He will be assisted by Valeriy Danchenko from Ufa and Maksim Kovalyov from Reutov. The fourth official will be Kirill Levnikov from St. Petersburg. VAR will be operated by Sergey Karasyov from Moscow and Maksim Gavrilin from Vladimir.
In the previous 22 Zenit games refereed by Vladimir Moskalyov the team from St. Petersburg have won 11 times, drawn seven times and lost four times. The last match was on 30 April 2022 when Zenit won 3-1 against Lokomotiv at the Gazprom Arena and claimed their 9th title in the history of the club.
The match against Spartak Moscow will take place at the Gazprom Arena on Saturday 9 July with a 7pm (St. Petersburg time) kick off time.