Novikov Cup

Novikov Cup

Founded	1980
Region	Vinalia
Number of teams	47
Current champions	FC New Samistopol (2nd title)
Most successful club(s)	Orlavo Red Stars (14 titles) F.C. Velkarichka (12 titles each)
2022-2023

The Novikov Cup (Soravian: Кубок Новікова; Kubok Novikova ) is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Vinalian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs.

Included in the competition are 14 professional clubs in the Superliga (level 1), 14 professional clubs in the [[Vinalia|Super Combine (level 2), and 8 clubs in the United League (level 3), for a total of 36 teams. The first stage features games between the top 8 teams of the United League, which are cut down to 4. In the 2nd round the teams from the Superliga, and Super Combine enter, for a total of 32 teams. A team from the United League would play a maximum of 11 games, while a Superlga or Super Combine would play 9.

The tournament was established in 1980, following warmer relationships between both North and South Vinalia's top league winners. Following the 1983 South Vinalian attempted coup, and subsequent civilian reprisals, the Novikov cup was suspended, and was planned to be disputed in 1987. However the start of the 12 Day war months before the planned cup, suspended the competition until 1990. Following Vinalian reunification, the top Northern Vinalian First League, and the Southern Vinalian Sporting League remained separate. The Vinalian Government suggested to the Vinalian Association of Football, to expand the Novikov Cup to support unification, 4 teams from each league were incorporated into the tournament. In 1997, when both leagues merged into the Vinalian Superliga the cup was expanded to its modern format. Teams from the Superliga have won all iterations of the cup including the pre-merger of the two top Vinalian leagues. The Orlavo Red Stars and the FC Velkarichka are the two top teams having won the tournament 14 and 12 times respectively. FC New Samistopol is the current winner, having defeated the Chervona Coyotes for their 2nd title.

Finals

Year	Venue	Winner	Score	Runner-up
1980 Final	31 May 1980 19:00 Port-au-Grégoire – National Stadium Attendance: 3,678	Orlavo Red Stars Bela Borisov  33' Simoni Ovdokimov  77'	2 – 1	FC Velkarichka Svyatoslav Pyatov  62'
1981 Final	31 May 1981 19:00 Port-au-Grégoire – National Stadium Attendance: 6,738	FC Velkarichka Svyatoslav Pyatov  37'	1 – 0	Orlavo Red Stars
1982 Final	31 May 1982 19:00 Port-au-Grégoire – National Stadium Attendance: 12,525	FC Velkarichka	0 – 0 (0 – 0) (a.e.t.) (4–2 p)	Orlavo Red Stars
1983 Final	31 May 1983 19:00 Port-au-Grégoire – National Stadium Attendance: -	canceled due to 1983 South Vinalian Coup
1984	Not organized
1985	Not organized
1986	Not organized
1987 Final	30 November 1987 Port-au-Grégoire – National Stadium Attendance: -	canceled due to 12 Day War
1988	Not organized
1989	Not organized
1990 Final	31 May 1990 19:00 Chervona – Chervona Hall of Sport Attendance: 13,000	Orlavo Red Stars Bela Borisov  33' Simoni Ovdokimov  77'	2 – 1	FC Velkarichka Svyatoslav Pyatov  62'
1991 Final	31 May 1991 19:00 Velkarichka – National Stadium Attendance: 29,000	FC Velkarichka Vitaly Santos  23'	1 – 0	Morechia Foxes
1992 Final	31 May 1992 19:00 Orlavo – Orlavo National Stadium Attendance: 29,000	FC Velkarichka Vitaly Santos  12' Svyatoslav Pyatov  87' (pen.)	2 – 1	Orlavo Red Stars Simoni Ovdokimov  39'
1993 Final	31 May 1993 19:00 Velkarichka – National Stadium Attendance: 25,000	Catherinsk Tigers Oleksandr Marshalkov  9' Sergei Okishev  66'	2 – 1	Orlavo Red Stars Simoni Ovdokimov  84'
1994 Final	31 May 1994 19:00 Orlavo – Orlavo National Stadium Attendance: 29,000	Orlavo Red Stars Aleksandr Antunes  107' (pen.)	1 – 0 (1 – 0) (a.e.t.)	FC Velkarichka
1995 Final	31 May 1995 19:00 Velkarichka – National Stadium Attendance: 22,000	Orlavo Red Stars Aleksandr Antunes  33' (66) Radah Mudryk  87' Vadislav Rikailo  115'	4 – 3 (1 – 0) (a.e.t.)	FC Velkarichka Vitaly Santos  55' Kobel Konkov  68' Danyil Bushchan  77'
1996 Final	31 May 1996 19:00 Orlavo – Orlavo National Stadium Attendance: 22,000	Orlavo Red Stars Aleksandr Antunes  44'	1 – 1 (0 – 0) (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	FC Velkarichka Omelyan Martiukhin  67'
1997 Final	31 May 1997 19:00 Velkarichka – National Stadium Attendance: 31,000	Orlavo Red Stars Dymtro Couto  7' Rostyslav Ofutin  57'	2 – 1	FC New Samistopol Fedir Eduardovych  44'
1998 Final	31 May 1998 19:00 Orlavo – Orlavo National Stadium Attendance: 26,000	Orlavo Red Stars Bohdan Buletsa  33' Rostyslav Ofutin  84'	2 – 0	Morechia Foxes
1999 Final	31 May 1999 19:00 Velkarichka – National Stadium Attendance: 31,637	Catherinsk Tigers Vyacheslav Shevchenko  47' Bankon Blokhin  78'	2 – 1	Orlavo Red Stars Bohdan Buletsa  12'
2000 Final	31 May 2000 19:00 Orlavo – Orlavo National Stadium Attendance: 26,748	F.C. Ivanovo Petro Vaina  33' (57)	2 – 1	Orlavo Red Stars Osmo Matviyenko  53'
2001 Final	31 May 2001 19:00 Velkarichka – National Stadium Attendance: 29,792	Orlavo Red Stars Alexis Kalam  52' Georgy Gavrilyuk  74'	2 – 1	FC Catherinsk Bereza Boyko  44'
2002 Final	31 May 2002 19:00 Orlavo – Orlavo National Stadium Attendance: 29,241	Orlavo Red Stars Fedir Eduardovych  33'	1 – 0	Casimirsk Monkeys
2003 Final	31 May 2003 19:00 Velkarichka – Metropolitan Stadium Attendance: 35,849	FC Velkarichka Tadeusz Ramenskoi  33' Romashka Ochiuriushka  41' Ondrej Mashibradich  77'	3 – 1	Orlavo Red Stars Fedir Eduardovych  62'
2004 Final	31 May 2004 19:00 Chervona – Chervona Hall of Sport Attendance: 26,631	FC Velkarichka Sobich Petrakov  20' Romashka Ochiuriushka  119'	2 – 1 (1 – 0) (a.e.t.)	Catherinsk Tigers Danylo Sheremet  42'
2005 Final	17 July 2005 19:00 Catherinsk – New Life Stadium Attendance: 36,284	FC New Samistopol	0 – 0 (0 – 0) (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Orlavo Red Stars
2006 Final	17 July 2006 19:00 Orlavo – Orlavo National Stadium Attendance: 30,241	Morechia Foxes Omleyan Martynova  77' Klim Kohut  79'	2 – 0	FC New Samistopol
2022 Final	18 July 2022 19:00 Vinalinsk – Vinalinsk National Stadium Attendance: 33,000	FC New Samistopol Rodislav Mykolenko  42' Erik Fernandes  66' Ostap Mazeia  83'	3 – 1	Chervona Coyotes Marcus McBríen  11'