The FFU Referee Committee has appointed a referee team for the match of the 10th round of the Ukrainian Championship Dynamo - Kryvbas (Krivoy Rog), which will be held next Sunday, October 30, in Lviv at the Arena Lviv stadium (beginning at 17:00) .
Nikolai BalakinThe referee in the field is Nikolai Balakin from the Kyiv region, who has not yet officiated a single match involving Dynamo this season.
Moreover, this referee was not appointed to any of the matches of the White-Blues last season. The last time Balakin's paths crossed with Dynamo was in the 23rd round of the 2020/21 Ukrainian Championship, when Dynamo met with Ingulets (5:0) on April 23, 2021.
It should be noted that Balakin has already been appointed to international matches twice this season. First, the Ukrainian refereed the match of the 1st qualifying round of the Conference League between the Slovenian Olimpia from Ljubljana and the Luxembourg Differdange, and then he was the main referee of the meeting of the 3rd qualification of the same tournament Gil Vicente (Portugal) - Riga (Latvia) ).
Let us add that Viktor Matyash (Donetsk) and Oleksandr Zhukov (Kharkiv) will be the line judges in the Dynamo-Kryvbas match. The fourth arbiter is Roman Blavatsky (Lviv). The work of the arbitrators will be evaluated by Oleksandr Voytyuk from Zaporozhye.
There will be no video assistance system for VAR referees at the upcoming fight.
As a reminder, the Dynamo-Kryvbas match will take place next Sunday, October 30, in Lviv at the Arena Lviv stadium (beginning at 17:00).
