On January 20, MTTU and Tashkent's Bunedkor finished in a 1:1 draw after two periods of a quarterfinal match, but in the end Ashgabat's club got a 4:2 win in a penalty shoot-out in extra time.

In semifinals, MTTU will play against the winner of today's encounter between Kazan's Rubin back up team and Finnish champion HJK. A semifinal match will take place in "Olympic" sport complex on January 22.

The second pair of semifinalists will be determined in matches Dinamo (Kiev, Ukraine) vs. Ekranas (Lithuania) and Dnipro (Belarus) vs. Aktobe (Kazakhstan).

Turkmen footballers joined the four strongest teams of the CIS Cup for the first time in nine years. It was back in 2001 that Ashgabat's Kopet-Dag managed to reach CIS Cup semifinals.