1999 FA Cup Final three league games all season. They had also qualified for the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final against Bayern Munich, due to be played four days later on 26 May, and were unbeaten in their previous 31 matches in all competitions. By contrast, Newcastle United had finished 13th out of the 20 teams in the Premier League, and had been knocked out of the Cup Winners' Cup in the first round and the League Cup in the fourth round. It was Newcastle's second consecutive appearance in the FA Cup Final – having lost 2–0 to Arsenal in 1998 – and their
1998 Ukrainian Cup Final the missed penalty kick. Shovkovsky managed to deflect the penalty kick from Oliynyk. There also were several yellow cards issued at this game, all of them to "Army" players: Semchuk, Hohil, and Kripak. Both teams started from the first round of the competition (1/16). "Dynamo" did not have any difficulties along the way meeting almost no resistance from every team. Especially surprising was the face-off with Chornomorets Odessa which ended with an unbelievable 4-1 win for the "white-blues" in Odessa. "CSKA" impressed when it easily defeated Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the away game. 1998 Ukrainian Cup Final The 1998 Ukrainian Cup