Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
CIS Cup logo.
Organising bodyRussian Football Union, FIFA
Founded1993
Abolished2016

The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup (Russian: Кубок чемпионов Содружества, Кубок Содружества, Кубок чемпионов содружества стран СНГ и Балтии) is a defunct[1] annual regional association football tournament, recognized by FIFA.[2][3]

The tournament was initially established for football clubs of the former Soviet Union republics in 1993 (a year later since the collapse). On several occasions, some national football organizations of the former Soviet republics as well as individual clubs refused participation in the tournament for different reasons. Usually the invitation was sent to the best clubs of the Commonwealth of Independent States member states, as well as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, i.e. either a champion or a runner-up, while in the later editions the Cup (before 2012) saw participation of clubs from Serbia and Finland.

In 2012, the CIS Cup became a competition of national youth teams. Previously only the Russia under-21 team competed in the competition.

The competition was disestablished in 2016.[1]

History

The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup was planned to be the Champions' Cup of countries of CIS Commonwealth and Baltics. In July 1992 at a meeting of executive committee of the CIS Association of Football Federations adopted decision on launching the First Commonwealth of Independent States Cup[4] since 1993 as an open tournament to champions from the USSR successor states (The Commonwealth of Independent States, and well as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania).

Until 1996 Ukraine officially boycotted the competition, but in 1995 FC Shakhtar Donetsk on own initiative broke the boycott.

In 1995–2006 the Russia national under-21 football team participated in the tournament as the 16th team, but in 2007 and 2008 Serbia replaced it as the 17th nation sending a team to play in it, and became the first non-former Soviet Union nation participating in the tournament. Unlike the rest of the states, who send their latest champions to play in the tournament, Serbia has sent OFK Beograd to play in the tournament.

Sheriff Tiraspol with the 2009 CIS Cup title.

In its first years the tournament was popular in the territories of the former Soviet Union, including the most titled teams from the old Soviet Top League. Spartak Moscow from Russia, and Dynamo Kyiv from Ukraine each won the cup several times but, after less than a decade, the teams from Russia and Ukraine became hesitant to send their best players to play on the artificial turf at the Olympic Stadium, so they sent their reserve players instead[5][6][7] or sometimes the league runners-up participated in their place. This resulted in the decrease of the tournament's popularity in those states particularly and in the international value of the tournament overall.

In 2006 a new tournament, Channel One Cup, started and caught the attention of the Russian and Ukrainian teams, which even more decreased the popularity of the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup tournament.

A big scandal occurred in 2006, when the Armenian champion FC Pyunik refused to play the Azerbaijani team, Neftçi PFK due to the lack of diplomatic relations between the two countries' governments at that time due to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. FC Pyunik defeated Ukrainian team FC Shakhtar Donetsk 3–1 in the quarter-final, earning a place in the semi-final against Neftçi. However, FC Pyunik announced that they would no play against an Azerbaijani team, and flew home from Moscow the same evening. The Russian Football Union gave FC Shakhtar Donetsk a technical victory 3–0 so they could play in the semi-final instead of FC Pyunik, but FC Shakhtar Donetsk declined the offer stating that "...we would really want to play in the semi-final, but we don't want to get there by any other way than sport". Eventually, Neftçi PFK were given a bye to the final, where they defeated the Lithuanian club FBK Kaunas 4–2.[8]

In 2007 talks began about changing the format of the cup, and uniting it with the Channel One Cup in order to bring back the interest of the Russian and Ukrainian teams,[9] and in 2007 its games were even visited by representatives from FIFA,[10] but nevertheless, nothing came out from those talks and efforts.

