The UAF Referees Committee has appointed officials for the matches of the 18th round of the Ukrainian championship, including the match between Metalist 1925 and Dynamo. The meeting will take place in Kyiv on Sunday, 25 February.
Viktor Kopiyevsky from Kropyvnytskyi has been appointed as the match's chief referee. The last time this referee worked with Dynamo was when he officiated in the last match of the 17th round against Obolon. Then the White and Blues won 2-0 at home. In total, this will be only the third match of the season for Kyiv's team that Kopiyevskyi will work for.
Assistant referees: Semen Shlonchak (Cherkasy), Maksym Chertolyas (Kherson). The fourth referee is Mykhailo Raida (Zakarpattia region). Arbitration observer - Mykhailo Ovchar (Kalush).
The VAR system will be used at the match. The VAR referee is Oleksiy Derevynskyi (Khmelnytskyi). Assistant VAR referee - Andrii Skrypka (Kropyvnytskyi). VAR observer - Oleksandr Voytyuk (Zaporizhzhia).
It will be recalled that the match between Metalist 1925 and Dynamo will take place on Sunday, 25 February, at the Dynamo Valeriy Lobanovsky Stadium. The match starts at 15:30.