The Referees Committee of the Ukrainian Association of Football (UAF) has appointed the officials for the matches of Round 12 of the VBET Ukrainian Premier League, including the fixture where Dynamo Kyiv will host LNZ Cherkasy.
The match will be officiated by Mykola Balakin, a referee from the Kyiv region. Earlier this season he already officiated one Dynamo match – in Round 10 when the Kyiv side earned a convincing 4:0 home victory over Kryvbas.
Last season Balakin refereed four Dynamo matches:
- Dynamo’s 2:1 home win and 2:0 away win against Kryvbas,
- A 1:1 draw with Shakhtar Donetsk in the league,
- And the Ukrainian Cup final where Dynamo lost to Shakhtar in a penalty shootout after a 1:1 draw in regular time.
Match officials:
Referee: Mykola Balakin (Kyiv region)
Assistant referees: Oleksandr Berkut (Sumy), Viktor Vysotskyi (Zaporizhzhia)
Fourth official: Andriy Zaitsev (Donetsk region)
Referee observer: Vitaliy Hodulyan (Odesa)
VAR referee: Denys Shurman (Kyiv region)
VAR assistant: Oleksandr Shandor (Lviv)
VAR observer: Viktor Derdo (Chornomorsk)
The match Dynamo vs LNZ will take place at the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv on Sunday, November 9, with kick-off at 15:30.