In October 2009, Bunyodkor coach Luis Felipe Scolari announced that his Uzbek side would not enter the 2010 tournament due to focusing on the Asian Champions League.[11]

Finals

Competitions for U-21 national teams

Season Winner Score Runner-up Venue
2016  Russia 4 – 2  Moldova SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg Russia
2015  South Africa 2 – 1  Finland SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg Russia
2014  Ukraine 4 – 0  Russia SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg Russia
2013  Russia 4 – 2  Ukraine SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg Russia
2012  Russia 2 – 0  Belarus SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg Russia

Club competitions

Season Winner Score Runner-up Venue
2011 Azerbaijan Inter Baku 0 – 0
6 – 5 on penalties		 Belarus Shakhtyor Soligorsk SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg Russia
2010 Russia FK Rubin Kazan 5 – 2 Kazakhstan FC Aktobe Olympic Stadium,
Moscow Russia
2009 Moldova FC Sheriff Tiraspol 0 – 0
5 – 4 on penalties		 Kazakhstan FC Aktobe Olympic Stadium,
Moscow Russia
2008 Azerbaijan Khazar Lenkoran 4 – 3 Uzbekistan Pakhtakor Tashkent SCC Peterburgsky,
Saint Petersburg Russia
2007 Uzbekistan Pakhtakor Tashkent 0 – 0
9 – 8 on penalties		 Latvia FK Ventspils Olympic Stadium,
Moscow Russia
2006 Azerbaijan Neftçi 4 – 2 Lithuania FBK Kaunas Olympic Stadium,
Moscow Russia
2005 Russia Lokomotiv Moscow 2 – 1 Azerbaijan Neftçi Dynamo Manage,
Moscow Russia
2004 Georgia (country) Dinamo Tbilisi 3 – 1 Latvia Skonto Riga Olympic Stadium,
Moscow Russia
2003 Moldova Sheriff Tiraspol 2 – 1 Latvia Skonto Riga Olympic Stadium,
Moscow Russia
2002 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv 4 – 3 Russia Spartak Moscow Olympic Stadium,
Moscow Russia
2001 Russia Spartak Moscow 2 – 1 aet Latvia Skonto Riga Olympic Stadium,
Moscow Russia
2000 Russia Spartak Moscow 3 – 0 Moldova Zimbru Chişinău Olympic Stadium,
Moscow Russia
1999 Russia Spartak Moscow 2 – 1 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv Olympic Stadium,
Moscow Russia
1998 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv 1 – 0 Russia Spartak Moscow LFK CSKA,
Moscow Russia
1997 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv 3 – 2 Russia Spartak Moscow LFK CSKA,
Moscow Russia
1996 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv 1 – 0 Russia Alania Vladikavkaz LFK CSKA,
Moscow Russia
1995 Russia Spartak Moscow 5 – 1 Georgia (country) Dinamo Tbilisi LFK CSKA,
Moscow Russia
1994 Russia Spartak Moscow 7 – 0 Uzbekistan Neftchi Fergana Olympic Stadium,
Moscow Russia
1993 Russia Spartak Moscow 8 – 0 Belarus Belarus Minsk LFK CSKA,
Moscow Russia

All-time top scorers

All-time top scorers in the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup[12]
RankPlayerGoals
1 Vladimir Beschastnykh (FC Spartak Moskva) Russia 20
2 Yegor Titov (FC Spartak Moskva) Russia 18
3 Valeri Kechinov (Pakhtakor Tashkent & FC Spartak Moskva) Russia 17
* Mikhail Mikholap (FC Skonto Rīga) Latvia 17
5 Mikhail Kavelashvili (FC Dinamo Tbilisi & Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz) Georgia (country) 14
* Luis Robson (FC Spartak Moskva) Brazil 14
7 Andrei Tikhonov (FC Spartak Moskva) Russia 13
8 Valentin Belkevich (FC Dinamo Minsk & FC Dynamo Kyiv) Belarus 12
* Andriy Shevchenko (FC Dynamo Kyiv) Ukraine 12
10 Gela Inalishvili (FC Dinamo Tbilisi) Georgia (country) 11
* Anatoliy Kanischev (Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz & FC Spartak Moskva) Russia 11
* Mihails Zemļinskis (FC Skonto Rīga) Latvia 11

