1993 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

1993 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

CIS Cuр, Кубок Содружества 1993
Tournament details
Host country	Russia
Dates	25–31 January 1993
Teams	15
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Spartak Moscow (1st title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	23
Goals scored	103 (4.48 per match)
Attendance	29,900 (1,300 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Shota Arveladze (5)
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The 1993 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup was the first edition of the competition between the champions of former republics of Soviet Union. It was won by Spartak Moscow who defeated Belarusian side Belarus Minsk in the final.

As in subsequent editions of the CIS Cup, a Russian national team participated out of competition as to compose four groups of four teams each for the Group stage. However, this wasn't achieved as Ukraine boycotted the tournament due to the political stand-off with the Russian Federation on several issues. While Sport-Express posted an article (№3 (43), January 25, 2000, page 9) stating that the Ukrainian champions Tavria was threatened by the FFU.

Participants

Team	Qualification	Participation
Spartak Moscow	1992 Russian Top League champions	1st
Belarus Minsk	1992–93 Belarusian Premier League 2nd team as of the winter break1	1st
Ekranas Panevėžys	1992–93 LFF Lyga 1st team as of the winter break	1st
Skonto Riga	1992 Latvian Higher League champions	1st
Norma Tallinn	1992 Meistriliiga champions	1st
Zimbru Chişinău	1992 Moldovan National Division champions	1st
Dinamo Tbilisi	1991–92 Umaglesi Liga champions	1st
Neftchi Baku	1992 Azerbaijan Top League champions	1st
Homenetmen Yerevan	1992 Armenian Premier League champions2	1st
Kairat Almaty	1992 Kazakhstan Premier League champions	1st
Pakhtakor Tashkent	1992 Uzbek League champions3	1st
Regar Tursunzoda	1992 Tajik League runners-up4	1st
Alga Bishkek	1992 Kyrgyzstan League champions	1st
Köpetdag Aşgabat	1992 Ýokary Liga champions	1st
Russia U-19 national team	Out of competition, not eligible to advance past group stage	1st

¹ Belarus Minsk (formerly a reserve team for Dinamo Minsk) replaced 1992 champions Dinamo Minsk, whose almost entire squad at the same time traveled to play friendly matches in South America as a part of Belarus national football team.
² Homenetmen Yerevan were one of two teams equally declared 1992 Armenian champions along with Shirak.
³ Pakhtakor Tashkent were one of two teams equally declared 1992 Uzbekistan champions along with Neftchi Farg'ona.
⁴ Regar Tursunzoda replaced champions Pomir Dushanbe, who refused to participate.
⁵ Tavriya Simferopol (1992 Ukrainian champions) refused to participate along with all other Ukrainian teams. No other team was invited as a replacement.

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spartak Moscow	2	2	0	0	15	0	+15	4
Skonto Riga	2	1	0	1	1	7	−6	2
Neftchi Baku	2	0	0	2	0	9	−9	0

• Tavria Simferopol withdrew

Results

25 January 1993	Neftchi Baku	0 – 1	Skonto Riga	Moscow Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Valeri Butenko (Russia)
			Astafjevs  75'

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26 January 1993	Spartak Moscow	7 – 0	Skonto Riga	Moscow Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Belarus)
	Bestchastnykh  14' Tsymbalar  15' Radchenko  43' (pen.) Pisarev  52' Cherenkov  85' (pen.) Tikhonov  90'

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27 January 1993	Spartak Moscow	8 – 0	Neftchi Baku	Moscow Attendance: 4,300 Referee: Vadims Direktorenko (Latvia)
	Khelstov  6' Karpin  22', 76', 81' Lediakhov  42' Azimov  53' (o.g.) Piatnitsky  78' Pisarev  83'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Dinamo Tbilisi	3	2	1	0	10	5	+5	5
Köpetdag Aşgabat	3	1	1	1	9	6	+3	3
Pakhtakor Tashkent	3	1	1	1	8	9	−1	3
Zimbru Chişinău	3	0	1	2	5	12	−7	1

Results

25 January 1993	Dinamo Tbilisi	5 – 2	Pakhtakor Tashkent	Moscow Attendance: 500 Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Belarus)
	Sh.Arveladze  15', 73' Kinkladze  39' Kavelashvili  60' Rekhviashvili  74'		Kechinov  75' Khodiyev  89'

25 January 1993	Zimbru Chişinău	1 – 6	Köpetdag Aşgabat	Moscow Attendance: 300 Referee: Yuri Chebotarev (Russia)
	Nani  66'		Mukhadov  6', 26' Mingazow  40' Kirillov  44' Nurmuradov  79' (pen.) Korzh  89'

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26 January 1993	Pakhtakor Tashkent	3 – 1	Köpetdag Aşgabat	Moscow Attendance: 400 Referee: Vladimir Ovchinnikov (Russia)
	Qosimov  54',  61' Kechinov  66' (pen.)		Nurmuradov  23'

26 January 1993	Dinamo Tbilisi	3 – 1	Zimbru Chişinău	Moscow Attendance: 500 Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)
	Sh.Arveladze  7', 48' Inalishvili  52'		Nani  29'

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27 January 1993	Dinamo Tbilisi	2 – 2	Köpetdag Aşgabat	Moscow Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Valeri Butenko (Russia)
	Kavelashvili  11' Inalishvili  82'		Nurmuradov  30' A.Meredow  72'

