The 1988 Soviet Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Lenin's Central Stadium, Moscow on May 28, 1988. The match was the 47th Soviet Cup Final and it was contested by FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Torpedo Moscow. The Soviet Cup winner Metalist qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup first round for the Soviet Union. The last year defending holders Dynamo Kyiv were eliminated in the second round of the competition by FC Rotor Volgograd (3:2, 0:2). For Metalist this was their second final total and second in five years. For Torpedo it was their 13th Cup Final and the seventh loss at this stage.

All sixteen Soviet Top League clubs did not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Metalist and Torpedo both qualified for the competition automatically.

Previously they only met six times with Torpedo winning four and Metalist once, the goals were 6 to 2 respectively. The very first time they met each other on July 26, 1936, at the Round of 16 when Torpedo (then - ZiS) playing home was victorious 2:0 (Metalist was called as KhPZ). The last encounter was three seasons ago when in the first round Torpedo once again defeated Metalist in overtime playing at home.

1988-05-28

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Torpedo Moscow	0 – 2	Metalist Kharkiv
	Report	Adzhoyev 42' (pen.) Baranov 61'

Dynamo Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: I.Timoshenko (Rostov-na-Donu)

FC Torpedo Moscow

FC Metalist Kharkiv

FC Torpedo Moscow: GK Valeri Sarychev DF Aleksandr Polukarov DF Valentin Kovach DF Sergei Prigoda DF Vadim Rogovskoy MF Aleksei Yeryomenko  48' FW Vladimir Kobzev MF Andrei Rudakov  38' MF Nikolai Savichev  63' FW Oleg Shirinbekov FW Sergey Agashkov Substitutes: FW Nikolai Pisarev  38' DF MF MF Sergei Zhukov  63' DF Gennadi Grishin  48' DF MF Manager: Valentin Ivanov

FC Metalist Kharkiv: GK Ihor Kutepov XX Ruslan Kolokolov  88' XX Nikolay Romanchuk DF Ivan Panchyshyn XX Oleh Derevinskyi XX Oleksandr Ivanov  79' MF Leonid Buryak MF Viktor Vashchenko  46' MF Ihor Yakubovsky FW Yuri Tarasov  ?' FW Guram Adzhoyev Substitutes: FW Viktor Yalovsky  51' DF Roman Khagba  79' MF Oleksandr Baranov  46' GK DF DF MF Manager: Yevhen Lemeshko

• Soviet Top League 1987

• Torpedo Moscow unofficial website
• The competition calendar