Top scorers by year

RankPlayerGoals
1993 Shota Arveladze (FC Dinamo Tbilisi) Georgia (country) 5[13]
1994 Vladimir Beschastnykh (FC Spartak Moskva) Russia 10[14]
1995 Ilia Tsymbalar (FC Spartak Moskva) Russia 6[15]
1996 Uladzimir Makowski (FC Dinamo Minsk) Belarus 5[16]
1997 Andrey Tikhonov (Spartak Moscow) Russia, Andriy Shevchenko (Dynamo Kyiv) Ukraine 6[17]
1998 Anatoliy Kanischev (Spartak Moscow) Russia 8[18]
1999 Mihails Miholaps (Skonto Riga) Latvia 7[19]
2000 Vladimirs Koļesņičenko (Skonto Riga) Latvia, Luis Robson (Spartak Moscow) Brazil, Yegor Titov (Spartak Moscow) Russia 5[20]
2001 Mikheil Ashvetia (FC Torpedo Kutaisi) Georgia (country), Jafar Irismetov (Spartak Moscow) Uzbekistan, Marcão (Spartak Moscow) Brazil, Valery Strypeykis (FC Slavia Mozyr) Belarus, Raman Vasilyuk (FC Slavia Mozyr) Belarus 4[21]
2002 Vladimir Beschastnykh (Spartak Moscow) Russia 7[22]
2003 Cristian Tudor (Sheriff Tiraspol) Romania 9[23]
2004 Vitaly Daraselia Jr. (FC Dinamo Tbilisi) Georgia (country) 6[24]
2005 Giorgi Adamia (Neftchi Baku) Georgia (country) 6[25]
2006 Evhen Seleznyov (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) Ukraine 5[26]
2007 Server Djeperov (FC Pakhtakor Tashkent) Uzbekistan, Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov) Belarus 4[27]
2008 Uladzimir Yurchanka (Zenit Saint Petersburg) Belarus 4[28]
2009 Ibrahim Rabimov (Regar-TadAZ Tursunzoda) Tajikistan, Vīts Rimkus (FK Ventspils) Latvia, Alexandr Erokhin (Sheriff Tiraspol) Russia 4[29]
2010 Emil Kenzhesariev (FC Aktobe) Kyrgyzstan 6[30]
2011 Ģirts Karlsons (FC Inter Baku) Latvia 6[31]
2012 Sardar Azmoun (Iran U20) Iran 8[32]
2013 Andrei Panyukov (Russia U21) Russia 6[33]
2014 Roman Murtazaev (Kazakhstan U21) Kazakhstan, Ruslan Bolov (Russia U21) Russia, Abdurasul Rakhmonov (Tajikistan U21) Tajikistan 5[34]
2015 Alexey Yevseyev (Russia U21) Russia 5
2016 Mikhail Zhabkin (Russia U21) Russia 3

Performances by team

The trophy awarded to Neftçi PFK in 2006.
Team Titles Runners-up
Russia Spartak Moscow 6 (1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001) 3 (1997, 1998, 2002)
Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv 4 (1996, 1997, 1998, 2002) 1 (1999)
 Russia 3 (2012, 2013, 2016) 1 (2014)
Moldova Sheriff Tiraspol 2 (2003, 2009)
 Ukraine 1 (2014) 1 (2013)
Georgia (country) Dinamo Tbilisi 1 (2004) 1 (1995)
Azerbaijan Neftçi 1 (2006) 1 (2005)
Uzbekistan Pakhtakor Tashkent 1 (2007) 1 (2008)
 South Africa 1 (2015)
Russia Lokomotiv Moscow 1 (2005)
Azerbaijan Khazar Lenkoran 1 (2008)
Russia Rubin Kazan 1 (2010)
Azerbaijan Inter Baku 1 (2011)
Latvia Skonto Riga 3 (2001, 2003, 2004)
Kazakhstan Aktobe 2 (2009, 2010)
Lithuania FBK Kaunas 1 (2006)
Belarus Belarus Minsk 1 (1993)
Uzbekistan Neftchi Fergana 1 (1994)
Russia Alania Vladikavkaz 1 (1996)
Moldova Zimbru Chişinău 1 (2000)
Latvia FK Ventspils 1 (2007)
Belarus Shakhtyor Soligorsk 1 (2011)
 Belarus 1 (2012)
 Finland 1 (2015)
 Moldova 1 (2016)

Performances by country the clubs came from

Country Titles Runners-up
Russia Russia 11 5
Ukraine Ukraine 5 2
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan 3 1
Moldova Moldova 2 2
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan 1 2
Georgia (country) Georgia 1 1
South Africa South Africa 1
Latvia Latvia 4
Belarus Belarus 3
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 2
Lithuania Lithuania 1
Finland Finland 1

Records

See also

References

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