He will be assisted by Andrey Obrazko and Mikhail Ivanov. The fourth official will be Sergey Tsyganok. VAR will be operated by Andrey Fisenko and Aleksey Lunev.

In the previous 31 Zenit games refereed by Sergey Ivanov the team from St. Petersburg won 20 times, lost five times and six matches ended with a draw. The last match was on 22 July when Zenit beat Pari NN 2-0 in Nizhniy Novgorod.

The match against Orenburg will take place at the Gazovik Stadium on Saturday 30 September and will kick off at 12:00pm St. Petersburg time.