The UAF Referees Committee has appointed a referee for the match of the 13th round of the Ukrainian Championship.
Yaroslav Kozyk from Mukachevo (Zakarpattia region) will be the chief referee of the central match of the round between Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk. This season, the referee has worked five UPL matches (20 warnings, 3 sentences).
Kozyk has also served one match with Dynamo this season. In the 7th round, Kyiv defeated Vorskla Poltava at home (2-0).
The referee's assistants are Semen Shlonchak (Cherkasy) and Andriy Skrypka (Kropyvnytskyi). The fourth referee is Dmytro Panchyshyn (Kharkiv). Arbitration observer - Andriy Shandor (Lviv).
The VAR system will be used at the match. The VAR referee is Mykola Balakin (Kyiv region). VAR assistant referee - Volodymyr Volodin (Kherson). VAR observer - Oleksandr Voytyuk (Zaporizhzhia).
It will be recalled that the match between Dynamo and Shakhtar will take place on Friday, 3 November, at the Dynamo Valeriy Lobanovsky Stadium. The match kicks off at 17:00.