Road To Kharkiv
All sixteen Ukrainian Premier League clubs do not have to go through qualification to get into the competition, so Dynamo and Shakhtar both qualified for the competition automatically.
Dynamo Kyiv had a much instability on the road to the final. At the beginning of the season, the manager Anatoliy Demyanenko resigned after initial unsuccesses at the beginning of the season. He was replaced by former Dynamo player and coach Yozhef Sabo, who resigned his post shortly afterward due to personal health problems. In November 2007, Dynamo appointed assistant coach Oleh Luzhny as interim coach, who was in charge until December 8, and managed to get Dynamo through the quarterfinals. Finally, in December 2008, the team appointed former Russia manager, Yuriy Semin.
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Dynamo Kyiv
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Shakhtar Donetsk
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