On Sunday, August 9, 2026, the match of the third round of the Russian Premier League between Dynamo Moscow and Dynamo Makhachkala will take place at VTB Arena.
When is the start and where to watch
The text broadcast of the game will be available online in our match center.
Tickets for the match can be purchased on our website from 100 rubles. The sale of season tickets for the 2026/27 season and its first round also continues. Before the match, autograph sessions of the blue and white goalkeeper Andrei Lunev (at sector A110 at 12:45) and the famous UFC fighter Shara Bullet (at sector C107 at 12:45) are waiting for you.
You can watch the live video broadcast of this game on the Match Premier TV channel. Beginning at 14:30 Moscow time.
Also, after the match, the traditional edition of Inside will be released on our resources with the highlights of the game and interviews of the actors.
Team status
Dynamo secured their first win of the season on Wednesday, beating Fakel 1-0 in stoppage time. Igor Leschuk kept his 10th clean sheet in the Russian Cup, becoming the Dynamo goalkeeper record holder for that record. Luis Chavez also made his first appearance since returning from the World Cup.
"When you don't start the season well, the result is always important. And it's great that we were able to secure a victory right at the end. Now it's important to continue developing our football, and on Sunday we'll have a great chance to show against a good team that we're ready to take the next step," Sandro Schwarz said after the match.
Besides Lunev, Bakhtiyor Zaynutdinov will also be out on Sunday as he continues his recovery.
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About the opponent
Vadim Evseyev, who took over Dynamo in the winter, managed to keep the team in the Premier League with a playoff victory over Ural (3-0 on aggregate) and had a productive preseason in St. Petersburg in the summer, where the team played Zenit twice (1-1 and 0-2).
Dynamo's lineup remained virtually unchanged, with only three players arriving in midfield to add creativity: Marat Apshatsev from Rubin, as well as Daniil Lesovoy and Yegor Smelov, familiar faces to our fans.
It was Lesovoy's assist at the end of the first-round away match against Fakel that led to Alexander Sandrachuk's goal, earning his team a 2-1 comeback victory. In the second round, Makhachkala defeated Lokomotiv by the same score at home, again conceding the first goal. The home cup match against Krylia Sovetov again ended 2-1, but this time in favor of their opponents. It's worth noting that Smelov played the entire match on Tuesday, while Lesovoy remained on the bench.
In that match, Slovenian defender Jan Djapo suffered a torn cruciate ligament. However, as Yevseyev rightly noted, no one is irreplaceable on his team: “We want to win, to achieve positive results. Our players are growing. Kasintura has matured and joined a serious team, Paltsev joined a champion team. Nobody knew them. Nobody knew Mubarik, and now he's playing for Levski in the Champions League. Leaders leave, but the team remains. No one is irreplaceable.”
Therefore, on Sunday we face a challenging match against one of the four teams that have earned 100 percent of the points in this championship.
Intersections
Kurban Rasulov is a native of Makhachkala, where he started playing football first at the Anzhi Academy, and then at the Lev Yashin Academy branch.
Vadim Evseev at the beginning of his career spent 4 years at the Dynamo school, from where he joined Lokomotiv.
Makhachkala forward Gamid Agalarov and Daniil Fomin played for Ufa in 2020.
History of matches
The teams have met 8 times in official matches, and our club has a big advantage: seven wins and one loss with a total score of 17:4.
The top scorers of the confrontation are Daniil Fomin, Yaroslav Gladyshev, El-Mehdi Maouhoub (all have 2 goals), as well as Dmitry Polovinchuk and Vladimir Beschastnykh, who scored 2 times in the two-match cup confrontation in 2004.
The judges
Rafael Shafeev will officiate the match along with linesmen Dmitry Safyan and Dmitry Semenov. Jan Bobrovsky and Yevgeny Kukulyak will be responsible for the Video Referee Assistance System (VAR).
Earlier, a 33-year-old referee from Volgograd served two blue and whites' games, in which they drew with Fakel in December 2023 (1:1) and lost in March 2026 to Lokomotiv (1:2).
