USSR Basketball Cup | |
Pixels: | 150px |
Sport: | Basketball |
Founded: | 1949 |
Folded: | 1987 |
Champion: | Spartak Leningrad (2nd title) |
Most Champs: | Dinamo Tbilisi CSKA Moscow (3 titles both) |
Related Comps: | USSR Premier League |
The USSR Basketball Cup, or Soviet Union Basketball Cup, was the national basketball cup competition of the former Soviet Union. The first USSR Cup was held in the year 1949, and the last one was held in the year 1987. The competition was not held every year, as it was only contested 11 times between the years 1949 and 1987. However, it was initially held every year between 1949 and 1953.
The last team to win the cup was Spartak Leningrad, in 1987.[1]
For finals not played on a single match, * precedes the score of the team playing at home.
width=1% | Season | width=12% | Champions | width=4% | Score | width=12% | Runners-up | width=14% | Venue | width=10% | Location | width=12% | MVP |
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scop=col colspan="7" style="background:#CCCCCC" | USSR Basketball Cup | ||||||||||||
1948–49 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 24 - 19 | Dinamo Riga | Tbilisi | N/A | ||||||||
1949–50 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 49 - 36 | Dynamo Moscow | Moscow | N/A | ||||||||
1950–51 | Georgian SSR Team | 37 - 28 | VVS Moscow | Leningrad | N/A | ||||||||
1951–52 | Dinamo Riga | 53 - 44 | VVS Moscow | Kuybyshev | N/A | ||||||||
1952–53 | Žalgiris | 55 - 41 | Dinamo Tbilisi | Moscow | N/A | ||||||||
1953–68 | scop=col colspan="6" | Not held | |||||||||||
1968–69 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 88 - 78 | Stroitel | N/A | |||||||||
1969–71 | scop=col colspan="6" | Not held | |||||||||||
1971–72 | CSKA Moscow | Stroitel | Kiev & Moscow | N/A | |||||||||
1972–73 | CSKA Moscow | Dinamo Tbilisi | Moscow & Tbilisi | N/A | |||||||||
1973–77 | scop=col colspan="6" | Not held | |||||||||||
1977–78 | Spartak Leningrad | [3] | Kalev | N/A | |||||||||
1978–81 | scop=col colspan="6" | Not held | |||||||||||
1981–82 | CSKA Moscow | N/A | |||||||||||
1982–86 | scop=col colspan="6" | Not held | |||||||||||
1986–87 | Spartak Leningrad | N/A |
width=1% | Rank | width=14% | Club | width=9% | Titles | width=9% | Runner-up | width=67% | Champion Years |
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align=center | 1. | Dinamo Tbilisi | align=center | 3 | align=center | 3 | 1948–49, 1949–50, 1968–69 | ||
align=center | 2. | CSKA Moscow | align=center | 3 | align=center | 0 | 1971–72, 1972–73, 1981–82 | ||
align=center | 3. | Spartak Leningrad | align=center | 2 | align=center | 0 | 1977–78, 1986–87 | ||
align=center | 4. | Dinamo Riga | align=center | 1 | align=center | 1 | 1951–52 | ||
align=center | 5. | Georgian SSR Team | align=center | 1 | align=center | 0 | 1950–51 | ||
align=center | 6. | Žalgiris | align=center | 1 | align=center | 0 | 1952–53 | ||
align=center | 7. | VVS Moscow | align=center | 0 | align=center | 2 | |||
align=center | 8. | Stroitel | align=center | 0 | align=center | 2 | |||
align=center | 9. | Dynamo Moscow | align=center | 0 | align=center | 1 | |||
align=center | 10. | Kalev | align=center | 0 | align=center | 1 |