The youngest chief referee in the history of the RPL appointed to the match “Krasnodar”

The match of Krasnodar and Voronezh Torch in the Cup of Russia will be served by 24-year-old referee Matvey Zaik from Rostov-on-Don. The appointment of the referee team to the game of the fourth round of the RPL Way was reported in the press service of the Russian Football Union. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 13, at the Ozon Arena.

To help the chief judge on the lines will be Andrei Filipkin from Yekaterinburg and Denis Bereznov from Moscow. Reserve arbitrator appointed Oleg Gusakov from Kislovodsk. Roman Safyan from Moscow and Kirill Levnikov from St. Petersburg will be responsible for the work of the VAR system, Igor Pisanko from Tomsk will be the match inspector.

For Zaika, this will be the third game featuring Torch. This season, he has already judged two matches of the Voronezh team in the First League: a home meeting with SKA-Khabarovsk, which ended in a zero draw, and an away game with Neftyanik, which Torch won 2-0. This year, Zaika made his debut in the Russian Premier League and became the youngest chief referee in the history of the tournament.

In addition, “Torch” is approaching the game against the background of personnel changes. After the resignation of the head coach Oleg Vasilenko and his staff, the team in the cup match will be led by the youth coach Alexei Rebko. Earlier, the club announced the departure of three specialists of the coaching staff - Sergey Omelyanchuk, Konstantin Sineokov and Igor Lebedenko.

Earlier, Matvey Safonov told how the accident almost cost him a place in the Academy of Krasnodar.