Referee appointment made for the Ural v Zenit match

41-year-old Pavel Kukuyan has been appointed for a Zenit game for the 22nd time in his career.
Referee appointment made for the Ural v Zenit match
He will be assisted by Varantso Petrosyan and Andrey Gubanov. VAR will be operated by Artur Fedorov and Rafael Shafeev.  

In the previous 21 Zenit games refereed by Pavel Kukuyan the team from St. Petersburg won 11 times, five seven times and five matches ended with a draw. The last match was on 29 November 2023 when Zenit faced Dynamo away in the Russian Cup and lost with the score 1-0.  

The match against Ural will take place in Ekaterinburg on Saturday 9 March and will kick off at 2pm St. Petersburg time.