Russian Football Cup 2023/24: Group Stage Matches and Latest Updates

2023-07-24 21:22:45

MOSCOW, 25 July. /TASS/. The Fonbet Russian Football Cup season 2023/24 starts on Tuesday with three matches of the group stage of the Russian Premier League path. On this day, the games Lokomotiv – Ural, Pari Nizhny Novgorod – Dynamo and Zenit – Akhmat will take place.

Source: RIA “Novosti”

The new season will open with two matches, which will start at 18:30 Moscow time. Lokomotiv Moscow will play at home with Ural Yekaterinburg, the meeting will take place at the RZD-Arena, and Pari Nizhny Novgorod will host Dynamo Moscow, the game will take place at the Nizhny Novgorod stadium. Lokomotiv and Ural will play in Group B, along with Kazan’s Rubin and Rostov, Pari NN and Dynamo are in quartet D alongside Moscow’s Spartak and Krasnodar.

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Lokomotiv – Ural

Last week, the new season of the World – Russian Premier League (RPL) started, in the first round Ural defeated CSKA (2: 1) at home, Lokomotiv played a draw with Rubin (2: 2) at home. The last time Lokomotiv defeated Ural at home was on May 16, 2021, when the railway workers turned out to be stronger in the RPL match (1: 0). Since then, the Yekaterinburg team has beaten the railroad workers twice, two more meetings ended in a draw. Last season, Lokomotiv completed its performance in the Cup of Russia at the second stage of the ¼ finals of the playoffs of the path of the regions, losing to Akron Togliatti (1:1, 6:7 on penalties), Ural reached the second stage of the finals of the playoffs of the path of the regions, where they lost to Krasnodar (1:2).

Dmitry Sennikov, two-time champion of Russia with Lokomotiv, expressed hope that the Muscovites would play more accurately in defense in the match once morest Ural. Lokomotiv played [с «Рубином»] very uninhibited, forward, periodically two defenders in two attackers remained on the defensive,” Sennikov told TASS. – Sometimes some counterattacks were dangerous, in the first half there were one-on-one exits. But in general, it is clear that Lokomotiv is such an integral team, there were many good episodes – when Sergey Pinyaev figured it out on the flank, Maxim Glushenkov also attacked dangerously. Sheds on Artem Dziuba probably did not bring anything productive, but this is also always dangerous, we are waiting for the next match with the hope that there will be fewer mistakes and goals conceded.”

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Pari Nizhny Novgorod – Dynamo

Pari NN and Dynamo will play the sixth official match. In previous meetings, the blue-and-whites won three victories in all competitions, the Nizhny Novgorod team won once, and one more meeting ended in a draw. Last season, Pari NN completed its performance in the Cup of Russia at the second stage of the ¼ finals of the playoffs of the path of the regions, losing to Rostov (0:1), Dynamo reached the first stage of the ½ finals of the playoffs of the path of the regions, losing to Akron (0:0, 1:4 – on penalties). In the first round of the Dynamo RPL, which was headed by the Czech coach Marcel Lichka in the offseason, lost at home to Krasnodar (1: 3), Pari NN lost to Zenit St. Petersburg (0: 2) at home.

“Zenith” without Malcom

Also on Tuesday, Zenit will host the Grozny Akhmat at home, the meeting will be held at the Gazprom Arena and will begin at 20:45 Moscow time. The teams play in Group C, which also includes Samara’s Krylya Sovetov and Kaliningrad’s Baltika. In the first round of the RPL, Zenit defeated Pari NN on the road (2: 0), Akhmat lost to Wings of the Soviets (1: 2) in its field. Last season, the St. Petersburg team completed participation in the Russian Cup at the second stage of the ¼ finals of the “playoffs of the path of the regions”, losing to Dynamo (1:1, 4:5 – on penalties). “Akhmat” at the same stage lost to “Krasnodar” (0:3).

