BugayevMF 10 BFA Charles KaboréMF 17 GHA Mohammed Rabiu33MF 18 RUS Vladislav Ignatyev103105MF 71 BUL Ivelin PopovMF 77 RUS Sergei Tkachyov80FW 20 POR Hugo Almeida69Substitutes:GK 13 RUS Yevgeny PomazanDF 4 BRA XandãoDF 25 PAR Lorenzo MelgarejoMF 7 RUS Vladislav Kulik105MF 8 RUS Artur TlisovFW 11 ROU Gheorghe Bucur80FW 99 SEN Ibrahima Baldé69Manager:BLR Leonid Kuchuk Match officials Assistant referees: Nikolay Golubev (Saint Petersburg) Andrey Vereteshkin (Saint Petersburg) Reserve official: Sergei Lapochkin (Saint Petersburg) Match inspector: Stanislav Sukhina (Malakhovka)Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions. References 30em External links ru Russian Cup on the website of the Russian Football Union ru Department of professional football of the Russian Football Union en https://archive.today/20130415212438/http://eng.rfpl.org/index.php/cup/index Russian Cup at the RFPL website el en Russia - Cup Finals, RSSSF.com 2015 Russian Cup Final Cup Category:Sport in Astrakhan Category:FC Lokomotiv Moscow matches Category:FC Kuban Krasnodar