He will be assisted by Aleksey Lunev and Roman Usachev. VAR will be operated by Vitaliy Meshkov and Andrey Fisenko. The fourth official will be Vladimir Seldyakov. 

In the previous 33 Zenit games refereed by Sergey Ivanov the team from St. Petersburg won 21 times, lost six times and six matches ended with a draw. The last match was on 9 December 2023 when Zenit beat Pari NN 1-0 at the Gazprom Arena.  

The match against Dynamo will take place at the Gazprom Arena on Wednesday 13 March and will kick off at 8:15pm St. Petersburg time.