Referee appointment made for the Zenit v Rubin match

36-year-old Artem Chistyakov has been appointed for a Zenit game for the ninth time in his career.
Referee appointment made for the Zenit v Rubin match
He will be assisted by Aleksey Stipidi and Dmitriy Semyonov. The fourth official will be Sergey Cheban. VAR will be operated by Sergey Karasev and Nikolai Bogach. 

In the previous eight Zenit games refereed by Artem Chistyakov the team from St. Petersburg won seven times and lost once. The last match was on 22 October when Zenit beat Krylia Sovetov 3-1 at the Gazprom Arena.

The match against Rubin will take place at the Gazprom Arena on Wednesday 24 April and will kick off at 8:30pm St. Petersburg time.