Like the championship, the first edition of the Cup had a tight schedule as the Football Federation of Ukraine was given just several months in order to switch to the European seasonal format with the minimum required matches played.
The last winner of that Soviet competition FC Temp Shepetivka was eliminated in the first round by Kremin Kremenchuk.
Even the final game attendance of 12,000 could not beat that festival of sport in the small city of the Lviv Oblast.
The highest scoring game took place in Odesa when the local Chornomorets avenged its poor performance in Zhytomyr by beating Polissia 7:1.
The biggest margin in goals scored was recorded in Zaporizhia when the local Metalurh won over Vahonobudivnyk 7:0.
The most surprising was the elimination of the Soviet Cup participant Dynamo Kyiv that lost its quarterfinal stand off against the Zaporizhian Automakers 1:2 in aggregate.
(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)[1] Goalkeepers: Viktor Hryshko (4 / -2), Oleh Suslov (2 / -1), Yevhen Nemodruk (1 / -4).
Midfielders: Yuriy Shelepnytsky (6 / 3), Ilya Tsymbalar (6 / 2), Yuriy Sak (6 / 2),(1) Viktor Yablonskyi (6 / 1), Oleh Koshelyuk (6 / 0), Sergei Zirchenko (5 / 0), Serhiy Protsyuk (3 / 0), Ruslan Romanchuk (1 / 0), Dmytro Horbatenko (1 / 0), Dmytro Kopetsky (1 / 0), Andriy Lozovsky (1 / 0), Vitaliy Kolesnichenko (1 / 0).
Forwards: Serhiy Husyev (6 / 4), Ivan Hetsko (5 / 0), Oleksandr Pindeyev (1 / 1), Oleh Mochulyak (1 / 0), Kostyantyn Kulyk (1 / 0), Andriy Savitsky (1 / 0).
Transferred out during the season: Oleksandr Pindeyev (FC Vorskla Poltava), Dmytro Demianenko (SK Odesa), Andriy Telesnenko ( AC Oulu).