The final eight matches of the Vbet Cup of Ukraine 2025/2026 round of 1/16 finals have taken place. As a reminder, in this tournament, 68 teams are participating, including 21 amateur sides.

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The program of the 1/16 finals of the Vbet Cup of Ukraine concluded in Lviv on September 24 with a match between UPL representatives "Rukh" and "Polesye." In this game, players from the national team — Georgiy Bushchan, Bohdan Mykhailichenko, and Oleksandr Nazarenko — participated for Polesye. Despite having less time to prepare, the home team came out onto the field with a great desire to challenge their opponents and redeem themselves after poor results in the league. And Ivan Fedik's wards managed to do just that.

On the 30th minute, following an assist from Illi Kvasnitsy, Rukh’s foreign player Bakoukar Fall scored the opening goal. Midway through the second half, a misfortune befell Polesye's defender Danylo Beskorovayny who inadvertently kicked the ball into his own net. 2:0. The Lvivians caught fire and on the 73rd minute, left-back Rostyslav Liah finished off an attack with a successful shot. Bushchan, the goalkeeper of Polesye and Ukraine's national team player, could not react in time. 3:0. Footballers from "Rukh" convincingly secured their passage to the next round of the Cup of Ukraine.

However, unexpected results were recorded not only in Lviv. In Tishkivtsi, located in Kirovohrad region, amateur side "Agrotech" stunned everyone by eliminating first league leader "Chornomorets" via a penalty shootout series. It's worth noting that at the previous stage, Myshenko’s wards also won through a football lottery, overcoming an elite division representative — "Epizentrum."

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Continuing to write their own story, second league "Locomotive," led by Serhiy Karpenko, first forced "Kolos" to capitulate and then overcame another Premier League representative — "Veres" (1:0).

This is precisely what makes cup battles so special: more prestigious clubs do not always prove their superiority in class.

Vbet Cup of Ukraine-2025/2026. Round of 1/16 finals

September 17, 2025

"Metalist" (Kharkiv) — LNZ (Cherkasy) — 0:2

"Chernihiv" — "Krivy Basin" (Dnipro) — 1:1, on penalties — 1:3

"Polesye" (Stavky, Kyiv region) — "Shakhtar" (Donetsk) — 0:1

"Left Bank" (Kyiv) — "Victoria" (Sumy) — 0:1

"Oleksandria" — "Dynamo" (Kyiv) — 1:2

September 18, 2025

"Metallurg" (Zaporizhzhia) — "Phoenix-Marine" (Mariupol) — 1:1, on penalties — 2:4

"Bukovyna" (Chernivtsi) — "Karpaty" (Lviv) — 1:0

"Niva" (Ternopil) — "Poltava" — 3:0

September 23, 2025

"Olympia" (Savynychi) — "Lesne" (Kyiv) — 1:2 (0:1)

Goals: Malik (49) — Rybalka (12, from the penalty), V. Voloshyn (78).

"Denhoff" (Denihiwka) — "Agrobiznes" (Volochytsk) — 0:2 (0:0)

Goals: Kuzmin (51), Syomka (58).

September 24, 2025

"Agrotech" (Tishkivtsa) — "Chornomorets" (Odessa) — 1:1 (1:0), on penalties — 5:3

Goals: Pastukhov (18) — Louyfer (73).

"Ingulets" (Petrove) — "Podillya" (Khmelnytskyi) — 4:1 (1:1)

Goals: Faraseyenko (43), Hadzhuk (76), Den (90+1), Yanovich (90+4) — Profatilo (7).

Red card: Kozirnyk (P, 89, serious foul play).

"Niva" (Vinnytsia) — "Hirnyk-Sport" (Horodysche) — 7:0 (3:0)

Goals: Zagorulko (16, 30), Pogorilyi (18, 61), Lototskyi (49), Petlenko (63), Petrik (86).

"Locomotive" (Kyiv) — "Veres" (Rivne) — 1:0 (1:0)

Goal: Mordas (40, from the penalty).

"Kolos" (Polonne) — "Metalist 1925" (Kharkiv) — 1:4 (0:0)

Goals: Yakubov (75) —Mba (54), Itodo (63), Litvinenko (90+3), Karpizin (90+4).

"Rukh" (Lviv) — "Polesye" (Zhytomyr) — 3:0 (1:0)

Goals: Faal (30), Beskorovaynyi (63, own goal), Liah (73).