27 January 1993	Pakhtakor Tashkent	3 – 3	Zimbru Chişinău	Moscow Attendance: 150 Referee: Gevorg Hovhannisyan (Armenia)
	Kechinov  12', 24' Qosimov  36'		Cleşcenco  22', 65', 80'

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ekranas Panevėžys	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	5
Russia U19	3	2	0	1	8	3	+5	4
Kairat Almaty	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	3
Alga Bishkek	3	0	0	3	4	12	−8	0

Results

25 January 1993	Ekranas Panevėžys	2 – 1	Russia U19	Moscow Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Obyedkov (Kazakhstan)
	Poderis  2' Vainoras  42' (pen.)		Chudin  49'

25 January 1993	Kairat Almaty	3 – 2	Alga Bishkek	Moscow Attendance: 150 Referee: Tulei (Moldova)
	Abildayev  16' Aubakirov  29' Naidovsky  43'		Makhmutov  88' Izrailov  90'

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26 January 1993	Alga Bishkek	1 – 5	Ekranas Panevėžys	Moscow Attendance: 200 Referee: Igor Egorov (Russia)
	Šuliauskas  85' (o.g.)		Šlekys  47', 54' Poderis  62', 77', 86'

26 January 1993	Kairat Almaty	0 – 3 (awarded)	Russia U19

The match was awarded as 3–0 win for Russia as Kairat refused to play with the team that was not in the competition.

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27 January 1993	Ekranas Panevėžys	0 – 0	Kairat Almaty	Moscow Attendance: 300 Referee: Viktor Filippov (Russia)

27 January 1993	Alga Bishkek	1 – 4	Russia U19	Moscow Attendance: 150 Referee: Aslanov (Azerbaijan)
	Izrailov  21'		Kharlachev  56' Chudin  74' Zazulin  76' Zernov  90'

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Belarus Minsk	3	3	0	0	9	2	+7	6
Norma Tallinn	3	1	1	1	8	4	+4	3
AOSS Yerevan	3	1	1	1	5	6	-1	3
Regar Tursunzoda	2	0	0	3	3	13	-10	0

Results

1993-01-25	AOSS Yerevan	0 – 2	Belarus Minsk	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Ovchinnikov
			Shtaniuk  11' Katchuro  82'

1993-01-25	Regar Tursunzoda	0 – 5	Norma Tallinn	Attendance: 150 Referee: Anokhin
			Borisov  28' Pushtov  30',  48',  52' Bragin  61'

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1993-01-26	Belarus Minsk	1 – 0	Norma Tallinn	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Najafaliyev
	Shirokiy  67'

1993-01-26	AOSS Yerevan	2 – 1	Regar Tursunzoda	Attendance: 100 Referee: ?
	Markaryan  42' A.Avetisyan  76' (pk)		Tirkia  60'

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1993-01-27	Belarus Minsk	6 – 2	Regar Tursunzoda	Attendance: 100 Referee: Kobiashvili
	Katchuro  21' Shirokiy  59',  85' Shtaniuk  75' Putilo  78' Lukin  84'		Gubaydullin  35' Tolibov  73'

1993-01-27	Norma Tallinn	3 – 3	AOSS Yerevan	Attendance: 100 Referee: Chebotarev
	Pushtov  1' Bragin  28' Chmil  87'		Markaryan  2' Oganesyan  9' A.Avetsyan  35'

Final rounds

	Semi-finals (29 Jan)					Final (31 Jan)
		Spartak Moscow	2
		Dinamo Tbilisi	1
							Spartak Moscow	8
							Belarus Minsk	0
		Ekranas Panevėžys	0
		Belarus Minsk (p)	0

Semi-Finals

1993-01-29	Spartak Moscow	2 – 1	Dinamo Tbilisi	Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Zhuk
	Karpin  53' Onopko  85'		Shelia  40'

1993-01-29	Ekranas Panevėžys	0 – 0 2-4 pens[1]	Belarus Minsk	Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Khusainov
			Artamonov  59'

Final

1993-01-31	Spartak Moscow	8 – 0	Belarus Minsk	Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Obyedkov
	Pisarev  10' Pyatnitsky  27',  56' Onopko  29',  54' Bestchastnykh  65',  84' Radchenko  79' (pk)

Winner of CIS Cup 1993
Spartak Moscow First Title

Top scorers

Notes

In bold players that continue to participate in tournament. In parentheses are goals scored from the penalty spot.

#	Scorer	Goals (Pen.)	Team
1	Sh.Arveladze	5	Dinamo Tbilisi
2	Karpin	4	Spartak Moscow
=	Poderis	4	Ekranas
4	Pushtov	4	Norma Tallinn
=	Kechinov	4(1)	Pakhtakor Tashkent

Goalies

#	Goalkeeper	Team	Record	GAA	Remarks
1	Cherchesov	Spartak Moscow	3-0-0	0.33
2	Skrupkis	Ekranas Panevėžys	2-2-0	0.50
3	Kafanov	Kairat Almaty	1-1-0	1.00
4	Zoidze	Dinamo Tbilisi	2-1-1	1.25
5	Astafyev	Norma Tallinn	1-1-1	1.33

#	Goalkeeper	Wins	Team
1	Cherchesov	3	Spartak Moscow
2	Skrupkis	2	Ekranas Panevėžys
=	Zoidze	2	Dinamo Tbilisi
=	Tumilovich	2	Belarus Minsk