1992 Ukrainian Cup
| Country |
 Ukraine
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| Teams | 45 | ||
| Champions | Chornomorets Odessa | ||
| Runners-up | Metalist Kharkiv | ||
| Matches played | 56 | ||
| Goals scored | 140 (2.5 per match) | ||
| Top goal scorer(s) | Oleksandr Zayets (6) | ||
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Like the championship, the first edition of the Cup had a tight schedule as the Football Federation of Ukraine was given just several months to present the best national clubs to UEFA for the European competitions with the minimum required matches played.
The competition started on February 10 and the final was played on May 31. Only the clubs participants of the Supreme and First Leagues competed this season. It was the first National Cup edition replacing the previous competition of the Ukrainian SSR Cup, which was organized as a regional qualification competition for the Soviet Cup. The last winner of that Soviet competition FC Temp Shepetivka was eliminated in the very first preliminary round by Kremin Kremenchuk. Simultaneously, three of the participating Ukrainian clubs were still competing in the Soviet Cup. The very first trophy was won by Chornomorets Odessa thus qualifying to the qualification round of UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
It was decided that the Cup would start with 16 teams and six Soviet Top League participants would gain direct qualification, while the other 10 teams had to qualify through couple of preliminaries with Azovets Mariupol gaining bye round.
Forty-five teams participated in the first Cup with 19 pairs in the first preliminary round and 10 in the second. The winner of the competition gained a chance to qualify for the UEFA Cup Winner's Cup competition.
The preliminary rounds and the final consisted of only one game while the other three had a home-away fixture scheduled.
The tournament started on February 10, 1992, with the game between Podillia Khmelnytsky and Bukovyna Chernivtsi right in the middle of the Zakarpattia Oblast in the village of Ilnytsia and culminated in the final game in Kiev on May 31, 1992. With the organization of the Ukrainian Cup competition the three Ukrainian clubs Dynamo Kyiv, Chornomorets Odessa, and Metalist Kharkiv that still were in competition of the Soviet Cup with their Quarterfinals games scheduled on March 25, 1992, had those fixtures canceled, abandoning that competition.
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