2018 Ukrainian Cup final

The 2018 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match played on May 9, 2018, in Dnipro between Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. The culmination of the 2017–18 Ukrainian Cup season, this was the second time the cup final had been held in Dnipro. The match was the 27th Ukrainian Cup Final since the fall of the Soviet Union. Shakhtar Donetsk emerged victorious in the match, defeating Dynamo Kyiv by a score of 2-0.

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

The game between Shakhtar and Dynamo has become the main fixture of every season and received a nickname of Klasychne ("Classic"). Before this game, both teams had met in Ukrainian Cup finals nine times, the first being in 2002. Games between the two clubs are known to be very intense and out of the nine previous finals fixtures, only two - 2003 and 2017 - did not have red cards shown to players. There were a total of 14 red cards shown, with 13 in finals alone.

Before this final, out of the previous nine, Dynamo had won five, one on penalty kicks, while Shakhtar had won four. In total, both teams met in this competition 13 times, once in semifinals, once in quarterfinals, once in round of 16 and once in round of 32. The total record is +4=1-8 in favor of Shakhtar. There were only two games in which Shakhtar did not score against Dynamo, in 2005 and in 2015.

It was Shakhtar's 150th game in the Ukrainian Cup competition. This was Dynamo's 16th time reaching the final stage. Both teams won the cup trophy an even number of times, 11 apiece. It was the eighth consecutive final for The Miners since 2011.

Before the final, in 2017–18 season Shakhtar and Dynamo has met three times within the league competition where Dynamo has won two and one game was tied.

For Yuriy Mozharovskyi this was the third cup final. With him, Dynamo had already beat Shakhtar twice; however, considering results of the Ukrainian Super Cup in 2014, total tally between those teams with this referee at such level is 2 to 1 respectfully.

The game was scheduled on the day of the former Soviet holiday Victory Day that was continued to be celebrated in the Russian Federation as a national holiday.