The 2015–16 Ukrainian Cup was the 25th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition. The schedule of games for clubs from the First and Second League was confirmed on 3 July 2015 at a session of the Central Council of the Professional Football League of Ukraine.[1]
Format
Starting with Round of 32 teams were divided equally on seeded and unseeded in relation to the current rating of teams before the start of each stage. Seeded teams are teams that are located in the upper half of the rating, unseeded–in the lower.[2]
Round of 16, quarterfinals and semifinals consist of two legs.[2]
Starting with the Round of 16 and to semifinals, the host teams in the first leg is unseeded team, while in the second leg–seeded.[2]
In this round entered 10 clubs from the First League, 14 clubs from the Second League and two representatives from the 2014 Ukrainian Amateur Cup. The round matches were played on 22 July 2015.[4]
^(1) The competition allows for the finalists of the Ukrainian Amateur Cup. However the winner of the 2014 Ukrainian Amateur Cup, AF Piatykhatska Volodymyrivka (renamed as FC Inhulets Petrove) joined the PFL. Hence the PFL replaced their vacated spot with the highest ranked team. Since both of the semi-finalists of the Amateur Cup also joined the PFL, of the remaining quarter-finalists, Balkany Zorya was the highest ranked team.
^(3) Originally the match was to be held at Bannikov Stadium but the FFU moved the match to Obolon Arena.[9]
Quarterfinals
Eight teams from the Ukrainian Premier League qualified for the round. The draw for this round was held on 30 October 2015 at the Premier-Liha office.[10] Originally the First Leg matches were scheduled for 3 December but the Premier League rescheduled the matches to be played in the spring (2016).[3]
^(4) Change of venue for the first leg as management of both sides agreed to play the first leg in Kyiv.[12]
Semifinals
All four teams that qualified for the round are from the Ukrainian Premier League. The draw for this round was held on 8 April 2016 at the House of Football.[13][14] During the draw there was identified a host for the final whom will be the winner of Dnipro-Zorya pair.[14]
^ abcПерші матчі 1/4 фіналу Кубка України перенесені на весну [First quarter-final matches of the Ukrainian Cup transferred to the spring]. FC OLeksandriya Official Website (in Ukrainian). ua-football.com. 16 November 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.