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Zenit – Akhmat

On July 23, the chairman of the Zenit board, Alexander Medvedev, told TASS that the club agreed with the Al-Hill club from the Saudi Arabia on the transition of the Brazilian striker Malcom, which has Russian citizenship, for € 60 million. The football player fell into the Zenith’s application for a match with Paris NN, but the club, according to the chief coach of Zenita Sergei. Semaka, negotiated his transition.

Malcolm is 26 years old and moved to Zenit in the summer of 2019. As part of the team, the player played 109 matches in which he scored 42 goals and gave 24 assists. In the last draw of the Russian championship, Malcolm scored 23 times and became the top scorer of the championship. Previously, the footballer played for the French “Bordeaux” and the Spanish “Barcelona”, becoming the champion of Spain with them in the 2018/19 season. On February 24, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin, by his decree, granted Malcom Russian citizenship.

The program of the group stage of the “RPL path” of the Russian Cup will continue on Wednesday and Thursday. On July 26, Orenburg vs. CSKA, Fakel vs. Sochi, Wings of the Soviets vs. Baltika and Rostov vs. Rubin will take place. On July 27, Krasnodar will play Spartak at home.

According to the rules of the Russian Cup, 16 RPL clubs will play six matches in the group stage. The teams that take the first two places will go to the “playoffs of the RPL path”, the teams that become third will go to the “playoffs of the path of the regions”, and the clubs located in the fourth places will finish their performance in the tournament. In the “path of regions”, teams will immediately play according to the knockout system. After the sixth round, the strongest teams will advance to the “regional path playoffs”.

Three media teams, Amkal, Rodina Media and 2DROTS, will play in the “path of regions” of the Russian Cup this season. In the last Cup of Russia, 2DROTS and Amkal took part, which reached the second and third rounds of the “path of the regions”, respectively. Also, 11 amateur teams will take part in the Russian Cup of the 2023/24 season: Atom Voronezh, Dalnerechensk from Primorsky Krai, Ilpar Perm, Kirovets-Voskhozhdenie from St. Petersburg, Orgenergostroy from Dimitrovgrad, Pioneer from the village of Leningradskaya, Krasnodar Territory, Pskov, Stavropol-Agrosoyuz, Barnaul Temp, Ulyan ovsky “University” and the Moscow club FSM. 11 amateur teams also played in the previous draw of the tournament. The best result was shown by Stavropol-Agrosoyuz, which reached the fourth round of the “path of the regions”.

The competitive part of the “path of regions” of the Russian Cup starts on August 1, on this day Amkal will play at home with Znamya from Noginsk. Dalnerechensk vs Irkutsk, Strogino vs Znamya Truda, Temp vs Dynamo-Barnaul, Rodina Media vs Dynamo (Vologda), Tver vs Electron, Ilpar vs Torpedo-Miass, Pioneer vs Friendship, Dynamo (Kirov) vs Composite, S Tavropol-Agrosoyuz – Mashuk-KMV, Atom – Spartak (Tambov), Kolomna – Kvant, Nosta – Uralets-TS, FSHM – Peresvet, University – Orgenergostroy, Kirovets-Voskhozhdenie – Dynamo (St. Petersburg), Pskov – Luki-Energy and 2 DROTS – “Sakhalin”.

The playoffs will be held according to the Double Elimination system (departure from the tournament following two defeats). At each stage of the “playoffs of the RPL path”, with the exception of the final, the losing team will go down to the corresponding stage of the “playoffs of the path of the regions”. Teams from the “regional path playoffs” will leave the tournament following the first defeat.

The current owner of the Russian Cup is CSKA, which beat Krasnodar in the superfinal of the last tournament (1:1, 6:5 – on penalties). The army club has eight victories in the Russian Cup. The record holder for this indicator is Lokomotiv (nine), Spartak and Zenit won the trophy four times each, Dynamo, Rubin, Rostov, Torpedo, Terek (the current name is Akhmat), Tosno once each.

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