On Tuesday, July 8, 2025, a test match between Dynamo Moscow and Akhmat Grozny will take place at the Novogorsk Shopping Center.
When to start and where to watch
The text broadcast of the game will be available online in our match center.
You can watch the live video broadcast of the meeting on the resources of Akhmat. The match starts at 17:00 Moscow time.
Team status
Dynamo won two confident victories at the BetBoom Fraternal Cup, beating Belgrade OFC (4:0) and Partizan (3:1). At the same time, seven goals were scored by seven different players, including the debut goals of Maxim Osipenko and 16-year-old attacking midfielder Vladislav Stepanov. After the game with Partizan, Stepanov gave an interview to RB Sport, which can be read at the link.
Osipenko was recognized as the best defender of the tournament, Bitello – the best player, and Valery Karpin – the best coach.
Also at the match with Partizan, an unusual newcomer performance took place – Pavel Pivovarov, general Director of the Blue and white, handed Ivan Sergeev a game T-shirt right on the VTB Arena podium. The forward of the Russian national team signed a contract until 2028 with an option to extend it for another season.
About the opponent
Last season, Akhmat took 14th place and defended its right to play in the RPL in play-off matches with Ural. Moreover, after the defeat in Yekaterinburg, the head coach Sergey Tashuev left the team, so his assistant Fedor Shcherbachenko was preparing it for the return match. As a result, the decisive goal in the 93rd minute of the match in Grozny was scored by the rented Daniil Zorin, who returned to Spartak in the summer.
Arsen Adamov, Daniil Utkin, Alexander Zhirov, Leo Goglichidze, Vladislav Kamilov, Yasmin Celikovich, Rodrigo Ruiz Diaz, Evgeny Kharin and Minkail Matsuev also left Akhmat. Alexander Storozhuk, who previously led Krasnodar and Tula Arsenal, was appointed the new head coach.
— We have a lot of work to do in terms of tactical character and on the return of former conditions and their improvement. At the training camp we will work on all aspects: tactics, technique, mutual understanding and other nuances. A group of newcomers is expected, which we must adapt to our requirements. Since we are new people ourselves, we will implement our principles in the training process, which will take time, which we don't have," Storozhuk said.
And a good group of newcomers came to Grozny: Orenburg leaders Maxim Sidorov and Brian Mansilla, who showed themselves well in the debut season of Dynamo Makhachkala in the RPL, Abakar Gadzhiev and Egash Kasintura, plus another Angolan midfielder Manuel Keliano.
However, Storozhuk announced plans to acquire only eight players, so it is likely that Grozny's summer campaign has not yet been completed. Moreover, due to the lack of players, the first test meeting of the team at the training camp in Novogorsk was canceled. So the match with Dynamo will be the debut for the new head coach of Akhmat.
